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sitting on toilet roll and her children playing.", "Trading standards officers say old-fashioned doorstep crime is rising as virus concern is exploited.", "Ivor Gunton narrowly missed the final flights home as a lockdown came into effect, his wife says.", "Pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the coronavirus.", "Labour have welcomed the plan but said councils \"need more support\" and money to achieve it.", "People clapped, banged pots and pans, and played the bagpipes to honour key workers battling the virus.", "The clothing retailer cancels new orders and tells firms they can pick up their stock.", "It will regularly provide updates as to what types of places people are going to during the outbreak.", "A ferry in the Solomon Islands embarks despite the pacific nation being on alert over a cyclone.", "Teachers' predictions will be used for grades in exams stopped by the coronavirus outbreak.", "It says this will help stop the virus spreading, as US federal authorities consider similar measures.", "The first minister was speaking as she confirmed a further 46 people with coronavirus have died in Scotland.", "The Welsh Blood Service is reducing sessions and asking people to attend regional hubs.", "Warm weather is expected but the coronavirus lockdown remains in place, authorities warn.", "Dr William Frankland, known as \"the grandfather of allergy\", developed the idea of a pollen count.", "The men told the 92-year-old her neighbour had died from coronavirus, then stole her money.", "Boris Johnson had been due to come out of self-isolation but is continuing to work from home.", "Some rough sleepers have reportedly been at Terminal 5 for two weeks during lockdown.", "Mask manufacturer 3M says the move would have \"significant humanitarian implications\".", "The two Londoners have been stuck in an Argentine city since a coronavirus quarantine was imposed.", "Rare footage is released of workers at MI6 during WW2 which has never been seen by the public before.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "The revamped loan fund for ailing firms hit by the lockdown will have an immediate impact, RBS says.", "The White House says anyone coming into contact with the president has to take a Covid-19 test first.", "Staff feel numb after being told many elderly and frail patients may not be admitted to hospital.", "People are told to stay at home, despite expected good weather, in honour of two nurses who died.", "Robin Deane said it sounded \"like a bomb had gone off\" when the car crashed into the house.", "Google sees a huge spike in phishing attacks as criminals exploit people's fears over Covid-19.", "The new Labour leader tells the BBC he is \"much more comfortable\" taking leadership decisions.", "Its economy shrank 6.8% in the first three months of 2020 as it battled the virus and lockdowns", "Footage appears to show officers not adhering to the social distancing rules while they applaud.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge say it's important people know where they can find support.", "The latest developments on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting Wales on 17 April.", "Supplies of gowns and lab coats could be exhausted within 24 hours, the head of NHS Providers warns.", "An arena in the Netherlands poised to host the Eurovision song contest in May is now an emergency hospital.", "Plans seen by the BBC say protective gowns and masks could be re-used if supplies run low.", "For a fourth week, people across the country clap to celebrate health professionals and care workers.", "An article about PPE for health workers mistakenly attributed a claim to the boss of an NHS trust.", "Leeds United great Norman Hunter dies in hospital aged 76 after contracting coronavirus.", "No strangers to isolation, the trio left for the space station months before Covid-19 emerged.", "The burly performer switched with ease between playing tough guys on screen to classic theatre on stage.", "The health secretary told MPs on Friday that were was very high demand for supplies globally.", "Harley Glen moved from Edinburgh to Harrogate during lockdown, and his mum feared he would be lonely.", "Companies with a turnover of more than £500m will now be eligible for government support.", "The health secretary reassures frontline staff that efforts are being made to get them the equipment they need.", "The Japanese island, which initially saw a drop in cases, is now facing a bigger wave of virus cases.", "The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking delays for people struggling amid the Covid-19 lockdown.", "Capt Tom Moore called the Duke of Cambridge his \"super prince\" after his fundraising was praised.", "The president's eldest daughter travelled to New Jersey, a virus hotspot, with her family last week.", "Seventeen bodies were piled in a morgue built to handle four at a large nursing home in New Jersey.", "Finishing the season in a 40-day window was one of the scenarios discussed at a Premier League meeting on Friday.", "The president said protesters against lockdown measures were being treated \"rough\".", "Thirteen carers are staying at the care home where they work to reduce the risk to residents.", "Capacity is rising \"sharply\" but fewer NHS staff than expected are coming forward, Matt Hancock says.", "Coronavirus has seen costs of supporting vulnerable people increase just as councils' incomes drop.", "The 99-year-old former soldier is hailed a \"one-man fundraising machine\" by Prince William.", "Camelot have confirmed a claim has been made by a winner matching five numbers in the 17 March draw.", "Sadiq Khan wants the UK government to follow the likes of New York in changing protection guidelines.", "Inspired by Captain Tom Moore, Margaret Payne will make 282 trips upstairs at her Sutherland home.", "The mission will take place on 27 May using a rocket and spacecraft made by private firm SpaceX.", "Some local authorities say they have seen a \"sharp rise\" in illegal dumping during lockdown.", "MPs and peers plan to take part in some parliamentary business via video link.", "One of three finalists is named the winner of the BBC One cookery programme's latest series.", "The parents of Archie Wilks say it's \"a weight lifted\" to be home after a six-day hospital stay.", "The government will extend its policy of paying salaries of furloughed staff by another month.", "Andrew Bailey questioned whether the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme is too complex.", "Bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic's impact around England.", "Boris Johnson singles out individual names while praising the \"astonishing\" care he received in hospital.", "Jenny McGee, a New Zealand nurse, is among those praised by Boris Johnson for helping save his life.", "The World Bank has slashed its growth predictions for the South Asia region due to the coronavirus.", "The first death was in late March with the latest announced overnight on Monday.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The telecoms firm faces risk of being cut out of 5G networks as part of a backlash against China.", "The cafes are a common destination for homeless people but coronavirus has forced many to shut.", "A deadly pathogen affecting Europe's olive trees could cost over €20 billion.", "The top tracks of the last decade, based on UK TV and radio play, are revealed by PPL and Radio 2.", "Oil producing nations agree a deal that will see output reduced by nearly 10 million barrels a day.", "Under coronavirus emergency legislation, ministers will take stock of social distancing rules this week.", "Experts say India needs to test even more to find out the true spread of the infection.", "Some treatments can weaken the immune system and put patients at more risk from Covid-19, experts say.", "Plaid leader Adam Price said it 'beggars belief' when Wales is testing less than other countries.", "It comes as the number of coronavirus deaths in UK hospitals rises to 11,329 - up by 717 since Sunday.", "Manufacturing and construction workers can return to work, but other people must remain at home.", "Doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS and healthcare workers have died with coronavirus. Here are their stories.", "The blazes, burning for several days, also threaten the storage depot for the most dangerous waste.", "Bank customers who cannot leave home will be able to ask a trusted friend to withdraw cash on their behalf.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "App will send yellow and red alerts to those who have come into contact with a suspected carrier.", "A young doctor who left medicine to become a tenor returns to the NHS amid the coronavirus crisis.", "Thousands usually gather in the towns and cities that are home to the UK's largest Sikh communities.", "Six other staff members on board the Black Watch ship, moored off Rosyth, are awaiting test results.", "The French Grand Prix is set to be the next Formula 1 event to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.", "Updates and information on the Covid-19 outbreak in Wales on bank holiday Monday.", "Millions of pints of ale and lager could be lost if pub closures last into the summer.", "The \"large\" party was being held in an apartment complex despite a statewide order \"stay at home\".", "A leaked report says some Labour party staff had been \"obstructive\" rather than helping its leader.", "After quitting the race for the White House last week, Sanders backs Biden for the Democratic nomination.", "The This Morning host cast doubt on media outlets who debunk the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.", "Border Force intercepts four boats off Kent and Sussex on Easter Sunday.", "The government says it could change its advice on using face masks if evidence supported such a move.", "Military personnel will carry out a range of tasks, including driving ambulances, the MoD says.", "Enhanced images reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail.", "The US president argues with reporters in the briefing room and runs a campaign-style video.", "Tom Moore thanks the British public for support as he fundraises for \"magnificent' NHS staff.", "The Fire Brigades Union says England is the only UK nation not to commit to testing its members.", "Health workers have had to wrap bodies in sheets and polythene bags, according to reports.", "Officials say people should not let coronavirus lockdowns stop them seeking shelter from the storms.", "A group of motorbike riders made up of volunteers is helping vulnerable people who are self-isolating in Cornwall.", "Former Goodies star Tim Brooke-Taylor died on Sunday at the age of 79 after contracting coronavirus.", "The left-leaning Vermont senator ended his bid for the Democratic nomination last week.", "France's new restriction on exercise in the capital comes as the death toll rises above 10,000.", "The PM has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise \"where necessary\", No 10 says.", "Charities are warning they will need government and public support to provide palliative care.", "Boris Johnson is described as a \"fighter\" after he was moved into intensive care on Monday evening.", "Family members say they are \"devastated and bewildered\" after the bodies were found last week.", "Care worker Precious Omoruyi says she was turned away from a supermarket during an NHS-only time slot.", "The acting Navy chief was under fire for ousting a captain who pleaded for help fighting Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Jack Dorsey said he would give 28% of his wealth towards efforts to \"disarm\" the pandemic.", "New analysis underlines a surge in demand for the government's Job Retention Scheme.", "The former party leader is appointed shadow business secretary by Sir Keir Starmer.", "The US president promised to send medical gear to coronavirus hot spots around the country.", "The foreign secretary says measures are \"beginning to work\", as the number of deaths reaches 5,373.", "Dr Anton Sebastianpillai dies at Kingston Hospital, south-west London, after contracting coronavirus.", "Hours before he died his family said he was joking with hospital nurses as they treated him.", "Health workers in England can call or text the free number to get support and advice during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Boris Johnson continues to be treated for coronavirus - as a record 938 daily deaths are reported in the UK.", "Videos will now be deleted if they falsely link coronavirus to 5G mobile networks.", "The 16-year-old faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the prime minister remains in good spirits while in intensive care.", "Boris Johnson is \"in very good hands\", says Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for the PM.", "BBC's technology reporter tests if Quibi's platform with 10-minute or shorter videos could get viewers hooked.", "One council warns it would be impossible to keep services going if relief was applied \"across the board\".", "Ria Lakhani's hospital stay scared and scarred her, but it also gave her hope.", "Read back through the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "Maeve Kennedy McKean and her son were last seen in a canoe off Chesapeake Bay in Maryland last week.", "Spikes or dips may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend.", "Mass tree planting could harm the environment if badly planned, a report warns.", "More than 100 global organisations want debt payments to be waived for developing countries this year.", "It is a debate being had across the world, and now Austria and its neighbours have decided to act.", "Could a tiny hilltop village in Italy help us solve some of the mysteries around coronavirus?", "A total of 10 frontline healthcare workers tested for Coronavirus were involved.", "The UK's chief scientific adviser says the curve of the epidemic may be starting to flatten.", "More than 750,000 people signed up to join the \"volunteer army\" to support 2.5 million at-risk people.", "Liverpool reverse their decision to place some non-playing staff on temporary leave and apologise to fans.", "The BBC's Fergus Walsh meets medics treating patients with Covid-19 at University College Hospital London.", "Boris Johnson is taken to intensive care after a day in hospital, suffering from Covid-19.", "The government pledged to help UK nationals stuck abroad, so how many have managed to get back?", "With the PM's prognosis uncertain, our political editor reflects how the coronavirus does not discriminate.", "People are now able to leave Wuhan for the first time since January and a big exodus is expected.", "Climate change: Use crisis to turn aviation green, say campaigners", "The British actress famously played Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery's James Bond.", "Many nurseries are closed, but some are still asking parents to continue to pay a monthly fee", "For the first time since January, China reports no coronavirus-related deaths.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The Conservative MP was a close ally of PM Rishi Sunak, but resigned after a bullying probe.", "It is the first time the government has labelled a white supremacist group a terror organisation.", "Former England, Tottenham, Chelsea and West Ham striker Jimmy Greaves is being treated in hospital for an unspecified illness.", "Organisers of the NHS Volunteer Responder Scheme say it has taken longer than expected to set up.", "The number of people known to have died from the coronavirus passes 200,000, a global tracker says.", "The well-meaning cleaner gave librarians a giggle when they discovered the neatly rearranged tomes.", "It comes as the number of deaths in the US passes 50,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Schools will be allowed to reopen from 11 May, but with no more than 10 pupils per class.", "He's become the oldest artist to have a number one track, and is donating the proceeds to the NHS.", "The UK needs a better understanding of China's global role when the coronavirus pandemic ends, MPs say.", "John Adamson was \"devastated\" when he realised there was no alternative to shaving off his facial hair.", "Public transport usage won't recover to pre-Covid19 levels once the lockdown ends, a survey suggests.", "Only half of staff are allowed to work and must take precautions such as wearing face masks.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "The former chancellor warns that the economy \"won't survive\" waiting for a vaccine to be developed.", "Downing Street confirms the PM's chief adviser attended Sage meetings but denies he is a member.", "Councils outline plans to reopen cemeteries and implement measures to ensure social distancing.", "The £50m cap on UK government loans is about 10% of what Tata Steel needs, says MP Stephen Kinnock.", "Police Scotland says serious assaults have dropped by 40% and house break-ins are down by 30%.", "It will apologise for \"failings\" over the release of a man who launched a hammer and machete attack.", "What's been happening on Saturday 25 April", "Early estimate from insurance group says £900m will go to businesses with specialist policies.", "About 200 protesters gathered in Germany's capital to protest against coronavirus measures.", "The government confirms another 47 deaths as Scotland enters its fifth weekend under lockdown.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Medical directors are due to meet in the coming week to discuss how sport could restart, even if only behind closed doors.", "The judge who jailed the man for the attack at an anti-government protest said he was a victim.", "It's a simple idea presented by someone who brings insight to an art form that is enjoying a resurgence.", "NHS staff, police and firefighters need better pay and treatment after coronavirus, a union leader warns.", "Lam Wing-kee was detained in China after selling material critical of the political elite there.", "The UK's official coronavirus death tally has passed 20,000. How can we grasp the scale of such a loss?", "Tackling climate change must be woven into post-Covid economic solutions, UK ministers say.", "It follows the interception of five dinghies carrying 76 migrants in the same area on Friday.", "It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to return to work in Downing Street on Monday morning.", "The UK's official coronavirus death tally has passed 20,000. How can we grasp the scale of such a loss?", "The streaming service behind Tiger King added 16 million subscribers in the first months of the year.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "While the pandemic may have stopped their big day, it didn’t stop Ruaridh and Laura from having a bit of fun.", "The young prince, who turns two on Thursday, joins UK children making rainbow posters during lockdown.", "Sir Simon McDonald says he was incorrect to state the UK opted out of EU scheme for political reasons.", "Mum-of-two Sharon Bamford died just days after her husband died with coronavirus.", "The delayed flight arrived with about half of the promised protective kit for NHS staff.", "Dominic Raab says a big rise in coronavirus testing is coming, at a \"virtual\" Prime Minister's Questions.", "A judge warns mums and dads not to take advantage of lockdown rules in fights over contact.", "Staff risking their health to serve the public should get more pay and respect, a union boss says.", "The Google-owned platform's chief executive says the company is determined to \"stamp out\" misinformation.", "Two newly identified cases in California are now believed to be the earliest virus deaths in the US.", "The top US health official warns a fresh outbreak could coincide with the flu season.", "The social-media giant will ask users about their health in an effort to track the spread of Covid-19.", "A manager has described the toll on care home workers after five residents died from coronavirus.", "Europe is heating faster than the global average as data shows last year was the warmest on record.", "Last year's failed attempt to locate one of the world's great wrecks has lessons for future efforts.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "Spanish police say they have detained Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, formerly of west London, after a raid.", "Senior doctors ask first minister to make using second homes illegal during coronavirus pandemic.", "It is \"unrealistic\" to expect normal life to return soon, says the government's chief medical adviser.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "The government's chief medical adviser spoke of the need for a vaccine or drugs to treat the coronavirus.", "Roger Federer says \"it is time for men's and women's tennis to be united\" and calls for the merger of both governing bodies.", "Rural groups say the lockdown guidance puts communities at risk by allowing unnecessary trips.", "There are questions over the decisions made by the government to secure vital equipment to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.", "Environmental crises must not be forgotten amid the pandemic, says the UN Secretary General.", "Elizabeth says she feels lucky to be alive after falling seriously ill with the virus.", "Ch Supt Phil Dolby has been applauded by medical staff as he leaves hospital with the all-clear.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the government is working to improve the delivery system of PPE.", "Fears grow that thousands of children in England face increased danger during the current lockdown.", "A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences in Chatham, Kent.", "The UK had ample chance to join an EU scheme to source medical equipment, sources tell the BBC.", "Public health experts fear the current UK advice may not be enough to stop the spread of the disease.", "Sir Keir Starmer makes his first PMQs appearance as Labour leader, questioning Dominic Raab on coronavirus testing rates.", "The latest news and developments from Wales on the coronavirus pandemic on 22 April.", "The number of people facing starvation could almost double, the World Food Programme warns.", "The president faced questions about a top federal doctor who says he was ousted for political reasons.", "Air force personnel have been testing a prototype app in a simulated shopping exercise.", "England's chief medical officer says current mortality figures are likely to be an \"underestimate\".", "The online fashion retailer says customers want to look good when videoconferencing with colleagues.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Ryan Hoyle says he had a beer 2m apart with his brothers to \"get over the shock\" of his lottery win.", "One motorist is clocked at more than three times the limit, as thousands are caught speeding.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Public Health England plans to offer home testing kits across the UK to improve uptake.", "Labour demands an \"urgent explanation\" from ministers over why they did not join EU equipment plan.", "Donald Trump is clearly aggrieved that the media has been critical of his handling of the pandemic.", "WWE returns to weekly live television after being labelled an 'essential service' in Florida.", "The first death was in late March with the latest announced overnight on Monday.", "A deadly pathogen affecting Europe's olive trees could cost over €20 billion.", "Vodafone says one of the \"deluded\" attacks was on a mast serving Birmingham's Nightingale hospital.", "A vast store of DNA is being used to study why the severity of symptoms for coronavirus is so varied.", "Some treatments can weaken the immune system and put patients at more risk from Covid-19, experts say.", "The IMF says the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a \"crisis like no other\".", "MPs to summon British based, Chinese-owned firm executives over plans to transfer sensitive technology.", "Companies want to help supply medical equipment but a decentralised response can be \"chaotic\".", "The retailer cannot cope with demand as it reopens for \"limited orders\" after a three-week break.", "The blazes, burning for several days, also threaten the storage depot for the most dangerous waste.", "The president and a journalist talk over one another in a fiery argument about coronavirus.", "Doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS and healthcare workers have died with coronavirus. Here are their stories.", "A new phone line is set up to provide help and advice for Scots who lack a support network at home.", "Even if the vaccine is successful, it won't be ready until the second half of next year.", "Staff hired before 19 March may now benefit from government support, but some will still miss out.", "The Bridge family in Dorset put on its own show in tribute to its favourite aerobatic display team.", "A forecast suggests coronavirus will have \"serious implications\" for the UK economy, Rishi Sunak says.", "Labour urges clarity - but ministers say is too soon to talk about easing coronavirus restrictions.", "Hand creams and thermometers have been asked for - but some hospital staff have raised concerns.", "The website issuing the vouchers has been upgraded - but schools still struggle to log on.", "India Post steps in to transport vital medical supplies during the coronavirus lockdown.", "For those living alone, quarantine means being more cut off than ever. There are simple ways to manage.", "The gym industry is calling on the government to prevent landlords from evicting businesses.", "Officers fear lockdown has brought a \"heightened risk\" of child sexual exploitation over the internet.", "The French Grand Prix is set to be the next Formula 1 event to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.", "A leaked report says some Labour party staff had been \"obstructive\" rather than helping its leader.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The This Morning host cast doubt on media outlets who debunk the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.", "Millions of children risk missing out on measles vaccines, Unicef warns.", "Charities voice concern for care home residents and call for daily updates on virus deaths in the system.", "The This Morning host cast doubt on media outlets who debunk the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.", "The government says it could change its advice on using face masks if evidence supported such a move.", "The president accused the global health body of putting political correctness above saving lives.", "Lenders have agreed that 1.2 million people can delay repayments as jobs are cut and wages reduced.", "Tom Moore thanks the British public for support as he fundraises for \"magnificent' NHS staff.", "Karin Pointon has thanked carers for \"knowing the little things\" about her mother who died after contracting coronavirus.", "The women's fashion retailers are expected to appoint Deloitte as administrators within days.", "Two doctors. Two nursing home staff. An undertaker. One day on the frontline of the coronavirus fight.", "The latest developments and information on the pandemic in Wales.", "Gareth Roberts, who had been a nurse for 40 years, died on Saturday after falling ill.", "Firefighters are tackling remaining \"hot spots\" near the abandoned nuclear plant, officials say.", "Tom Moore vows to keep walking laps of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together.", "The left-leaning Vermont senator ended his bid for the Democratic nomination last week.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "The number of ceremonies in which men and women wed each other has been falling since the 1970s.", "One intensive care doctor describes the reality faced by some UK health workers on the front line.", "Individuals and companies have donated the chocolate to give front line staff an Easter treat.", "Two further Nightingale Hospitals are also being planned for Sunderland and Exeter.", "After a Saudi and Russia cuts deal, Opec+ wants G20 members such as the US to also make cuts.", "Fears are growing that gorillas, orangutans and others apes could contract the virus.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury hopes the digital broadcast will reach out to people under lockdown.", "Drone footage shows coffins stacked in a pit in the city, as the state logs more cases than any country.", "Restrictions in the UK are making life very challenging for a significant minority, a survey suggests.", "Children with illnesses unrelated to Covid-19 could be coming to harm, NHS official's leaked email says.", "The shutdown of large swathes of the UK economy will mean a huge hit to GDP over the next quarter.", "Global economic growth will turn \"sharply negative\" this year due to the pandemic, the IMF warns.", "No 10 says people can buy what they like from shops which remain open - and use their gardens as they wish.", "People around the UK did a round of applause for all of the people working in the fight against coronavirus.", "Easter egg sales are soaring online, while supermarkets are offering discounts ahead of the weekend.", "Air industry bodies want the government to extend support schemes to stave off job losses.", "Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish tests positive for coronavirus and is in hospital.", "The UK and France record significant rises in the number of deaths from coronavirus.", "Millions of jobs in Asia’s vital garment industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "The 3D printer community is creating kit for healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Greater Manchester Police says some house parties even featured bouncy castles, DJs or fireworks.", "The health secretary reassures frontline staff that efforts are being made to get them the equipment they need.", "The latest news and updates on the coronavirus pandemic and the response of authorities in Wales.", "The companies plan to add contact tracing to their operating systems so no extra apps are needed.", "The prime minister thanks the NHS team looking after him for \"the incredible care he has received\".", "Sue Bremner and Margaret Hannay had only met once before they ended up in coronavirus lockdown together.", "Universities call for £2bn bail out to survive the cash pressures of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Bringing you the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic's impact around England.", "The UK is starting to see the impact of people's sacrifices but it is too early to lift restrictions, he says.", "Emma Clarke, who taught at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn, died on Thursday.", "A look back at the latest news and developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, made the appeal on Facebook five days before he was admitted to hospital.", "Postal workers say they are not being given adequate protection from coronavirus risk.", "Photos emerge of workers in hazmat outfits stacking coffins in a mass grave in New York City.", "His vocals, recorded more than 20 years ago, appear on a new album by his former band Grey Daze.", "The new shadow chancellor urges ministers not to put \"ideology over national interest\" in EU trade talks.", "Krept reflects on Cadet's life and legacy more than a year since his death, as his debut album is released.", "Premier League clubs will ask players to take a 30% wage cut as it is announced the season will not resume from 30 April.", "A child with underlying health conditions is among 708 people whose deaths were reported in the past day.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, described the deaths as \"devastating\".", "There have been fires at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.", "The department store chain says it is 'making contingency plans' amid the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Matt Kelly was inspired to write the poem after hearing about the challenges his partner, a district nurse, faces daily.", "Nursing chiefs raise fears about protective equipment following the deaths of two nurses.", "Mandy Mallinson denies it was a \"lock-in\", but admits regulars dropped by for her husband's birthday.", "The 1970s soul singer died of heart complications, his family said.", "Sticking to social distancing rules, Steve Chase organised a party for his whole street.", "Two British-Sudanese doctors became the first doctors to die of coronavirus in the UK. This is their story.", "Some places are yet to record a case - but what will they do if and when it arrives?", "Most stuck to the social distancing rules, minister Michael Gove says, but some young people did not.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "President Trump vows to \"move heaven and earth\" to safeguard Americans as cases spike in New York.", "The selected low-risk offenders will be electronically tagged and released on temporary licence.", "Sir Keir defeated Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy to win the job of leader of the Labour party.", "Ivor Gunton narrowly missed the final flights home as a lockdown came into effect, his wife says.", "Pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the coronavirus.", "People are told to stay at home, despite expected good weather, in honour of two nurses who died.", "The clothing retailer cancels new orders and tells firms they can pick up their stock.", "Berlin officials say 200,000 masks have been diverted to the US under a law invoked by Donald Trump.", "The Queen will also thank NHS workers in a speech to the nation on Sunday, Buckingham Palace says.", "Watford General Hospital is closed to all patients except women expecting to give birth.", "A Sudanese refugee is in custody after shoppers were attacked in the town of Romans-sur-Isère.", "Firms which suspended work in the wake of the outbreak ask staff to come back, unions claim.", "Boris Johnson had been due to come out of self-isolation but is continuing to work from home.", "Some rough sleepers have reportedly been at Terminal 5 for two weeks during lockdown.", "Mask manufacturer 3M says the move would have \"significant humanitarian implications\".", "Official data suggests testing in England has been slower than in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Staff at the Glasgow home said they were \"closely monitoring\" the health of other people in their care.", "The latest developments and information in Wales on the pandemic.", "Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy await result of vote to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.", "British boxer Anthony Yarde's grandmother dies from coronavirus, a week after his father's death.", "The 57-year old MP wins a decisive victory over two rivals and vows to lead party \"into new era\".", "Boris Johnson is \"raring to go\" as he returns to resume official duties in No 10, his deputy says.", "Virtual tours, gardening demonstrations and special shows will take place during week-along event.", "With the nation urged to stay at home, a night out in a virtual club proves a big draw for three friends.", "Sarah Wright was accepted on to a drug trial in the US but cannot fly due to coronavirus restrictions.", "The Ecuadorean woman was wrongly declared to be dead, and someone else's ashes were sent to her family.", "He penned more than 20 novels, plays and essays which won a number of awards at home and abroad.", "John Adamson was \"devastated\" when he realised there was no alternative to shaving off his facial hair.", "People who recover from Covid-19 will get a certificate despite a World Health Organization warning.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "The London Marathon might be postponed but runners are still getting in the miles and raising money for charity - here are some of their inspiring stories.", "Birmingham's NHS Nightingale hospital was opened by Prince William on 16 April.", "There are 643 care homes in Wales but it is claimed coronavirus is putting the industry in jeopardy.", "Police reveal the random and bizarre reasons given by people flouting the \"stay at home\" rules.", "Councils outline plans to reopen cemeteries and implement measures to ensure social distancing.", "The £50m cap on UK government loans is about 10% of what Tata Steel needs, says MP Stephen Kinnock.", "Police Scotland says serious assaults have dropped by 40% and house break-ins are down by 30%.", "Campaigners say 90% fewer suspicious web addresses have been deleted during the pandemic.", "MPs call for a government strategy to cope with the \"surge\" in violence during lockdown and after.", "A round-up of events as Wales' first minister defended delay in online booking for Covid-19 tests.", "It will apologise for \"failings\" over the release of a man who launched a hammer and machete attack.", "The British Retail Consortium has issued post-lockdown guidance for non-essential retailers.", "The mayor of Tampa hints she is open to renaming the Tampa Bay area as she writes a witty apology to Tom Brady after he is thrown out of a city park.", "Paramedic Tristan Cork says he faced a dilemma but wants to \"be part of the fight\" against Covid-19.", "Environment Secretary George Eustice urges staff on furlough to ease a growing crisis on farms.", "As the hospital death toll rises to 1,249, ministers announce five military-staffed mobile testing units will start in Scotland next week.", "Enemies will \"undoubtedly\" use AI to attack the UK, says intelligence analysis by think tank.", "The \"distinctive\" Bengal tiger bag was stolen from Tyler Roye on the night he died in south London.", "About 200 protesters gathered in Germany's capital to protest against coronavirus measures.", "The government confirms another 47 deaths as Scotland enters its fifth weekend under lockdown.", "A 40-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital and police are not looking for anyone else.", "The president is scheduled to give the commencement address at the US military academy in June.", "People need to know the recording of deaths \"can be relied upon\", the first minister says.", "The mobile units travel to \"hard to reach\" areas as the government looks to ramp up testing.", "The first minister said she would do what she judged best to protect Scotland's population.", "The UK's official coronavirus death tally has passed 20,000. How can we grasp the scale of such a loss?", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Big-name celebrities and artists have been going online to entertain their fans during the pandemic.", "It follows the interception of five dinghies carrying 76 migrants in the same area on Friday.", "It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to return to work in Downing Street on Monday morning.", "Children in Spain under the age of 14 can go outside for the first time in six weeks.", "Local authorities warn their income base is \"collapsing\" as coronavirus pressure mounts.", "One intensive care doctor describes the reality faced by some UK health workers on the front line.", "The Welsh Government says it has issued \"more than 16.2m extra items of PPE\" to front-line workers.", "Footage appears to show officers not adhering to the social distancing rules while they applaud.", "An administrative failure sees six low-risk inmates released by mistake, prompting a review.", "Supplies of gowns and lab coats could be exhausted within 24 hours, the head of NHS Providers warns.", "Giving homeless people rooms in hotels will reduce rough sleeping after coronavirus, says charity.", "Plans seen by the BBC say protective gowns and masks could be re-used if supplies run low.", "It comes as coronavirus cases in the country surge, leaving its doctors and hospitals stretched.", "An article about PPE for health workers mistakenly attributed a claim to the boss of an NHS trust.", "The number of new infections has fallen significantly in Germany, where testing is at a high level.", "The Japanese island, which initially saw a drop in cases, is now facing a bigger wave of virus cases.", "Workers have travelled to the Isles of Scilly and been left with no income as tourism comes to a halt.", "The owner of Topshop and Miss Selfridge is serving notice on landlords to walk away from more than 100 stores", "The online concert, curated by Lady Gaga, sees more than 100 artists play live from their homes.", "Det Con John Coker leaves behind a wife and three children, British Transport Police says.", "The president said protesters against lockdown measures were being treated \"rough\".", "Capacity is rising \"sharply\" but fewer NHS staff than expected are coming forward, Matt Hancock says.", "Daily trips to the pharmacy for methadone are replaced with monthly buprenorphine injections.", "Coronavirus has seen costs of supporting vulnerable people increase just as councils' incomes drop.", "A Buckingham Palace official says the monarch has decided it would not be appropriate at this time.", "The 99-year-old former soldier is hailed a \"one-man fundraising machine\" by Prince William.", "City centres are eerily quiet, once gridlocked roads now clear and building sites dormant.", "We are having longer lie-ins, but using up to 30% more energy in the middle of the day.", "Bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic's impact around England.", "President Trump said virus lockdown demonstrators had been treated \"a little bit rough\".", "Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones all play live at home.", "'People need parks' and can attend loved ones' funerals to say goodbye, says Robert Jenrick.", "The mission will take place on 27 May using a rocket and spacecraft made by private firm SpaceX.", "Staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital show how much protective clothing is needed to work in intensive care.", "The win catapults the ticket-holder's wealth to equal singer Harry Styles and footballer Sergio Aguero.", "One of three finalists is named the winner of the BBC One cookery programme's latest series.", "Scottish Mountain Rescue says people are heeding warnings not to venture into the hills.", "Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory in South Dakota. Here's how it happened.", "The government will extend its policy of paying salaries of furloughed staff by another month.", "The warning that hospital staff could be put at risk comes as the number of UK deaths surpasses 15,000.", "France's new restriction on exercise in the capital comes as the death toll rises above 10,000.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Border Force officials deal with a series of incidents in the English Channel.", "The union's advice follows the deaths of 14 workers in London and others elsewhere in the UK.", "The acting Navy chief was under fire for ousting a captain who pleaded for help fighting Covid-19.", "Jack Dorsey said he would give 28% of his wealth towards efforts to \"disarm\" the pandemic.", "New analysis underlines a surge in demand for the government's Job Retention Scheme.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The US president promised to send medical gear to coronavirus hot spots around the country.", "Dr Anton Sebastianpillai dies at Kingston Hospital, south-west London, after contracting coronavirus.", "Italy and Spain accuse northern European countries of not doing enough to help in economic crisis.", "Hours before he died his family said he was joking with hospital nurses as they treated him.", "The Grammy-winning country-folk singer died aged 73, due to coronavirus complications.", "Health workers in England can call or text the free number to get support and advice during the coronavirus pandemic.", "The update on Boris Johnson's health comes as a record 938 UK virus deaths are reported in a day.", "Maurice Robinson was arrested after the bodies of 39 Vietnamese migrants were found in his lorry.", "Boris Johnson continues to be treated for coronavirus - as a record 938 daily deaths are reported in the UK.", "Breathtaking images capture the spectacular lunar event in the skies above Europe.", "The supermarket says there is \"simply not enough capacity\" to supply everyone with online shopping.", "Premier League players launch a \"collective initiative\" to help generate funds for the National Health Service", "Some flowers have remarkable powers of resilience after injuries including being walked on by humans.", "Ria Lakhani's hospital stay scared and scarred her, but it also gave her hope.", "The bridge would normally have been busy but lockdown measures meant there was little traffic.", "The people were residents at a 69-bed care home in Luton.", "Rishi Sunak unveils a £750m package to keep charities afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.", "A total of 10 frontline healthcare workers tested for Coronavirus were involved.", "The UK's chief scientific adviser says the curve of the epidemic may be starting to flatten.", "The president pursued his spat with the global health body, arguing it got the pandemic \"wrong\".", "The World Trade Organization (WTO) predicts a contraction of between 13% and 32% this year.", "The government pledged to help UK nationals stuck abroad, so how many have managed to get back?", "The lockdown will not be lifted next week, Wales' first minister confirms.", "People are now able to leave Wuhan for the first time since January and a big exodus is expected.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chatted to pupils and thanked teachers at a Lancashire school.", "The Work and Pensions Committee says the universal credit system is facing “unprecedented” demand.", "The government is compelled by law to look at restrictions but is not expected to relax them yet.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The president says the US can help countries like the UK which are \"desperate\" for the machines.", "Former England, Tottenham, Chelsea and West Ham striker Jimmy Greaves is being treated in hospital for an unspecified illness.", "The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News say they cannot survive the impact of the coronavirus epidemic.", "The Professional Footballers' Association warns that proposals for a 30% pay cut in the Premier League would be \"detrimental to our NHS\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "A child with underlying health conditions is among 708 people whose deaths were reported in the past day.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "One intensive care doctor describes the reality faced by some UK health workers on the front line.", "Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, described the deaths as \"devastating\".", "There have been fires at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.", "A small number of worshippers attended the mass, while observing social distancing.", "Nursing chiefs raise fears about protective equipment following the deaths of two nurses.", "Lord Bath - the 7th Marquess of Bath - died on Saturday, it was announced by Longleat on Twitter.", "The Queen's address recast the coronavirus crisis as a defining moment in a nation, writes the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "Derby striker Wayne Rooney says the power struggle over how footballers use their wages to aid the coronavirus fight is \"a disgrace\".", "The men are both thought to have been in their 60s and were support staff at Pentonville Prison.", "It was always a question of when, not if, the monarch would speak, writes royal correspondent Jonny Dymond.", "The new Labour leader says the wealthy will have to pay more after the coronavirus crisis.", "The retailer is expected to appoint advisers as the coronavirus heaps more pressure on the High Street.", "Government will tell social media firms to take down posts more quickly after attacks on masts.", "Two British-Sudanese doctors became the first doctors to die of coronavirus in the UK. This is their story.", "Some places are yet to record a case - but what will they do if and when it arrives?", "Most stuck to the social distancing rules, minister Michael Gove says, but some young people did not.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Providers warn they may not be able to care for those awaiting hospital discharge without the right kit.", "The facility is under \"full sanitary lockdown\" after a resident tested positive for Coronavirus.", "Pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the coronavirus.", "The monarch thanks the NHS and key workers, as the UK's coronavirus death toll nears 5,000.", "John Alagos, 24, became ill after working at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire.", "The owner of the centre will now cover costs for the NHS Nightingale Hospital.", "The monarch pays tribute to frontline workers and urges the public to remain \"united and resolute\".", "Officers have been in parks and outdoor spaces to ensure the public adhere to social distancing measures.", "Two British-Sudanese doctors became the first doctors to die of coronavirus in the UK. This is their story.", "The Queen will also thank NHS workers in a speech to the nation on Sunday, Buckingham Palace says.", "A Sudanese refugee is in custody after shoppers were attacked in the town of Romans-sur-Isère.", "Passengers from the Ruby Princess disembarked in Sydney without knowing the coronavirus was on board.", "Boris Johnson had been due to come out of self-isolation but is continuing to work from home.", "Scotland's chief medical officer quits after visiting her second home despite the lockdown rules.", "Official data suggests testing in England has been slower than in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Staff at the Glasgow home said they were \"closely monitoring\" the health of other people in their care.", "The health secretary criticised \"unbelievable\" behaviour after people packed into sunny public parks.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "New Labour leader Keir Starmer announces his shadow cabinet, with key jobs for Lisa Nandy and Anneliese Dodds.", "The 57-year old MP wins a decisive victory over two rivals and vows to lead party \"into new era\".", "Boris Johnson is \"raring to go\" as he returns to resume official duties in No 10, his deputy says.", "Doug Moore praised the hospital's \"excellent\" staff and even had a \"jolly good time\" in their care.", "The repair company will reopen some of its outlets this week with strict safety measures in place.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Imogen hopes people will donate keepy-uppies and cash for the 7.1m UK key workers.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Helicopters, lifeboats and a warship searched for one of the divers after a Mayday call.", "Sarah Wright was accepted on to a drug trial in the US but cannot fly due to coronavirus restrictions.", "P&O's owner says the UK government could help save thousands of job at the firm with financial aid.", "The bakery chain plans to reopen a limited number of outlets next month in a \"controlled trial\".", "Holly King-Mand says she \"might still be in pyjamas\" if she was not teaching thousands of children.", "BBC News brings you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "The protesters have made global headlines but it's ideology not economics driving them.", "The president said Joe Biden's claim he would seek to delay the vote is \"propaganda\".", "People who recover from Covid-19 will get a certificate despite a World Health Organization warning.", "The PM asks the public for patience as he returns to work after recovering from coronavirus.", "The globetrotting BBC series came down to a nailbiting climax on Sunday - spoiler alert!", "Birmingham's NHS Nightingale hospital was opened by Prince William on 16 April.", "The UK is expected to fall silent at 11am on Tuesday after Boris Johnson backs nurses' campaign.", "Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman says home and online learning are \"imperfect substitutes\" for school.", "Campaigners say 90% fewer suspicious web addresses have been deleted during the pandemic.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the loans up to £50,000 should unblock a backlog of applications.", "MPs call for a government strategy to cope with the \"surge\" in violence during lockdown and after.", "Failures in the preparation for the coronavirus pandemic are revealed by a BBC investigation.", "The payment will go to families of NHS and social care staff if their loved ones die from the virus.", "The UK's contact-tracing app is set to use a \"centralised\" system that worries privacy experts.", "The latest news and updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales on Monday.", "The British Retail Consortium has issued post-lockdown guidance for non-essential retailers.", "The chips are truly down for Belgium's potato growers, now lacking customers.", "Thousands of Scots no longer have home-care support during the coronavirus crisis, the BBC finds.", "Royal Mail says it is \"honoured\" to commemorate the war veteran, who has raised £29m for the NHS.", "Italians are struggling to cope with Europe's strictest and longest-running lockdown.", "Enemies will \"undoubtedly\" use AI to attack the UK, says intelligence analysis by think tank.", "One officer says she \"endured more abuse than dealing with drunken idiots outside nightclubs\".", "Formula 1 boss Chase Carey says he plans to start the season in Austria in July, after France became the latest country to call off its race.", "A 40-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital and police are not looking for anyone else.", "In a letter to workers Chief Executive Guillaume Faury said the firm's existence was now threatened.", "The president is scheduled to give the commencement address at the US military academy in June.", "Simple cloth masks are now mandatory on public transport and in shops within most states.", "The Human Rights Commission says people who committed crimes as minors will no longer be executed.", "The first minister said she would do what she judged best to protect Scotland's population.", "The prime minister spoke in Downing Street as he returned to work after recovering from coronavirus.", "The PM returns as ministers pledge £60,000 for the families of NHS and care staff who die with Covid-19.", "Customers report problems with connections into the early hours after nationwide outage on Monday.", "A decade after Aamir Siddiqi's killing, his family appeal for a wanted man to stop running.", "Across the globe, people are finding innovative ways to celebrate the Christian festival.", "Updates from across England including the positive action people are taking to help.", "One intensive care doctor describes the reality faced by some UK health workers on the front line.", "Individuals and companies have donated the chocolate to give front line staff an Easter treat.", "Two further Nightingale Hospitals are also being planned for Sunderland and Exeter.", "Paul McCartney was inspired to write the 1968 hit to console Julian Lennon after his parents split.", "Police responding to reports of a house party were attacked.", "Migrants in Calais and the UK say the Covid-19 pandemic is deepening the struggles they face.", "Doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS and healthcare workers have died with coronavirus. Here are their stories.", "Retired civil servant Ralph Baxter, 74, was attacked while walking his dog in Northamptonshire.", "Air industry bodies want the government to extend support schemes to stave off job losses.", "Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish tests positive for coronavirus and is in hospital.", "It takes the total number of people who have died in hospital with the virus to 9,875.", "The health secretary reassures frontline staff that efforts are being made to get them the equipment they need.", "The companies plan to add contact tracing to their operating systems so no extra apps are needed.", "Residents in Belper, Derbyshire, bellow every evening from their doorsteps and windows.", "The prime minister thanks the NHS team looking after him for \"the incredible care he has received\".", "There is \"emerging evidence\" ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by coronavirus.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says \"there are going to be problems\" dealing with the unprecedented pandemic.", "Calum Wishart, 25, warns of his \"horrendous experience\" with coronavirus that left his life in jeopardy.", "New York City paramedic Anthony Almojera details 24 hours in the world's coronavirus hotspot.", "Russian prison officials say a guard was attacked but rights groups say inmates were being mistreated.", "A reminder of the key developments and information in Wales on Saturday", "Emma Clarke, who taught at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn, died on Thursday.", "More than 20,000 people have now died with coronavirus in the US, while Italy's total is 19,468.", "Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, made the appeal on Facebook five days before he was admitted to hospital.", "Across the globe, people are experimenting with new ways to celebrate the Christian festival.", "The BBC medical drama donated two ventilators to help \"the courageous and selfless real-life medics\".", "The Home Office is also launching a new campaign called 'You Are Not Alone' for victims needing help.", "Mal Martin was on a ventilator after contracting Covid-19 and his family had been told to expect the worst.", "The gaming industry has experienced delays because of restrictions on developers working from home.", "Vodafone says one of the \"deluded\" attacks was on a mast serving Birmingham's Nightingale hospital.", "The US president spoke after halting US funding to the WHO and as global cases topped two million.", "The first and deputy first ministers say now is not the time to relax in the fight against the virus.", "The postponed 2020 Tour de France will now start on 29 August, following the French government's extension of a ban on mass gatherings.", "A look back at the latest developments and information on the pandemic in Wales.", "Fraudsters are targeting vulnerable and self-isolating people, the National Crime Agency warns.", "A vast store of DNA is being used to study why the severity of symptoms for coronavirus is so varied.", "Apple's new low-priced phone is a successor to the original SE, which was discontinued in 2018.", "The Financial Conduct Authority says insurers must pay out to firms \"as soon as possible\".", "Connie Titchen is applauded by staff as she leaves and says she feels \"very lucky\".", "The IMF says the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a \"crisis like no other\".", "Administrators say the coronavirus has had a \"devastating effect on the entire retail industry\".", "The government has given the high-speed rail project formal approval to start construction.", "Plans seen by the BBC say protective gowns and masks could be re-used if supplies run low.", "Companies want to help supply medical equipment but a decentralised response can be \"chaotic\".", "Care providers welcome the pledge but predict a \"major challenge\" amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.", "Jake Anthony is using his equipment to sanitise public spaces in Southampton to help beat coronavirus.", "The owner describes the past three weeks as \"truly heart-breaking for everyone involved\".", "Bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic's impact around England.", "Even if the vaccine is successful, it won't be ready until the second half of next year.", "Staff hired before 19 March may now benefit from government support, but some will still miss out.", "The Bridge family in Dorset put on its own show in tribute to its favourite aerobatic display team.", "Tom Moore was live on BBC News when he hit a new fundraising milestone to help the NHS battle coronavirus.", "A charter plane bringing Romanians to harvest British crops will arrive in the UK on Thursday.", "Labour urges clarity - but ministers say is too soon to talk about easing coronavirus restrictions.", "A forecast suggests coronavirus will have \"serious implications\" for the UK economy, Rishi Sunak says.", "A code word system is needed to alert shop workers to those at risk during lockdown, Victims Commissioner says.", "Businesses say coronavirus loans are being approved too slowly to help firms hit by lockdown measures.", "A new timetable is confirmed to allow UK and EU trade negotiations to continue by video conference", "Ads suggested the burger, which is cooked alongside meat, is suitable for vegans, the watchdog says.", "\"Highly valued and loved\" Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong died in hospital in Luton on Sunday.", "Tom Moore's efforts to raise money for NHS Charities Together give him \"new purpose\".", "The president accused the global health body of putting political correctness above saving lives.", "Apology for error involving 13,000 letters for those most vulnerable to coronavirus.", "Karin Pointon has thanked carers for \"knowing the little things\" about her mother who died after contracting coronavirus.", "The women's fashion retailers are expected to appoint Deloitte as administrators within days.", "Two doctors. Two nursing home staff. An undertaker. One day on the frontline of the coronavirus fight.", "The latest developments and information on the pandemic in Wales.", "About 178,000 anti-social incidents were reported in the last four weeks but overall crime fell 28%.", "Even those abiding by the lockdown regulations can find themselves the target for shaming.", "Tom Moore vows to keep walking laps of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together.", "New guidelines to limit the infection risk will allow last goodbyes, the health secretary says.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "The captain of HMS Trenchant is sent home on leave and a Royal Navy investigation is under way.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Police in England and Wales recorded 45,627 offences in 2019, the Office for National Statistics says.", "A practical timetable for reopening schools is unlikely to mean this half term, say head teachers.", "The young prince, who turns two on Thursday, joins UK children making rainbow posters during lockdown.", "Venues are forcing couples to pay big cancellation fees for weddings delayed by the lockdown.", "Nicola Sturgeon says lifting lockdown is not a \"flick of the switch moment\" - measures need to be eased in a phased and careful manner.", "The deficit will hit levels not seen in peacetime, says the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "The six-person limit at funerals angered mourners who abused staff, the council says.", "Mum-of-two Sharon Bamford died just days after her husband died with coronavirus.", "Dr Gail Allsopp from Derbyshire kept a video diary while attending to patients and juggling family life.", "Dominic Raab says a big rise in coronavirus testing is coming, at a \"virtual\" Prime Minister's Questions.", "Some firms, including Aston Martin and Taylor Wimpey, are starting to reopen after the lockdown.", "Two newly identified cases in California are now believed to be the earliest virus deaths in the US.", "It is \"unrealistic\" to expect normal life to return soon, says the government's chief medical adviser.", "A senior Tory MP says the government must discuss a return to normality or risk companies folding.", "The government's chief medical adviser spoke of the need for a vaccine or drugs to treat the coronavirus.", "The online retail giant has long been accused of killing off bricks-and-mortar book sales.", "Ch Supt Phil Dolby has been applauded by medical staff as he leaves hospital with the all-clear.", "Moving school online has revealed the gap in access to technology for children at home.", "A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences in Chatham, Kent.", "The Victoria House Care Home on the Isle of Wight now has a policy of \"no one in and no one out\".", "A lecturer who spoke at one meeting says his computer was \"overtaken\" by \"incredibly distressing\" footage.", "The number of positive tests was no different to that of staff in non-clinical roles, say researchers.", "Data shows a further 4.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in the past week.", "Public health experts fear the current UK advice may not be enough to stop the spread of the disease.", "Ms McGee said she was \"shocked\" to be named by the PM, who \"needed\" to be in intensive care.", "Employers and staff will be able to book coronavirus tests online, the health secretary says.", "President Trump said the British premier showed \"tremendous energy, tremendous drive\".", "The president faced questions about a top federal doctor who says he was ousted for political reasons.", "Air force personnel have been testing a prototype app in a simulated shopping exercise.", "England's chief medical officer says current mortality figures are likely to be an \"underestimate\".", "When your own child is a danger to you, how do you endure the isolation of social distancing?", "Ryan Hoyle says he had a beer 2m apart with his brothers to \"get over the shock\" of his lottery win.", "The carrier had been due to sail from Portsmouth on Tuesday with 800 crew members onboard.", "Phil Neville is to leave his role as England women's manager next summer.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "A Scottish government paper on plans to lift lockdown warns life will not return to normal for some time.", "The ExCeL centre has become the Nightingale and is due to start taking coronavirus patients this week.", "Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab's family appeals to the public to protect the NHS and save lives.", "Rising temperatures may be having a profound impact on one of the world's favourite songbirds.", "More than 1,000 people volunteer to help make face shields for front-line workers.", "A drug that could treat patients with coronavirus is to undergo clinical trials at 15 NHS centres.", "A woman surprised her fiancé for his birthday by organising a mass sing-along in their apartment building.", "The government warns banks not to deny emergency cash to businesses that face going under.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The Bank of England has also told the banks to cancel plans for cash bonuses for executives.", "The winning ticket matched all five main numbers and the two Lucky Star numbers two weeks ago.", "The New York attorney general has written to the videoconferencing company about its security measures.", "Staff at Green Valleys Health are dancing every lunchtime to entertain residents next door.", "Two girls, aged two and four, are found dead alongside their parents at a house in West Sussex.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "Following criticism, Boris Johnson says the government is \"massively increasing\" coronavirus testing.", "Customers complained that they had been left unable to access their accounts on Wednesday.", "BBC 1Xtra's DJ Ace puts out a message of reassurance for people with underlying health problems.", "The US president warns of a \"very painful two weeks\" ahead, as the seriousness of the crisis hits home.", "There have been 3,415 deaths in the US with New York the worst hit state.", "Study describes how app would alert citizens if someone they came into contact with tests positive.", "A look back at the latest developments on how the virus is affecting Wales.", "The government is working to increase coronavirus tests, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove says.", "The Blue Bell in Sutton-in-Ashfield has also had its stock removed after the licensee served drinks.", "The Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"strange and distressing\" experience of self-isolation", "A key climate conference due in November is delayed over disruption caused by the coronavirus.", "Ohio's Mike DeWine began preparing for the virus before a single case was reported in his state.", "Wimbledon is cancelled for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic - so where does that leave tennis for the rest of the year?", "Police say prosecuting Marie Dinou, who was arrested at Newcastle Central Station, was a last resort.", "Officials say the benefit system is coping despite unprecedented demand due to pandemic.", "The airline will temporarily suspend more than 30,000 of its workers after reaching a deal with unions.", "Patients with life-limiting conditions were asked to sign a \"do not resuscitate\" form via a letter.", "A source says the app was quick to set up for self-isolating ministers without access to more secure tools.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The clothing brand says a claim it is \"playing Russian roulette with people’s lives\" is nonsense.", "All Champions League and Europa League matches are suspended \"until further notice\" because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Astronomers say they have found the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.", "MSPs push new emergency powers to cope with the virus through Holyrood in a single day of debate.", "Staff are said to be \"petrified\" at the lack of protective equipment during the coronavirus crisis.", "The president briefs the media as the US death toll passes 4,000.", "Most of the queries, from people flagging potential symptoms, were handled online.", "For millions of children on lockdown, teddy bear hunts are a welcome relief from the isolation.", "Dr Alfa Saadu worked as a medical director and across many hospitals in London, his family said.", "News and developments from Wales on the response to the pandemic.", "Owen Harding's mother said the situation is now \"an emergency\" and asked UK walkers to look for him.", "Ground monitoring stations in major British cities detect clear reductions in two major pollutants.", "The Dow Jones and FTSE 100 have fallen more than 20% since the start of the year.", "Despite government help, almost 20% of UK firms are unlikely to get the money they need to survive.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Linda Tripp, who disclosed Bill Clinton's White House affair with Monica Lewinsky dies, aged 70.", "The industry is struggling to keep up with demand as shoppers turn to baking amid the coronavirus lockdown.", "Attendance rates are concerning professionals working to protect vulnerable children in the UK.", "Jack Dorsey said he would give 28% of his wealth towards efforts to \"disarm\" the pandemic.", "Restrictions in the UK are making life very challenging for a significant minority, a survey suggests.", "A plant charity is predicting a boost for wild flowers because some councils have stopped mowing.", "The shutdown of large swathes of the UK economy will mean a huge hit to GDP over the next quarter.", "NHS staff and other key workers can still book accommodation through a programme called Frontline Stays.", "Global economic growth will turn \"sharply negative\" this year due to the pandemic, the IMF warns.", "People around the UK did a round of applause for all of the people working in the fight against coronavirus.", "The update on Boris Johnson's health comes as a record 938 UK virus deaths are reported in a day.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Giuseppe Conte tells the BBC EU leaders need to rise to the challenge of the pandemic.", "Greater Manchester Police says some house parties even featured bouncy castles, DJs or fireworks.", "While many charities have welcomed the government's £750m package, others say more help is needed.", "Maurice Robinson was arrested after the bodies of 39 Vietnamese migrants were found in his lorry.", "Keith Watson, from Worcestershire, was initially in hospital for surgery on his leg.", "Holidaymakers say they are struggling to get refunds on cancelled holidays due to the lockdown.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Disney's new video streaming service almost doubles its subscription base during coronavirus lockdowns.", "The supermarket says there is \"simply not enough capacity\" to supply everyone with online shopping.", "Staff say their lives are being put at risk because of demands they return to work next week.", "The home secretary has exchanged \"acrimonious\" letters with Home Affairs Committee chair Yvette Cooper.", "The UK's media regulator says it is investigating the programme as a \"matter of urgency\".", "Universities call for £2bn bail out to survive the cash pressures of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Sue Bremner and Margaret Hannay had only met once before they ended up in coronavirus lockdown together.", "Campaign for Countering Digital Hate says social networks are \"missing a trick\" combating the issue.", "Premier League players launch a \"collective initiative\" to help generate funds for the National Health Service", "The people were residents at a 69-bed care home in Luton.", "Leading journalists remember Paul Lambert - known as \"Gobby\" - as a central character at Westminster.", "The UK is starting to see the impact of people's sacrifices but it is too early to lift restrictions, he says.", "Staff were forced to thoroughly disinfect the store and destroy products, Lancashire Police says.", "Rishi Sunak unveils a £750m package to keep charities afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.", "A look back at the latest news and developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "The president pursued his spat with the global health body, arguing it got the pandemic \"wrong\".", "Some dairy farmers are throwing away thousands of litres amid supply chain disruption due to coronavirus.", "Students away from universities shut down by coronavirus want to stop paying rent.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chatted to pupils and thanked teachers at a Lancashire school.", "The Work and Pensions Committee says the universal credit system is facing “unprecedented” demand.", "Boris Johnson has spent his third night in intensive care being treated for Covid-19.", "The government is compelled by law to look at restrictions but is not expected to relax them yet.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The new shadow chancellor urges ministers not to put \"ideology over national interest\" in EU trade talks.", "The president says the US can help countries like the UK which are \"desperate\" for the machines.", "The US president also said he was anxious to restart the economy as soon as he could.", "Twenty-five years ago, on 19 April, a deadly bomb attack shook America and left 168 people dead.", "Tom Jones and Little Mix take part in a UK version of the Together At Home coronavirus concert.", "An \"inspiring\" mental health nursing lecturer and a \"well-loved\" care assistant have died with Covid-19.", "The Welsh Government says it has issued \"more than 16.2m extra items of PPE\" to front-line workers.", "President Trump holds his daily press briefing as US deaths from Covid-19 double in a week.", "The education secretary also says he is sorry young people are having their schooling disrupted.", "Giving homeless people rooms in hotels will reduce rough sleeping after coronavirus, says charity.", "The education secretary says a delayed delivery of protective equipment will now arrive on Monday.", "A new report suggests deaths in residential care linked to Covid-19 could have doubled over a month.", "The 99-year-old will join the opening of a Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire via video link.", "Luke Woodhouse throws a nine-dart finish in his kitchen on night two of the PDC Home Tour.", "Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove says reports schools could reopen on 11 May are \"not true\".", "It comes as coronavirus cases in the country surge, leaving its doctors and hospitals stretched.", "Their confinement will soon be eased, as the latest death toll from coronavirus shows a dip.", "The clip shows an officer warning the man: \"Who are they going to believe, me or you?\"", "\"Important moments\" from the past two decades will be broadcast over the course of three weeks.", "The Foreign Office says up to 850 Britons in the South Asian country will have the chance to get home.", "Residents and staff in the UK's care homes need better protection from coronavirus, the National Care Forum says.", "The Lib Dems says workers should be financially rewarded in the same way as military staff on deployment.", "Bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic's impact around England.", "Sahar Tabar rose to fame over her pictures, which were said to resemble an eerie Angelina Jolie.", "Teachers in Northern Ireland will predict the grades they think pupils would have achieved.", "Det Con John Coker leaves behind a wife and three children, British Transport Police says.", "The online concert, curated by Lady Gaga, sees more than 100 artists play live from their homes.", "First Minister says testing system has not \"been good enough\" and sets out plans to \"simplify\" process.", "A Buckingham Palace official says the monarch has decided it would not be appropriate at this time.", "We are having longer lie-ins, but using up to 30% more energy in the middle of the day.", "Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones all play live at home.", "'People need parks' and can attend loved ones' funerals to say goodbye, says Robert Jenrick.", "Some suppliers are reportedly angry that the supermarket chain's clothing range is still on sale.", "The owner of an Edinburgh horse riding business says the lockdown is having a \"horrendous\" impact.", "The mission will take place on 27 May using a rocket and spacecraft made by private firm SpaceX.", "Guests include Oxford University's Prof Sarah Gilbert, who's working to find a vaccine for Covid-19.", "Pupils studying at home will have online lessons and disadvantaged teenagers can borrow computers.", "Twenty-five years ago, on 19 April, a deadly bomb attack shook America and left 168 people dead.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Nic has been given under 36 months to live and due to coronavirus his treatment is being put on hold.", "Family members say they are \"devastated and bewildered\" after the bodies were found last week.", "A small number of worshippers attended the mass, while observing social distancing.", "The former party leader is appointed shadow business secretary by Sir Keir Starmer.", "The Queen's address recast the coronavirus crisis as a defining moment in a nation, writes the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "Derby striker Wayne Rooney says the power struggle over how footballers use their wages to aid the coronavirus fight is \"a disgrace\".", "The Orange Lodge of Ireland says the decision has been taken in light of public health advice.", "Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola's mother, Dolors Sala Carrio, dies aged 82 in Barcelona after contracting coronavirus.", "Read back through the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "It is a debate being had across the world, and now Austria and its neighbours have decided to act.", "Could a tiny hilltop village in Italy help us solve some of the mysteries around coronavirus?", "Officers have been in parks and outdoor spaces to ensure the public adhere to social distancing measures.", "The BBC's Fergus Walsh meets medics treating patients with Covid-19 at University College Hospital London.", "Boris Johnson had been due to come out of self-isolation but is continuing to work from home.", "The communities secretary warns councils to be \"judicious\" over locking up green spaces.", "The monarch pays tribute to frontline workers and urges the public to remain \"united and resolute\".", "Charities are warning they will need government and public support to provide palliative care.", "Motor industry records the worst March for two decades as the Covid-19 outbreak keeps buyers at home.", "BBC News is bringing you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "The Queen's rallying call to the nation is the second most watched broadcast of the year so far.", "Lord Bath - the 7th Marquess of Bath - died on Saturday, it was announced by Longleat on Twitter.", "The health secretary also has the virus, England's chief medical officer has symptoms, and the number of UK deaths jumps to 759.", "The 16-year-old faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.", "Providers warn they may not be able to care for those awaiting hospital discharge without the right kit.", "Claims 5G harms immune systems or spreads the virus have been condemned by the scientific community.", "Liverpool reverse their decision to place some non-playing staff on temporary leave and apologise to fans.", "Data from Cold War nuclear bomb tests help scientists accurately age whale sharks for the first time.", "The British actress famously played Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery's James Bond.", "The health secretary criticised \"unbelievable\" behaviour after people packed into sunny public parks.", "New Labour leader Keir Starmer announces his shadow cabinet, with key jobs for Lisa Nandy and Anneliese Dodds.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The PM is undergoing \"routine tests\", as the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK reaches 5,373.", "The department store chain, which employs 20,000 people, says the move will allow it to keep trading.", "The 149th Open Championship is cancelled but 2020's three other men's majors are rescheduled because of the global coronavirus pandemic.", "Liz Glanister will be \"sadly missed\" by all who knew her, says chief nurse Dianne Brown.", "Government criticises \"dangerous and irresponsible\" listings of coronavirus isolation properties.", "A \"concentration\" of workers under 25, women and the low-paid will be hit by the virus lockdown.", "Staff dispensing medicines say they urgently need more protective gear to guard against coronavirus.", "John Alagos, 24, became ill after working at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire.", "The man was stopped on the M1 northbound by Leicestershire Police on Sunday night.", "Scotland's chief medical officer quits after visiting her second home despite the lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson vows to carry on working with coronavirus, but it's not business as usual.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The figures follow warnings victims could find it harder to escape their abusers during lockdown.", "The PM has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise \"where necessary\", No 10 says.", "The foreign secretary says measures are \"beginning to work\", as the number of deaths reaches 5,373.", "The High Court rules that the German firm installed 'defeat devices' in vehicles to cheat emissions tests.", "A 26-year-old man is arrested in Ballymena over the social media comments and later released on bail.", "The retailer is expected to appoint advisers as the coronavirus heaps more pressure on the High Street.", "Mother-of-three Areema Nasreen was an \"amazing person\" who \"put herself last\", her sister says.", "The man was trying to walk from France to Spain to buy cheap cigarettes, reports say.", "Candy Crush Saga, Dirt Rally 2.0 and Sniper Elite 4 are among titles that show a government campaign.", "Boris Johnson is taken to intensive care after a day in hospital, suffering from Covid-19.", "With the PM's prognosis uncertain, our political editor reflects how the coronavirus does not discriminate.", "The move comes as tech giant Apple says it will start making face shields for medical workers.", "It is the first time the government has labelled a white supremacist group a terror organisation.", "Teacher unions say the move will help alleviate the risk of children going hungry in the holidays.", "The captain of HMS Trenchant is sent home on leave and a Royal Navy investigation is under way.", "Organisers of the NHS Volunteer Responder Scheme say it has taken longer than expected to set up.", "President Cyril Ramaphosa has problems putting on a mask after urging South Africans to wear them.", "The EU's chief negotiator says the 'clock is ticking' as the UK calls for \"constructive\" talks.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The war veteran, who walked laps of his garden for the NHS, is the oldest person to hit number one.", "Syd Little pays tribute to his comedy partner and \"best friend\" Eddie Large at a ceremony in Bristol.", "Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland is 'ready to go' with more testing for key workers as the number of positive cases rises to 9,697.", "The Australian boy sent a letter to the Hollywood star when he heard Hanks had caught the virus.", "Police in England and Wales recorded 45,627 offences in 2019, the Office for National Statistics says.", "Venues are forcing couples to pay big cancellation fees for weddings delayed by the lockdown.", "The well-meaning cleaner gave librarians a giggle when they discovered the neatly rearranged tomes.", "Disadvantaged people across Greater Manchester will receive meals intended for air passengers.", "It comes as the number of deaths in the US passes 50,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "The six-person limit at funerals angered mourners who abused staff, the council says.", "Updates as a health board revealed 84 deaths linked to Covid-19 over the course of a month.", "The UK needs a better understanding of China's global role when the coronavirus pandemic ends, MPs say.", "The story of the 16-year-old who went missing, and the community who tried to find him.", "Some firms, including Aston Martin and Taylor Wimpey, are starting to reopen after the lockdown.", "Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Labour's new race relations adviser, is heading the investigation.", "Public transport usage won't recover to pre-Covid19 levels once the lockdown ends, a survey suggests.", "Former rugby player Ed Jackson has climbed 89,056 steps and made 2,783 trips up and down the stairs.", "London's transport commissioner says fare revenues have plummeted by 90% during the pandemic.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The story of the 16-year-old who went missing, and the community who tried to find him.", "First minister says some restrictions could be eased at end of current three-week lockdown period.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "Women say the uncertainty during the coronavirus outbreak is \"making a stressful situation harder\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Shopping declines at the steepest pace since the Office for National Statistics started collecting data.", "The bill puts more money towards a small business aid fund, overwhelmed hospitals and testing expansion.", "The online retail giant has long been accused of killing off bricks-and-mortar book sales.", "Firm's founder says demand is less than envisioned but the government says tests are ongoing.", "Prince William, Doctor Who and others help raise more than £27m for BBC One's The Big Night In.", "The social media giant said it worked with cryptographers to devise ways of excluding unwanted guests.", "Moving school online has revealed the gap in access to technology for children at home.", "Early estimate from insurance group says £900m will go to businesses with specialist policies.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "Italians are struggling to cope with Europe's strictest and longest-running lockdown.", "Doctors say the spread of the virus is not being slowed enough to take the pressure off the hospital system.", "Department for Transport funding will support \"essential services\" across England, a spokesman says.", "Phil Neville says there is \"plenty to work on\" as it is confirmed he will leave his role as England women's manager in July 2021.", "Employers and staff will be able to book coronavirus tests online, the health secretary says.", "The duchess is suing the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline for reproducing parts of a letter to her father.", "President Trump said the British premier showed \"tremendous energy, tremendous drive\".", "Qualifications where students need to take a hands-on test will be delayed, says exams watchdog.", "Nurse Katy Davis and her twin Emma died just days apart at the same hospital, their sister says.", "It's a simple idea presented by someone who brings insight to an art form that is enjoying a resurgence.", "Dr Meena Viz - who is pregnant - and husband Dr Nishant Joshi claim government advice is unclear.", "NHS staff, police and firefighters need better pay and treatment after coronavirus, a union leader warns.", "The retailer says its major outlets in Wales will stay closed unless it gets business rates relief.", "Laura McLellan felt humbled when she and her team of checkout operators were told they were key workers.", "Tackling climate change must be woven into post-Covid economic solutions, UK ministers say.", "Tributes flood in for the \"groundbreaking\" journalist and cancer awareness campaigner.", "A Scottish government paper on plans to lift lockdown warns life will not return to normal for some time.", "MPs must pass key legislation but efforts are under way to allow them to work 'virtually'.", "A decade after Aamir Siddiqi's killing, his family appeal for a wanted man to stop running.", "The prince says he is \"heartened\" to see how the Church of Scotland is reaching out to parishioners.", "The top tracks of the last decade, based on UK TV and radio play, are revealed by PPL and Radio 2.", "Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish is released from hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.", "Oil producing nations agree a deal that will see output reduced by nearly 10 million barrels a day.", "Paul McCartney was inspired to write the 1968 hit to console Julian Lennon after his parents split.", "Doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS and healthcare workers have died with coronavirus. Here are their stories.", "Doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS and healthcare workers have died with coronavirus. Here are their stories.", "Bank customers who cannot leave home will be able to ask a trusted friend to withdraw cash on their behalf.", "App will send yellow and red alerts to those who have come into contact with a suspected carrier.", "It takes the total number of people who have died in hospital with the virus to 9,875.", "Residents in Belper, Derbyshire, bellow every evening from their doorsteps and windows.", "The PM thanks those who treated him for coronavirus as the public is reminded to stay at home.", "Of the 300,000 enquiries thought to have been made, the business secretary says 4,200 were approved.", "The home on the outskirts of Bristol said it had taken all precautions to keep out the infection.", "Thousands usually gather in the towns and cities that are home to the UK's largest Sikh communities.", "The latest figures add another 737 people on to the nationwide toll of hospital deaths.", "The Oxford Eye Hospital says it has seen six \"traumatised eyes\" in a week.", "Children and their families find novel ways of celebrating in lockdown.", "Pope Francis reads a virtual Easter message instead of addressing crowds amid the virus lockdown.", "About 156 people on a German rescue ship off Sicily must undergo health checks on another vessel.", "There is \"emerging evidence\" ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by coronavirus.", "Abdul Majed spent 25 years on the run after he was found guilty of murdering Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.", "Motorsport figures past and present pay tribute to \"true icon and legend\" Sir Stirling Moss, who has died at the age of 90.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says \"there are going to be problems\" dealing with the unprecedented pandemic.", "Calum Wishart, 25, warns of his \"horrendous experience\" with coronavirus that left his life in jeopardy.", "The government says helping poorer countries would help stop a \"second wave\" of infections in the UK.", "An A&E consultant at a major Welsh hospital says half of the care team have tested positive.", "It brings the total death toll to 566, while 5,912 people have now tested positive for the virus.", "British motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss dies at the age of 90 following a long illness.", "The warning - from a government scientific adviser - comes as UK coronavirus deaths are set to pass 10,000.", "Border Force intercepts four boats off Kent and Sussex on Easter Sunday.", "Military personnel will carry out a range of tasks, including driving ambulances, the MoD says.", "News from throughout the day about Covid-19 in England and how people marked Easter at home.", "Enhanced images reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail.", "Former Chelsea and England goalkeeper Peter Bonetti dies at the age of 78 after a long-term illness.", "Health secretary Jeane Freeman says care staff are \"as important to me as workers in our health services are\".", "Across the globe, people are experimenting with new ways to celebrate the Christian festival.", "Health workers have had to wrap bodies in sheets and polythene bags, according to reports.", "A group of motorbike riders made up of volunteers is helping vulnerable people who are self-isolating in Cornwall.", "He delivers an Easter service in an almost empty St Peter's Basilica because of the coronavirus lockdown.", "In some parts of the country, lives have changed unrecognisably, while elsewhere people say life is largely unchanged.", "The Home Office is also launching a new campaign called 'You Are Not Alone' for victims needing help.", "New York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country, according to latest figures.", "The comedian and actor, whose career spanned more than six decades, was 79.", "Once-bustling streets are still, while formerly congested roads are clear and beaches lie empty.", "There is a risk of a \"future mental health crisis\", the British Psychological Society says.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "Robin Deane said it sounded \"like a bomb had gone off\" when the car crashed into the house.", "Independent pharmacies warn they may have to shut up shop.", "Conservation groups say poaching is on the rise as tourism income dries up at wildlife reserves.", "The new Labour leader tells the BBC he is \"much more comfortable\" taking leadership decisions.", "A vast majority of smartphone owners must install the app, if it is to end the coronavirus epidemic.", "India's first case came from Kerala, but it has been able to contain the virus unlike other states.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Failure to get a Brexit trade deal would make a coronavirus recession 'even tougher' says IMF chief.", "Labour says it will support an extension but calls for details on how and when the lockdown will end.", "About 1,500 of the adapted devices will be made each week by the start of May, developers say.", "The Duke of Cambridge uses video link to officially open the site on the edge of Birmingham.", "Apple's new low-priced phone is a successor to the original SE, which was discontinued in 2018.", "Connie Titchen is applauded by staff as she leaves and says she feels \"very lucky\".", "Administrators say the coronavirus has had a \"devastating effect on the entire retail industry\".", "For a fourth week, people across the country clap to celebrate health professionals and care workers.", "The burly performer switched with ease between playing tough guys on screen to classic theatre on stage.", "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been facing criticism for his response to the coronavirus outbreak.", "The latest news and information on the pandemic in Wales on 16 April.", "Care providers welcome the pledge but predict a \"major challenge\" amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.", "Companies with a turnover of more than £500m will now be eligible for government support.", "Thousands are returning but some said the British response was \"incompetent\" and \"uncaring\".", "The owner describes the past three weeks as \"truly heart-breaking for everyone involved\".", "Staff hired before 19 March may now benefit from government support, but some will still miss out.", "Seventeen bodies were piled in a morgue built to handle four at a large nursing home in New Jersey.", "The president's eldest daughter travelled to New Jersey, a virus hotspot, with her family last week.", "Bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic's impact around England.", "A charter plane bringing Romanians to harvest British crops will arrive in the UK on Thursday.", "The US president said some states in \"very good shape\" will be able to reopen \"literally tomorrow\".", "The airline plans to introduce social distancing on flights after the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says lockdown is working and will continue for at least another three weeks.", "Cheese shops and gun stores are among the services still open in locked down places around the world.", "The flagship Charles de Gaulle is in quarantine in Toulon, with a third of its 2,000 crew infected.", "Burger King, KFC and Pret A Manger announce limited openings after shutting at the lockdown's start.", "Thae Yong-ho, the highest ranking official to ever defect from North Korea, made history with his win.", "\"Highly valued and loved\" Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong died in hospital in Luton on Sunday.", "Grades for cancelled exams will be issued on what would have been results days.", "Sadiq Khan wants the UK government to follow the likes of New York in changing protection guidelines.", "MPs and peers plan to take part in some parliamentary business via video link.", "Blood will be extracted from people who have recovered from Covid-19 and the plasma given to patients.", "More than 20 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last four weeks.", "Long stays on benches should not be allowed but shopping for luxuries is okay, policing advice says.", "About 178,000 anti-social incidents were reported in the last four weeks but overall crime fell 28%.", "A leaked letter reveals an extensive list of concerns about how the social care sector is coping.", "An independent report brands the platform 'an epicentre of coronavirus misinformation'.", "New experimental findings could help us solve one of the biggest mysteries about the Universe.", "Scientists say \"significant\" measures should stay for some time, with the UK lockdown set to continue.", "New guidelines to limit the infection risk will allow last goodbyes, the health secretary says.", "Up to 40 members of President Ashraf Ghani's staff have tested positive for the virus, reports say.", "Tom Jones and Little Mix take part in a UK version of the Together At Home coronavirus concert.", "The small but symbolic fall is a \"positive development\" in the fight against the virus, officials say.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "An \"inspiring\" mental health nursing lecturer and a \"well-loved\" care assistant have died with Covid-19.", "Nearly all passengers on flights in and out of the UK are heading home, says the aviation industry.", "Oil producing nations agree a deal that will see output reduced by nearly 10 million barrels a day.", "President Trump holds his daily press briefing as US deaths from Covid-19 double in a week.", "The education secretary also says he is sorry young people are having their schooling disrupted.", "The BBC filmed at a Lanarkshire hospital as staff cared for Covid-19 patients, including babies.", "The education secretary says a delayed delivery of protective equipment will now arrive on Monday.", "President Trump said two state leaders, a Republican and a Democrat, \"didn't understand\" testing.", "Experts question if India can effectively fight the outbreak if it will only pay for some tests.", "Their confinement will soon be eased, as the latest death toll from coronavirus shows a dip.", "The Dragon's Heart hospital at Cardiff's Principality Stadium is opened by the Prince of Wales.", "Councils in England can now ban cars from streets more easily to allow space for social distancing.", "The man is due to appear in court in Dublin on Tuesday facing 39 charges of manslaughter.", "The social network accelerated the launch of Facebook Gaming due to the coronavirus lockdown.", "Entertainment giant Disney will stop paying nearly half its workforce as it battles virus shutdowns.", "The shipping industry is already feeling the impact of Covid-19 as the world heads for recession.", "Coronavirus downturn has put major pressure on oil prices with demand slumping and storage running out.", "Margaret Tapley, who was still working in a community hospital, died after contracting coronavirus.", "The first minister says she is not in a position to set out this week what stringent measures will be lifted and when.", "The new package will fund smaller loss-making firms focusing on research and development.", "Betty Gutteridge from Warwickshire had to cancel her birthday celebrations due to the coronavirus outbreak.", "Lucy Teixeira watched from her home as Capt Tom Moore's target of £1,000 grew to a staggering £27m.", "Residents demand relaxation of infection prevention measures despite signs it is too soon to reopen.", "Lancashire Constabulary said video footage of the officer had an \"impact on public confidence\".", "Teachers in Northern Ireland will predict the grades they think pupils would have achieved.", "Pupils studying at home will have online lessons and disadvantaged teenagers can borrow computers.", "Doctors warn those allergic to pollen to consider if their reaction has changed from previous years.", "Manjeet Singh Riyat was described as \"well loved\" and \"hugely respected\" throughout the NHS.", "The government says it is working \"around the clock\" to end the shortage of protective gear.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex say popular newspapers are publishing \"salacious gossip\" for clicks.", "BBC News is bringing you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "Ministers say the move is to ensure enough capacity for the most pessimistic outcome on the number of deaths.", "Chris Lewis was midway through a charity challenge to walk the UK coastline when the lockdown began.", "Britain looks set to pay tribute next Tuesday to those who have died on the front line.", "South Australia Police have spotted a kangaroo on the empty city streets during coronavirus lockdown.", "Some suppliers are reportedly angry that the supermarket chain's clothing range is still on sale.", "Sir David Attenborough, Danny Dyer, Jodie Whittaker and Brian Cox are among celebrities involved,", "Sir Philip Rutnam lodges an employment tribunal claim for \"constructive dismissal and whistleblowing\".", "Sir Richard Branson pledges Necker Island as collateral to help get a UK government bailout for Virgin Atlantic.", "The media regulator \"issues guidance\" to ITV and finds London Live in breach of broadcasting standards.", "The Duke of Edinburgh, in a rare public statement, thanks those keeping essential services running.", "All the latest developments on how the outbreak is affecting Wales.", "Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab's family appeals to the public to protect the NHS and save lives.", "Despite a social media shout-out for rainbow artwork, the NHS has now asked people to share their pictures online only", "New CCTV images of missing Owen Harding, 16, are released by police in a bid to find him.", "The government warns banks not to deny emergency cash to businesses that face going under.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "US President Donald Trump says he expects Saudi Arabia and Russia to strike a deal in the next few days.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "Following criticism, Boris Johnson says the government is \"massively increasing\" coronavirus testing.", "Five BBC stations joined forces to get the country singing to Prince and Florence + The Machine.", "The \"first thing\" Premier League footballers can do is \"take a pay cut and play their part\" to help out during the coronavirus pandemic, says health secretary Matt Hancock.", "The performer, who was 78, found fame as part of the double act Little and Large.", "Adam Lewis told the officer \"I am Covid and I am going to cough in your face and you will get it\".", "Applause from shoppers \"made me feel special after a tough run of shifts\", says David Tillyer.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "A £167m fund will cover the losses of bus companies to keep essential services running for key workers.", "Some 2,921 people have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, as PHE calls for more NHS staff testing.", "Thomas Harvey's family claim with the \"right\" personal protective equipment he might not have died.", "The Blue Bell in Sutton-in-Ashfield has also had its stock removed after the licensee served drinks.", "The Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"strange and distressing\" experience of self-isolation", "Individuals with specialist skills will provide medical and logistical support, the Ministry of Defence says.", "There are now 200 tests a day with 1,100 a day anticipated by next week, health bosses promise.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "A key climate conference due in November is delayed over disruption caused by the coronavirus.", "Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy or Sir Keir Starmer will be announced as leader on Saturday.", "Trading standards officers say old-fashioned doorstep crime is rising as virus concern is exploited.", "Lemon juice and other misleading health advice being shared online.", "Police say prosecuting Marie Dinou, who was arrested at Newcastle Central Station, was a last resort.", "With street sales banned, the homeless magazine's sellers have lost their income.", "Officials say the benefit system is coping despite unprecedented demand due to pandemic.", "The airline will temporarily suspend more than 30,000 of its workers after reaching a deal with unions.", "People clapped, banged pots and pans, and played the bagpipes to honour key workers battling the virus.", "Caroline Saunby died from coronavirus after putting up with what she thought was tonsillitis.", "Most of the queries, from people flagging potential symptoms, were handled online.", "The figure includes 10 deaths in the past 24 hours, as well as a further 40 from previous days that have now been confirmed.", "Danny Cairns, 68, died last week, after video calling his brother to say he wouldn't survive Covid-19.", "It says this will help stop the virus spreading, as US federal authorities consider similar measures.", "Suspected fraudsters and gangsters should not be charged to avoid \"clogging up courts\", says guidance.", "The UK's finance watchdog plans to end a \"banking lottery\" for those affected by coronavirus.", "More than 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment last week as the coronavirus spreads.", "The two Londoners have been stuck in an Argentine city since a coronavirus quarantine was imposed.", "Tom Hanks and Mark Ronson are among those paying tribute to the late Grammy-winner Adam Schlesinger.", "Rare footage is released of workers at MI6 during WW2 which has never been seen by the public before.", "Dr Alfa Saadu worked as a medical director and across many hospitals in London, his family said.", "Owen Harding's mother said the situation is now \"an emergency\" and asked UK walkers to look for him.", "The revamped loan fund for ailing firms hit by the lockdown will have an immediate impact, RBS says.", "A group is calling for a 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"Business", "Health", "Asia"], "content": ["Netflix has seen subscriber numbers surge this year, as lockdowns around the world keep people at home where they want to be entertained.\n\nAlmost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, the firm said.\n\nThat is almost double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019.\n\nHowever, the streaming service, which is behind some multi-million dollar productions, said shutdowns have halted \"almost all\" filming around the world.\n\nAnd sharp declines in the value of many currencies has meant new subscribers outside of the US, where Netflix is based, are not worth as much to the company as they would have been before the crisis. And that has hurt its international revenue growth.\n\nNevertheless, the home-entertainment giant's share price has climbed more than 30% this year as investors bet on its ability to benefit from people spending more time indoors.\n\n\"Netflix is and will continue to be the media company least impacted by Covid-19,\" said eMarketer analyst Eric Haggstrom. \"Their business is a near perfect fit to a population that is suddenly housebound.\"\n\nDemand for streaming has been so high that Netflix last month said it would reduce the quality of its videos in Europe to ease strain on internet service providers. The firm also hired an additional 2,000 customer support staff to handle the increased interest.\n\nNetflix said some 85 million people had watched its original movie, Spenser Confidential, for at least two minutes - the cut-off it uses for viewing figures. Meanwhile, the documentary series Tiger King reached 64 million households.\n\nTiger King focuses on Joe Exotic and his big cat zoo\n\nThe firm expected to add another 7.5 million members in the three months to the end of June - above analyst expectations. But it warned investors that viewers and growth would decline as governments lift lockdowns around the world.\n\n\"Given the uncertainty on home confinement timing this is mostly guesswork,\" it said.\n\nNetflix said it expects to stick to its release schedule through June and has been acquiring other movies to keep its offering fresh. But it said future membership growth could be hurt by delays to upcoming seasons and shows.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, analyst at PP Foresight, said production delays would hurt subscriber growth at all streaming companies in coming months.\n\n\"Arguably, Netflix should fare much better with its broad catalogue,\" he said.\n\nNetflix's early subscriber growth certainly caught the attention of Wall Street investors. But spectacular growth in a period where most of the world's internet users are under orders to stay at home is a bit less impressive.\n\nThe bigger question for Netflix is can it retain those paying customers after Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased.\n\nThe company is facing increasing competition from the likes of Disney Plus and Amazon Prime, which both boast of large archives of content to attract new subscribers.\n\nMeanwhile, newly-launched short-form streaming service Quibi spent billions to release content with top Hollywood talent. And later this year HBO Max and NBCUniversal will launch Peacock in the US.\n\nIn the streaming world, content is king and more rivals mean Netflix will need to shore up its lineup. That's where coronavirus - a positive when it comes to driving subscriber growth - becomes a possible negative. Netflix had to pause the production of new shows during the lockdown.\n\nIts rivals face the same challenge. But big brands like NBCUniversal and Disney are also pulling popular shows they had leased to Netflix and showing on their own services instead.\n\nEurope, the Middle East and Africa accounted for the largest number of new members with almost 7 million new subscribers. Growth in the US and Canada, which has lagged in recent quarters, also jumped, with 2.3 million new members joining the service, compared to just 550,000 in the final months of 2019.\n\nThe firm now has more than 182 million subscribers worldwide.\n\nNetflix said revenue increased to $5.76bn, up more than 27% compared to the same period in 2019. Profits almost doubled, from $344m in the first quarter of 2019 to $709m.", "The PM is recovering after spending a week in hospital\n\nBoris Johnson has spoken on the phone to US President Donald Trump, as his recovery from coronavirus continues.\n\nThe prime minister, who is recuperating at his official country residence, is also expected to speak to the Queen by phone this week.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson is currently not doing any formal government work but is receiving updates from senior colleagues.\n\nNo 10 said he had thanked Mr Trump for his good wishes whilst he was unwell.\n\nA spokesperson added the pair had discussed UK-US cooperation in the fight against the virus, and agreed on the importance of a \"coordinated international response\".\n\nEarlier No 10 said Mr Johnson has spoken to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputising for him for the past two weeks, and \"senior members of his team\".\n\nDowning Street also said Mr Johnson - who spent nearly a week in hospital and three nights in intensive care - was \"continuing his recovery\" at Chequers, his country retreat in Buckinghamshire.\n\nAfter he was discharged from hospital on 12 April, Mr Johnson - who received oxygen treatment to help his breathing during his stay - praised NHS staff, saying it \"could have gone either way\".\n\nHis fiancée Carrie Symonds, who is expecting their first child, said she had been through some \"very dark times\".\n\nThe prime minister is not performing any official engagements at the moment and Mr Raab is expected to stand in for him at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday - the first since the Easter recess.\n\nThe PM last chaired the government's daily virus briefing on 26 March, testing positive for the virus later that evening.\n\nThe PM's anticipated phone conversation with the Queen would be the first for three weeks, No 10 said. Their traditional weekly face-to-face meeting has not taken place since early last month.\n\nThe Queen, who celebrated her 94th birthday on Tuesday, is currently in residence at Windsor Castle, having moved there from Buckingham Palace in the middle of March.", "Neil Black, the former performance director of UK Athletics, has died aged 60, the organisation has confirmed.\n\nBlack, who worked closely with Mo Farah throughout his career, became performance director in September 2012.\n\nHe left his position in 2019 after coach Alberto Salazar was banned for four years for doping violations.\n\nBritish four-time Olympic champion Farah paid tribute on Twitter, saying: \"I have lost a good friend. Known him since I was 14 years old.\"\n\nFarah added: \"Neil supported me all the way in my career since I was kid. My heart is broken. I wouldn't be where I am today without Neil Black. No-one knew me like he did. We lost a great man.\"\n\nA UK Athletics statement released on Tuesday said Black died at the weekend; the organisation said it was \"shocked and saddened\" at the news.\n\n\"Neil loved the sport of athletics and dedicated his life to supporting athletes - as a world-class physiotherapist, as head of sport science, and then in recent years as performance director for British Athletics,\" the statement continued.\n\nEd Warner, former UK Athletics chairman, described Black's death as \"an immense loss to British high performance sport and to athletics in particular\".\n\nWarner added: \"It was a great privilege to work with him, and to share the highs and lows of British teams through the cycles of major competitions. I'll particularly treasure our celebratory clinch in the mixed zone at the Olympic Stadium after the last session of the London 2017 World Championships.\n\n\"Neil bore the barbs of the critics that are an inevitable part of the job of any leader in elite performance sport with a grace and sense of humour that were truly a mark of the man.\n\n\"He wanted to lead the British teams into Tokyo. He won't now be able to cheer their successes there.\n\n\"But I am certain there are British athletes who will win medals in Olympics and championships to come who will look back with enormous gratitude at the role Neil played in preparing them for their success. He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nBlack was a physiotherapist with UK Athletics before moving up through the organisation's ranks.\n\nHe worked with Farah as the athlete won 5,000m and 10,000m gold at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics.\n\nBlack made the decision to step down as performance director in October 2019 after the banning of Salazar, who coached Farah from 2011 to 2017, and who was appointed as a consultant by UK Athletics in 2013.\n\nUK Athletics had conducted a review in 2015 and said there was \"no concern\" about Salazar's link with Farah.\n\nIn 2015, following a BBC Panorama programme, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) began an investigation into how Salazar ran the Nike Oregon Project.\n\nSalazar has always denied that the Nike Oregon Project permitted doping, saying he was \"shocked\" by Usada's findings, and he is appealing against the ban.\n\nUK Athletics said that Black continued to work as an adviser to several athletes following his resignation.\n\nWorld champion Dina Asher-Smith said on social media: \"Incredibly sad and shocking news. I really can't believe it. He was a genuinely lovely, caring and kind-hearted man whose sense of humour and positivity would light up a room. Rest in peace Neil; you'll be dearly missed by all and my thoughts are with your family at this time.\"\n\nFormer heptathlon bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton tweeted: \"He came everywhere with me and made sure I was held together physically and mentally. So many things I want to say... I'll miss you forever Neil Black.\"\n\nChris Tomlinson, the former long jumper, also paid tribute on social media: \"Such sad news to hear of the passing of Neil Black. He was both my physio and team manager for many years. RIP.\"\n\nFive-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft wrote: \"Such a great guy, always made time to come chat to me and see how I was getting on when he passed me, and always took a true interest in my training and in my sport. RIP Neil, you'll be missed.\"\n\nPole vaulter Holly Bradshaw said: \"This news is so sad. Neil was such a special and incredible person who did so much for myself and athletics in the UK. Tremendous leader, sensational personality and just a genuinely nice guy. Neil you will be missed - rest in peace.\"\n\nParalympic champion Jo Butterfield said: \"What a shock to wake up to this news this morning. Thoughts are with his loved ones right now. One of the most genuine caring men… always made time for everyone.\"\n\nHigh jumper Morgan Lake added her tribute: \"Such terribly sad news. Neil was always so supportive and knew how to bring a team of athletes together and make us feel at ease, especially at major championships. Rest in Peace, my thoughts are with his loved ones.\"\n\nParalympic champion Aled Sion Davies said: \"Horrendous news, great man, full of passion…life really is too short.\"", "Italy's lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have been allowed to reopen\n\nThe number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country's outbreak began, authorities have said.\n\nAs of Monday, there were 108,237 people either being treated in hospital or recovering at home, 20 fewer than the previous day.\n\nAuthorities say the small but symbolic drop is a \"positive development\".\n\nItaly's lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have reopened.\n\nThey include bookshops, stationers and shops selling children's clothes, as officials see how social distancing measures can be safely applied.\n\nItaly has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world after Spain and the US. On Sunday, the increase of active positive cases in the country was 486.\n\n\"For the first time, we have seen a new positive development: the number of currently positive has declined,\" civil protection agency chief Angelo Borrelli told reporters.\n\nMore than 24,000 people have so far died of the coronavirus in Italy, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the disease globally.\n\nHowever, as people who die at home or in care facilities are not included in the country's figures, many believe the actual death and infection rates may be higher than the official tallies.\n\nThe Italian authorities have called the figures \"extremely encouraging\". The number of people currently infected with coronavirus has fallen for the first time; it is an important milestone, despite the fact that there were fewer tests than the previous day.\n\nTotal cases, which includes those who have died and recovered, rose by just over 1.2%, the smallest proportional increase since the outbreak began. There were, however, 454 deaths - slightly up on Sunday's figure.\n\nWhile the infection numbers are cause for optimism, the daily death toll is proving stubbornly high.\n\nIntensive care figures also show a downward trend, with occupancy now at its lowest level in a month. Italy is by no means out of the woods. But it is on the right path - and it now feels like its sacrifices are paying off.\n\nFrance has become the latest country to record more than 20,000 deaths related to coronavirus, a toll the country's director of health Jérôme Salomon has called \"symbolic and painful\".\n\n\"Tonight, our country is crossing a painful symbolic milestone,\" he said.\n\nUnlike the UK, France is including nursing home deaths in its daily toll. As of Monday, there have been 20,265 virus-related deaths in France - 12,513 of them in hospitals and 7,752 in nursing homes, Mr Salomon added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played.", "A couple have held a mock wedding ceremony to mark the day they were meant to get married.\n\nLaura McKinlay and Ruaridh Macmillan, who live near Falkirk, were due to wed on Saturday in Inverness.\n\nBut most marriages and civil partnerships are not taking place because of the lockdown.\n\nLaura and Ruaridh held what they called a \"not our wedding day\" and linked up with family and friends via video calls.\n\nThey had fun on their special day, with Laura using a fitted bed sheet for the veil while Ruaridh wore his pyjamas instead of a kilt.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "The number of people in their 50s and 60s needing emergency hospital treatment after being assaulted is at its highest level for nine years.\n\nNearly 21,000 people aged over 51 went to A&E in England and Wales in 2019 for violence-related injuries, according to analysis by Cardiff University.\n\nResearchers said many of the incidents were fuelled by alcohol.\n\nIt comes as overall violence-related casualty admissions fell by 6%, the steepest decline since 2015.\n\nThe figures are based on an annual survey of 111 A&E departments, minor injury centres and walk-in units that has been conducted since 2002.\n\nLast year, an estimated 175,764 people attended the emergency NHS facilities with injuries sustained in violence, 11,820 fewer than the previous year.\n\nMost of the victims had been hit, punched or kicked. Wounds caused by knife attacks - which separate data shows are at record levels - made up only around 5% of cases, analysts believe.\n\nThe number of violence-related emergency admissions has been dropping almost continuously since the survey began, and has now fallen by 45% since 2010.\n\nIn 2019, the greatest annual decreases were among those most at risk of being assaulted. Admissions by young adults were down 12%, and those by people aged 31-50 years fell by 9%.\n\nBut 13,798 men and 7,128 women aged 51 and over are estimated to have sustained injuries after being attacked, an 8% rise, and the second successive increase among this age group.\n\nAs a proportion of the population, the injury rate among those in their 50s and 60s is now at its highest since 2011.\n\nThe authors of the study said although this was \"difficult to explain\" it was likely to reflect the \"growing\" levels of drinking among older people in England.\n\nAnd they suggested some older binge drinkers were still behaving as they did when younger, in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\n\"Current cohorts of older people exhibited higher alcohol consumption levels in the past and may be continuing their relatively higher levels into older age,\" the study says.\n\n\"Since heavy binge drinking, and violence associated with it, were much more frequent three or four decades ago, it seems possible that this generational trait is also reflected in slowly increasing the risk of injury in violence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon McDonald spoke to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee by video link\n\nA senior civil servant has said he was wrong to claim the UK took a \"political decision\" not to join an EU scheme to source medical equipment.\n\nThe Foreign Office's Sir Simon McDonald told MPs that ministers were briefed on \"what was on offer\" but said \"no\".\n\nBut he later retracted his comments, saying he had \"wrongly\" told MPs that ministers been briefed on the scheme.\n\nHe said the UK did not receive an invitation to join the scheme because of \"communication problems\".\n\nMinisters have insisted they did not receive emails alerting them to the deadline for joining the EU procurement scheme for gowns, ventilators and testing kits in March.\n\nAnd Health Secretary Matt Hancock denied that politics had been involved in the decision and said he had signed-off on joining efforts to procure more equipment.\n\nHowever, a European Commission spokeswoman suggested the UK was aware of the tender programmes and had chosen not to get involved after its departure from the bloc on 31 January.\n\nLast month the government was criticised for not taking part in an EU plan to bulk buy medical equipment, including potentially life-saving ventilators, that could be used to tackle the coronavirus.\n\nAt the time, Downing Street said the UK was making its own arrangements because it was no longer in the EU.\n\nMinisters denied claims that anti-EU sentiment had played a part in the decision.\n\nDowning Street then issued a statement saying the UK had been invited to take part but officials did not see the email because of a \"communication confusion\".\n\nAsked why the decision was taken not to join the scheme, Sir Simon - who is permanent secretary at the Foreign Office - told the Foreign Affairs Committee that it was a deliberate move by ministers.\n\n\"We left the European Union on 31 January,\" he said.\n\nPushed further, he added: \"All I can say is that it is a matter of fact that we have not taken part. It was a political decision... and the decision is no.\"\n\nBut five hours later, he released a letter to the chair of the committee, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, saying he had been wrong in what he said.\n\n\"Due to a misunderstanding, I inadvertently and wrongly told the committee that ministers were briefed on the joint EU procurement scheme and took a political decision not to take part in it,\" he wrote.\n\n\"That is incorrect. Ministers were not briefed by our mission in Brussels about the scheme and a political decision was not take on whether or not to participate.\"\n\nHe added that \"the facts of the situation are as previously set out\" and the UK missed the opportunity to take part \"owing to an initial communication problem\".\n\nThe EU started to coordinate the process of purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE), testing kits and ventilators at the end of February. The joined effort helps to reduce costs when negotiating with manufacturers.\n\nThe first scheme, to purchase masks, was launched on 28 February.\n\nFor ventilators, the procurement procedure was launched on 17 March, with the closing date of 26 March by which countries had to say whether they would like to participate and how much they would need.\n\nA further scheme for PPE was launched on 17 March and one for testing kits on 19 March.\n\nHowever, so far no PPE, ventilators or testing kits have been delivered through the schemes.\n\nSir Simon had earlier been contradicted by ministers, with Mr Hancock saying he had spoken to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, and as far as he knew there had been no political decision not to participate.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, he revealed that he had now accepted an invitation from the EU to join that particular scheme on an \"associate\" basis but said it had not yet delivered a single item of medical equipment.\n\n\"When we did receive an invitation in the Department of Health… it was put up to me... and we joined and we are now members of that scheme, but as far as we know that scheme hasn't yet delivered a single item of PPE.\"\n\nThe decision not to join earlier had had \"zero\" impact on the UK's current supplies, he suggested.\n\nSpeaking before Sir Simon issued his clarification, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said ministers themselves needed to explain what had happened.\n\n\"We were told the government missed an email invitation to join the EU procurement scheme. Then we were told the decision not to take part was a political decision.\n\n\"Now we are told that the government did sign up to the scheme,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the row reflected the intense pressure on the government over its record on key equipment and whether its rhetoric about doing all it could was backed by the reality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLondon's Heathrow airport normally has about 600 flights landing on an average day, but in lockdown Britain, about 60 arrive daily.\n\nOther UK airports are receiving a tiny number of flights between them. But the number is still high enough to trouble MPs, who on Friday received a letter from the UK aviation minister explaining why flights were still in the air.\n\nIt is the airlines, who say nearly all of their passengers on their flights into Heathrow are people heading home, which decide which routes to run.\n\n\"No-one is on holiday,\" says Airlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade, whose group represents British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and other UK-based carriers.\n\nThat was certainly the picture at a deserted Heathrow Terminal 5 when I visited this week. I watched from a distance as a trickle of mask-sporting passengers appeared after flying in on British Airways from Los Angeles.\n\nSome people on social media have questioned why flights are still coming in from countries such as the US, Italy and Spain, where Covid-19 is also prevalent.\n\nAlitalia said the four daily flights it is now operating between Rome and London are \"quite empty\" flying into Heathrow.\n\nHowever, on the return leg to Rome, its aircraft are \"almost full\" of Italian citizens who want to fly back to Italy. Those people travelling to Italy must fill in a declaration to say that their journey is essential.\n\nMadrid and Barcelona are, like Heathrow, hub airports. That means many passengers flying in from there will have started their journey elsewhere, such as airports in Latin America.\n\nAnd many people flying into Heathrow will transit and fly straight back out again to another destination.\n\nMany airlines would not disclose exactly how many passengers they have been ferrying into London.\n\nHowever, American Airlines said social distancing had been possible \"for all passengers\", suggesting that its aircraft have a lot of empty seats.\n\nPassenger numbers have been so low for Dutch carrier KLM that over the past few days, it has had to cancel its only daily flight from Amsterdam Schiphol into Heathrow.\n\nIn normal times, it runs 11 of those flights in a single day.\n\nHeathrow is seeing just a trickle of mask-wearing passengers arriving\n\nVirgin Atlantic revealed that many of its commercial flights which have been running over the past couple of weeks have only, on average, been a quarter full.\n\nAnd my understanding is that British Airways is, globally, currently carrying a minuscule fraction of its usual passenger load.\n\nBut if passenger flights are not full of passengers right now, their belly will be full of cargo which, because of demand, now travels at a premium.\n\nCargo has become a vital source of income for airlines, which have had their passenger revenue slashed in apocalyptic fashion.\n\nAt the same time, their high fixed costs, such as maintaining, leasing and parking aircraft, remain.\n\nIn specific cases, airlines such as BA and Virgin Atlantic have been using passenger airliners to carry solely cargo, namely medical supplies such as ventilator parts, face masks and protective clothing (PPE).\n\nOver a 10-day period earlier this month, Virgin Atlantic ran 20 cargo-only flights into Heathrow.\n\nIt ran just 15 commercial passenger flights over the same period.\n\nWhen a passenger aircraft is used to carry cargo, most of the seats can be covered with netting, so that supplies can travel in the cabin as well as in the belly of the plane.\n\nNormally, most of the world's air cargo is transported in the hold of passenger aircraft.\n\nBut with the vast majority of airliners grounded, cargo companies have had to step up their operations in an effort to meet the demand.\n\nCompanies such as FedEx Express, DHL and IAG Cargo (a sister company of BA and Iberia) have been ferrying medical supplies into the UK, namely from China.\n\nThere is \"a huge demand\" for component parts for projects to manufacture respirators in the UK, according to Trevor Hoyle from FedEx Express.\n\nHe said his company had also moved \"a huge amount\" of personal protective equipment (PPE) into the UK in recent days.\n\nThe number of cargo-only flights travelling into Heathrow has grown exponentially throughout the crisis.\n\nAnd despite most passenger flights being grounded, East Midlands Airport, which boasts the UK's \"largest dedicated air cargo operation\", has seen a rise in overall flight numbers because of the demand for freight.\n\nAs for getting people home, BA and Virgin Atlantic are also running official repatriation flights for the Foreign Office.\n\nThe UK government says it has brought back 7,300 people on 35 flights since the coronavirus outbreak began in China. However, the vast bulk of people returning have travelled via commercial routes.\n\nIt's estimated that 1.3 million people have arrived back in the UK on commercially operated aircraft over that same period, but thousands of British residents are still stranded abroad.\n\nOne of those to return was Kiran Sandhu, who was flown home this week from India, where she was visiting family. When she left India, Kiran was given a temperature check and had to answer questions about whether she had Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nBut when she landed in the UK, there were no such questions or tests.\n\n\"It was a bit confusing,\" she says. \"You just assume that if one airport is doing it, then other airports would follow through with the same regulation and process.\"\n\nPublic Health England says checks are not effective, because some people carrying Covid-19 do not have a temperature and some show no symptoms at all.\n\nThis may not remain the case forever. Heathrow's boss says that at some point, tests might have to become the norm in airports around the world, partly so passengers are not confused by inconsistent approaches.", "The deal represents the largest cut in oil production ever agreed\n\nOpec producers and allies have agreed a record oil deal that will slash global output by about 10% after a slump in demand caused by coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe deal, agreed on Sunday via video conference, is the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.\n\nOpec+, made up of oil producers and allies including Russia, announced plans for the deal on 9 April, but Mexico resisted the cuts.\n\nOpec has yet to announce the deal, but individual nations have confirmed it.\n\nThe only detail to have been confirmed so far is that 9.7 million barrels per day will be cut by Opec oil producers and allies.\n\nOn Monday in Asia, oil rose over $1 a barrel in early trading with global benchmark Brent up 3.9% to $32.71 a barrel and US grade West Texas Intermediate up 6.1% to $24.15 a barrel.\n\nShares in Australia jumped 3.46% led by energy exporters, but Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.35% on continued concerns of poor global demand because of the spread of the coronavirus.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented agreement because it's not just between Opec and Opec+... but also the largest supplier in the world which is the US as well as other G-20 countries which have agreed to support the agreement both in reducing production and also in using up some of the surface supply by putting it into storage,\" Sandy Fielden, director of Oil Research at research firm Morningstar, told the BBC.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Kuwait's energy minister Dr Khaled Ali Mohammed al-Fadhel tweeted the news, while Saudi Arabia's energy ministry and Russia's state news agency Tass both separately confirmed the deal on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"By the grace of Allah, then with wise guidance, continuous efforts and continuous talks since the dawn of Friday, we now announce the completion of the historic agreement to reduce production by approximately 10 million barrels of oil per day from members of 'OPEC +' starting from 1 May 2020,\" wrote Dr al-Fadhel in a tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by د. خالد الفاضل This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlobal oil demand is estimated to have fallen by a third as more than three billion people are locked down in their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPrior to that, oil prices slumped in March to an 18-year-low after Opec+ failed to agree cuts.\n\nTalks were complicated by disagreements between Russia and Saudi Arabia, but on 2 April oil prices surged after President Trump signalled that he expected the two countries to end their feud.\n\nThe initial details of the deal, outlined by Opec+ on Thursday, would have seen the group and its allies cutting 10 million barrels a day or 10% of global supply from 1 May. Another five million barrels were expected to be cut by other nations outside the group such as the US, Canada, Brazil and Norway.\n\nIt said the cuts would be eased to eight million barrels a day between July and December. Then they would be eased again to six million barrels between January 2021 and April 2022.\n\nIndependent oil market analyst Gaurav Sharma told the BBC that the deal agreed on Sunday was \"marginally lower\", compared to the 10 million barrels per day that was originally announced on Thursday. Mexico had balked at making these production cuts, which delayed the deal being signed off.\n\nThen on Friday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Mr Trump had offered to make extra US cuts on his behalf, an unusual offer by the US president, who has long railed against Opec.\n\nMr Trump said Washington would help Mexico by picking up \"some of the slack\" and being reimbursed later, but he did not detail how the arrangement would work.\n\n\"Now a rehashed deal placating Mexico has resurfaced to calm the market, yet, look closer and the doubts surface,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\n\"The bulk of the output cuts are predicated on Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting 2.5 million barrels per day from agreed - and somewhat inflated - levels of 11 million barrels per day. More importantly, for most of 2019, Russia displayed very poor form in complying with previously agreed Opec+ cuts. So the market is unlikely to take the announced cut at face value.\"\n\nHe added that forecasts for a drop in demand in the summer appear to be \"dire\", with even the most optimistic forecasts pointing to a reduction of 18.5 million barrels per day.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"The announcement can stem the bleeding, but cannot prevent what is likely to be a dire summer for oil producers with the potential to drag oil prices below $20 (£16; €18).\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 99-year-old war veteran raised more than £27m for the NHS.\n\nThe 99-year-old war veteran who raised over £27m for the NHS has opened a new Nightingale hospital in Harrogate.\n\nCaptain Tom Moore, who raised money by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, appeared via video link at the opening on Tuesday.\n\nA virtual ceremony was held to open the 500-bed facility at Harrogate Convention Centre, the first of seven field hospitals built outside a city.\n\nSpeaking at the opening, Capt Tom said: \"All the doctors and nurses throughout the national health service are doing such a magnificent job under very difficult conditions.\n\n\"Every day, they're putting themselves in harm's way and they're doing it with a determination that only we can do.\n\n\"We must all say 'thank you very much to the national health service,' all of you, everyone throughout the whole system, who are doing such a magnificent job.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe veteran, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, originally aimed to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together however his feat captured the imagination of the nation.\n\nSteve Russell, chief executive of the new hospital in Harrogate, said that Capt Moore had \"inspired millions around the world\".\n\nHe said his motto, \"tomorrow will be a good day,\" had \"given hope to those struggling with social distancing and served as a reminder that we can all overcome any challenge if we're united together\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harrogate's Convention Centre was converted into a hospital in under three weeks.\n\nThe opening was conducted by video link in line with social distancing policies.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"It's an honour to be asked to open this hospital alongside Captain Tom Moore.\n\n\"During this worrying and difficult time for our whole country his phenomenal achievement has reminded us of our common bonds and served to further unite us.\"\n\nMore than 600 people worked to get the Harrogate hospital ready including members of the Armed Forces.\n\nMajor David Mortimer, military liaison officer for the hospital, said: \"I've been really proud and so have all the soldiers that we've had working here.\n\n\"It's been really empowering to try and find a solution to this crisis while there's so much suffering going on.\"\n\nThe construction of the hospital required more than 7m litres of oxygen\n\nThe hospital is expected to provide extra beds for coronavirus patients, if they are needed by local health services.\n\nAmanda Stanford, chief nurse at the hospital, said they were ready to take \"patients who require ventilation\".\n\nShe said: \"Our aim is to make sure that patients coming here are cared for in the same way that they would be in any other critical care facility.\n\nNightingale hospitals have been announced for London, Birmingham, Manchester, Harrogate, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow and Belfast.\n\nNHS England said it had also freed up more than 33,000 beds around the country, the equivalent of 50 new hospitals.\n\nA deal has also been struck with the independent hospital sector to provide 8,000 extra beds, as well as staff and equipment, it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Separated couples exploiting the Covid-19 lockdown to stop an ex-partner from seeing their child could face court action, says a senior judge.\n\nHead of the family courts Sir Andrew McFarlane says children should continue to visit parents they do not live with, as long as both households are healthy.\n\nFamily lawyers told the BBC they have been inundated with separated parents arguing over contact during lockdown.\n\nSome say parents have exploited Covid-19 guidance to stop visits altogether.\n\nThe guidance for parents who live apart states that children under the age of 18 can be moved between their parents' homes after a sensible discussion, and an assessment that the children are not being put at risk.\n\nBut for some parents, trust and communication have broken down, and conversations over child visits can seem impossible.\n\nSir Andrew, who is in charge of family courts in England and Wales, says those ignoring child court orders could end up facing legal action.\n\nHe warns: \"If the parents are acting in a cynical and opportunistic manner, then that's wrong, and the courts will regard it as wrong.\"\n\nSamantha Woodham, family law barrister and co-founder of the Divorce Surgery, says she has been overwhelmed with calls for clarification since the lockdown guidance was introduced.\n\nShe says she has heard about cases where mothers and fathers are abusing the system, and is calling for clearer rules on when parents should and should not be changing child arrangements.\n\nCabinet Minister Michael Gove caused confusion among families when England announced its lockdown.\n\nAppearing on ITV's Good Morning Britain, he said children were to remain in the household they were currently in.\n\nBut minutes later, on BBC Breakfast, Mr Gove said children under the age of 18 could move between households.\n\nMrs Woodham is calling for further clarity in the COVID-19 guidance: \"The fact that the guidance is permissive, stating that children 'can' move between homes, is actually not enough.\n\n\"Being told that children 'should' move between homes would actually really help parents in this time of uncertainty.\"\n\nAlex - not his real name - says he received an email from his ex-partner the day the UK went into lockdown, saying he could no longer see his 10-year-old son, despite a child court order stipulating ongoing visits.\n\nAlex says his ex-partner felt his role as a key worker meant he was at high risk of catching and spreading the virus.\n\nBut he says he is working from home 90% of the time, and has been following all safeguarding guidance.\n\n\"I miss physically seeing him in front of me, being able to have a laugh, talk, see how his day has been,\" he says.\n\n\"I totally understand the fear and worry of any parent if your loved ones are in contact with somebody who is a key worker, but that shouldn't be a reason to punish you.\"\n\nHospital consultant Robert - not his real name - faced a lengthy battle to be in regular contact with his son.\n\nFollowing the restrictions imposed, his ex-partner suspended all contact except for a short phone call once a fortnight.\n\nHe says he feels frustrated that she has disregarded the guidance and his efforts to make it work.\n\n\"All of my proposed assurances to strictly observe social distancing and cancel non-essential travel proved inadequate to the mother, who only sees her opinion and interpretation as the final judgment.\n\n\"Sadly, I won't be the only parent subject to this manipulative interpretation of the current guidance.\"\n\nSir Andrew, however, believes the guidance is adequate.\n\nHe says that a child's safety with regard to the virus is a matter for parental judgement, and the courts would not take that away.\n\nHe is urging families in conflict to focus on children's welfare, and to make sure they are in touch with both of their parents.\n\n\"Do something you don't want to do, for the sake of your child.\"", "The Muslim Council of Britain, the largest umbrella organisation for Muslims in Britain, has published online guidance to help millions cope with the restrictions of lockdown during the coming fasting month of Ramadan.\n\nIt says this year's Ramadan, which begins at the end of this week, will be \"a very different experience for Muslims as we adapt to changing circumstances during the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nWith lockdown continuing, there will be no congregational acts of worship outside the home, no Taraweeh prayers at the mosque and no iftars (usually a huge ritual meal marking the breaking of the fast after sundown) with friends and family to attend.\n\nInstead, the MCB is offering guidance on how to arrange virtual iftars online with loved ones and community members by using video chat.\n\nPlan your iftar menus in advance, it says, so as to avoid multiple shopping trips.\n\nIt also suggests eating high-energy, slow-burning foods during the second meal of the night, the suhoor, which takes place just before dawn, to help maintain energy levels throughout the daylight fasting hours.\n\nThe MCB advises Muslims to \"honour your workplace duties with patience and good grace to those around you\".\n\nBut it also warns that a refusal by employers to allow flexibility in work timings for fasting employees without a legitimate business reason could amount to unlawful indirect discrimination.\n\nThe Muslim holy month of Ramadan is a special time for nearly two billion Muslims all over the world.\n\nIn any normal year, it is a time of communal prayer, of daytime fasting, night-time feasting, extensive socialising and acts of profound generosity and charity as Muslims reaffirm their faith in God.\n\nFor those living in the West, forsaking food and drink during daylight hours while the rest of the population is able to indulge publicly in cafes and restaurants has always been a testing time.\n\nBut this year it will be very different.\n\nWith lockdown continuing, most of those visible temptations on the streets will be absent as people stay at home.\n\nYet individual isolation is completely counter-intuitive to most Muslims during the month of Ramadan. Usually, whole communities tend to pour onto the streets after dark to share and enjoy the communal experience with their relatives and neighbours.\n\nBut Dr Emman El-Badawy, an expert on Islamic jurisprudence, believes the spirit of Ramadan will survive.\n\n\"So much of the essence of Ramadan can be maintained during isolation.\n\n\"The spiritual aspects may even be heightened for some of us, with less distractions than usual.\n\n\"The communal practices will be missed under the restrictions, for sure, but there are already great initiatives being built to help with this.\"\n\nHow will you be observing Ramadan where you are? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "An \"enormous strain\" has been put on the system for obtaining protective kit for NHS staff and care workers, the education secretary has said.\n\nSome 400,000 gowns had been expected to arrive from Turkey on Sunday, but the government said it had been delayed.\n\nGavin Williamson was asked by the BBC why British suppliers offering to make protective kit had not been contacted.\n\nHe responded that government hoped to speak to them within the next 24 hours, and the gowns should arrive on Monday.\n\n\"I think we all recognise the enormous strain that has been placed on the whole system and we also recognise that right across the globe people are trying to get the same items of PPE from quite a limited number of suppliers,\" Mr Williamson said at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym also asked why stocks had been allowed to run down over the last couple of years, and why more was not done to boost them in March and February.\n\nThe education secretary said \"every resource of government\" had been deployed to expand supplies of PPE and ventilators.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries, meanwhile, said the UK remained an \"international exemplar\" of pandemic preparedness, adding there had been challenges but the government was \"always looking ahead\".\n\nThe pledge to take delivery of more protective kit came after warnings that some hospitals' intensive care units could run out of gowns this weekend.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association, described the delay as \"very concerning\".\n\n\"Healthcare workers desperately need proper and effective protection now - by whatever means possible,\" he said, adding: \"This really is a matter of life and death.\"\n\nPublic Health England changed its advice on Friday to allow the NHS to re-use gowns if stock was running low, saying \"some compromise\" was needed \"in times of extreme shortages\".\n\nIt asked staff to reuse \"(washable) surgical gowns or coveralls or similar suitable clothing (for example, long-sleeved laboratory coat, long-sleeved patient gown or industrial coverall) with a disposable plastic apron for AGPs (aerosol-generating procedures) and high-risk settings with forearm washing once gown or coverall is removed\".\n\nThe guidance also said hospitals could reserve the gowns for surgical operations and procedures which were likely to transmit respiratory pathogens.\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis said for the guidance on the use of protective equipment to be properly followed, it was \"absolutely critical above everything else that we have the supplies of PPE going out to the front line\".\n\nBut the Royal College of Nursing said the guidance was developed without a full consultation and the British Medical Association (BMA) - which represents doctors - said any change must be driven by science, not availability.\n\nThe delay to the consignment is a real worry, both in the short and long-term.\n\nIt is clear the pandemic stocks we have been largely relying on to date are running out, at least in terms of gowns and visors.\n\nIt has left us depending on international supply - certainly for gowns - as we do not seem to be able to manufacture them ourselves.\n\nGiven the international demand for them, this threatens to be an on-going issue that could cause problems for months to come.\n\nStaff are understandably worried - they are putting their lives at risk.\n\nMinisters and their officials are clearly working hard to do what they can.\n\nBut in the future, serious questions will need to be asked about why this situation has arisen in the first place.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the UK had built up stocks of PPE in expectation of a flu pandemic - as well as to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit - but he said there was a \"worldwide pressure\" on supplies.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said \"serious mistakes have been made\" by the government in tackling the outbreak.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We know that our front-line NHS staff don't have the PPE, that they've been told this weekend that they won't necessarily have the gowns which are vital to keep them safe.\"\n\nThe government has appointed Lord Deighton, who headed the organising committee of the London Olympics, to resolve problems with supplies and distribution of PPE.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The BBC has been invited to film inside the University Hospital Wishaw in Lanarkshire to show the impact of the coronavirus pandemic across all aspects of care.\n\nThe team filmed the challenges facing the rapidly expanded intensive care unit and the transformation of other services, including the maternity unit, over 12 hours inside the hospital.\n\nThe Scottish government says “this is the biggest challenge we have faced in our lifetimes” and “NHS and social care staff across Scotland are doing incredible work”.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "On 26 March, Chicago stopped for a moment of gratitude: People took to their balconies, porches and rooftops, cheering and ringing bells in the dark winter night.\n\nThe applause was for the healthcare workers, first responders and service-industry employees on the frontlines of the pandemic who were risking their lives every day to save people from the virus wreaking havoc around the world.\n\nBut for hospital cleaner Candice Martinez, the recognition of nurses and doctors has left her feeling empty.\n\n\"It's disappointing to me that us 'lower level employees' aren't getting any kind of recognition for what we are doing.\"\n\nAs an Environmental Services Worker at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ms Martinez is responsible for cleaning the rooms while patients are in hospital or after they are discharged or moved.\n\nShe is one of the thousands of essential employees in the city who still have to go to work despite the crisis. And one of the 12,571 cases of Covid-19 identified in Chicago.", "We’re pausing our live coverage for the time being. If you’ve been following our updates, thanks for joining us.\n\nWe’ll be back on Wednesday to bring you the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in the UK and around the world.\n\nUntil then, here is a recap of what happened on Tuesday:\n• President Trump said green cards will be suspended for 60 days, with unspecified exemptions\n• The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 2.5 million, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University\n• Researchers from Oxford University will begin testing a potential vaccine on people from Thursday, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said\n• A further 823 coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals were reported in the UK, following a post-weekend dip in Monday's figures\n• Italy registered its second daily decline in the number of people currently confirmed to have the virus, reporting a drop of 528 to 107,709. The country’s prime minister said he would soon announce a plan to slowly exit lockdown starting from 4 May\n• The United Nations said the world was at risk of widespread famines \"of biblical proportions\" caused by the coronavirus pandemic\n• The oil price crisis deepened, as the benchmark price of Brent Crude plunged to its lowest level since 2002\n\nOur live coverage was brought to you today by BBC teams in London, Singapore, Delhi, Sydney and Washington DC: Saira Asher, Yvette Tan, Andreas Illmer, Tessa Wong, Frances Mao, Krutika Pathi, Michael Emons, Joshua Nevett, Joshua Cheetham, Jim Todd, Thomas Poole, Matt Cannon, Stephen Sutcliffe, Martha Buckley, Claudia Allen, Max Matza, and Ben Collins.", "Shipping firms have halted crew changes to protect their seafarers\n\nWith the world in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the shipping industry is already feeling the impact as the global economy heads into a deep recession.\n\nHundreds of ship sailings have been cancelled as first ports in China, and then across the globe, have seen trade fall away - with millions of workers and consumers in lockdown.\n\nCaught in the centre of this have been the world's 1.6 million seafarers, on 50,000 tankers and cargo carriers. Many of them are unable to leave their ships, or find themselves stuck in hotels without pay and unable to get flights home.\n\nEvery month, 100,000 merchant mariners come to the end of their contracts on their ships and need to be flown home. But the pandemic has halted this.\n\nSince the coronavirus outbreak Chinese border guards have been checking the health of crews\n\n\"Working at sea is often described as similar to being in prison, except there is no TV,\" says former ship's navigator Nick Chubb.\n\n\"Though my experience was usually positive, a feeling of deep fatigue sets in towards the end of a contract. I once had a four-month contract on an oil tanker extended by three weeks, and found it incredibly difficult to deal with.\n\n\"Some of these seafarers have spent nine months away from their families already. And it's not looking particularly likely they'll be able to go home any time soon,\" adds Mr Chubb, who is now a director for the maritime technology intelligence platform Thetius.\n\nThe world's biggest shipping firm, AP Moller-Maersk, is one of those which has halted its crew changes, and says its done so to protect them, by lessening the number of social interactions they need to have.\n\nIt adds that \"the rapid changes to global travel poses a risk of stranding seafarers in locations from where they are unable to leave, or get sufficient assistance\".\n\nThe cost of shipping an item around the world is just a fraction of its final retail price\n\nYet even before the coronavirus outbreak, the industry was grappling with major issues.\n\nFirst, the need to move to cleaner fuels because of the introduction of the 2020 sulphur emissions cap by the International Maritime Organization.\n\nSecond, the fallout from the US-China trade war, and the failure of Washington and Beijing to implement the first phase of their trade agreement.\n\n\"Shipping lines have had a very hard time making money in the past ten years,\" says Alan Murphy, chief executive of analysts Sea-Intelligence in Copenhagen.\n\nFor example, for a $100 (£80) pair of trainers, the cost of ocean transport will be a fraction of that - just 10c. This makes the distance that goods travel to market irrelevant in cost terms. And it is why China, with its low labour costs, has become the world's main manufacturer.\n\nChina accounts for seven of the world's 10 busiest container ports\n\nPeter Sand, chief shipping analyst with Bimco, the world's largest international shipping association, warned at a recent webinar that 2020 could become increasingly harsh for the industry.\n\n\"We need to make sure that local ports and terminals are kept open, to make sure that food and goods are kept flowing to where it's needed - because that's where shipping hands a lifeline to the global public.\"\n\nFaced with the rippling disruptions to supply and demand around the globe, shipping firms have been scaling back operations. So far, 384 sailings have been cancelled, and the first half of 2020 could see a 25% fall in shipping, with a 10% drop for the year overall, says Sea-Intelligence.\n\nChinese ports have resumed sailings in April, but many ports serving key consumer markets are still operating well below capacity.\n\nThe industry has not yet had to lower prices, but if shipping firms are forced to do so, and freight rates fall by 20% - as they did after the 2008 financial crisis - and were shipping volumes to remain 10% lower, \"we could see operating losses of some $20-23bn\", says Mr Murphy.\n\n\"That would wipe out the shipping firms' last eight years' worth of profits,\" he adds.\n\nOil tankers are now in big demand, as the major fall in the price of crude has led to stockpiling\n\nThere are a lot of unknowns in the preceding sentences, and Sea-Intelligence stresses it is not yet clear how long it will take for fractured global supply chains to get back to normal once lockdowns are ended.\n\nFor consumers, there could well be periodic shortages to come, says Jody Cleworth, of consultants Marine Transport International.\n\n\"In developing nations like South Africa there's an almost complete shutdown in exports, whereby only critical goods are moving through ports. So the seasonal goods we expect in Europe in summer would be limited from such countries.\n\n\"For example, charcoal for your summer barbecue. At the moment those containers are not being moved out of South Africa, so they will not be arriving in the UK for their intended dates,\" he says.\n\nBut there is one exception to this gloom: the oil tanker sector. Demand for oil tankers has been rising following the oil price falls, which have sent the tanker sector \"sky-high\", says Nick Chubb of Thetius.\n\n\"There are ships that are being chartered now for $230,000 a day as offshore floating storage for when the oil prices recover. It's almost a tale of two industries,\" he says.\n\nBut given the impact of Covid-19 on economic activity, energy demand in 2020 is likely to be substantially lower, and it is possible these tankers may be storing oil for a while to come.\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nSo what will be the effect of Covid-19 on the shipping industry beyond 2020?\n\nWith virtually no cargo moving by air, shipping could become even more crucial. Already 90% of world trade by volume goes by sea. Yet many analysts expect the drop in demand across Europe and North America to have a longer-term impact.\n\n\"We could be talking a decade, at least, of difficulty,\" suggests Nick Chubb of Thetius.\n\nAlan Murphy says the pandemic will trigger questions about the shape and sustainability of world trade - and globalisation. \"A lot of protectionist arguments are going to be made against outsourcing.\n\n\"It will have a very profound impact on how global supply chains are organised. It is going to be a political topic in coming years.\"\n\nAre you a sailor stranded away from home because of coronavirus? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A rapper from London who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been arrested in Spain.\n\nAbdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 28, who performed as Lyricist Jinn, travelled to the Middle East in 2013.\n\nSpanish National Police posted a video of the arrest operation, branding Abdel Bary \"one of Europe's most wanted Daesh foreign terrorist fighters.\"\n\nHe was detained alongside two other men found in a rented apartment in Almeria, police said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Policía Nacional This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll three men had adapted themselves to the COVID-19 emergency in Spain, after entering the country illegally, according to police there.\n\nThe men rarely went out and wore face masks when they did, officers added.\n\nIn 2014, Abdel Bary's father pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to kill, in the 1998 Al Qaeda bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.\n\nIn a statement, Spanish National Police said the detainee had spent several years in the Syrian-Iraqi conflict zone.\n\nThe other arrested men had yet to be identified, police said.", "NHS supplies of face masks could be put at risk if the government starts advising the public to wear them, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers are meeting on Tuesday to discuss whether people should be urged to wear masks in a bid to combat coronavirus.\n\nBut Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, warned there should be \"clear evidence\" to justify their use.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded another 823 coronavirus deaths in UK hospitals.\n\nThat takes the total number to 17,337.\n\nOfficial figures show record numbers of deaths in England and Wales in the week up to 10 April, driven by 6,200 fatalities attributed to coronavirus. These figures cover all settings, including care homes and deaths in the community as well as hospitals.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Donald Trump as he continues his recovery from coronavirus.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said Mr Johnson thanked the US president for his good wishes while he was unwell and they agreed on the importance of a co-ordinated international response to the pandemic.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence to support the use of face masks by the general population.\n\nIt says people who are not in health and care facilities should only wear masks if they are sick or caring for those who are ill.\n\nBut the debate around their use in the UK has been gaining momentum in recent weeks, with proponents arguing they can help reduce the risk of people with the virus passing it on to others.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the wearing of masks while travelling in the city to become compulsory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere, the French authorities will provide masks to people when lockdown measures are eased next month, and Americans are being urged to wear cloth face coverings in public spaces where social distancing is impossible.\n\nThe government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) is set to make its recommendations to ministers this week.\n\nBut Mr Hopson, who represents healthcare trusts across England, said the impact on the NHS must be fully assessed.\n\n\"Fluid-repellent masks for health and care staff are key to safety and to avoid the spread of coronavirus,\" he said.\n\n\"Securing the supply of masks, when there is huge global demand, is crucial. This must be a key consideration for government.\n\n\"There needs to be clear evidence that wearing masks, along with other measures, will deliver significant enough benefits to take us out of lockdown to potentially jeopardise NHS mask supply.\"\n\nAmericans have been advised to use clean cloth or fabric to cover their faces\n\nThe WHO guidance, issued earlier this month, warned that the use of masks by the public can create a \"false sense of security\" and lead to people ignoring other protective measures, such as hand hygiene and physical distancing.\n\nWhile acknowledging the virus can be passed on by people who are not yet symptomatic, it says: \"Current evidence suggests that most disease is transmitted by symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed cases.\n\n\"There is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses.\"\n\nMasks can even be a source of infection when not used correctly, the WHO added.\n\nBut a group of medics has called on people to make their own face masks to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMasks4All, a campaign group started in the Czech Republic that has attracted the support of more than 100 UK medics, suggested homemade masks could slow the spread of Covid-19\n\nDr Helen Davison told the Daily Telegraph the group was \"advocating the use of cloth masks as a precautionary principle\" and that it had been inspired by action taken in other countries.\n\nAnd Prof Babak Javid, consultant in infectious diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals, said \"population mask wearing should be an important part of the response to Covid\".\n\nHe added: \"Once Covid cases are largely suppressed, we can stop wearing masks, their incremental gain will be low. But now, to really benefit from masks, the majority of us need to wear masks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the delayed batch of protective kit destined for the NHS has arrived at Istanbul Airport and is expected to be loaded onto an RAF aircraft which flew out to Turkey on Monday.\n\nAmid mounting criticism of the government over the ongoing shortages of protective gear for NHS staff, Chancellor Rishi Sunak told Monday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing the government was working \"around the clock\" to address the problem.\n\nAlso at the briefing, the UK's deputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Dame Angela Maclean, said the number of new confirmed infections was \"flattening out\".", "Rural groups say police guidance that people can drive to the countryside to exercise will cause \"untold anxieties\".\n\nThe National Rural Crime Network and other groups said it risks spreading the virus through unnecessary journeys.\n\nDriving to the countryside for a walk is \"likely to be reasonable\" if more time is spent walking than driving, the guidance says.\n\nPolice groups say the advice is not for the public - it is meant to help officers decide when to charge someone.\n\nThe letter challenging the guidance is signed by the National Rural Crime Network, the Countryside Alliance, the National Farmers' Union, and the Country Land and Business Association, who say they represent \"many millions of residents and thousands of businesses\" in England and Wales.\n\nThey said they receive \"hundreds of concerned messages a day\" about people flouting the laws restricting movements, and say there are serious concerns this guidance will \"encourage even more people to carry out unnecessarily long journeys\".\n\nThey have written to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland demanding a change to the pandemic advice.\n\n\"The key message needs to remain: stay home, save lives. Anything which complicates that message is unhelpful,\" the letter says.\n\nThe letter demands that the police guidelines are \"urgently reviewed\".\n\nThe guidance was collated by the National Police Chiefs' Council and the College of Policing, but was based on advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe College of Policing said the advice was for internal purposes - not for the public - and \"was designed to help officers remain consistent with criminal justice colleagues\" when deciding when to charge someone.\n\nIt follows complaints that officers were being heavy-handed in enforcing the law restricting people's movements during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nDerbyshire Police were criticised for filming walkers in the Peak District using a drone in an attempt to warn people away from visiting the countryside. Some people, such as former justice secretary David Gauke, said the walkers appeared to be observing social distancing measures.\n\nUnder the guidance, officers are advised that driving to the countryside for a walk is \"reasonable\" if \"far more time\" is spent walking than driving.\n\nIt also says that police should not intervene if people stop to rest or eat lunch while on a long walk, but short walks to sit on a park bench are not permitted.\n\nSome police forces have used checkpoints to stop motorists making non-essential trips to rural areas\n\nBut the rural groups say the advice needs to be strengthened or it will cause \"increased pressures on rural police forces and communities\".\n\nHuman rights group Liberty says the wide-ranging powers need careful scrutiny, however.\n\n\"Times of crisis can create the conditions for our rights to be swept away,\" says director Martha Spurrier.\n\n\"The government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic by giving police sweeping powers resulting in some heavy-handed policing. This needs to be urgently addressed.\"\n\nUpdate and Correction 22 April 2020: The College of Policing has since clarified that this guidance is for internal use and our article has been updated. An earlier version of the article incorrectly reported that the guidance was published in the week following the Easter bank holiday weekend and this has been amended to make clear that it was made available to police forces on Thursday 9 April.", "The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history.\n\nThat means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May.\n\nDemand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns across the world have kept people inside.\n\nAs a result, oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory.\n\nThe price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barrel.\n\n\"This is off-the-charts wacky,\" said Stewart Glickman, an energy equity analyst at CFRA Research. \"The demand shock was so massive that it's overwhelmed anything that people could have expected.\"\n\nThe severe drop on Monday was driven in part by a technicality of the global oil market. Oil is traded on its future price and May futures contracts are due to expire on Tuesday. Traders were keen to offload those holdings to avoid having to take delivery of the oil and incur storage costs.\n\nJune prices for WTI were also down, but trading at above $20 per barrel. Meanwhile, Brent Crude - the benchmark used by Europe and the rest of the world, which is already trading based on June contracts - was also weaker, down 8.9% at less than $26 a barrel.\n\nMr Glickman said the historic reversal in pricing was a reminder of the strains facing the oil market and warned that June prices could also fall, if lockdowns remain in place. \"I'm really not optimistic about the prospects for oil companies or oil prices,\" he said.\n\nOGUK, the business lobby for the UK's offshore oil and gas sector, said the negative price of US oil would affect firms operating in the North Sea.\n\n\"The dynamics of this US market are different from those directly driving UK produced Brent but we will not escape the impact,\" said OGUK boss Deirdre Michie.\n\n\"Ours is not just a trading market; every penny lost spells more uncertainty over jobs,\" she said.\n\nThe oil industry has been struggling with both tumbling demand and in-fighting among producers about reducing output.\n\nEarlier this month, Opec members and its allies finally agreed a record deal to slash global output by about 10%. The deal was the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.\n\nBut many analysts say the cuts were not big enough to make a difference.\n\n\"It hasn't taken long for the market to recognise that the Opec+ deal will not, in its present form, be enough to balance oil markets,\" said Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at Axicorp.\n\nThe leading exporters - Opec and allies such as Russia - have already agreed to cut production by a record amount.\n\nIn the United States and elsewhere, oil-producing businesses have made commercial decisions to cut output. But still the world has more crude oil than it can use.\n\nAnd it's not just about whether we can use it. It's also about whether we can store it until the lockdowns are eased enough to generate some additional demand for oil products.\n\nCapacity is filling fast on land and at sea. As that process continues it's likely to bear down further on prices.\n\nIt will take a recovery in demand to really turn the market round and that will depend on how the health crisis unfolds.\n\nThere will be further supply cuts as private sector producers respond to the low prices, but it's hard to see that being on a sufficient scale to have a fundamental impact on the market.\n\nFor US drivers, the decline in oil prices - which have fallen by about two-thirds since the start of the year - has had an impact at the pumps, albeit not as dramatic as Monday's decline might suggest.\n\n\"The silver lining is, if you for various reason actually need to be on the roads, you're filling up for far less than you would have been even four months ago,\" Mr Glickman said. \"The problem for most of us is even if you could fill up, where are you going to go?\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the government will buy oil for the country's national reserve. But concern continues to mount that storage facilities in the US will run out of capacity, with stockpiles at Cushing, the main delivery point in the US for oil, rising almost 50% since the start of March, according to ANZ Bank.\n\nMr Innes said: \"It's a dump at all cost as no one, and I mean no one, wants delivery of oil with Cushing storage facilities filling by the minute.\"", "Some deprived families are running out of food because of delays in receiving free school meal vouchers under the government's scheme in England, say school leaders.\n\nSome schools are supplying emergency food parcels or buying their own vouchers for desperate families.\n\nParents say they are waiting up to 10 days for the government vouchers.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was providing extra cash for schools facing \"unavoidable costs\".\n\nUnder the government scheme, families eligible for free school meals in England should receive vouchers worth £15 a week per child.\n\nBut Edenred, the company appointed to manage the scheme, has struggled to meet demand, even after its website was rebuilt over the Easter weekend.\n\nThe government scheme allows £15 a week for every child eligible for free school meals\n\nSchools say they still encounter lengthy waits and error messages while logging on to order the vouchers.\n\nParents are then usually expected to download the vouchers themselves but with thousands in the queue, this can take hours.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers has been pushing for improvements after \"a significant number of schools\" reported problems.\n\nMany are concerned about using cash from their own tight budgets to pay for emergency food.\n\nAt St Richard's Catholic Primary School in Chichester parishioners raised more than £3,000 to support families whose livelihoods have collapsed under the lockdown.\n\nHead teacher James Field says the school used the money to buy its own vouchers from local supermarkets and he personally delivered them to families.\n\nSelf-employed parents, particularly those in private rented accommodation, are \"really struggling\" to feed their families, he adds.\n\nChiswick School, in west London, is using money raised from donations to fund food parcels for families described by head Laura Ellener as some of the most vulnerable in the country.\n\n\"There are families with nothing, who rely on this money to feed their children,\" she says.\n\n\"We are now delivering food parcels to those who have told us they have nothing to eat.\"\n\nAt Gorringe Park Primary in south London, chair of governors James Whiting says some parents became so desperate they went to the school over the Easter holidays, asking for food.\n\nThe school is in quite a deprived area, he adds, with about 80 pupils out of 450 already eligible for free school meals -and this number is growing under the lockdown.\n\nSchool lunch assistant Vorona, lives in a room in a shared south London house with her six-year-old daughter.\n\nShe eventually managed to download and spend the first £15 voucher at the end of last week but her attempts to download the second have so far been unsuccessful - the screen freezes and she has to start again.\n\nAnother problem is the limited selection of supermarkets included in the scheme. The nearest is Morrisons - a bus ride away.\n\nVorona has asthma and being at high risk from coronavirus means she is scared to go out, let alone get on a bus.\n\n\"It does stress me,\" she says. \"My chest gets tight it's not a good situation, especially for my child.\"\n\nHer friend Eunice, meanwhile, says despite having gone through all the required steps, her vouchers never appeared and she has found it impossible to get through to Edenred to check why.\n\n\"You just have to cope,\" she says, \"but I know there's other people who have got them.\"\n\nNot having enough food is particularly hard with her children at home all the time, she says.\n\n\"They're constantly wanting something to eat,\" she says.\n\n\"It hasn't got that bad - but it would help a lot if the vouchers came.\"\n\nA letter highlighting the scheme's failings from their MP, Siobhain McDonagh to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has been signed by more than 70 MPs.\n\n\"Everybody says that this virus does not discriminate,\" Ms McDonagh says.\n\n\"But we know that the poorest families are hit hardest.\n\n\"They are more likely to be in precarious employment, unsuitable housing and worse health.\n\n\"Free schools meals are an essential lifeline of support for these families and it is vital that they receive the support that they are entitled to.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said it was providing additional funding to schools on top of existing budgets, to cover unavoidable costs incurred due to the coronavirus outbreak, \"including free school meal costs which are not covered by the national voucher scheme\".\n\nA spokeswoman said schools could print out vouchers for families with no internet access.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, the government announced the scheme would from 27 April include Aldi, alongside Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, which were involved from the start.\n\nEdenred, meanwhile, said it had sent £15m worth of supermarket e-gift vouchers to families so far.\n\nThe company said changes to the site meant waiting times were \"falling significantly\", promised more improvements and thanked families and schools for their patience.", "Betty Gutteridge from Warwickshire was meant to celebrate her 100th birthday with her family and friends.\n\nShe had to cancel her party due to the pandemic, so Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service set up a special surprise for her to help mark the big day.\n\nStaff from the fire service, as well as the local community, came out to celebrate Betty turning 100.\n\nHer daughters live in Hong Kong and before the coronavirus outbreak they had planned to visit and celebrate with their mother.\n\nBetty was worried she was going to have a \"lonely\" birthday, but said the surprise made the day \"wonderful\".", "Captain Tom Moore tweeted that he was \"missing celebrating [his] wonderful news\" with his daughter\n\nThe daughter of a 99-year-old Army veteran who has raised more than £27m for the NHS has said it is \"very painful\" not to be with him.\n\nCaptain Tom Moore's eldest daughter Lucy Teixeira watched from her home in Berkshire as his target of £1,000 for walking 100 laps of his garden grew.\n\nShe said visiting him was \"100% the first thing\" she would do when lockdown restrictions were lifted.\n\n\"I am just lucky in that I have been able to see him on TV,\" she said.\n\nCapt Tom completed 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, well before the deadline of his 100th birthday on 30 April and raised millions for NHS Charities Together.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps\n\nCapt Tom has lived with his other daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her family for 12 years\n\nMs Teixeira, 51, who lives in Reading, normally visits him every month and said it has been difficult not being able to, especially with his 100th birthday coming up.\n\n\"It's very painful not to be with him at the moment,\" the mother of two said.\n\n\"But I want to compliment team Tom as my sister and her family have done a sterling job supporting him through this.\n\n\"I am one of those families who can't be with someone and I feel their pain as well, but at least I've seen film crews talking to him.\n\n\"I have already sent him his birthday card - ahead of the millions he'll probably get - but on the day we'll probably watch it on TV.\"\n\nLucy Teixeira (left) said Capt Tom \"finds it unbelievable that this has happened\"\n\nMs Teixeira said her father's efforts were \"typically him\" and \"he never sits still\".\n\n\"How many 99-year-olds order a running machine? That raised a few eyebrows when it arrived,\" she said.\n\n\"But he wanted to improve his ability to walk in the winter because he knew he'd be sitting around more.\n\n\"It's amazing what my little old dad has done and captured everybody's hearts and minds with the result of supporting the NHS at this most critical time.\n\n\"It's so overwhelming the amount he's made and I'm bursting with pride.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A five-year-old girl has raised hundreds of pounds for a children's hospice by \"climbing\" one of Yorkshire's tallest peaks, using a step ladder.\n\nEsther Windass from York scaled the equivalent 2,277 ft (694 m) - the height of Pen-y-ghent - outside her home to raise money for the Martin House hospice.\n\nUnlike some similar climbing feats completed indoors with people trudging up and down stairs, Esther has had to get creative as she lives in a bungalow.\n\nHer mum Sarah Windass said: \"She's quite tired this morning - she's had quite a big lie in.\"\n\nEsther climbed the ladder 456 times and has raised more than £400 for the charity.", "Oliver trees have become popular with gardeners in recent years\n\nSevere restrictions will be placed on imports of some very popular trees and plants in an effort to halt a deadly infection.\n\nXylella fastidiosa has wreaked havoc on olive plantations in parts of Italy and has also been found in France and Spain.\n\nTo prevent the disease spreading to the UK, imports of olive trees and lavender bushes will now be curtailed.\n\nThere will also be restrictions on almond, rosemary and oleander shrubs.\n\nXyllela is a bacterium that has caused significant damage to olive trees in Italy over the past seven years.\n\nInfected olive trees being torn out of the ground in Italy\n\nSpread by spittlebugs and other sap-sucking insects, the resulting disease has no treatment and it is said to have cut Italy's olive harvest to its lowest level in 25 years.\n\nA recently published study suggested that the infection could cause billions of euros in damages if it spreads further into olive-producing regions of Spain and Greece.\n\nBut Xylella is not just a disease of olive trees.\n\nAccording to experts, some 560 species in 72 plant families can be affected by the infection.\n\nFor the UK, Xylella poses a threat to iconic species including oak, elm and plane trees.\n\nLavender will be hit with tough new restrictions on imports\n\nTo prevent the spread of the disease, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is now placing heavy restrictions on some species.\n\nImports of Coffea (coffee plants) and Polygala myrtifolia will be banned completely, while much tougher requirements will be placed on other high-risk hosts including Olive, Almond, Oleander, Lavender and Rosemary.\n\nIn a statement, Defra said that the introduction of the tougher measures in the middle of a health pandemic had been supported by their expert advisers.\n\n\"The changes have been identified as priorities for improving the UK's plant biosecurity, in response to known threats, thereby protecting UK business, society and the environment in the short term, as well as in the future.\n\n\"As such, we have concluded that it remains important to introduce these enhanced protections now, to deliver the benefits identified (for instance, maintaining the UK's pest status for the trees and plants concerned) despite the challenging circumstances we are all faced with at present, as a result of Covid-19.\"\n\nExperts say the new limitations will have a substantial effect.\n\nImports of Oleander will also be restricted\n\n\"They're quite stringent requirements and they will very much impact the trade flows of things like olive and lavender where huge quantities are moved around in the horticultural trade,\" said Dr Gerard Clover, from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, who is involved in the UK research initiative called BRIGIT, designed to monitor the Xylella pathogen.\n\nTens of thousands of olive trees are imported into the UK every year, while the numbers of lavender and rosemary plants are higher still.\n\nSome of those involved in the plant breeding industry say the restrictions will mean a ban in practice - with implications for gardeners.\n\n\"There is a new requirement for exporters supplying plants to the UK to show that the area 200 metres around their place of production has been free from Xylella for at least one year, with official test results to prove it. This is impossible to comply with,\" said Graham Spencer from Plants for Europe, an independent plant breeders agent.\n\n\"Furthermore, it is not possible to switch to domestic British production. There is very little propagation of lavender and rosemary in the UK - nearly all growers rely on the international supply of unrooted cuttings, young plants or finished plants,\" he added.\n\nThe horticultural industry is generally in favour of the move to restrict imports, recognising the threat posed by Xylella.\n\nRosemary is one of the plants facing new restrictions\n\nHowever, business owners are far more concerned with the immediate threat to their livelihoods from the coronavirus. If they aren't supported in that, they argue, then the government plans to control Xylella might backfire.\n\n\"We have proposed to government a stock compensation scheme - highlighting the benefits of the Dutch grower compensation model - and the re-opening of garden centres to help British growers' businesses to survive,\" said James Clark, from the Horticultural Trades Association.\n\n\"Without this immediate financial assistance, we will be facing a significantly reduced British grower sector, resulting in the UK being more dependent on the import of plants and, with it, all the potential additional pests and disease risks this carries.\"", "Paul Dodd says he has had to stop production of visors due to mounting costs\n\nA businessman has been left angry after his offer of 450 visors a day to the NHS has apparently been ignored.\n\nPaul Dodd says he has spent £8,000 on materials and wages for the work but after four weeks has been forced to stop.\n\nMr Dodd, owner of Weaver Dane and Trade in Cheshire, said: \"I knew there was a risk buying materials but I thought I was doing the right thing by helping.\"\n\nThe government said it was \"rapidly working through 8,000 offers\".\n\nNHS workers are concerned about supplies, and have been asked to consider reusing some equipment.\n\nMr Dodd, who said he had already donated 2,300 visors to local hospitals as part of a separate crowdfunding project, said he made the offer to manufacture visors on the government's website.\n\nHe employs nine people and said he had sourced the necessary materials for the work before they sold out and started work on a further 1,300 visors which are stockpiled and ready to go.\n\nHe spoke of his \"frustration\" and \"disbelief\", adding: \"I've heard heartbreaking stories, with [NHS staff] in tears.\"\n\nAfter setting up a Facebook page publicising his efforts, Mr Dodd said he was contacted individually by a surgeon, who asked for 75 visors.\n\nThe surgeon said he was not prepared to go to work without them, and later emailed to thank him, saying he had carried out a \"cardiac procedure\" and saved a woman's life, Mr Dodd explained.\n\nMr Dodd, who said he had sent samples of the visors to the government testing house, said was \"too much red tape\" and people were \"passing the buck\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement: \"We are incredibly grateful for over 8,000 offers of support from suppliers as part of the national effort to ensure appropriate PPE is reaching the front line.\n\n\"We are working rapidly to get through these offers, ensuring they meet the safety and quality standards that our NHS and social care workers need, and prioritising offers of larger volumes.\"\n\nA spokesperson added it had already engaged with over 1,000 companies and was currently working with 159 potential UK manufacturers.", "Video caption: Coronavirus: Doctor 'really glad' to be back in Wales Coronavirus: Doctor 'really glad' to be back in Wales\n\nA senior intensive care consultant who was stranded in India has said he is \"really glad\" to get home to Wales to treat patients struck by coronavirus.\n\nDr Venkat Sundaram, the clinical lead for intensive care at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, flew to India several weeks ago to visit his sick father who has since died.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic left him unable to find a flight home.\n\nAfter a campaign by his colleagues, Dr Sundaram has been reunited with his wife and children.", "Manjeet Singh Riyat was described as an \"incredibly charming person\" who will be missed \"immensely\"\n\nAn accident and emergency consultant who was \"hugely respected\" nationally has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nManjeet Singh Riyat, 52, died on Monday at the Royal Derby Hospital, where he worked.\n\nUniversity Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) said Mr Riyat - who was the UK's first Sikh A&E consultant - was widely respected across the NHS.\n\nThe trust's chief executive said he was an \"incredibly charming person\", \"well loved\" and would be missed \"immensely\".\n\nGavin Boyle said Mr Riyat \"was instrumental in building the Emergency Medicine Service in Derbyshire over the past two decades\".\n\n\"He was an incredibly charming person and well loved,\" he added.\n\n\"Manjeet knew so many people here across the hospital, we will all miss him immensely.\"\n\nSusie Hewitt, an emergency medicine consultant at the hospital, said: \"Manjeet was enormously valued and much loved as a colleague, supervisor and mentor as well as for his wise council and discreet support in tough times.\n\n\"For many, Manjeet was considered the father of the current Emergency Department in Derby and many more will reflect on how his inspiration has shaped their own careers.\"\n\nThis is the second death in the trust. Dr Amged El-Hawrani, an ear, nose and throat consultant at Queen's Hospital Burton, died last month.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The club tweeted Luigi's winning design (L) and next season's shirt\n\nA six-year-old boy in Italy is celebrating after his football shirt design was adopted by the professional team Pescara.\n\nLuigi D'Agostino beat other children in a competition, run by the club for young fans, aimed at easing the boredom of being stuck indoors during the country's coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe competition's motto was \"give a kick to Covid-19\".\n\nThe boy's dolphin design will be worn by the Serie B team next season.\n\nThe Pescara club - its full name is Pescara Calcio 1936 - played in the top Italian league, Serie A, for seven seasons in its history.\n\nIts mascot is a dolphin - the club plays in an Adriatic resort town famous for its beaches. The club features Luigi's triumph on its website.\n\nItalian sports kit supplier Erreà will make the shirts and has invited Luigi to spend a special day at its Parma headquarters, to see the new team strip coming off the production line.\n\nThe competition was launched simply as a children's game, using Erreà graphics, but its popularity on social media turned it into a business project, Italian media report.\n\nMillions of people in Italy have been unable to leave their homes - except for essential reasons - since lockdown measures came into force on 9 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy has closed its parks during lockdown, but one is opening for children with autism", "Clothing giant Primark has gone from making £650m in sales a month to nothing as the coronavirus has forced it to close in Europe and the US, it revealed on Tuesday.\n\nIt was not the only company to admit struggling in the face of the pandemic.\n\nJohn Lewis has furloughed thousands of staff and fashion retailer Cath Kidston said it had closed its stores for good.\n\nPrimark owner Associated British Foods \"has been squarely in the path of this pandemic,\" said boss George Weston.\n\nWithout furlough support from European states, many of Primark's 68,000 staff would have been made redundant, he said.\n\nThe company has also written down the value of its clothing stock by £284m.\n\n\"From making sales of £650m each month, since the last of our stores closed on 22 March, we have sold nothing,\" Mr Weston said.\n\nHe added that while he would \"love\" to be able to reopen Primark stores, \"I know that we must not do so until we have suppressed this disease\".\n\nThe chain, which was founded in 1969, does not have an online store or offer click-and-collect services for its products. The firm has previously said this is because it would not be able to keep prices for its clothing as low if it offered home delivery.\n\nMr Weston said that when stores can reopen, \"we must make our Primark stores safe for our staff and our customers, even if that means ensuring there are fewer people shopping at any one time and so accepting lower sales at least until the remaining risk is minimal\".\n\n\"In time we can rebuild the profits. We can't replace the people we lose.\"\n\nMr Weston paid tribute to two workers at AB Foods who within the last three weeks have died from coronavirus.\n\nMario Marioli worked for 40 years at a yeast plant the firm owns in Italy, and Claudio Maini worked at Italian balsamic vinegar maker Acetum for 20 years.\n\nAB Foods said it had paid Primark's suppliers for stock it has received and will set up a fund to ensure workers who make those clothes are paid.\n\nThis move comes at a time when competing retailers have asked suppliers for payment holidays and cuts.\n\nEarlier this month, New Look said it would suspend payments to suppliers for existing stock \"indefinitely\", telling them in a letter that the stock can be collected by its owners.\n\nAB Foods is cash-rich by comparison with many companies with a High Street presence.\n\nIt has £801m in cash and a £1.09bn loan agreed, which it has recently drawn down in case banks have trouble lending in the future.\n\nAs well as Primark, Associated British Foods owns food brands including Twinings tea, Blue Dragon sauces and Ovaltine.\n\nFor these and other businesses outside Primark, the company has kept its financial forecasts for the year the same.\n\nHowever, while many clothing rivals have been able to make sales online, Primark sells only gift cards through its website.\n\nThis is a big problem for AB Foods as Primark usually contributes about two-thirds of the company's profits.\n\n\"Although AB Foods derives some benefit from product and geographical diversification in other parts of the group, the impact of the loss of Primark income, even if temporary, is a major blow,\" said Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor.\n\nThe shares fell 2.3% in London trading to 1,944 pence apiece, valuing the firm at about £15.4bn. The shares changed hands at 2,708 pence each in February.\n\nOverall, it said net profit for the first half of the year fell to £217m from £389m.\n\n\"Our food businesses have continued production at all facilities, maintaining their essential output to support the food, animal feed and pharmaceutical supply chains. This has been and remains a key priority for us,\" said Mr Weston.\n\nUnlike Primark it has a strong online presence, but it said a surge in online orders had not made up for its loss of trade from department store closures amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAfter shutting its shops on 1 April, John Lewis furloughed 14,000 of its staff, according to its annual report.\n\nProducts like clothing and other items that can offer high margins for a retailer are not selling well right now, said Maureen Hinton, global retail research director at GlobalData. Meanwhile, low-margin areas with lots of competition like technology are selling well, which is good for sales but not profit.\n\nThe lockdown will test its ability to deliver, which may put it in good stead for September, when it parts ways with delivery firm Ocado.\n\n\"It will certainly have tested their ability and it is bringing on more capability as well,\" she said.\n\nIts Waitrose supermarket chain has seen a boost, albeit one the company thinks could be temporary.\n\nIt warned that in a worst-case scenario, its department stores could see sales fall 35% this year, with Waitrose seeing a fall of less than 5%.\n\n\"Items in highest demand have been cupboard essentials like rice, pasta, long life milk; home baking; frozen foods and cleaning products,\" the company said.\n\nSince 26 January, Waitrose sales have risen 8% compared with a year ago, while John Lewis sales are down 7%.\n\nPrimark and John Lewis were not the only brands to reveal on Tuesday that they are struggling in the face of the crisis. Floral fashion firm Cath Kidston said that its 60 stores in the UK would not be reopening their doors after the lockdown is over.\n\nThe firm fell into administration and now its brand and online shop has been bought by a company owned by Baring Private Equity Asia. That has left its physical stores in the hands of administrators and more than 900 shop staff unemployed.", "Burger King has more than 500 UK restaurants\n\nThe chief executive of Burger King UK has said the fast-food chain has not made its rent payments for April.\n\nAlasdair Murdochtold the BBC's Today programmethat he could not see the firm paying for some time to come.\n\nBurger King is one of several High Street restaurant chains to have asked the chancellor for a nine-month rent holiday during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nWithout it, some two million hospitality jobs are at risk, warned bar owner Jonathan Downey.\n\nAs well as Burger King, Mr Downey has persuaded bosses at other chains such as Wahaca and Nando's to back his plea.\n\n\"The idea is fairly simple and won't cost the taxpayer a thing,\" Mr Downey said.\n\nNo-one in the industry \"expects to get back to anything like normal until mid-2021 at the earliest,\" he said.\n\n\"Without some extraordinary next measures we estimate that more than half of hospitality businesses and as many as two million jobs will not survive,\" he warned.\n\nBurger King has more than 500 UK restaurants and Mr Murdoch warned last month the chain would be withholding rent payments.\n\nHe said: \"It looks very difficult for us to be saying that we're actually going to be paying next month's or even next quarter's rent, because we have no sales.\n\n\"And I think that's the same for a lot of people in the industry.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think the landlords are perfectly sympathetic, but there are also evidently ones who are reasonably threatening when they come back to us as well.\"\n\nUnder Mr Downey's idea - called the #NationalTimeOut - the next nine months' rent would be pushed back so that restaurants pay nothing until the first quarter of 2021.\n\n\"Leases are extended by nine months so that those payments aren't lost, just postponed to the back-end,\" said Mr Downey, who owns bars Milk & Honey and London Union in the capital.\n\nLandlords would be helped too, under the plan, \"with the same push back for them on the next nine months of their loan repayments\".\n\nThe proposal includes other protections and support for landlords but the measure should only apply to businesses that have been forced to close by government order, said Mr Downey.\n\n\"It is now clear that hospitality businesses, having been the first and hardest hit by the virus, will now be the last allowed to reopen.\"\n\nThe letter to the chancellor has been signed by 14 other restaurant bosses and supported by trade associations such as UK Hospitality, the Music Venue Trust, the Night Time Industries Association and UK Active.\n\n\"Rents are a major issue for hospitality businesses - arguably the biggest threat at a time when most have no revenue,\" said Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality.\n\n\"We need to come up with a solution to this collectively, to ensure that hospitality businesses, who have already been battered, don't have to suffer more than their fair share.\"\n\nThe business bosses that have co-signed the plea come from Burger King, D&D, Dishoom, Gordon Ramsay Group, Gymbox, Harts Group, Hawksmoor, JKS Restaurants, Leon, Living Ventures, Nando's, The Breakfast Club, Tortilla, and Wahaca.\n\n\"While the existing measures being taken by the government go some way to offer a lifeline to our industry, it's crucial that support and protection is extended to landlords as well as tenants of commercial premises, in order to help ensure a return to normality in the hopefully not-too-distant future,\" said Mark Selby, chief executive of Wahaca.\n\nSome major landlords, like Canary Wharf Group, have also confirmed they support the plan. However, Melanie Leech, who runs landlords group the British Property Federation, said missing out on nine months' rent would be a significant loss for an industry that has a rent bill of £2.5bn each quarter.\n\nBut Mr Downey said: \"It's a solution that allows businesses to work through the next nine months towards a bounce back and without the need for another government handout.\"\n\n\"We have to find a way to make this work for everyone and, although this is early stages, it feels like an answer.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We've taken action at unprecedented speed to support businesses, jobs and our economy through these challenging times. This includes targeted support for the hospitality sector with business rates holidays and cash grants of up to £25,000 for eligible firms.\n\n\"Pubs and restaurants can also benefit from our other business support measures, including the coronavirus job retention scheme, VAT deferrals and protection from eviction for commercial tenants affected by coronavirus.\n\n\"We would encourage any business that is struggling to find out more about the support available to them on gov.uk/business-support.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacob Rees-Mogg: \"What we are doing is part of trying to save lives\"\n\nThe House of Commons has returned in \"exceptional and unprecedented\" circumstances, the Speaker says.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle opened the first day back since the Easter recess amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nA \"hybrid\" Parliament - with some MPs in the chamber and others connected via video link - will begin on Wednesday after MPs approved the plan.\n\nLeader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said the Commons could not let \"perfect be the enemy of the good\".\n\nUnder the motion agreed by MPs, up to 50 MPs will be allowed inside the chamber, sitting apart from each other in line with social distancing guidelines.\n\nScreens have been installed in the chamber which will allow up to 120 MPs to take part in debates via the Zoom video-conferencing tool.\n\nThe new arrangements will initially operate until 12 May, although could remain in place for longer.\n\nMPs were social distancing when they returned to the Commons\n\nThey are part of a raft of changes designed to allow Parliament to continue to operate during the coronavirus outbreak, including reduced sitting hours, virtual committee meetings and strict social distancing measures within the Palace of Westminster.\n\nPrayer cards normally used to reserve places for MPs on the Commons benches have been replaced by green and red symbols indicating where they should and should not sit in order to keep the recommended six feet apart.\n\nBusiness on Tuesday and Wednesday is likely to focus exclusively on the government's response to the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking from the front bench, Mr Rees-Mogg said while business would be limited to oral questions, statements and urgent questions to begin with, the government was looking into \"extending virtual ways of working and more substantive business, including legislation\".\n\nShadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, who was also in the chamber, said Labour \"wants to engage with the government at this extraordinary time\".\n\nChair of the Procedure Committee, Karen Bradley, said: \"There is no substitution for members being in the chamber and being able to hold the executive to account.\"\n\nShe said the new virtual Parliament would \"lack the spontaneity\" and \"the ability to feed off each other\" compared to normal proceedings, and it must be a temporary measure.\n\nBut she added the new practices would be \"better than nothing\".\n\nIt will be a different universe - there won't be the roar of the Commons chamber and crammed green benches for big moments like Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThere will be no votes for now, although they are looking at how they might be able to do that electronically in the future.\n\nMPs working from home have been told still to dress smartly, so there'll be no glimpses of MPs taking part in their pyjamas from home.\n\nThis is a limited step, but a very important one. But it's like a sort of digital toe being dipped in rather than diving into anything like business as usual.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Sir Lindsay said arrangements to allow MPs to vote remotely would only be put in place when a fully secure system can be found.\n\nHe has urged MPs to participate from home as much as possible, pledging those in the chamber would be at \"no advantage\" to their colleagues working remotely.\n\nAccording to Commons authorities, setting up the new system will cost £148,793, whilst it is estimated it will cost £369,267 per month to maintain it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With the business of Parliament set to go \"virtual\", two MPs talk about the change\n\nRemote working will also be in operation in the House of Lords, where some non-legislative debates will be taking place virtually after guidance was changed by senior peers.\n\nThese will only be broadcast from early May, while debates on laws will initially continue in the chamber with the \"expectation of limited participation\".\n\nLord Fowler, who chairs business in the Lords, said a decision had not yet been made on whether peers working remotely will be able to claim their normal daily allowance.\n\nHe told the Today programme the issue would be examined \"with an open mind\" at a meeting next Monday.\n\nNew markings have been placed around the chamber to help MPs keep distance\n\nMPs are being constantly reminded about their responsibilities\n\nThe Commons Procedure Committee - which looks at the ways MPs conduct business - said it was right Sir Lindsay had asked the authorities to examine whether remote digital voting could be introduced for a \"strictly time-limited period\".\n\nThe committee also expressed concerns about the ability of MPs to hold the government to account.\n\nThe government announced on Friday that Parliament would only be sitting for three days a week until future notice, with Thursday and Friday sittings axed.\n\nMPs have now called for limits on written questions to be put to ministers to be relaxed, to allow more scrutiny.", "An RAF aircraft has departed the UK for Turkey to pick up a delayed delivery of protective kit amid a row over a shortage in the NHS.\n\nThe plane left at around 17:00 BST on Monday to collect 400,000 gowns.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the daily No 10 briefing the government was working \"around the clock\" to address the lack of protective gear.\n\nIt comes as another 449 coronavirus deaths were recorded in UK hospitals, taking the total number to 16,509.\n\nBut the number of new confirmed infections was \"flattening out\", the UK's deputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Dame Angela Maclean, told the briefing.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 140,000 firms have applied for help to pay their wage bill through the government's job retention scheme, which went live on Monday morning.\n\nThe row over a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the NHS has intensified over the last few days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Are you ashamed?\" – BBC News health editor Hugh Pym challenges Chancellor Rishi Sunak over PPE\n\nDoctors, nurses and other healthcare workers complain that a lack of adequate kit such as gowns, masks and gloves puts them at increased risk of catching coronavirus and of spreading it to their patients.\n\nThe children of Josiane Ekoli, a nurse from Leeds who died after contracting the disease, said on Monday that her death could have been prevented \"if they gave my mum the proper equipment in the first place\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Sunak said the shortage of PPE was \"uppermost\" in people's minds and the government would \"pursue every possible option\" to secure more PPE.\n\nHe said ministers were trying to resolve problems around the consignment, which had been expected to arrive from Turkey on Sunday, but was hit by \"unexpected\" delays.\n\nHowever, he said there were regular shipments expected from other sources, and cited a delivery of 140,000 gowns from Myanmar.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"We're improving our sourcing internationally and domestically to make sure we can get the PPE we need in what is a very challenging international context.\n\n\"But people on the front line can rest assured that we're doing absolutely everything we can, and straining everything we can, to get the equipment they need.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence confirmed that the first of three expected RAF transport aircraft departed from Brize Norton for Turkey on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital show how health care workers put on PPE\n\nEarlier, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers - which represents healthcare trusts across England - said there was \"no doubt\" some hospital trusts were already experiencing shortages of the gowns.\n\nHe said that while the 400,000 gowns from Turkey would be welcome, NHS staff were getting through approximately 150,000 gowns a day.\n\nMr Hopson also said too much focus should not be placed on individual consignments.\n\nHe gave the example of an expected consignment of 200,000 gowns from China, which turned out to be 20,000 gowns when it arrived last week.\n\nDowning Street said the government had now delivered one billion pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline staff.\n\nSpeaking at the government briefing, Public Health England's medical director Prof Yvonne Doyle said a lack of PPE was \"a concern\".\n\nHowever, she denied that PPE guidance had been downgraded based on availability of equipment rather than safety standards,\n\nPublic Health England changed its advice on Friday to allow the NHS to re-use gowns if stock was running low, saying \"some compromise\" was needed \"in times of extreme shortages\".\n\nProf Doyle said: \"The guidance remains exactly the same. And that is a very precautionary set of advice - it's quite the opposite to putting people at risk because there aren't enough supplies.\n\n\"It's trying to ensure that people are well secured and safe when there may not be enough supplies, and it also stresses how important it is not to take risks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland currently had \"adequate stocks\" of all the main items of PPE but gowns were one of the items \"under most pressure\".\n\nThe owner of a healthcare service in Hampshire providing care to people in their own home said PPE was the \"biggest challenge\" her organisation faced.\n\nAlice Ushumba said she was struggling to get hold of enough masks, and that some staff had resigned because they didn't feel safe with the protective equipment available.\n\n\"We're going into people's houses who might have Covid but we don't have anything to protect ourselves except perhaps a little plastic apron and gloves,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nThe latest UK death total of 449 was the lowest daily figure announced since 6 April. The new figures also showed that the number of new infections - 4,676 - was the lowest for four days.\n\nProf Maclean told the daily briefing that infections in the UK were \"flattening out\", and that the number of patients in hospitals in London had fallen for seven consecutive days. She added she hoped the fall would be \"replicated\" across the UK.\n\nThe number of new deaths announced - 449 - is the lowest for two weeks.\n\nLast week the figures were hovering between 700 and 900, before dropping below 600 on Sunday.\n\nThat is, of course, good news. Although the figures for the past two days should be treated with caution.\n\nThey cover the weekend and we know reporting and recording delays can mean figures drop before rising again.\n\nBut the falls are big enough to suggest we may soon start seeing the number of new deaths coming down.\n\nThe numbers in hospital with coronavirus have already started dropping gradually so the signs are there that we are beginning to turn the corner.\n\nMr Sunak said there were \"encouraging signs we are making progress\" in tackling the virus but added that the lockdown restrictions needed to remain in place.\n\nHe reiterated the government's message that the UK needed to meet five tests set down last week before exiting the lockdown - which include increasing testing in the community, and being certain there was no risk of a second peak.\n\n\"We are not there yet and it is very clear that, for now, what we should focus on is following the guidance, staying home to protect the NHS,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told colleagues his concerns that relaxing lockdown measures too soon could lead to a second outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nHe is understood to have had a video call with his deputy, Dominic Raab, on Friday to discuss the crisis.", "Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust was placed in special measures in November 2018\n\nThe UK's largest inquiry into poor maternity care has revealed it is now looking at nearly 1,200 cases.\n\nAn investigation into avoidable harm to mothers and babies at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS trust was launched in 2017.\n\nA leaked report last year suggested dozens of babies had died unnecessarily.\n\nThe chairwoman of the inquiry has urged any more families who wish to have their care considered to make contact by the end of next month.\n\nThe investigation was initially set up to look into the care received by 23 families.\n\nBut it has repeatedly expanded as more families have raised concerns.\n\nInquiry chairwoman, maternity expert Donna Ockenden, now says they have been informed of 1,170 cases.\n\nThe total includes more than 300 families whose details were passed to the inquiry by the trust itself, after they examined their own records and found instances of maternity problems.\n\nDonna Ockenden is conducting a review into maternity failings at the trust\n\nMs Ockenden has written to those families, asking if they wish to have the care they received assessed by her team.\n\n\"Throughout the autumn and winter of 2018, the trust, supported by NHS Improvement, undertook its own review of maternity care, where records existed, from the year 2007 to the end of 2018,\" Ms Ockenden said.\n\n\"This led to the identification of just over 330 families who at that time were not known to my maternity review team.\n\n\"I am now writing to those families to ask them if they would like to be included in the review.\"\n\nAnother 70 families who came forward to the trust after hearing media reports about the review, or who had launched independent legal action, have also received letters this week asking for their explicit consent to be included.\n\nWhile some of the instances of poor care go as far back as 1979, it is understood the vast majority of cases relate to maternity services at the trust since 1998.\n\nA draft of an earlier report leaked to the Independent newspaper found a \"toxic\" culture at the trust had contributed to the deaths of 42 babies and three mothers over several decades.\n\nThe final report is due to be published next year, but the inquiry team has set a deadline of the end of May 2020 for any additional families to get in touch.\n\n\"I am making one last appeal to any family yet to get in touch to please do so by May 2020,\" said Ms Ockenden.\n\n\"We have to give ourselves the time to write the report and ensure it does justice to the testimony we have heard from families.\"", "Millions across the world already rely heavily on food aid to survive\n\nThe world is at risk of widespread famines \"of biblical proportions\" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned.\n\nDavid Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), said urgent action was needed to avoid a catastrophe.\n\nA report estimates that the number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million.\n\nThose most at risk are in 10 countries affected by conflict, economic crisis and climate change, the WFP says.\n\nThe fourth annual Global Report on Food Crises highlights Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria and Haiti.\n\nIn South Sudan, 61% of the population was affected by food crisis last year, the report says.\n\nEven before the pandemic hit, parts of East Africa and South Asia were already facing severe food shortages caused by drought and the worst locust infestations for decades.\n\nAddressing the UN Security Council during a video conference, Mr Beasley said the world had to \"act wisely and act fast\".\n\n\"We could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months,\" he said. \"The truth is we do not have time on our side.\"\n\nIn a call to action, he added: \"I do believe that with our expertise and our partnerships, we can bring together the teams and the programmes necessary to make certain the Covid-19 pandemic does not become a human and food crisis catastrophe.\"\n\nThe WFP chief - who has just recovered from Covid-19 - began his Security Council briefing by saying \"excuse me for speaking bluntly.\" There is no blunting what could happen in a world facing - even before this global health crisis - what David Beasley called the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War.\n\nIn an interview, he also expressed fear that 30 million people, and possibly more, could die in a matter of months if the UN does not secure more funding and food. But this is also a world where donors are reeling from the steep financial cost of their own Covid-19 crises.\n\nMr Beasley says no-one told him they would turn their back on the most vulnerable. But he admitted they would need to take stock at home first. He warned that chaos elsewhere could circle back around the world.\n\nHis blunt warning: \"One way or another, the world will pay for this.\" Better to work together, he says, on the basis of facts, not fear.\n\nThe WFP's senior economist, Arif Husain, said the economic impact of the pandemic was potentially catastrophic for millions \"who are already hanging by a thread\".\n\n\"It is a hammer blow for millions more who can only eat if they earn a wage,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Lockdowns and global economic recession have already decimated their nest eggs. It only takes one more shock - like Covid-19 - to push them over the edge. We must collectively act now to mitigate the impact of this global catastrophe.\"\n\nEarlier this month, this WFP said it was set to halve aid to parts of war-torn Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels due to a funding crisis.\n\nIt said some donors had stopped their aid over concerns that deliveries were being obstructed by Houthi forces.\n\nThe WFP feeds more than 12 million Yemenis a month, 80% of whom are in areas controlled by Houthi forces.\n\nYemen confirmed its first case of Covid-19 earlier this month, with aid agencies warning that the disease could quickly overwhelm the country's weakened health systems.", "Remember life before the lockdown? This is Angie.\n\nLike many of us, she was going to work, seeing friends and family.\n\nBut what she didn't know was that she had contracted the new coronavirus, which causes Covid-19.\n\nBefore she developed any symptoms, she had passed the virus on to her friends Mikah and Steph, as well as her grandad Terry.\n\nEach of them then went on to meet their own friends and family. On average, without social distancing in place, scientific modelling suggests that people infected with coronavirus would pass it on to another three people.\n\nFor this reason, among Angie's network, cases multiplied and spread quickly - soon extending far beyond her original community. Although most of these people who contracted the virus would experience either mild symptoms or something like a nasty flu and make a full recovery, some would require hospital treatment.\n\nAccording to scientific modelling by Imperial College London, about 4.5% of those infected would need to be admitted to hospital - shown here as 100 dots.\n\nThe Imperial modelling also predicts that out of the 100 people needing hospital treatment, about 30 would need a critical-care bed.\n\nBut the problem the NHS has been facing is that for each group of 30 patients in need of a critical-care bed, there would be just one such bed available when the epidemic reached its peak. This would mean NHS doctors facing impossible choices about who receives potentially life-saving treatment, and who doesn't.\n\nFor example, should Mathilda, a retired teacher and 78-year-old grandmother-of-seven get the bed?\n\nOr Hamish, a 68-year-old ex-firefighter and the sole carer of his wife Philippa, who has Alzheimer's disease?\n\nTo prevent doctors having to face these dilemmas, the Imperial team assessed different ways of reducing the number of people needing the NHS's critical-care beds.\n\nThey found that if people experiencing symptoms, and everyone who lived with them, stayed at home for two weeks, while anyone over 70 reduced their social contacts to a minimum, the impact on the NHS would be reduced. This is similar to the measures the UK government introduced before the lockdown. But there would still be about eight patients for each critical-care bed available. The NHS would still be overwhelmed.\n\nThe Imperial team also found that if social distancing measures were applied to all age groups - not just to those over 70 - schools and universities were closed, and the two-week quarantine period applied to households in which any member had symptoms, the NHS would be able to cope. The research found that on average across the NHS, under these strict measures, there would be close to one critically ill patient for each critical-care bed at the peak of the epidemic.\n\nHowever, in places where demand happened to be above average, NHS services would still be under extraordinary pressure.\n\nThis Imperial College research has been very influential and the above approach is similar to what UK government ministers have since implemented. So far the NHS has not been overwhelmed largely because of social distancing and lockdown measures.\n\nAs soon as the current measures are lifted, the Imperial model predicts that another outbreak would emerge that was just as bad as if we had done nothing. Although the research was published on 16 March, its core message is still current: Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday that lifting the lockdown too soon could result in a second wave of infections. The only two ways out of lockdown are the development of a vaccine or a much more effective system of testing people for the virus and tracing all those who had contact with people testing positive, potentially via the NHS app now in development. There are many assumptions in the Imperial College model about how the virus is transmitted, and what proportion of people will comply with the restrictions now being placed on them. Since the Imperial research was made public, there has been a huge effort by ministers and NHS officials to increase the number of critical-care beds available - up from the 5,000 or so that the NHS had at that time.\n\nBut what is clear is that the biggest impact individuals can have on the final toll in the UK is to reduce the rate of transmission by following the latest social distancing guidelines: working from home if possible and only going out for essential reasons and daily exercise. That is why we're still on lockdown, and by sticking with it, we're all helping to slow the virus's spread.", "Blood test taken in a GP surgery car park in Penicuik Image caption: Blood test taken in a GP surgery car park in Penicuik\n\nI spent the morning at a GP practice in Penicuik in Midlothian.\n\nThe waiting room was deserted, only a tiny fraction of patients are now coming to the surgery, most will have a consultation by phone or video call.\n\nBehind the scenes receptionists are busy managing calls, the team here can take 400 to 500 a day.\n\nAny patients who need to come to the practice are met by a doctor or nurse in protective clothing. Those with suspected Covid-19 are directed to coronavirus assesment centres.\n\nJust like in hospitals it's important to make every effort to minimise the risk of infection for both patients and staff.\n\nRoutine blood tests are carried out in the car park, a make shift gazebo covers a drive-in space where the patient rolls down their window and stretches out their arm.\n\nHouse calls do still happen, the staff tell me, they need to check in on their most vulnerable patients. But after a chap at the door to say the doctor has arrived, the visor, gloves, mask and apron are all donned.\n\nDoctors say they are worried that some people are ignoring symptoms for too long. They want people to know that behind the closed front door, they are very much open for business.\n\nThe role of the GP has always been to manage a patient's care in the community, to keep them out of hospital unless they need to be there. More than ever that is a vital service to ensure our hospitals don't become overwhelmed.", "Sir Richard Branson has pledged his luxury island resort as collateral to help get a UK government bailout of his stricken airline Virgin Atlantic.\n\nThe billionaire Virgin Group boss said in an open letter to staff he was not asking for a handout, but a commercial loan, believed to be £500m.\n\nThe airline's survival was in doubt, and his Necker Island home in the Caribbean could be mortgaged, he said.\n\nIt comes as Virgin Group's airline in Australia enters administration.\n\nBoth airlines have been hit hard by the global coronavirus lockdown, and Sir Richard has appealed to governments in both countries for help.\n\nHowever, he has been criticised for appealing for taxpayer aid rather than drawing on his huge wealth. Sir Richard's fortune is thought to be well over £4bn. The large US airline Delta owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic.\n\nSir Richard said in his letter to staff: \"Many airlines around the world need government support and many have already received it.\" The crisis facing airlines, and the staff they employ, was \"unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nDespite his wealth, this did not mean he had \"cash in a bank account ready to withdraw\". And he hit back at criticism that he was a tax exile who did not deserve help, saying he and his wife \"did not leave Britain for tax reasons but for our love of the beautiful British Virgin Islands and in particular Necker Island\".\n\nHe said Necker would be offered as security for any loans. \"As with other Virgin assets, our team will raise as much money against the island as possible to save as many jobs as possible around the group,\" Sir Richard said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn his letter to staff, Sir Richard said: \"We will do everything we can to keep the airline [Virgin Atlantic] going - but we will need government support to achieve that in the face of the severe uncertainty surrounding travel today and not knowing how long the planes will be grounded for.\n\n\"This would be in the form of a commercial loan - it wouldn't be free money and the airline would pay it back (as EasyJet will do for the £600m loan the government recently gave them).\"\n\nHe pointed out that Virgin Atlantic started with one plane 36 years ago, before adding: \"Over those years it has created real competition for British Airways, which must remain fierce for the benefit of our wonderful customers and the public at large.\"\n\nSir Richard offered to inject £250m into the Virgin Group last month, with most of that going to the airline.\n\nEarlier this month, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Heathrow airport and Manchester Airports Group sent letters to the government highlighting the importance of Virgin Atlantic to the UK's manufacturing supply chain.\n\nMeanwhile, Virgin Australia - in which Sir Richard holds a stake of around 10% - is going into administration.\n\nThe carrier has been forced to cancel nearly all of its flights during the coronavirus crisis and been unable to restructure its debts.\n\nThe Australian government offered some support, but refused a request from the company for a A$1.4bn (£720m) loan.\n\nThe airline is part-owned by Sir Richard along with Etihad, Singapore Airlines and China's HNA.\n\n\"The brilliant Virgin Australia team is fighting to survive and need support to get through this catastrophic global crisis,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"We are hopeful that Virgin Australia can emerge stronger than ever, as a more sustainable, financially viable airline.\"\n\nHe warned: \"If Virgin Australia disappears, Qantas would effectively have a monopoly of the Australian skies. We all know what that would lead to.\"\n\nSir Richard also addressed the fierce criticism he has faced in recent weeks over his tax situation.\n\nCritics have pointed out he has paid no UK income tax since moving to the tax-free British Virgin Islands 14 years ago.\n\nSir Richard is the 312th richest person in the world with an estimated $5.2bn fortune, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index.\n\n\"I've seen lots of comments about my net worth - but that is calculated on the value of Virgin businesses around the world before this crisis, not sitting as cash in a bank account ready to withdraw,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the years significant profits have never been taken out of the Virgin Group, instead they have been reinvested in building businesses that create value and opportunities.\"\n\nTurning to the question of living abroad he said: \"Joan and I did not leave Britain for tax reasons but for our love of the beautiful British Virgin Islands (BVI) and in particular Necker Island, which I bought when I was 29 years old, as an uninhabited island on the edges of the BVI.\n\n\"Over time, we built our family home here. The rest of the island is run as a business, which employs 175 people.\"", "Virgin Australia has confirmed it has entered voluntary administration - making it Australia's first big corporate casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe country's second-largest carrier cut almost all flights last month following wide-spread travel bans.\n\nIt was already struggling with a long-term A$5bn (£2.55bn; $3.17bn) debt.\n\nThe airline is now seeking new buyers and investors, after failing to get a loan from Australia's government.\n\nVirgin Australia chief executive Paul Scurrah said: \"Our decision today is about securing the future of the Virgin Australia Group and emerging on the other side of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\n\"Australia needs a second airline and we are determined to keep flying.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Richard Branson - whose Virgin group is a part-owner of Virgin Australia - has offered a Caribbean island as collateral to help get a UK government bailout of Virgin Atlantic.\n\nShares had been suspended in the firm for the past fortnight as it struggled to find a survival plan.\n\nCanberra refused a request from the company for a A$1.4bn loan, but in the past month had announced around A$900m in support for all local airlines.\n\nVirgin Australia has turned just two statutory profits in the past decade.\n\nIt is part-owned by a number of entities including the UAE government, Singapore Airlines, China's HNA, and Sir Richard Branson's Group.\n\nIt employs about 10,000 people directly and another 6,000 through ancillary businesses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConsulting firm Deloitte announced it had appointed as administrator on Monday. It will try and restructure the firm's debt, pay off creditors and find a buyer - with private equity groups expected to be interested.\n\nConsumer groups and local politicians have voiced concerns that unless the airline is resurrected, national flag carrier Qantas will hold a near-monopoly in Australia.\n\nAir travel is crucial in the vast continent where distances between coastal capital cities make flights the only practical way to travel quickly domestically.\n\nVirgin Australia had previously held around 31% of domestic flights, while Qantas controlled around 58% of the market.\n\nThe long-term loss of the airline will also be seen as a major blow to Australia's tourism industry - a big GDP driver.\n\nBefore the shutdown, Virgin Australia had flown about 130 aircraft to 41 destinations - mainly domestic routes, but also international services including to New Zealand, Bali, Fiji, Tokyo and Los Angeles.", "Empathy and science: two approaches favoured by Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield\n\nNew Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said her country has \"done what few countries have been able to do\" and contained the community spread of Covid-19 and can start easing its lockdown measures. As the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil writes, the country's success - and Ardern's leadership - have won it global attention.\n\nOn 13 March, New Zealand was about to mark the first anniversary of the Christchurch shooting with a national memorial event.\n\nI asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern then if she was concerned about hosting such a large gathering, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared a pandemic. She said she wasn't, based on the existing scientific advice.\n\nThings changed overnight. Not only was the event cancelled, the prime minister announced that almost everyone coming into New Zealand would have to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIt was among the earliest and toughest self-isolation measures in the world, which, a week later, would lead to a complete lockdown.\n\n\"We're going hard and we're going early,\" Ms Ardern told the public. \"We only have 102 cases, but so did Italy once.\"\n\nDuring the next two weeks of lockdown, New Zealand saw a steady decline in the number of new cases. To date, it has had 12 deaths, and has confirmed that on average each infected person is passing the virus to fewer than one other person.\n\nThe country is now preparing to move out of its most severe level of lockdown on 28 April.\n\nAnd while there has been some criticism over how the government has reacted, others say New Zealand has offered a model response of empathy, clarity and trust in science.\n\nNew Zealand is of course a small nation - its population is smaller than New York City's - and it is remote with easily sealable borders, which all played in its favour when the virus broke out.\n\nBut its relative success - it has among the lowest cases per capita in the world - has mainly been attributed to the clarity of the message coming from the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnlike the countries that declared \"war on Covid-19\", the government's message was that of a country coming together. It urged people to \"Unite Against Covid-19\". Ms Ardern has repeatedly called the country \"our team of five million\".\n\n\"Jacinda [Ardern] is a brilliant communicator and an empathetic leader,\" says Prof Michael Baker from Otago University's Public Health Department, who helped advise the government on its response. \"But what she's said also made sense and I think people really trusted that. There's been a high level of compliance.\"\n\nFor a pandemic response to be effective, he says, \"science and leadership have to go together\".\n\nIn New Zealand, that scientific insight has come through Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield, who has stood alongside Ms Ardern at her daily press conferences.\n\n\"From the outset he has carefully and calmly communicated many complex health issues around Covid-19 paving the way for government decisions,\" says Sarah Robson, a senior journalist at Radio New Zealand.\n\n\"Because he had clearly communicated the trajectory we were on in terms of the increase in the number of cases, when Jacinda Ardern said we were going into lockdown, people understood why.\"\n\nShaun Hendy, professor at the Faculty of Science at Auckland University, says this strong working relationship with the science community has put New Zealand at an advantage compared with countries which \"have had difficult relationships with their science community in recent times\".\n\n\"This seems to have led to a much less functional science advice system, where scientists feel they have little influence and are likely to be ignored,\" Prof Hendy says.\n\nBut similar to the time of the mass shootings in Christchurch, it's her leadership style that's caught particular global attention.\n\nWhile telling the public in detail the rules of the lockdown and the trajectory of the new cases, Ms Ardern has also focused on kindness.\n\nShe has ended almost all her public appearances with the same message: \"Be Strong. Be Kind\".\n\nThe government's message of kindness has even spread to road signs\n\nAfter she announced the lockdown, the prime minister went on to Facebook Live, saying she wanted to \"check in with everyone\" as they prepared to hunker down.\n\nShe's regularly been on Facebook, casually dressed, always smiling and sharing slivers of her personal life, but never underplaying the seriousness of the situation while answering people's questions.\n\nThe overwhelming response in New Zealand has been public praise for her manner and steadfastness.\n\n\"Every decision is made with the disclaimer that she knows how difficult it's going to be for people,\" Thomas Weston, an Auckland-based insurance administrator, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's delivered with kindness but also very decisive. It's clear what we can and can't do.\"\n\nIn that vein, the prime minister recently announced she, ministers in her cabinet and public service chief executives would take a 20% pay cut for the next six months, to recognise the impact on other New Zealanders.\n\nDr Siouxie Wiles, Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, has also been advising the government, as well as regularly updating the New Zealand public on the latest virus research.\n\nKey to New Zealand's response to Covid-19, Dr Wiles argues, was that the prime minister and government visibly put people's health first, whereas other countries which delayed imposed social distancing measures for fear of the economic damage are now having a much harder time controlling the virus.\n\n\"Surely, a dead or a dying population is bad for the economy,\" she says.\n\nDespite wide praise for the government's response, some journalists have criticised its daily Covid-19 briefings for not allowing enough time to ask questions, seek additional clarity on information or challenge the statements made.\n\nMichael Morrah is an investigative journalist for the television news outlet, Newshub. He says some of the questions he's emailed to health ministry's communications team have gone unanswered while others took days to get a response.\n\n\"Getting clear, timely answers to questions has frequently been an arduous and deeply frustrating process,\" he says. He adds that government reassurances over the availability of PPE contradicts evidence he has heard from frontline healthcare workers.\n\nThere has also been criticism over the relative lack of clarity around some of the big virus clusters which make up the bulk of New Zealand's cases, especially where the origin of cases it not clear.\n\nObservers have said these significant clusters - with more than 230 unknown-origin cases - show a weak contact-tracing system, which many argue is essential for containing the virus.\n\nProf Hendy says any lack of transparency seemed to stem from the health system being under-prepared for dealing with information flows in a nationwide emergency, rather than from any intent to disguise shortcomings.\n\n\"New Zealand is a spread country with a low population density and a decentralised healthcare system. It's a challenge for contact tracing,\" he says.\n\nThe government is now putting an extra $55m into its contact tracing operation, and it hopes it will soon be able to trace 5,000 contacts a day. It also has only eight cases now with no proven connection to other cases.\n\nNew Zealanders will begin moving out of the most severe lockdown level next Tuesday, with a partial reopening of schools and businesses and a slight easing of movement, but the prime minister has said the sacrifices made so far cannot be wasted by rushing to open up the economy too soon.\n\nProfessor Baker says the ultimate aim is to eradicate Covid-19 not just suppress it. China is the only other country working to that ambition.\n\n\"The reason we know it works is because China has done it,\" Professor Baker adds. \"1.4 billion people haven't got the virus. They have been protected from it.\n\n\"If China can protect a population of that scale, surely New Zealand can protect five million people.\"\n\nMs Ardern said on Monday that she had taken a phone call about each one of the 12 New Zealanders who have died, saying: \"We may be among the few countries where that's still able to happen.\"\n\nShe gives the credit for the country's success to medical staff and the way the public have supported the rules of the lockdown, telling them: \"New Zealanders have proven themselves, and they've done so in the most incredible way.\"", "Icke used to be a sports presenter, while Holmes is a host on ITV's This Morning\n\nBroadcasting watchdog Ofcom has \"issued guidance\" to ITV following Eamonn Holmes' comments about 5G technology and coronavirus on This Morning.\n\nThe regulator said Holmes' remarks had been \"ambiguous\" and \"ill-judged\".\n\nOfcom said they \"risked undermining viewers' trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence\".\n\nThe regulator also found local TV channel London Live in breach of standards for an interview it aired with David Icke about coronavirus.\n\nConspiracy theorist Icke, it said, had \"expressed views which had the potential to cause significant harm to viewers in London during the pandemic\".\n\nOn 13 April, in a segment with This Morning's consumer editor Alice Beer, Holmes cast doubt on media outlets that had debunked the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.\n\nBeer, formerly a presenter on the BBC's Watchdog programme, said the theory, which has led to phone masts being set alight or vandalised, was \"not true and incredibly stupid\".\n\n\"I totally agree with everything you are saying,\" said Holmes. \"But what I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true.\n\n\"No-one should attack or damage or do anything like that, but it's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative,\" he continued.\n\nHolmes was widely criticised for his comments, which he said had been \"misinterpreted\" on the following day's programme.\n\n\"For the avoidance of any doubt, I want to make it completely clear there's no scientific evidence to substantiate any of those 5G theories,\" he continued.\n\nOfcom said it had taken this on-air statement into account, along with the \"context\" Beer had provided, before deciding to issue guidance to ITV \"and its presenters\".\n\n\"In our view, Eamonn Holmes' ambiguous comments were ill-judged and risked undermining viewers' trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence,\" it said.\n\n\"His statements were also highly sensitive in view of the recent attacks on mobile phone masts in the UK, caused by conspiracy theories linking 5G technology and the virus.\n\n\"Broadcasters have editorial freedom to discuss and challenge the approach taken by public authorities to a serious public health crisis such as the coronavirus,\" it continued.\n\n\"However, discussions about unproven claims and theories which could undermine viewers' trust in official public health information must be put fully into context to ensure viewers are protected.\"\n\nIn a separate ruling, Ofcom said ESTV, owner of London-based TV channel London Live, had broken broadcasting rules by airing an interview with former footballer and TV presenter Icke.\n\nIt said the interview, recorded on 18 March and broadcast on London Live on 8 April, \"included potentially harmful content about the coronavirus pandemic\".\n\nWhile not mentioning 5G by name, Icke referred to an \"electro-magnetic, technologically generated soup of radiation toxicity\" that he claimed had damaged old people's immune systems.\n\nHe also claimed that official health advice aimed at reducing the spread of the virus were being implemented to further the ambitions of a clandestine \"cult\", rather than to protect public health.\n\nOfcom said it was \"particularly concerned\" by Icke \"casting doubt on the motives behind official health advice to protect the public from the virus\".\n\n\"These claims went largely unchallenged during the 80-minute interview and were made without the support of any scientific or other evidence.\"\n\nThe London Live programme was produced by a London-based independent company.\n\nLondon Live is owned by the Russian businessman Evgeny Lebedev, who also owns the Evening Standard and Independent newspapers.\n\nThe channel will be required to broadcast a summary of Ofcom's findings and may face additional sanctions from the media regulator.\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nThere have dozens of reported attacks on telecoms equipment over the past weeks\n\nOne falsely suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other falsely claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nEarlier this year, scientists at the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection completed a major study of related research into the topic.\n\nWhile it recommended slightly tighter limits on the transmitting capabilities of handsets themselves to minimise any chance of damage caused by human tissue being heated, its key finding was that there was no evidence that either 5G networks or earlier systems could cause cancer or other kinds of illness.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought. In any case, Covid-19 is a virus rather than a bacterium.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "Home tests for coronavirus should be available to NHS staff across the UK \"very soon\", according to the government's testing co-ordinator.\n\nProf John Newton acknowledged that health and care workers have struggled to access testing sites.\n\nThe government said lack of \"demand\" rather than capacity was behind the slow growth in testing numbers.\n\nBut the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unison have challenged this.\n\nThey say long drives or difficulty accessing drive-through sites without a car were preventing staff from being tested.\n\nThere are 27 testing centres in total and there are reports of some staff having to drive hundreds of miles to reach their nearest site.\n\nThe government says there is capacity to do about 40,000 tests a day across the UK, but only about half - 20,000 tests - are actually being processed.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the government was \"absolutely standing by\" its target of carrying out 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.\n\nThe prospect of a home test offers some hope when it comes to another major barrier for staff: the test has to be done within the first few days of experiencing symptoms.\n\nSome have been missing out because people have been too unwell to drive to a testing centre, according to Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts.\n\nBut overall, the proportion of staff who are eligible to be tested is actually quite small, she said.\n\nAt the moment, the priority is to test key workers who are off work either because they have symptoms or someone in their household does.\n\nMs Cordery estimated that roughly 150,000 staff are off at the moment, but about half of those will be suffering from other illnesses. Some will be shielding because of long-term conditions.\n\nShe said the rationale for the government's 100,000 tests a day target wasn't \"entirely clear\", but welcomed the \"challenge\" it provided.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) is trialling a system of UK-wide self-testing for key workers, but until that's ready to roll out, most still can't be tested in their homes.\n\nIn the meantime, head of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair, said testing for staff and their households should take place \"at or close to their workplace\", to make sure it's accessible.\n\nShe said nurses had been telling the College that the existing testing sites were \"located too far away from them\".\n\nWhile some doctors and nurses have been able to be tested at their hospitals, this hasn't generally been possible for care staff scattered across thousands of smaller sites.\n\nIn the case of those self-isolating because someone they live with has symptoms, it's the household members who need to be tested as well as the key worker.\n\nThis group will be larger and harder to reach since their referral will have to come via the health or care employee.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "Ian Wilson died from Covid-19 two days after being taken into hospital\n\nAfter being told her husband was dying from Covid-19, Sandra Wilson heard the doctor crying down the phone.\n\n\"He explained that I wouldn't be able to visit him and that he would look after him as if he was his own father or grandfather,\" she said.\n\n\"But there was nothing they could do to make him better.\"\n\nIan Wilson, 72, died two days after being taken into hospital on 27 March.\n\nSandra, 59, had cared for him for two weeks at their home in Coatbridge as he battled a high temperature and delirium. He also had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nInitially she was not allowed to visit him - but once the severity of Ian's condition became apparent, hospital staff granted her access provided she wore protective equipment.\n\nThe decision meant Sandra was by Ian's side when he died.\n\nShe told the BBC she was struck by how acutely NHS staff were affected, not only by Ian's death, but by their inability to comfort grieving families because of social distancing protocol.\n\n\"It was difficult after he had died,\" Sandra said. \"I left the room and told the nurse what had happened and she came towards me as if to cuddle me, then stopped and reversed.\n\n\"She apologised and said 'I can't even pat you on the shoulder'. I left, there was nothing else I could do.\"\n\nWhen Ian first became unwell, he did not show signs of the most well-known symptoms of Covid-19, according to Sandra.\n\n\"We thought he had a urinary tract infection,\" she said. \"The hospital at home team suspected it was Covid-19 but I was still confused by it because he hadn't coughed.\n\n\"A few days later they tested him and it came back positive. He had been unwell for over a week before we knew that it was Covid-19.\"\n\nLater the family had to decide whether or not to send Ian to hospital. Sandra knew visiting would be difficult and did not want him to be in a strange environment during his spells of delirium.\n\nShe said she was lucky to have been by Ian's side eventually, but fears other families will have a far more difficult hospital experience.\n\nShe said: \"It's a very strange situation but I'm very, very grateful to the nurses and doctors that made it possible for me to visit.\n\n\"I feel sorry for people in the future who won't be able to. Ian was in a ward where there were only three patients, but as they wards fill up they'll not be able to let everybody in.\"\n\nAfter saying goodbye to her husband, Sandra was unable to see her children in person as she had to undergo a period of self-isolation.\n\nThe family will also have to travel to the crematorium in separate cars and cannot be in close contact during the service.\n\nBut Sandra has been taking comfort in the letters, cards and well-wishings sent from loved ones who will not be able to attend Ian's funeral.\n\nAs a school janitor, he was remembered fondly by pupils as well as friends and family.\n\nSandra said: \"I've had many many phone calls so it has helped to talk.\n\n\"Normally you would tell stories about people at the funeral, but because they can't do that, some have been writing wee stories on cards.\"\n\nSandra hopes her family's story will encourage people to \"stay at home and protect the NHS\" and remains grateful to the health care staff who allowed her to watch over her husband until the end.\n\n\"It gave me time to come to terms with the inevitable,\" she said.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League clubs will ask players to take a 30% pay cut in order to protect jobs as it was announced the season will not resume until \"it is safe and appropriate to do so\".\n\nAll clubs have agreed to put the proposed \"combination of conditional reductions and deferrals\" to players.\n\nThe Premier League will advance £125m to the EFL and National League, and give £20m towards the NHS.\n\nClubs still intend on completing all league and cup fixtures.\n\nThe EFL, Women's Super League and Women's Championship have all suspended play without setting a target return date, meaning the entirety of English football is on hold indefinitely.\n\n\"It was acknowledged that the Premier League will not resume at the beginning of May - and that the 2019-20 season will only return when it is safe and appropriate to do so,\" a Premier League statement said.\n\n\"Any return to play will only be with the full support of government and when medical guidance allows.\"\n• None What are Premier League and English football's options amid coronavirus?\n• None Hearts: No player asked to take more than 30% cut - Ann Budge\n\nPlayers had faced scrutiny, notably from health secretary Matt Hancock, to take a cut in wages and \"play their part\" in offering support during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSome clubs had furloughed non-playing staff as a result of the shutdown of the sport.\n\nBefore the Premier League statement was released, club captains - led by Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson - held discussions over the creation of a charitable fund which could benefit the NHS.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) has previously written to its members urging them not to agree any reduction or deferral in wages until they have spoken to the union.\n\nAfter a meeting of clubs on Friday, the Premier League proposed a cut in wages in order to \"protect employment throughout the professional game\".\n\n\"This guidance will be kept under constant review as circumstances change,\" the Premier League said. \"The league will be in regular contact with the PFA and the union will join a meeting which will be held tomorrow (Saturday) between the league, players and club representatives.\"\n\nCrystal Palace winger Andros Townsend had spoken of his frustration with Hancock \"deflecting blame on to footballers\", stating players were an \"easy target\" and often supported charities.\n\nThe Premier League said it was aware of \"severe difficulties\" throughout the football pyramid and with clubs unable to play fixtures, moved to help \"immediately deal with the impact of falling cash flow\" at EFL and National League clubs.\n\nJulian Knight, chair of the government's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, welcomed the financial help for smaller clubs but said as the wage cut had not yet been agreed by players, the situation was \"not much further along\".\n\nKnight had previously said clubs that furlough non-playing staff without imposing cuts on player wages should be subjected to a windfall tax if they do not change their approach by Tuesday.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"It is absolutely right that a reduction of players' wages is on the table when there are lower-paid staff at some clubs being furloughed.\n\n\"The football authorities must all be aware of the strength of public feeling on this and I expect them to show leadership on the matter.\n\n\"It is important that the Premier League helps the national effort in response to the coronavirus pandemic and I will continue to work closely with the football authorities.\"\n\nThe league's statement also expressed \"huge appreciation for the heroic efforts of NHS staff and all other key workers who are carrying out critical jobs in such difficult circumstances\" with £20m immediately committed \"to support the NHS, communities, families and vulnerable groups during the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nAnalysis - what now for football?\n\nEngland's football bodies decided they had little option other than to extend the current suspension.\n\nIt means the FA Cup will be stuck at the quarter-final stage for a bit longer, promotion and relegation issues are unresolved and Liverpool nervously await the chance to complete their first league title triumph since 1990.\n\nBut while nothing seems to be happening, plenty of conversations are occurring and scenarios for concluding the historic 2019-20 season are being discussed.\n\nFundamentally though, these are the five options on the table:\n\nRead more from Simon here.", "Tekashi 6ix9ine has left prison early as part of a nationwide effort in America to stem the coronavirus outbreak in US jails.\n\nA judge confirmed the rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, does not have the virus but is considered high risk because of his asthma and previous hospital treatment for bronchitis.\n\nAccording to 6ix9ine's legal team, he'll complete the remaining four months of his two-year sentence under home arrest wearing a GPS ankle monitor.\n\nLast year, the 23-year-old pleaded guilty to a series of gang robberies and shootings.\n\nUS District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who originally sentenced him, suggested the current pandemic presented \"extraordinary and compelling reasons\" for a compassionate release.\n\nHe also said Daniel Hernandez \"will no longer present a meaningful danger to the community\".\n\nLisa Evers, a US journalist who has been covering the trial for local station Fox 5 News, claimed she had spoken to the rapper's legal team who said he will be allowed to return to social media and plans to work on two new albums.\n\nIn October 2019 it was reported that he had signed a new $10 million (£8 million) record deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt his 2019 trial, the rapper initially denied the charges against him but entered a plea bargain, giving evidence against other gang members in order to get a reduced sentence after potentially facing a maximum of life in prison.\n\nHe testified against former members of Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.\n\nThe offences 6ix9ine was charged with include racketeering, carrying a firearm, assault with a dangerous weapon, and conspiracy murder charges.\n\nRacketeering is when people use criminal actions to repeatedly take money from others, often associated with protection rackets.\n\nThe rapper will reportedly work on new music from home\n\nIt all came from his association with a violent US gang Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods - also known as TreyWay - which 6ix9ine had spoken about on Twitter.\n\nHe joined the gang in 2017 but left less than a year later.\n\nThe inner workings of the gang was exposed by 6ix9ine - and another ex-gang member, Kristian Cruz.\n\nNine Trey Bloods committed robberies, dealt drugs and were violent against rivals and each other according to their testimonies.\n\n6ix9ine gave information on Anthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack and both men have since been convicted.\n\nEllison was also found guilty of kidnapping 6ix9ine, maiming and assault - while Mack was also found guilty on drug dealing charges.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Owen Harding seen on CCTV images in Saltdean on the day of his disappearance\n\nCCTV images of a missing teenager who disappeared from his home a week ago have been released.\n\nOwen Harding, 16, left his family home in Saltdean, East Sussex, on Thursday 26 March.\n\nHis mother has said he was upset and it is thought he may have set off on a 280-mile walk to see his girlfriend in Pocklington, East Yorkshire.\n\nPictures published by Sussex Police show Owen walking away from his home on the day he disappeared.\n\nThe force said he walked south along Bannings Vale at about 18:50 GMT, and may have turned into Hamsey Road.\n\nOwen's mum, Stella Harding, said: “He was upset. We were talking about travel restrictions because of the Covid-19 situation and I think he needed to go and stomp it off.\n\n“We often go for walks in this area and when he didn’t come back I started to worry and I spoke to my friends and we went to look for him.”\n\nTwo witnesses have reported a boy matching his description alongside the A259 near the clifftop at about 18:15 BST.\n\nPolice have appealed to any drivers who may have recorded Owen on dashcam after this time.\n\nPolice have searched nearby cliffs and urged drivers to check dashcam footage taken in that area\n\nOwen is described as white, 6ft tall, of athletic build, and with short brown hair.\n\nHe was wearing a black or dark hooded top, grey tracksuit trousers and white trainers.\n\nSussex Police said he has not been in touch with any friends or family since leaving home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quote Message: We need everyone to keep playing their part, and that includes you. The only way to protect yourselves, and others, now, is to stay at home. We're set for a warm weekend in some parts of the country, but the disease is still spreading and we absolutely cannot afford to relax the social distancing measures that we have in place. We cannot relax our discipline now. If we do, people will die. So I end with the advice that we all know. This advice is not a request, it is an instruction; stay at home, protect lives and then you will be doing your part.\"\n\nWe need everyone to keep playing their part, and that includes you. The only way to protect yourselves, and others, now, is to stay at home. We're set for a warm weekend in some parts of the country, but the disease is still spreading and we absolutely cannot afford to relax the social distancing measures that we have in place. We cannot relax our discipline now. If we do, people will die. So I end with the advice that we all know. This advice is not a request, it is an instruction; stay at home, protect lives and then you will be doing your part.\"", "This video can not be played.", "Debenhams, the department store chain, is facing administration for a second time.\n\nThe retailer is set to appoint administrators as early next week to protect the company against claims from creditors as it tries to restructure its business.\n\nDebenhams has already closed 22 stores this year and plans to shut a further 28 in 2021.\n\nHowever, the coronavirus outbreak has ramped up pressure on the firm.\n\nLike much of the rest of the High Street, Debenhams 142 stores are closed.\n\nAlthough the business is still trading online, it has a large amount of stock which it cannot sell.\n\nIt is understood that Debenhams is concerned about potential legal claims from suppliers who have yet to be paid.\n\nA Debenhams spokesperson said: \"Like all retailers, Debenhams is making contingency plans reflecting the extraordinary current circumstances.\n\n\"Our owners and lenders remain highly supportive and whatever actions we may take will be with a view to protecting the business during the current situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is expected that the most likely outcome is a pre-pack administration, where a company arranges to sell its business to a pre-determined buyer before administrators are appointed.\n\nLast April, Debenhams fell into the hands of its lenders, comprising a group of banks and hedge funds led by US firm Silver Point Capital, after struggling for years to keep up with competition from rivals.\n\nIt has also faced rising costs in running its big stores as well as grappling with a huge amount of debt.\n\nA source familiar with the company's current thinking told the BBC that if a pre-pack was to happen, the current owners intend to take the business out of administration once stores are allowed to re-open and were in talks to inject funding as part of its existing turnaround plan.\n\nLandlords have already been told that a number of restructuring scenarios are being explored, which have \"varying outcomes\" for the business, landlords and Debenhams' 20,000 workers.", "People across the UK have taken part in a second \"Clap for Carers\" tribute, saluting NHS staff and other key workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDelivery drivers, supermarket staff, care workers and bin collectors were among those honoured by the nation.", "Matthew Kelly from Salford has written a poem paying tribute to the staff of the NHS fighting the coronavirus.\n\nMr Kelly said he was inspired to write after hearing the challenges his partner faces as a district nurse.\n\nThis clip is from Chiles on Friday on 3 April 2020", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse captures the transformation of London's ExCeL centre into the Nightingale Hospital\n\nThe first of the government's emergency field hospitals to treat coronavirus patients has opened in east London's ExCel centre.\n\nThe temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital is able to hold as many as 4,000 patients and is the first of several such facilities planned across the UK.\n\nThe number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has increased by 684 in 24 hours, latest figures show.\n\nIt comes as the Queen will address the nation in a televised speech on Sunday.\n\nThe specially recorded speech about the coronavirus outbreak will be broadcast at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe Department of Health said that as of 17:00 BST on 2 April, the total number of deaths is now 3,605, up from 2,921. There are 38,168 confirmed cases.\n\nIn Scotland, the number of deaths has risen by 46, while in Wales a further 24 people died. In NI, the number of people who died with coronavirus has risen by 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced he had contracted the virus last Friday, says he will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the virus including a high temperature.\n\nThe ExCel exhibition space - usually used for large events such as Comic Con - was transformed into a hospital in just nine days.\n\nIt is the first of several Nightingale Hospitals planned in England, with the latest announcement that two will be built at the University of the West of England in Bristol and the Harrogate Convention Centre.\n\nOthers are due to be set up at Manchester's Central Complex as well as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre, which will open to patients on 12 April.\n\nIn Wales, more than 6,000 extra beds are being set up in temporary hospitals - many in sports and leisure facilities, including Cardiff's Principality Stadium.\n\nIn Scotland, a temporary hospital is being built at Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus (SEC). It could have capacity for as many as 1,000 beds and will be named the NHS Louisa Jordan after a nurse who served in Serbia during World War One.\n\nAnd Belfast City Hospital's tower block will become Northern Ireland's first Nightingale hospital with 230 beds.\n\nPrince Charles officially opened the new hospital with a message paying tribute to NHS staff via video link from his home on the royal Balmoral estate in Scotland.\n\nSpeaking following seven days of self-isolation after being diagnosed with the virus, he called it \"a spectacular and almost unbelievable feat of work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles opens the UK's first emergency field hospital to deal with coronavirus patients.\n\nIt shows \"how the impossible could be made possible and how we can achieve the unthinkable through human will and ingenuity,\" he added, saying: \"In this dark time, this place will be a shining light.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital initially has 500 beds in place, with space for another 3,500. It will care for patients with the virus in intensive care who have been transferred from other London hospitals.\n\nStaff from across the NHS will be working there, including student nurses, medical students who have started work early and former doctors, nurses and other staff who have come out of retirement.\n\nOfficials, including Health Secretary Matt Hancock, had to stand on markers to follow social distancing rules\n\nThe Prince of Wales sent a video message from his home in Scotland, where he has been recovering from the virus\n\nMilitary personnel helped to build the 80 wards in the new hospital\n\nAlso at the ceremony were Health Secretary Matt Hancock - who also recently came out of quarantine after having the virus - England's chief nursing officer, Ruth May, and the head of NHS Nightingale, Prof Charles Knight.\n\nMs May said it was \"absolutely fitting\" that the hospital was named after Florence Nightingale, who was an \"iconic nursing leader of her time\" and a \"pioneer for infection control\".\n\nMr Hancock said the construction of the hospital was \"testament to the work and the brilliance of the many people involved\", and it showed the \"best of the NHS\".\n\n\"In these troubled times with this invisible killer stalking the whole world, the fact that in this country we have the NHS is even more valuable than before,\" he said.\n\nThere were plenty of high-viz vests, but an equal amount of combats and the occasional suit and tie. Some carried computers, others electric drills.\n\nThey pushed trolleys of blankets, pallets of wood and wheeled hi-tech scanning equipment.\n\nThe range of staff working on the Nightingale is extraordinary. Military personnel stand in small groups discussing logistics, while carpenters speaking Portuguese build the new temporary pharmacy, senior medics design and standardise each cubicle with space for a ventilator and computer terminal, outlets for oxygen, and alarm-call button.\n\nI've seen a brand new hospital - which may eventually become the biggest in the country - rise from from what are basically two aircraft hangers.\n\nImagine Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport full of beds and you are nearly there.\n\nOne man involved in the vital task of installing liquid oxygen tanks, with dark rings around his eyes, told me proudly they'd done a 12-week project in four days. It is an incredible achievement.\n\nIt was celebrated today by Prince Charles with a \"lockdown\" royal visit and a virtual ribbon cutting.\n\nEarlier, amid controversy over the roll-out of testing for coronavirus in the UK, Mr Hancock said the government had \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nFollowing confusion about whether the target was just for England or for the whole of the UK, Mr Hancock confirmed it was for the whole of the UK.\n\nThe 100,000 could include both swab tests, that check if someone has the virus, and antibody blood tests, to check if someone has had the virus recently - but which have not yet come into widespread use.\n\nMr Hancock said he was not relying on new antibody blood tests to meet the goal - and it was possible they could all be swab tests. Labour has called for more detail on the plan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clap for Carers: Watch the UK applaud its key workers\n\nOn Thursday, there was capacity for 12,799 daily tests in England - although just 11,764 people were tested. The government's target by mid-April had been to test 25,000 per day.", "Bill Withers, the acclaimed 1970s soul singer behind hits Ain't No Sunshine and Lean On Me has died from heart complications aged 81, his family said.\n\nThe singer died on Monday in Los Angeles, the family told the Associated Press.\n\nThey described him in a statement as a \"solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world\".\n\n\"He spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other,\" the statement said.\n\nKnown for his smooth baritone vocals and sumptuous soul arrangements, he wrote some of the 70s best-remembered songs, including Just The Two Of Us, Lovely Day and Use Me.\n\nOn Lovely Day, he set the record for the longest sustained note on a US chart hit, holding a high E for 18 seconds.\n\nAlthough he stopped recording in 1985, his songs remained a major influence on R&B and hip-hop.\n\nHis track Grandma's Hands was sampled on Blackstreet's No Diggity, and Eminem reinterpreted Just The Two Of Us on his hit 1997 Bonnie And Clyde.\n\nLean On Me has recently become associated with the Coronavirus pandemic, with many people posting their own versions to support health workers.\n\n\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father,\" said Withers' family in a statement.\n\n\"With his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other.\n\n\"As private a life as he lived, close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones.\"\n\nUS musician Chance the Rapper led tributes, describing the singer as \"the greatest\" and recalling some of his own personal memories.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chance The Rapper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Chance The Rapper\n\nRock star and actor Lenny Kravitz posted that his \"voice, songs, and total expression gave us love, hope, and strength\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lenny Kravitz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson said he was \"very sad to hear about Bill Withers passing\" - calling him \"a songwriter's songwriter\" - while John Legend added that \"life wouldn't be the same without him\" and his music.\n\nAnd BBC Radio 2's Trevor Nelson wrote the star's music was \"a remedy for these nonsensical times\".\n\n\"He was a genius singer/songwriter. Can't listen to Bill without feeling emotional.\"\n\nBorn in 1938, Withers was the youngest of six children. His father died when he was a child and he was raised by his mother and grandmother.\n\nHis entry to the music world came late - at the age of 29 - after a nine-year stint in the Navy\n\nHe taught himself to play guitar between shifts at his job making toilet seats for the Boeing aircraft company, and used his wages to pay for studio sessions in LA.\n\n\"I figured out that you didn't need to be a virtuoso to accompany yourself,\" he told Rolling Stone magazine in 2015.\n\nHe recorded his first album, Just As I Am, with Booker T Jones in 1970. It included the mournful ballad Ain't No Sunshine, which earned him his first Grammy award the subsequent year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BillWithersVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe scored another million-selling hit with Lean On Me in 1972.\n\nGospel-tinged and inspirational, the song was based on his experiences growing up in a West Virginia coal mining town: When times were hard, neighbours would lend each other help and assistance, and the memory stuck with the singer.\n\nIt was later performed at the inaugurations of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut Withers quit at the top, walking away from his career after scoring a pop hit with Just The Two Of Us, although he occasionally toured with Grover Washington Jr in the 1990s.\n\nAs a younger man, he suffered with a debilitating stutter, and in 2015, he and fellow stutterer Ed Sheeran put on a benefit concert for the Stuttering Association For The Young.\n\nThe same year, Withers was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame, and when asked how it felt by US TV show CBS Good Morning, he joked, \"It's like a pre-obituary!\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDespite his influence on generations of musicians, he did not keep track of music after his career ended.\n\n\"These days,\" he said in 2015, \"I wouldn't know a pop chart from a Pop-Tart.\"\n\nBut he was aware that his compositions had become part of the fabric of music.\n\n\"What few songs I wrote during my brief career, there ain't a genre that somebody didn't record them in,\" he told Rolling Stone in 2014. \"I'm not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with.\"\n\n\"The hardest thing in songwriting is to be simple and yet profound,\" agreed Sting in Still Bill, a documentary about Wither's career, \"and Bill seemed to understand, intrinsically and instinctively, how to do that,\"\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Marcia, and children, Todd and Kori.\n\nThe star was given an Ivor Novello songwriting award in the UK three years ago\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says he lost half a stone when he fell ill with Covid-19\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock says the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target 100,000 coronavirus tests a day in the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said he was not relying on new antibody blood tests to meet the goal, which was announced after criticism of the UK's testing strategy.\n\n\"It's got to happen. I've got a plan to get us there, I've set it as a goal and it's what the nation needs,\" he said.\n\nLabour has called for more details on what kind of tests will be involved.\n\nIt came as the Prince of Wales officially opened London's new 4,000 bed NHS Nightingale Hospital via a video link from his Scottish home.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was possible almost all of the 100,000 tests would be swab tests used to determine whether a person currently had coronavirus.\n\nHe said they would also include 500 highly-accurate antibody blood tests - to detect whether someone has already had coronavirus - performed each day by the military's science laboratory at Porton Down.\n\nBut other types of antibody blood tests for mass screening had so far failed to meet the required accuracy standard and so would not be relied upon to meet the new goal, he added.\n\n\"We've got an awful lot of work to do to make it happen,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThe pledge to test 100,000 people a day by the end of the month seems incredible at this point - especially as Matt Hancock has clarified his statements last night to say almost all the tests will be the diagnostic swab tests rather than the antibody test.\n\nAfter all, it has taken weeks to just get to 10,000 tests being done a day.\n\nFacilities wise, he is planning to use the national Public Health England labs and hospital labs currently being used along with resources at universities, research institutes and private companies.\n\nBut this is not really the problem - the hospital labs alone could do 100,000 tests in theory.\n\nThe big problem has been the shortage of testing kits and chemicals - he must be confident this supply line will be easing in the coming weeks - as well as the wider introduction of quicker swab testing processes that don't rely on the chemical reagents.\n\nThere has been growing pressure from frontline NHS staff for the government to make more swab tests available to medics and their families so key staff who are healthy but currently in self-isolation can return to work.\n\nMr Hancock said 35,000 NHS staff were currently off work because they or a member of their household had had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nHe confirmed patients with suspected coronavirus would be first in line for swab tests, followed by \"a whole series of critical workers\", including medical staff and their families, social care workers, prison and police officers.\n\nSpeaking about his own experience with coronavirus following his diagnosis last week, he told Today: \"It was pretty worrying especially on the way down because you know how serious this infection can be.\n\n\"But after two days or so which were pretty unpleasant - like having glass in your throat and a cough - thankfully I turned a corner and I've recovered.\"\n\nMr Hancock announced a \"five-pillar\" plan to reach the 100,000 target on Thursday, following days of criticism of the government's record on testing.\n\nThis involves increasing the number of swab tests through an expansion of centralised testing facilities and additional partnerships with commercial entities, while also introducing an antibody blood test and surveillance to determine the rate of infection.\n\nResearch institutes and universities would be processing increased numbers of tests alongside Public Health England efforts, he said.\n\nHowever, Prof David McCoy, of Queen Mary University, cautioned that testing was not a \"magic bullet\".\n\nFigures released on Thursday showed the number of people with the virus who have died in the UK had risen by 569, taking the total to 2,921 as of 17:00 BST on Wednesday - with capacity for 12,799 daily tests in England - although just 10,650 people were tested.\n\nThe government's target by mid-April had been to test 25,000 per day.\n\nAs of 09:00 on 2 April, 163,194 people in the UK had been tested for the virus, of which 33,718 were confirmed positive.", "Sainsbury’s has said that it will start to ease some restrictions on the quantities of items shoppers can buy.\n\nIn line with other supermarkets, it has limited popular items to counter panic buying during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's will start removing limits on some products from this Sunday though restrictions on Easter eggs will be lifted immediately.\n\nEarlier in the week, Aldi, Morrisons, Waitrose and Asda all said they would be easing restrictions on some goods.\n\nSainsbury's said restrictions would remain on items such as UHT milk, pasta and tinned tomatoes, among other goods.\n\nThe supermarket's chief executive, Mike Coupe, said: “We have been working hard with our suppliers to improve our product availability.\n\n“Most people are now just buying what they need for themselves and their families. This means we now often have stock on the shelves all day and at the end of the day.”\n\nHe added: “We have removed limits from Easter eggs immediately, as we know families often want to buy more than three and we have plenty of these in all stores and online.”\n\nA Sainsbury’s spokesperson told the BBC that restrictions would also remain in place on butter, cheese and some canned and packaged long-life items, as well as some frozen goods.\n\nOtherwise, the limits were being “largely removed”.\n\nHowever, while Sainsbury's is lifting limits on some goods, it is asking households to send only one adult to do the shopping and to keep children at home where possible.\n\nMr Coupe said: \"Our store teams will be asking groups with more than one adult to choose one adult to shop and will ask other adults to wait.\n\n\"Children are of course welcome if they are not able to stay at home.\"\n\nIn other retail news, Associated British Foods, which owns discount clothing retailer Primark, has announced temporary voluntary pay cuts for senior managers.\n\nIt said chief executive George Weston and finance director John Bason had asked to have their basic pay halved, as had Primark chief executive Paul Marchant.\n\nThe company’s non-executive directors have also asked for their fees to be reduced temporarily by 25%, while executive directors will not get a bonus for this financial year.\n\n“The board, including the executive management team, believes that these steps are appropriate given its expectation that full-year earnings will now be much lower than envisaged at the start of the financial year,” the firm said.\n\n“The board is acutely aware that many Primark employees will see their livelihoods affected by Covid-19.”\n• None Sainsbury’s uses ‘loophole’ to keep Argos open", "Premier League footballers should \"take a pay cut and play their part\" during the coronavirus pandemic, says health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nSome clubs have furloughed non-playing staff but not looked at players' wages.\n\n\"Given the sacrifices many people are making, the first thing PL footballers can do is make a contribution,\" he said at the daily government briefing.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said \"players will have to share the financial burden\".\n\nIn a statement, the PFA added: \"We are aware of the public sentiment that the players should pay non-playing staff's salaries. However, our current position is that - as businesses - if clubs can afford to pay their players and staff, they should.\n\n\"The players we have spoken to recognise that the non-playing staff are a vital part of their club and they do not want to see club staff furloughed unfairly.\n\n\"Any use of the government's support schemes without genuine financial need is detrimental to the wider society.\n\n\"In instances where clubs have the resources to pay all staff, the benefit of players paying non-playing staff salaries will only serve the business of the club's shareholders.\"\n• None Check out BBC Sport's five things to do today\n\nHancock's comments came on a day when the number of UK deaths from coronavirus rose to 2,921 and followed those made by Conservative colleague Julian Knight, who is chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee.\n\nKnight has written to Premier League chief executive Richard Masters calling for action on player wages, saying clubs which furlough non-playing staff but do not impose cuts on player wages should be subjected to a windfall tax if they do not change approach by Tuesday, 7 April.\n\n\"The purpose of the coronavirus job retention scheme is not to support the economics of Premier League clubs,\" Knight wrote.\n\nThe PFA statement added: \"We fully accept that players will have to be flexible and share the financial burden of the Covid-19 outbreak in order to secure the long-term future of their own club and indeed the wider game.\n\n\"Our advice going out to players at this point reflects that expectation.\"\n\nPremier League sides Tottenham, Newcastle, Bournemouth and Norwich have opted to utilise the government's job retention scheme.\n\nPlayers, coaches and executive staff at Norwich have donated £200,000, made up of a percentage of their salaries, to help local people affected by the pandemic.\n\nPlayers at Championship leaders Leeds United have already volunteered to take a wage deferral, while Birmingham City players who earn more than £6,000 a week have been asked to take a 50% cut for the next four months.\n\nIn Europe, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid players have taken a 70% pay cut, while Juventus players and manager Maurizio Sarri have agreed to freeze their pay for four months.\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe became the first Premier League boss to take a voluntary pay cut during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday.\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber, technical director Dan Ashworth and head coach Graham Potter have each taken a \"significant\" voluntary pay cut but no decision has been taken on whether to furlough any of the club's staff.\n\nSome will no doubt view politicians' criticism of highly-paid footballers as a convenient deflection tactic at a time of intensifying scrutiny on the government's handling of a national crisis.\n\nNo players have so far objected to contributing some of their wealth to help their clubs at a time when their finances are in peril. But there is now a perception that the PFA has been too slow to agree action, and by failing to take the initiative have ensured a PR disaster for their members, especially after several clubs furloughed non-playing staff.\n\nThe PFA needs to look after the interests of less well paid players in Leagues One and Two of course. But it has not gone unnoticed that negotiations are being led by chief executive Gordon Taylor, who promised to stand down from his £2m per year role more than a year ago, but remains in power.\n\nThe union has been holding out for a collective wage deferral and has finally broken its silence to explain its position, with some thinly-veiled digs at some clubs in its statement.\n\nBut during talks with the Premier League over the past two days it has been made very clear to the PFA that an actual pay cut is required, with clubs deprived of matchday revenue and worried that TV rights-holders will start demanding hundreds of million of pounds worth of refunds.\n\nI understand any cut would not be as high as the 70% reduction seen at clubs like Barcelona, but that now seems to be the direction of travel with an agreement anticipated on Friday. For many, however, such a gesture should already have been made.", "Some footpaths have already been closed\n\nSome farmers say they fear their families could be put at risk of coronavirus due to an increase in walkers using footpaths on their land.\n\nUnder official guidance people can go for a walk or run close to home once a day.\n\nBut some farmers say paths should be closed or diverted because of fears it could be spread unwittingly via stiles and gates.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had already shut some of the busiest paths.\n\nThis includes popular paths in Snowdonia and the Breacon Beacons, where crowds flocked for exercise at the start of the restrictions, despite social-distancing warnings.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bridgend CB Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJacob Anthony said he normally loved greeting walkers but was worried for his family and livestock\n\nJacob Anthony, who farms near Bridgend, said he had seen a significant increase in walkers coming through his farmland since the measures were introduced.\n\nHe said while he usually enjoyed speaking to walkers on his land he was worried they may be unknowingly spreading the virus, and worried it could harm his loved ones, and the livestock, especially during the lambing season.\n\n\"My grandad is 87, is still farming, my sister is asthmatic and my mother has an auto-immune disease and we really don't want to be catching this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen some motorbikes and families with young children as well as beer cans on the mountains so it looks like people have been drinking up here too,\" he said.\n\n\"Farmers can't go into hibernation, we have to work, and the countryside is our office.\n\n\"If we're sick there's nobody to look after the animals.\"\n\nFarmer Kate Beavan said there had been a drop in the number of walkers through land, and more were using roads\n\nKate Beavan, a farmer near Abergavenny, said while she appreciated how lucky she was to have so much outdoor space, when some people were stuck inside without gardens, people needed to think before they ventured to the countryside.\n\n\"Walkers will be welcomed back here with open arms when this craziness is over, we are just asking for a bit of thought for vulnerable farming families at this time. I think the majority of people are understanding,\" she said.\n\nHedd Pugh said he found a walker from Shropshire on his farm\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) in Wales said there had been a \"significant increase\" in people using paths, and called on the Welsh Government to act.\n\nNFU Cymru's Hedd Pugh said he found a walker from Shrewsbury on his farmland, near Dinas Mawddwy, Gwynedd, who was unaware of the guidance to stay close to home to exercise.\n\n\"Farmers have observed a significant increase in the use of public rights of way and access land in the light of the social distancing guidelines introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"This has led to concerns and anxiety where public rights of way are in close proximity to homes and farmyards, particularly so in instances where farmers or members of their families fall into the vulnerable category.\n\nFarmers fear people walking on the footpaths could unknowingly be spreading the virus\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had introduced regulations forcing councils, National Park Authorities, Natural Resources Wales and the National Trust to close certain footpaths.\n\n\"The busiest locations, where large numbers of people gather, have been closed,\" he said.\n\n\"The regulations also allow the closure of paths if their use poses a high risk to the incidence or spread of infection in their areas.\n\n\"The decision on closing paths rests with these authorities as they possess the local knowledge to understand where a closure is necessary.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' rural affairs spokesman Andrew RT Davies said some footpaths crossed people's homes and gardens.\n\n\"Families and farmers are both telling me they are getting scared that an influx of people - in some cases more than they've seen before - could spread this virus to them,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's largest walkers' group, The Ramblers, said it has asked people to respect the closures.\n\n\"We have joined with other prominent outdoor organisations in writing to the Welsh Government urging them to keep a focus on helping people to safely access local exercise opportunities near to their homes, while also guarding against unnecessary or inappropriate path and green space closures,\" it said.", "A charity fund to help communities hit hard by coronavirus has started distributing millions of pounds in donations.\n\nThe National Emergencies Trust, set up after the Grenfell fire, has already raised £20m for its coronavirus appeal and is aiming to raise far more.\n\nIts chairman Lord Dannatt hopes the fund will bring the UK together.\n\nAnd Sue Fortune of Lincolnshire Community Foundation said it was \"hugely important to donate\".\n\n\"Those who are self-isolating with underlying health conditions need access to food, they need access to advice and they need access to medicines to keep them alive,\" said Ms Fortune.\n\nAs the coronavirus lockdown hits livelihoods, there has been a 300% increase in demand for food and hygiene parcels at the Horncastle food bank, in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe food bank is one of the first projects to benefit from the fund.\n\nThe National Emergencies Trust was set up in 2017 to ensure cash from the huge wave of generosity in the wake of the fire reached the people who needed it most.\n\nAnd the Net's Coronavirus Appeal is its first major challenge since the fire.\n\nThe money will be distributed by the UK's 46 community foundations, a national network of smaller charities.\n\nGrants of between £500 and £1,000 have already been given to food banks, organisations helping deliver food parcels to those in self-isolation and to help groups set up teleconferencing facilities.\n\nMost of the donations have come from major businesses but there have also been contributions from the public.\n\nAt Horncastle, volunteers are also distributing hot meals for vulnerable people in isolation.\n\nMs Fortune, joint chief executive officer of the Lincolnshire Community Foundation says it is \"hugely important that people donate to this appeal where they're able to\".\n\n\"It will impact on families,\" she says. \"It may impact on your parents, your grandparents, your children, your neighbours and your friends.\"\n\nThe charity sector is facing the toughest time in living memory, with predictions of a £4bn loss in the next 12 weeks, due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd Lord Dannatt, the former head of the British Army who now chairs the Trust, has said even major charities will need government help.\n\n\"The big charities need big money,\" he said.\n\n\"They need support from the government.\n\nLord Dannatt was head of the Army between 2006 and 2009\n\n\"We can't hope to give the British Red Cross £50m or St John Ambulance £50m - but the money we're raising can make a real difference on the ground.\"\n\n\"In many ways we would like this spirit of British helpfulness to become a virus, if you like, more contagious than coronavirus itself.\n\n\"It is a great way for the country to come together.\"", "About 4.3 billion journeys were made by bus in England in 2018-19\n\nThe government will cover the losses of bus companies in England over the next three months to ensure that services can still run.\n\nThe UK's bus industry says passenger numbers have \"fallen off a cliff\" since the government advised people against all non-essential travel.\n\nBut a new £167m fund will ensure that bus companies can cover their costs on essential services so that key workers, such as NHS staff, can get to work.\n\nSimilar agreements are already in place in Scotland and Wales. The deal in Wales includes free bus travel for NHS workers.\n\nHundreds of millions of pounds of support measures from local and central government have been dedicated to the UK's bus industry to ensure that companies can survive through the coronavirus crisis and keep a reduced bus network moving.\n\nThe latest figures from the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), which represents bus and coach companies in Britain, showed that passenger numbers were down by 75%, although the numbers from bus operators suggest numbers are even lower.\n\nWith people advised to stay at home, many buses around the UK are being driven around with no passengers on them at all.\n\nCPT boss Graham Vidler said the funding would \"plug the gap\" between the costs of running essential routes and the income received by companies. He said that would allow \"critical journeys to continue\".\n\nGovernment support is conditional on bus companies operating about half of their routes.\n\nOperators have also pledged not to let buses carry more than 50% of their maximum capacity to ensure that social distancing is possible on board.\n\nStagecoach said on Friday that its local regional bus companies were currently seeing sales at about 15% of \"normal levels\".\n\nMartin Griffiths, the chief executive of Stagecoach, said that in a \"very challenging period\", the new funding would mean \"key workers can still get to and from work, and that communities can still access other services\", such as shopping for food or picking up medicines.\n\nStagecoach added that its Megabus inter-city bus service in England and Wales would be suspended by Sunday 5 April.\n\nTransport groups Go-Ahead and FirstGroup also said they had seen huge falls in bus use, with passenger numbers and revenues down by about 90%.\n\nGo-Ahead boss David Brown said the government funding package was \"crucial\" to ensure the company could provide essential services.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapp, emphasised that people should \"stay at home if possible\". However, he described buses as a \"lifeline for people who need to travel for work or to buy food\".\n\n\"It's absolutely vital we do all we can to keep the sector running,\" he said.\n\nGrant Shapps described buses as a \"lifeline\" for those who need to make essential trips\n\nBus companies aim to temporarily lay off around half their staff who will then receive income under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme.\n\nBefore the coronavirus outbreak the government had earmarked funding to reopen bus routes which had been cut in recent years. Some of that money is now being spent on keeping existing routes running.\n\nAny losses incurred by bus companies since the government advised people against all but essential travel should be covered under the rescue package.", "Steve Chase set up a DJ booth on his driveway in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, to bring a little cheer to his neighbours during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEveryone had to stick to social distancing rules and remain in their own gardens.\n\nBut that didn't stop the whole street from having a good time, including Cedric and Judy celebrating their 54th wedding anniversary.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nMinisters are being asked to explain how they will meet their new target of carrying out 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by the end of the month.\n\nThe government tries to make it easier for small firms to access funds, as Treasury figures reveal 130,000 enquiries have resulted in fewer than 1,000 loan approvals.\n\nThere have been some 51,500 deaths worldwide, with 2,921 of them in the UK at the latest count.\n\nThe Prince of Wales is to open the UK's newest hospital later, albeit by video link. NHS Nightingale, in east London, was built in just nine days.\n\nThe UK honoured NHS staff, carers and other essential workers again on Thursday evening. Our short film captures the applause of the nation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clap for Carers: Watch the UK applaud its key workers\n\nTo take measures to protect yourself. Tap here to find out how.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A nurse with coronavirus has died after spending weeks in intensive care.\n\nAreema Nasreen, 36, had been placed on a ventilator at Walsall Manor Hospital where she worked in the acute medical unit.\n\nWalsall Healthcare NHS Trust's chief executive Richard Beeken said she was a \"very respected member of the team\".\n\nAnother nurse Aimee O'Rourke, who worked at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, has also died after contracting the virus.\n\nThe \"highly talented\" nurse died at the hospital where she worked on Thurday night after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"Heartbroken\" colleagues and relatives have paid tribute to Ms O'Rourke, who was also a mother-of-three.\n\nMr Beeken said Ms Nasreen, who died in the early hours of Friday, had \"always dreamed of being a nurse\", and her family said she had been considered fit and healthy before she contracted the virus.\n\n\"Any death is devastating but losing one of our own is beyond words,\" Mr Beeken said.\n\nThe trust described Ms Nasreen as a professional, passionate nurse who started out as a housekeeper in 2003, before working to gain her nursing qualification in January 2019.\n\n\"She was a very, very, respected and valued member of the team on the acute medical unit and they are absolutely distraught,\" Mr Beeken said.\n\n\"Her dedication to her role and her popularity amongst her colleagues is obvious to see with the outpouring of grief.\n\n\"She always said that she was so blessed to have the role of a nurse which she absolutely loved because she wanted to feel like she could make a difference - and you did, Areema, you will be very sadly missed.\"\n\nWest Midlands Mayor Andy Street tweeted: \"Such tragic news this morning, my heart goes out to Areema's family and three children.\n\n\"Frontline workers across the West Midlands are risking their lives day after day to protect us, the least we can do to help them is follow government advice.\"\n\nDr Samara Afzal, a GP in Birmingham who knew Ms Nasreen, told BBC Asian Network it was \"absolutely devastating news for the family\".\n\n\"They [the family] are still coming to terms [with her death]. It's heartbreaking for the children who didn't get to see her, because of the circumstances and the nature of Covid.\n\n\"She was very bubbly, full of life. She was a fantastic role model to Asian women, she married young and had children but then wanted to pursue her dream in nursing, became a nurse and absolutely loved her job, she was completely dedicated to it, she'd go out of her way to help people.\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"We know that Areema has given her life in terms of looking after patients, my sympathies go out to [her] entire family.\"\n\nCommenting on the death of Ms Nasreen, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I pay tribute to the NHS staff who've died serving the NHS, serving the nation.\n\n\"It shows the incredible bravery of every member of the NHS who goes into work knowing that these dangers are there.\"", "Parishioners washing their hands as a preventative measure in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe\n\nOn 12 January - less than three months ago - the coronavirus was confined to China. Not a single case had been found outside the country where it emerged.\n\nAnd then, on 13 January, the virus became a global problem. A case was recorded in Thailand before Japan, South Korea and the United States soon followed.\n\nAcross the world, a trickle of cases became a flood.\n\nThere have now been more than a million Covid-19 cases worldwide, in countries from Nepal to Nicaragua. But as the death tolls rise, and the hospitals overflow, is anywhere still coronavirus-free?\n\nThe answer, perhaps surprisingly, is yes.\n\nIn North Korea, no reported cases and more missile tests\n\nThere are 193 countries which are members of the United Nations.\n\nAs of 2 April, 18 countries had not reported a Covid-19 case, according to a BBC tally using data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSome, experts agree, are likely to have unreported cases. North Korea, for example, is officially on zero, as is war-torn Yemen.\n\nBut there are countries where the virus has not landed. Most are small islands with few visitors - in fact, seven of the world’s 10 least-visited places, as per UN data, are free of Covid-19.\n\nThat remoteness means one thing: in this age of social-distancing rules, island nations are the original self-isolators.\n\nBut the president of one such place is not complacent. In fact, he tells the BBC, Covid-19 is already a national emergency.\n\nNauru, in the Pacific Ocean, is almost 200 miles (320km) from anywhere – Banaba Island, part of Kiribati, is the nearest land. The nearest \"major\" city with direct flights is Brisbane, 2,500 miles south-west.\n\nIt is the second-smallest UN state in terms of land (after Monaco) and, with just over 10,000 people, the second-smallest in terms of population (after Tuvalu).\n\nIt is also one of the least-visited places on Earth. Although it does not appear in the most recent UN data, one tour operator says the country has just 160 tourists a year.\n\nYou may think such a distant place would not need to distance itself further. But a country with one hospital, no ventilators, and a shortage of nurses, cannot take any chances.\n\nThe policy, says President Lionel Aingimea, is called \"capture and containment\".\n\n\"We're keeping things at the border,\" he says. \"We're using our airport as the border and our transit facilities as part of our border.\"\n\nThose in quarantine are checked for symptoms every day. When some developed fever, they were isolated further and tested for Covid-19. The kits were sent to Australia, but all came back negative.\n\nDespite living through a crisis, ordinary Nauruans are \"calm and collected\", says the president. As for himself, he is grateful to other countries for their help - particularly Australia and Taiwan, which Nauru has full relations with - and to his religion.\n\n\"When we started doing this capture and containment policy, I went to God in prayer, and he gave me a scripture which I've kept to heart, which is Psalms 147, verses 13 and 14. That has kept me in good stead as we walk through - as the Bible says - this valley of death.\"\n\nAnd, while he tries to keep Nauru’s Covid-19 tally on zero, he knows the rest of the world is not as fortunate.\n\n\"Every time we look at the [Covid-19] map it looks like the world has got a measles outbreak - there's red dots all over the place,\" he says.\n\n\"So we're making sure as a nation…we believe that our prayers will be helping all the other nations going through these tough times.\"\n\nThere are fears impoverished Nauru would not be able to cope with a possible outbreak\n\nNauru is not the only small Pacific country to have declared a national emergency - Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu, and others, have done the same.\n\nDr Colin Tukuitonga, from Niue in the South Pacific, is sure it is the right policy.\n\n\"Their best bet without a doubt is to keep the bloody thing out,\" he says from New Zealand. \"Because if it gets in then you’re stuffed, really.\"\n\nDr Tukuitonga is a public health expert, a former World Health Organization commissioner, and is now an associate dean at the medical school at Auckland University.\n\n\"These places don't have robust health systems,\" he says. \"They're small, they're fragile, many don't have ventilators. If an outbreak did occur it would decimate the population.\"\n\nAnd, he says, many Pacific islanders are already in poor health.\n\n\"Many of these places have high rates of diabetes, heart disease and chest conditions - all those conditions [are linked to] a more severe form of the virus.\"\n\nIf there were a severe outbreak in any of the small Pacific nations, they would have to send their patients abroad. But that is easier said than done, when countries are locking down their borders.\n\nSo, Dr Tukuitonga says, their best bet is to stay on zero for as long as possible.\n\n\"The very isolation of small populations across a big ocean - which has always been a problem for them - has come to be a protection,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nA small number of countries with land borders have also until now been spared coronavirus cases.\n\nIt was only on Thursday that Malawi, a landlocked country of 18 million people in east Africa, reported its first cases. But it had prepared for them.\n\nThe country has declared a \"state of disaster\", closed schools, and cancelled all visas issued before 20 March. It is also \"ramping up testing\", says Dr Peter MacPherson, a public health expert from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, whose work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and who is based in Malawi.\n\nHe says the \"extra week or two we've had to prepare\" has been valuable, and he is \"quietly confident\" that Malawi will cope.\n\n\"We have been very affected by the HIV epidemic over the past 30 years and also the TB pandemic,\" he says.\n\n\"A lot of that very effective response has been basic but effective public health - well-functioning programmes at district level, doing the basics, but doing them very, very well.\"\n\nEvidence says coronavirus will come to every country, says Dr MacPherson. So if not Malawi, where might the last place in the world to catch Covid-19 be?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why staying at home is a matter of life and death\n\n\"It’s likely to be those South Pacific, very remote islands, I would put my money on that,\" says Andy Tatem, a professor in spatial demography and epidemiology at the University of Southampton.\n\n\"But in our globalised economy I’m not sure there’s anywhere that will escape such an infectious disease.\"\n\nThe lockdowns - such as those in Nauru - may work, he says, but they cannot last forever.\n\n\"Most of these countries rely on some kind of importation from outside - whether it's food or goods or tourism - or exporting their own goods. It's possible they can lock down completely, but it will be damaging – and they'll have to open up eventually.\"\n\nAnd, he warns, the number of cases is nowhere near peaking.\n\n\"We all have these lockdowns, so it's not burning through the population, and we still have a very large proportion [of people] not getting it.\n\n\"It's great for health systems, but it means we have a lot of susceptible people in the world. We are going to have to live with this virus for quite some time.\"", "The two-metre social distancing rules announced earlier will become law in Wales on Tuesday, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said the move was to ensure employers “put the needs of their workforce first”.\n\nHe said it would apply to any workplace, including homes, where work and repairs are being undertaken and outdoor spaces.\n\n“It is simply saying to employers that they must put the needs of their workforce first, that their health and their wellbeing must be top of the agenda, and the two-meter rule is there to protect that,” Mr Drakeford said.\n\nHe added businesses could continue to operate “if they comply with the guidance”.\n\nThe new regulations also clarify the arrangements for funerals and crematoriums.\n\nPeople can attend funerals if they are the person who has organised the funeral, if they have been invited to attend or are the carer of a person who is attending a funeral.\n\nBut there will be a limit to the number of people who can attend, depending on how many people the venue can accommodate, taking into account the two-metre rule.", "Angie Stevens said she was using her drawings to show the pandemic through her own eyes and show a family \"muddling along\"\n\nA mother has been contacted by families across the globe after sketching her children's daily life in isolation.\n\nEvery day Angie Stevens has been sketching her three children, husband and pets at their home in Swansea.\n\nThe sketches show her daughters painting a rainbow in the window, her son washing his hands and their dog lying in toilet roll.\n\n\"I try to draw the little things and make a laugh out of them,\" she said.\n\nThe drawings illustrate things that have quickly become normality for many people during the lockdown.\n\nAngie and her son Gruff washing their hands\n\nChildren are shown painting a rainbow on the window\n\nThe 46-year-old first started sketching her children when they were young, but started a daily diary a few weeks ago when she became ill and had to stay in the house.\n\nThe sketches show her two daughters, Millie, now 16, and Evie, 12, painting a rainbow in support of the NHS in their window, and her son Gruff, 10, giving her a hug.\n\n\"More than ever now we can annoy each other with the little things,\" she said.\n\n\"Like someone putting the forks upside down in the drawer. It's funny to draw about it.\"\n\nThe family dog guards the toilet roll in the drawings\n\nAs well as life inside their home, the drawings show her neighbours clapping for the NHS and people social-distancing at supermarkets.\n\n\"It's a very strange time at the moment and none of us have ever been through this before so it's important to keep spirits up,\" she said.\n\nNot being able to hug all our loved-ones has been particularly hard\n\n\"Our community has been great and we have some elderly people in the street who are being looked after by all the neighbours.\"\n\nAngie, married to Myles, 48, has been contacted by families in America and Spain who have seen her drawings on her Doodlemum blog while in isolation.\n\n\"It is nice to know that I am making people smile and that we are all in this together,\" she said.\n\n\"We are all just trying to muddle along and stay sane, possibly this is something we will need to look back on.\"\n\nThe whole family enjoying some quality time together", "Doorstep criminals are adapting old scams (picture posed by model)\n\nA coronavirus conman barged into the home of an 83-year-old woman claiming he was \"from health and safety\" and needed to check her property.\n\nThe potential thief demanded £220 from the lady, who has dementia and was following guidance to stay at home amid the outbreak.\n\nHe left empty-handed after she told him she only had 20p in cash with her.\n\nTrading standards officers say this is an example of how con artists are exploiting the current crisis.\n\nYears-old doorstep crimes and frauds are being revised to steal from people left alone and vulnerable by the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nCases of kindness within communities still far outnumber doorstep crimes, but those on the front line say there is an increasing risk of exploitation.\n\nIn the case of the 83-year-old woman, the cold caller repeatedly banged on the door and said she would be arrested if she did not let him in.\n\nTrading standards officers said cases of doorstep crime and other scams were rising, and urged family and neighbours to look out for the vulnerable, albeit from an appropriate distance. With only about 5% of scams reported to the authorities, they are also encouraging people to come forward if they have been targeted so cases can be investigated.\n\nNational Trading Standards (NTS), the frontline UK consumer protection body, said thieves were also offering to shop for housebound residents, but stealing the cash they were given.\n\nLouise Baxter, head of the NTS scams team, said: \"As people stay indoors to prevent the spread of Covid-19, criminals are preying on people in vulnerable situations who are isolated and living alone.\n\n\"There has never been a more important time for neighbours to look out for each other.\"\n\nThe organisation has previously warned that members of the gangs involved in such criminality could be victims of modern slavery themselves.\n\nSome have their passports, ID and money taken by gangmasters who then put them to work, paying them poorly or not at all.\n\nTrading standards officers, who would normally visit victims, alongside other support charities and possibly police officers are themselves stretched and subject to social distancing guidelines.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead officer for doorstep crime at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said that while officers might not be able to visit in person, they could still investigate and urged people to report crimes. Without a complaint, no investigation can be started.\n\nOfficers were able to issue advice remotely, and community forums were playing a vital role in issuing warnings, she said.\n\nScam texts like this one have become more common\n\nAlongside doorstep crime, there have been widespread warnings about online, text and telephone scams which use coronavirus as a trigger to attempt to steal personal information and drain bank accounts.\n\nThese range from unsolicited emails and texts claiming to be from utility providers, asking for banking and other details, to offers of refunds for cancelled holidays on fake websites. One suggests people have been fined for leaving their home during the outbreak, playing on people's fears.\n\nMany text messages impersonate the authorities and use links to fake sites, or to install malware on computers.\n\nKaty Worobec, managing director for economic crime at banking trade body, UK Finance, told BBC 5 Live Breakfast that \"it would have helped\" if the government had not put a link in its coronavirus advice text message to everybody in the UK.\n\n\"It has opened the floodgates a little for fraudsters to copy that idea,\" she said.", "Ivor was on holiday when he became ill in Goa\n\nA British man has been left stranded in an Indian hospital following emergency surgery - after narrowly missing the last flights home.\n\nIvor Gunton, 77, became ill during an annual trip to Gura with wife Geraldine Davis, 72.\n\nAfter he underwent the operation Ms Davis returned to the UK, expecting her husband to follow on a flight that day.\n\nBut upon arriving in the UK, Ms Davis was told the timing of border closures had meant her husband was left behind.\n\nThe pair, who have been married for 38 years, tried to return to Bristol as soon as Mr Gunton could travel, but a curfew was imposed due to coronavirus.\n\nMs Davis was able to fly out of the country on March 21, expecting her husband to be following by air ambulance the same day.\n\n\"It was horrible, and now he is alone. The thought of not knowing when he will be back is even worse.\"\n\nBut Mr Gunton, who underwent an operation to remove an intestinal tumour at Mothercare Hospital in Goa, has refused to let his predicament get him down.\n\n\"He is a strong character,\" his wife said.\n\n\"If that was me I would not be able to get through it.\"\n\nIvor was due to come home the same day as his wife\n\nMs Davis said: \"We spend five months every year in India but this time Ivor started getting abdominal pain and was sent to hospital where he was given two CT scans.\n\n\"The second one showed a tumour.\"\n\nCoronavirus had already begun to spread in India and it became clear they needed to get home quickly.\n\nIn the fortnight since Mr Gunton was stranded, the couple's insurers, Royal Bank of Scotland, have been trying to liaise with the hospital, where he remains, to have him airlifted.\n\nThey need permission from the Indian Aviation Authority to repatriate him, but say they must wait for the results of coronavirus testing.\n\nIt is likely that will take up to a week.\n\n\"This, to me, is completely incomprehensible,\" said Ms Davis. \"In the time it takes for the results to come and for the repatriation to then be requested he could easily catch the virus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nA number of British Airways cabin crew fear they may have contracted the coronavirus after operating long-haul flights over the past two weeks.\n\nUnions are calling on airlines to do more to minimise the exposure of staff.\n\nBut BA pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the virus.\n\nBA said it has taken steps to reduce contact between customers and crew, adding that personal protective gear, like masks and gloves, was available.\n\nHowever, one pilot told the BBC that equipment was not always accessible and that staff sometimes travelled \"shoulder-to-shoulder\" on buses at airports.\n\nDespite slashing its flight schedule amid travel restrictions, BA is still operating some flights to destinations such as New York, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, where more than 6,000 people have died across the country.\n\nThis week the airline also helped repatriate hundreds of British nationals from Peru. Along with other UK-based airlines, BA is now working with the Foreign Office to bring back people who are stuck abroad.\n\nPublic Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.\n\nBA said it was \"keeping vital links open\" and its teams were \"doing an amazing job\".\n\nThe in-flight service on flights operated by BA and its rivals has been greatly reduced to minimise person-to-person contact. Passengers on long-haul flights are now handed a packed lunch and a drink when they board the plane.\n\nAlthough some long-haul routes which are still operating can be relatively empty, social distancing hasn't been possible on some domestic and repatriation flights. One pilot operating a domestic flight with a UK-based airline out of Manchester this week refused to take off until he was given a bigger aircraft.\n\nAnd BBC News has learnt that Public Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.\n\nIn an email sent to the pilots' union Balpa, Public Health England said \"seating passengers separated by one seat either side would be a sensible approach.\"\n\nHowever, this suggestion would be incredibly costly for any repatriation flights organised by the Foreign Office and might not be feasible for airlines who have had their business wither in recent weeks.\n\nEasyjet, which is also expected to run some of the government's repatriation flights, said it has also been implementing practises to minimise contact like ensuring that its staff don't touch passengers' travel documents when they board.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it had put \"meticulous\" cleaning processes in place and created \"isolation areas\" on its flights for passengers showing symptoms of the virus.\n\nA BA pilot told the BBC that the airline had been \"very slow\" to put in measures to protect staff.\n\n\"I know the company is struggling but up until the last three or four days there has been a complete disregard for our health and safety.\"\n\nThe pilot, who flies long-haul routes, acknowledged that this week there were signs that issues were being addressed.\n\nHe said pilots recently received an email stating that bigger buses would be used to transport staff at airports so that they can observe social-distancing advice. At Heathrow employees have also been given access to car parks so that they can avoid getting on buses.\n\nAnother BA staff member who contracted the virus said they did have access to a \"flimsy mask\", however protective equipment was not always available. BA insisted that the welfare of its staff was paramount.\n\nBrian Strutton from the pilot's union Balpa said it was essential that staff involved in repatriation efforts were provided with protective equipment.\n\n\"We're hearing pilots saying they're worried about flying, for their own safety and their family's safety,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet there has been no discussion or consultation with us to provide assurance.\"\n\nBalpa has written to the Department for Transport to express its concerns and it has issued its own safety guidance to pilots. The department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nCrews have also been notified that they are now classified as \"critical workers\" and were told that if they were rostered they would be expected to turn-up to work.\n\nHowever, BA insisted that repatriation flights would only be operated by staff who volunteer. Easyjet also said that its rescue flights for stranded British nationals have always been operated by staff who have volunteered.\n\nThe Unite union, which represents cabin crew, said the guidance from aviation regulators and other government bodies over keeping airline crews safe was inconsistent.\n\nUnite's aviation officer Oliver Richardson called on the industry to urgently agree a set of protocols \"to minimise the risk to those working and flying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAll rough sleepers in England should be found a roof over their head by this weekend, ministers have said.\n\nLocal authorities have been urged to do all they can to \"get everyone in,\" in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour welcomed the move but said councils needed more money to achieve the goal.\n\nHomelessness charity Crisis also welcomed the commitment but said \"questions remained\" about how it would be achieved and paid for.\n\nIt said there needed to be an urgent national appeal for accommodation, including empty apartment blocks and hotels, to house the homeless.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said it was \"redoubling its efforts\" to make sure everyone was \"inside and safe\".\n\nOn Friday afternoon the housing minister Luke Hall wrote to councils with details of how to implement the government's plans. These include:\n\nIn a separate letter to homelessness managers and rough sleeping coordinators in councils in England, the government's homelessness tsar Louise Casey called for action within the next 72 hours to protect rough sleepers from the virus.\n\n\"As you know, this is a public health emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"We are all redoubling our efforts to do what we possibly can at this stage to ensure that everybody is inside and safe by this weekend, and we stand with you in this.\n\n\"Many areas of the country have already been able to ’safe harbour’ their people which is incredible. What we need to do now though is work out how we can get ‘everyone in’.”\n\nLabour's shadow housing secretary, John Healey, said the decision was the \"right move\".\n\nBut he added: \"Councils need support to do this.\n\n\"The government has pledged just £3.2m for this work which is simply not enough when local homelessness services have been cut by £1bn a year and lost 9,000 beds since 2010.\"\n\nHomeless charity Crisis said there must be extra funding to pay for the up-front costs of accommodating everyone currently on the streets and in shelters and for the specialist support people would need once uprooted.\n\nCrisis also called for restrictions on housing benefit to be lifted, which it said would allow councils to rehouse some migrants whose immigration status leaves them unable to access public funds.\n\nThe charity is also calling for an end to policies which it says perpetuate homelessness such as \"right to rent\" checks by private landlords.\n\n\"The government’s insistence that everyone sleeping rough should be housed by the weekend is a landmark moment – and the right thing to do,\" said the charity's chief executive, John Sparkes.\n\n“Questions remain about how local councils will be supported to do this, and whether additional funding, or assistance securing hotel rooms, will be made available.\n\n\"We also need to see a package of support so that, when the outbreak subsides, the outcome is not that people return to the streets.\"\n\nBut a spokesperson for the MHCLG said the effort was \"backed by £1.6bn of additional funding for councils to respond to pressures during this national emergency.\n\n\"This is a huge joint effort and we all need to come together - including councils, charities, health and care services, and accommodation providers - to protect rough sleepers from the virus and ensure councils have the support and crucially the accommodation they need to make this happen.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clap for Carers: Watch the UK applaud its key workers\n\nPeople across the UK have taken part in a second \"Clap for Carers\" tribute, saluting NHS staff and other key workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDelivery drivers, supermarket staff, care workers and bin collectors were among those honoured by the nation.\n\nHouseholds banged pots and pans, while others played the bagpipes to show their support.\n\nThe event is now expected to happen every Thursday at 20:00 BST.\n\nHouseholds gathered on balconies, doorsteps and gardens to pay tribute to the efforts of key workers during the crisis.\n\nEmergency workers and NHS workers also joined in the applause.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - who is currently self-isolating in his flat above Number 11 Downing Street after testing positive for coronavirus - joined in, standing alone in his doorway to applaud.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also joined the tribute, from his Islington constituency.\n\nLast week's inaugural event paid tribute to NHS workers working on the frontline of the pandemic.\n\nThe initiative was devised by Annemarie Plas, from Brixton, south-west London, who was inspired by same event happening in her home country of the Netherlands, and in many other countries.\n\nMs Plas posted details of the event on her social media channels, and enthusiasm for taking part quickly spread across the UK.\n\nA string of buildings including the Shard in central London and Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, were lit up blue to mark the moment.\n\nMeanwhile bagpipers across Scotland performed tunes to pay tribute to key workers.\n\nFinlay MacDonald, 42, of Clarkston in East Renfrewshire, took part, calling it a \"really special moment\".\n\n\"All our neighbours were out in their gardens with a rousing round of applause. We have heard from people in Japan, South Africa, America, Spain and Italy who are all taking part.\"\n\nFinlay MacDonald plays the pipes at his home in Glasgow alongside sons Elliott, ten, and Fionn, eight to salute local heroes\n\nComedian Jason Manford took to Twitter to post a photograph of his 96-year-old grandmother joining in the applause.\n\nHe wrote: \"She's beaten breast cancer and Hitler and is still here at the age of 96.\n\n\"She's not gonna let a virus get her now! Thank you to all the NHS workers and every key worker who is keeping this country running. You are incredible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Manford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting from their Kensington Palace Twitter account, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shared conversations they had with staff at two hospitals to thank them for their work during the pandemic.\n\nThe couple thanked staff at Queen's Hospital Burton and University Hospital Monklands, adding: \"The whole country is proud of you.\"\n\nEar, nose and throat consultant Amged El-Hawrani worked at Queen's Hospital Burton and became one of the UK's first senior medics to die after contracting coronavirus.\n\nAn ear, nose and throat consultant at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, Mr El-Hawrani died at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, on Saturday.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Samuel West posted a photo of a broken spoon on Twitter after paying tribute by banging a pan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Samuel West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd posting to Twitter, NHS London said a \"huge thank you\" to everyone who took part in the applause.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by NHS London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New Look says it is suspending payments to suppliers for existing stock \"indefinitely\", telling them in a letter that the stock can be collected by its owners.\n\nThe retailer is also cancelling orders for its Spring and Summer clothing lines and won't pay costs towards them.\n\nNew Look told the BBC it did not take the decision lightly. \"This is a matter of survival,\" it told suppliers.\n\nOne small firm said New Look’s behaviour was “totally out of order”.\n\nThe supplier, which provides clothing for several High Street chains and did not want its name published, told the BBC it was not currently owed money by New Look and had no outstanding orders with the retailer.\n\nHowever, it added that New Look’s approach would “devastate smaller companies down the supply chain at a time when they need help the most”.\n\nNew Look’s instructions to suppliers came in the form of a letter, signed by chief executive Nigel Oddy and dated 2 April, which has been seen by the BBC.\n\nAll New Look stores have been closed since 21 March. The firm said it was still trading online, but its distribution centre was full and it could receive no more goods.\n\n“We are acutely aware that our suppliers are facing their own challenges at this time, and that both their businesses and employees are being affected,” Mr Oddy wrote in his letter.\n\n“Government support schemes continue to be announced throughout the world, and we encourage you to pursue any options that are available to you.”\n\nThe supplier who contacted the BBC said small firms could not afford to trade in those circumstances and accused New Look of “passing all the risk on to the supply chain”.\n\nThe firm said it, and others like it, had its designs manufactured in China and could not afford to take on all the liability by itself.\n\nIt added: “The new reality in China is that factories now insist on deposits for all orders placed on behalf of grocers and large retailers, as they cannot afford orders to be cancelled with no compensation to cover raw materials and production.”\n\nThe firm called on those big retailers to “play their part in helping the whole supply chain by paying these deposits up front at the point of order”.\n\n“Since the middle of March, our revenue has collapsed from £160,000 per day to virtually nothing, as almost all of our retail customers in the UK have chosen or had to close for the foreseeable future,” the supplier said, adding that it had already furloughed 90% of its staff.\n\nNew Look was already facing difficulties before the coronavirus pandemic struck.\n\nIt closed dozens of stores in 2018 and 2019 because of “challenging” retail conditions on the High Street.\n\nA New Look spokesperson said: \"Whilst our online sales channels remain open, albeit on a significantly reduced basis, we have regrettably had to inform suppliers that we cannot place new orders until further notice and will be temporarily postponing outstanding supplier payments until the situation improves.\"\n\n\"We have not taken this decision lightly and have only done so out of absolute necessity, given the exceptional circumstances we are in. We greatly value our relationships with suppliers and are actively identifying opportunities where they can hold product for use for autumn-winter this year or spring-summer next year.\"", "Google is to publicly track people's movements over the course of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe tech firm will publish details of the different types of places people are going to on a county-by-county basis in the UK, as well as similar data for 130 other countries.\n\nThe plan is to issue a regular updates with the figures referring back to activity from two or three days prior.\n\nThe company has promised that individuals' privacy will be preserved.\n\nThe readings are based on location data gathered via the Google Maps app or one of the firm's other mobile services.\n\nThe firm typically uses this to reveal when specific museums, shops and other places are busiest as well as to revise driving routes to help motorists avoid traffic.\n\nGoogle will show in percentage terms how busy different types of places are compared to what they used to be earlier in the year\n\nIn this case, the readings will be broken down to reveal how busy the following types of places are compared to a period earlier in the year before lockdowns were introduced:\n\nGoogle said it hoped the information could be used by public health chiefs and others to help manage the outbreak.\n\n\"This information could help officials understand changes in essential trips that can shape recommendations on business hours or inform delivery service offerings,\" it blogged.\n\n\"Similarly, persistent visits to transportation hubs might indicate the need to add additional buses or trains in order to allow people... room to spread out for social distancing.\"\n\nThe company says it has both anonymised the records and mixed in some randomly-generated data to safeguard individual users' histories, device owners can also decide not to supply data.\n\n\"The data may prove startling to people who are unaware of just how much information Google collects,\" remarked the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.\n\n\"It will also provide fascinating insights into how the lockdown is working - or was working 48 hours earlier.\n\n\"And there could be unintended consequences. People could decide to avoid busy locations or they may be surprised at just how many people are going outside and decide to join them.\"\n\nThe first report covers data for 29 March and compares it to a median reading for the five-week period covering 3 January to 6 February.\n\nIt indicates that for the UK as a whole, trips to:\n\nBy comparison, the figures for France indicate trips to:\n\nGoogle's launch comes a day after EU justice chief Vera Jourova called on the tech giants to share more data with scientists trying to combat the virus.\n\nShe also criticised them for not doing more to crack down on false information.\n\n\"We still see that the major platforms continue to monetise and incentivise disinformation and harmful content about the pandemic by hosting online ads,\" said the commissioner.\n\n\"This should be stopped. The financial disincentives from clickbait disinformation and profiteering scams also should be stopped.\"", "The aftermath of Cyclone Harold in the Solomon Islands\n\nDozens of people are missing and feared dead after a ferry in the Solomon Islands set sail despite warnings not to embark during a cyclone.\n\nThe MV Taimareho was travelling on Thursday night from the capital Honiara, on the island of Guadalcanal, to West Are'are, on Malaita island.\n\nThe vessel hit choppy seas whipped up by Cyclone Harold. Up to 60 people are reported to have been on board.\n\nRescue efforts are under way but have been hampered by the bad weather.\n\nCyclone Harold has brought flooding and run boats aground in the Solomon Islands.\n\nThe country's national disaster agency has issued several warnings of landslides and rough seas. Travellers are urged to exercise extreme caution.\n\nEmergency officials there are already on high alert over the threat of the coronavirus.\n\nThe Solomon Islands is one of a dwindling number of countries not to have reported any cases.", "Teachers in England will be asked to assess the grades they think pupils would have achieved in cancelled GCSE and A-level exams.\n\nThis will be used by exam boards to decide results - along with a ranking by ability of pupils in each subject in a school, also judged by teachers.\n\nThis approach from the qualifications watchdog Ofqual will replace exams disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nResults days will be no later than originally planned and may be earlier.\n\n\"Our overriding aim in this is to be fair to students this summer and to make sure you are not disadvantaged,\" said Sally Collier, Ofqual's chief executive.\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said there was no \"perfect solution\".\n\nBut he said the substitute plan was \"pragmatic and the fairest approach to take in these exceptional circumstances\".\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder of the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, warned that \"teacher assessments can unconsciously disadvantage those from low-income backgrounds\".\n\nTeachers' predictions for A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs in England will be based on the evidence available - such as previous exam results, tests, homework, coursework, mock exams and what the regulator calls \"general progress during your course\".\n\nTeachers will be asked to say what they think would have been the grades most likely to have been achieved if the summer exams had taken place - based on an overall professional judgement.\n\nBut they will also be asked to put students in order of expected achievement within each predicted grade band.\n\nThis will be used to moderate the overall share of grades in schools across the country.\n\nThis could mean adjusting the grades suggested by teachers if they seem too generous or harsh, or unlikely in the context of previous results at a school - and to make the overall distribution of grades consistent with other years.\n\nSchools will not be allowed to tell students the grades submitted to exam boards or how they are ranked.\n\nIf pupils think they could improve on the grades given to them, there are proposals for an alternative exam in the autumn.\n\nThis could be too late for A-level students intending to go to university this year - although it remains uncertain whether campuses will be able to re-open for the autumn term.\n\nMary Bousted, joint leader of the National Education Union, welcomed the news that \"grades won't be based on mock exam results, or any other single piece of evidence alone\".\n\nBut she said teachers could be \"uncomfortable\" with putting students into rank order.\n\nThe results will be available to students no later than the planned dates in August - but Ofqual suggested that they may be available sooner.\n\nA process for appeals has still to be decided.\n\nIt also remains uncertain how grades will be decided for pupils who are home-taught and do not have links with schools that could send in predicted grades.\n\nAlternative plans for vocational qualifications will be announced at a later date.\n\nIn Wales, teachers will predict grades and rank students - but the option of an extra exam in the autumn will not be available.\n\nPhilip Baker, chief executive of Qualifications Wales, said: \"We want centres to consider each learner's performance over the course of study and make a realistic judgement of the grade and rank of each learner.\"\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said cancelling exams had been a \"necessary step to help fight the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nBut he said Ofqual's plans would provide \"assurance to students, parents and schools that grades awarded this summer will accurately reflect students' abilities and will be as valid this year as any other\".", "The coronavirus-hit Coral Princess cruise ship is going to dock in Fort Lauderdale in Florida, its owner has said.\n\nThe ship has been stuck at sea since 19 March after being banned from docking in Buenos Aires. There are 1,898 people on the ship, 12 of whom have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThree of the Princess Cruises' other ships have had outbreaks on board too, including the Diamond Princess in Japan. On 12 March the company cancelled all new cruises for 60 days.\n\nTwo other virus-hit cruises arrived in Fort Lauderdale earlier today - the Zaandam, which has people with confirmed and suspected coronavirus on board, and its sister ship the Rotterdam, which is carrying asymptomatic passengers who were originally on the Zaandam.\n\nAndrew Rae, whose parents Morven and Ian are still on board the Zaandam, told the BBC: \"We're not entirely out of the woods yet. When they tell me they've got a flight booked and they're on their way home I'll be a lot happier.\"\n\nMorven and Ian Rae are on the Zaandam, which docked in Fort Lauderdale earlier today Image caption: Morven and Ian Rae are on the Zaandam, which docked in Fort Lauderdale earlier today", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: FM says it is 'not yet known' when virus will peak in Scotland\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said it is not yet known when the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in Scotland will come.\n\nThe first minister dismissed speculation that special measures could begin to be phased out soon.\n\nShe was speaking as new figures confirmed a further 46 people with coronavirus have died in Scotland, taking the total number to 172.\n\nMs Sturgeon said 3,001 people had now tested positive for the virus, an increase of 399 from Thursday.\n\nThere are 1,321 patients in hospital who have been diagnosed with the virus, including 176 who are being treated in intensive care.\n\nThe first minister told the Scottish government's daily coronavirus briefing that she hoped to give \"more certainty\" over when the virus could peak in \"the next couple of weeks\".\n\nAnd she said modelling of how the epidemic is likely to play out was moving away from computer simulations to models populated with \"real data\" as more cases of the virus are diagnosed.\n\nShe added: \"I want to be clear, and I can only speak for Scotland, that nothing I have seen - absolutely nothing - would give me any basis whatsoever that this virus will peak in a week's time.\n\n\"I know there will be media messages across the whole of the UK today that people will be hearing, and if I have to continue to ask people to do the right thing it's important I'm doing that on the basis of frankness.\n\n\"I don't want people to hear something that, in my view, for Scotland is not the case.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also thanked people for adhering to the lockdown measures so far, and urged them not to be tempted to relax their social distancing over the Easter period.\n\nMs Sturgeon's view was echoed by Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, who said it would be \"many months\" before the country is able to \"get on top of this virus\" without the risk of it re-emerging.\n\nShe said: \"Each day we are announcing more people infected with the virus than the day before, more people being admitted to hospital and intensive care and more deaths day-on-day as we go through this epidemic.\n\n\"So at the moment we will not be able to give a clear date of when the peak would be.\n\n\"What we would look for first is a slowing in the rate of those people becoming positive, and we are not seeing that yet. In fact, the proportion of people being tested who are positive is increasing day by day and has done so for the past two to three weeks.\"\n\nMany hospitals have set up drive-through testing areas\n\nMs Sturgeon has said that NHS Scotland's testing capacity would increase from 1,900 a day to at least 3,500 \"by the end of this month at the latest\", and denied that this was less ambitious than other parts of the UK.\n\nUK health secretary Matt Hancock has set a target of 100,000 tests a day in England - but Ms Sturgeon said it was not fair to compare this to the Scottish government's 3,500 target.\n\nShe said: \"The 3,500 target that we have set for the end of this month at the latest was equivalent to the first pillar of the five pillars that Matt Hancock outlined yesterday.\n\n\"The UK's target is 25,000 by the end of April so, proportionately, our target is a bit more ambitious than the UK's.\"\n\n\"It is over and above that where the UK gets to 100,000, and what I'm saying is that, through those same measures, Scotland will get to a position that is proportionately the same.\"\n\nMore cases, more people in hospital, more deaths. This sombre briefing underlines the grim fact that coronavirus is spreading fast, and infecting more people\n\nYesterday the UK government set out plans for NHS England to test 100,000 people every day, by the end of April. Nicola Sturgeon was pressed on the Scottish target and gave a robust response.\n\nShe insists the Scottish target - 3,500 per day by the end of this month - is more ambitious than the English target.\n\nShe said the correct comparison with England is tests done in NHS and public health laboratories - what's called their \"pillar one\" target - which is 25,000 tests a day.\n\nThe rest - pillar two - would be made up by universities and private sector partners such as Amazon and Boots. That, the first minister says, means Scotland will out-test England.\n\nThe NHS continues to prepare - and we're told Scottish hospitals now have 500 ventilators for critically ill patients. Orders are in place for more, we're told, and there's no upper limit on how many the NHS will buy.\n\nThere's no end in sight. Easter is approaching - and as the weather improves the current lockdown will be harder for many to bear.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon was at pains to make clear there's no sign the danger and death toll will peak by Easter. She said it's still uncertain when it will be - and restrictions will be in place for \"a long number of weeks\".\n\nCurrent testing is only reliable in confirming someone has coronavirus, but both the Scottish and UK governments hope a reliable antibody test that tells whether you have previously had the disease will soon become available.\n\nThe Scottish government is also considering plans around antibody testing, but the first minister cautioned against expectations that such a scheme could start any time soon.\n\n\"That kind of test doesn't currently exist,\" she said. \"We hope it will do soon, but the fact is that might still be some time away.\"", "The Welsh Blood Service needs about 100,000 donations a year\n\nPeople are being urged to go the extra mile to give blood during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTravelling to donate is classed as \"essential travel\" and the Welsh Blood Service is now asking people to travel to regional hubs to donate.\n\nWhile stocks in Wales are currently healthy, pressure on the service means less blood is being taken.\n\nAbout 100,000 units of blood need to be donated to supply Wales' 19 hospitals every year.\n\nThe service said since the outbreak 30% less blood had been collected - but with an equal reduction in demand from hospitals, stock remained healthy.\n\nHowever, the service said it was under pressure and was now reducing collections to protect staff and maintain the supply.\n\nTo allow people to donate close to their home or work, weekly collections had been held in 30 locations across Wales.\n\nNow donors will be asked to travel to one of five regional hubs, held in different places each week.\n\nDirector Alan Prosser said: \"We are asking our amazing blood donors to go the extra mile to help our NHS at this difficult time.\"\n\n\"We urge anyone who is eligible and would like to make a life-saving blood donation to visit our website to find and book an appointment at a regional donation hub near them - even if it isn't the venue they usually attend.\"\n\nUnder the changes, existing donors will be notified by text or phone call of any donation hub sessions taking place within a 15-mile (24km)radius of their usual donation point.\n\nThey will then need to make an appointment at their nearest hub.", "People do appear to be heeding warnings not to drive to visit coastal towns, like Skegness\n\nPeople are being warned to stay away from England's beauty spots amid the coronavirus lockdown, despite expected warm weather as Easter looms.\n\nPleas have been issued from the Yorkshire Dales and Peak District down to the south coast.\n\nDespite a \"dramatic reduction\" in tourist visits already, the restrictions remain in place.\n\nIn Southend-on-Sea, for example, tourism bosses have rebranded PR material \"Don't Visit Southend\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said it was an instruction and \"not a request\" to stay home this weekend.\n\nHe said that while warm weather was forecast in some areas this weekend \"the disease is still spreading\".\n\nIn the Peak District, the message is that even if the sun comes out people should not travel.\n\nCh Insp Mark Thorley, who is in charge of policing the Staffordshire end of the Peaks, said on Twitter: \"The car parks are closed and the pulling in points will quickly become places where social distancing will be difficult.\n\n\"Stay at home keep us all safe.\"\n\nThe advice comes amid social-distancing measures put in place by the government to try to slow the rate of coronavirus infection.\n\nGuidelines state people should stay at home except to buy food or medicines, or to go to work.\n\nIn Southwold, banners have been put up to urge those with second homes to stay away\n\nThe advice is to take limited exercise near your home, and if you go out, to stay 2m (6ft) away from other people at all times.\n\nPolice have now been given powers to fine people who gather in groups or refuse to return home - although some forces have been criticised for going too far.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - who is still self-isolating with a symptom of the virus - has asked people to \"stick with\" government advice, in a video posted to Twitter on Friday.\n\nAndy Wilson, chief executive of the North York Moors National Park Authority, said: \"We have seen a huge drop in footfall at many popular beauty spots and we want this to continue.\n\n\"We must all take responsibility for helping to slow the spread of Covid-19 and we can do this by simply staying at home and avoiding all non-essential travel.\"\n\nIn Southwold, banners have been put up by town councillors Simon Flunder and David Beavan to ask people to stay away.\n\nThe 3.6m (12ft) yellow signs read \"Please respect us. Don't infect us\" and urge those with second homes to stay away.\n\nTony McGinty, assistant director of public health at Lincolnshire County Council, which covers coastal areas such as Skegness, said the number of cars on the road has increased compared to earlier in the lockdown phase.\n\nHe said: \"The message remains the same, do go about your essential business like food, medicine and exercise. But do not do other business.\n\n\"It is not as important as helping other people avoid the virus.\"\n\nVisitor numbers to the Yorkshire Dales National Park have slowed this week, tourism bosses said\n\nRichard Leaf, chief executive officer of the Lake District National Park Authority, urged visitors to stay away.\n\n\"Enjoy your weekends at home,\" he said. \"The Lake District will be here for you when this is all over.\"\n\nAn official from the Cumbrian mountain rescue teams said people have not been visiting the area.\n\nTourism body Visit Cornwall has released a video to encourage people not to visit over the Easter holidays, but to come back later in the year.\n\nThe video, which features images of beauty spots across Cornwall, says: \"Our plans are on hold. Our dreams are paused. But good times and memories will be had again.\n\n\"So, for now, take a look from afar and know that Cornwall is here. Our culture, beauty and wonder will be waiting for you along with a lovely, warm Cornish welcome.\"\n\nAnother campaign - #comebacklater - has been launched to discourage people from travelling to the area during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nGovernment advice is to take limited exercise near your home\n\nIn an open letter shared on Twitter, bosses in charge of London's open spaces have told the public \"it is clearly not ok to have picnics, sunbathe, cycle where it is not allowed, or confront those putting themselves at risk to keep these spaces open\".\n\nLocal authorities in Kent, home to beach destinations Margate, Broadstairs, Whitstable and Hythe, have also asked people to stay at home over Easter.\n\nA spokesman for five of the county's councils said: \"Please don't travel to the coast or country parks to do your exercise and certainly don't go to public places for picnics or social gatherings.\n\n\"Stay close to home, only go out with members of your own household once a day for exercise and please avoid creating a crowd.\n\n\"We're in this together and it is working. Don't stop now #kenttogether.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr William Frankland, a British immunologist who transformed the world's understanding of allergies, has died aged 108.\n\nHis pioneering work included developing the idea of a pollen count to help hay fever sufferers.\n\nDr Frankland, whose medical career spanned 70 years, was known as \"the grandfather of allergy\".\n\nAs a British army doctor in World War Two, he spent three-and-a-half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.\n\nHistorian Dan Snow tweeted he would never forget meeting Dr Frankland, who he called \"one of the greatest Britons\".\n\nProf Adam Fox, president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, said he was \"an enormous inspiration to many\", adding that he would be \"sorely missed but very fondly remembered\".\n\nDr Frankland, known as Bill, gave an interview ahead of his 108th birthday on 19 March, saying his longevity was down to luck.\n\nHe said: \"I’ve come close to death so many times – from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, three-and-a-half years spent as a Japanese prisoner of war, to experiencing anaphylaxis following a tropical insect bite – but somehow I’ve always managed to miss it and that's why I’m still here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dr William Frankland: Japanese soldier about to bayonet me\n\nHe also revealed that his birthday celebrations were being affected by the coronavirus outbreak as his care home had closed its doors to visitors.\n\n\"My birthday this year will be quite different,\" he said. \"I’ve been given a special request to have two of my children visit for a short while, but they will have to keep at a safe distance.\"\n\nDr Frankland, who was made an MBE in 2015 for his services to allergy research, is survived by four children. His wife Pauline died in 2002.\n\nBorn in Battle, Sussex, in 1912, Dr Frankland grew up in the Lake District. He went on to study medicine at the University of Oxford and worked at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, before World War Two intervened.\n\nHe signed up to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), but spent over three of the six years he spent in the Army as a prisoner of war in Singapore.\n\nDuring his 70-year long career in medicine, based mostly at St Mary’s Hospital, he worked for Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin.\n\nHis career in immunology began in the 1950s at St Mary's, where he worked with patients who suffered from seasonal hay fever.\n\nHe set up a pollen trap on the roof of the hospital to identify different types of pollen in the air and, along with his team, created a pollen count system that led to daily pollen reports in the media.", "Police were called to reports of a burglary on Grasmere Road in Oldham\n\nThieves tricked a 92-year-old woman into believing her neighbour had died of coronavirus so they could raid her home.\n\nThey knocked on her door in Oldham, Greater Manchester, lied about the death and offered to clean the house.\n\nThey presented themselves as a \"helping hand\" police said, but they stole a purse, money and jewellery.\n\nCh Insp Trevor Harrison, from Greater Manchester Police, described it as an appalling crime.\n\nThe victim was not injured, but was left \"understandably distraught\" by the theft in Grasmere Road.\n\n\"This is an absolutely appalling crime, which has taken advantage of a vulnerable and elderly woman at a time where we, as a society, should be looking out for her,\" said Ch Insp Harrison.", "The PM took part in the clap for carers on Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the coronavirus including having a temperature.\n\nThe prime minister tested positive for the virus last Friday and had been due to come out of self-isolation today.\n\nMr Johnson continues to work from home and chaired a coronavirus meeting on Friday morning.\n\nHe was seen on Thursday applauding the NHS and other key workers from his flat in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted on Twitter, Mr Johnson said: \"Although I am feeling better and I've done my seven days of isolation alas I still have one of the minor symptoms.\n\n\"I still have a temperature. So in accordance with government advice I must continue my self isolation until that symptom itself goes.\n\n\"But we're working clearly the whole time on our programme to beat the virus.\"\n\nHe also added with expected good weather over the weekend that people may be tempted to ignore the advice and spend more time outside.\n\n\"I just urge you not do do that,\" he said. \"Please, please stick with the guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson warns public to 'stick with the guidance'\n\nHe added: \"This country has made a huge effort, a huge sacrifice and done absolutely brilliantly well in delaying the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Let's stick with it now and remember that incredible clapping last night for our fantastic NHS. We are doing it to protect them and save lives.\"\n\nIt's been more than a week since the prime minister stood at the podium in Downing Street to deliver the daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nSince announcing he'd tested positive for the virus seven days ago his public appearances have been limited to video clips filmed on his phone from inside his flat, above 11 Downing Street.\n\nHe did venture on to the doorstep of No 11 last night to join the national clap for keyworkers and NHS staff - picked up by TV cameras notably stood some distance away.\n\nIn his latest self-shot message, he said he was still showing mild symptoms of the virus and would therefore stay in isolation until they passed.\n\nAnd in a direct plea to the public, he urged people to stick to social distancing guidelines this weekend.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday, to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson was following official guidance which states that you should continue to self-isolate if a temperature persists beyond the advised seven days.\n\nHe said he was not aware of any more cabinet members who had been infected.\n\nMr Johnson spokesman said the PM was continuing to work with Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, who has also tested positive for the virus. It is not known if Mr Whitty is still in isolation.\n\nMr Hancock has said the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target 100,000 coronavirus tests a day, announced at Thursday's news conference.\n\nHe said he was not relying on new antibody blood tests to meet the goal, which was announced after criticism of the UK's testing strategy.\n\n\"It's got to happen. I've got a plan to get us there, I've set it as a goal and it's what the nation needs,\" he said.\n\nLabour has called for more details on what kind of tests will be involved.\n\nIt came as the Prince of Wales officially opened London's new 4,000 bed NHS Nightingale Hospital via a video link from his Scottish home.", "The airport said it was working with a range of agencies to find alternatives for the rough sleepers\n\nUp to 200 rough sleepers are reportedly using Heathrow Airport as a refuge during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIt comes despite councils being told to house homeless people, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nAirport bosses did not comment on the numbers involved, but said they were working with agencies to find alternatives for people.\n\nPaul Atherton who regularly beds down at Terminal Five said he had noticed many more rough sleepers.\n\nThe 52-year-old who works in Charing Cross said the amenities he relied on in central London had now been forced to close.\n\nOn 27 March, the government told councils to house rough sleepers within the week.\n\nMr Atherton has chronic fatigue syndrome. He said the airport was a safer place to be if his condition worsens.\n\n\"Where else do we go? That's the reality, we go to central London there is nothing open,\" the qualified photographer and film producer said.\n\n\"McDonald's, all public lavatories are shut. I use gyms to get showered, all the gyms are closed.\"\n\nPaul Atherton has regularly been sleeping rough at Heathrow airport\n\nA spokesman for Heathrow said the airport's Travel Care Team was assisting in re-housing people.\n\n\"It is working in partnership with external outreach organisations, local authorities and government to relocate homeless people already at the airport, only when they are able to offer safe, alternative accommodation,\" he said.\n\nOutreach workers are also patrolling the airport to engage with and help homeless people.\n\nBut Mr Atherton said there had been \"complete chaos\" in securing hotel rooms despite the travel care team working with charity Thames Reach.\n\nThames Reach is also working with councils and the Greater London Authority to get the rough sleepers into single room accommodation, but said the numbers of people involved had made it a \"complex task\".\n\nA volunteer who helps the homeless in Hillingdon said the airport was going \"above and beyond\" to help rough sleepers.\n\n\"We have offered accommodation to all of the rough sleepers in other parts of the borough who we are in contact with,\" a Hillingdon council spokesperson said.\n\nAccording to the Mayor of London's office, more than 600 people have been given rooms and more than 1,000 are available working with hotel partners.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which leads the rehousing efforts at Heathrow, said councils in England had been given £3.2m to help rough sleepers.\n\nAn MHCLG spokesperson said: \"We have worked with Hillingdon Council and the Greater London Authority to ensure the vast majority of rough sleepers who were previously sleeping in Heathrow Airport have been given offers of safe and suitable accommodation, and will continue working with them to ensure those who remain are also protected from the pandemic.\"\n\nMr Atherton has since be re-housed by Westminster City Council.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major US mask manufacturer, 3M, says the government has asked it to stop exporting US-made N95 respirator masks to Canada and Latin America.\n\nThe request had \"significant humanitarian implications\", it warned, and could prompt other countries to act in kind.\n\nOn Thursday, the US invoked the Korean War-era Defence Production Act to demand that 3M provide more masks.\n\nCanada's prime minister said stopping 3M's exports would be a \"mistake\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump said he had used the Defence Production Act to \"hit 3M hard\", without providing additional details. The law dates back to 1950 and allows a president to force companies to make products for national defence.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, 3M said the government had invoked the act \"to require 3M to prioritise orders from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) for our N95 respirators\", and had also requested that 3M import more respirators made in its overseas factories into the US. It said it supported both moves.\n\nHowever, 3M added that the government also requested that it stop exporting respirators made in the US to Canada and Latin America.\n\n\"There are significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators,\" it said.\n\n3M added that such a move \"would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same\", which would lead to the overall number of respirators being made available to the US decreasing.\n\nThe company says it manufactures about 100 million N95 masks per month - about a third are made in the US, and the rest produced overseas.\n\nThe Trump administration has not provided details on its communications with 3M. On Thursday night, Mr Trump tweeted: \"We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks... Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing - will have a big price to pay!\"\n\nMeanwhile, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Thursday: \"We've had issues making sure that all of the production that 3M does around the world, enough of it is coming back here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Justin Trudeau says it would be a 'mistake' for the US to block medical supplies from Canada\n\nCanada does not manufacture any N95 masks domestically, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Friday that \"it would be a mistake to create blockages or reduce trade\".\n\n\"There are thousands of nurses in Windsor who work in Detroit every single day, and Americans depend on them. There are medical products and other essential goods that move across the border in both directions... these are things Americans rely on.\"\n• None Should more of us wear masks?", "Alisha Malhotra (left) and Niraly Jadeja had been one month into a 12 week \"trip of a lifetime\"\n\nTwo Londoners who have been \"stranded\" in Argentina for three weeks say they still have \"no idea\" when they will be able to get home.\n\nAlisha Malhotra and Niraly Jadeja have been trapped in Córdoba since the country went into lockdown, and are relying on others for food and money.\n\nMs Malhotra said she was particularly \"desperate\" to return after an elderly relative contracted coronavirus.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"working urgently\" to help UK travellers.\n\nMs Malhotra, 24, from Ruislip, and Ms Jadeja, 23, from Rayner's Lane, were a month into a 12-week \"trip of a lifetime\" to five different countries when they arrived in Córdoba on 17 March.\n\nTwo days later, a strict quarantine severely limiting travel and allowing only single-person journeys to buy necessities was imposed nationwide and has since been extended until 12 April.\n\nTravellers have been warned that anyone caught outside their accommodation without justification may be charged with committing a public health crime.\n\nThe pair have called for the UK government to help them return home\n\nFollowing the announcement, the pair said they were barricaded inside their hostel for 10 days, with police and army officials patrolling the streets.\n\n\"We were locked within four walls and relied on locals to do a food shop for 20 of us in our hostel, every four days,\" Ms Jadeja said.\n\n\"The only place we could go for fresh air was the rooftop - but the police came and shut that down.\"\n\nA letter from the British Embassy in Argentina has allowed them to move to a new hostel, but they have run out of physical cash and have not been allowed to go outside to an ATM.\n\nAs a result they are relying on others in the hostel to pay for their food shopping.\n\nThe women say their families are desperate for them to return home, especially since one of their grandparents is on life support in intensive care having contracted the virus.\n\n\"Me and my grandma are best friends. I slept in her bed almost every night when I was little,\" said Ms Malhotra.\n\n\"If anything happens, I'd never forgive myself for not being in the UK. I feel helpless.\"\n\nThe government has announced plans to repatriate UK travellers stuck abroad and the pair said \"the dream right now would be for the government to contact us and say help is coming\".\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCO) told the BBC it recognised British tourists abroad were finding it difficult to return to the UK because of \"unprecedented international travel and domestic restrictions\".\n\n\"FCO teams around the world are working urgently to ensure that governments have sensible plans to enable the return of British and other travellers,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The work that Bletchley Park and MI6 did during World War Two, was instrumental in the allies’ victory.\n\nBut until now, there hasn't been any video showing what life was like on the sites dedicated to this work.\n\nThis all changed when a piece of film was anonymously donated to Bletchley Park Trust, providing an unprecedented insight into the lives of those there.", "These are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you on Saturday morning.\n\nThe weather is set to be good this weekend - but warnings have been given that people can't relax social distancing rules by going out to enjoy the sunny weather. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said this was an instruction, not a request, and that otherwise more people would die. Read more from the daily government briefing here.\n\nA message from the Queen to the nation is being broadcast on TV and radio at 20:00 on Sunday, Buckingham Palace has said. The Queen, staying at Windsor Castle, records an annual Christmas message but other televised addresses like this are very rare.\n\nIt's the first emergency field hospital to open in the UK - and it's been transformed into one from an exhibition space in nine days. The NHS Nightingale Hospital, in London's ExCel Centre, will have the capacity for up to 4,000 coronavirus patients. More are planned for other cities.\n\nThe White House is set to advise Americans living in coronavirus hotspots to cover their faces when they go out - either with scarves or cloth masks. President Donald Trump said he wouldn't make it mandatory for people to follow the guidance though.\n\nTwo nurses are among the latest NHS staff to die with coronavirus. Areema Nasreen, 36, had been treated at Walsall Manor Hospital, where she worked. Aimee O'Rourke, who worked at the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, has also died. Chief Nursing Officer for England Ruth May (pictured below) has paid tribute to the two women, both mothers-of-three.\n\nWhat does it mean if you've been furloughed? Tap here for a full explanation.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A revamped loan fund for ailing firms hit by the coronavirus lockdown will have an immediate impact, RBS has said.\n\nRBS chairman Sir Howard Davies admitted there had been problems but expects to see a \"sharp increase\" in lending to small firms in the next few days.\n\nOn Thursday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak overhauled the scheme amid claims banks were taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nThe government has pledged to guarantee £330bn of loans but only £145m has been lent so far.\n\nSmall firms say they have struggled with onerous eligibility criteria for the government-backed loans, which are being issued by High Street banks and other lenders.\n\nThey have also complained of facing interest rates of up to 30% and being asked to make unreasonable personal guarantees.\n\nIt comes as the UK is facing recession as large parts of the economy are shut down.\n\nOn Friday, the influential Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey showed Britain's dominant services industry suffered its biggest slump in March since 1996, sinking from a reading of 53.2 to 34.5.\n\nMr Sunak said that under changes to the Coronavirus Business Interuption Loan Scheme (CBILS):\n\nSir Howard, who used to chair the Financial Services Authority (now known as the Financial Conduct Authority), told the BBC's Today programme that the process of checking borrowers' eligibility had been \"difficult\".\n\nHe also said RBS had struggled with the demand after inquiries about the loans jumped \"by 45 times\" in a week.\n\n\"I think we have to accept that the scale of this process and the speed with which it's been put in place has caused challenges for everybody,\" he said.\n\n\"But we've had good discussions with the Treasury and small firms, and I think the changes announced overnight will make a quite a big difference.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said it would \"completely unacceptable\" if any banks were unfairly refusing funds to good businesses in financial difficulty.\n\nHe also referenced the financial crisis - when taxpayers bailed out a number of the UK's largest banks - suggesting lenders should now repay the favour.\n\nHowever, Sir Howard told the BBC that comparing the current crisis to 2008 was \"rewriting history\".\n\n\"In the last crisis the problem was that the banks didn't have the money to lend, there was a credit crunch.\n\n\"We're not in that position at all. The banks have got the money to lend, we have a large amount of capital, we are not constrained in the volumes we can lend.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Sunak said the government was making \"great progress\" on supporting businesses to help manage their cashflows but needed to take \"further action\" by extending the scheme.\n\nBut some firms still feel they will struggle to access the loans fast enough or that they are too risky.\n\nThere has been widespread concern, acknowledged by the government, that some of the emergency measures to provide financial assistance to businesses are not working.\n\nToo few firms felt able or willing to take on loans that carried an 80% government guarantee to the lender but not the borrower. The Treasury has announced new rules, meaning business owners asking to borrow less than £250,000 will no longer have to offer up personal guarantees.\n\nPerhaps most importantly, the requirement for companies to have first tried to get a normal commercial loan elsewhere will be dropped.\n\nHowever, they are still loans. Companies wishing to take them out will be 100% liable for the debt and the government has not capped the interest rate banks can charge even though banks are able to borrow at close to 0%.\n\nThe loans may now be available to more businesses but what's not clear is whether firms want them.\n\nLabour welcomed the measures but accused the government of being \"behind the curve\" when implementing support measures.\n\n\"There remain huge gaps in support for employees and self-employed that must be addressed immediately if people are to avoid facing serious hardship in this crisis,\" said shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\nThe head of the Confederation of British Industry, Carolyn Fairbairn, described the changes as a \"big step forward\" although she said more detail was needed.\n\n\"Each week brings unprecedented levels of economic support and it's encouraging to see the government stepping in where urgent help is needed.\"\n\nMike Cherry, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, told the BBC's Today programme: \"It's a very necessary and timely intervention by the chancellor, because clearly, businesses were being promised interest-free, fee-free, government support by the banks.\n\n\"Time and time again, the FSB has heard from our members and other small businesses who've approached banks seeking these emergency loans that they were being offered anything but.\"\n\nStephen Jones, the chief executive of UK Finance which represents the banks, also welcomed the changes.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, he said: \"It was clear that those viable businesses, who were required to be offered under the terms of the scheme commercial lending under commercial terms, felt aggrieved that they were not given access to the scheme and therefore the change gives the scheme to all businesses who are capable of repaying debt after this crisis is over.\n\n\"This change is extremely welcome and it means that banks will not be forced to make very unenviable assessments in terms of who cannot or can access the scheme in terms of viable businesses out there.\"", "Flattening the curve - with masks and without\n\nThe president spoke about officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their recommendation that people wear facial masks when they go out. He said that he will not be wearing a mask, however. In this way, he shows his attitude towards the CDC’s efforts to combat the virus: he is willing to announce their advice from a podium, but he is not willing to follow it himself. He has long downplayed the severity of the disease, and today, too, he showed he does not take all of the recommendations from federal officials as seriously as many would like. He spoke about the disease in a room where people were practising social distancing, another one of the recommendations from the federal officials. Before the pandemic, dozens of reporters crowded into the room; today, as in recent days, there are 15, sitting several feet apart. The journalists, as well as the president, are trying to find ways to flatten the curve, but they have different ways of interpreting the guidelines.", "The pressures of coronavirus are intense, and agonising in many different ways.\n\nWhile the political focus has largely been about what is going on in hospitals, there is growing concern about some of the most vulnerable in our society, who live in nursing and residential homes.\n\nThe BBC has been passed a document sent to GP practices by the Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group - that's the local NHS management in that part of Sussex - setting out guidance on how to cope with Covid-19 in care homes.\n\nThere are 35 GP practices and 98 residential or nursing homes in that area.\n\nThe document spells out that many vulnerable people may not be admitted to hospital for treatment if they contract the virus, and directs all homes to \"check they have resuscitation orders on every patient\".\n\nIt is not unusual for \"Respect Forms\" or Do Not Resuscitate orders to be discussed with elderly and vulnerable people as part of careful preparation for the end of life.\n\nBut one care manager was deeply concerned that residents and families are being pushed to sign the forms.\n\nThe CCG guidance even provides a suggested script for GPs to use in conversations with residents and families - part of which says \"frail elderly people do not respond to the sort of intensive treatment required for the lung complications of coronavirus and indeed the risk of hospital admission may be to exacerbate pain and suffering\".\n\nIt goes on: \"We may therefore recommend that in the event of coronavirus infection, hospital admission is undesirable.\"\n\nOne care home manager in Hove told me their GP had even told them \"none of your residents aged over 75 will be admitted to hospital\". They said they felt \"shocked and numb\" to hear that.\n\nAnother said: \"We have been told flatly that it would be highly unlikely that they would be accepted into hospital.\"\n\nAnd, remember, because of social distancing rules families are not being allowed in to be with their loved ones in their closing days if they fall ill.\n\nNHS England is firm that there is no national guidance at all that picks and chooses who can receive treatment in hospital.\n\nAnd the health trust which includes the CCG told me this morning that while \"agreeing advance care plans is a routine and important part of how GPs and care homes support their patients and residents, we recognise there may have been undue alarm caused by the interpretation of this particular guidance\".\n\nAnd it says it will follow up with care homes to address concerns.\n\nAsked about a similar issue in Greater Manchester, at Friday's Downing Street press conference, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said coronavirus patients living in care homes will not be refused admittance to hospital.\n\nHe said there were 2,029 spare critical care beds available in the NHS and their use would be based on clinical decisions.\n\n\"It is absolutely not a blanket rule that people shouldn't go to hospitals from care homes. Hospital is there for people when they need it, when the doctors advise that they go.\"\n\nBut while it's not clear if this kind of guidance has been sent out to homes in other parts of the country, there are concerns in the wider care sector that particularly without enough protective equipment, a relatively unseen part of the coronavirus crisis may develop behind closed doors.\n\nSam Monaghan, chief executive of MHA, the UK's largest charity provider of care and accommodation for older people, has been in touch with a response to this story.\n\nHe said: \"I am going to be frank, NHS staff are used to dealing with a high volume of end of life care, social care staff who develop close personal relationships with residents over months and years are not, to the same extent.\n\n\"As extraordinary as our colleagues across the UK are, they did not sign up to this but are doing their very best.\n\n\"They increasingly don't have the equivalent PPE to the NHS and we can't continue to accept that.\"\n\nHe added that care homes were \"struggling to even offer families the PPE to allow them to be with their loved ones at the end, adding: \"Surely as a society we can do better than this.\"", "Matt Hancock and England's chief nursing officer Ruth May told people to stay inside\n\nStaying at home this weekend is an instruction and \"not a request\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said, as he updated the country on the coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock said that while warm weather was forecast in some areas this weekend \"the disease is still spreading\".\n\nEngland's chief nursing officer Ruth May also paid tribute to two nurses who have died from the disease.\n\n\"Please stay at home for them,\" she urged people.\n\nAreema Nasreen, 36, had spent weeks in intensive care with coronavirus, while Aimee O'Rourke, 39, died at the hospital where she worked.\n\n\"They were one of us, they were one of my profession, of the NHS family,\" said Ms May. \"I worry that there's going to be more and I want to honour them today and recognise their service.\"\n\nIt comes as latest figures showed a further 684 people with the virus died in the UK, bringing the total to 3,605. There are 38,168 confirmed cases.\n\nIn Scotland, the number of deaths has risen by 46, while in Wales a further 24 people died. In NI, the number of people who died with coronavirus has risen by 12.\n\nMr Hancock - who recently ended his seven days of self-isolation after contracting the virus - said: \"We cannot relax our discipline now. If we do, people will die.\n\n\"I end with the advice we all know. This advice is not a request - it is an instruction.\n\n\"Stay at home, protect lives and then you will be doing your part.\"\n\nAimee O'Rourke, who worked at a hospital in Margate, Kent, was described as \"highly talented\"\n\nThe warning follows messages from local councils, tourism bosses and police urging people to stay away from beauty spots, as the Easter holidays begin and warm weather is expected.\n\nMr Hancock also said the UK has set up three national clinical trials looking at how existing drugs can be altered to treat Covid-19.\n\nHe added that more patients are needed to volunteer to take part in the trials - but England's deputy chief medical officer later clarified that people cannot apply themselves and it was up to doctors to refer patients.\n\nMs May also appealed to the public to stay at home, saying: \"This weekend is going to be very warm and it will be very tempting to go out and enjoy those summer rays.\n\n\"But please, I ask to remember Aimee and Areema. Please stay at home for them.\"\n\nThis was one of the longest daily briefings that has been held since the coronavirus outbreak began.\n\nIt is the first time we've been given detail of clinical trials which are under way in the UK to treat patients with Covid-19 and find out which medicines will help those who are sick.\n\nAt the moment there is no single proven drug to tackle coronavirus and a vaccine is still a long way off.\n\nThe trials involve patients from primary to critical care and more than 900 people are already involved.\n\nA word of caution though, even if clinicians give their patients the go ahead to take part, it will probably take a few months for that data to be gathered and then made available.\n\nNew cases have been slowing down recently: dipping slightly at the weekend and growing more slowly this week (doubling roughly every five days). Even that trend would have predicted over 5,000 new cases today, and so this looks like further evidence that the case numbers could be slowing down (as long as every patient who needs testing is getting tested).\n\nToday's figures on deaths follow the recent trends closely (doubling roughly every 3.5 days).\n\nRemember that doubling every few days means that we should expect to see record new highs regularly.\n\nIt takes more than three weeks from infection to death to being reported in these figures.\n\nSo while we can hope to see the effects of pre-lockdown social distancing soon, it will take longer for the effect of the lockdown, announced on 23 March, to become apparent.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen, 93, will speak to the nation on Sunday evening about the coronavirus outbreak in a rare special address.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the message, recorded at Windsor Castle, will be broadcast on TV and radio at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe Queen's address will be broadcast on TV, radio and social media, Buckingham Palace said. She has been staying at Windsor Castle since mid-March as a precaution.\n\nIt is only her fourth special address at a time of national crisis during her 68-year reign. The other occasions were after the Queen Mother's death in 2002, ahead of Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral in 1997, and during the First Gulf War in 1991.\n\nThe Queen also made a televised address to mark her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.\n\nThe monarch, 93, released a statement about the outbreak last month, when the number of UK deaths stood at 144.\n\nShe said the UK was \"entering a period of great concern and uncertainty\" and praised the work of scientists, medics and emergency staff, saying everyone has a \"vitally important part to play\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said Sunday's speech had been decided \"in close consultation with Downing Street\" as \"they have had it in their minds for some days now\".\n\nHe suggested the speech might include thanks for NHS staff and key workers, as well as an emphasis on the important role individuals can play - while also aiming to reassure and rally people.\n\nThe heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was seen in public for the first time on Friday after being diagnosed with coronavirus and spending seven days in self-isolation.\n\nHe opened the first of the National Health Service's emergency field hospitals to treat coronavirus patients in east London's ExCel centre, via a video-link from his home on the Queen's Balmoral estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles opens the UK's first emergency field hospital to deal with coronavirus patients.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced he had contracted the virus last Friday, said he will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the virus including a high temperature.", "Robin Deane said he and his wife have been forced out of their home\n\nA couple who were self-isolating have had to leave their home after a car crashed into it.\n\nRobin Deane, 74, said he and his wife Carol, 66, were in the upstairs bedroom when the crash happened on Wednesday night, in a street in the Cashes Green area of Stroud.\n\nHe said it sounded \"like a bomb had gone off\" downstairs.\n\nPolice said the vehicle's occupants left the scene, but a man had since come forward to say he was the driver.\n\nThe house, in Hyett Road, has been structurally damaged, meaning tenants Mr and Mrs Deane could not get back in.\n\nThe crash has 'taken away' the downstairs toilet\n\n\"There's no downstairs toilet, it's been taken away,\" Mr Deane said.\n\n\"The supporting wall, supporting the floor upstairs is hanging down.\n\n\"There's a big split in the wall. Even the stairs aren't structurally safe because where they come up, it's on that wall.\"\n\nMr Deane said Stroud District Council had now provided them with a property nearby in Stonehouse.\n\nHe said the couple had been allowed inside their old house for an hour, to collect a few belongings.\n\nThe couple have been self-isolating to avoid contracting coronavirus since 27 February because Mr Deane suffers from a medical condition that affects his immune system.\n\nA spokesperson for Gloucestershire police said it was called at about 23:30 BST on 15 April and the vehicle occupants had left the scene.\n\n\"Extensive damage was caused to the property and no-one inside the house was physically harmed,\" they added.\n\nThey said a man contacted police on Thursday morning to say he was the driver, after an initial search using the force helicopter failed to locate him.\n\nThe man later attended hospital for treatment for injuries which are not believed to be serious, and enquiries are continuing, they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scammers are sending 18 million hoax emails about Covid-19 to Gmail users every day, according to Google.\n\nThe tech giant says the pandemic has led to an explosion of phishing attacks in which criminals try to trick users into revealing personal data.\n\nThe company said it was blocking more than 100 million phishing emails a day. Over the past week, almost a fifth were scam emails related to coronavirus.\n\nThe virus may now be the biggest phishing topic ever, tech firms say.\n\nGoogle's Gmail is used by 1.5 billion people.\n\nOne of the scam emails impersonates the World Health Organization\n\nIndividuals are being sent a huge variety of emails which impersonate authorities, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), in an effort to persuade victims to download software or donate to bogus causes.\n\nCyber-criminals are also attempting to capitalise on government support packages by imitating public institutions.\n\nGoogle claims that its machine-learning tools are able to block more than 99.9% of emails from reaching its users.\n\nThe growth in coronavirus-themed phishing is being recorded by several cyber-security companies.\n\nBarracuda Networks said it had seen a 667% increase in malicious phishing emails during the pandemic.\n\nScammers have been sending fake emails and text messages claiming to be from the UK government, the WHO, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and even individual US officials, including President Trump.\n\n\"Phishing attacks always share the common trait of inciting or depending on an emotion that causes us to act more hastily or think less about our actions at that moment in time,\" said independent security researcher Scott Helme.\n\n\"The coronavirus pandemic is a highly emotional topic right now and cyber-criminals clearly know this. They're hoping that the typical person might be more inclined to click through links or follow bad instructions if they use this lure.\"\n\nResearchers have also found malicious websites and smartphone applications based on genuine coronavirus resources.\n\nOne malicious Android app claims to help track the spread of the virus, but instead infects the phone with ransomware and demands payment to restore the device.\n\nLast week, the National Cyber Security Centre and the US Department of Homeland Security issued a joint advisory.\n\nThey said they had seen \"an increasing number of malicious cyber-actors\" that were \"exploiting the current Covid-19 pandemic for their own objectives\".\n\nThe NCSC has published advice on its website to help people avoid becoming the victim of a scam.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said he \"hated selling myself\" to party members during his recent campaign to become Labour leader.\n\nHe told the BBC's Coronavirus Newscast he found the experience of going up against party colleagues \"very odd\".\n\nHe added it was \"the same in all political parties,\" but he was \"much more comfortable\" in a decision-taking role.\n\nThe 57-year-old former lawyer defeated Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey on the first round of voting, with more than 50% of ballots cast.\n\nSir Keir has given both his former rivals posts in his shadow cabinet team, in keeping with a commitment he made during the campaign.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"You're in your own party and you're up against colleagues, and very good colleagues, who you like. And it is a very odd thing to do.\n\n\"I'm very glad that that part of it is over I have to say.\n\n\"For me personally, I really hated selling myself to the membership and I much prefer leadership decisions as leader.\n\n\"I'm much more comfortable in this than I am in the campaign.\"\n\nHe added that the coronavirus crisis now \"frames everything\" in terms of how the Labour party will conduct itself as an opposition party.\n\nHe said he wanted to be \"constructive\" throughout the crisis, adding the country would need a \"different kind of opposition because of the circumstances we're in\".\n\nLabour has backed the government's decision to extend lockdown restrictions for \"at least\" another three weeks, but has called on ministers to publish their strategy for easing the measures.", "China's economy shrank for the first time in decades in the first quarter of the year, as the virus forced factories and businesses to close.\n\nThe world's second biggest economy contracted 6.8% according to official data released on Friday.\n\nThe financial toll the coronavirus is having on the Chinese economy will be a huge concern to other countries.\n\nChina is an economic powerhouse as a major consumer and producer of goods and services.\n\nThis is the first time China has seen its economy shrink in the first three months of the year since it started recording quarterly figures in 1992.\n\n\"The GDP contraction in January-March will translate into permanent income losses, reflected in bankruptcies across small companies and job losses,\" said Yue Su at the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nLast year, China saw healthy economic growth of 6.4% in the first quarter, a period when it was locked in a trade war with the US.\n\nIn the last two decades, China has seen average economic growth of around 9% a year, although experts have regularly questioned the accuracy of its economic data.\n\nIts economy had ground to a halt during the first three months of the year as it introduced large-scale shutdowns and quarantines to prevent the virus spread in late January.\n\nAs a result, economists had expected bleak figures, but the official data comes in slightly worse than expected.\n\nAmong other key figures released in Friday's report:\n\nThe huge decline shows the profound impact that the virus outbreak, and the government's draconian reaction to it, had on the world's second largest economy. It wipes out the 6% expansion in China's economy recorded in the last set of figures at the end of last year.\n\nBeijing has signalled a significant economic stimulus is on the way as it tries to stabilise its economy and recover. Earlier this week the official mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, the People's Daily, reported it would \"expand domestic demand\".\n\nBut the slowdown in the rest of the global economy presents a significant problem as exports still play a major role in China's economy. If it comes this will not be a quick recovery.\n\nOn Thursday the International Monetary Fund forecast China's economy would avoid a recession but grow by just 1.2% this year. Job figures released recently showed the official government unemployment figure had risen sharply, with the number working in companies linked to export trade falling the most.\n\nChina has unveiled a range of financial support measures to cushion the impact of the slowdown, but not on the same scale as other major economies.\n\n\"We don't expect large stimulus, given that that remains unpopular in Beijing. Instead, we think policymakers will accept low growth this year, given the prospects for a better 2021,\" said Louis Kuijs, an analyst with Oxford Economics.\n\nSince March, China has slowly started letting factories resume production and letting businesses reopen, but this is a gradual process to return to pre-lockdown levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nChina relies heavily on its factories and manufacturing plants for economic growth, and has been dubbed \"the world's factory\".\n\nStock markets in the region showed mixed reaction to the Chinese economic data, with China's benchmark Shanghai Composite index up 0.9%.\n\nJapan's Nikkei 225 jumped 2.5% on Friday, although this was largely due to gains on Wall Street after US President Donald Trump unveiled plans to ease lockdowns.", "Police were caught on camera appearing to not be adhering to the social distancing rules\n\nLondon's mayor has expressed concern after videos appeared to show police failing to observe social distancing rules.\n\nMet officers were filmed taking part in the 'Clap for Carers' on a crowded Westminster Bridge on Thursday.\n\n\"While many people adhered to social distancing guidance, it appears that some did not,\" the Met said.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said it was \"not unreasonable\" for the public to query how this could happen.\n\nThe Met added: \"We regularly remind our officers of the importance of social distancing, where practical.\"\n\nHowever, a video posted by Damir Rafi appeared to show many police and members of the public ignoring the regulations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Khan told LBC Radio: \"I am equally concerned that the social distancing rules don't seem to have been observed.\n\n\"I suspect, and I have no confirmation, that the Met and London Ambulance Service will be asking these kind of questions in relation to this.\n\n\"The police have a difficult job to make sure the rules are observed and I think they will both be asking questions,\" Mr Khan added.\n\nMet commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, who was filmed clapping on Westminster Bridge, can clearly be seen observing the two metre distancing guidelines, but officers at another part of the bridge were not.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Metropolitan Police | #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street has now intervened after comments appeared on social media criticising the police for not observing distancing rules.\n\n\"We would ask that everyone takes responsibility and adheres to social distancing rules so that we can safely show our appreciation for those who are working so hard to fight coronavirus,\" said the Prime Minister's official spokesman.\n\nFormer Met and Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Kevin Hurley was also critical.\n\n\"This is about persuading the public to stay at home to save lives,\" he said.\n\n\"How much better if the commissioner had just walked around the corner into one of the estates at eight o'clock and started clapping?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spoke to the BBC via video link\n\nCoronavirus lockdown is \"stressful\" for many people and it is important to look after mental health, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said.\n\nPrince William said there was an \"ever-increasing need\" for people to know where to access help and support.\n\nIn a BBC interview, he said NHS workers often had to absorb the pain and loneliness of coronavirus patients.\n\nThe duke went on to reveal how anxious he was when his father, the Prince of Wales, was diagnosed with the virus.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview about the pandemic, mental health and the NHS, Prince William described how the three-week lockdown had been \"frustrating\" for many people and \"pressure, stress and isolation\" had been building up.\n\n\"If we are going to go forward with more time spent in lockdown, then there is going to be an ever-increasing need for people to look after their mental health and take it seriously and also know where to go to get the support they might need,\" he said.\n\nThe Duchess and Duke want to encourage people to access mental health support during the coronavirus breakout\n\nCatherine said there had been a focus on physical well-being during the lockdown - with people being told one of the reason they can leave their homes is for one form of exercise a day.\n\n\"While that's hugely important we mustn't forget our mental well-being as well and making sure you're reaching out to those people around you that you have access to - even if it's over the phone or online to really make sure you have those conversations,\" she said.\n\nPrince William said there was a concern people might think they were \"not worthy of support\" because of the pressure on services during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It's important that other people aren't forgotten and those who do need help, and do need support, and haven't necessarily ever had to think about their mental well-being, start to do that in this weird climate we're in,\" he said.\n\nThe couple want to encourage people to talk to each other using technology and also use online tools such as NHS Every Mind Matters to help them during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPrince William and Catherine met ambulance staff and NHS 111 call handlers last month\n\nDuring the interview, the duke and duchess also praised NHS workers and said they were making the nation proud with their \"stoicism and determination\" to get through the pandemic.\n\nBut Prince William said some staff were understandably anxious and it was important not to alienate those who \"worry\" and \"are scared going to work every single day\".\n\nHe said NHS workers often have to absorb the pain and loneliness of coronavirus patients and \"take it home to their families\".\n\n\"We're not superhuman, any of us. So to be able to manage those emotions and that feeling is going to take some time after all this is over as well.\"\n\nAfter four weeks of lockdown William and Catherine are banging the drum for mental health, telling potential sufferers to talk and reach out, and trying to be upbeat royals at a time when much the rest of the Royal Family is, by necessity or choice, out of sight.\n\nThe curtain drawn over Royal private life is pulled back a bit: there are videocalls between the generations, there are ups and downs, Mum is clearly a bit frazzled by the whole thing, Dad is thinking about his bod. It is rather like a lot of British lives, albeit with more palaces.\n\nWilliam and Catherine have spent a fair bit of time talking to hospital workers over the past few weeks and it is clear from their tone that it has affected and alarmed them. They are sounding the alert now for mental health assistance for those at the sharpest end of this crisis.\n\nThe duchess added: \"What we're seeing now is the NHS and the frontline workers doing the most extraordinary job. And that's really come to the forefront in the last few weeks.\n\n\"It's going to dramatically change how we all value and see our frontline workers. That is one of the main positives you can take from this.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were seen with Prince Charles at the Commonwealth Service on 9 March\n\nPrince William also spoke about how he felt anxious for his father Prince Charles when he tested positive for coronavirus after having mild symptoms.\n\n\"I have to admit, at first I was quite concerned, he fits the profile of somebody, at the age he is at, which is fairly risky,\" said Prince William.\n\nBut he said his father had experienced many chest infections and colds, so he felt optimistic Prince Charles would recover.\n\nHe also said he worried about his grandparents - the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - but they were doing everything they could to ensure they were protected and isolated.\n\nPrincess Charlotte, Prince Louis and Prince George took part in the NHS Clap for Carers on 23 March\n\nThe duchess said they had faced \"ups and downs\" during the lockdown \"like lots of families\".\n\nShe said homeschooling their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - had been \"challenging\" but they had a kept a strict regime.\n\n\"We don't tell the children we've actually kept going through the holidays. I feel very mean,\" she added.\n\nThe couple also said they have been keeping in touch with other family members through online video calls.\n\n\"It gets a bit hectic, I'm not going to lie, with a two-year-old you have to take the phone away,\" Catherine said.\n\n\"It's quite hectic for them all to say the right thing at the right time without pressing the wrong buttons. But it's great and it's nice to keep in touch with everybody.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Welsh Government has been accused of avoiding scrutiny over how it is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLeader of the Welsh Conservative group in the Senedd, Paul Davies, has written to the first minister, saying there are growing concerns over a lack of transparency during a time of national emergency.\n\nIn recent weeks the Welsh assembly has been closed due to the outbreak, and the Senedd has been meeting virtually over video conference to question ministers, in a UK first for a parliament.\n\nBut the Tories claim outside of the weekly plenary sessions, Welsh Labour ministers are not urgently answering assembly members questions on how the outbreak is affecting Wales.\n\nAM for Aberconwy Janet Finch-Saunders, who is the Tories health spokeswoman in the assembly, said AMs' written questions to ministers were being replied to with standard responses, saying the minister would \"write as soon as possible\".\n\nMrs Finch-Saunders said the government had a \"recent unhealthy aversion to scrutiny\".\n\n\"Whilst I appreciate the tremendous strains that all Welsh ministers are currently under, proper checks and balances must be upheld if we are to maintain confidence in our public institutions.,\" she said.\n\n“With increased restrictions on plenary contributions and a limit to how many written questions we can submit, it is recklessly irresponsible for Welsh ministers to avoid submitting full and proper replies to questions.\n\n“With great swathes of public money at stake, including an additional funding package of £350m for Wales, it is paramount that the Welsh Government remains open and transparent in the decisions it is taking.”", "Doctors and nurses in England are to be asked to treat coronavirus patients without fully protective gowns and to reuse equipment due to shortage fears.\n\nThe decision came in a reversal of guidance to hospitals from Public Health England on Friday.\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC reported the plan was being considered as a \"last resort\".\n\nIt comes as NHS Providers warned some hospitals' supplies could run out in 24 hours.\n\nChris Hopson, head of the association, which represents healthcare trusts across England, said in a tweet: \"We have now reached the point where the national stock of fully fluid repellent gowns and long-sleeved laboratory coats will be exhausted in the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours.\"\n\nHe said that national leaders have left \"no stone unturned\" - but gowns that were ordered weeks ago are currently only arriving in \"fits and starts\".\n\nPublic Health England changed its guidance, which until now required long-sleeved, disposable, fluid-repellent gowns for people treating Covid-19 patients.\n\nNow it says if these gowns are not available, staff can wear washable medical gowns or non-fluid-repellent equipment.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC said the measures were considered earlier this week to cope with \"acute supply shortages\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded 847 new coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals on Thursday, taking the total to 14,576.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"New clinical advice has been issued today to make sure that if there are shortages in one area, frontline staff know what PPE to wear instead to minimise risk.\"\n\nAnd Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he \"would love to be able to wave a magic wand\" to increase supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"But given that we have a global situation in which there is less PPE in the world than the world needs, obviously it's going to be a huge pressure point,\" he told a virtual committee of MPs.\n\nMr Hancock admitted the supply of gowns was \"tight\" but said he was aiming to get enough gowns to staff this weekend.\n\nHe added that the government was doing everything it could \"to get that PPE to the front line\".\n\nDr Rob Harwood, consultants committee chairman at the British Medical Association, said: \"If it's being proposed that staff reuse equipment, this must be demonstrably driven by science and the best evidence - rather than availability - and it absolutely cannot compromise the protection of healthcare workers.\n\n\"Too many healthcare workers have already died. More doctors and their colleagues cannot be expected to put their own lives on the line in a bid to save others, and this new advice means they could be doing just that. It's not a decision they should have to make.\"\n\nAt least 50 NHS workers have now died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Week after week, we hear of problems in PPE getting to the front line despite what ministers tell us at Downing Street press conferences.\n\n\"This ongoing failure needs fixing and ministers must explain how they will fix it urgently.\"", "Rotterdam's Ahoy concert venue was supposed to host the glitz and glamour of the Eurovision song contest in May, but instead has been converted into an emergency hospital to help the Netherlands battle its coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe BBC’s Anna Holligan has been given access to the arena as it gets ready for its first patients.", "Protective gowns and masks could be reused by health workers under \"last resort\" coronavirus plans revealed in a leaked Public Health England document.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC also showed that some hospitals have begun laundering single-use gowns to preserve stocks.\n\nThe British Medical Association said this \"underlines the urgency\" of protective equipment shortages.\n\nPublic Health England said the safe reuse of items was being considered.\n\nHowever, it said no decisions had been made.\n\nA document seen by the BBC has revealed new details of plans to tackle shortages of personal protective equipment, known as PPE.\n\nIt is understood that the chief medical officers and chief nurses of the four UK nations recently discussed the issue.\n\nFollowing the meeting, a draft document written by Public Health England and dated 13 April suggested solutions for \"acute supply shortages\" of PPE.\n\n\"These are last-resort alternatives, but given the current in-country stock and the reduced ability to re-supply, we are suggesting that these are implemented until confirmation of adequate re-supply is in place\", it said.\n\nThe document said some of the last-resort measures would need to be reviewed and approved by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIn the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of vaporised hydrogen peroxide to decontaminate certain masks.\n\nIt is understood that the infection and prevention and control team at NHS England believe the Health and Safety Executive should be responsible for reviewing the guidance in this area.\n\nNHS staff use an app to request crucial PPE and managers also have access to a government hotline.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC also showed some hospitals have trialled and begun reusing single-use, fluid repellent gowns that they have laundered.\n\nDiscussions are understood to be taking place about whether to ask local launderettes to re-open to process the cleaning of gowns.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, council chair of the British Medical Association, said: \"This underlines the urgency with which we need this situation sorted.\n\n\"The government must be honest about PPE supplies.\n\n\"If [Public Heath England] is proposing the reuse of equipment, it needs to be demonstrably driven by science and the best evidence in keeping with international standards, rather than by availability, and with absolutely no compromise to the protection of healthcare workers.\"\n\nIn a statement, Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England, said: \"PPE is a precious resource and it is crucial that everyone in health and social care has access to the right protective equipment.\n\n\"All options are being considered to ensure this, including the safe reuse of items, but no decisions have been made.\"\n\nThe HSE said it was right that, where possible, \"strategies for optimising the supply of PPE should be explored\".\n\n\"We are discussing with Public Health England ways in which pressure can be eased on the supply chain. This includes potentially reusing certain equipment where it is safe to do so,\" it said.", "For a fourth week in a row, people across the UK clapped to show appreciation for health professionals and other key workers, during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Earlier on Friday we reported that a boss of an NHS trust had contacted the BBC with concerns about the provision of gowns for staff during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe had asked the BBC for the phone numbers of Burberry and Barbour - two companies which have become involved in making gowns - because he was concerned about supply shortages.\n\nWe should clarify that the person concerned is not the boss of an NHS trust but is part of a network of organisations helping to source personal protective equipment for some NHS trusts.\n\nThe mistake was caused by a misunderstanding of the person's role in the fight against the pandemic.", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds United great Norman Hunter has died in hospital aged 76 after contracting coronavirus.\n\nThe tough-tackling centre-back, nicknamed 'Bites Yer Legs', was a key player in Leeds' most successful era.\n\nHe won two league titles during a 14-year first-team career at Elland Road, and was a non-playing member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad.\n\nHunter was admitted to hospital on 10 April after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nFormer Leeds team-mate Eddie Gray said Hunter was an \"iconic figure\" at the club.\n\n\"He was a truly great player,\" Gray, 72, told the BBC. \"I don't think people realise because of the 'Bites Yer Legs', it took away from his actual ability as a player.\n\n\"He never got as many caps as he deserved because of the great Bobby Moore, but he was as good as any defender that played the game.\"\n\nLeeds said the defender's death leaves \"a huge hole\" in the family of the club.\n\n\"His legacy will never be forgotten and our thoughts are with Norman's family and friends at this very difficult time,\" the Yorkshire club said in a statement.\n• None Obituary: Hunter 'a man of steel who could also produce silk'\n\nHunter joined Leeds aged 15 and went on to play 726 matches in all competitions for the club - the fourth-highest individual total in their history.\n\nAs an integral part of Don Revie's famous side, Hunter won the First Division title in 1969 and 1974, helped them beat Arsenal in the 1968 League Cup final, and then returned to Wembley in 1972 as Leeds defeated the Gunners to win the FA Cup.\n\nHe also played in the 1975 European Cup final defeat by Bayern Munich in Paris - a year after Revie left to manage England - but he did taste European success as Leeds won the now-defunct Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971.\n\nSpeaking in 2013, when he announced he was selling his Leeds memorabilia at auction, Hunter said his one regret from his time playing for the club was that he never lifted the European Cup.\n\n\"Someone asked me if I was selling my shirt from that game [against Bayern] but I honestly don't know where it is,\" he added. \"I was that upset that I don't know what I did with it.\n\n\"Medals don't mean much to me. For me it was about being at Leeds United and playing with that group of players and staff.\n\nAlthough a member of the squad, Hunter did not play during England's triumphant 1966 World Cup campaign, with their central defensive partnership formed by Jack Charlton - his Leeds team-mate - and captain Bobby Moore.\n\nThe England national team said they were \"extremely saddened\" by Hunter's death and that \"all of our thoughts are with his family, friends and supporters\".\n\nAfter leaving Leeds in 1976, Hunter also played for Bristol City and Barnsley, managing the Tykes and Rotherham after he retired from playing.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association said: \"Football has lost a legend and we join the entire football community in mourning this loss.\"\n\n'He loved Leeds like nothing else' - tributes to Hunter\n\nEngland World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst: \"Enormously shocked and saddened to hear the awful news about my friend Norman Hunter, he will be very sadly missed. My heartfelt thoughts are with his wife, Sue, his family and the England and Leeds United fans, a huge part of the 1966-70 England squad back in the day.\"\n\nFormer England captain Gary Lineker: Grew up watching that great Leeds side of which Norman Hunter was a huge part. This awful virus was one crunching tackle too far but he'll be biting yer legs somewhere. RIP.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Peter Shilton on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Norman always had a laugh. He was very professional, a hard worker and someone who was good to have around in the squad.\n\n\"He was somebody you never liked playing against because he did let players know he was around. He was a great player. He had a lot more than just being a tough man.\"\n\nFormer Leeds defender Danny Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He loved Leeds like nothing else. It's incredibly sad that he won't get to see Leeds promoted back to the Premier League.\n\n\"His knowledge of football was immense. He could be critical of the players and the team but he did it in a charming way. He could be critical but never offended anybody.\"\n\nFormer England defender Casey Stoney: \"I was extremely privileged to sit next to Norman at a PFA awards a couple of years ago and he was one of the nicest, warmest and friendliest men I've met. He shared stories that were amazing to hear and was so kind to me and I was just a stranger.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live senior football reporter Ian Dennis: \"I worked with Norman Hunter at BBC Radio Leeds. I had four wonderful years with him, it was an absolute education.\n\n\"My condolences to his family. He was a gentle giant. He was the opposite off the pitch to how he was on it.\"", "The trio returned to Earth on Friday after many months on the ISS\n\nA crew of three has returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to a very different planet they left last year.\n\nNo strangers to isolation, Russian Oleg Skrypochka and Jessica Meir from the US left Earth in September 2019, well before Covid-19 emerged.\n\nAnother American, Andrew Morgan, has been on the ISS since July 2019.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has changed the usual routine for returning space crews.\n\n\"It's quite surreal to see it unfolding on Earth below,\" Ms Meir told reporters during a recent video call. \"From here, Earth looks just as stunning as usual, so it's hard to believe all of the changes that have taken place since we left.\"\n\nThe trio touched down on Earth at 05:16 GMT, with Mr Skrypochka and Ms Meir having spent 205 days in space, and Mr Morgan 272 days.\n\nJessica Meir says isolation on Earth will be harder than on the ISS\n\nA series of posts on the official ISS Twitter account described how the crew's Soyuz ship split into three modules before the descent module reached the Earth's atmosphere \"creating a plasma trail\" early on Friday.\n\nThe capsule then landed successfully in Kazakhstan. US space agency Nasa posted a video of the astronauts being met by a mask-wearing rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe search party has been in strict quarantine and are believed to have undergone tests for coronavirus immediately before going out to pick up the arrivals to ensure that they were not at risk of infecting them.\n\nIn normal circumstances the search team would pick up the crew and bring them to the closest airport, from where they would fly home. But Kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency and most of the airports are closed.\n\nMr Skrypochka enjoys the sunshine after spending 205 days in space\n\nMs Meir has some catching up to do after landing in central Kazakhstan\n\nThe Baikonur space launch pad, leased by Russia from Kazakhstan, is still operating and the three crew members will be flown there. The Russian will take a plane home while the Americans will be driven three hours south-east to Kyzylorda, from where a Nasa plane will fly them back to the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA replacement crew of two Russians and an American who flew to the ISS on 9 April also took the utmost precautions to avoid taking the infection into space, spending a month and a half in quarantine before the launch.\n\nUsually, a team of returning astronauts and cosmonauts will undergo a special rehabilitation program lasting several weeks. After a long stay in zero gravity, the body needs time to get used to life in constant gravity.\n\nThe replacement crew left Earth for the ISS last Thursday\n\nBut this time doctors have the additional task of protecting the crew from coronavirus.\n\n\"It will be difficult to not give hugs to family and friends after being up here for seven months,\" Ms Meir said on the video call before returning to Earth. Last year she made history after completing the first ever all-female spacewalk with another Nasa astronaut, Christina Koch.\n\n\"I think I will feel more isolated on Earth than here. We're busy with amazing pursuits and tasks and don't feel the isolation,\" she added.\n\nThe ISS has been orbiting the Earth since 1998. Five partners are involved - the US, Russia, Japan, Canada and the European Space Agency.\n• None Astronauts arrive at ISS after long quarantine. Video, 00:00:58Astronauts arrive at ISS after long quarantine", "US actor Brian Dennehy, whose chiselled jaw and towering figure featured in dozens of films, has died at the age of 81 of natural causes.\n\nOn screen he played macho roles like the sheriff who jails Rambo in First Blood and portrayed the serial killer John Wayne Gacy in To Catch A Killer.\n\nHis work brought him a Golden Globe and six Emmy nominations.\n\nBut Dennehy was equally at home playing the classics on stage, and won two Tony Awards.\n\nHamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda paid tribute to the man on Twitter, saying: \"Was lucky enough to see Brian Dennehy twice on stage, masterful in Love Letters, and monumentally heartbreaking in Death Of A Salesman. A colossus. What a loss.\"\n\nFellow American actor James Woods, who starred alongside him in Bestseller, mourned a \"beloved friend and colleague\", tweeting: \"I've never laughed so hard as we did every day on the set or off.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Woods This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn on 9 July 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he took up acting at the age of 14 in New York City where he studied at a high school in Brooklyn. He played the title role in a production of Macbeth.\n\nA scholarship at Columbia University followed and then five years of service in the US Marines.\n\nPhysically, Dennehy was an imposing man, standing at 6ft 3in (1.9m). To fund his acting career in the 1960s he worked as a truck driver, a bartender and a salesman.\n\n\"I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend,\" he told The New York Times in 1989.\n\nDennehy broke into film in 1977 with Semi-Tough, which starred Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson. He was paid $10,000 a week for 10 weeks' work and it \"looked like it was all the money in the world\", he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.\n\nIn 1991 came the TV movie To Catch A Killer for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special.\n\n\"I try to play villains as if they're good guys and good guys as if they're villains,\" he said in an interview the following year.\n\nThere were numerous roles in TV dramas including Dallas and Dynasty.\n\nIn 2007 he voiced the character of a rat called Django in the hit Pixar animation Ratatouille, delivering lines like \"Now shut up and eat your garbage\".\n\nDennehy's theatre work ranged from Shakespeare and Chekhov to the American greats like Miller and O'Neill: he won Tony Awards for Death Of A Salesman (1999) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (2003).\n\nThe 2000 television film adaptation of Death of a Salesman earned him a Golden Globe.\n\nHe died from natural causes not related to coronavirus at his Connecticut home on Wednesday evening, with his wife Jennifer and son Cormac by his side, his agent told AFP news agency.\n\nBrian Dennehy is also survived by four other children, three of them from a previous marriage.", "There have been UK protests about the lack of PPE for nursing staff\n\nThe health secretary has said that thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) will arrive in the UK on Friday as the government faces criticism over shortages.\n\nMatt Hancock said that 55,000 more gowns were due to arrive, but admitted there was \"a huge challenge\".\n\nHe added: \"We are tight on gowns and that is the pressure point.\"\n\nThe government has been criticised for not providing enough PPE for healthcare workers during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAn earlier version of this story reported that a director of a large NHS trust had contacted the BBC with concerns about the provision of gowns for staff. The person concerned is not a director of a trust - the BBC has since been told he is currently part of a network of organisations helping to source PPE for some NHS trusts during the pandemic.\n\nFor a number of weeks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and government ministers have said during press briefings and interviews that firms including Burberry will begin making personal protective equipment on behalf of the government as one of the answers to a critical shortage.\n\nAsked about the PPE produced by such manufacturers, Mr Hancock praised the \"national effort\" but urged more companies to come forward.\n\nMr Hancock said on Friday that PPE was a \"precious resource\" and that maintaining supplies was challenging due to the \"very high\" global demand.\n\nLatest statistics revealed the UK recorded another 861 coronavirus-related deaths in hospital, taking the total to 13,729. The overall figure does not include hundreds more who have died in residential and nursing homes.\n\nOn Thursday, as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the extension of lockdown restrictions for \"at least\" another three weeks, he said there remained \"issues with the virus spreading in some hospitals and in care homes\".\n\nAmong five conditions he said must be met before curbs on daily life could be lifted were making sure the NHS could cope and ensuring PPE supplies could meet demand.\n\nLast week, Mr Hancock said there was \"enough PPE to go around, but only if it's used in line with our guidance\", adding there was a \"huge task\" to make sure those who need it get it.\n\nA gown is a piece of PPE used to protect the body of those who might come into contact with coronavirus.\n\nIt should be made of water-resistant material and have long sleeves. If the gown is not water resistant, a waterproof apron is needed underneath to protect the wearer from droplets containing the virus.\n\nThe shortage of non-surgical gowns is a critical problem facing the NHS as it struggles to secure enough kit for frontline staff.\n\nA leaked Public Health England document this week advised health workers to reuse protective gowns and masks only as a \"last resort\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For a fourth week, people clap to show appreciation for health professionals and other key workers\n\nAs the world fights coronavirus, the demand for gowns is at levels never seen before.\n\nAlmost all of the UK's gowns used by the NHS are made in China and the Far East.\n\nThese decisions have been driven by cost, as all sectors seek the cheapest prices.\n\nBut as every country in the world fights for finite supplies, a UK solution has been sought.\n\nThe government and management consultancy Deloitte approached well known UK garment brands asking if they could help make PPE.\n\nThey also requested that UK manufacturers complete a survey to share what they could make.\n\nEarlier this week, Barbour began distributing gowns from its factory in the north-east of England.\n\nBurberry is still making the final adjustments to its factory and production is expected to start next week.\n\nGetting a supply chain formalised using UK factories has been difficult.\n\nUK garment factories approached by the BBC have said the government does not fully understand what is possible in the UK, and which firms could produce what. This lack of understanding has caused production delays.\n\nDelays around certification of gowns for use is also slowing down the manufacturing process.\n\nSome factories say it could be another two weeks before the necessary paperwork is signed off and they can manufacture the gowns.\n\nThis comes as factories around the UK are empty. Machinists and pattern cutters have been sent home and furloughed.\n\nTo add to the frustration of factory bosses, they say they're getting upsetting calls from NHS hospitals and workers begging for gowns.\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Adequate supply of protective equipment is an international issue facing many countries during this global pandemic.\"\n\nNearly one billion pieces of protective equipment had been delivered to the frontline so far, the spokesman said.\n\n\"There is also a 24-hour NHS-run helpline where NHS and social care workers can call to report supply disruption.\n\n\"We continue to work around the clock to give the NHS and the wider social care sector the equipment they need and it is crucial the guidance for protective equipment is followed closely,\" the spokesman added.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of this story reported that a director of a large NHS trust had contacted the BBC with concerns about the provision of gowns for staff. The person concerned is not a director of a trust - the BBC has since been told he is currently part of a network of organisations helping to source personal protective equipment for some NHS trusts during the pandemic.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Harley Glen has also made a friend who goes to his new school in Harrogate\n\nA boy who moved house during lockdown has made hundreds of new \"virtual\" friends after his mum appealed for pen-pals to get in touch.\n\nHarley Glen, seven, moved from Edinburgh to Harrogate in March.\n\nHis mum Ashley posted on Facebook that she didn't want moving to become a \"negative\" experience and asked for people to write to her son.\n\nHe has received more than 120 letters from children from as far away as Australia, America and New Zealand.\n\nHarley has also made a friend closer to home, Millie, who will be at the same school, Western Primary, when they finally go back.\n\nMs Glen said moving had been particularly tough for her son, who loves being outdoors and had been due to join the year two class.\n\nIn her original post, she wrote: \"Harley's terribly lonely, and if moving across the country wasn't tough enough, we're not wanting the move to become too negative an experience for him.\"\n\nShe said they had received more than 120 letters from all over the world, as well as videos and voice messages.\n\nHarley was due to start his new school on 24 March\n\nHarley said receiving the letters made him feel \"happy\", and he was \"very excited\" to start at his new school.\n\n\"Some people have been sending toys and someone sent some seeds. I have to wait until October to plant them though.\"\n\nHis new friend Millie said she wrote to Harley to tell him what she had been up to.\n\n\"I face-painted my mum like a butterfly and I told him. I know how to ride a bike now too.\"\n\nShe said it had been nice to make contact with someone who will be at her school.\n\nHarley added: \"Thank you everybody for sending me the letters!\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Loans to all medium-to-large firms will now be included in the government's £330bn coronavirus support package for the economy, the Treasury has said.\n\nAll viable companies with a turnover of more than £45m will be able to apply for government-backed support, including those which take in more than £500m.\n\nSchemes for smaller firms and the largest businesses are already in place.\n\nBusinesses with turnovers of more than £500m were not originally going to be eligible for the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme, which will be launched on Monday.\n\nThe scheme, which will be part of £330bn of taxpayer money intended to support the UK economy, will let firms with a turnover of more than £45m apply for up to £25m of finance from banks.\n\nThe government will guarantee 80% on those bank loans.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"I want to ensure that no viable business slips through our safety net of support as we help protect jobs and the economy. That is why we are expanding this generous scheme for larger firms.\n\n\"This is a national effort and we'll continue to work with the financial services sector to ensure that our £330bn of government support, through loans and guarantees, reaches as many businesses in need as possible.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Coronavirus has struck a heavy blow against businesses of all sizes across the UK. Expanding this scheme will provide larger firms with the support they need during the pandemic, helping to provide job security to thousands of people and protect our economy.\"\n\nThe scheme is part of government efforts to help keep the UK economy afloat as it is battered by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSmaller businesses may be eligible for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.\n\nHowever, the British Chambers of Commerce has said that so far only 2% of UK firms have secured the loans.\n\nAnd some small businesses, which say they are viable, have been unable to get help.\n\nThe government has also admitted that the small business scheme needs to work faster.\n\nOther government initiatives intended to help businesses include the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which covers 80% of workers' pay; tax deferrals; cash grants; and covering the cost of statutory sick pay.\n\nThe largest firms may be able to get Bank of England lending under the Covid Corporate Financing Facility.\n\nBusiness lobby groups welcomed the government announcement of help for medium to large businesses.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief economist at the CBI said: \"These measures set out by the chancellor will go a long way to supporting mid-cap companies, some of which are the UK's most important and iconic regional employers.\n\n\"This scheme is clearly targeted at helping several thousand mid-tier firms, rather than those already up and running for small and larger businesses.\"\n\nAdam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the changes \"fill an important gap in government support, and could make a real difference to medium-sized and larger-firms navigating challenging circumstances\".\n\n\"It's now crucial to ensure that this enhanced support reaches companies in difficulty as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\nStephen Phipson, Make UK's chief executive, said: \"The situation remains fluid and as we assess the detail we will continue to work closely with the Treasury to ensure those companies who need support can turn on the tap when needed.\"\n\nAnd Jonathan Geldart, director general of the Institute of Directors, said: \"The government deserves credit for showing willingness to continue to adapt its coronavirus response.\"\n\nGovernments and institutions around the world have scrambled to try to cushion economies from the effects of the coronavirus crisis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're getting the PPE out there but there's clearly a huge task ahead to keep it flowing\"\n\nThe UK will now ensure daily deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline workers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told the daily coronavirus briefing it had been a \"Herculean effort\", after criticism the government was not doing enough to protect critical NHS staff.\n\nOfficials told the briefing the lockdown was \"beginning to pay off\" but it was still a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 980 hospital deaths, bringing the total to 8,958.\n\nThat death toll, which does not include those who died in care homes or the community, has now exceeded the worst daily figures seen in Italy and Spain.\n\nBut England's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was \"impossible to say we have peaked\", adding that the measures the country was taking with social distancing needed to continue.\n\nThe total number of deaths worldwide has now passed 100,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in the US.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said that some NHS and care workers were saying they were still struggling to get protective equipment and they felt unsafe, despite earlier pledges by the government. He asked if Mr Hancock was acknowledging the previous plans were insufficient.\n\nThe health secretary responded that it had been an \"enormous challenge\", but that 742 million pieces of protective gear had been delivered so far.\n\n\"But there's clearly a huge task ahead to keep it flowing and to make sure that those who need it get it,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock also told the briefing that the protective equipment - such as masks, gloves and aprons - must be used only where it was most needed.\n\n\"There's enough PPE to go around, but only if it's used in line with our guidance. We need everyone to treat PPE like the precious resource that it is,\" he said.\n\nHe also cautioned against using protective gear outside of health and social care settings, saying handwashing, social distancing and staying at home were the best ways for people to stay safe.\n\n\"A front door is better than any face mask,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThose looking after Covid-19 patients are themselves most at risk of catching the virus.\n\nProtective gear and testing are vital not only for protecting staff, but also for minimising the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThere have been constant stories of doctors, nurses or care home staff not getting the protection they need.\n\nThe government says it has been, in part, a logistical problem. Instead of supplying just over 200 hospital organisations with PPE they are now delivering to 58,000 separate organisations including pharmacies, care homes and GP surgeries.\n\nWe are still not at the peak of the outbreak, despite some positive signs in the data.\n\nHowever, even if we pass the peak and cases start to fall it won't mean all restrictions can be lifted.\n\nThe best estimate of the proportion of people infected (and potentially immune in the UK) is 4%. Or to put that another way - more than 63 million are still vulnerable to the infection. So lifting the lockdown could lead to another surge in cases.\n\nInstead the government will have to decide which restrictions to lift, which to keep and what new strategies to introduce in order to suppress the virus.\n\nMr Hancock said that because of \"huge international demand\" the UK was having to create a domestic manufacturing industry for protective equipment from scratch, as well as buying from abroad.\n\nHe said Burberry had offered to make protective gowns, Rolls-Royce and McLaren were making visors and hand sanitiser was being made by drinks company Diageo and chemicals producer Ineos.\n\nSusan Masters, national director of nursing policy and practice at the Royal College of Nursing, said the amount of PPE being delivered would only be impressive \"when nursing staff stop contacting me to say what they need to use wasn't available\".\n\n\"The calls are still coming through - people are petrified. They have seen colleagues die already.\"\n\nAt the government's briefing, chief nursing officer Ruth May paid tribute to frontline staff who had died after contracting coronavirus.\n\n\"The NHS is a family and we feel their loss deeply,\" she said.\n\nAppealing to the public to continue observing the lockdown rules, she said it was \"frustrating\" for NHS staff to see people failing to observe the social distancing.\n\n\"It is enormously frustrating... there's also still occasions where my colleagues are getting abuse from their neighbours for driving off to work,\" she said.\n\n\"Our nurses, our healthcare staff, need to be able to get to work, it's right and proper they do, but my ask of everybody, please stay at home, save lives and protect my staff.\"\n\nThere is no hiding from the fact that today's announcement of 980 new UK deaths has surpassed Italy and Spain's worst days during this pandemic.\n\nWhile these two countries are now seeing daily death figures coming down, the UK's have been closing in on 1,000 for several days - and the true death toll is likely to be higher once deaths not yet reported have been added in.\n\nYet the NHS has not been overwhelmed in the way that Italy's hospitals appeared to be, particularly in the north.\n\nThe message is that the NHS has spare capacity and intensive care beds not yet used, thanks to planning and everyone's efforts to stay at home.\n\nThere was even a plea from health officials that anyone with serious and worrying health problems of any kind should contact the NHS as usual.\n\nThe hope is now that the UK's social distancing measures will have the same effect as Italy and Spain's lockdowns, and deaths will start to fall - not just slow down - in the weeks to come.\n\nMr Hancock was challenged on a report in Health Service Journal that he had been failing to observe social distancing rules himself, holding regular video calls in his office surrounded by between 10 and 20 colleagues.\n\nSenior NHS leaders expressed alarm that the health secretary was providing a bad example, the report said.\n\nMr Hancock insisted that he followed social distancing rules on the occasions when he had to come into the office.\n\nIt comes after Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended his travel moves following reports he flouted the government's lockdown rules.\n\nMr Hancock also told the briefing 15 drive-through testing centres had been opened across the UK to enable all frontline NHS and social care staff to be screened for the virus.\n\nThe 19,100 tests carried out in the last day still fall well short of the health secretary's target of 100,000 a day by the end of April.\n\nBut he said new \"Lighthouse mega-labs\" were on track in Cheshire and Glasgow, and another has opened in Milton Keynes. Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and GSK were opening an additional testing facility in Cambridge, he added.\n\nThe government also announced new Nightingale temporary hospitals to be opened, with 460 beds in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and a smaller facility in Exeter.\n\nIt brings the total number to seven, with units in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate as well.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The state of emergency is to be extended to the whole of Japan\n\nIt was once seen as something of a success story - a region that worked to contain, trace and isolate the virus - leading to a huge drop in numbers. But Hokkaido is in the spotlight again as it struggles to deal with a second wave of infections.\n\nIn late February, Hokkaido became the first place in Japan to declare a state of emergency due to Covid-19.\n\nSchools were closed, large-scale gatherings cancelled and people \"encouraged\" to stay at home. The local government pursued the virus with determination - aggressively tracing and isolating anyone who'd had contact with victims.\n\nThe policy worked and by mid-March the number of new cases had fallen back to one or two a day. On 19 March the state of emergency was lifted, and at the beginning of April, schools re-opened.\n\nBut now, just 26 days after the state of emergency was lifted, a new one has had to be imposed.\n\nHokkaido has acted independently of the central government, which placed Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures under a state of emergency last week. A nationwide state of emergency was declared on Thursday.\n\nIn the last week, Hokkaido has recorded 135 new confirmed cases of Covid-19. Unlike the first outbreak in February, there is no evidence the virus has been re-imported from outside Japan.\n\nNone of the new cases are foreigners, nor have any of those infected travelled outside Japan in the last month.\n\nWhat does this tell us about how the virus outbreak was handled in Hokkaido?\n\nFirstly, if you get on top of it really early, you can get it under control.\n\n\"It is relatively easy to tackle clusters, to contact trace and isolate,\" says Professor Kenji Shibuya of King's College London.\n\n\"The authorities were quite successful in their cluster control approach. Japan was in the very early phase of the outbreak back then. It was localised and it was a success story.\"\n\nHokkaido's containment measures seemed to be working at first\n\nIn this respect, Hokkaido has some similarity to what happened in the South Korean city of Daegu. There, a large outbreak in a religious cult was aggressively traced. Those infected were isolated and the outbreak was suppressed.\n\nBut the second lesson from Hokkaido is much less reassuring.\n\nAfter the Daegu outbreak, the South Korean government began a massive testing program to try and track the epidemic. Japan has done the opposite.\n\nEven now, more than three months after Japan recorded its first case, it is still only testing a tiny percentage of the population.\n\nInitially, the government said it was because large-scale testing was a \"waste of resources\". It's now had to change its tune a bit and says it will ramp up testing - but several reasons appear to have slowed it down.\n\nFirstly, Japan's health ministry fears that hospitals will be overwhelmed by people who test positive - but only have minor symptoms. And on a wider scale, the testing is the responsibility of local health centres and not on a national government level.\n\nSome of these local centres are simply not equipped with the staff or the equipment to deal with testing on a major scale. Local hotlines have been overwhelmed and even getting a referral from a doctor is a struggle.\n\nThe combination of these reasons mean authorities in Japan don't have a clear idea of how the virus is moving through the population, says Prof Shibuya.\n\n\"We are in the middle of an explosive phase of the outbreak,\" he said.\n\n\"The major lesson to take from Hokkaido is that even if you are successful in the containment the first time around, it's difficult to isolate and maintain the containment for a long period. Unless you expand the testing capacity, it's difficult to identify community transmission and hospital transmission.\"\n\nThe third lesson is that this \"new reality\" is going to go on a lot longer than most people expect.\n\nHokkaido has now had to re-impose the restrictions, though Japan's version of a Covid-19 \"lockdown\" is a rather softer than those imposed elsewhere.\n\nMost people are still going to work. Schools may be closed, but shops and even bars remain open.\n\nProf Shibuya thinks without tougher measures Japan has little hope of controlling this so called \"second wave\" of infections now taking place, not just in Hokkaido, but across the country.\n\n\"The key lesson\" he says \"is even if you are successful in containment locally but there is transmission going on in other parts of the country, as long as people are moving around, it's difficult to maintain a virus-free status\".\n\nEven so, the economy in Hokkaido is already hurting badly. The island is hugely dependent on tourism, and Japan has banned travel from the US and Europe and most countries in Asia.\n\nA friend who owns a bar in the city of Chitose has been forced to shut it down and lay off his staff. Further north in the city of Asahikawa, Naoki Tamura told us his bar is still open but there are now almost no customers.\n\n\"One or two come by each night,\" he says.\n\n\"There used to be many tourists from China and South East Asia. They are completely gone. We don't hear any foreign language spoken on the street now. Smaller lodging places are having to shut down. Tourism businesses are really struggling.\"\n\nThe new state of emergency is officially due to finish on 6 May, the end of Japan's \"Golden Week\" holiday.\n\nBut one local government official working on epidemic suppression in Hokkaido told us they may now have to keep measures in place for much longer.\n\n\"We feel we have to keep on doing the same thing,\" he said. \"The goal is to minimise contact between people to stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nSo how long does that mean?\n\n\"Till we find a vaccine,\" he says. \"We have to keep on trying to stop the expansion.\"", "People struggling with payday loans, car finance and pawn shop borrowing will be granted a payment holiday under plans by the City watchdog.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the measures would help borrowers who are experiencing money problems amid the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe FCA wants motor finance firms to grant a three-month freeze.\n\nIt is also asking firms specialising in rent-to-own, buy-now-pay-later and pawnbroking loans to delay repayments.\n\nThose people with a payday loan will be given a one-month reprieve under the FCA's plan.\n\nLast week, the watchdog announced a three-month freeze on loan and credit card repayments.\n\n\"We are very aware of the continued struggle people are facing as a result of the pandemic,\" said the FCA's interim chief executive, Christopher Woolard.\n\n\"These measures build on the interventions we announced last week and will provide much-needed relief to consumers during these difficult times.\"\n\nThe FCA will consult with finance firms and expects to finalise proposals by 24 April, \"with them coming into force shortly afterwards\".\n\nMotor finance companies have been asked not to repossess cars or end loan agreements with customers who are \"experiencing temporary financial difficulties due to coronavirus\".\n\nThe FCA also said companies should not alter contracts in an \"unfair\" way, such as using the temporary fall in car prices caused by the pandemic to change the so-called balloon payment expected at the end of an agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, pawnbrokers have been advised not to sell items that struggling customers have borrowed against.\n\nThe FCA said: \"If the firm has already informed the consumer they intend to sell the item, they should suspend the sale during the payment freeze.\"\n\nThe watchdog said the proposed freeze on payday loan repayment was a shorter one-month period because it \"reflects both the much shorter length of most loans and, given interest rates tend to be higher than for other high-cost credit products, prevents firms from accruing additional interest during the freeze period\".\n\nBut Sara Williams, an adviser who runs the blog Debt Camel, questioned why there was a difference in the length of payment holidays for different types of loans.\n\n\"I think these proposals are disappointing,\" she said. \"It's good that interest has to be stopped, but many people will find a one month break isn't long enough.\n\n\"The three month breaks being proposed for car finance and credit cards are both more helpful and more realistic for people with coronavirus problems.\"\n\nHowever, she added: \"One month is better than nothing so if you need help phone up and ask for it.\"\n\nMr Woolard said: \"We have tailored our measures to specific products. For most of these proposals, firms and consumers should consider the amount of interest which may build up, and balance this against the need for immediate temporary support.\n\n\"If a payment freeze isn't in the customer's interests, firms should offer an alternative solution, potentially including the waiving of interest and charges or rescheduling the term of the loan.\"\n• None One in nine homeowners takes mortgage holiday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 99-year-old war veteran who has raised more than £19m for the NHS has been hailed as a \"one-man fundraising machine\" by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nCaptain Tom Moore originally aimed to raise just £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.\n\nMore than 950,000 people have now made donations to his JustGiving page.\n\nMore than half a million people have called for Capt Tom to be knighted in a petition to the Honours Committee.\n\nThe petition, which was set up earlier this week, has received more than 553,000 signatures after his efforts grabbed the nation's attention.\n\nAs he finished the challenge on Thursday, Capt Tom said it was \"an absolutely fantastic sum of money\".\n\nIn a tweet, he said he would be doing \"less walking\" on Friday but would be talking to TV channels in the United States, Argentina, Europe and the Middle East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Captain Tom, the 99-year-old who raised more than £19m for the NHS\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 2 he said the sum of money was \"absolutely enormous\" and \"very difficult to imagine\". He also thanked everyone who had donated for their support.\n\n\"I say thank you very much indeed. I appreciate it because the object for which we're donating is so important and so necessary... I think you're all so kind and thoughtful contributing to this cause,\" he said.\n\nThe total includes an undisclosed donation from the Duke of Cambridge, who with the Duchess of Cambridge recorded a special video message for the veteran.\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nPrince William said: \"It's amazing and what I love also is that he's a 99-year-old war vet.\n\n\"He's been around a long time, he knows everything and it's wonderful that everyone has been inspired by his story and his determination.\n\n\"He's a one-man fundraising machine and God knows what the final total will be. But good on him, and I hope it keeps going.\"\n\nIn response, Capt Tom said: \"It's absolutely amazing that my super prince can say something like that.\"\n\nHe also said it was \"a moment we will never forget\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapt Tom, who is originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, has seemingly risen from nowhere to the status of near national treasure.\n\nKeighley Town Council has tweeted that it will \"honour the fundraising hero\" with the freedom of the town.\n\nTributes and messages of congratulations have continued to pour in, including from sporting stars.\n\nEngland football team captain, Harry Kane, said: \"You've been a huge help for the NHS who really need it at this vital time so you're a true inspiration.\"\n\nF1 champion Lewis Hamilton said he was \"blown away by his amazing achievement\" and \"we could all learn something\" from him.\n\nCapt Tom began raising funds to thank NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nWith the aid of a walking frame, he completed 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, in 10-lap chunks well before his birthday on 30 April.\n\nNHS Charities Together said it was \"truly inspired and humbled\" by his efforts.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The White House has defended Ivanka Trump's personal trip to New Jersey last week even as federal guidelines advise Americans to remain at home.\n\nThe president's eldest daughter and her family travelled from Washington DC to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster to celebrate Passover.\n\n\"Her travel was not commercial,\" the White House said. \"She chose to spend a holiday in private with her family.\"\n\nBoth the nation's capital and New Jersey are under stay-at-home orders.\n\nMs Trump, her husband and fellow administration adviser Jared Kushner, and their three children went to \"a closed-down facility considered to be a family home\", the statement to US media said.\n\nThe White House added that the \"travel was no different than had she been traveling to/from work\", and \"the location was less populated than the surrounding area near her home\" in Washington.\n\nAccording to current federal coronavirus guidelines, people should \"avoid discretionary travel, shopping trips and social visits\".\n\nThere are currently 653,825 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the nation, with nearly 31,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWashington DC has been under a stay-at-home order since 1 April, with residents told to leave home for \"essential\" travel only.\n\nNew Jersey has been a hotspot for the outbreak, with over 71,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,100 deaths - second to its neighbour, New York, which is the epicentre of the pandemic in the US.\n\nShortly ahead of her trip, Ms Trump, who is a senior adviser to the president, had told her Twitter followers: \"Those lucky enough to be in a position to stay at home, please, please do so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What exactly is the role of Ivanka Trump?\n\nThe day before Passover, 7 April, she also shared a tweet by New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy that asked residents to celebrate health workers by \"by staying home for them\".\n\nLast month, Governor Murphy called on residents with second homes in the state to avoid travelling until restrictions eased.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control's guidance for the New Jersey, New York and Connecticut region also urges residents to \"refrain from non-essential domestic travel\".\n\nLast week, Scotland's chief medical officer resigned after similar travel during the pandemic.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood had apologised for taking two trips to her second home and initially said she planned to continue in the role, but quit on Sunday.\n\nShe had earlier been given a police warning for breaking the lockdown rules after photographs emerged of Dr Calderwood and her family visiting Earlsferry in Fife - more than an hour's drive from her main family home in Edinburgh.", "New Jersey police found 17 bodies in one of the state's largest nursing homes after an anonymous tip said a body was being stored in a shed.\n\nA total of 68 people associated with the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation centres have recently died, with 26 having tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nPolice did not find a body in the shed, but said the facility's tiny morgue was \"overwhelmed\".\n\nNew Jersey has over 71,000 cases and 3,100 deaths due to the coronavirus.\n\nOver the weekend, the nursing home had requested 25 body bags from authorities. On Monday, police received the anonymous tip about a body being kept in a shed.\n\nInstead, they found 17 bodies kept in a morgue built to house four.\n\nThe two buildings at the facility have nearly 700 beds\n\n\"They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,\" Andover police chief Eric Danielson told the New York Times.\n\nIt is unclear whether any of the 17 deaths were due to the coronavirus.\n\nChaim Scheinbaum, a co-owner of the nursing home, addressed the morgue problem in an email to New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer, according to the Associated Press.\n\n\"The backup and after hours holiday weekend issues, plus more than average deaths, contributed to the presence of more deceased than normal in the facility holding room,\" he said.\n\nMr Scheinbaum also said the facility is adequately staffed.\n\nSeventy-six patients have tested positive for Covid-19 along with 41 staff members between the two buildings, according to the Times .\n\nThirteen bodies were moved to a refrigerated truck at a neighbouring hospital, while the remaining four were to be sent to a funeral home.\n\nThe nursing home owner has since obtained a refrigerated truck for bodies, local media reported.\n\nThe home's two buildings have nearly 700 beds in all.\n\nAn Andover employee told the New Jersey Herald, which first reported the story, that in the second building, 65 residents had died since 31 March.\n\nThe centre is one of New Jersey's largest nursing homes\n\nFamily members have expressed concerns to the Herald, saying they received little information before their loved ones died.\n\nThe state governor, Phil Murphy, said he was \"outraged that the bodies of the dead were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility\".\n\n\"New Jerseyans living in our long-term care facilities deserve to be cared for with respect, compassion, and dignity,\" he said, adding that he had asked the attorney general to review all long-term care facilities that had experienced a disproportionate number of deaths.\n\nAccording to New Jersey's health commissioner, 10% of 60,000 people in care facilities across the state have Covid-19.\n\nThe state's health department has sent thousands of additional supplies to the nursing homes to help combat the virus.\n\nOn 4 April, the department also ordered nursing homes to inform staff, other patients and families within 24 hours if anyone in the facility tested positive for Covid-19.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFinishing the season in a 40-day window was one of the scenarios discussed at a Premier League meeting on Friday.\n\nTop-flight clubs remain committed to playing all 92 remaining fixtures this season but did not discuss a deadline by which action must resume.\n\nClubs were expected to debate a 30 June deadline to end the season but instead discussed \"possible scheduling models\".\n\nThe Premier League said it \"remains our objective\" to complete matches but currently \"all dates are tentative\".\n\nThe league has been suspended since 13 March because of coronavirus.\n\nIt is understood some clubs expected to discuss the proposed 30 June deadline at Friday's meeting but it was decided this was not the right time to do so.\n\nA Premier League spokesperson said \"in common with other businesses and industries\" clubs were \"working through complex planning scenarios\".\n\n\"Today's shareholders' meeting provided an opportunity to discuss possible scheduling models,\" it added.\n\n\"It remains our objective to complete the 2019-20 season but at this stage all dates are tentative while the impact of Covid-19 develops.\"\n\nSixteen of the 20 Premier League teams have nine games to play, with four having 10 left.\n\nEarlier this month the Premier League said play will only resume when \"it is safe and appropriate to do so\". The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the UK has since risen to more than 12,000.\n\nOn Thursday, the government issued a further three-week lockdown to ensure social distancing and manage the spread of the virus.\n\nBBC sports editor Dan Roan has learned Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden spoke to Premier League bosses this week and signalled the government was content for them to start contingency planning.\n\nBut nothing will be taken forward without the green light from the government, in accordance with medical advice.\n\nIn a section on player welfare at the meeting, it was decided tests for coronavirus would have to be widely available to the public before the widespread testing of players.\n\nWhen and how football resumes has been widely debated across the sport as clubs face up to financial difficulties and the logistical issues caused by a late finish to the season.\n\nThe contracts of numerous players expire on 30 June, including those of Chelsea midfielder Willian and Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen.\n\nIf the season is extended beyond that date there is a possibility clubs will lose players before fixtures are concluded.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa is aware of the problem and is looking at alternatives such as rolling contract extensions.\n\nThe 30 June date is also an issue for clubs around agreed changes in kit manufacturers. Liverpool are due to change shirt manufacturers from New Balance to Nike, while Watford and Newcastle are also set to use new suppliers.\n\nIn a BBC Sport vote on how the season should be dealt with 39% of respondents wanted to 'declare the season null and void', with 28% opting to 'finish the season no matter how long it takes'.\n\nUefa has pleaded for leagues to give them time to return with their own proposals for ending the season across Europe.\n\nEuropean football's governing body will meet next week to further discuss plans which include potentially using the Champions League final to end the 2019-20 season on 29 August.\n\nLower down the football pyramid in England, the EFL has sent a letter to clubs recommending they return to training on 16 May at the earliest.\n\nThe EFL has not discussed a league restart date with the government but told clubs: \"Our planning needs to be agile enough to allow us to be as prepared as possible for a start at relatively short notice.\"\n\n'Eight weeks enough to complete season'\n\nIn the end, the 30 June deadline demand some were so keen to push earlier in the week was never raised.\n\nThe feeling that today's meeting was not the right time to widen the debate and the Premier League desire for a united front was strong enough to dissuade a discussion that would have extended the chat, which was wrapped up in under two hours.\n\nIndividual clubs will go away to continue discussions with players about wage cuts and deferrals and wait to see what comes out of two Uefa meetings next week.\n\nBefore their next scheduled meeting on 1 May, lessons should also be absorbed from Germany.\n\nSome Bundesliga players have already returned to their clubs for training under social distancing rules - getting changed at home and returning to shower after picking up some food.\n\nA Bundesliga meeting on Thursday will offer guidance on if and when this can be stepped up following the revised regulations announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday.\n\nIt will start to offer the Premier League some kind of clarity over the major discussions today, which centred around different start and end dates to play the remainder of the 2019-20 campaign.\n\nAt the moment, it is felt eight weeks will be enough from returning to training in order to regain match fitness and play nine rounds of games to complete the season.\n\nGermany's experience will help frame whether that prospect is a realistic one.\n\nIn the meantime, as has been the case since matches were first called off five weeks ago, the only certainty is uncertainty.\n\nWhat about other European leagues?\n\nThe body that represents Europe's top leagues says when football does return it will \"no doubt\" be played behind closed doors.\n\nAt present, the state of play in the continent's top leagues is:\n\nGermany's Bundesliga: Clubs have returned to training but the season is still suspended until 30 April.\n\nSpain's La Liga: There will be no training until emergency measures in place are lifted and La Liga president Javier Tebas says resuming play on 28 May is a best-case scenario.\n\nFrance's Ligue 1: French football authorities are considering restarting Ligue 1 on 3 or 17 June, with the latter date the more likely, according to sports daily L'Equipe.\n\nItaly's Serie A: The Italian Football Federation (IFF) hopes to begin testing players for the virus at the start of May, in preparation for the season to resume.", "Perception in Latin America that Covid-19 is rich person's disease\n\nIn Ecuador, the death toll stands at 403 but new figures from one province suggest thousands have died. The government in Guayas province reported 6,700 deaths in the first two weeks of April, far more than the usual 1,000 deaths there in the same period. The first recorded case was of an Ecuadorean woman returning from Spain. It backs the perception in Latin America that Covid-19 is a rich person's disease - a virus introduced to the region by affluent parts of society who had been travelling abroad. The high death toll is also a devastating consequence of the combination of an overburdened healthcare system and a deeply unequal society which means not everybody is able - or willing - to socially distance and stop work. Authorities argue they were quick to impose strict regulations and people chose to disregard measures but experts argue more could be done - and one thing that could help is testing. While Ecuador is not the worst offender in the region, low testing rates have made it very difficult to understand how the virus has moved through communities, some of which have been devastated by the high death toll. Read more about the situation in Ecuador here.", "Thirteen care home staff have moved into campervans at the care home where they work in a bid to protect residents.\n\nThe staff hope that by restricting their own movements, they will reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading at Isobel Fraser Home in Inverness.\n\nThe workers have agreed to stay in the campervans for the duration of the lockdown.\n\nTheir actions have been praised by residents and their families.\n\nKirstie Paterson, one of the 13 staff, said by workers sharing the three vans they could cut down on the amount of movement to and from the home.\n\nShe added: \"We have got the perfect continuity of care for the residents, which is obviously a big thing especially when there are so many scary things on the news just now.\n\n\"We're giving them that comfort and confidence that they need.\"\n\nManager Victoria Connelly said she and the staff were \"essentially self isolating as a family\".\n\nSimon Cole Hamilton, deputy chairman of the trust running the home, said life in the campervans would be far from a holiday for the workers.\n\nHe said: \"It's going to be hard work for them. They are giving up their home lives, their private lives and it is asking a lot of them.\"", "Coronavirus testing will be rolled out to people working in public services such as police, fire and prison staff, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nCapacity was rising \"sharply\" but not as many NHS staff had come forward for tests as had been expected, he said.\n\nThe government said 21,328 tests were carried out on Thursday but there had been capacity for at least 38,000.\n\nMeanwhile, scientists say they should have at least a million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by September.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said there were \"no guarantees\" and it was not possible to put a date on when a vaccine would be created by.\n\nProducing one is \"a colossal undertaking\" and \"a complex process which will take many months\", he told the government's daily press briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded 847 new coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals on Thursday, taking the total to 14,576.\n\nThe figure does not include hundreds more who have died in care homes and the community.\n\nSpeaking by videolink to an online meeting of the Commons health committee earlier, Mr Hancock said the government had prioritised testing for hospital patients and NHS workers before expanding it to residents and staff in social care.\n\nHe added some 50,000 NHS workers had been tested so far.\n\nHowever, he said it was \"frustrating\" there was capacity for 10,000 more tests a day than were carried out on Thursday.\n\nThe government has a target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nEligibility for testing will also be expanded to critical local authority workers, the judiciary and Department for Work and Pensions staff, he said.\n\n\"We're able to do that because of the scale-up of testing,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock said he hoped anyone with symptoms would be able to be tested \"relatively soon\".\n\n\"Now we've got the curve under control, I want to be able to get back to the position that we can test everybody with symptoms - and I anticipate being able to do that relatively soon because we're increasing capacity, as I say,\" he said.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, welcomed the expansion of testing.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is a shame it has come this late, with thousands of firefighters already self-isolating - this is something that could have been easily avoided.\"\n\nMr Wrack said there were also issues around how accessible testing was, with many testing centres far out of town.\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, told the committee some sick NHS workers were compelled to drive for up to two hours to be tested.\n\nAlso speaking to the committee, Prof Anthony Costello, the director of University College London's Institute for Global Health, said there could be 40,000 deaths in the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said the UK had been \"too slow\" to react on a number of fronts to the crisis which may lead to it having \"probably the highest death rate in Europe\".\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, previously said it would be a \"good outcome\" if total UK deaths could be kept below 20,000.\n\nWarning that the UK would face \"further waves\" of the virus, Prof Costello said a system needed to be put in place that \"cannot just do a certain number of tests in the laboratory\" but one that reached out at \"district and community level\".\n\nSpeaking at the briefing, Sir Patrick said there was beginning to be a \"gradual decrease\" in the number of coronavirus patients in London hospitals and a flattening or decrease in other areas.\n\n\"The numbers are not only at a plateau but beginning to come down in some areas and that will translate into fewer people in intensive care in due course,\" he said.\n\n\"But do not expect this to be quick. This is not going to be a sudden drop, there will be a plateau - it will take a while for the numbers to come right down and that's why it's important that we continue with the strong social distancing measures that we have in place.\"\n\nSir Patrick added that he unfortunately expected the number of coronavirus-related deaths to continue to plateau \"for a little while\" before starting to come down slowly.", "Councils in England have warned that the coronavirus crisis is pushing them to the brink of financial failure.\n\nThe Local Government Association said that without more funding some authorities would be forced to cut \"vital\" services.\n\nCouncils face increased costs from supporting vulnerable people, while income from fees and rates is falling.\n\nThe government said it was providing £1.6bn extra to help them \"provide services\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe LGA welcomed this, but said more money was needed and called for a \"cast-iron commitment\" to cover the costs of coronavirus-related work.\n\nMany councils were already under severe financial strain before the coronavirus crisis, particularly those responsible for social care.\n\nSince 2010 many local authorities have had to cut services to balance the books. The crisis has resulted in extra pressure on services that support the most vulnerable: the elderly, disabled and homeless.\n\nAt the same time income from fees and charges has dried up, and there's fear that council tax revenues may fall as people face financial hardship.\n\nAt the start of this crisis, council leaders said they largely felt reassured by government promises of support. Now - with so much demand on the Treasury - there's scepticism about how much more funding will be forthcoming.\n\nLocal government, which often feels like a forgotten frontline service, wants to ensure its voice is heard among the calls for support. Hence this stark warning about the potential consequences for crucial services if it doesn't get more cash.\n\nThe LGA says councils are spending more on helping disabled, older and homeless people through the crisis, but leisure and planning services at many town halls have been scaled back or closed, meaning income has \"dried up\".\n\nRichard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board, said: \"Additional funding is urgently needed to help councils get through this crisis, support the vulnerable and adapt to life once we defeat this virus, when our local services will be needed more than ever to help communities rebuild.\n\n\"It would be wrong and unacceptable if councils are then forced to make further cutbacks to the very services that will have helped the nation through this crisis and the key workers who are producing heroics on the front line see their jobs placed at risk.\"\n\nThe government has announced councils will be able to defer £2.6bn in business rate payments owed to central government.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"We've already provided £1.6bn of additional funding and have announced new measures to help ease immediate cash flow pressures faced by councils in England.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 99-year-old war veteran has been left \"speechless\" after raising more than £23m for the NHS.\n\nCapt Tom Moore originally aimed to raise just £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge hailed him as a \"one-man fundraising machine\".\n\nHis daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said: \"There are no words left to say. We cannot believe people's generosity and he's just floored by it.\"\n\nMs Ingram-Moore continued: \"We're all speechless. It's not even two weeks since this started. We're just working our socks off supporting him and this phenomenon.\n\n\"Yesterday we did 35 interviews and another 17 today but the Yorkshireman takes it all in his stride.\n\n\"He's become an A-list celebrity. I'm just the sidekick.\"\n\nMore than a million people have now made donations to his JustGiving page.\n\nAnd more than half a million people have called for Capt Tom to be knighted in a petition to the Honours Committee.\n\nThe petition, which was set up earlier this week, has received more than 680,000 signatures after his efforts grabbed the nation's attention.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is looking at ways to recognise his \"heroic efforts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Captain Tom, the 99-year-old who raised more than £20m for the NHS\n\nAs he finished the challenge on Thursday, having raised about £14m, Capt Tom said it was \"an absolutely fantastic sum of money\".\n\nIn a tweet, he said he would be doing \"less walking\" on Friday but would be talking to TV channels in the United States, Argentina, Europe and the Middle East.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 2 he said the sum of money was \"absolutely enormous\" and \"very difficult to imagine\". He also thanked everyone who had donated for their support.\n\n\"I say thank you very much indeed. I appreciate it because the object for which we're donating is so important and so necessary... I think you're all so kind and thoughtful contributing to this cause,\" he said.\n\nThe total includes an undisclosed donation from the Duke of Cambridge, who, with the Duchess of Cambridge, recorded a special video message for the veteran.\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nPrince William said: \"It's amazing and what I love also is that he's a 99-year-old war vet.\n\n\"He's been around a long time, he knows everything and it's wonderful that everyone has been inspired by his story and his determination.\n\n\"He's a one-man fundraising machine and God knows what the final total will be. But good on him, and I hope it keeps going.\"\n\nIn response, Capt Tom said: \"It's absolutely amazing that my super prince can say something like that.\"\n\nHe also said it was \"a moment we will never forget\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapt Tom, who is originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, has seemingly risen from nowhere to the status of near national treasure.\n\nKeighley Town Council has tweeted that it will \"honour the fundraising hero\" with the freedom of the town.\n\nCapt Tom began raising funds to thank NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nWith the aid of a walking frame, he completed 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, in 10-lap chunks well before his birthday on 30 April.\n\nNHS Charities Together said it was \"truly inspired and humbled\" by his efforts.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The jackpot winner will scoop £57.8m once the ticket is verified\n\nA Euromillions player in South Ayrshire has made a claim for a £57.8m jackpot.\n\nAn appeal was issued last month after the winning ticket went unclaimed.\n\nBut National Lottery operator Camelot has confirmed a claim has now been made.\n\nThe winner matched all five main numbers and the two Lucky Stars in the draw on Tuesday 17 March.\n\nThe winning numbers were 05, 07, 08, 16 and 20, with the Lucky Stars 02 and 12.\n\nThe claim is going through the validation process before any payment can be made.\n\nOnce the ticket has been validated and the money paid out, it is up to the winner to decide whether to go public with the £57,869,670 jackpot.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"It is fantastic news that a lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\n\n\"During the current crisis, we'd like to encourage as many players as possible to check their tickets and play online or on the National Lottery app, and to only buy their tickets in retail or claim a retail prize if they are already in-store to do an essential shop.\"\n\nScotland's biggest Euromillions winners were Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, who, won £161m in 2011.", "Some Londoners have been wearing face masks when travelling for several weeks\n\nWearing face masks while travelling in London should be compulsory, city mayor Sadiq Khan has told the government.\n\nDespite UK public health experts not currently recommending the use of face-coverings, Mr Khan is lobbying for guidelines to be changed.\n\nIt comes after it was made compulsory in New York on Wednesday, with similar schemes also being operated in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.\n\n\"[But] the evidence around the world is that this is effective,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"I'm lobbying our government and advisers to change their advice, and I want us to do that sooner rather than later.\n\n\"They are already reviewing this on the basis of our representation.\"\n\nSadiq Khan is calling on the government to change scientific advice to require people to wear face masks outside\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says it remains the case that medical masks should be reserved for healthcare workers, not the general public.\n\nBut WHO special envoy Dr David Nabarro has suggested more widespread use of masks will become \"the norm\" as the world adjusts to living with Covid-19.\n\nShaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for London mayor however, has accused Mr Khan of not doing enough to help supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to Transport for London (TFL) staff and this also should be compulsory.\n\nMr Bailey claims to have sourced 600,000 face masks and vinyl gloves - enough to protect every bus worker for 30 days.\n\n\"The mayor of London is also the chairman of TfL, and his failure to provide transport workers with PPE is putting lives at risk,\" said Mr Bailey.\n\n\"If he wanted to, he can start tomorrow by sourcing PPE for all 60,000 of the transport staff who work for him.\n\n\"Now more than ever, London needs its mayor to take responsibility and to stop blaming the government to score political points during a national crisis.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "With Captain Tom Moore, 99, walking his way to fame - and a fortune for NHS charities - another nonagenarian has embarked on a marathon challenge.\n\nMargaret Payne, 90, aims to climb the equivalent of Highland mountain Suilven - 731m (2,398ft) - with 282 trips upstairs at her Sutherland home.\n\nInspired by the Army veteran's 100 laps of his garden, she began on Sunday.\n\nAnd after hitting her target to raise £10,000 for the NHS and a hospice on Thursday, she said: \"It's amazing.\"\n\nMrs Payne, from Ardvar, first climbed Suilven, in the west of Sutherland, aged 15, in 1944.\n\nShe believes her modern-day challenge will take around two months to complete.\n\nIt is her way of thanking the \"absolutely wonderful\" NHS staff, and carers at Highland Hospice, who took care of her husband, Jim, before his death at Christmas.\n\nAfter donations passed her target, she said: \"I wasn't expecting anything like it - 10,000 thank yous.\"\n\n\"It's brilliant of them all and I feel the NHS really deserve it. They have been amazing. Each day they are risking their lives.\"\n\nWhat goes up... must come down\n\nBy Thursday night, her fundraising total was at £12,500 - and rising.\n\nLaunching her bid, she wrote on her fundraising page: \"Here we go... starting Easter Sunday... three flights before lunch today. Raining and windy outside but warm going up and down the stairs.\"\n\nSince then she has climbed several times throughout each day.\n\nDespite that, Mrs Payne said she had never been a hillwalker, having lived with knee problems since she was 12.\n\nHowever, she would walk miles to reach the best spots for her true passion: fishing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Payne's inspiration, who has become known as \"Captain Tom\", walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden to mark his upcoming 100th birthday.\n\nAfter being featured on local radio and websites and then TV and in national newspapers, the former serviceman quickly raced past his initial target of £1,000 and then a swiftly-revised one of £500,000.\n\nBy the early hours of Friday, more than 800,000 people had donated a total of more than £17m.\n\nWhat heights Mrs Payne can achieve in her own fundraising challenge has yet to be seen...", "Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years.\n\nThe rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on 27 May, taking two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nBoth the rocket and spacecraft were developed by private company SpaceX.\n\nNasa has been using Russian rockets for crewed flights since its space shuttle was retired in 2011.\n\nIf successful, SpaceX – headed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - will become the first private firm to send Nasa astronauts into space.\n\nThe Falcon Nine rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will take off from the space centre’s historic Pad 39A, the same one used for the Apollo and shuttle missions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the critical moments from the SpaceX test\n\nIt will take astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley approximately 24 hours to reach the ISS.\n\nOne American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are currently aboard the ISS.", "Tameside Council reported 316 fly-tipping incidents since the UK went into lockdown\n\nRubbish tips should reopen to curb an increase in fly-tipping during the coronavirus lockdown, politicians have said.\n\nMany waste facilities closed in March after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said people should stay at home, except for “essential travel”.\n\nMPs and councillors are calling for tips to be accessible again, but with measures to allow social distancing.\n\nOne council leader said fly-tipping during the crisis was \"reprehensible\".\n\nFly-tipping is punishable by a fine of up to £50,000 or 12 months imprisonment.\n\nNorth Hertfordshire District Council said officers were working hard to reports of fly-tipping\n\nTameside Council, in Greater Manchester, said it had seen more than 300 incidents of fly-tipping since the coronavirus restrictions came into force, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nLabour councillor Allison Gwynne said although people may be creating extra waste under lockdown, this was no excuse for people to “turn to criminal behaviour”.\n\nMeanwhile, Boston Borough Council, in Lincolnshire, reported finding more than 50 fly-tipping sites in the past two weeks.\n\nLiverpool City Council also said it had been hit by a “sharp rise” in illegal dumping from an “irresponsible and selfish minority” during the lockdown.\n\nAnd in Rochdale, the council said it had 887 fly-tipping incidents in March, compared with 656 in the same month last year.\n\nMany authorities have said the surge in fly-tipping has put more pressure on waste crews, some of which have reduced staffing due to coronavirus.\n\nThe government’s latest guidance says “where possible key [waste] sites should be maintained” by councils, as long as social distancing rules can be followed.\n\nStaffing levels must also be “adequate” for health and safety and security reasons, officials say.\n\nRecycling centres in Wigan were reopening on Friday.\n\nResidents were warned not to all rush at once, with the council requesting that those who could wait until after the weekend to visit should do so in order to reduce the queuing times.\n\nSome councils have reported a \"sharp rise\" in fly-tipping\n\nConservative councillor Paul Bettison, leader of Bracknell Forest Council, said the authority was looking at the possibility of reopening its tip within the government’s guidelines.\n\nMr Bettison said the tip was closed after 1,500 cars visited in the first weekend of the lockdown, making social distancing difficult.\n\n“We would probably require people to go online and make an appointment at the tip, and there would be so many cars for each hour’s slot,” Mr Bettison said.\n\nTobias Ellwood, Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, said reopening tips with the right amount of staff and measures to allow for social distancing “would help avoid a build up of fly-tipping”.\n\nNatalie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover and Deal, added: “We are in this for the long haul, so it is vital to dispose of rubbish safely and responsibly.\n\n“More fly-tipping and waste burning is bad for the countryside and the environment.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat councillor Chris Botten, from Surrey County Council, said he wanted recycling centres to open for gardeners and householders doing “domestic jobs” to dispose of waste.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council has reopened its recycling centres and told residents that using them counts as \"essential travel\".\n\nThe authority said: \"The decision to reopen was debated at length but it was felt that it was reasonable, appropriate and would reduce community frustration, as well as provide a much-needed and essential service for our residents.\"\n\nIt has also decided to reopen four parks for people to get their daily exercise.\n\nIn Wales, Merthyr Tydfil Council has said its recycling centres will reopen, in a limited way, next week.\n\nIndependent councillor Felicity Rice, from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, said until government lockdown restrictions were relaxed, tips in the area were unlikely to reopen.\n\n“Keeping the tips open now, would go against government advice on non-essential travel and therefore, these sites will remain closed until this advice changes,\" she said.\n\nCouncillor David Renard, from the Local Government Association, said: \"Any reopening procedures for household waste and recycling centres will need to take into account available staffing and a likely surge in demand, while maintaining government advice on social distancing guidance and essential travel.\n\n\"This remains a local matter and councils will need to do their own risk assessment based on local circumstances.\"\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you need to do The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With the business of Parliament set to go \"virtual\", two MPs talk about the change\n\nPlans to allow MPs to take part in some parliamentary business virtually have been approved by the body responsible for administration in the Commons.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said ministers will be quizzed via Zoom for the first time in the House's 700-year history.\n\nThis \"unprecedented step\" will \"keep democracy going\" during the coronavirus crisis, it said.\n\nMPs will have to approve the plan next week when they return on 21 April.\n\nIt means that up to 120 MPs will be able to take part in proceedings virtually at any one time, while 50 could remain in the chamber under social distancing rules.\n\nThe Commons authorities will mark out the 2m (6ft) distance MPs will have to maintain when they go into the chamber.\n\nThe House of Lords will also conduct some non-legislative debates remotely after guidance was changed by senior peers.\n\nThese will only be broadcast from early May, while debates on laws will initially continue in the chamber with the \"expectation of limited participation\".\n\nThe meeting of the House of Commons Commission on Thursday included Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, shadow leader Valerie Vaz and the SNP's Pete Wishart.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay, who chairs the commission, said: \"By initiating a hybrid solution, with steps towards an entirely virtual Parliament, we are enabling members to stay close to their communities, while continuing their important work scrutinising the government.\n\n\"I do not want members and House staff putting themselves at risk.\n\n\"By working virtually, this is our contribution to the guidance of stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said: \"These measures will make it possible for Parliament to continue its work of conducting scrutiny, authorising spending and making laws - all of which are essential to tackling coronavirus.\"\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said there was an expectation that fewer MPs will be present in the Chamber when they return after recess and all MPs were being encouraged to work virtually.\n\nIf MPs approve the measures, some will be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions, any urgent questions and statements via video link for the first two hours of each sitting day, from Wednesday 22 April.\n\nScreens will be placed around the Commons' chamber to allow the Speaker and MPs present to be able to see their \"virtual\" colleagues.\n\nThe Commission said that if an MP is called \"but cannot be heard or seen for technological reasons, it should be possible for them to be called later in the proceedings\".\n\nAnd once the delivery of the hybrid proceedings was \"judged satisfactory and sustainable\", work to extend the model to debates on motions and legislation will begin \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nIt will be up to the House to decide on any change to a system of remote voting, the Commission said.\n\nIt added that 20 virtual committee meetings a week will be able to held from 20 April.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has advised the Commission that for public Parliamentary proceedings it considers the use of Zoom appropriate, if the installation and the use of the service is carefully managed.\n\nAhead of the decision, Conservative MP Stephen Crabb, who is the Commons' Welsh Affairs select committee chairman, said a transition to a \"virtual\" Parliament \"isn't so significant\" as many MPs \"are well used to working from home\".\n\n\"We don't necessarily think this lockdown is going to end in the next few days or even few weeks,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"So we don't want to let this period pass without the government really being questioned on very, very serious and challenging issues - and that's what we need to be able to do.\"\n\nMr Crabb said it was \"inevitable\" that there were \"a few teething challenges\" when chairing a committee meeting via video conferencing.\n\n\"You have 10 other people in the room all wanting to perhaps talk at the same time - it's much easier to chair that when you're physically in the same space,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the virus \"will force us to look at reforms with more urgency\" in an \"old-fashioned\" Parliament - such as electronic voting or video conferencing.\n\nMeanwhile, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has been part of a cross-party group of MPs who have been calling for Parliament to be reconvened immediately and virtually.\n\n\"We have to take our responsibilities seriously, our constituents expect us to be holding the government to account,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We should be using the technology, we shouldn't be exposing anyone to risk - the public, our constituents and our staff members.\n\n\"Let's do the job that we need to do, but let's do it from a position of safety.\"\n\nMPs are currently due to debate key Brexit legislation when they return, and the government needs to pass its Finance Bill, enacting measures in the Budget.\n\nUnder current rules, 40 MPs must be present in the Commons chamber for any votes to take place, but there have been suggestions this could be reduced so that party whips could effectively act as proxies for all their MPs, meaning fewer would need to attend in person.\n\nSuch changes would, however, need the government to bring forward a motion which MPs would need to agree to. Other changes to the way MPs work could be agreed informally between the Speaker and party leaders.\n\nMembers of the National Assembly for Wales held their first votes during a virtual parliamentary session last week\n\nAnd leaders of the four opposition parties in Scotland put questions about coronavirus to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon via an online meeting for the first time on Thursday last week.", "After eight draining weeks of culinary challenges, Thomas Frake has become the latest winner of BBC One's MasterChef.\n\nThe 32-year-old, who lives in London and works in finance, beat 31-year-old David Rickett and 24-year-old Sandy Tang to become the show's 16th winner.\n\nFriday's grand final saw the remaining three chefs cook three courses for judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace.\n\nTorode described the winner as \"a real talent\" and \"a grafter\", while Wallace praised his \"definitive style\".\n\nThomas's winning menu began with monkfish scampi, continued with an ox cheek main and finished with a salted caramel custard tart dessert.\n\nWallace called his \"exceptional\" efforts \"proper, old-fashioned, hearty grub\" that \"had his heart and his soul in every single forkful\".\n\nThomas is the show's 16th winner since its 2005 relaunch\n\nThomas, who beat 59 other amateur cooks to win the MasterChef 2020 trophy, said his victory was \"a dream come true\".\n\n\"I can't see me not working in food for the rest of my life because it just makes me happy seeing other people happy with it,\" he continued.\n\nBorn in east London and raised with his three younger brothers in London and Kent, he now lives in south London with his girlfriend.\n\nHe said his ambition was to one day own a gastropub - \"maybe a classic East End boozer or a picturesque country pub.\"\n\nThe 2020 MasterChef final is available to view on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A four-year-old a boy with a rare form of cancer has recovered from the coronavirus.\n\nArchie Wilks was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma in January 2019.\n\nHis parents said it's \"definitely a weight lifted\" to have their son home after he was in hospital for six days.\n\nSee more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak said companies will now be able to apply for a government wage subsidy for their furloughed workers in June\n\nThe government pay scheme for workers who have downed tools but remain employed has been extended.\n\nMore than nine million workers are expected to be furloughed, or put on state-paid leave, under the government's job retention scheme .\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said on Friday the wage subsidy would be available for another month until the end of June.\n\nBusiness groups and firms such as Swissport earlier warned if the scheme was not extended, more jobs would go.\n\nThe chancellor said the salary scheme would be extended again \"if necessary\".\n\n\"With the extension of the coronavirus lockdown measures yesterday, it is the right decision to extend the furlough scheme for a month to the end of June to provide clarity,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"It is vital for people's livelihoods that the UK economy gets up and running again when it is safe to do so, and I will continue to review the scheme so it is supporting our recovery.\"\n\nUnder the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the government will cover 80% of workers' wages for March, April and May if they are put on leave.\n\nEmployers will pay workers and reclaim the money from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) at the end of April. They can apply to join the scheme from Monday.\n\nFigures from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) suggest nearly a fifth of smaller firms and half of companies will access the help.\n\nCBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn earlier warned that more redundancies would occur if the policy was not extended\n\nThe Confederation for British Industry (CBI) welcomed the salary subsidy extension after repeatedly warning that many firms could start to cut staff without one.\n\n\"This extension means that firms will no longer be forced to issue redundancy notices over the next few to days to comply with 45-day consultation requirements, and can instead return to focusing on protecting jobs and their businesses,\" said CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\n\"It's absolutely clear that these vital support systems must stay in place until it's safe for people to return to work and we can begin to restart and revive our economy.\"\n\nChief executive of the Airport Operators Association Karen Dee said: \"Airports are making significant use of the job retention scheme, which has helped to address some of the challenges they are currently facing, so it is good news that the Chancellor has decided to extend it\".", "The boss of the Bank of England has said that emergency lending to businesses \"has to be sorted out\" amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey questioned whether the system is \"too complicated\" as banks struggle to cope with applications.\n\nMr Bailey said that banks must now \"dig in\" with processing risk assessments.\n\nHe added that the government-backed scheme had taken longer to get into full operation than expected.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said in March that UK-based small and medium-sized business could apply for an interest-free loan of up to £5m to help them with Covid-19 related difficulties.\n\nHowever, the British Chambers of Commerce said on Wednesday that only 2% of UK firms had so far secured the loans.\n\n\"Notwithstanding the stress that we're all operating under in terms of the current working environment, they [the banks] have got to put their backs into it and get on with it, frankly,\" Mr Bailey said on Friday.\n\nMr Bailey also said that the chancellor and HM Treasury had to make a decision on whether or not the taxpayer gives 100% backing for the loan scheme.\n\nCurrently, the government guarantees 80% of the loan amount to give banks and financial companies the confidence to lend.\n\nBanks and financial institutions have lent more than £1.1bn to those enterprises under the government's coronavirus loan scheme, according to the latest figures released by UK Finance on Wednesday.\n\nMore than 6,000 loans have now been provided, with an average value of about £185,000.\n\nOn Thursday it was announced loans to large firms would also be included in the government's £330bn economic support package.\n\nThe scheme is part of government efforts to help keep the UK economy afloat as it is battered by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDuring the phone call with journalists on Friday, Mr Bailey also addressed the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecast, which expects GDP to drop by 35% in the three months to June.\n\nHe said that such a scenario was \"not implausible\".\n\nThe Bank of England has also slashed interest rates to a new low and freed up billions of pounds to help consumers and banks through the crisis.", "Scientists at the University of Oxford say they should have at least a million doses of a coronavirus vaccine ready by September.\n\nThey say they hope to have hundreds of millions of doses for use by the end of 2020.\n\nHowever, it is still uncertain whether the jab will work as the first patients are not expected to take part in trials until next week.\n\nMost argue it will take between 12 and 18 months before there is a vaccine that can be widely administered.\n\nSeparately the government has announced it has formed a vaccine taskforce to accelerate the development of a working vaccine.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has praised the NHS staff who treated him for coronavirus in hospital.\n\nIn a video message posted on his Twitter account, Boris Johnson singled out and named two nurses who had stood by his bedside for 48 hours at the most critical time.\n\nHe added the doctors and nurses had made decisions that he would be \"grateful for [for] the rest of my life\".\n\nMr Johnson spent a week at St Thomas' Hospital and will recover at Chequers before returning to work.\n\nRead more: Boris Johnson: 'It could have gone either way'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike and Caroline McGee said they are proud of their daughter\n\nA New Zealand nurse praised by Boris Johnson for helping to save his life said treating the prime minister was the \"most surreal time in her life\", her parents have said.\n\nJenny McGee, along with Luis Pitarma from Portugal, was praised by the PM for standing at his bedside \"when things could have gone either way\".\n\nMs McGee's parents told Television New Zealand they are \"exceptionally proud\".\n\nThey said she treated Mr Johnson like any other patient.\n\nMr Johnson was discharged from St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday, one week after being admitted to be treated for coronavirus. He spent several nights in the intensive care unit where he was given oxygen.\n\nHe said the NHS \"has saved my life, no question\" and paid tribute to many medics, singling out Ms McGee and Mr Pitarma specifically.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video message posted on Twitter, the PM thanked the NHS staff that cared for him\n\nMs McGee's parents said they knew Mr Johnson was in the hospital their daughter works in as \"it was all over the news\".\n\n\"But our daughter's very professional so we don't ask things or she doesn't spill things. It really wasn't until he was out of intensive care until she actually told us,\" her mother Caroline told TVNZ.\n\n\"She said she had just had a most surreal time in her life, something she will never forget. And that she had been taking care of Boris.\"\n\nMs McGee is from Invercargill, on New Zealand's South Island\n\nShe added: \"It makes us feel exceptionally proud, obviously.\n\n\"But she has told us these things over the years and it doesn't matter what patient she's looking after, this is what she does and I just find it incredible that she, any nurses, can do this for 12 hours.\n\n\"Sit and watch a patient, and twiddle away with all the different knobs to keep their patients alive. It's absolutely amazing.\"\n\nHer brother Rob said that when he spoke to her she was on her way to work to do another night shift. He told the New Zealand Herald: \"We are all very proud of Jen, not just in the support she gave Boris - but what she has been doing helping everyday people.\n\n\"Whilst she is blown away by Boris's recognition, she is just really pleased to see the public recognition for the amazing work the NHS is doing - that made her really proud.\"\n\nMs McGee is from Invercargill, on New Zealand's South Island. The mayor of the city Sir Tim Shadbolt told Stuff.co.nz: \"It's not very often a nurse from Invercargill saves the life of the British prime minister.\"\n\nMeanwhile, her former school Verdon College paid tribute to her \"courage\", adding she had wanted to be a nurse since leaving school in 2002.\n\n\"Jenny is described by her past teachers as an absolutely delightful person and someone who had a caring and humble nature,\" the college said in a statement.\n\nThe second nurse mentioned by Mr Johnson has been named as Luis Pitarma.\n\nMr Pitarma is a senior staff nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, his LinkedIn says\n\nAccording to the Expresso, Mr Pitarma, 29, is from Aveiro in Portugal and moved to London six years ago. He studied nursing in Lisbon.\n\nIt added that he first worked at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital for two years before moving to St Thomas'.\n\nThe president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has \"personally thanked\" Mr Pitarma, as well as \"the commitment of all Portuguese health professionals who in Portugal and around the world are providing decisive help in the fight to the pandemic\".\n\nOn Monday, No 10 confirmed Mr Johnson had left hospital after being given the all clear by medics.\n\nHe will continue recovering at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence, as it was \"considered to be a suitable place\" and he will not be carrying out government work, the spokesman said.\n\nAides are reportedly expecting Mr Johnson to be out of action for up to a month while he recovers.\n\nMr Johnson spoke to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - who is currently in charge of running the government - over the weekend, No 10 added.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted after he left hospital, Mr Johnson, 55, said it was \"hard to find words to express my debt\" to the health service.\n\nHe thanked many nurses by name before adding: \"I hope they won't mind if I mention in particular two nurses who stood by my bedside for 48 hours when things could have gone either way.\n\n\"They're Jenny from New Zealand. And Luis from Portugal near Porto.\n\n\"The reason in the end my body did start to get enough oxygen was because for every second of the night they were watching and they were thinking and they were caring and making the interventions I needed.\"\n\nAround one in eight NHS workers - 13.1% of the workforce, or 153,000 staff - are not British, according to a parliamentary report published in July last year.\n\nAfter British, the most common nationalities of NHS staff are Indian with around 21,000 workers, followed by Filipino, Irish, Polish and then Portuguese staff.\n\nOn Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock paid tribute to everyone who has joined the NHS from all over the world.", "Low paid workers in countries like India could bear the brunt of economic decline\n\nSouth Asia faces its worst economic performance in 40 years because of the coronavirus, the World Bank has said.\n\nThe effects will unravel decades of progress in the region's battle against poverty.\n\nEconomies such as India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have reported relatively few virus cases but experts fear they could be the next hotspots.\n\nThe South Asia region is home to 1.8 billion people and some of the world’s most densely populated cities.\n\n\"South Asia finds itself in a perfect storm of adverse effects. Tourism has dried up, supply chains have been disrupted, demand for garments has collapsed and consumer and investor sentiments have deteriorated,\" said the World Bank report.\n\nIt has slashed its growth forecast for the region this year to 1.8% to 2.8% from its original projection of 6.3% made before the virus outbreak. At least half the countries in this region could fall into \"deep recession\".\n\nThe worst hit economy will be the Maldives, a nation of small islands in the Arabian Sea where the collapse of high-end tourism could see its economic output shrink by as much as 13%, warned the World Bank.\n\nIndia, the biggest economy in South Asia, could see growth of just 1.5% in its financial year, down from a figure of around 5%, the World Bank predicted.\n\nIt has advised governments to \"ramp up action to curb the health emergency, protect their people, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, and set the stage now for fast economic recovery\".\n\nThe World Bank also recommended temporary work programmes for migrant workers, and debt relief for businesses and individuals while cutting red tape on essential imports and exports.\n\nLast week the Washington DC-based lender said it would deploy up to $160bn (£128bn) in financial support over the next 15 months to help vulnerable countries deal with the pandemic and bolster their economic recovery.", "The first death at Stanley Park Care Home was in late March\n\nThirteen residents of a County Durham care home have now died after displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nManagers at Stanley Park care home in Stanley said they were \"devastated\" by the deaths.\n\nThe first death was in late March with the latest confirmed by home operator Care UK on Monday.\n\nIt has not been disclosed how many other residents at the 72-bed home are ill. One resident who tested positive for the virus is in hospital.\n\nFive deaths were announced overnight on Sunday before the 13th was later reported on Monday.\n\nCare UK said the latest resident to die had been living in the home and had some symptoms that could indicate Covid-19, though no test had been carried out.\n\nCare UK regional director Karen Morrison said: \"We are completely devastated that this many residents have lost their lives to what we believe to be Covid-19.\n\n\"My heart goes out to the families and friends of residents who have passed away over the past few days. We are all thinking of them at this difficult time and send our condolences and best wishes.\n\n\"The team at the home continue to be absolutely amazing and I cannot thank them enough.\n\n\"Despite all that has happened, they continue to deliver the very best care in a kind and professional way.\n\n\"They have had all the necessary PPE and have been using it meticulously ever since the first case was seen at the end of last month.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played.", "Chinese telecoms company Huawei has said that disrupting its involvement in the rollout of 5G would do Britain \"a disservice\".\n\nIn January, the UK government approved a limited role for Huawei in building the country's new data networks.\n\nBut in March, a backbench rebellion within the Conservative party signalled efforts to overturn the move.\n\nIn an open letter, the firm also said it was focused on keeping the UK connected during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nBut the pandemic may increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on the company.\n\nIn the letter, Huawei's UK chief Victor Zhang says home data use has increased by at least 50% since the virus first hit the UK, placing \"significant pressure\" on telecoms systems.\n\nHuawei says it has been working with partners like BT, Vodafone and EE to deal with the growth and has also set up three new warehouses around the country to ensure spare parts stay in supply.\n\nMr Zhang also says the current crisis has highlighted how many people, especially in rural communities, are \"stuck in a digital slow lane\". And he warns that excluding Huawei from a future role in 5G would be a mistake.\n\n\"There are those who choose to continue to attack us without presenting any evidence,\" he writes.\n\n\"Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice.\"\n\nThe government has banned Huawei from the most sensitive parts of the UK's mobile networks, and limited it to 35% of the periphery, which includes its radio masts.\n\nBut critics argue it is a security risk to allow the Chinese company to play any role at all because of fears it could be used by Beijing to spy on or even sabotage communications.\n\nIn early March, 38 Conservatives MPs rebelled on the issue, a larger number than expected. That points to a potential upset when the Telecoms Infrastructure Bill comes before Parliament, which is planned to happen later in the year.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis highlights the tension between economic and national security issues that makes the topic so contentious.\n\nOn one side is the need for greater connectivity to boost economic growth. Supporters of Huawei's role argue that excluding it would both slow down and raise the cost of delivering faster and more reliable networks.\n\nOn the other side is anger directed at China from some quarters because of its perceived mishandling of the initial Covid-19 outbreak, as well as the wider concerns over growing dependence on its technologies and companies.\n\nUnnamed ministers and senior officials were recently quoted as saying there would have to be a \"reckoning\" once the current crisis is over.\n\nPart of that could involve a reversal of January's decision - a concern which may explain the decision to write the letter.\n\nOn 4 April a group of 15 Conservative MPs called for a rethink on relations with China in their own letter to the Prime Minister, written a day before he was admitted to hospital.\n\n\"Over time, we have allowed ourselves to grow dependent on China and have failed to take a strategic view of Britain's long-term economic, technical and security needs,\" the group wrote. Among the signatories were Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis and Bob Seely.\n\nIt is understood that Huawei waited until the Prime Minister was out of hospital before releasing its letter.", "Internet cafes have become a common destination for those in Japan without secure housing\n\nJapanese authorities are rushing to house thousands of homeless people following the closure of internet cafes in several major cities.\n\nThe cafes have become a common destination for those without secure housing.\n\nThey're often open around the clock and many feature private booths, showers and entertainment, including games.\n\nBut the businesses have been ordered to close their doors to help contain the spread of coronavirus.\n\nWhile Japan officially has a low homeless rate compared with many other developed nations, more than 4,000 \"internet cafe refugees\" reside in the capital, Tokyo.\n\nCity officials say they have begun providing them with hotel rooms and other forms of temporary accommodation. In neighbouring Saitama, authorities have also repurposed a sports hall for 200 people.\n\nTokyo's government says welfare offices can send homeless residents to designated temporary accommodation, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.\n\nBut Kazuhiro Gokan, a consultant with a local homeless support group, told the newspaper that many people had been turned away because of \"a misunderstanding among administrators\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to self-isolate successfully to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\nJapan has a relatively small number of infections compared with other countries - 6,748 confirmed cases and 108 virus-related deaths as of Sunday. But there are concerns a recent surge in cases in Tokyo could lead to a major outbreak.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared a month-long state of emergency, covering Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures. The governors of these prefectures now have the power to close schools and businesses, but no legal authority to order citizens to stay at home.\n• None Parents in Japan and HK struggle as schools shut", "The impact of infection with Xylella - the trees on the right have not yet been exposed to the bacterium\n\nResearchers say the economic costs of a deadly pathogen affecting olive trees in Europe could run to over €20 billion.\n\nThey've modelled the future worst impacts of the Xylella fastidiosa pathogen which has killed swathes of trees in Italy.\n\nSpread by insects, the bacterium now poses a potential threat to olive plantations in Spain and Greece.\n\nThe disease could increase the costs of olive oil for consumers.\n\nXylella is considered to be one of the most dangerous pathogens for plants anywhere in the world. At present there is no cure for the infection.\n\nIt can infect cherry, almond and plum trees as well as olives.\n\nIt has become closely associated with olives after a strain was discovered in trees in Puglia in Italy in 2013.\n\nThe organism is transmitted by sap-sucking insects such as spittlebugs.\n\nThe infection limits the tree's ability to move water and nutrients and over time it withers and dies.\n\nPlants infected with the bacterium have to be destroyed to prevent the spread\n\nIn Italy, the consequences of the spread of the disease have been devastating, with an estimated 60% decline in crop yields since the first discovery in 2013.\n\n\"The damage to the olives also causes a depreciation of the value of the land, and to the touristic attractiveness of this region,\" said Dr Maria Saponari, from the CNR Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection in Italy.\n\n\"It's had a severe impact on the local economy and jobs connected with agriculture.\"\n\nAs well as in Italy, the Xylella bacterium has now been found in Spain, France and Portugal.\n\nTackling it at present involves removing infected trees and trying to clamp down on the movement of plant material and the insects that spread the disease.\n\nBut if these measures fail, what will be the financial impact of the infection?\n\nIn this new study, researchers modelled different scenarios including what would happen if all growing ceased due to tree death.\n\nThey also compared this worst case with a scenario where replanting with resistant varieties occurred.\n\nThe team made projections for Italy, Spain and Greece, which between them account for 95% of European olive oil production.\n\nOlive trees dry up and ultimately die from the Xylella infecton\n\nIn Spain, if the infection expanded and the majority of trees became infected and died, the costs could run to €17 billion over the next 50 years.\n\nA similar scenario in Italy would amount to over five billion, while in Greece, the losses would be under two billion.\n\nIf the rate of infection is slowed down, or resistant varieties are planted instead, then these costs would be significantly reduced.\n\nHowever, the authors believe, whatever happens, there will likely be a knock-on impact on consumers.\n\n\"The expected effect could be that there would be a shortage of supply,\" said lead author Kevin Schneider from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.\n\n\"And I would expect that if prices go up, consumers will be worse off.\"\n\nThe authors say that while their analysis looks at economics, there are also potentially large touristic and cultural losses caused by the bacterium that can't be ignored.\n\n\"You really hear devastating stories of infected orchards that were inherited over generations,\" said Dr Schneider.\n\n\"It's the same orchard that their grandparents were once working on. So how do you put an economic number on the loss of something like this. The cultural heritage value would be far larger than we could compute.\"\n\nThere are a growing number of scientific initiatives to try and take the fight to the bacterium, including using insect repelling clays, vegetative barriers and genetic analysis to determine why some plants are more susceptible to the infection than others.\n\nUltimately, the researchers believe that beating the pathogen will require trees that are resistant to the disease.\n\n\"Seeking resistant cultivars or immune species is one of the most promising, and environmentally sustainable, long-term control strategies to which the European scientific community is devoting relevant research efforts,\" said Dr Saponari,\n\n\"Sustainable strategies to reduce the population of the insects is the other pillar for the control of the vector-borne disease, in this regard, mechanical intervention to remove weeds in spring is one of the most efficacious applications to reduce the populations of the insect, indeed several other strategies are also being studied to implement the control of the insects,\" she added.\n\nWhile two varieties of olive tree have been found to have some resistance, the authors are calling for research in this area to be significantly boosted.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).", "Aah, the 2010s... Do you remember them?\n\nBack in that golden age when we were all still able to listen to music in bars, cafes, shops, stadiums, at the gym and (sometimes) even at the office.\n\nNow with the first Easter of the 2020s on lockdown, PPL and BBC Radio 2 can reveal the top 40 most-played songs, on UK TV and radio, of the last decade.\n\nDJ Scott Mills will countdown the list of \"absolute bangers\" - led by Adele and Bruno Mars, with three appearances each - on the station on Monday.\n\n\"The top 40 most-played songs are the sounds that radio producers and broadcasters have consistently played throughout the last decade and will evoke many memories for all of us,\" said Peter Leathem, boss of the music licensing company which compiled the chart.\n\nJeff Smith, head of music at Radio 2, added it's \"packed with universally loved, sing-along pop hits that really do stand the test of time\".\n\nThe new data suggests broadcasters mostly favoured songs by male solo artists, with 22 nods compared to 14 solo female tracks, while American stars outweighed home-grown performers by 18-14.\n\nBands and groups accounted for 12 of the tracks, while that most modern phenomenon of the \"collab\" yielded seven hits.\n\nAnd British outlets, it seems, also preferred to give airtime to songs released that decade (34 out of 40), with just a few from the noughties and Natalie Imbruglia flying the flag for the 1990s on her own, with Torn.\n\nRihanna, Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry all made the top 40, however that's the last you'll be hearing of that lot in this article. Because we're about to dip straight into the top 10, which features two Brits, two women and two Pharrells.\n\nThe top 10 most-played songs of the 2010s on UK TV and radio:\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by kingsofleonVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFirst up, pop pickers, is a song that you've almost certainly heard a wedding covers band butcher since its release in 2008.\n\nIt gave the Nashville guitar slingers their first UK number one, and their first Grammy win too, for best rock performance by a group.\n\nIn 2017, they told Radio X how they would one day explain the song's saucy lyrical content to their kids.\n\n\"It's Socks on Fire,\" said drummer Nathan Followill. \"Uncle Caleb's socks caught on fire one night when I was drying them out on the heater.\"\n\nUse Somebody, another track off their fourth album, Only by the Night, also made the top 40.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by CeeLo Green This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs many of you will have noticed, this is actually the broadcast-friendly version of the Atlanta singer's 2010 track, written in collaboration with Bruno Mars and several others.\n\nThe song, which was a dig at the music industry, ironically won him a Grammy award for best urban/alternative performance.\n\nBillboard reviewed it at the time as sounding \"as sunny as a '60s Motown hit and as expletive-laden as an early Eminem song\".\n\nCeeLo was last seen, or heard rather, performing as the monster on the surreal ITV show The Masked Singer.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe US pop-rock band topped the UK charts for the first time in 2013 with Counting Stars, which frontman and songwriter Ryan Tedder penned when he was trying to come up with something for Beyonce (who is notably absent from this chart).\n\nThe song's accompanying video has now been viewed well over 2.9 billion times on YouTube, making it the streaming site's 14th most-viewed video ever.\n\nNot enough music videos contain crocodiles these days, do they?\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 4 by MarkRonsonVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe second biggest-selling song of the decade - on streaming and physical sales - is also the second big royalty cheque on this list for the Mars man, and gives us our first Brit too.\n\nLondon-born US producer/DJ Ronson, and the Hawaiian singer bagged the Brit award for best British single for Uptown Funk in 2015, when it felt like it was never off the speakers, anywhere.\n\nFun fact: after its release though, they were legally made to credit The Gap Band as co-writers, due to the song's resemblance to the their 1979 party hit, Oops Up Side Your Head.\n\nBruno's other songs, Locked out of Heaven, and Just the Way You Are, also appear on the top 40.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Tonight's the night / Let's live it up\" sang B.E.P in their 2009 hit, and I'm sure we all intend to follow that advice if we're ever allowed out again.\n\nThe track was produced by superstar French DJ David Guetta and arguably saw them both at the peak of their powers.\n\nAfter singer Fergie left in 2015, the band went on to perform the song as part of a medley before the 2017 Champions League Final in Cardiff. However, the performance, which included fireworks, ran over time and forced the kick-off to be delayed by several minutes.\n\nFair to say they've had better nights.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 6 by justintimberlakeVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs well as singing the film Trolls' lead song, JT played the worrywart Branch in the DreamWorks animation.\n\nIn an interview with TheWrap, he said, like his character, he was pulling his hair out over the prospect of producing a hit for some colourful mythical creatures.\n\n\"This wasn't just like writing a song for a movie - it was writing a song for characters that are going to sing it in the movie,\" he said. \"That part had to work, and that's the part that made it a task that none of us had ever done.\"\n\nHe needn't have worried, as the song - which he debuted live at the Eurovision song contest - won the Grammy Award for best song written for visual media.\n\nHaving been released in 2016, this is actually the most recent track in the top 10, which is weighted in favour of older songs - because its surveying plays over a whole decade - and perhaps helps to solve the mystery of the missing Ed. Sheeran's stellar 2017 track, Shape of You, came in in 38th.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 7 by DaftPunkVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCombining the musical might of the French electronic duo, the US hip-hop star and the legendary guitarist, it was only ever going to end one way, wasn't it? Choon.\n\nStevie Wonder even added to the talent pool by joining them on-stage to perform the modern disco-hit at the 2014 Grammys, where it won record of the year and best pop group performance.\n\nIt topped almost every chart in the world, selling a million equivalent copies in the UK in just 69 days.\n\n\"When I think how it happened, too, with people who I like a lot, that we just decided to go into the studio and do something,\" Rodgers told the Official Chart Company. \"And then it turns out like this? It's absolutely remarkable, because no-one was prepared for this!\"\n\nWhile attempting to Get Lucky is very much against current government guidelines, dancing around your kitchen to that funky bass-line is not.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 8 by Maroon5VEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nMaroon 5 frontman Adam Levine attempted to brighten up one of the dullest Super Bowls in recent history by going topless as sang this ode to his hip-thrusting abilities, last year in Atlanta.\n\nThe 2010 track peaked at number two in the UK but topped the US charts, meaning Christina Aguilera became only the fifth female to score number one singles in three different decades, after Janet Jackson, Madonna, Spears and Cher. But it still wasn't enough for her to get invited back to the \"greatest show on earth\" to perform.\n\nIncidentally, last year, Sir Mick Jagger - the 76-year-old Rolling Stone referenced in the song's title - posted a video of himself dancing at home following heart surgery, to prove he still had his signature moves.\n\nThe Los Angeles band's other big hit of the decade, Payphone - featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa - also gets a mention in the top 40.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 9 by AdeleVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe opener from Adele's Brit award-winning second album, 21, was essentially her big comeback track following the breakthrough success of her debut, and also the moment she became a real star in the States too.\n\nThe gospel-tinged vibes of the pounding 2010 track saw her pick up three Grammys - record and song of the year, plus best short-form music video.\n\nThe visuals found her alone in an abandoned room which soon began to fall apart, like the relationship she was singing about.\n\nAfter Mark Ronson, the Londoner is the only other British-born artist (and second woman) to appear in the top 10... and he mostly grew up in New York.\n\nSomeone Like You and Set Fire to the Rain, from the same blockbuster album, also made the top 40 mix.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Possibly as while they are popular with younger audiences, radio and TV has to appeal to a much broader listenership.\n\nHappy was another track written for an animated film; namely Despicable Me 2, and it fast became the eighth biggest-selling song in UK chart history.\n\nA live rendition of the song eventually scored the singer/rapper a Grammy, after he previously lost out in the best original song category to Let it Go, from Disney's Frozen. \"When they read the results, my face was... frozen,\" Pharrell told GQ magazine. \"But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to... let it go.\"\n\nWith Lucky and Happy enjoying great success, we look forward to seeing which of the remaining seven dwarves he'll name his hits after in this new era.\n\n(Joke... we know Lucky isn't one really).\n\nScott Mills presents the Most Played Songs of the Decade on Radio 2, at 14:00 BST on 13 April.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The deal represents the largest cut in oil production ever agreed\n\nOpec producers and allies have agreed a record oil deal that will slash global output by about 10% after a slump in demand caused by coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe deal, agreed on Sunday via video conference, is the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.\n\nOpec+, made up of oil producers and allies including Russia, announced plans for the deal on 9 April, but Mexico resisted the cuts.\n\nOpec has yet to announce the deal, but individual nations have confirmed it.\n\nThe only detail to have been confirmed so far is that 9.7 million barrels per day will be cut by Opec oil producers and allies.\n\nOn Monday in Asia, oil rose over $1 a barrel in early trading with global benchmark Brent up 3.9% to $32.71 a barrel and US grade West Texas Intermediate up 6.1% to $24.15 a barrel.\n\nShares in Australia jumped 3.46% led by energy exporters, but Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.35% on continued concerns of poor global demand because of the spread of the coronavirus.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented agreement because it's not just between Opec and Opec+... but also the largest supplier in the world which is the US as well as other G-20 countries which have agreed to support the agreement both in reducing production and also in using up some of the surface supply by putting it into storage,\" Sandy Fielden, director of Oil Research at research firm Morningstar, told the BBC.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Kuwait's energy minister Dr Khaled Ali Mohammed al-Fadhel tweeted the news, while Saudi Arabia's energy ministry and Russia's state news agency Tass both separately confirmed the deal on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlobal oil demand is estimated to have fallen by a third as more than three billion people are locked down in their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPrior to that, oil prices slumped in March to an 18-year-low after Opec+ failed to agree cuts.\n\nTalks were complicated by disagreements between Russia and Saudi Arabia, but on 2 April oil prices surged after President Trump signalled that he expected the two countries to end their feud.\n\nThe initial details of the deal, outlined by Opec+ on Thursday, would have seen the group and its allies cutting 10 million barrels a day or 10% of global supply from 1 May. Another five million barrels were expected to be cut by other nations outside the group such as the US, Canada, Brazil and Norway.\n\nIt said the cuts would be eased to eight million barrels a day between July and December. Then they would be eased again to six million barrels between January 2021 and April 2022.\n\nIndependent oil market analyst Gaurav Sharma told the BBC that the deal agreed on Sunday was \"marginally lower\", compared to the 10 million barrels per day that was originally announced on Thursday. Mexico had balked at making these production cuts, which delayed the deal being signed off.\n\nThen on Friday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Mr Trump had offered to make extra US cuts on his behalf, an unusual offer by the US president, who has long railed against Opec.\n\nMr Trump said Washington would help Mexico by picking up \"some of the slack\" and being reimbursed later, but he did not detail how the arrangement would work.\n\n\"Now a rehashed deal placating Mexico has resurfaced to calm the market, yet, look closer and the doubts surface,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\n\"The bulk of the output cuts are predicated on Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting 2.5 million barrels per day from agreed - and somewhat inflated - levels of 11 million barrels per day. More importantly, for most of 2019, Russia displayed very poor form in complying with previously agreed Opec+ cuts. So the market is unlikely to take the announced cut at face value.\"\n\nHe added that forecasts for a drop in demand in the summer appear to be \"dire\", with even the most optimistic forecasts pointing to a reduction of 18.5 million barrels per day.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"The announcement can stem the bleeding, but cannot prevent what is likely to be a dire summer for oil producers with the potential to drag oil prices below $20 (£16; €18).\"", "Ministers urged the public to stay at home over the Easter bank holiday weekend\n\nThe UK is facing its fourth week in lockdown, with the government set to review by Thursday whether social distancing measures can be changed.\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, after three weeks of telling Britons to stay at home.\n\nIt comes as an NHS boss has warned staff are facing a \"hand-to-mouth\" supply of protective gowns.\n\nMeanwhile, the PM has thanked NHS staff after being discharged from hospital.\n\nThe mother of a nurse who Boris Johnson specifically praised said she was \"exceptionally proud\" of her daughter.\n\nWales' health minister said last week that the coronavirus lockdown would remain for \"several more weeks at the very least\".\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned there was \"no likelihood or prospect\" of measures being lifted after the Easter weekend.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK's total number of hospital deaths linked to coronavirus reached 10,612.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers in England which represents hospital trusts, told BBC Breakfast that the number of protective gowns - imported from China - available to NHS staff in some parts of the country has fallen \"critically low\" in recent days.\n\nMr Hopson said that the NHS ordered \"a whole load of stock\" weeks ago, but delays have been caused by the gowns sometimes failing safety tests, while other batches have been mislabelled - meaning the NHS has ended up with additional masks.\n\nHe added: \"If everything had been flowing exactly as had been ordered and if all of the material had properly passed its safety test, there would not be an issue.\n\n\"This is all really hand-to-mouth in terms of gown delivery, and we need to get to a more sustainable supply.\"\n\nMr Johnson had spent a week at St Thomas' Hospital in London - including three nights in intensive care - where he was being treated for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.\n\nIt is unclear whether the prime minister - who is now recuperating at Chequers, his country home in Buckinghamshire - will take part in the lockdown review.\n\nIn a video message to the nation recorded after he left hospital, 55-year-old Mr Johnson said it \"could have gone either way\" as he thanked NHS staff for saving his life.\n\nMs McGee is back at St Thomas' Hospital working the overnight shift after caring for Mr Johnson\n\nHe singled out two nurses - Jenny McGee from New Zealand and Luis Pitarma from Portugal - for caring for him at his bedside for 48 hours at the most critical time.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab is currently in charge of running the government, with aides reportedly expecting Mr Johnson to be out of action for as long as a month.\n\nAsked how long it would be before Mr Johnson returned to work, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it would be a \"clinical decision for his doctors to take with him\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing on Sunday, Mr Hancock insisted the government is \"operating perfectly efficiently within the strategy that he set out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video message posted on Twitter, the PM thanked the NHS staff that cared for him\n\nLabour shadow cabinet minister Rachel Reeves said her party is calling on the government to publish its exit strategy for ending the lockdown.\n\nUnder the current rules, people are urged to stay at home and to only go out if they have a \"reasonable excuse\", which includes exercise, shopping for basic necessities, healthcare and essential travel to or from work.\n\nMs Reeves suggested ways of easing restrictions could include rolling out mass testing, shielding the most vulnerable while others get back to normal life and lifting the restrictions temporarily but reintroducing them if the virus starts to spread again.\n\n\"Although it's not the moment now to end the lockdown we need to think about where we are going to be in two, three, four weeks' time and now start looking at that plan,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the Easter Bank holiday weekend, Mr Raab said it was still \"too early\" to lift lockdown restrictions, insisting they would need to stay in place until evidence showed the UK had moved beyond the peak of the virus.\n\nBut ministers may also have to consider any economic fallout of the lockdown measures, with a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) think-tank suggesting 25% of the UK economy could be lost by the summer due to the current controls in place.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma, when asked about the NIESR report, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show there would \"no doubt\" be economic repercussions following the lockdown measures.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Ben Wright said it is expected that social distancing measures will be continued, but he added that \"ministers are having to weigh up their responsibility to fight the disease with protecting the economy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Hannah' lost her husband to coronavirus after he cared for her when she was ill with the virus.\n\nRecently widowed Hannah - not her real name - has told how her husband of more than 40 years died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her husband was in hospital for about a week before he died, and was put on a CPAP machine, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, to aid his breathing during that time.\n\nDescribing his death, she said his breathing was \"really laboured\". \"It is not a nice, quiet way to go,\" she said.\n\nHannah added: \"This is such a cruel disease. Apart from the medical staff that he saw when he had to, [my husband] was alone for a week.\n\n\"I was alone at home, and I'm now alone at home. Nobody can give me a hug.\n\n\"My friends have rallied around, my church and everybody have been fabulous, but nobody can give me a hug.\n\n\"And I'm not lonely, I want to make that clear, I'm not lonely but I am alone.\"\n\nOn Sunday, 737 new coronavirus-related hospital deaths were recorded, taking the total number to 10,612.\n\nMr Hancock said it marked a \"sombre day\" for the nation, as it became the fifth country to surpass 10,000 deaths, joining the US, Spain, Italy and France.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the UK was likely to be \"one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in Europe\".\n\nThe latest UK figures only include deaths recorded in hospitals, not those who died in care homes or in the community.\n\nSam Monaghan, the head of the UK's largest charity care provider MHA, told BBC Breakfast that about 150 of its residents had died with confirmed or suspected coronavirus, as well as two staff members.\n\nHe said the provider - which runs 90 care homes and 43 retirement living sites - was \"somewhat in the dark\" about the exact number of deaths, because not everyone who died was tested, although they may have been showing symptoms.\n\nHave you been affected by the coronavirus? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "India has conducted some 180,000 tests so far\n\nAt the weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the next three to four weeks would be \"critical\" to prevent the spread of coronavirus in India.\n\nEver since its first case was confirmed on 30 January, India has taken a number of measures to try and combat the coronavirus. It has eased testing eligibility and invoked a draconian 122-year-old colonial-era epidemic diseases law to restrict public gatherings, among other things. Now it is set to extend a strict three-week lockdown - scheduled to end on 15 April - until the end of the month. More than a billion people continue to stay at home and land, rail and air transport remain suspended.\n\nThere have been some 180,000 tests for the infection so far. Some 4.3% of the samples have tested positive. The contagion has killed 273 people. It has reportedly spread to nearly half of the country's 700-odd districts. Several hotspots have been identified.\n\nGlobal health experts are keenly looking at how India battles the virus. Its dense population, vast geography and weak public health system can easily overwhelm the best efforts to contain the spread of infection. \"It is something which is worrying a lot of people, \" a leading virologist told me, insisting on anonymity. \"It is early days yet in the trajectory of the virus here. In three to four weeks, the picture will be clearer.\"\n\nEconomist Shamika Ravi, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who is closely tracking the infection, believes India is not doing badly. She says the number of active cases is doubling every seven days, a slower rate than before. The death rate is still low but rising.\n\n\"Our [infection] growth rate is highly contained despite the fact that we are actively chasing the fire,\" she told me. \"Almost all of our testing has been driven by protocol, starting with people with travel history, contact tracing of people in touch with them and so on. The probability of getting more positive cases [from this cohort] would have been much higher.\"\n\nMany are also pointing to the lack of reports about any surge in hospital admissions with influenza like illness and Covid-19 patients, which would hint at a rapid community transmission.\n\nA hospital in Indore has reported a surge of cases\n\nBut this may well be because of lack of information or weak reporting. A private hospital in the central city of Indore, as I reported, is already seeing a surge of cases and treating more than 140 Covid-19 patients, with nearly a third in critical care. At the weekend the hospital was reporting around 40 fresh cases a day. \"We thought the transmission was going down, but our case load went up suddenly over two days,\" Dr Ravi Dosi, a chest specialist, at the hospital, told me.\n\nOthers like T Jacob John, a retired professor of virology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, believe India must prepare for the worst.\n\n\"I don't think we have yet understood the enormity of the problem that is likely to befall us in the next two months,\" he told me. \"For much too long the virus dictated our responses rather than the other way round\".\n\nDr John says India's response has been largely \"evidence-based and reactive when it should have been projection-based and pro-active\".\n\nIndia's health ministry has strenuously denied there has been community transmission even as doctors from all over the country say they have been seeing patients with Covid-19 like symptoms from early March. \"The entire focus seems to on finding evidence of community transmission, It's a tactical error,\" says Dr John. \"We all know community transmission is there.\"\n\nDr Ravi believes that going forward, \"every week is critical now\".\n\nEasing the lockdown to prevent an economic meltdown and flattening the curve of the virus will now require more surveillance testing to find out who's infected and who's not.\n\nIndia would then need millions of testing kits and trained manpower to handle the process. Testing is also a highly involved process, which includes ensuring a cold chain for and smooth transport of tens of thousands of samples to the labs. India's resources are finite and capacity is limited. One way to get around this, says Dr Ravi, is \"pool testing\".\n\nThis involves collecting a number of samples in a tube and testing them with a single real time coronavirus test based on swabbing of the nose and throat, as recommended by the WHO.\n\nIf the test is negative, all the people tested are negative. If it's positive, every person has to be tested individually for the virus. \"Pool testing\" reduces the time needed to test large swathes of the population. \"If there's no trace of the infection in some districts, then we can open them up for economic activity,\" says Dr Ravi.\n\nVirologists believe that India should also do mass anti-body testing - a finger prick blood test to look for the presence of protective antibodies.\n\nThe blood test is easier and quicker to scale up than, say administering polio drops for immunisation, which India has successfully done. \"We need antibody testing as a public health tool rather than a diagnostic tool,\" says one virologist. \"We need to identify people who have recovered from the infection and send them back to work because they are no longer at risk.\"\n\nAlong with this, India needs to look at plasma therapy, virologists I spoke to said. This involves using blood with consent from patients who have successfully fought the infection. This antibody-rich blood plasma can be infused into sick patients. Many doctors say it is a \"hopeful milestone' in treating the disease.\n\nMost virologists I spoke to are unanimous that India should be testing \"much, much more\". Ideally, one of them told me, any person with \"any upper respiratory tract infection\" should be eligible for a test.\n\nIndia doesn't have a culture of testing for infectious diseases because most citizens cannot afford them. Risk mitigation is not ingrained in the culture.\n\nIndia has been under a lockdown since 24 March\n\n\"We tend to treat instead of testing. We rely on medical signs and symptoms [of a disease] rather than the cause or set of causes of a disease or condition,\" a virologist observed. \"We do tests only when we are very sick.\"\n\nIt is all right, says Dr John, that the government is \"fighting the war on the virus with the might of its administrative muscle\". But that might be not enough.\n\nMany complain that beyond motivational appeals by the prime minister and routine briefings by bureaucrats, information around the transmission of the virus and scale of testing has been often opaque and evasive. Wearing masks was made mandatory only last week.\n\nWith its excellent public health system and response, only the southern state of Kerala appears to have flattened the curve so far. \"This is going to be a long haul. We can't be treating India as one episode of flattening the curve and be done with it. The virus doesn't lose virulence,\" says a virologist. \"And all the states are not going to see a rise and fall in the curve at the same time.\"\n\nThe weeks ahead will possibly tell us whether India will face an exponential rise in infections or begin to flatten the curve. \"This is a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle. There are not going to be any easy answers,\" says Dr John.", "Roisin's cancer treatment has been stopped for 12 weeks\n\nCancer doctors say difficult decisions are having to be made to postpone some patients' care during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe NHS says all essential treatment should continue during the outbreak.\n\nAnd a cancer hub has been set up by the NHS to carry out urgent surgery.\n\nBut treatments such as chemotherapy can weaken the immune system, and potentially put patients at greater risk from Covid-19. Some of those affected have been expressing concern.\n\nRoisin Pelan is 38 and lives in Lancashire. She has incurable breast cancer and had been taking chemotherapy tablets every day. Every three months she also visits the hospital to receive the drug intravenously.\n\nLast month she was told her chemotherapy treatment would be stopped for 12 weeks.\n\n\"It's terrifying they've stopped treatment that I know is keeping me alive,\" she says.\n\n\"To have that taken away is just unbearable. How do we know it's only going to be 12 weeks? This pandemic could go on a lot longer.\"\n\nNHS England has told trusts that all essential and urgent cancer treatments must continue but specialists should discuss with patients whether it is riskier for them to undergo it or delay.\n\nDan Ruston is taking pills at home to treat a stomach tumour\n\nDr Jeanette Dickson, the President of the Royal College of Radiologists, says that, for the majority of patients, treatment is continuing as usual, but admits it is hard for those whose care has been interrupted.\n\nShe says staffing levels are also stretched.\n\n\"It is especially difficult for patients who have been well on treatment up to now. And it's difficult for the staff. No one knows whether we can continue to deliver treatments over this week or next week,\" Dr Dickson said.\n\nBut doctors are finding new ways of working during the outbreak.\n\nTwenty-five-year-old Dan Ruston's chemotherapy pills to treat a tumour in his stomach are being posted to his home in Cheshire.\n\n\"I take one in the morning and one at night, very simple. So I don't have to brave it in the outside world,\" he says.\n\nThis month new cancer hubs involving several NHS trusts and private hospitals launched in Manchester and London.\n\nThe hubs match patients requiring urgent operations to surgeons across different \"Covid-light\" hospitals, meaning there are fewer patients with coronavirus being cared for there and less chance more vulnerable people could be exposed to the virus. More hubs are expected to open across the country in the coming weeks.\n\nThirty-two-year-old Louise Andrews is a patient under Westminster and Chelsea Hospital but had a lump removed from her breast by a surgical team at the Royal Marsden Hospital.\n\n\"I was relieved. We were literally just waiting by the phone everyday hoping that someone would call to say they could fit me in anywhere. Moving forward was so important to me.\"\n\nProf Peter Johnson, clinical director for cancer, admits the coronavirus epidemic is putting a huge strain on NHS resources.\n\n\"But we are straining every sinew to make sure diagnosis and treatments can continue,\" he says.\n\n\"In some circumstances it may be safer to delay treatment or treat patients in different ways to normal and clinicians and patients have to make those decisions together.\"\n\nProf Johnson also revealed there has been a sharp drop in the number of referrals for investigations for suspected cancer and has urged anyone who is worried about themselves to speak to their GP.\n\nLynda Thomas, chief executive officer at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"We know this is a very anxious time. One in three calls to our support line last week were from patients concerned about the coronavirus.\n\n\"We will be working closely with the NHS to monitor and support this vital care being delivered.\"", "The centre at Cardiff City Stadium opened last Tuesday\n\nA drive-in testing centre for key workers at the Cardiff City Stadium was shut on Bank Holiday Monday, prompting criticism from opposition politicians.\n\nPublic Health Wales said it was due to the \"low number of key workers anticipated to be working\" that day.\n\nBut Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the decision \"beggars belief\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government said the opposition comments showed a \"lack of understanding\" of how the system worked.\n\nMeanwhile the Welsh Conservatives said there was no valid reason to have closed the centre.\n\nThe Cardiff City Stadium centre is one of four drive-in testing centres planned to provide testing to key-workers with symptoms - it is the only centre operating so far, having opened last week.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething had promised 5,000 tests a day by mid-April - but publicly available data from Public Health Wales shows daily testing figures have not exceeded 939 since last Wednesday.\n\nFigures on Public Health Wales' dashboard suggests the level of daily tests has stayed relatively stable for two weeks, mostly hovering around 800 to 900 since 30 March, and dipping to as low as 507 on 5 April.\n\nAs well as key-workers, people who are admitted to hospital with symptoms are tested separately. The Cardiff centre has capacity for 200 tests a day.\n\nIn a statement, Public Health Wales said full service at the centre would resume on Tuesday.\n\n\"The decision to close the centre was taken due to the low number of key workers anticipated to be working on the Bank Holiday Monday,\" PHW said.\n\n\"In the interests of efficiency it was therefore not deemed necessary to have the test centre operational that day.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"During a national public health emergency, when we are already testing far less than many other countries, it beggars belief that the Welsh Government should think it appropriate to close a testing station for the Bank Holiday.\n\n\"We were promised that we would be at 5,000 tests a day by mid-April. It is not surprising with this kind of approach that we have made absolutely no progress towards that figure so far.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said the decision was \"incredible\".\n\n\"While I appreciate that resources - especially staff - are stretched now, keeping the doors of a test centre shut on the assumption that few key workers would turn up to be tested is, I think, based on a false premise.\"\n\nTests not carried out on Monday \"will just add to the burden of tests needing to be taken and then analysed\", she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"This shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system workers. Key workers can't just turn up to this centre, they have to be booked in.\n\n\"Because of the small number booked in for today, they were all tested yesterday instead.\n\n\"Testing happens in a variety of locations and we now have a capacity to test up to 1,300 a day.\"", "An NHS boss has warned the number of protective gowns available to front-line staff in parts of the country has become \"critically low\" in recent days.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers in England, has called for a \"more sustainable supply\" of gowns, which are imported from China.\n\nOn Sunday, the health secretary said the amount of available PPE - personal protective equipment - was increasing.\n\nIt came as deaths in UK hospitals rose to 11,329 - up by 717 since Sunday.\n\nThe Department of Health said a further 4,342 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, a review of the UK's lockdown measures will take place later this week.\n\nMr Hopson, from NHS Providers in England which represents hospital trusts, told BBC Breakfast that the number of protective gowns available to NHS staff in some parts of the country was \"very, very low\".\n\nMr Hopson said that the NHS ordered \"a whole load of stock\" weeks ago, but delays have been caused by the gowns sometimes failing safety tests, while other batches have been mislabelled - meaning the NHS has ended up with additional masks.\n\nHe added: \"If everything had been flowing exactly as had been ordered and if all of the material had properly passed its safety test, there would not be an issue.\n\n\"This is all really hand-to-mouth in terms of gown delivery, and we need to get to a more sustainable supply.\"\n\nAt the government's daily briefing on Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government was \"working night and day to make sure we get the right PPE\".\n\n\"I'm glad to say there are now record amounts [of PPE] in the system,\" he said, adding: \"Daily we're delivering millions of items to the frontline.\"\n\nOn gowns, he said: \"In the last two days 121,000 gowns have been delivered around the country and more are going out today and in the week to come.\"\n\nMr Hopson said that \"the vast majority\" of preparations for the outbreak within the NHS had gone well, with \"nearly all\" stocks of PPE \"flowing in the way that trusts would like\".\n\n\"The bit where there's a particular problem was gowns,\" he said. \"We know that over the last 72 hours some trusts have run critically low on gowns.\n\n\"No trust, as far as I'm aware, has actually run out but some of the stocks are very, very low.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed public services will receive more than £14bn from the government's coronavirus emergency response fund, including more than £6bn for health services.\n\nThe Treasury said the funding would go towards freeing up hospital beds and delivering \"urgent priorities\" such as acquiring ventilators, diagnostic tests and protective equipment for NHS staff.\n\nA gown is a piece of PPE used to protect the body of those who might come into contact with coronavirus.\n\nIt should be made of water-resistant material and have long sleeves. If the gown is not water resistant, a waterproof apron is needed underneath to protect the wearer from droplets containing the virus.\n\nThe World Health Organization says gowns should be worn by all doctors, nurses and cleaners who enter coronavirus patients' rooms in hospitals.\n\nThey should also be used by those handling coronavirus samples in labs and healthcare workers, cleaners and ambulance crews in places where patients with suspected coronavirus symptoms are seen.\n\nPublic Health England guidance says hospital staff can sometimes use gowns for a whole session, such as a ward round or when caring for several patients in ICU. Otherwise, a single use is recommended.\n\nIt comes as Downing Street denied that cabinet minister Michael Gove's daughter being tested for coronavirus was an example of \"double standards\". Tests are not yet available for most people and mainly reserved for seriously ill patients in hospital.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said the test was carried out \"on the advice of the chief medical officer and in line with medical guidance\".\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Gove's job is a \"central role in the government's response\" and the test meant he \"could get back to work\".\n\nLatest government figures show 18,000 tests were carried out on Saturday. There are 23 drive-through testing sites now open for NHS staff, No 10 said.\n\nMeanwhile, No 10 has said Mr Johnson will recover at Chequers - the PM's official country residence - as it was \"considered to be a suitable place\". The spokesman added Mr Johnson will not be carrying out government work.\n\nMr Raab is currently in charge of running the government.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson thanked NHS staff after being discharged from hospital in London, where he was being treated for Covid-19 - the disease caused by the coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video message posted on Twitter, the PM thanked the NHS staff that cared for him\n\nIt is unclear whether the prime minister will take part in the lockdown review, which is due to be carried out by Thursday.\n\nWales' health minister said last week that the lockdown would remain for \"several more weeks at the very least\".\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned there was \"no likelihood or prospect\" of measures being lifted after the Easter weekend.\n\nNHS England said on Monday that a further 667 patients with coronavirus had died in the country, while a further 15 deaths were recorded in Wales, and a further nine in Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Hannah' lost her husband to coronavirus after he cared for her when she was ill with the virus.\n\nRecently widowed Hannah - not her real name - has told how her husband of more than 40 years died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her husband was in hospital for about a week before he died, and was put on a CPAP machine, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, to aid his breathing during that time.\n\nDescribing his death, she said his breathing was \"really laboured\". \"It is not a nice, quiet way to go,\" she said.\n\nHannah added: \"This is such a cruel disease. Apart from the medical staff that he saw when he had to, [my husband] was alone for a week.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don't want any other family to have to go through this\" - Wendy, daughter of coronavirus patient\n\nWendy's father fell ill with coronavirus around a month ago and he has now been taken off a ventilator in hospital.\n\n\"They've given him medication to keep him calm and relaxed and it is a matter of just waiting now for him to fade away peacefully,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.\n\n\"The nurses are with him, they are holding his hand, they've been absolutely marvellous,\" Wendy added. \"We had to make the decision for the ventilator to be removed and for him to pass away peacefully.\"\n\nSam Monaghan, the head of the UK's largest charity care provider MHA, told BBC Breakfast that about 150 of its residents had died with confirmed or suspected coronavirus, as well as two staff members.\n\nIt comes as 13 residents of a County Durham care home have now died after displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nHave you been affected by the coronavirus? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Police officers are handing out face masks at metro and railway stations in Spain\n\nSpain, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus, is beginning to ease strict lockdown measures that have brought its economy to a standstill.\n\nPeople in manufacturing, construction and some services are being allowed to return to work, but must stick to strict safety guidelines.\n\nThe rest of the population must still remain at home.\n\nAlmost 17,500 people with Covid-19 have died in Spain, but the rate of new infections has been falling.\n\nItaly - the hardest-hit country in Europe, with more than 20,000 deaths - will allow a narrow range of firms to resume operations on Tuesday.\n\nSpain's health ministry said on Monday that the daily number of deaths had dipped slightly, with 517 reported in the previous 24 hours, compared with 619 announced on Sunday. The official total death toll is now 17,489.\n\nThe number of new infections continues to drop, with 3,477 confirmed cases bringing the total to 169,496.\n\n\"We are still far from victory, from the moment when we will recover normality in our lives,\" Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned over the weekend.\n\n\"We are all keen to go back out on the streets... but our desire is even greater to win the war and prevent a relapse,\" he added.\n\nOn Monday, the government lifted some of the restrictions put in place on 27 March and allowed businesses whose employees cannot work remotely to reopen.\n\nManufacturing and construction workers can return to work, but other people must remain at home\n\nThe head of the regional administration in Catalonia, Quim Torra, said he would not comply with any easing of the lockdown for non-essential workers, warning that \"the risk of a new outbreak and a second lockdown is enormous\".\n\nMr Sánchez said the decision was taken after consulting a committee of experts.\n\nHe also noted that Spain had not entered the \"second phase\" of the fight against the coronavirus, when there would be any further loosening of the lockdown. That was at least two weeks away and would \"be very gradual\", he added.\n\nBuilders can only work in areas away from local residents, so they cannot yet go back to doing home improvements.\n\nThe lifting of some lockdown restrictions in Spain today has meant a return to normality of sorts for many non-essential workers. Two weeks ago they were told to stay at home as the national lockdown was tightened.\n\nOn the Madrid metro and at bus and railway stations, police handed out face masks to commuters as part of a national strategy. However, even at rush hour, use of Madrid's transport system was much lower than normal.\n\nAntonio Álvarez, a self-employed manual worker, described it as a relief to be able to resume work on the digging of a swimming pool on a private property near the capital.\n\n\"I think the restrictions so far have worked. If they hadn't implemented them it would have been disastrous,\" he said.\n\nEaster is a major holiday in the Spanish calendar, usually packed with religious events and marking the beginning of a busy tourist season. But this year, for the first time since the 1930s, there were no Easter processions and bars, restaurants, beaches and squares across the country were empty.\n\nAs an alternative, some churches streamed Catholic Mass into the homes of worshippers, while websites replayed footage of religious processions from previous years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nItaly reported 566 new deaths on Monday, pushing its total death toll to 20,465 - making it the second country after the United States to record more than 20,000 deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte said last week that the lockdown would continue until 3 May, but that a few types of shops and businesses would be allowed to reopen on Tuesday. They would include bookshops, stationers and shops selling children's clothes, he said.\n\nFactories will not reopen, although Mr Conte said he would continue to assess the trend of new infections and \"act accordingly\" if conditions allowed it.\n\nIn Germany, where 3,022 people with Covid-19 have died, pressure is also growing from businesses for a plan on how to exit the country's lockdown. On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss a strategy with regional leaders.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the number of people who have died with the virus in the Netherlands rose by 86 to 2,823 on Monday. The total number of cases increased by almost 1,000 to 26,551.\n\nAnd in France, which is expected to extend its lockdown until 10 May, police said dozens of worshippers defied the measures to attend a secret Easter Mass on Saturday.\n\nA priest was fined while other churchgoers were given a warning, the AFP news agency reports.", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say.\n\nTour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said one had reached the abandoned town of Pripyat, which used to serve the plant.\n\nHe said it was now just 2km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored.\n\nGreenpeace said the fires were much bigger than the authorities realised.\n\nThe NGO's Russia branch, quoted by Reuters, said the largest fire covered 34,000 hectares, while a second fire just a kilometre from the former plant was 12,000 hectares in area.\n\nMr Emelianenko also said that if the fire engulfed Pripyat it would be an economic disaster, as supervised tourist visits provided valuable revenue.\n\nIn 2018 more than 70,000 people visited the town. Last year that figure was even higher, after the success of an HBO mini-series about the disaster.\n\nPolice said the fire had been burning since the weekend of 4 April, after a man set fire to dry grass near the exclusion zone. It has since moved closer to the nuclear plant.\n\nMore than 300 firefighters with dozens of pieces of special hardware are reportedly working at the site, while six helicopters and planes are attempting to extinguish the fire from above.\n\nOfficials say radiation in the area is at \"normal\" levels\n\nThe fire is now 5km (three miles) from the nuclear site\n\nKateryna Pavlova, acting head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, told the Associated Press news agency that they “cannot say the fire is contained”.\n\n“We have been working all night, digging firebreaks around the plant to protect it from fire,” she said.\n\nOn 5 April Yegor Firsov, acting head of Ukraine’s state ecological inspection service, said in a Facebook post that radiation levels in the area had risen substantially above normal.\n\nGovernment officials later rejected this finding, and said the levels in the area were “within normal limits”. Mr Firsov also withdrew his remarks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 'real' Lyudmila from Chernobyl speaks for first time\n\nSmoke from the fire is now blowing towards Kyiv.\n\nChernobyl nuclear power station and the nearby town of Pripyat have been abandoned since 1986, when the plant’s No. 4 reactor blew up.\n\nThe explosion sent a cloud of radioactive fallout across much of Europe, with the area immediately around the plant worst affected.\n\nPeople are forbidden from living within 18 miles (30km) of the power station.\n\nChernobyl continued to generate power until the plant's last operational reactor was finally closed in 2000.", "Anyone who cannot leave home may be able to ask a trusted friend or volunteer to withdraw cash at any Post Office using a single-use voucher.\n\nThe Post Office scheme is being extended and offered to all banks, building societies and credit unions.\n\nIf the bank allows it, someone can ask for a one-time barcode sent via text, email or post for a stipulated amount.\n\nA trusted friend or volunteer can exchange the voucher for the cash requested.\n\nPreviously, only a named individual, such as a carer, could collect cash in this way on someone's behalf. Now any trusted neighbour or volunteer can do so.\n\nThe idea of the Payout Now scheme is to allow people who are shielded or self-isolating, mainly elderly, to maintain access to cash without having to hand over a debit card and Pin to somebody else.\n\nThey tell their bank exactly how much they want to withdraw from their account, up to a limit set by the bank, and allow a family member, trusted friend or volunteer to collect it on their behalf in exchange for the voucher.\n\nMartin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office, said: \"Being able to easily access cash is a vital service for older people and those self-isolating.\n\n\"[This] means they can access cash quickly and securely to repay someone for a helpful service like shopping, or simply manage their finances, providing peace of mind that cash can be securely sourced with the help of any trusted helper.\"\n\nA service that allows vulnerable customers to contact their bank and arrange to cash a cheque at a Post Office branch is also being sped up.\n\nUnder the Fast PACE system, the customer should contact their bank and check they can use the service. They would then write a cheque to \"The Post Office\", print the name on the back of the cheque of the person collecting it for them and sign that side too.\n\nThat individual can then collect the cash from a Post Office branch after their ID is verified. At its fastest, the whole process from the initial call to the cash being collected could take a day.\n\n\"Anyone collecting cash on behalf of another person must remember to practise safe distancing and should consider arranging with the recipient how the cash can be safely handed over - perhaps through a person's letterbox, for example,\" Mr Kearsley added.\n\nBoth schemes come with a warning that people should only use friends and volunteers who are completely trusted, they should only withdraw cash they really need, and they should not be put under any pressure to do so.\n\nThere have been reports of fraudsters offering to shop for people who cannot leave the home, but who steal any money they are given, or take money from accounts after a Pin is handed over.", "That's all of our live updates for today, thank you for joining me.\n\nWe will be back at 07:30 tomorrow with more news as lockdown continues.\n\nI hope you've managed to have a safe and peaceful Easter weekend.", "The UK has confirmed plans for an app that will warn users if they have recently been in close proximity to someone suspected to be infected with the coronavirus.\n\nThe health secretary Matt Hancock announced the move at the government's daily pandemic press briefing.\n\nHe said the NHS was \"working closely with the world's leading tech companies\" on the initiative.\n\nBut one expert who has advised the effort has raised doubts about it.\n\nThe BBC has learned that NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - will test a pre-release version of the software with families at a secure location in the North of England next week.\n\nAt present, the idea is that people who have self-diagnosed as having coronavirus will be able to declare their status in the app.\n\nThe software will then send the equivalent of a yellow alert to any other users who they have recently been close to for an extended period of time.\n\nIf a medical test confirms that the original user is indeed infected, then a stronger warning - effectively a red alert - will be sent instead, signalling that the other users should go into quarantine.\n\nTo report testing positive, the user would have to enter a verification code, which they would have received alongside their Covid-19 status.\n\nMr Hancock signalled that using the app would be voluntary, in the brief comments he made about it.\n\n\"If you become unwell with the symptoms of coronavirus, you can securely tell this new NHS app,\" he explained.\n\n\"And the app will then send an alert anonymously to other app users that you've been in significant contact with over the past few days, even before you had symptoms, so that they know and can act accordingly.\n\n\"All data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research.\n\n\"And we won't hold it any longer than is needed.\"\n\nHis reference to a tie-up with tech companies was a nod to Apple and Google, which announced on Friday that they were working on a software building block, known as an API, to make it easier for others to build contact tracing apps.\n\nNHSX was not aware of this project beforehand, but now plans to integrate the technology into its own product.\n\nIts system will keep track of handsets that came close to each other by recording when they detected each others' Bluetooth signals.\n\nOne benefit of using Apple and Google's API is that the NHS app will not have to employ workarounds to keep monitoring the signals even when the app is not active.\n\nPart of the reason Apple and Google say they developed their own idea was to ensure that iOS and Android users' privacy would not be compromised.\n\nTheir method is designed so that citizens can trigger and receive alerts without the authorities being notified of who was involved.\n\nBut one cyber-security expert who has been consulted about the app listed a series of worries about the project in a blog.\n\n\"I recognise the overwhelming force of the public-health arguments for a centralised system, but I also have 25 years' experience of the NHS being incompetent at developing systems and repeatedly breaking their privacy promises when they do manage to collect some data of value to somebody else,\" added the professor of security engineering.\n\n\"I'm really uneasy about collecting lots of lightly-anonymised data in a system that becomes integrated into a whole-of-government response to the pandemic. We might never get rid of it.\"\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Team - a private company also known as the Nudge Unit - is advising the government on how to encourage as many people to download and use the app as possible.\n\nNHSX believes more than half the population going outside needs to be using it for automated contact tracing to be effective.", "Dr Alex Aldren trained in medicine, but left the profession to become a tenor.\n\nHe has now returned to the NHS to help during the coronavirus crisis and is using his singing skills on the wards of the Royal London Hospital and Newham Hospital.\n\nA video of the doctor singing, which was shared online, has since gone around the world.", "The gurdwara in Gravesend would normally be decorated for Vaisakhi\n\nCelebrations to mark one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar have been cancelled or postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nVaisakhi, which this year falls on Monday, commemorates the creation of the Khalsa, a collective body of initiated Sikhs.\n\nIn past years, thousands have gathered in the towns and cities that are home to England's largest Sikh communities.\n\nBut now gurdwaras have found ways to take Vaisakhi into people's homes.\n\nTwo of the biggest events that would have been held later this month were in London's Trafalgar Square, where more than 30,000 have gathered in past years, and Birmingham's Handsworth Park, where up to 100,000 people were expected.\n\nCelebrations in Leicester, Southall and Gravesend have also been brought to a halt.\n\nIn London, cultural advisor to the mayor, Manraj Singh Othi, said while Vaisakhi had brought together Londoners, Sikhs and non-Sikhs alike, public safety came first.\n\nThose feelings were echoed by the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras in Birmingham - and in Southall, west London, gurdwara general secretary Navraj Singh added: \"No event in the Sikh calendar should endanger lives.\"\n\nVaisakhi commemorates the creation of the Khalsa, a collective body of initiated Sikhs\n\nAt any other time, celebrations would have included colourful street processions, or nagar kirtans, and free food, or langar, as well as cultural activities including arts, crafts, entertainment and martial arts.\n\nBut this year, religious worship has moved online and the Sikh practice of offering food was set to be taken out to the community, as people self-isolated and stayed at home.\n\nIn Leicester, that initiative has been backed by the Leicestershire Police Sikh Association, which has been helping to cook and deliver meals, distributing between 300 and 400 meals to people each day.\n\nOffering free food, or langar, is a tradition in the Sikh faith\n\nMeanwhile virtual worship included prayers direct from the Golden Temple in Amritsar streamed by Sikh2Inspire, meditation and talks by Basics of Sikhi, and a digital mass prayer on Monday, organised by Digi Sangat.\n\nBut there have still been mixed feelings.\n\nIn Hayes, also in west London, volunteer Sundeep Kaur Gosal said she missed the vulnerable people she would usually help with her \"mind and heart\", while Nari Sohal, from Slough, who volunteers for the charity Swat, said: \"Life feels like it's at a standstill.\"\n\nHowever, as reports emerged that ethnic minority communities were being hit hardest by covid-19, Harjinder Panesar, chairwoman of Harrow Sikhs, said she was relieved events had been cancelled, adding: \"We can return next year when we have a vaccination.\"\n\nSukhjeevan Singh, from the Sikh Council UK, said special food production guidance compiled by the Sikh Doctors Association had been issued to gurdwaras during the pandemic.\n\nBefore the covid-19 crisis, gurdwaras already had \"langar-managers\" who had food hygiene training, allergen awareness, and food handling and hygiene policies in place, he added.\n\nHe said gurdwaras serving langar registered their facilities with their local authorities in a similar way to restaurants.\n\nStreet processions have been cancelled this year\n\nIn Gravesend, Kent, the gurdwara had expected about 10,000 people to celebrate Vaisakhi.\n\nNewly-elected president Manpreet Singh Dhaliwal said, along with the virtual prayers and food deliveries, the gurdwara had been taking langar to NHS workers in several hospitals nearby.\n\nGravesend priest Giani Amerjit Singh said it was to say \"thank you to all these people working on the frontline\".\n\nHardev Singh Sohal, from Liverpool's United Sikh Association and Guru Nanak Gurdwara, said: \"We believe the whole human race is one. We are all equal. Our religion believes in service and humanity. We help everybody.\"\n\nHe said all gurdwaras in Liverpool remained closed and this year he would be spending Vaisakhi at home with his daughter.\n\nCelebrations would usually include singing along with arts, crafts and other music\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Black Watch is one of four Fred Olsen liners moored off Rosyth\n\nEight crew members of a cruise ship moored in the Firth of Forth have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Black Watch ship, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, has no guests on board and is operating with a \"skeleton crew\".\n\nThe ship is one of four liners which have been anchored near Rosyth after the firm suspended operations.\n\nFred Olsen said eight crew members have tested positive and six other staff onboard were awaiting results.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The ship is operating under the current guidance from Public Health England. Each crew member is occupying their own cabin, each with a balcony.\n\n\"There are no social gatherings on board. Crew are only leaving their cabins to perform essential duties, which includes bridge watch, engine watch and the preparation of food.\n\n\"Those who have received a positive diagnosis or who are feeling unwell are not undertaking any duties.\"\n\nThe company announced last week that Black Watch, Balmoral, Boudicca, and Braemar would be anchored temporarily near Rosyth.\n\nOne of the ships, Braemar, was hit by the virus in the Caribbean last month resulting in hundreds of passengers being flown back to the UK.\n\nA Forth Ports spokesman said: \"The Black Watch is one of four Fred Olsen Cruise Lines vessels for which Forth Ports is providing safe anchorage out in the River Forth while they are non-operational.\n\n\"As the Statutory River Authority, we have instructed that the vessel remains at the anchorage until the appropriate period of self-isolation is complete.\n\n\"The ship's owners Fred Olsen Cruise Lines are taking care of the welfare of the crew on board.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe French Grand Prix is set to be the next Formula 1 event to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation on Monday that restrictions on public events would continue until mid-July.\n\nFrance's round of the F1 championship is due to be held at the Circuit Paul Ricard, near Marseille, on 28 June.\n\nF1 was unable to officially confirm the situation surrounding the race when contacted by BBC Sport.\n\nMacron said France's lockdown would be extended until 11 May, after which creches and schools would progressively reopen, while bars, restaurants, and cinemas would stay shut. There would be no summer festivals \"before mid-July\".\n\nThe move seems to make it impossible to hold an event that was attended by 135,000 people last year.\n\nThe race would be the 10th grand prix to be called off at the start of a season that has been laid waste by the coronavirus crisis.\n• None Formula 1: UK-based teams receive more than 20,000 orders from NHS\n\nF1 says it is considering all options as it looks for a way to reconfigure the season later this year.\n\nThe hope is the season can start in Europe in the summer, and it is possible that the first races at least could be held behind closed doors.\n\nRoss Brawn, F1's managing director, said last week that a viable World Championship season could be held before the end of the year, even if the first race did not take until October. But he added that the season could run into January 2021 to fit in more races.\n\nF1 is facing a serious financial shortfall as a result of the lack of racing as all three of its main revenue streams are under threat - race-hosting fees, broadcast rights and sponsorship income.\n\nOnly one race has so far been cancelled permanently, with Monaco deciding to give up on its event this year because it said it could not find a suitable alternative slot.\n\nAll the others have been postponed in the hope of finding alternative dates once racing can get under way.\n\nThe F1 teams are on a factory shutdown, having brought the traditional summer break forward from August so as to be in the best place possible once travel restrictions are lifted.\n\nFive of the seven UK-based teams have placed many of their staff on enforced leave as a result of the lack of action.\n\nAnd F1's bosses have taken a series of steps to cut costs with the future so uncertain.\n\nMeasures include the postponement by a year of a major regulation change that was scheduled to come into force in 2021, and the requirement for teams to use the same cars for the 2021 season as they will this year.\n\nAnd bosses are in the midst of negotiations over lowering the budget cap that is set to come into force next year at $175m (£137.9m).\n\nA reduction to $150m has already been agreed informally and there is a meeting scheduled for this week to discuss the idea of potentially reducing it to $125m.", "UPDATE 14 April 2020: It was subsequently confirmed to BBC Wales news that the device has not been approved by the MHPRA\n\nA new type of ventilator developed in Wales to treat coronavirus patients has been approved by regulators.\n\nThe device was designed and developed by senior consultant Dr Rhys Thomas, of Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthenshire, in collaboration with Maurice Clarke of CR Clarke & Co, an engineering company in Ammanford.\n\nThe Covid CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] machine, which helps patients breathe more easily and will undergo clinical trials, was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.\n\n“This is a fantastic example of medical and technical expertise coming together at a critical time to meet the formidable challenge of dealing with this terrible virus,\" said Carmarthenshire council leader Emlyn Dole.\n\nAnd Prof Keir Lewis, respiratory lead for Hywel Dda University Health Board, added: “This potentially promising CPAP machine now has the appropriate plans and support across Wales to undergo a rapid and careful evaluation with patients and we await the outcome of these trials with interest.”", "Pubs, like other public venues, look set to stay shut for the foreseeable future. But what's going to happen to the contents of their cellars?\n\nThat's the amount of beer expected to go unused in barrels if pubs remain closed into the summer because of coronavirus. Publicans are currently unable to sell their lagers, ales and ciders - save for takeaways and home deliveries.\n\n\"It's a very sad waste of all the work and talent that goes into producing great beer,\" says Tom Stainer, chief executive of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra). \"People won't get to drink it and all those resources have been used up for nothing.\"\n\nMr Stainer estimates the UK's 39,000 pubs have, on average, 15 barrels in their cellar at any given time. Most are kegs containing 11 gallons (88 pints) each - although many real ales come in nine-gallon (72-pint) casks. The best-before dates on pasteurised beer - including most lagers - are usually three to four months after delivery.\n\nThose for real ales and other unpasteurised beer are usually set at six to nine weeks.\n\nCan't do takeaways - Keris De Villiers and husband Lee\n\nSo most stock could go to waste if social distancing measures remain in place for several months.\n\nKeris De Villiers, landlady of the Ram Inn, the Old Sergeant and the Pig and Whistle in Wandsworth, south-west London, says barrelled beer worth about £10,000 could go off in her cellars - while 1,000 litres (1,760 pints) more beer remains in vats at the SlyBeast microbrewery she and husband Lee have recently set up.\n\n\"We could do takeaways,\" she says, \"but that would mean selling beer on the corner of a very small pavement. That wouldn't be socially responsible, with the need for people to keep their distance from one another. The whole situation is heart-breaking.\n\n\"Our brewer literally talks to his tanks when he's at work every day. People really care about the beer they're making. It's a craft and people are passionate about it.\"\n\nSupermarket alcohol sales increased by more than a fifth last month as pubs - along with cafes and restaurants - closed on 20 March.\n\n\"People are missing these things in their lives,\" says Mr Stainer. \"It's not the biggest issue that the country is dealing with, but aspects of life like going to the cinema or cafe, or going for a pint, are something we treasure.\"\n\nMany breweries and distributors have offered to take back barrels at no charge once the lockdown is over, taking some of the financial pressure off landlords.\n\nSome pubs are offering takeaways to prevent beer being wasted\n\nIain Crockett, director of Gloucestershire-based Severn Brewing, says draymen - people who deliver beer - face the \"worst week of their lives\" when the pub trade returns, having to lift full barrels - rather than empties - out of cellars. He wants there to be at least a couple of weeks' notice before pubs are allowed to reopen.\n\n\"All the little brewers are going to be completely shafted otherwise,\" Mr Crockett says. While the big brewers have large storage capacities, small operators will be starting more \"from scratch\", he adds.\n\nBefore that, though, there's the question of how to get rid of tens of millions of pints. Can we expect scenes like those following the introduction of Prohibition in the US a century ago, where bottles and barrels were smashed, their contents poured away?\n\nProbably not. In the US, bar owners have been told not to tip out-of-date beer down storm drains, because it's illegal and environmentally damaging. Some UK publicans, have, however, already resorted to this.\n\nThe British Institute of Innkeeping is advising against such action, amid concern it could leave landlords further out of pocket. Under Treasury rules, when publicans get rid of large amounts of spoilt beer, duty doesn't need to be paid on it. Brewery representatives normally oversee this process, but because of social distancing they can't visit premises at the moment.\n\nThe government has temporarily allowed brewers to appoint publicans to oversee the dumping of beer. But they must keep a proper record of it, including perhaps filming a video as proof it's been destroyed, rather than put aside for profit.\n\nOne option that publicans and brewers who spoke to the BBC would love to try is converting out-of-date beer into hand sanitiser, by extracting the alcohol. Independent brewer Brewdog is already making hand sanitiser at its Aberdeenshire premises, while the government is giving manufacturers who want to do the same \"priority\" access to the methylated spirits - or \"denatured alcohol\" - they need.\n\nDespite these difficult times, Mrs De Villiers says pub owners and tenants are doing \"all we can\" to survive and \"assist the community\".\n\n\"The breweries are helping us and they want us to survive,\" she adds. \"Everyone's ready to help everyone else.\"\n\nIn an effort to limit the economic damage caused by coronavirus, the government has offered £330bn in loans, £20bn in other aid, a business rates holiday, and grants for retailers and pubs.\n\n\"Pubs are at the heart of our communities and an important part of local economies,\" says a spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\n\"We've asked them to temporarily close in order to help protect people and reduce the spread of the virus. But we are also delivering support to help businesses, including pubs, through the coronavirus pandemic.\"", "A young girl was among those treated for gunshot wounds (file image)\n\nCalifornian police say six people have been shot and injured at a \"large\" party despite the \"stay at home\" order in place in the US state.\n\nThe shooting took place on Friday night at an apartment complex in Bakersfield, the local sheriff's office says.\n\nThe victims - four women, one man and a girl - were treated for non-life threatening injuries.\n\nNo arrests have been made but four men, seen fleeing in a car, are suspected of carrying out the attack.\n\nAn investigation is under way, Kern County Sheriff's Department says.\n\nSweeping travel restrictions have been in place since last month in California, which is grappling with one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in America. As of 11 April, the state reported 21,794 cases and 651 fatalities.\n\nUnder an order by Governor Gavin Newsom, residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries and medicine, walk a dog or exercise.\n\nNon-essential businesses have also been forced to close - others including grocery stores, pharmacies and petrol stations can remain open.", "Anti-Jeremy Corbyn sentiment within Labour hindered the party from tackling anti-Semitism, says a leaked report.\n\nThe internal party document said an \"abnormal intensity of factional opposition\" to the former leader \"inhibited the proper functioning\" of the party and its complaints procedure.\n\nBut it also said Labour was \"ill-equipped\" and did not act fast enough.\n\nThe Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said the report was leaked as an attempt to \"smear whistleblowers\".\n\nIt is understood the document - dated March 2020 - is a draft drawn up to help inform the party's responses to an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).\n\nThe watchdog launched a probe into anti-Semitism within Labour in May 2019 after a complaint from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.\n\nA Labour spokesman said the party had submitted \"extensive information to the EHRC and responded to questions and requests for further information\" - but none of that detail was included in the leaked report.\n\nThe party's new leader and deputy, Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, said the leaking of the document and some of its content - such as conversations between staff -\"raised a number of matters of serious concern\".\n\nThey said they would launch an urgent investigation into why the report was commissioned, its contents, and how it ended up in the public domain.\n\nThe leaked document said Labour's latest investigation into anti-Semitism in the party revealed \"a litany of mistakes, deficiencies, and missed opportunities to reform, develop and adapt a clearly failing disciplinary system\", and \"disproved any suggestion that anti-Semitism is not a problem in the party\".\n\nIt also said the \"rigorous and far-reaching reforms necessary to bring the party's procedures up to standard were not undertaken early enough\".\n\nHowever, the document claimed the \"extremely strained relationship\" between Mr Corbyn and Labour headquarters during his tenure had stopped oversight \"over the disciplinary process\", with the party's management being \"generally more obstructive than it was constructive\".\n\nIt included transcripts of WhatsApp messages between staff, which it said showed opposition to Mr Corbyn, and said, at the extreme, some seemed to have \"taken a view that the worse things got for Labour, the happier they would be since this might expedite Jeremy Corbyn's departure from office\".\n\nThe report claimed to have found \"no evidence\" of anti-Semitism complaints being handled differently to other forms of complaint, and said that in 2019, half of all anti-Semitism complaints came from a \"one individual\" who the reports accuses of being \"rude and abusive\" to party staff.\n\nIt also claimed there had been a \"steady, if imperfect, rate of improvement\" after Mr Corbyn's ally, Jennie Formby, took over as general secretary from the former post holder, Ian McNicol.\n\nThe document praised measures taken by Mr Corbyn since 2018, including the introduction of fast track expulsions, describing the moves as \"transformational\".\n\nIt added: \"These safeguards ensure that the past mistakes in the handling of anti-Semitism complaints cannot be repeated now.\"\n\nBut the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, which reported Labour to the EHRC, said the report \"serves as an exhibit of the party's failure to address the crisis\" and should be handed over to the watchdog.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive, Gideon Falter, said: \"In the dying days of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Labour Party appears to have invested in a desperate last-ditch attempt to deflect and discredit allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Rather than properly dealing with cases of anti-Semitism and the culture of anti-Jewish racism that prevailed during Mr Corbyn's tenure, the party has instead busied itself trawling through 10,000 of its own officials' e-mails and WhatsApp messages in an attempt to imagine a vast anti-Corbyn conspiracy and to continue its effort to smear whistleblowers.\"\n\nMomentum - the group originally set up to back Mr Corbyn as Labour leader - has called on his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, to announce a full inquiry into the report.\n\nLabour has been plagued with allegations since 2016.\n\nMr Corbyn held an internal investigation early on in his tenure, but it was widely criticised by Jewish members of the party, with a number - including MPs - leaving over his handling of the row.\n\nThe party's new leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has apologised to the Jewish community for the ongoing issue.\n\nHe has been praised by leaders for \"achieving more in four days\" than Mr Corbyn did \"in four years\" on tackling anti-Semitism.", "After quitting the race for the White House last week, Bernie Sanders backed Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.\n\nThe former vice-president told his former rival that his support meant a \"great deal\". Mr Biden is almost certain to face President Donald Trump in November's election.", "Eamonn Holmes with co-host and wife Ruth Langsford on This Morning\n\nTV presenter Eamonn Holmes is at the centre of a controversy after casting doubt on media outlets that debunk the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.\n\n\"What I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true,\" the ITV This Morning host said.\n\n\"It's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative.\"\n\nHe was criticised on social media and by scientists who have dismissed the theories as \"complete rubbish\".\n\n\"The opinions of the mainstream media or the state hardly come into the debate,\" said Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading.\n\n\"Numerous doctors and scientists around the world have said that the disease is caused by a virus, something completely different to a mobile phone signal.\"\n\n5G radio signals are electromagnetic waves, he explained. \"Electromagnetic waves are one thing, viruses are another, and you can't get a virus off a phone mast.\n\n\"Similarly, sensible studies have failed to corroborate the claim that the signals emitted by 5G masts are able to suppress our immune systems.\"\n\nHolmes made the remarks on Monday in a segment with the programme's consumer editor Alice Beer, who said the 5G theory, which has led a number of phone masts to be set alight or vandalised, was \"not true and it's incredibly stupid\".\n\nHe told her: \"I totally agree with everything you are saying but what I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true.\n\n\"No-one should attack or damage or do anything like that, but it's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative.\n\n\"That's all I would say, as someone with an inquiring mind.\"\n\nOn Twitter, scientist and author Dr David Robert Grimes suggested the presenter should \"talk to the scientists & physicians who are experts 1st\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr David Robert Grimes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeer later reiterated her view that \"the 5G conspiracy theory is nonsense and should be quashed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Alice Beer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are aware of a number of attacks on phone masts and abuse of telecoms engineers apparently inspired by crackpot conspiracy theories circulating online.\n\n\"Those responsible for these criminal acts will face the full force of the law.\"\n\nScientists have called the rumours that there is a link between 5G and coronavirus \"complete rubbish\" and a biological impossibility.\n\nHowever, that has not stopped false claims being shared on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Some posts have now been removed, but in recent weeks the conspiracy theory has been shared by verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers.\n\nThis highlights the difficulty with covering misinformation about coronavirus. A lack of information and complex explanations often fail to satisfy a desire for immediate answers.\n\nThat allows misleading information - including conspiracy theories - to thrive.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Border Force picked up 72 migrants in four vessels in Kent and Sussex\n\nFour boats carrying 72 migrants were intercepted by Border Force off the coast of Kent and Sussex on Sunday.\n\nThe first two boats were intercepted at 06:30 BST and were carrying 22 men and eight women, who identified as Iraqi, Iranian and Syrian nationals.\n\nThe third boat was intercepted three hours later with 13 men, who said they were Iraqi or Iranian.\n\nThe fourth vessel was carrying 25 men and four women, who identified as Iranian or Iraqi.\n\nAll individuals were being taken to Dover to be assessed for any medical requirements before their cases are considered.\n\nTony Eastaugh, the Home Office's director for crime and enforcement, said those facilitating illegal crossings were \"breaking the law\" and the UK would seek to return anyone with no right to be in the country.\n\nThe Home Office said those attempting to enter the UK on small boats were \"generally from France\" and that French police had stopped more than 90 migrants from \"risking their lives\" in the past two weeks.\n\n\"We are working around the clock each day with the NCA (National Crime Agency) and French law enforcement agencies to arrest and dismantle organised crime gangs in France,\" Mr Eastaugh said.\n\nExtra police patrols were being deployed on French beaches \"on a daily basis\", he said, as well as specialist vehicles, drones and detection equipment.\n\nThe Home Office said Border Force and all operational staff had personal protective equipment (PPE) available to them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government does not expect to make changes to coronavirus lockdown restrictions this week, Dominic Raab has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary said the UK's plan \"is working\" but that \"we are still not past the peak of this virus\".\n\n\"Keep this up, we have come too far, lost too many loved ones and sacrificed too much to ease up,\" he said.\n\nIt came as the government said it might change its advice to the public on wearing face masks outdoors.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the daily Downing Street news conference the guidance was subject to an ongoing review.\n\nHe added that the government had already seen \"more persuasive\" data suggesting masks can stop a person passing the virus to someone else, rather than preventing them from catching it.\n\nThe World Health Organization said it remains the case that medical masks should be reserved for healthcare workers, not the general public.\n\nMr Raab - who is standing in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he recovers from coronavirus - said a meeting of scientific advisers would take place to review evidence relating to the current lockdown restrictions this week.\n\n\"We don't expect to make any changes to the measures currently in place at that point and we won't until we're confident, as confident as we realistically can be, that any such changes can be safely made,\" he said.\n\nHe told the news conference that easing restrictions too early would \"risk a second wave\" of infections.\n\nResponding to claims the government lacks an exit strategy, Mr Raab said it was \"crucially important that we do not take our eye off the ball or the public's focus\" off social distancing measures.\n\nHe admitted the government had been \"concerned\" people \"might start ignoring the advice or cutting corners given the temptation to go out into the sunshine\" over the Easter weekend. However, he said the \"overwhelming\" majority of people stayed at home.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Coronavirus Q&A programme, Sir Patrick Vallance said of the lockdown: \"It is important that we continue it long enough and that we do not just say 'victory - remove it immediately in totality'.\n\n\"The next phase of this is understanding how and when to release these measures in a way that is safe.\"\n\nThe number of deaths in UK hospitals has risen to 11,329 - up by 717 since Sunday.\n\nThe Department of Health said a further 4,342 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt has become a vexed issue in this pandemic and the UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the country's stance was being reviewed.\n\nSo far the UK has advised against the use of face masks by the general public.\n\nThere remains concern that wearing one gives people a false sense of security leading to them slacking off other measures such as hand washing.\n\nBut the United States changed its mind and recommends that even healthy people do wear them.\n\nThat shift was in part due to the science showing people were infectious for a day before they start showing symptoms.\n\nThe World Health Organization's special envoy on coronavirus, Dr David Nabarro, said he thought wearing face masks would become the \"norm\".\n\nHe said the priority was health care workers and then for people who have the disease to minimise their risk of spreading it.\n\nBut in the future he can see face masks being recommended for people who can't socially distance in their jobs, such as hairdressers, and then eventually everyone.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser, told the briefing that 92 care homes had detected an outbreak of coronavirus in the last day alone.\n\n\"If an outbreak is suspected public health authorities will go in to do testing to check if an outbreak has taken place,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Health later confirmed to the BBC that coronavirus outbreaks have been detected at 2,099 facilities in England so far.\n\nProf Whitty added that he would like to have \"much more extensive testing\" in care homes due to the \"large numbers of vulnerable people\" there.\n\n\"One of the things we want to do is to extend the amount of testing of people in care homes as the ability to test ramps up over the next few weeks,\" he said.\n\nLiz Kendall, Labour's shadow minister for social care, called on the government to publish daily figures of deaths in care homes \"so we know the true scale of the problem and how fast it is spreading\".\n\nIt came as 13 residents of one 72-bed care home in County Durham were confirmed to have died after displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Patrick warned the number of deaths recorded in the UK is likely to rise in the coming days before they could plateau.\n\nHe said: \"I think this week we are going to see a further increase, thereafter we should see a plateau as the effects of social-distancing come through. That plateau may last for some time and begin to decrease.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the coronavirus? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Military personnel could carry out a range of tasks such as transporting patients between intensive care units\n\nNearly 200 members of the armed forces are being deployed to help ambulance staff battle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey will carry out tasks across Britain such as driving ambulances, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe military have already been helping the NHS by delivering protective equipment and helping to build London's NHS Nightingale hospital.\n\nMembers of the Royal Navy, the British army and the Royal Air Force will be sent to five NHS ambulance trusts.\n\nTheir responsibilities will vary depending on the area they work in, but they are expected to drive ambulances and take calls from the public.\n\nSome 80 military personnel will be sent to the South Central Ambulance Service in southern England, where they will drive emergency response vehicles, larger ambulances and work at the response centre to answer calls from the public.\n\nIn London, 21 medical personnel will help transport critical care patients between intensive care units; while Army engineers will help to maintain suction units used in ambulances.\n\nIn Wales, 60 soldiers have completed a two-day ambulance training course and will assist paramedics with non-clinical tasks.\n\nThe RAF is already assisting the Scottish Ambulance Service by using its Puma helicopters to take patients to hospital.\n\nMilitary personnel helped plan and build the NHS Nightingale hospital at London's ExCel centre, which was created in just nine days\n\nRAF Puma helicopters have been supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service transporting patients\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service will receive 37 personnel, who will assist with tasks including driving and logistics.\n\nThe group all volunteer as emergency responders in their free time and have previously trained with the service.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Our armed forces always step forward at the appearance of threats to the country and its people.\n\n\"Across the United Kingdom, soldiers, sailors, airmen and women have got the backs of our NHS colleagues as they confront coronavirus.\"\n\nMembers of 101 Logistic Brigade have delivered medical masks to St Thomas' hospital in London\n\nSoldiers from the Coldstream Guards have delivered testing equipment\n\nAs well as helping with the planning and construction of the NHS Nightingale hospital at east London's ExCel centre, the military are currently providing planning advice for the development of another four emergency field hospitals across the UK.\n\nSome personnel have also been trained to fill and deliver oxygen tankers to NHS facilities. Others have helped deliver equipment designed to test front-line NHS staff for the virus.", "Apollo 13's commander Jim Lovell selects music on a portable tape player while Jack Swigert naps off to the right\n\nImage enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail.\n\nFifty years ago, the craft suffered an explosion that jeopardised the lives of the three astronauts aboard.\n\nUnsurprisingly, given they were locked in a fight for survival, relatively few onboard images were taken.\n\nBut imaging specialist Andy Saunders created sharp stills from low-quality 16mm film shot by the crew.\n\nOne of the techniques used by Mr Saunders is known as \"stacking\", in which many frames are assembled on top of each other to improve the image's detail.\n\nCrewed by Nasa astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third American mission to land on the lunar surface. During the journey to the Moon, an explosion in the service module allowed some of the spacecraft's oxygen to leak out into space.\n\nFred Haise takes a nap. This before and after composite shows an unprocessed 16mm frame (L) and a multi-processed still image (R). Among other things, Mr Saunders had to correct the \"fish eye\" effect created by the camera's wide angle lens\n\nAstronaut Jack Swigert reported the accident to ground controllers with the immortal, and much misquoted, phrase: \"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.\"\n\nThe part of the Apollo spacecraft designed to return the astronauts through Earth's atmosphere after the mission - the command module (CM) - had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources for re-entry. The crew had to use the lunar module (LM) - also known as the lander - as a lifeboat.\n\nThe lander's life support systems were designed for two astronauts living for two days on the lunar surface. Experts at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, had to figure out a way to stretch its resources so that it could support three crew members for four days.\n\nA moment of levity amid the crisis: Lovell (left) and Swigert (centre) appear in good spirits\n\nLovell, Swigert and Haise looped around the Moon and back to Earth in a cold, damp module with limited drinking water. Luckily, the improvised plan to get them back was a success, and the three astronauts splashed down safely into the Pacific Ocean.\n\nDespite their grave predicament, the crew used a 16mm film camera to record scenes of life aboard the spacecraft. But the footage is of low quality by today's standards.\n\nIt is this footage that Mr Saunders used as the basis of his enhanced images, which reveal new insights into the crew's fight for survival aboard the damaged spacecraft.\n\nSwitches galore: Swigert (L) and Lovell (R) with a good view of the lunar module's control panel\n\nA composite panorama of the lunar module \"lifeboat\" shows Commander Jim Lovell's attempts at normality by selecting some music on a tape player, while command module pilot Jack Swigert takes a nap in the storage area.\n\nAnother, dubbed \"Happy crew\" by Mr Saunders, captures Lovell and Swigert in apparent high spirits.\n\n\"One striking thing about the 16mm footage is how calm the crew appear, given the grave nature of the situation, the conditions, and the critical mission tasks that lay ahead,\" Mr Saunders told BBC News. \"This perhaps belies their true feelings as we know that, in reality, the crew doubted if they would make it home alive.\"\n\nThe crew members are eating in the scene. The freeze-dried food relied on mixing it with hot water, but only cold water was available. Lovell later admitted he had eaten little in the days following the accident, losing 6kg (14lb) in weight.\n\nPanorama showing the dark, powered-down command module. Haise went to check it before the crew moved back in from their lunar module \"lifeboat\" for the final perilous stage of the mission\n\nA panorama of the dark, powered-down command module was produced from footage shot by Fred Haise when he went to check it out before the rest of the crew moved back in for the risky return through the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nIn an interview for a new Nasa documentary called Apollo 13: Home Safe, Haise recalls how damp it was in the CM. The astronauts had to wipe down the panels with towels because of a concern that the water could cause an electrical short that could lead to a fire. This would have been catastrophic in the spacecraft's enclosed environment.\n\nTwo concepts are important for understanding the technique used to process the images: signal - the parts of the image that are desirable to keep - and noise - the unwanted parts of the image. Mr Saunders started by stacking different frames of the same scene on top of one another.\n\n\"It all hinges on the principle that stacking images improves the signal-to-noise ratio,\" Mr Saunders explained.\n\nHe added: \"As the noise in each frame is truly random, then stacking multiple frames of the same scene on top of each other and averaging out the levels of each aligned pixel has the effect of identifying and reducing noise whilst maintaining signal (the signal will be present on all frames).\"\n\n(L-R) Lovell, Swigert and Haise sit together as they prepare for re-entry through Earth's atmosphere\n\nThis ultimately boosts the detail, along with overall image quality, making it more \"photo-like\".\n\nBut because he was dealing with moving pictures, Mr Saunders had to re-align multiple parts of the image, combining all the results into one final picture. These combined images are made up of more than 20 sections stitched together, with each section consisting of a stack of up to 75 separate processed frames, revealing the crew and spacecraft in unprecedented detail.\n\nUsing commercial software, he then enhanced the photos; adjusting the contrast, correcting the colour and removing some of the \"fish-eye\" effect resulting from the wide angle lens that was needed to capture events in such a confined space.\n\nMore restored images from the Apollo missions, including those from the Apollo 13, can be viewed on Andy Saunders' Twitter feed.", "On Sunday we reported that about 150 migrants on board a German rescue ship sailing in the Mediterranean were to be transferred to another vessel and quarantined by Italy.\n\nItalian authorities said the migrants, who were rescued off the Libyan coast last week, would undergo medical checks.\n\nThe Alan Kurdi ship, operated by the German humanitarian group Sea-Eye, has been refused access to Italian and Maltese ports over coronavirus fears.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, a spokesman for Sea-Eye, Simon Pompé, told the BBC the group did not know when the migrants would be moved but “would be grateful for this humanitarian act”.\n\nPompé said the German Foreign Ministry, which has been involved in assisting the ship, had yet to approve any decision to move the migrants.\n\nHe said the remaining migrants were “struggling” to cope in conditions he described as cramped and unsanitary.\n\n“The atmosphere on board is extremely dire,” Pompé said, calling on the EU to help Italy and Malta relocate the migrants.\n\nNone of the migrants on board the Alan Kurdi had shown any symptoms of coronavirus, Pompé said.\n\nThe migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast last week by crew of the Alan Kurdi Image caption: The migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast last week by crew of the Alan Kurdi", "Tom Moore is aiming to walk 100 laps of 25m around his garden\n\nA 99-year-old army veteran who has joined the fundraising fight against Covid-19 has \"smashed\" his £500,000 target.\n\nTom Moore aims to complete 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday, walking with the aid of a frame.\n\nHe originally hoped to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together, to thank \"magnificent\" staff after recent treatment for a broken hip and cancer.\n\nHe said: \"I thank the British public from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\n\"Who would have thought that when I set a target of £1,000 a week ago, it could have reached £500,000?\" he added.\n\nMore than 24,000 people have contributed funds; he has appeared on TV; and singer and actor Jason Donovan has tweeted him birthday wishes.\n\nMr Moore served in India and Burma during World War Two\n\nMr Moore has completed 70 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, and is taking them on in 10-lap chunks.\n\nHowever, with the hot weather over the weekend, he decided to do 10 laps over two days to pace himself.\n\nHe is still ahead of schedule and hopes to complete the 2.5km (1.6 miles) distance by Thursday, instead of his initial target of his 100th birthday on 30 April.\n\nMr Moore was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and trained as a civil engineer before enlisting in the army for World War Two, rising to captain and serving in India and Burma.\n\nMr Moore said he can achieve his target if he goes \"slow and steady\"\n\nMr Moore's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, said when she told him he had reached £500,000 \"there was stunned silence\".\n\n\"We are completely floored by the amount of support flooding in - it's just incredible and he is smashing his target,\" she said.\n\n\"We say he needs a rest but he says that so long as he is slow and steady, he will reach it.\"\n\nA 100th birthday party with 100 guests has had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBut when a 1940s-style singer booked to attend serenaded him online, he was able to join in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Firefighters have to disinfect the fire truck and equipment every time it is called to an emergency to curb the spread of the virus\n\nAround 12% of firefighters and control room staff in some areas are self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic, says the firefighters' union.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says nearly 3,000 fire and rescue staff across the UK are in isolation.\n\nIt has called on the government to provide urgent coronavirus testing of its members so they can return to work.\n\nA government spokesman said it is working with fire chiefs to ensure they have the support they need.\n\nMatt Wrack, FBU general secretary, warned services would be put on a \"dangerous knife edge\" if staff cannot be tested and have to isolate unnecessarily.\n\nThe union warns that without urgent testing of front-line staff there will be an \"inevitable\" impact on fire brigades' ability to respond to emergencies, and assist with the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nJosh Matthews is among the firefighters to have volunteered to help the ambulance service\n\nSome firefighters have been driving ambulances; delivering food and medicines to vulnerable people and helping police move bodies.\n\nThey will also now fit masks and respirators for NHS staff and deliver protective equipment and other medical supplies.\n\nThe union says responding to emergencies and helping with the UK's coronavirus response places fire staff at a \"greater risk of infection\".\n\nIt says England is the only nation of the UK not to make any commitment to test its members for Covid-19 - in Northern Ireland 50 firefighters with symptoms have been tested, and there are programmes planned in Scotland and Wales.\n\nInitial limiting testing of firefighters and control room staff has already begun at Glasgow Airport, according to the FBU.\n\nOf the 3,000 fire and rescue staff in isolation, 2,600 are firefighters or work in control rooms.\n\nIn Bedfordshire, 12% of staff are off work - the highest proportion in the country.\n\nIn London, 10% are self-isolating, which is equal to 472 firefighters or controllers.\n\nMeanwhile, West Yorkshire is short of nearly 16% of its control room staff.", "Mortuary suppliers have told BBC News they have no stocks of standard body bags left for sale, blaming the shortage on stockpiling due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNew stocks from overseas cannot be sourced for many weeks, they say.\n\nThe NHS says it currently has adequate stocks but health workers report having to wrap bodies in sheets.\n\nPublic Health England said the virus that caused Covid-19 degraded quickly after a patient had died.\n\nAnd there was no specific need for body bags to be used to transport these corpses, although \"there may be other practical reasons for their use\".\n\nBarber Medical, which has the NHS contract for mortuary supplies, said availability of zipped mortuary bags was a real problem and they could not be sourced anywhere.\n\nThe company has, however, increased the availability of polythene bags, known as body pouch bags, and urged any hospital or trust struggling with supplies to contact it.\n\nA major supplier to undertakers also told BBC News it could not get hold of body bags, because of stockpiling.\n\nNHS trusts and funeral directors were desperate for the bags and \"horrified\" by the official advice it was safe not to use them, it said.\n\nThe bags it sells are made in China but it said it took six weeks to ship them to the UK and air freighting them was prohibitively expensive.\n\nThe company has looked into making its own bags but cannot source the required plastic fibre.\n\nThe supplier also said it was unable to keep up with the desperate demand from funeral directors for personal protective equipment (PPE) and the whole industry was worried about how to cope with current death rates.\n\nWilliam Quail, managing director of mortuary supplies firm Mortuary Equipment Direct, has hired a team of people to sew between 150 and 200 body bags a day, but he said he was struggling to get the products to hospitals due to bureaucracy.\n\nHe said at £57.50 the bags were more expensive than those made in China, which he said cost £9.\n\n\"Dignity is the word,\" Mr Quail said. \"I don't think £57 would seem very much if it was your mother or father. I understand they are more expensive but what is a body worth to treat it with respect.\"\n\nOn Monday, Sally Goodright, a nurse in a west London hospital, wrote on Facebook, in a post later removed: \"We ran out of body bags but still the dead were arriving from the wards.\"\n\nThe GMB union says some porters have been told to transport the bodies of patients in sheets.\n\nHelen O'Connor, a regional organiser at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, said: \"We are extremely concerned about the psychological and physical wellbeing of our hospital members who are traumatised and struggling to cope with the impact of this pandemic.\n\n\"They are on the front line, doing the type of work that would distress anyone and increasingly dealing with death.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust denied there was a shortage - but did not dispute sheets were being used to wrap bodies, saying there were plenty of zippered body bags to get the hospital trust through the current period but under Public Health England guidance they were not always necessary.\n\nThe guidance says: \"Body bags are not deemed necessary but may be used for other practical reasons.\n\n\"Placing a cloth or mask over the mouth of the deceased when moving them can help to prevent the release of aerosols.\"\n\nBBC News also received a report from a worker at Watford General Hospital who said bedsheets were being used to wrap the dead.\n\nWhen the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust was asked if using bedsheets was appropriate, it responded: \"We're wrapping bodies in line with national procedures.\"\n\nBBC News understands an emergency stock of thousands of body bags held by emergency services will be made available to hospitals and funeral directors.\n\nAn NHS Supply Chain spokeswoman said it had an adequate stock of body bags and was expecting more to arrive soon.\n\nIndustry body the British Plastics Federation said UK plastics companies were stepping in to help provide equipment in high demand - but it had not received any requests for body bags.", "At least 26 people have died after storms triggered tornadoes and flooding across several southern US states.\n\nAs many as 60 tornadoes ripped through Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi on Sunday, while severe storms also hit parts of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas.\n\nHundreds of thousands of households were without power on Monday morning.\n\nThe Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MSEMA) confirmed 11 deaths across six counties on Monday.\n\nAmong them were Lawrence County Sheriff's Office Deputy Robert Ainsworth and his wife, Paula.\n\n\"Robert left this world a hero, as he shielded Mrs. Paula during the tornado,\" said the sheriff's office on Facebook.\n\nAn additional eight were killed in South Carolina, six in Georgia and one in Arkansas.\n\nIn Louisiana, a number of homes were destroyed in the city of Monroe. The city's official social media account initially reported only minor injuries.\n\nLast week, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) issued guidelines for taking shelter during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe vast majority of residents in the US are under stay-at-home orders.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Governor Kay Ivey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Do not let the virus prevent you from seeking refuge from a tornado,\" the AMS said.\n\nIt advised making shelter plans in advance in homes or with neighbours, friends or families.\n\nPublic shelters in many communities are closed because of lockdown measures.\n\nMSEMA urged people to continue to follow social distancing guidelines, even if they need to seek safety in a public shelter.\n\nAlabama Governor Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency on Sunday that suspended Covid-19 mitigation measures that may have prevented people from gathering in public shelters in the state.", "A group of motorbike riders made up of volunteers is helping vulnerable people who are self-isolating in Cornwall.\n\nBodmin bikers was formed in response to calls for help on social media.\n\nThe group has grown quickly and now includes a chef, mechanic and someone working for the emergency services.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: bbc.in/YourCoronavirusStories", "John Cleese, Stephen Fry and David Mitchell have paid tribute to \"wonderful comedian\" Tim Brooke-Taylor after his death at the age of 79.\n\nCleese, who co-starred with Brooke-Taylor in the 1960s and 70s, said he was \"a great performer and companion\".\n\nFry described him as \"a hero for as long as I can remember\", while Mitchell said \"the world has been robbed\".\n\nThe former member of 1970s trio The Goodies died on Sunday after contracting coronavirus.\n\nCleese, who met the comedian at Cambridge University and went on to appear with him on stage and screen, said the news meant he had \"just lost the will to be silly\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMitchell, who appeared alongside Brooke-Taylor on BBC Radio 4's panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, described him as \"a wonderful comedian and a really lovely man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by David Mitchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe surviving members of The Goodies mourned their co-star. Bill Oddie remembered him as \"a true visual comic and a great friend\", while Graeme Garden said he was \"terribly saddened by the loss of a dear colleague and close friend of over 50 years\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Bill Oddie Official This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 4 by Bill Oddie Official\n\nThe madcap sketch show began in 1970 and ran for 12 years, bringing the trio prime-time TV success.\n\nBrooke-Taylor had previously starred with Garden, Oddie and Cleese, among others, on BBC radio comedy I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again in the 1960s.\n\nBrooke-Taylor (right) with I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again co-stars including John Cleese (second left)\n\nThat later led to Radio 4's long-running I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Brooke-Taylor appeared on the first edition in 1972 and remained a regular guest.\n\nThe show's host Jack Dee said Brooke-Taylor was \"a delightful man and never anything but great company\".\n\nHe said: \"Tim brought a unique quality to Clue. He was a proper team player, very generous as a performer, never egotistical and always more than delighted to set himself up as the butt of the joke.\n\n\"For me, his great comedy gift was playing the injured innocent and he did it with brilliance and a characteristic lightness of touch.\n\n\"It's always heartbreaking to lose a loved one, but these times have created the cruellest of circumstances for that to happen in and my thoughts are with his wife Christine and all his family.\"\n\nThe Goodies - Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie - on their famous \"trandem\"\n\nOne of his biggest contributions to British comedy was co-writing and performing the famous Four Yorkshiremen sketch with John Cleese, Chapman and Marty Feldman, originally for the ITV comedy programme At Last The 1948 Show!\n\nA host of other figures from comedy and TV paid tribute on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden's campaign to take on Donald Trump in November's election.\n\nSenator Sanders pulled out of the contest to be the Democratic Party's nominee last week, leaving Mr Biden as the only remaining candidate.\n\nIn a live split-screen webcast, former vice-president Mr Biden thanked his former rival for the endorsement.\n\nSenator Sanders urged all Americans to unite to defeat Mr Trump.\n\nHe described him as \"the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country\".\n\n\"Today I am asking all Americans - I'm asking every Democrat, I'm asking every independent, I'm asking a lot of Republicans - to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which I endorse,\" Mr Sanders, 78, said.\n\n\"It's imperative that all of us work together.\"\n\nMr Biden, 77, said he was \"deeply grateful\" for the endorsement and said he needed Mr Sanders not just for the campaign, but to govern.\n\n\"You've put the interests of this nation and the need to beat Donald Trump above all else. As you say - 'Not me, us',\" he said.\n\nAddressing the Vermont senator's supporters, Mr Biden added: \"I see you, I hear you, I understand the urgency of what it is that we have to get done in this country, and I hope you'll join us.\"\n\nMr Biden said he and Mr Sanders were setting up policy working groups to address issues including climate change, health care and college fees.\n\nIt emerged shortly afterwards that Mr Biden had beaten Mr Sanders in last week's Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary - held amid controversy because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSenator Sanders, a self-described \"Democratic socialist\", ended his presidential campaign last week, telling supporters he could see no feasible path to get enough votes to win the nomination.\n\nHe became an early front-runner, popular with younger voters, and made healthcare and income inequalities key election issues.\n\nHowever, he slipped behind Mr Biden in recent weeks.\n\nMr Sanders, an Independent, had sought the Democratic presidential nomination before, losing out in 2016 to Hillary Clinton.\n\nIt has become gospel among some Democrats that Bernie Sanders's extended 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, which did not conclude until early June, created divisions within the party that contributed to Donald Trump's general election victory.\n\nSanders didn't formally endorse Clinton until mid-July, and while he campaigned for her in the autumn, critics suggest it was with insufficient enthusiasm.\n\nExit polls don't conclusively show that Sanders voters hurt Clinton, but the pain of 2016 colours the entirety of Democratic presidential politics in 2020.\n\nAnd so Bernie Sanders popped up on a Joe Biden webcast on Monday to offer his formal endorsement, just five days after he suspended his presidential campaign.\n\nBoth sides spoke of co-operation and a unity of purpose - with a kind of rapport that was missing between Sanders and Clinton four years ago. It's the sort of performance that will make party elders hopeful that the supposed mistakes of the past will not be repeated.\n\nThe real test, however, is whether Sanders's supporters - particularly younger voters - will heed their leader's urging.\n\nThey don't have to love Biden for him to beat Trump, but they will have to show up to vote.", "Authorities in Paris have banned exercise outside during the day, as deaths from coronavirus continue to rise in France daily.\n\nThe new rules are in force between 10:00 and 19:00 local time, and come into effect on Wednesday.\n\nThe death toll in France has risen above 10,000 - the fourth-highest figure after Italy, Spain and the US.\n\nThe toll in French hospitals - not counting care homes - was 607 for the past 24 hours, health officials said.\n\nThe total now is 10,328, a rise of 16% compared with the Monday total. However, the latest data for care homes is not complete.\n\nParis mayor Anne Hidalgo and the chief of police said the new jogging rules would make people exercise \"when the streets are generally at their quietest\".\n\nThe Paris daytime jogging ban followed a sunny weekend marked by large groups of people running and walking in the city, despite police controls that include fines for violating the lockdown.\n\nOn Tuesday, French Health Minister Olivier Véran said the outbreak had yet to reach its peak, telling broadcaster BFMTV, \"We are still in a worsening phase of the epidemic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French President Emmanuel Macron: 'We are at war'\n\nFrance has been under strict lockdown measures for almost a month. Anyone who goes outside is required to carry a document stating their reason for leaving home: shopping for necessities, visiting a doctor, or exercise within 1km (half a mile) of their address.\n\nPolice have fined hundreds of thousands of people for breaking the tight restrictions.\n\nThere have been positive signs that the outbreak may be slowing. Monday's figures from the French health ministry showed only a small rise of people who need intensive care treatment.\n\nPeople who do not carry the correct papers may face fines\n\nBut there have also been concerns about the situation in French care homes. Until recently, reported deaths from the virus only included those who died in hospitals, and not elsewhere.\n\nMr Véran on Monday announced there would be a \"vast operation\" nationwide to screen nursing homes, their residents and their careworkers, in a bid to tackle the crisis there.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms \"worsened\", Downing Street has said.\n\nA spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical team and was receiving \"excellent care\".\n\nMr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise \"where necessary\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe prime minister, 55, was admitted to hospital in London with \"persistent symptoms\" on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Queen has been kept informed about Mr Johnson's health by No 10, according to Buckingham Palace.\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the prime minister was given oxygen late on Monday afternoon, before being taken to intensive care.\n\nHowever, he has not been put on a ventilator.\n\nA No 10 statement read: \"The prime minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus.\n\n\"Over the course of [Monday] afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital.\"\n\nIt continued: \"The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all NHS staff for their hard work and dedication.\"\n\nMr Raab - who will later chair the government's daily Covid-19 meeting - said there was an \"incredibly strong team spirit\" behind the prime minister.\n\nHe added that he and his colleagues were making sure they implemented plans Mr Johnson had instructed them to deliver \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"That's the way we'll bring the whole country through the coronavirus challenge,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described it as \"terribly sad news\".\n\n\"All the country's thoughts are with the prime minister and his family during this incredibly difficult time,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said Americans \"are all praying for his recovery\".\n\nHe described Mr Johnson as \"a very good friend of mine and a friend to our nation\" who is \"strong\" and \"doesn't give up\".\n\nMr Johnson was initially taken to hospital for routine tests after testing positive for coronavirus 10 days ago. His symptoms included a high temperature and a cough.\n\nEarlier on Monday, he tweeted that he was in \"good spirits\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter very, very little information was shared today, the prime minister was taken into intensive care at around 19:00 BST.\n\nWe've been told he is still conscious, but his condition has worsened over the course of the afternoon.\n\nAnd he has been moved to intensive care as a precaution in case he needs ventilation to get through this illness.\n\nThe statement from Downing Street makes clear he is receiving excellent care and he wants to thank all of the NHS staff.\n\nBut something important has changed, and he has felt it necessary to ask his foreign secretary to deputise for him where needs be.\n\nThat is a completely different message from what we have heard over the past 18 hours or so, where it was continually \"the prime minister is in touch\" and \"he is in charge\" - almost like everything is business as usual.\n\nBut clearly being in intensive care changes everything.\n\nLast month, the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Mr Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK reached 5,373 - an increase of 439 in a day.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said there were now 51,608 confirmed coronavirus cases.\n\nIntensive care is where doctors look after the sickest patients - his admission to ICU is the clearest indication of how ill the prime minister is.\n\nWe do not know the full details of Mr Johnson's condition, but he is conscious and not being ventilated.\n\nNot every patient in intensive care is ventilated, but around two-thirds are within 24 hours of admission with Covid-19.\n\nThis is a disease that attacks the lungs and can cause pneumonia and difficulty breathing.\n\nThis leaves the body struggling to get enough oxygen into the blood and to the body's vital organs.\n\nThere is no proven drug treatment for Covid-19, although there are many experimental candidates.\n\nBut the cornerstone of the prime minister's care will depend on getting enough oxygen into his body and supporting his other organs while his immune system fights the virus.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said his thoughts were with the prime minister and his pregnant partner, Carrie Symonds, and that Mr Johnson would \"come out of this even stronger\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"sending [Mr Johnson] every good wish\", while Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster added she was \"praying for a full and speedy recovery\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford called it \"concerning news\".\n\nMr Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May, and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both said their thoughts were with him.\n\nMrs May noted that the \"horrific virus does not discriminate\".\n\nThe Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar wished Mr Johnson \"a rapid return to health\", and French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped he \"overcomes this ordeal quickly.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also wished him a \"speedy and full recovery\".\n\nFor Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the news \"deepens our compassion for all who are seriously ill\" and those looking after them.\n\nAnd Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that St Thomas' Hospital had \"some of the finest medical staff in the world\" and that the prime minister \"couldn't be in safer hands\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: Boris Johnson \"still remains in charge of the government\"\n\nDuring the government's daily coronavirus briefing earlier on Monday, Mr Raab stressed that the prime minister had been continuing to run the government from hospital.\n\nAsked whether that was appropriate, Mr Raab said Mr Johnson would \"take the medical advice that he gets from his doctor\".\n\n\"We have a team... that is full throttle making sure that his directions and his instructions are being implemented,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary added that he had not spoken to the prime minister since Saturday.\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Symonds said she had spent a week in bed with the main symptoms. She said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, who also tested positive for the virus and spent time in self-isolation, offered \"all possible best wishes to Boris Johnson and his loved ones\".\n\n\"I know he will receive the best possible care from our amazing NHS,\" he tweeted.", "Charities are warning hospices could close if funding is not found\n\nHospices could close as they \"cannot wait any longer\" for emergency funding after the coronavirus lockdown hit fundraising, charities have said.\n\nSue Ryder said it is facing a £12m gap in funds over the next three months while Marie Curie said it would need £30m to keep services running over the same period.\n\nBosses say they are helping the NHS by freeing up beds for Covid-19 patients.\n\nHospice UK estimates the sector has already lost more than £70m in revenue.\n\nWith charity shops closed and fundraising events such as the London Marathon as well as individual events run by charities being postponed, the charities that run end of life facilities said services may have to be closed unless the public or government, stepped in.\n\nHeidi Travis, Sue Ryder chief executive, said hospices \"cannot wait any longer\" and were \"a critical frontline support service in the fight against coronavirus\".\n\nShe said: \"We have been calling on the government to support us but no funding has materialised.\n\n\"The country will lose its hospices at a time when they are needed most.\"\n\nMarie Curie runs nine hospices across the UK as well as having more than 2,000 nurses visiting patients and is working with the NHS to see if its staff can be of use at the Nightingale Hospitals.\n\nMeredith Niles, executive director of fundraising and engagement at Marie Curie, said: \"It takes £2.5m just to keep the lights on and do what we normally do, let alone when we are doing extra things.\n\n\"We have a sustainable fundraising model but almost all of that relies on the assumption that people can leave their houses.\"\n\nA spokesman for Hospice UK said there had been \"productive\" conversations with the government but no details on funding had been given.\n\nSupplies of protective equipment remain a problem, he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary says Boris Johnson is a \"fighter\" and \"will pull through\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said he is \"confident\" Boris Johnson will recover from coronavirus, describing the prime minister as a \"fighter\".\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Raab said Mr Johnson remained in \"good spirits\" and was breathing without assistance.\n\nHe also described the PM as not only a colleague - but \"also a friend\".\n\nLater in the evening, No 10 said the PM remained in critical care but his condition was \"stable\".\n\nIt is understood there will be no further update on Mr Johnson's condition until Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Raab, who is deputising for the PM, said Mr Johnson was not only a boss but \"also a friend\".\n\n\"All of our thoughts and prayers are with the prime minister at this time, with Carrie, and with his whole family.\n\n\"And I'm confident he'll pull through because if there's one thing I know about this prime minister, he's a fighter. And he'll be back at the helm, leading us through this crisis in short order.\"\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK rose to 6,159 - a record increase of 786 in a day, the Department of Health and Social Care said, compared with 439 on Monday.\n\nMr Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London with \"persistent symptoms\" of Covid-19 on Sunday and was moved to intensive care on Monday evening after his symptoms worsened.\n\nMr Raab said the prime minister was receiving standard oxygen treatment and breathing without any assistance, such as mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.\n\nAmid questions about what his role will entail, the foreign secretary said he was standing in for the prime minister \"whenever necessary\", including leading the daily meetings of the coronavirus \"war cabinet\".\n\nMr Raab, who chaired the government's daily coronavirus meeting on Tuesday, said he had \"total confidence\" in the arrangements Mr Johnson had put in place.\n\n\"Well first of all, decision making by government is made by collective cabinet responsibility, so that is the same as before,\" the foreign secretary said.\n\n\"But we've got very clear directions, very clear instructions from the prime minister, and we're focused with total unity and total resolve on implementing them so that when he's back, I hope in very short order, we will have made the progress that he would expect and that the country would expect.\"\n\nEarlier, Buckingham Palace said the Queen had sent a message to Mr Johnson's family and his partner, Carrie Symonds, saying she was thinking of them, and wished the PM a full and speedy recovery.\n\nPrince William also tweeted a personal message of sympathy to the PM's family, signing it off with his initial \"W\", while his father, the Prince of Wales, sent a message from himself and the Duchess of Cornwall wishing Mr Johnson a \"speedy recovery\", Clarence House said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Royal Family This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Royal Family\n\nThere was a show of support for Boris Johnson from Dominic Raab on behalf of his cabinet colleagues. The PM, he said, was not only their boss but \"also our friend\".\n\nSome bullish language about Mr Johnson being a \"fighter\" who would be back \"in short order\" was clearly an attempt to keep spirits up at a difficult time.\n\nAlthough Mr Raab has been asked to deputise for the PM while he is in intensive care, we learned very little about exactly how much authority he has.\n\nIn response to questions about whether his role allowed him to take decisions, he said there was \"total unity\" in government and referred to the system of collective responsibility.\n\nThat, simply put, is the principle that all senior ministers agree to support a policy once it's agreed.\n\nIt seems Downing Street and Dominic Raab himself are keen to show that he is simply carrying out the prime minister's orders until Boris Johnson returns.\n\nThe hope is, of course, that he is able to do that as soon as possible. But with every day that goes by decisions will need to be made and someone will have to make them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cabinet minister Michael Gove says the prime minister remains in intensive care in London\n\nAs of 09:00 on Tuesday, 213,181 people have been tested, of which 55,242 tested positive, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nOverall, 266,694 tests have been concluded, with 14,006 tests carried out on Monday.\n\nThe daily figure for the number of people tested on Monday excludes data from Manchester and Leeds because of a \"data processing delay\", while the overall tests figure excludes Northern Ireland, the Department of Health added.\n\nElsewhere, it was revealed that Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove had become the latest politician to self-isolate.\n\nMr Gove said he did not have symptoms but a family member did. He is continuing to work at home.\n\nHe is the latest cabinet minister to self-isolate, after Mr Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, and the PM's adviser, Dominic Cummings, also spent time self-isolating after showing symptoms.\n\nMr Johnson's condition means his fiancee, Ms Symonds, who is pregnant with their first child, is unable to visit him in hospital.\n\nShe said at the weekend that she is \"on the mend\" after herself being forced to self-isolate after displaying symptoms of the disease.\n\nFollowing news that he was being treated in hospital, world leaders and fellow politicians sent messages to Mr Johnson wishing him well.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Four members of a family who were found dead at a house in West Sussex all died of gunshot wounds, police said.\n\nThe bodies of Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40, and Robert Needham, 42, were found with those of their children Ava Needham, four, and two-year-old Lexi Needham.\n\nPolice made the discovery in Duffield Lane in Woodmancote near Chichester on the evening of 29 March.\n\nTheir family have paid tribute, saying they have been left \"devastated and bewildered\" by the four deaths.\n\nSussex Police says it is not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nMs Fitzgibbons' sister, Emma, said: \"Kelly was a wonderful and special person. She was kind, caring, funny and always smiling with an amazing love for life.\n\n\"Kelly was a dedicated and loving mother and adored Rob and her two beautiful children. She had many friends and was devoted to her friends and family.\n\n\"Kelly will be missed by so many people and has left a hole in our hearts that will never be filled.\"\n\nRobert Needham was found dead at the property in Woodmancote\n\nMr Needham's family said: \"Robert was a man with a loving, caring young family. He had a beautiful partner Kelly and daughters Ava and Lexi, who he cared for deeply and who cared for him.\n\n\"He was a quiet and thoughtful son and brother as well, always there to help when he was needed.\n\n\"We are devastated and bewildered at this most difficult of times.\"\n\nThe post-mortem examinations took place on Thursday and Friday and the provisional causes of deaths were recorded as injuries consistent with gunshot wounds.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths will open on 8 April.\n\nThe body of a pet dog was also found at the house, police said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Care worker Precious Omoruyi says she was turned away from a supermarket during an NHS-only time slot\n\nWhen Precious Omoruyi finished her 12-hour shift at a care home in Glasgow early on a Sunday morning, she headed to her local Tesco supermarket for essential supplies.\n\nThe 22-year-old care assistant's shopping trip coincided with a time slot reserved for NHS staff but she felt, as a frontline care worker, she had every right to be there.\n\nShe was shocked to discover that the store had other ideas.\n\n\"I went to the store because I had nothing at home and I was working the next night,\" she recalled.\n\n\"I was asked for my ID at the door but my work badge didn't have a photo, unlike an NHS badge, and I was told I couldn't go in. I offered to show them my uniform, which I had with me, but they said no.\n\n\"I was upset and disappointed but I wasn't in the mood to fight with them so I just left. I really felt under-appreciated.\"\n\nFor Ms Omoruyi, companies like Just Eat have fuelled that feeling by offering discounts only to NHS staff.\n\n\"I feel that care workers are not really given the credit they deserve but we give the same care and we share the same risks,\" she explained.\n\n\"I go to work like them, and every shift I hope I don't get coronavirus.\"\n\nHow big is the Scottish independent social care sector?\n\nDonald Macaskill said the social care workforce had every right to feel undervalued\n\nScottish Care, which represents 400 organisations in the independent social care services sector, said Ms Omoruyi's story was all too familiar.\n\nChief executive Donald Macaskill explained: \"The social care workforce has every right to feel undervalued.\n\n\"While the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of this workforce and is seeming to shift the perception to some degree, including the weekly Clap for Carers, we are still seeing ignorance and under-appreciation of social care workers.\n\n\"Some of our supermarkets are refusing to allow them access to protected shopping hours like their NHS colleagues, and daily there are organisations offering commendable benefits to healthcare staff but ignoring their colleagues in the care community.\n\n\"This is disappointing and misguided. Social care services and their staff are playing a critical role in supporting our hospitals to manage this pandemic and are caring for some of our most vulnerable citizens through it.\"\n\nWhen asked about its Sunday morning NHS-only policy, a Tesco spokesman said the company had no plans \"for the time being\" to include the independent sector.\n\nIceland also offers \"exclusive hours\" to NHS workers, and it too has no immediate plans to open that up.\n\nOn its website, the company says: \"We totally understand the need to look after social care workers at this time too, and have a huge amount of respect and gratitude for what they are doing.\n\n\"But there are limits to what we can do as a relatively small supermarket at this time of exceptional demand, bearing in mind that the UK has 1.1 million workers in the NHS and a further 1.6 million employed in social care.\n\n\"Hence we have had to take the decision to prioritise only NHS staff and the elderly and the vulnerable at this time, but we will continue to look for ways to help others.\"\n\nIceland is one of several supermarkets to offer NHS-only slots\n\nOther supermarkets, such as Sainsbury's and Morrisons, have included independent sector care workers in reserved shopping slots.\n\nAsda, which announced last month that it would be prioritising NHS workers in larger stores on certain days of the week, said on Friday that it had been a \"miscommunication\" and that \"all social care workers were welcome then and are welcome now\" during reserved slots.\n\nJust Eat, one of many businesses that are offering discounts only to NHS staff (in this case, 25%), suggested it might be open to amending its policy.\n\nA spokesman said: \"While this discount applies to NHS workers, we recognise that these are probably some of the most challenging times we will go through in our lifetime and want to show support in any way that we can.\n\n\"We are exploring a number of options to see how we can help more people on the front line, as well as support the wider government response to Covid-19.\"\n\nScottish Care hopes, rather than expects, that the pandemic will lead to a sea change in the way care workers are viewed by the public.\n\nMr Macaskill said: \"When we eventually do reach the end of the coronavirus pandemic, there must be a fundamental shift in how people who work in this sector feel valued by society for the necessary and complex work they do.\"", "Acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has submitted his resignation\n\nThe acting secretary of the US Navy has resigned amid uproar over his handling of a coronavirus outbreak on an aircraft carrier.\n\nThomas Modly fired the USS Theodore Roosevelt's captain after he pleaded for help in a letter leaked to media.\n\nMr Modly apologised on Monday after it emerged he had called Captain Brett Crozier's actions \"naive\" and \"stupid\".\n\nThe secretary's exit comes a day after US President Donald Trump signalled he might get involved in the dispute.\n\nDefence secretary Mark Esper said Mr Modly had \"resigned of his own accord\".\n\nThe Pentagon chief said the crew's health and safety were a priority for the department.\n\nCapt Crozier was fired last week, and footage of his crew sending him off the warship with applause went viral.\n\nMr Modly flew 8,000 miles on Monday to the Pacific island of Guam, where the USS Theodore Roosevelt is docked, and berated the crew for having cheered the captain as he left the ship.\n\nMr Modly told the crew what their former captain did \"was very, very wrong\" and amounted to \"a betrayal of trust with me, with his chain of command\", according to recordings leaked to US media.\n\n\"If he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public... then he was a) too naive or too stupid to be the commanding officer of a ship like this,\" Mr Modly said. \"The alternative is he did it on purpose.\"\n\nAmid rebukes from members of Congress, Mr Modly issued an apology the same day, saying: \"I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid. I think and always believed him to be the opposite.\"\n\nCapt Crozier sent a letter to defence officials on 30 March begging for assistance with a coronavirus outbreak on his vessel, which has more than 4,000 crew.\n\n\"We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,\" he wrote, requesting the quarantine of nearly the entire crew.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Trump said he had no role in Mr Modly's departure, which he described as a \"really unselfish\" decision.\n\nAt the same time, the president emphasised Capt Crozier \"made a mistake\" with the letter, saying: \"He didn't have to be Ernest Hemingway.\"\n\nWhen asked about the controversy on Monday, President Trump told reporters: \"You have two good gentlemen and they're arguing. I'm good at resolving arguments.\"\n\nThe president said he \"heard very good things\" about Capt Crozier and did not want his career to be ruined \"for having a bad day\", but added that \"the letter should not have been sent to many people unclassified\".\n\nThe US Navy is investigating Capt Crozier's actions.\n\nDemocratic lawmakers in Congress have called for an inquiry into the decision to fire the captain.\n\nFormer Vice-President and current Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden also spoke out.\n\nHe said Capt Crozier's firing was \"close to criminal\" and he should have been commended for saying \"what had to be said\".\n\nOver 155 of the aircraft carrier's crew have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMore than 1,000 sailors who have tested negative for the virus are ashore in Guam, quarantining in hotels.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nOn Monday night, after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, the prime minister was moved to intensive care, where people who are very ill are looked after. Downing Street said it was to ensure he would have quick access to a ventilator if one was needed. This video shows what goes on in an intensive care unit treating coronavirus patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Fergus Walsh meets medics treating patients with Covid-19 at University College Hospital London\n\nDominic Raab - as First Secretary of State - will stand in for the prime minister when needed. Our political analyst Peter Barnes explains how the system works in these highly unusual circumstances.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to transplant patients and people with severe asthma who are not on the government's list of vulnerable people. Many are worried it will affect their ability to get food and medicines while they are \"shielding\". Read more on why these individuals need to take extra care.\n\nThree-quarters of a million people responded to the government's call to help support the NHS in England. They'll be delivering medicines, driving patients to appointments and making regular phone calls to check on people isolating at home. Meet some of the people they'll be helping here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emilie is going from house to house delivering items to women in need\n\nThe pandemic began in China's Wuhan province, but on Tuesday, the country reported no new deaths linked to the virus for the first time since it started publishing daily figures in January. There are some questions around those numbers though.\n\n... to take care when reading too much into daily death tolls. The BBC's Rachel Schraer explains why the experts want us to be cautious.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1bn (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to Mr Dorsey, the donation represented approximately 28% of his wealth.\n\nHe made the announcement on Twitter, writing that the \"needs are increasingly urgent\".\n\nMr Dorsey did not lay out exactly where the funds would be sent to help in the battle against Covid-19.\n\nIn the US there is a shortage of ventilators and personal protective equipment, and business and individuals are also struggling economically.\n\nMr Dorsey will use shares he owns in Square to fund the donations which will be distributed through the Start Small Foundation.\n\nThe 43-year-old is the chief executive of both Twitter and Square.\n\nHe said he was using shares of Square and not Twitter because he owned \"a lot more\" of them. The shares will be sold over time, which could impact on their value and the overall size of the donation.\n\nOnce the Covid-19 pandemic has been \"disarmed\", the funds will go toward girls health and education and research into universal basic income.\n\nIn a six-part Twitter thread, Mr Dorsey said he wanted to donate to causes where he could see an impact in his lifetime.\n\nThe donations will be made through a limited liability company. It is a tool many wealth individuals use for donations, but is often criticized for a lack of transparency.\n\nMr Dorsey sought to get ahead of this charge by posting a link to a google doc which will publicly track the funds donations.\n\nThe Twitter boss is not the only tech billionaire to pledge part of their wealth towards coronavirus-related efforts.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has committed $30m, the bulk of which is focused on efforts to create a treatment.\n\nAmazon's Jeff Bezos has donated $100m to food banks in the US to help those struggling with hunger during this period.\n\nApple's chief executive Tim Cook announced in March the company would donate medical supplies to Italy which has been hit hard by the virus.", "More than nine million workers are expected to be furloughed under the government's job retention scheme (JRS).\n\nThat is according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation, using the latest figures on take-up of the scheme from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).\n\nThe cost to the taxpayer over three months is estimated at £30-40bn.\n\nFresh figures from the BCC suggest nearly a fifth of smaller firms plan to furlough all their staff.\n\nAnd 50% of companies are putting most of their staff into the scheme.\n\nThe Job Retention Scheme aimed at protecting jobs has been widely welcomed by companies, which have seen their incomes plummet because of the shutdown and which need help to stay in business and keep staff on.\n\nThe figures underline the surge in demand for the JRS from firms hit by the shutdown that would otherwise have to make far more people redundant, worsening recent jumps in unemployment.\n\nEmployees can be put on furlough - a leave of absence - and firms can keep paying them, but 80% of their wages will be reimbursed by a grant from the government. The Treasury has promised companies the scheme will be ready by the end of the month.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank calculates that if that pattern is repeated across the economy, then at least a third of private sector employees - somewhere between 7 million and 10 million people - will be furloughed.\n\nThe cost to government on those figures would be £30-£40bn over three months - roughly similar to the amount the government spends each year on police and safety.\n\nMark Reynolds, chief executive of construction company Mace Group, said he had put 800 staff on furlough,\n\nIf the shutdown continues beyond May and into the summer, the cost could be even greater.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"The purpose of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is to keep people in employment, protecting people's jobs and incomes and reducing long-term damage to the economy.\"\n\nBCC director general Adam Marshall told the BBC: \"So many businesses around the country need cash quickly. If they don't receive some of the funding urgently by the end of this month, many of them are going to have to take drastic steps.\n\n\"I'm afraid that we would see an increase in the rate of business failures. And we'd see a lot of otherwise viable companies going to the wall. That's why it's so important that the furlough scheme and the other government support schemes get cash out to the front line as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMark Reynolds, chief executive of construction company Mace Group, said he had put 800 staff on furlough,\n\n\"What the furlough scheme's enabled us to do is keep the capacity and capability within our business so that when we come through this, we can then re-deploy our people immediately so we can go back to work,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSaj Devshi changed jobs after the February 28th cut-off date and doesn't qualify to be furloughed by his new employer.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, said: \"By subsidising up to 80% of workers' wages, the scheme will help millions of workers who would otherwise face catastrophic hits to their living standards. The cost of the scheme depends on firms' take-up and the length of time workers need to be furloughed for.\n\n\"But with recent surveys implying that at least a third of the private sector workforce could be paid through the scheme, it is likely to cost as much as £30bn to £40bn over three months. The economic and social cost of mass unemployment in the absence of such a scheme would be far, far greater.\"\n\nHowever, what amounts to a giant safety net still has holes large enough for tens of thousands of people to slip through.\n\nSaj Devshi changed jobs after the 28 February cut-off date and doesn't qualify to be furloughed by his new employer.\n\nHe's calling for the Chancellor to review the scheme, which he believes is unfair for many new starters.\n\n\"I'm really worried about what the impact's going to be for many people in my position,\" he said.\n\n\"It's real simple to fix this; all they need to do is remove the cut-off date that they've imposed, other countries are not following this model. There are easy ways to verify people's employment.\n\n\"I'd also like to see former employers step up during this time of national emergency and rehire former employees using the furlough scheme, which has been specially designed to save peoples incomes during this period.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has appointed former Labour leader Ed Miliband to his new shadow cabinet.\n\nMr Miliband, who led the party between 2010 and 2015, will now hold the role of shadow business secretary.\n\nSir Keir won the contest to lead the party on Saturday, after beating Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy.\n\nHe named Ms Nandy as his shadow foreign secretary on Sunday, and has now appointed Ms Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary.\n\nEmily Thornberry, who failed to make it onto the final ballot in the leadership contest, will now become shadow international trade secretary.\n\nSir Keir chose his top team on Sunday, naming the party's new deputy leader, Angela Rayner, as chair of Labour, Anneliese Dodds as shadow chancellor and Nick Thomas-Symonds as shadow home secretary.\n\nRachel Reeves took the job of shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but Jonathan Ashworth kept his post as shadow health secretary.\n\nIn Monday's announcement, he confirmed the rest of his frontbench, including David Lammy as the new shadow justice secretary, John Healey as shadow defence secretary and Jonathan Reynolds as shadow work and pensions secretary.\n\nMr Miliband, who has also served as climate and energy secretary under Gordon Brown, wrote on Twitter that he was \"looking forward to serving… alongside such a talented team\".\n\nHe said everyone must \"focus on playing our part\" to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, but added: \"We cannot go back to business as usual after this crisis.\"\n\nBeyond a handful of lesser known names staying at the top table, Sir Keir Starmer has overseen a clear-out of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies.\n\nFourteen people who had not already signalled their departure are leaving the shadow cabinet, with several new names to get used to.\n\nEd Miliband is back with a brief he knows well, having served as energy secretary under Gordon Brown.\n\nAlready the former leader has warned the UK will need to re-shape its economy after the coronavirus crisis, perhaps pointing towards a post-pandemic policy.\n\nLord Falconer is another link to Labour's past in power and Blair-era minister David Lammy, an outspoken and well known face on the backbenches, takes up a key role as shadow justice secretary.\n\nFresh faces bring Sir Keir Starmer the chance to move on from a difficult and divisive time for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he will also be well aware that many in the party's mass membership will not want a complete clean break.\n\nDeputy leadership candidates Ian Murray and Rosena Allin-Khan have both been given jobs in Sir Keir's new line-up - as shadow Scotland secretary and shadow minister for mental health respectively.\n\nAnd Louise Haigh will serve as the interim shadow Northern Ireland secretary after it was confirmed the current holder of the job, Tony Lloyd, has been hospitalised by coronavirus.\n\nValerie Vaz will remain as shadow leader of the House of Commons, while Andy McDonald is moved from transport to take on the new role of shadow employment rights and protections secretary.\n\nBaroness Smith will stay as shadow leader of the Lords and the former Lord Chancellor in Tony Blair's government, Lord Falconer, becomes shadow Attorney General.\n\nThe new shadow cabinet has been described by Labour as \"gender-balanced\", with 17 women and 15 men.\n\nIt also has seven members from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nAnnouncing the appointments, Sir Keir said he was \"proud\" of his shadow cabinet, saying it \"showcases the breadth, depth and talents of the Labour Party\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a new team that will be relentlessly focused on acting in the national interest to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and rebuilding Labour so that it can win the next election.\"", "Kinderdijk, a Unesco World Heritage site, has been closed to visitors as part of the Dutch lockdown Image caption: Kinderdijk, a Unesco World Heritage site, has been closed to visitors as part of the Dutch lockdown\n\nThe Netherlands is looking at ways to ease lockdown measures, but life may never go back to the way it was BC (before coronavirus). Social distancing is here to stay, says Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\n\"We should all start thinking about how we can adapt still further to the 1.5-metre society. The way back will be step by step and based on science,\" he told reporters. (In some parts of Europe, people are told to keep at least 1.5 metres away from others, although the WHO guidance says two metres.)\n\nIf the curve of hospital and intensive care admissions continues to level off, the Dutch lockdown measures could be eased from 28 April.\n\nBut Mr Rutte cautions against any hurry. \"We have an intelligent lockdown. It will be an intelligent un-lockdown.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: Boris Johnson \"still remains in charge of the government\"\n\nIt is too early to consider a strategy for exiting the coronavirus lockdown, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nDominic Raab said the current measures were \"beginning to work\" - but shifting focus could mean \"we won't get through the peak as fast as we need to\".\n\nHe added Boris Johnson remained in charge of the government from hospital, where the PM spent the night receiving treatment for coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe number of virus hospital deaths in the UK now stands at 5,373.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care reported 51,608 confirmed cases.\n\nAsked during the government's daily briefing when the current social distancing measures could be lifted, the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said it must first establish when the peak of the epidemic will come.\n\n\"The key thing is to get to the point where we are confident we have reached the peak, and [that] this is now beyond the peak,\" he said.\n\n\"At that point, I think it [will be] possible to have a serious discussion about all the things we need to do, step by step, to move to the next phase of managing this.\"\n\nHe added to start \"having that discussion\" before then would be a mistake.\n\nIt is the first time Prof Whitty has appeared at one of the briefings since spending time in self-isolation after he showed symptoms.\n\nDeputy chief scientific adviser Prof Dame Angela McLean said it was \"too early to tell\" what the impact of the current measures would be.\n\n\"We need people to carry on following those instructions so we can work out, three weeks later, what actually happens in hospitals,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to know how well the current restrictions are working before we can say anything sensible about what the next stage might be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, says it is too soon to talk about relaxing restrictions\n\nIn a tweet on Monday, Mr Johnson said he was in \"good spirits\" after spending the night in St Thomas' Hospital in London.\n\nHe was taken to hospital on Sunday evening with \"persistent symptoms\" - including a temperature and a cough - for routine tests.\n\nAsked whether it was appropriate for the prime minister to run the government from hospital, Mr Raab said Mr Johnson would \"take the medical advice that he gets from his doctor\".\n\nHe added he had not spoken to the prime minister since Saturday.\n\nAsked whether people should work while recovering from the virus, Prof Whitty said some of his own patients were \"perfectly capable of managing massively complicated things\" from their hospital beds.\n\nLast month, the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Mr Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is among those who has sent his wishes to his \"great friend\" Mr Johnson.\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he hoped the prime minister had a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nMeanwhile, the former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake told the BBC it might be \"sensible\" for Mr Johnson to \"step back\" if he was not well enough to carry out his role.\n\nDr Sarah Jarvis, a GP and broadcaster, said Mr Johnson would probably have his chest X-rayed and his lungs scanned, particularly if he had been struggling for breath.\n\nShe said he is also likely to have an electrocardiogram to check his heart's function, as well as tests on his oxygen levels, white blood cell count, and liver and kidney function before he is released from hospital.\n\nMr Johnson has worked from home since it was announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus on 27 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday, his pregnant partner Carrie Symonds tweeted that she had spent a week in bed with the main symptoms. She said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A doctor who specialised in treating the elderly has died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nDr Anton Sebastianpillai, who was in his 70s, died on Saturday, four days after being admitted to Kingston Hospital.\n\nThe consultant geriatrician, who qualified as a doctor in Sri Lanka in 1967, had a long association with the hospital in south-west London.\n\nKingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said he had last worked on 20 March.\n\nIt had previously been reported that Dr Sebastianpillai had retired, but the BBC has been told this was not the case.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I confirm the death of a consultant geriatrician who was part of the team at Kingston Hospital,\" a trust spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Dr Anton Sebastianpillai died on Saturday having been cared for in the hospital's intensive care unit since 31 March.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his family.\"\n\nDr Sebastianpillai trained at the Peradeniya Medical School in Sri Lanka and qualified in 1967, according to the institution.\n\nIn an obituary notice, he was referred to as a \"distinguished alumnus\".\n\nIn a tweet, acting Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said Dr Sebastianpillai's death was \"very sad news\" and he had been \"privileged\" to meet the \"hugely respected\" consultant and author.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Large's widow, Patsy McGinnis, and son, Ryan, paid tribute from their home\n\nThe family of comedian Eddie Large say not being able to be with him when he died \"was the hardest part\", and \"the bit that made us the most sad\".\n\nLarge - real name Hugh McGinnis - who was part of double act Little and Large, died in hospital with coronavirus, aged 78.\n\nThe comedian's family said they had been unable to visit him in hospital due to restrictions around the virus.\n\nHis wife, Patsy McGinnis, said they never expected him to get the disease.\n\nIt was Covid-19 that \"just finished him off\", she said.\n\n\"We were shocked to find he had that; his health wasn't good and I know our time together wasn't going to be very long,\" said Ms McGinnis.\n\nLarge, 78, was famous for his partnership with Syd Little\n\nSpeaking from their home in Portishead, near Bristol, his son Ryan said their father's health \"just started to get worse and worse\".\n\n\"That was the hardest part, not being able to be with dad [in hospital], and the bit that makes me the most sad,\" he said.\n\n\"We always had that hope that dad would be coming home but as soon as he was diagnosed with Covid-19, he just deteriorated quite quickly and that was the end unfortunately.\n\n\"You'd be speaking to him [on a video call] and it looked like he was on death's door and struggling to speak to us.\n\nThe pair largely stepped away from the limelight when the show ended in 1991\n\n\"But then you'd hear off-camera a nurse coming into the room and dad's eyes would open wide and he'd say: 'Here she is, my number one, Miss Southmead 1978 runner up'.\n\n\"You could just hear the nurses laughing and you're thinking he's so close to potentially not being being with us, and he's still making them laugh.\n\n\"That's all he wanted to do and what he did all the time.\"", "The NHS is launching a hotline to support and advise healthcare staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nVolunteers from charities including Hospice UK, the Samaritans and Shout, will listen to concerns and offer psychological support.\n\nThe phone line for England will be open between 07:00 and 23:00 every day, while the text service will be available around the clock.\n\nStaff can find details here. Samaritans is available to the general public.\n\nIt comes as staff face increasing pressure to care for rising numbers of patients who are seriously ill with the virus.\n\nSince the outbreak began, more than 6,000 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus and among them are front-line medical staff.\n\nAdil El Tayar (left) and Amged El-Hawrani - two British Sudanese doctors - were the first working medics to die of coronavirus in the UK\n\nAs well as workload pressures and the emotional toll, some staff say they have had to work in situations where they feel unsafe because of a lack personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nProf Tom Dening from the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham said: \"The mental health of NHS staff is going to be absolutely crucial in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Staff are being exposed to high levels of personal risk, long hours in difficult environments clad in PPE, and also the possibility of something known as moral injury, which is the distressing awareness you may feel when you know you can't meet all the needs of the people you are trying to care for.\n\n\"This combination of factors would rattle even the most resilient of us.\"\n\nAimee O'Rourke died in the hospital in Kent where she worked as a nurse\n\nWhile staff can still talk to each other and their managers, the NHS hotline will offer support outside the workplace.\n\nThere will be 1,500 volunteers to support the 1.4 million nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers in the NHS.\n\nAnyone who requires further help will be signposted to services ranging from practical and financial assistance to specialist bereavement and psychological support, says the service.\n\nDanny Mortimer, from NHS Employers, said: \"As the pandemic continues, our people will face new and growing challenges on a daily basis, and it's therefore more important than ever that they are able to access resources to help them manage their wellbeing, in a way that suits their needs.\"\n\nPrerana Issar, chief people officer for the NHS, said: \"We need to do everything we can to support our incredible NHS people as they care for people through this global health emergency.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a group of mental health experts, led by Dr Michael Bloomfield at University College London, have issued advice and a video for front-line healthcare workers on how to cope with stress during the Covid-19 crisis:\n\nAre you a NHS worker? How are you dealing with the additional stresses and challenges during the coronavirus crisis? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Boris Johnson is \"responding to treatment\" for coronavirus as he approaches a fourth night in hospital.\n\nThe prime minister was being kept in St Thomas' Hospital in London \"for close monitoring\" and remained clinically stable, his official spokesman said.\n\nDowning Street said he was not working but could contact those he needed to.\n\nThe number of people to die with the virus in UK hospitals has increased by a record 938 in a day, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nThe total death toll now stands at 7,097.\n\nIt comes after No 10 said a review of lockdown rules would go ahead next week, but the public must \"stick with\" the measures at what was a \"critical time\".\n\nA ban on public gatherings of more than two people and the closure of shops selling non-essential goods were among the series of restrictions announced by Mr Johnson on 23 March to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nDowning Street said a relaxation of the rules would be considered \"on or around\" the three-week mark on Monday.\n\nAccording to the government's coronavirus legislation, the health secretary must review the need for restrictions at least once every 21 days, with the first review to be carried out by 16 April.\n\nBut health minister Edward Argar said the peak in cases must pass \"before we can think about making changes\", adding: \"It's too early to say when we will reach that peak.\"\n\nThe lockdown in Wales will be extended and not lifted next week, First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said it seemed \"likely\" the rest of the UK would follow suit.\n\nThe prime minister was admitted to St Thomas' on Sunday, on the advice of his doctor, after continuing to have a cough and high temperature 10 days after testing positive for the virus. The prime minister was given oxygen before being taken to intensive care on Monday.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson was in \"good spirits\" on Wednesday as he continued to receive standard oxygen treatment. He was breathing without any assistance, such as mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.\n\nThe Queen and other senior royals sent messages to Mr Johnson's family and his pregnant fiancee, Carrie Symonds, saying they were thinking of them, and wished the PM a full and speedy recovery.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Mr Johnson, said on Tuesday he was \"confident\" the PM would recover from this illness, describing him as a \"fighter\".\n\nIn the latest figures across the UK:\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures - which use a different timeframe to those of individual nations - said the number of coronavirus hospital deaths rose to 7,097 on Wednesday- a record increase of 938 compared with 786 on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told Tuesday's Downing Street briefing the number of coronavirus cases in the UK \"could be moving in the right direction\".\n\nAs of 9:00 BST on Wednesday, 232,708 people had been tested for coronavirus, of which 60,733 tested positive, the department said.\n\nSpikes or dips in recorded cases and deaths may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend.\n\nA photo of the Queen and quotes from her Sunday speech are shown at Piccadilly Circus\n\nThe armed forces are helping ambulance services, including the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust\n\nAhead of a spell of sunny weather forecast in some parts of the UK later this week, Mr Argar urged people to stay at home \"however lovely the weather this Easter weekend\".\n\n\"If we are, as the statistics appear to show, making a little bit of progress, now's the time to hold to it,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nRegarding a review of lockdown measures, he said: \"We need to start seeing the numbers coming down and that's when you're in the negative.\n\n\"That's when you have a sense when that's sustained over a period of time, that you can see it coming out of that. We're not there yet and I don't exactly know when we will be.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think we're nowhere near lifting the lockdown.\n\n\"We think the peak - which is the worst part of the virus - is still probably a week and a half away.\"\n\nWorkers are building the new NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in the SEC in Glasgow\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manchester Central conference centre has been converted into a new hospital\n\nMeanwhile, the first patients have been admitted to the NHS Nightingale Hospital in east London - a temporary facility set up at the ExCel conference centre.\n\nThe admissions come two weeks after the hospital with a planned capacity of 4,000 was formally announced - although an NHS spokesperson stressed limits had not been reached at other sites in London.\n\nThe second NHS Nightingale Hospital, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, is to be opened on Friday, Downing Street said. It will have capacity for up to 2,000 patients if needed.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added a third Nightingale Hospital was expected to open in \"the next week or so\" in Manchester.\n\nThe armed forces are working on plans to build a further five temporary hospitals to deal with the pandemic, BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said.\n\nThere are plans to build up to 17 temporary hospitals if needed.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A lengthy interview with David Icke was live-streamed on YouTube on Monday\n\nYouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks.\n\nThe Google-owned service will now delete videos violating the policy. It had previously limited itself to reducing the frequency it recommended them in its Up Next section.\n\nThe move follows a live-streamed interview with conspiracy theorist David Icke on Monday, in which he had linked the technology to the pandemic.\n\nYouTube said the video would be wiped.\n\nDuring the interview, Mr Icke falsely claimed there \"is a link between 5G and this health crisis\".\n\nAnd when asked for his reaction to reports of 5G masts being set on fire in England and Northern Ireland, he responded: \"If 5G continues and reaches where they want to take it, human life as we know it is over... so people have to make a decision.\"\n\nSeveral users subsequently called for further attacks on 5G towers in the comments that appeared alongside the feed.\n\nMr Icke also claimed that a coronavirus vaccine, when one is developed, would include \"nanotechnology microchips\" that would allow humans to be controlled. He added that Bill Gates - who is helping fund Covid-19 vaccine research - should be jailed. His views went unchallenged for much of the two-and-a-half-hour show.\n\nThe interview was watched by about 65,000 people as it was streamed, some of whom clicked an on-screen button to trigger payments to make their live chat reactions stand out.\n\nYouTube only deleted the content after the session had ended, despite being aware of the broadcast while it was ongoing.\n\nIt changed its rules after the BBC questioned why the video was permitted.\n\n\"We have clear policies that prohibit videos promoting medically unsubstantiated methods to prevent the coronavirus in place of seeking medical treatment, and we quickly remove videos violating these policies when flagged to us,\" a spokeswoman for YouTube told the BBC.\n\n\"Now any content that disputes the existence or transmission of Covid-19, as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and local health authorities is in violation of YouTube policies.\n\n\"This includes conspiracy theories which claim that the symptoms are caused by 5G.\n\n\"For borderline content that could misinform users in harmful ways, we reduce recommendations. We'll continue to evaluate the impact of these videos on communities around the world.\"\n\nUsers who repeatedly break the rules now face being prevented from being able to use YouTube's Live tool.\n\nThe firm may also prevent repeat offenders from earning money, and said it would terminate channels as a last resort.\n\nIn this case, YouTube is allowing the interview's host to keep earnings generated via the Super Chats tool while the video was still online.\n\nBut it is giving its own cut of the proceeds to charity, and has put the channel involved under review.\n\nYouTube's rules update coincides with new restrictions on WhatsApp.\n\nWhatsApp is taking action to slow the spread of misinformation on its network\n\nFacebook's app is limiting users to only being able to forward a message to one chat at a time if the same post has already been shared five or more times by the wider community. Such posts are labelled with double arrows to make their status known.\n\nPreviously, the app had limited such messages to being forwarded to five different chats at once - a limit it had first introduced in 2018 to combat the spread of disinformation in India.\n\n\"We've recently seen a significant increase in the amount of forwarding, which users have told us can feel overwhelming and can contribute to the spread of misinformation,\" it said, explaining the latest move.\n\n\"We believe it's important to slow the spread of these messages down to keep WhatsApp a place for personal conversation.\"\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nVodafone and Three have reported attacks on their telecoms equipment over recent days\n\nOne falsely suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other falsely claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nEarlier this year, scientists at the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection completed a major study of related research into the topic.\n\nWhile it recommended slightly tighter limits on the transmitting capabilities of handsets themselves to minimise any chance of damage caused by human tissue being heated, its key finding was that there was no evidence that either 5G networks or earlier systems could cause cancer or other kinds of illness.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought. In any case, Covid-19 is a virus rather than a bacteria.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.\n• None No, 5G does not spread coronavirus", "The boy was charged with 11 offences during an appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court\n\nA boy has been charged with right-wing terrorism offences.\n\nThe 16-year-old from Newcastle faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nHe was charged after being summonsed to Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier, with a first official court hearing to be held in due course.\n\nThe offences, which also include encouraging terrorism and inciting racial and religious hatred, date from between May and October last year.\n\nHe was arrested in October by Counter Terrorism Policing as part of an investigation into \"suspected right wing terrorism online\", a force spokeswoman said.\n\nNational Action was proscribed by the government, meaning it is a criminal offence to be a member, in December 2016.\n\nThe boy faces four counts of inviting support for National Action in social media posts, three of publishing statements to encourage an act of terrorism and three of distributing materials intended to stir up racial hatred.\n\nHe also faces one charge of distributing material intending to stir up religious hatred.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK foreign secretary says Boris Johnson remains in good spirits while in intensive care.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Dominic Raab said the prime minister is a \"fighter\" and \"will pull through\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed earlier that the PM was in a stable condition at St Thomas' Hospital and did not need to be on a ventilator.\n\nRead more: Raab 'confident' PM will recover from coronavirus", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spent the night in intensive care at a central London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.\n\nMr Johnson, 55, is \"in very good hands\", said Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is standing in for the PM and chaired the government's daily meeting.\n\nWorld leaders have sent messages to Mr Johnson wishing him well.\n\nIt comes as Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove became the latest politician to go into quarantine.\n\nMr Gove said he was self-isolating at home, after a family member showed mild symptoms. He is not suffering any symptoms and will work from home.\n\nMr Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital with \"persistent symptoms\" on Sunday and moved to intensive care on Monday at 19:00 BST.\n\nHe was moved as a precaution so he could be close to a ventilator - which takes over the body's breathing process - BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday: \"The prime minister's not on a ventilator. He has received oxygen support.\"\n\nIf there is any change in his condition \"No 10 will ensure the country is updated\", Mr Gove added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cabinet minister Michael Gove says the prime minister remains in intensive care in London\n\nAs the first secretary of state, Mr Raab is the minister designated to stand in for Mr Johnson if he is unwell and unable to work.\n\nMr Raab said earlier there was an \"incredibly strong team spirit\" behind the prime minister and that he and his colleagues were making sure they implemented plans Mr Johnson had instructed them to deliver \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMr Raab arrived at No 10 for his first job to lead the government's daily virus meeting\n\nMr Johnson is the first major world leader to have announced he had the virus\n\nSome politicians have called for greater clarity on what Mr Raab's role as deputy entails, including Tory MP Tobias Ellwood who asked for details \"as to where responsibility for UK national security decisions now lies\".\n\nLord Heseltine, who served as deputy prime minister under John Major, said it will be a \"very difficult personal position\" for Mr Raab, who \"will be tested by the loneliness of the job\".\n\n\"He will be surrounded by lots of people who know what Boris Johnson said, believe Boris will be quickly back and have their own personal agendas anyway,\" he said.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the government will \"continue to work\" as decisions are made collectively by the cabinet.\n\nHe also sounded a warning to people who have broken social distancing guidelines, saying: \"I hope people who may have wandered out the other day and decided they can sit around having barbecues will really think about this carefully and recognise this is serious.\n\n\"If the most powerful man in Britain can come down with this, so can you\".\n\nMr Johnson was initially taken to hospital for tests after announcing 11 days ago that he had coronavirus. His symptoms included a high temperature and a cough.\n\nEarlier on Monday, he tweeted he was in \"good spirits\".\n\nMr Gove is the latest cabinet minister to self-isolate, after Mr Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Scottish secretary Alister Jack.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty and the PM's adviser Dominic Cummings also spent time self-isolating after showing symptoms.\n\nAfter very, very little information was shared on Monday, the prime minister was taken into intensive care at around 19:00 BST.\n\nWe've been told he is still conscious, but his condition had worsened over the course of Monday afternoon.\n\nAnd he has been moved to intensive care as a precaution in case he needs ventilation to get through this illness.\n\nThe statement from Downing Street makes clear he is receiving excellent care and he wants to thank all of the NHS staff.\n\nBut something important has changed, and he has felt it necessary to ask his foreign secretary to deputise for him where needs be.\n\nThat is a completely different message from what we have heard over the past 18 hours or so, where it was continually \"the prime minister is in touch\" and \"he is in charge\" - almost like everything is business as usual.\n\nBut clearly being in intensive care changes everything.\n\nThe Queen has been kept informed about Mr Johnson's health, Buckingham Palace said. She also issued a message thanking healthcare workers for their \"selfless commitment and diligence\" to mark World Health Day.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK reached 5,373 - an increase of 439 in a day.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said there were now 51,608 confirmed coronavirus cases.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics have been released, showing the majority of coronavirus deaths are happening in hospitals but some are in hospices and care homes.\n\nIntensive care is where doctors look after the sickest patients.\n\nWe do not know the full details of the prime minister's condition, but his admission to ICU is the clearest indication of how ill he is.\n\nAround two-thirds of patients admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 will need sedation and ventilation within 24 hours of arriving.\n\nThis is a disease that attacks the lungs and can cause pneumonia and difficulty breathing. The body is left struggling to get enough oxygen into the blood and to the body's vital organs.\n\nBoris Johnson has already being given extra oxygen support.\n\nThere is no proven drug treatment for Covid-19, although there are many experimental candidates.\n\nBut the cornerstone of the prime minister's care will depend on getting enough oxygen into his body and supporting his other organs while his immune system fights the virus.\n\nAmong those who have sent messages to Mr Johnson was Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who described it as \"terribly sad news\".\n\n\"All the country's thoughts are with the prime minister and his family during this incredibly difficult time,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia's Vladimir Putin wished Mr Johnson a speedy recovery, saying he was \"convinced that your energy, optimism and sense of humour will help you overcome the disease\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump said Americans \"are all praying for his recovery\", describing Mr Johnson as \"a very good friend of mine and a friend to our nation\" who is \"strong\" and \"doesn't give up\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said his thoughts were with the prime minister and his pregnant partner, Carrie Symonds, and that Mr Johnson would \"come out of this even stronger\".\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Symonds said she had spent a week in bed with the main symptoms. She said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"sending [Mr Johnson] every good wish\", while Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster added she was \"praying for a full and speedy recovery\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford called it \"concerning news\".\n\nFor Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the news \"deepens our compassion for all who are seriously ill\" and those looking after them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: Boris Johnson \"still remains in charge of the government\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The mobile-first streaming service Quibi launched in the US on Monday, despite concerns the coronavirus outbreak might impact its viewership.\n\nThe company has raised $1.8bn (£1.47bn) for the project intended to rival Netflix and YouTube.\n\nQuibi's shows are 10 minutes or shorter and movies are broken into segments.\n\nIt has lined up a host of Hollywood and showbiz stars including Idris Elba, Sophie Turner, Steven Spielberg, Chrissy Teigen and Jennifer Lopez.\n\nViewers are meant to watch the shows on their mobile phones, and a feature called Turnstile allows the video to stay full screen in both portrait or landscape.\n\nSome shows even encourage viewers to turn the device mid-show to reveal a different angle to the scene.\n\nOn social media, Quibi's launch was met with mixed reviews.\n\nQuibi videos have a feature that allows the picture to rotate if viewers turn their device.\n\nSome of its highly promoted shows - like Punk'd featuring Chance the Rapper and Survive starring Sophie Turner - received praise.\n\nBut watching alone on your smartphone - a fundamental feature of the app - was criticised. Users complained they couldn't share what they were watching with housemates or partners.\n\nThe service costs $4.99 a month with adverts and $7.99 for ad-free viewing, although Quibi is giving away a 90-day free trial in the US. The company had said it planned to roll out its services to other countries gradually, but on Monday the ad-free version app appeared to be available in the UK.\n\nQuibi's chief executive Meg Whitman and founder Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to stick with the 6 April debut in the US despite concerns the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns could impact its target audience. Many analysts expected Quibi viewers to watch while commuting or during a break at work or school, but those activities are on hold for many during government lockdown periods.\n\nQuibi says its target audience is between 18-44 years old viewers already comfortable with short-form storytelling and streaming on their smartphones.\n\nIn several ways, I am exactly the audience Quibi is after. I'm not what you would call a \"binge watcher\" - I find it hard to sit still through multiple 30-minute episodes. But I do watch plenty of short videos on YouTube and social media throughout the day.\n\nStill, the coronavirus lockdown has given me a lot more time to stream TV and movies, so did I need a service with only sub-10-minute episodes?\n\nAfter several hours of perusing Quibi's content, I think the service is on to something.\n\nThe shows are entertaining and the creators clearly thought about how the audience would view the screen. The episodes are no more than 10 minutes long and none of them felt cut off or too short.\n\nThere are downsides - my arm is tired from holding the phone up all day, you can only share content with other Quibi subscribers and you can't play it on your television if you happen to be at home.\n\nI began my Quibi viewing with the show Survive, starring former Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner. The drama was promoted at the top of the app and given the current state of the world - why not start with a drama about a young woman battling suicidal thoughts while struggling to survive on a frozen mountaintop after a plane crash?\n\nI also immediately started to test out the Turnstile feature that changes perspective of the pictures when the screen is turned from vertical to horizontal.\n\nTo my great delight the shifts from portrait to landscape were fairly seamless. In Survive the picture always re-centred to keep you locked in the emotion of the scene - and the scenes are very emotional.\n\nAs I kept watching throughout the day, I found myself using the Turnstile feature more naturally.\n\nIf I got up to get water or stretch my legs I would take the phone, turning it from horizontal to vertical rather than pausing the show.\n\nYes, I did bump into some things and I can imagine in world of commuting and crowded walkways Quibi could be a hazard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Quibi aims to change how we watch shows on phones\n\nQuibi has poured money into its scripted shows and non-scripted/reality shows. Judging from the comments on Twitter I wasn't alone in really enjoy Punk'd - a revival of the MTV prank show now starring Chance the Rapper.\n\nNot only did I find the show funny I really wanted to share it with my friends, but as none of them had signed up for Quibi yet they couldn't view the episodes.\n\nFor me this felt like a drawback. If I saw something funny on YouTube or Tiktok I could send it to friends - not with Quibi.\n\nAnother feature I really liked were the news episodes (surprise surprise).\n\nQuibi has teamed up with NBC, BBC, ESPN and others to make bespoke news packages for the app. I found the ones I watched to be informative, the right length and pretty engaging. But I can't see why any of these videos should be unique to Quibi. Turning them doesn't make much of a difference so I couldn't see why news outlets couldn't just publish these videos themselves.\n\nI began my Quibi journey thinking I didn't need anything else to make me more anti-social these days. While hosting a Netflix viewing party may give me a way to interact with my friends in real time, the quality content on Quibi leaves me thinking that when more people download it I'll have plenty to discuss with them.", "Annual bills are usually paid in 10 instalments over 12 months\n\nVulnerable people and those most affected by the coronavirus outbreak are being offered help to pay their council tax.\n\nSupport ranges from deferred payments to discounts for those on low incomes.\n\nA petition on the Parliament website calling for council tax to be scrapped during the duration of the crisis has attracted almost 100,000 signatures.\n\nBlanket deferrals or non-payment would reduce cash for the frontline response to the crisis, larger councils said.\n\nThe County Councils Network, which represents 36 of England's county-level local authorities, said it \"recognised and understood the motivation behind these schemes...for the most vulnerable and those in the greatest need\".\n\n\"However, a blanket deferral or non-payment scheme offered across the board could create significant additional financial challenges for local government, reducing cashflow for vital services such as social care which are at the frontline in responding to coronavirus\", the network's chairman, Councillor David Williams, said.\n\nAnnual bills are usually paid in 10 instalments over 12 months, from April to January.\n\nUnder plans being drawn up by some town halls, residents will be able to defer their first payment until July.\n\nNot all councils are prepared to offer a deferred payment.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees said it was important to maintain Bristol City Council's finances during the crisis.\n\nHe said the authority was the only one out of the UK's core cities to retain a 100% council tax reduction scheme.\n\nMost large councils were already due to raise their bills by the full amount allowed before the pandemic struck.\n\nSome councils said they would make use of a £500m hardship fund given by government to local authorities in England to help vulnerable people in their areas.\n\nLeeds and Worcester city councils said those already in receipt of working age council tax support can receive a one-off reduction of up to £150 this year.\n\nChelmsford City Council said if people were unable to pay council tax due on 8 April, they should contact banks directly to stop the payment.\n\nCouncillor Stephen Robinson, its leader, said: \"It is not possible to apply a deferral across the board.\n\n\"The vast majority of council tax is used to pay police officers and staff, firefighters, care home workers, home care providers, education support workers, and other staff who keep us all safe.\n\n\"Applying relief across the board would make it impossible to keep public services going.\"\n\nCouncillor Richard Watts, from the Local Government Association, said: \"We are pleased that councils will now be able to provide much-needed support to many households on the lowest incomes by quickly reducing or removing the need for them to pay council tax.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ria Lakhani on the day she was discharged from hospital\n\nBreathing is perhaps the most natural of reflexes. Who has to remember to breathe?\n\nRia Lakhani does. In recovery at home in north-west London after a severe case of Covid-19, the sales executive is learning something that most of us never give a second thought to.\n\n\"It used to be such a natural action but now I have to remember how to inhale and exhale,\" she says.\n\nIn self-isolation, she still can't hug her husband, or see her parents and siblings. And she still wakes up at night struggling to breathe.\n\nRia started to show symptoms of Covid-19 while in hospital, where she had been admitted for an operation. Seven years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare condition which makes swallowing difficult and means she often regurgitates solids. The surgery was designed to help her manage this oesophageal disease, called achalasia.\n\nBut she stresses her condition had made her especially careful about looking after her health.\n\nHer admission to hospital was supposed to be routine. But while recovering there she began to struggle with her breathing. She then developed a temperature.\n\nWhile everyone hoped it was just a side-effect of her surgery, a Covid swab test was taken as a precaution. Ria was restless and started taking notes on her phone, documenting her experience on Facebook.\n\n\"My room was now cordoned off and the rest of the ward evacuated,\" she wrote. \"I closed down an entire ward?! I miss my family so much. With Covid-19 tests so limited I felt ashamed I was being given a swab so quickly when there are others who were more likely to have it. I was certain I was clear. I followed all guidelines.\"\n\nIt was to no avail. Ria's virus test was positive.\n\nRia was given oxygen at hospital\n\nAs her condition deteriorated, and she required more oxygen, she was transferred to one of London's major Covid-19 treatment centres.\n\nRia remembers the concerned looks on the faces of doctors watching her during two difficult days and one night, as her body tried desperately to fight off the disease. She says what she went through in that time has irrevocably changed her.\n\n\"Things went from bad to worse - taking a breath became as hard as climbing a mountain,\" she wrote on Facebook. \"I could see the more and more concerned looks on the faces of the many heroes treating me. More and more doctors looking in, murmuring to each other - observations taken every minute and scrutinised incessantly. Scary, uncertainty, unnerving, so many feelings, so many thoughts in my head, questions I was scared to hear the answers to.\"\n\n\"I almost died,\" she says, speaking from home to the BBC. \"I almost didn't come out of there. There was a point when I actually started to write difficult messages to my family. I almost died now I'm alive. How can life go back to normal after that?\"\n\nRia is not clear whether she developed pneumonia but says even now, from her recovery bed at home in Harrow she can hear a \"crackling sound\" in her lungs\".\n\nHer recovery has been slow. In hospital she could barely move at first and was given morphine on top of the oxygen because of the pain. She says it was hard to talk.\n\n\"Getting a sentence out was like running a marathon.\"\n\nBut amid it all, there were glimpses of hope. She developed a bond with a 96-year-old deaf woman, named Iris, in the neighbouring bed. They began to look out for each other despite the age difference.\n\n\"I needed her as much as she needed me,\" she adds.\n\nAnd she found hope in the small acts of kindness of medical staff - \"true heroes\" in her words.\n\n\"It was the small wins and things like the nurses making sure Iris had a constant supply of hot tea and a sneaky extra slice of cake that made me smile.\"\n\nAt home, she has to maintain a distance from her husband and continues to be besieged by coughing fits.\n\nBut she's relieved that she was able to fight the virus, especially considering how many people have died.\n\n\"There was a point in this journey that I didn't know if I would see the light of day again. Nothing was certain, and even though I've always known how much I love my family - in those moments I learned how much I need them. I can't explain the moment I left the hospital, I'll never take anything for granted again.\"\n\nRia is back home with her husband but they now have to keep a distance from each other\n\nHave you had coronavirus or know someone who contracted the virus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart has sent his \"warmest wishes to the prime minister and, of course, Carrie, for whom this must be an especially worrying time.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms \"worsened\", Downing Street has said.\n\nHis pregnant fiancee Carrie Symonds has been self-isolating after suffering coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIn February they announced they were engaged and are expecting a baby in early summer.\n\nMr Hart added: \"The Boris we all know is a fighter and a winner. He will tackle this setback as he does every other challenge in life, and I wish him well for a full and speedy recovery.”", "Maeve Kennedy McKean, pictured here with her husband and their children, went missing on Thursday\n\nThe body of Maeve Kennedy McKean, granddaughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy, has been found in Maryland.\n\nThe 40-year-old and her eight-year-old son were last seen on Thursday evening riding in a canoe off Chesapeake Bay.\n\nAfter an extensive search operation, police said on Monday that her body had been found in water about 2.5 miles (4km) south of where they had set off.\n\nOfficials will continue looking for her missing son, Gideon, on Tuesday.\n\nMrs McKean was the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor. She worked as a public health and human rights lawyer and was executive director of Georgetown University's Global Health Initiative.\n\nShe had been staying with her family at her mother's house in Shady Side, Maryland, when she went missing.\n\nHer husband, David McKean, said in a Facebook post that they had been \"self-quarantining\" there away from their usual residence in Washington DC in order to give their children more space.\n\nHe said his wife and son had disappeared after attempting to retrieve a ball they had been playing with.\n\n\"They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay,\" he wrote on Friday. \"About 30 minutes later they were spotted by an onlooker from land, who saw them far out from shore, and called the police.\"\n\nPolice said last week that their canoe \"appeared to be overtaken by the strong winds\".\n\nOfficials also confirmed an overturned boat matching its description had been found on Thursday evening, hours after they went missing.\n\nMrs McKean - with her cousin, Congressman Joe Kennedy at a DC rally - is part of the Kennedy political dynasty\n\nBoats, helicopters and underwater sonar technology has been used to help locate the pair.\n\nKathleen Kennedy Townsend paid tribute to her daughter last week, following news that the rescue operation had become a recovery one.\n\nIn a statement, she said her daughter had been \"vivid\" and had dedicated her life to society's most vulnerable.\n\n\"My heart is crushed, yet we shall try to summon the grace of God and what strength we have to honour the hope, energy and passion that Maeve and Gideon set forth into the world,\" she said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Joe Kennedy III This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDavid McKean, announcing the family accident on Friday, described his wife as his \"everything\" and said his young son was both \"brave\" and \"deeply compassionate\".\n\n\"It is impossible to sum up Gideon here. I am heartbroken to even have to try,\" he wrote on Facebook. \"I used to marvel at him as a toddler and worry that he was too perfect to exist in this world. It seems to me now that he was.\"\n\nThe Kennedy family, an American political dynasty, has been beset by a series of tragedies.\n\nMrs McKean's grandfather, New York Senator Robert F Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968. His death came less than five years after his brother, President John F Kennedy, was also shot dead.", "Experts are warning against over-interpreting daily figures of people dying with Covid-19, since they often reflect reporting delays.\n\nSpikes or dips may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend.\n\nOn Monday, 439 coronavirus deaths were recorded in the UK - down from 621 on Sunday and 708 on Saturday.\n\nMany hospitals will not report deaths that happened over the weekend until the middle of the following week.\n\nOver the weekend, NHS England released new figures broken down by the actual date of death.\n\nAnd these reveal that between 11 March and 1 April there were about 300 more deaths than previously thought during that period.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, at the University of Oxford, said because of \"understandable\" delays in reporting by NHS trusts, the daily figures included deaths that may have happened up to two weeks ago.\n\nSeparate figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also suggest the number of people dying with coronavirus is higher than the daily totals indicate.\n\nThe ONS examined registrations and found deaths in the community not included in the daily hospital deaths figures.\n\nIn the week to 27 March, for the 501 deaths recorded in hospitals the ONS also found 38 deaths linked to coronavirus in the community.\n\nNevertheless, there are some early promising signs the virus's spread is slowing, as new confirmed cases fell from 4,450 to 3,802 between Friday and Monday.\n\nThe rate of increase in cases has halved in the past week.\n\nAnd this should feed through into a slowing in critical-care admissions and eventually deaths.\n\nBut reporting delays mean once we reach the peak, we may not know about it for several days.\n\nDifferent hospitals will have delays of different lengths of time.\n\nAnd this makes it a challenge to see the real trend at the moment.", "Mass tree planting in the UK could harm the environment if not planned properly, a report warns.\n\nBadly-planned trees would increase greenhouse gas emissions, say the government’s advisers on the economic value of the natural environment.\n\nThe report comes from the Natural Capital Committee (NCC), which says planting trees into peat bogs would prove a serious mistake.\n\nPeat locks up vast quantities of carbon - but trees dry out peat.\n\nThis can release more greenhouse gases than the trees absorb.\n\nOne NCC member, Prof Ian Bateman from the University of Exeter, said: “The mantra has to be ‘the right tree in the right place’.“\n\n“We would be crazy to undertake the massive scale of planting being considered if we did not also consider the wider effects upon the environment including impacts on wildlife, benefits in terms of reducing flood risks and effects on water quality, improvements to recreation and so on.”\n\nRight trees in right places\n\nThe report adds that carpeting upland pastures with trees would reduce the UK’s ability to produce meat – which may lead to increasing imports from places that produce beef by felling rainforests.\n\nIt also makes a similar point on industry. There’s no point closing dirty UK factories, the authors say, if we’re then going to import goods from places with worse emissions.\n\nThe authors note that huge publicity has been given to the UK’s plans for planting 11 million trees to lock up carbon emissions, but they warn that conserving carbon in soils is equally or more important.\n\nThe report points out that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that in 2007 UK soils contained approximately 4,019 million tonnes of carbon (MtC), that’s 94.2% of the total stock of biological carbon - excluding fossil fuel carbon.\n\nThey say soil degradation through erosion, intensive farming and development creates losses estimated at between £0.9 –1.4bn per year for England and Wales alone.\n\nProf Kathy Willis from Oxford University and an NCC member, told BBC News: “We love looking at trees – we get all these positive emotions, smells and sounds – but most of us don't look at soil that actually underpins everything.”\n\nThe NCC calls for much better monitoring of soils. And it says that farming on lowland peat such as the rich fields of East Anglia should be halted if soil there continues to be lost.\n\nThis recommendation may be strongly resisted by farmers, although some of them say they’re addressing the problem by using “cover crops” to bind the soil together while cash crops are being planted.\n\nMark Bridgeman, president of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) told BBC News: \"You improve soil by taking good care of it - reducing ploughing and using organic manure for example. You do not just give up and stop farming the land - particularly at a time when the country is becoming increasingly reliant on high quality, locally produced food.\"\n\nThe NCC notes previous reports projecting a reduction in the consumption of amount of red meat and dairy produce by at least 20% per person and reducing food waste by 20%.\n\nThis implies around a 10% reduction in cattle and sheep numbers by 2050, compared with 2017 levels.\n\nThe report outlines the scale of the challenge for measures taken to tackle climate change through land use policies in the UK.\n\nIt says: “These figures make it clear that – far from being an option for major offsetting of emissions from other sectors – the measures will not even mitigate the emissions of the agriculture, land use and peatlands sectors.\"", "More than 100 global organisations are calling for debt payments of developing countries to be dropped this year.\n\nThese countries include the world's poorest economies which are struggling with the impacts of coronavirus.\n\nMajor charities including Oxfam and ActionAid International are asking for the debt relief, which would free up more than $25bn (£20bn) this year.\n\nThey have written to world leaders and major central banks calling for a range of debt relief measures.\n\nThe call is being spearheaded by UK-based charity Jubilee Debt Campaign and comes a day before a meeting of the G20 group of the world's largest and fastest-growing economies.\n\n\"Developing countries are being hit by an unprecedented economic shock, and at the same time face an urgent health emergency,\" said Sarah-Jayne Clifton, director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.\n\n\"The suspension on debt payments called for by the IMF and World Bank saves money now, but kicks the can down the road and avoids actually dealing with the problem of spiralling debts.\"\n\nThe campaigners want debt payments to be cancelled with immediate effect, including payments to private creditors.\n\n\"This is the fastest way to keep money in countries to use in responding to Covid-19, and to ensure public money is not wasted bailing out the profits of rich private speculators,\" added Ms Clifton.\n\nCalculations from non-profit network Eurodad show that 69 of the world's poorest countries are due to pay $19.5bn to other governments and multilateral institutions, and $6bn to external private lenders this year.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made $50bn available in emergency financing while the World Bank has approved a $14bn response package to the most vulnerable economies. The IMF wants to target the money at countries with weak health systems to help them respond to the epidemic.\n\nMeanwhile, the World Bank's funding is aimed at both supporting the health and financial impact of the virus. These will include low-cost loans, grants and technical assistance.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, campaigners want debt relief to be applied for all countries in need, and most urgently for the poorest countries. Looking more long-term, they want a process to reduce debts to a sustainable level after the crisis.\n\nThis involves asking the IMF to introduce clear guidelines on when a debt is unsustainable, and follow its policy only to lend to countries with unsustainable debts if there is a default or debt restructuring plan in place.\n\nIn a blog on Monday, the IMF said the pandemic had pushed the world into a recession. \"For 2020 it will be worse than the global financial crisis. The economic damage is mounting across all countries, tracking the sharp rise in new infections and containment measures put in place by governments\".\n• None How the pandemic has changed the world economy", "Austria's measures are not as strict as those in the Czech Republic and Slovakia\n\nIt is a debate being had across the world - whether wearing a face mask will stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIn Austria it is now compulsory to wear basic masks in supermarkets and other food and drug stores.\n\nThe idea appears to be gaining support across Europe, although there is uncertainty about how useful the measure will be.\n\n\"If you are going to have protection, you should do it properly,\" said Robert, standing outside an artisanal cheese shop in Vienna, his face largely covered by a woodworking respirator mask.\n\n\"I was lucky to have bought this at a hardware store six weeks ago,\" he said. \"It certainly will protect other people, and this mask protects me too. And as I have it, why not?\"\n\nThe new measure introduced by the Austrian government involves much simpler masks than this.\n\nWhen he announced the move, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz stressed that customers at supermarkets would not be asked to wear medical masks, which are needed for hospital personnel, but basic nose and mouth coverings.\n\nHe said the aim was to prevent the wearer coughing or sneezing on others and infecting them, and he suggested masks might be required more widely in public places, once the lockdown began to be lifted.\n\nAustria's neighbours, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, have gone even further, making the wearing of face masks compulsory once you leave home.\n\nIn Germany, the eastern city of Jena has decided that people should cover their faces when shopping or on public transport.\n\nMasks are now compulsory on the Charles Bridge in Prague and anywhere else outside the home\n\nNow America's CDC public health agency has also recommended that homemade cloth face coverings are worn in shops and pharmacies.\n\nUp to now the World Health Organization (WHO) has said people who are sick and show symptoms should wear masks.\n\nBut it advises that healthy people only need to wear them if they are caring for others suspected of being infected or if they themselves are coughing or sneezing. It has said the incorrect use of masks can be counterproductive, leading the wearer to become infected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With face masks in high demand, we look at whether they really can protect people from the virus\n\nA panel of advisers to the WHO is currently assessing the question.\n\nSome people in Austria are now sewing cotton masks for themselves.\n\nOtherwise supermarkets have to provide shoppers with masks if they don't have their own.\n\nThe compulsory mask order could prove a culture shock for Austrians\n\nLouise, who lives in Langenzersdorf just outside Vienna, said wearing masks to protect others was a good idea.\n\nBut after visiting her local store, she said instructions on how to put them on them should be clearer.\n\n\"There should be more advice on how to wear them properly and what to do with them afterwards,\" she wrote to me. \"It wasn't a nice feeling to wear the mask and I think it made me touch my face more to make it fit properly.\"\n\nIf you see anyone wearing this mask, it might just be the BBC's Bethany Bell\n\nSebastian Kurz admits that the move is something of a cultural shift for Austria which introduced a ban on face-coverings, including Muslim burkas and niqabs in 2017.\n\n\"I am fully aware that masks are something alien to our culture,\" he said.\n\nIt'll be a major change, but it is necessary that we take this step to further reduce the further spread\n\nAstrid in Salzburg told me she was confused.\n\n\"For a long time in Austria we were told masks were not needed, that they do not really protect you, and that we should leave the masks we do have to hospital staff.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden, it was announced that we should wear masks in supermarkets. I'm not sure where this change of mind comes from, but still, if they ask us to wear them, we'll do it, of course.\"\n\nAstrid said she had worn a mask on her last shopping trip but it had been a relief to take it off.\n\n\"I'm not used to it. It's hard breathing with masks, and it's hot under there.\"\n• None Should more of us wear face masks?", "Could a tiny hilltop village in Italy help us solve some of the mysteries around coronavirus?\n\nLast week, the village of Nerola, was suddenly declared a red zone, after a dozens of coronavirus cases were discovered.\n\nIt’s been sealed off by the army, and everyone who lives there put into quarantine. Now medical researchers are testing the entire population, in the hope they learn more about the virus.", "Public Health Wales said no one has been harmed as result of the error\n\nSome Welsh NHS staff with Covid-19 have been given wrong test results and were told they did not have coronavirus, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nThey are among a group of ten who have been given incorrect results - including eight from Aneurin Bevan Health Board and two from elsewhere.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the ten had Covid-19 and were told they did not, or vice versa.\n\nThe Gwent-based heath board said the staff were contacted \"immediately\".\n\nIt happened when a small number of test samples from a batch of 96 were attributed to the wrong patients.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said some clinicians who were positive for Covid-19 were told they were negative, and the other way around.\n\nPHW said 10 out of 96 members of staff in a testing group were subject to \"a recording error\" which was picked up \"within hours\" by quality checking systems.\n\nIt is not clear where the other two individuals, which are not from Aneurin Bevan Health Board, are from. PHW confirmed that the testing was done in its labs and it was its error.\n\nPHW said it contacted all the parties and health boards involved, and established no harm was caused.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan Health Board area has seen the highest numbers of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Wales.\n\nFrank Atherton, the chief medical officer for Wales, has previously said that the large number of tests carried out there, along with its proximity to London, help to explain why it has become a hotspot for the virus.\n\nA spokesman for the health board said: \"Since the 14th of March we have undertaken circa 1,600 staff tests.\n\n\"As part of our checking process, we identified a local transcribing issue with eight test results that led to us giving staff members wrong results.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the staff were contacted \"immediately\", and the health board has undertaken a \"detailed review\" of all staff tests and \"taken action to remove any further risk of transcribing errors\".\n\nBBC Wales has asked whether any of the staff members given false negatives attended work before being told they were, in fact, positive.\n\nIn a statement PHW said it followed up the cases \"to establish if any harm had occurred due to the incorrect information being communicated to individuals.\"\n\n\"It was established that no harm had occurred,\" it said.\n\n\"We continue to have complete confidence in the testing process, and the laboratory staff carrying out the testing procedures,\" PHW added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance was speaking at the daily No 10 coronavirus briefing\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK \"could be moving in the right direction\", the government's chief scientific adviser has said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily Downing Street briefing, Sir Patrick Vallance said it was \"possible that we're beginning to see... the curve flattening\".\n\nHe added, however, it would be another \"week or so\" before he could be sure.\n\nThe foreign secretary, meanwhile, said the PM, who is in intensive care, is in \"good spirits\" and \"stable\".\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK rose to 6,159 - a record increase of 786 in a day, the Department of Health and Social Care said, compared with 439 on Monday.\n\nSo far, 55,242 people have tested positive in the UK - an increase of 3,634 on Monday's figures.\n\nSpeaking about the number of new cases, Sir Patrick said: \"It is possible that we're beginning to see... change in terms of the curve flattening a little bit.\n\n\"We won't know that for sure until a week or so. But what we're not seeing is an acceleration.\"\n\nSir Patrick stressed it was important to continue with the social distancing measures to ensure a reduction in the number of new cases.\n\nCommenting on the latest virus death figures, the BBC's head of statistics Robert Cuffe said that if there was any \"silver lining to these grim figures\", it was that they represent \"the fourth day in a row of below-trend growth\".\n\n\"For weeks up until Friday's figures, the number of deaths had been doubling every three and a half days,\" he said. \"Had that trend continued, we would have seen close to 1,400 deaths today.\n\n\"So 786 is better than that, although it's still too soon to know what's causing it. It could be a big bottleneck in reporting - we've seen that after previous weekends - or genuine evidence that growth is truly slowing down.\n\n\"More hopefully, for almost a week, daily new cases have been holding steady at about 4,000 a day, suggesting that, while we are still seeing new cases, the growth in this figure could be stalling.\"\n\nTo chart the likely future path of the epidemic, case numbers and hospital admissions are seen as the leading indicators.\n\nThe number of daily new cases at just over 3,600 was the lowest in a week. Hospital admissions are still increasing, though the rate of growth appears to be easing.\n\nLooking at the two together led Sir Patrick to say there was no sign of an acceleration and things could be moving \"in the right direction\".\n\nHe added, though, that the government couldn't be sure for a week or so.\n\nThe number of deaths, however, is still rising - and the latest daily reported increase of 786 is a record.\n\nExperts believe that those fatality figures are the most certain indicator of what is happening, and only when there is a sustained flattening of that line on the chart will they be convinced that social distancing has worked.\n\nAsked whether the current lockdown would be extended, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government would make a decision when \"the time is right\" but that \"we are not at that stage yet\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed that the review would now not go ahead on Monday and said it would instead take place after the three-week mark.\n\nHe added social distancing measures were \"helping\", and that people must continue to adhere to them over the Easter weekend.\n\nThe foreign secretary also issued a short statement about Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who remains in intensive care under \"close monitoring\", Downing Street said on Tuesday evening.\n\nMr Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London with \"persistent symptoms\" of Covid-19 on Sunday and was moved to intensive care on Monday evening after his symptoms worsened.\n\nMr Raab, who is deputising for Mr Johnson, said the PM was receiving \"standard oxygen treatment\" and had not been on a ventilator.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"For all of us in cabinet he's not just our boss - he's also a colleague and he's also our friend,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I'm confident he will pull through, because if there is one thing that I know about this prime minister, it is [that] he is a fighter and he will be back leading us through this crisis in short order.\"\n\nAs first secretary of state, Mr Raab is the minister designated to stand in for Mr Johnson if he is unwell and unable to work.\n\nIn a further development, Sir Patrick said he could not guarantee there would be enough intensive care unit (ICU) beds in every individual hospital throughout the epidemic.\n\nHowever, in terms of demand, he said \"there shouldn't be an overall increase above the number of beds available\" across the whole NHS.\n\n\"The NHS has done an amazing job of increasing the overall capacity of ICU and so things seem to be tracking in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nAnd asked whether the government is on track to reach its target of 100,000 tests per day, Mr Raab said the most recent data showed there were 14,000 tests in a single day - which he described as \"progress\".\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the government's chief medical advisor, said Germany - where the number of deaths appeared to be growing at a slower rate - had \"got ahead\" in its ability to test for the virus.\n\n\"There's a lot to learn from that and we've been trying to learn the lessons from that,\" he said.", "People who volunteered to support the NHS in England during the coronavirus crisis are being given details of what tasks they can do to help.\n\nMore than 750,000 people signed up to join the \"volunteer army\" - three times the government's original target - to help relieve pressure on the NHS.\n\nThey will support 2.5 million people who are considered at risk.\n\nThe volunteers may have to deliver food and medicines, drive patients to appointments and phone the isolated.\n\nThe process is being managed through a mobile app called GoodSam, where health professionals, pharmacists, and local authorities can upload requests for help from Tuesday.\n\nThousands of approved volunteers can then pick which tasks they want to complete in their local area.\n\nVolunteers switch their app to \"on duty\" to show when they are available.\n\nDue to the huge response, the group of vulnerable people they will support in England was expanded from 1.5 million to 2.5 million.\n\nThe government scheme initially had a target of recruiting 250,000 helpers. Recruitment was temporarily paused on 29 March to process the initial applications.\n\nThe Royal Voluntary Service, the charity helping co-ordinate the scheme, will have completed checks on the applications by the end of Tuesday.\n\nTeacher Stacey Walsh is one of thousands who wants to volunteer\n\nOne of the thousands to sign up was Stacey Walsh, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, who is still teaching but wants to volunteer in her spare time.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"I've said I'll do whatever's needed. I'm a very social person so being able to provide people who are isolated with support over the telephone - that's something that I really am looking forward to.\n\n\"It's really important as public sector workers we stand alongside the NHS. There is a unity between us so I'm really happy that I can help.\"\n\nTwo days ago, Edward Butler-Ellis didn't expect to find himself outside the home of an elderly woman in London, talking about her pharmacy collection in Portuguese using Google Translate.\n\nShe was one of several vulnerable people he has run errands for as part of the NHS coronavirus volunteering scheme over the past day.\n\nEdward told the BBC it was \"clear that there was a bit of a language barrier\" from the moment he first spoke to her on the phone.\n\nBut rather than passing the call on to another volunteer, he turned to technology to help.\n\n\"I had to give her a quick lesson on the doorstep,\" he laughed.\n\n\"I [didn't] want to take the risk that it [would take] another 10 volunteers to find somebody who speaks Portuguese.\"\n\nEdward runs his own planning and communications firm, and, when work began to dry up as a result of the outbreak, he decided he could fill his spare time with volunteering.\n\nHe said it has made him realise how many vulnerable people live in the capital.\n\n\"A lady that I went to see yesterday she felt guilty for having to phone up to get somebody else's support,\" he said.\n\n\"I wanted to provide her with some reassurance that people did genuinely want to help.\"\n\n\"It did make me realise that there are people who are genuinely living in fear of their lives - she was frightened to go outside, and she was quite frustrated that some people were still out and about enjoying themselves as if it were some sort of extended holiday,\" he said.\n\nCatherine Johnstone, chief executive of the Royal Voluntary Service, said it had been \"a mammoth effort\" to get the scheme up and running but it was now \"open for business\".\n\nShe said: \"It's determined grit that has got us through 750,000 volunteers. To authenticate those under normal circumstances would take months, but we don't have months. We want to shield the most at-risk patients now.\"\n\nHave you volunteered to help the NHS? Have you received your tasks? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n• None PM thanks 500,000 who have signed up to help NHS", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool have reversed their decision to place some non-playing staff on temporary leave and apologised to fans.\n\nOn Saturday, the club said they were going to apply to the government's taxpayer-funded job retention scheme, sparking a fierce backlash.\n\nBut in a letter to their fans, chief executive Peter Moore said: \"We believe we came to the wrong conclusion last week and are truly sorry for that.\"\n\nHe added that the Reds have \"opted to find alternative means\" to pay staff.\n• None What are Premier League clubs doing on pay?\n\nThe U-turn came after mounting criticism had led to talks between the club's US owners Fenway Sports Group, executives and key stakeholders.\n\nLiverpool had become the fifth Premier League team to furlough non-playing staff with the season suspended indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nStaff affected were to receive 80% of their salary through the scheme and the club would make up the difference, despite making a profit of £42m last year. Liverpool are the world's seventh-richest football club.\n\nThe decision was criticised by former Liverpool players Jamie Carragher and Stan Collymore.\n\nNewcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth and Norwich City had already announced they will furlough some non-playing staff.\n\n\"Despite the fact we were in a healthy position prior to this crisis, our revenues have been shut off yet our outgoings remain,\" said Moore.\n\n\"And like almost every sector of society, there is great uncertainty and concern over our present and future.\n\n\"Like any responsible employer concerned for its workers in the current situation, the club continues to prepare for a range of different scenarios, around when football can return to operating as it did before the pandemic.\n\n\"These scenarios range from best case to worst, and everything in between.\n\n\"It is an unavoidable truth that several of these scenarios involve a massive downturn in revenue, with correspondingly unprecedented operating losses.\n\n\"Having these vital financial resources so profoundly impacted would obviously negatively affect our ability to operate as we previously have.\"\n\nGareth Roberts, from the Anfield Wrap podcast, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the club may have made the original decision \"without thinking about the ramifications\", but eventually \"common sense had prevailed\".\n\nHe added: \"It just felt wrong and I know Liverpool qualified for the government's job retention scheme. It boiled down to morals for me and we expect more from football clubs than other businesses because we are emotionally part of the club - it is something we support and put a lot of our money and time and effort into.\n\n\"In the statement they put out they are talking about revenues possibly going down without months of football. That is going to be a reality for all of football.\n\n\"They just hadn't viably consulted on it. There are plenty of people at the club who would have been opposed to it and it feels like someone, maybe at the very top of the club, made the decision without thinking about the ramifications and what it looked like reputation-wise.\n\n\"They have seen the mass reaction and decided to reverse that decision. Common sense has prevailed in the end.\"\n\nEx-defender Carragher had tweeted: \"Jurgen Klopp showed compassion for all at the start of this pandemic, senior players heavily involved in Premier League players taking wage cuts. Then all that respect and goodwill is lost - poor this, LFC.\"\n\nFormer striker Collymore posted on social media: \"I don't know of any Liverpool fan of any standing that won't be anything other than disgusted at the club for furloughing staff. It's just plain wrong.\"", "The BBC's Fergus Walsh is inside intensive care at University College Hospital in London as medics treat patients with coronavirus.\n\nProduced by Nicki Stiastny, filmed and edited by Adam Walker.", "Belgium uses its well-loved food and drink to encourage people to keep their distance Image caption: Belgium uses its well-loved food and drink to encourage people to keep their distance\n\nUntil a few weeks ago, social distancing was an alien idea to most of us. Now, as we learn to navigate this new world, different countries and cultures are figuring out how to best explain new public health measures.\n\nBelgians should be keeping apart the same distance as 22 bottles of Orval beer, 10 cones of chips, or three crates of beer. (Presumably those supplies are useful for self-isolation, too.)\n\nWhile in Kenya, one graphic explains that the length of a lion is the correct distance to keep from others. But please don't use actual lions, it warns.\n\nA graphic in Kenya encourages people to stay the distance of one lion away from others Image caption: A graphic in Kenya encourages people to stay the distance of one lion away from others\n\nAnd in Mexico, superhero Susana Distancia was launched by the government to encourage people to keep their distance and stay at home. Her name is a play on words that translate as \"your healthy distance\".\n\nSusana Distancia's superpower is extending her arms 1.5m to create a bubble protecting herself and others from infection Image caption: Susana Distancia's superpower is extending her arms 1.5m to create a bubble protecting herself and others from infection\n\nMeanwhile in Egypt, a very catchy song with old footage of famous actor Adel Imam is being broadcast on television and even in the streets. \"Don't kiss, don't shake hands, don't transmit the virus,\" it sings.", "Marian and Ian were on a \"trip of a lifetime\" to New Zealand when they got stranded\n\nIan Presland and his wife Marian arrived back in the UK to find bunting, a bottle of milk, a lump of cheese and some eggs by their front door.\n\nTheir friends had bought them a welcome-back package after they finally arrived home from New Zealand, where they'd been stranded due to coronavirus.\n\nThe couple had already had three flights cancelled and had prepared themselves to be stuck there for weeks.\n\nBut their travel agent was able to get them last-minute seats on a flight out of the country with Qatar Airways and they got back to the UK on 1 April.\n\n\"It's weird but it's great to be back,\" says Ian, 60, from Nailsea, Somerset.\n\n\"We now just feel for all those thousands who are less fortunate than us. We feel very lucky to be back here.\n\n\"I think we got away lightly because we know people that have paid a lot of money for seats in two or three weeks' time.\n\n\"Presumably they will get home now but we're not sure.\"\n\nLuke and Chiara were six weeks into a backpacking trip when they got stuck in Peru\n\nLast week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps estimated about 300,000 UK travellers were stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn 30 March, the government announced it had struck a deal with major airlines to help get people back.\n\nIt also pledged £75m to charter special flights from countries where commercial flights are unavailable.\n\nSo far, about 2,000 British nationals from seven countries have been brought back on flights organised by the Foreign Office.\n\nIt's not free though - passengers have to pay for a seat on a government chartered flight, and that has cost people up to £1,000.\n\nLuke Wallwork and his girlfriend Chiara paid around £250 each for a place on a government flight back from Peru.\n\nThe 23-year-old, from Liverpool, believes it was down to the pressure UK tourists put on the government that finally made them take more action.\n\n\"The response we got in the first week was that you're kind of on your own and you're not going to get much support here,\" he says.\n\n\"As the momentum built and the pressure built and Peru got mentioned a lot in the media they basically had to give in a bit and see what they could do.\n\n\"It's been stressful but it's interesting to see how things work and the power people have if they come together. If we didn't come together and get our voices heard we'd still be stuck there.\"\n\nAmrik Bola has no way of getting onto one of the government charter flights in India\n\nBut how easy it is to get back can depend on where you are in the world and how much you can afford.\n\nIt's estimated about 20,000 Brits are stranded in India after the country went into a strict lockdown.\n\nThe government announced on Sunday it has arranged charter flights leaving from Goa, Mumbai and Delhi starting on Thursday.\n\nBut that doesn't help 73-year-old Amrik Bola, from Derby, who is stuck in a remote village in Punjab with his wife and sister-in-law.\n\nThey're eight hours away from Delhi and can't get on one of the government flights as they're banned from travelling between states.\n\n\"If they've arranged those flights, why don't they think about the 15,000 people struck in Punjab? That's really bad,\" says Amrik.\n\n\"Every day we end up crying. We're sitting three of us in a room. We don't know when we will get back.\n\n\"Our family is in England, our children are in England. If we are in England, we are close to our children if something was to happen.\n\n\"What we worry about is if something was to happen to us in India they wouldn't be able to come.\"\n\nBikramjit Sekha and Suriender Kaur are stuck in a remote village in Punjab\n\nMany Brits in India are relying on their loved ones in the UK to help them get home due to the lack of internet access in remote places.\n\nAman Sekha, from Walsall, has been trying to get his parents Bikramjit, 67, and Suriender, 65, back for over two weeks.\n\nHe says he's had sleepless nights over it and has questioned why the government is charging so much for seats on its chartered flights.\n\n\"The flights normally would cost £350, they're charging us £600 and that's even if you can get a flight,\" he says.\n\n\"Not only is it double, but on top of that, they've only been able to organise a few flights and apparently there's thousands of people over there.\n\n\"I'm sorry I don't agree with anything they've done at the moment and can't understand why it's the case.\n\n\"I don't understand how they can go to the US and get people off a boat, yet you've got thousands of people sitting and waiting to pay for a ticket - even though it's double the money - to get out of there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳\n\nThe British High Commission in India has said it's working on arranging flights from other locations - including Amritsar in Punjab - but there are no confirmed dates yet.\n\nBut not everyone stranded abroad is able to rely on the government to put on flights.\n\nThe Foreign Office says it's only arranging government flights from countries where commercial flights are not possible.\n\nIn New Zealand, about 10,000 Brits have registered with the High Commission for help getting home.\n\nMarie Young, 54, from Beccles, Suffolk, spoke to the BBC about being stranded in Auckland more than 10 days ago.\n\nShe says she's since been able to book onto a commercial flight home which is due to leave on Saturday.\n\nMarie's trip was top of her bucket list after being diagnosed with cancer\n\nBut Marie still hasn't received a refund for her original flight which was cancelled - so she's had to borrow £1,350 to pay for her new ticket.\n\n\"There's a duty of care with airlines to get you home if something happens. They can't just cut and run and leave you,\" she says.\n\n\"I think the government needs to put pressure on them. We're not expecting a free ride home but we are expecting a refund from a cancelled flight.\"\n\nBritish travellers are being encouraged to arrange flights with airlines that are flying from their location - then seek refunds for their original flights with the airline or through their travel insurance.\n\nSpeaking at the government daily briefing on Monday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab promised all was being done to return those still stuck abroad, with more flights from India, South Africa, Nepal and the Philippines flying in later this week.\n\nThe Foreign Office has since introduced a cap on the cost of a seat on its chartered flights based on how long the journey is.\n\nA flight under six hours will be capped at £400 per person, flights between six and ten hours capped at £600, and flights over 10 hours capped at £800.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"The government has committed up to £75m to help thousands of British people return home.\n\n\"In order to deliver value for money and put on as many flights as possible, anyone returning on a government charter flight will need to contribute towards their ticket based on the length of the journey.\n\n\"The amount charged will reflect only a proportion of the overall cost of the charter flight, which is why we have set aside the £75m fund.\"\n\nPeople who are unable to afford travel costs and are struggling to get funds might be able to apply for an emergency loan from the government.\n\nInstructions for UK travellers to return home can be found on the government's foreign travel advice website page.", "After a day in a strange vacuum, an official statement emerged from Downing Street just after 20:00 BST.\n\nHaving struggled to shake off symptoms, and having been taken to hospital 24 hours before, No 10 announced that the prime minister had been moved into intensive care.\n\nDowning Street has made clear that Boris Johnson is still conscious, and it is understood that he has not yet received any kind of ventilation to help him breathe.\n\nBut the decision was taken to move him to part of St Thomas' Hospital, where that kind of treatment would be immediately available if required.\n\nIt has been clear for many days that Mr Johnson was taking far longer to recover than had initially been expected.\n\nHe regularly popped up on social media to say that he was suffering mild symptoms and was following advice in customary bombastic tone.\n\nEven this morning No 10 was insisting that he was still receiving red boxes full of government business and was in touch with his team.\n\nBut obviously, with his condition deteriorating on Monday afternoon, the view of his condition changed.\n\nWith the prognosis uncertain, the government has taken a highly unusual move of asking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to step up to deputise for the prime minister when needed.\n\nTalking on Monday night, he said that the government's business would go on, ministers focused on delivering the plans to tackle coronavirus that Mr Johnson had instructed them to do.\n\nBut the foreign secretary seemed understandably, but obviously, shocked.\n\nPoliticians have repeatedly said that coronavirus does not discriminate, the infection does not pick and choose.\n\nWith Boris Johnson now in intensive care, it is abundantly clear that power is no protection from harm.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Learn how Wuhan dealt with the lockdown\n\nThe months-long lockdown in the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province - where the coronavirus pandemic started - has been lifted.\n\nAnyone who has a \"green\" code on a widely used smartphone health app is now allowed to leave, for the first time since 23 January.\n\nTrain, road and rail connections have now been re-established.\n\nIt comes after China reported no deaths on Tuesday, the first time since it began publishing figures.\n\nTo contain the spread in Wuhan, authorities imposed unprecedented restrictions on travel and ordered the closure of most businesses in the bustling metropolis, which is home to 11 million people.\n\nChinese authorities have credited these measures with a downturn in infection rates, and the vast majority of cases are now being reported outside of China.\n\nLast month, when Wuhan reported its first full week with no new infections, shopping malls were re-opened. Some people in \"epidemic-free\" residential compounds have also been allowed to leave their homes for two hours.\n\nFrom Wednesday, approved residents will be able to use public transport if they are also to provide a QR code for scanning. The code is unique for each person and links to their confirmed health status.\n\nPeople engaged in making medical supplies and other daily goods will be allowed to return to work. Other industries that impact national or global supply chains will also be able to re-open.\n\nInitially, only those with health clearance will be allowed to leave\n\nEven with a limited air service, 200 flights are scheduled to depart Wuhan on Wednesday, carrying out 10,000 passengers.\n\nChinese state media has shown aerial footage with nearly 100 high-speed trains ready to depart and highway roadblocks have been removed.\n\nSome limits on transport will remain in place, however, and schools are still closed until further notice.\n\nWuhan officials have also revoked the \"epidemic-free\" status of 45 residents' compounds because of the emergence of asymptomatic cases, and for other unspecified reasons.\n\nStringent lockdowns remain in place across other areas of China. In Beijing, where 31 new cases were reported on Monday, city authorities have announced tough new measures. Anyone entering the city must be quarantined and undergo health checks.\n\nSince the outbreak began, more than 3,300 people have died in China and 81,740 have been confirmed as infected, according to official figures.\n\nThe National Health Commission said it had 32 new confirmed cases on Tuesday, down from 39 a day earlier.\n\nBut the government is under scrutiny about its response to the outbreak, and whether it is underreporting its figures.\n\nHitting back at these claims, Chinese state media have published what they describe as a detailed timeline of its response and information sharing.\n• None Can we trust China claims of virus success?", "More than 250 trades unions and environment groups have signed an open letter opposing plans for bailing out the aviation industry.\n\nThe letter to governments demands that any bailouts lead to better labour conditions and a cut in emissions.\n\nThey say aviation should make changes already evident in other sectors amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThanks to a long-standing treaty, international aviation has largely been able to make its own rules.\n\nThe campaigners say this must change now that firms are asking for new favours from governments\n\nTheir informal group is called “Stay Grounded”. Its spokesperson Magdalena Heuwieser said: “For decades the aviation industry has avoided contributing meaningfully to global climate goals and resisted the merest suggestion of taxes on fuel or tickets.\n\n“Now, airlines, airports and manufacturers are demanding huge and unconditional taxpayer-backed bailouts. We cannot let the aviation industry get away with privatising profits in the good times, and expect the public to pay for its losses in the bad times.”\n\nThe aviation association IATA has conducted what it calls an “aggressive” global campaign aimed at persuading governments to introduce measures softening the effect of the virus emergency.\n\nIt’s asking for the immediate reduction of all charges and taxes; deferral of any planned increases in charges and taxes for 6-12 months; and the creation of funds to help airlines restart or maintain routes.\n\nIt says without such measures, many airlines will go bankrupt – leading to the loss of routes and damage to the economy, as well as thousands of job losses.\n\nSeveral nations have agreed to some of the industry's demands but in the UK the Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told airlines to look to its own shareholders to keep them running.\n\nUK airports, meanwhile, are asking ministers to grant them a suspension of Air Passenger Duty and other measures when the crisis is over.\n\nStay Grounded has a very different recipe for a successful outcome at the end of the crisis.\n\nIt wants a focus on protecting workers not shareholders; making aviation firms contribute to emissions reductions by cutting air travel demand and strengthening low-carbon alternatives like rail travel; while imposing a kerosene tax and progressive levies on frequent flying.\n\nPablo Muñoz from the Spanish organisation Ecologistas en Acción, said: “While we are rightly focused on saving lives during the immediate health threat of, our governments have a choice: they can hand taxpayers’ money to corporations unconditionally, or they can seize the opportunity to start building an economy which doesn’t harm people or the planet”.\n\nThis touches on a much deeper debate about the nature of the post-Covid recovery. There’s a gulf between people who want to use the crisis for a green stimulus to the economy, whilst others warn that so much money will have been spent conquering the virus that there will be little left for clean energy investment.\n\nIATA has been approached for a comment.", "Honor Blackman, the British actress who played Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger, has died at the age of 94.\n\nIn a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, East Sussex.\n\nBlackman was also known for playing Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV series The Avengers opposite Patrick Macnee.\n\nThe pair had a novelty hit with 1964's Kinky Boots, which reached the Top 10 in 1990.\n\nHer other roles included Hera in Jason and the Argonauts and Laura West in 1990s TV series The Upper Hand.\n\nThe statement issued by Blackman's family said: \"As well as being a much adored mother and grandmother, Honor was an actor of hugely prolific creative talent.\n\n\"With an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess, along with her unique voice and a dedicated work ethic, she achieved an unparalleled iconic status in the world of film and entertainment.\n\n\"With absolute commitment to her craft and total professionalism in all her endeavours she contributed to some of the great films and theatre productions of our times.\n\n\"We ask you to respect the privacy of our family at this difficult time.\"\n\nComedian and Bond fan David Walliams said Blackman would \"live forever\" as Pussy Galore.\n\nDirector Edgar Wright, meanwhile, remembered her as the \"ultimate Bond girl and original Avenger\".\n\nBlackman was pictured with Paul O'Grady in 2011 at the 50th anniversary celebration of The Avengers\n\nBorn in Plaistow in East London in 1925, Blackman trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.\n\nBlackman's martial arts training helped her win the role of Pussy Galore, an associate of criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger in the third James Bond film.\n\nHer pilot character - who was openly lesbian in Ian Fleming's original novel - becomes Bond's ally after a literal roll in the hay.\n\n\"I was already a James Bond fan but I asked to read Goldfinger before taking the part,\" she once revealed.\n\n\"By the time I had read it, I was convinced it was absolutely me.\"\n\nYet the role was not a particularly glamorous one for the actress.\n\n\"Everyone thinks I went to exotic locations on Goldfinger,\" she recalled at a celebration event at Pinewood Studios in 2008.\n\n\"But the furthest I got was RAF Northolt, just up the road.\"\n\nIn recent years, Blackman toured the UK with her show Honor Blackman As Herself, which saw her reflect on her long career.\n\nShe served as a dispatch rider during World War Two\n\nHonor Blackman was the original feisty, black-clad female agent in The Avengers.\n\nIt made her a role model for an emerging generation of women and an object of desire for their men.\n\nHer characters were both sexy and intelligent and more than a match for their male co-stars.\n\nHer first acting job was as an understudy in a West End play called The Guinea Pig, and, when the lead actress became ill, she was asked to step in.\n\nAged 39 when Goldfinger was filmed, Blackman was actually five years older than Sean Connery and, at the time, the oldest actress ever to play a Bond girl.\n\n\"Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos,\" she once said. \"I have never been a bimbo.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "When Farrah Sharif, 30, was told she would have to continue paying 80% of her two-year-old son's nursery fees to hold his place in the coming months, she was confused.\n\nLike millions of other parents she had already taken him out of their east London nursery because of government guidelines, so she didn't feel she should pay anything.\n\n\"We asked them whether they would be applying for the government's worker retention scheme and the other financial support, but they were really unclear.\n\n\"Lots of parents complained and they said they would drop the fees by another 40%, but we still didn't feel that was right. So we said we would pay for March and then review the situation.\"\n\nTo her surprise the nursery emailed her back and said it was taking her son Zayn off the register, suggesting she had been ungrateful.\n\n\"I was really upset, I felt my son was being penalised for something beyond his control,\" she says.\n\nSince 21 March, UK nurseries have only been allowed to serve the children of key workers, leaving many almost empty and forcing some to temporarily shut.\n\nBut some parents are still being asked to carry on paying some or all of their monthly fees as a retainer to hold their child's place, with bills stretching to more than £1,000 in some cases.\n\nNurseries say it is because they are struggling. As small businesses, they can access the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which covers 80% of a workers' salaries if they are put on paid leave, as well as a one-year business rates holiday. But many say that is not enough.\n\nBut while some parents say they are happy to pay, others - particularly those who have lost jobs or are facing financial uncertainty - say the cost is too much to bear.\n\nAshleigh Seymour, 26, from Romsey says she is \"angry\" at having to pay a 30% retainer to keep her three-year-old son's Hunter's place, setting her back more than £200 a month.\n\n\"We both have gym memberships, but gyms have closed and they don't expect you to keep paying for a service they can't provide. I don't see why the burden should fall on parents.\"\n\nIt's come at a bad time as her husband, who runs his own limited company, has seen his income totally dry up and will get little government support.\n\nBut she says she will have to pay as \"it's impossible\" to get a full time nursery place where she lives.\n\nFiona Peart, 37, from London wouldn't mind contributing something to hold her two-year-old's place, but not the 100% she has been asked for, which is about £800 a month.\n\n\"All my friends have been asked for between 0% and 20% and some friends got a refund for the last week of March when their nurseries were closed. We can afford it but is not ideal.\n\n\"My husband's hours have been reduced and who knows if we'll even have jobs in a few months?\"\n\nBut Caroline Marks, who runs First Steps nursery in Poole, says the criticism is unfair.\n\n\"Government funding issues, huge business rates, minimum wage, employer pensions, rising food and fuel costs have all had a very detrimental effect on the sector and many nurseries are close to the sustainability threshold,\" she said.\n\n\"We proposed that our customers pay a 25% retainer fee if they are able to afford it to help keep us afloat until normal service resumes.\"\n\nAnother nursery owner, who is charging 40%, said she was \"operating at a loss\" by staying open for just seven key worker children.\n\n\"Quite simply put, if the parents don't contribute something towards nursery fees, we would have to close.\n\n\"The combined rent, other overheads such as refuse collection (who won't suspend the service) and staff costs for these children mean we are losing money.\"\n\nNurseries have closed to everyone except vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker\n\nThe National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), which represents the sector, says the \"vast majority\" of nurseries are not charging parents during the shutdown, and those that do will have no other choice.\n\nIt says many still have to pay overheads as well as making up the shortfall in their staff's incomes. Few can claim virus-related losses on their insurance, either.\n\n\"Nurseries are vital now as ever to support children of key workers and vulnerable children so we need them to be staffed and operational,\" boss Purnima Tanuku OBE says.\n\n\"They need to be able to pay their staff to maintain continuity when this settles down.\"\n\nSome parents have said that they will not pay the retainers, while others have successfully lobbied to secure discounts.\n\nLawyers say parents have a lot of leverage as they can threaten to withdraw their children, however the legal picture is unclear.\n\nPrivate nurseries, which deliver most provision in the UK, set their own terms and conditions and may include emergency closure clauses in their contracts.\n\nBut the NDNA says these are designed for things that close the nursery for a few days like fire, flood and vandalism and \"have not been tested\" in a situation that could last for weeks or months.\n\nLast week, Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, called on the government to offer more financial support, saying some parents were being pushed \"into unnecessary hardship\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We expect nurseries to take a reasonable and proportionate approach to fees paid by parents, in light of these unprecedented circumstances, and to communicate any arrangements clearly with parents.\"\n\nIt added: \"We continue to fund them for the free entitlements for the duration of these closures, even if children are not attending. We have also put in place a significant package of financial support.\"", "The country's Health Commission confirmed there had been no deaths and 32 confirmed cases\n\nChina reported no coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the first time since it started publishing daily figures in January.\n\nThe National Health Commission said it had 32 confirmed cases, down from 39 on Monday.\n\nIt comes as the government is under scrutiny as to whether it is underreporting its figures.\n\nThe government says more than 3,331 people have died and 81,740 have been confirmed as infected.\n\nAll of the confirmed cases on Tuesday had arrived from overseas.\n\nChina is concerned a second wave of infections could be brought in by foreign arrivals.\n\nIt has already shut its border to foreigners including those with visas or residence permits.\n\nInternational flights have been reduced with both Chinese and foreign airlines only allowed to operate one international flight a week. Flights must not be more than 75% full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A day of remembrance is held in China to honour those who have died in the coronavirus outbreak\n\nOn Wednesday, Wuhan is set to allow people to leave the city for the first time since the lockdown began in January.\n\nOfficials say anyone who has a \"green\" code on a widely used smartphone health app will be allowed to leave the city.\n\nSome people in \"epidemic-free\" residential compounds have already been allowed to leave their homes for two hours.\n\nBut Wuhan officials revoked the \"epidemic-free\" status in 45 compounds because of the emergence of asymptomatic cases and for other unspecified reasons.\n\nAsymptomatic refers to someone who is carrying the virus but experiencing no symptoms.\n\nChina began reporting asymptomatic cases at the beginning of April.\n\nMore than 1,033 asymptomatic patients are under medical observation.\n\nHitting back at claims China was too slow to raise the alarm, the country's state media have published what they describe as a detailed timeline of its response and information sharing.\n\nThe first day with zero new reported coronavirus deaths since the National Health Commission started publishing daily figures is no doubt a cause for hope in China and even across the world. In a way it doesn't matter if the figure is real.\n\nThere has been much debate about the veracity of this country's coronavirus statistics but, even if the overall number of infections and deaths is under-reported, the trend seems instructive. Why? Because the trend matches reality in so many ways.\n\nInterestingly, China's Communist Party-controlled media is not reporting the first 24 hours without fatalities with any great fanfare. The subject isn't even a key trending subject on Chinese social media platforms. It was the same when we had the first day with no new home-grown infections.\n\nThis either means Chinese media outlets know too well that there are flaws in the accounting here or, more likely, that the Party knows there are flaws in its accounting so it's ordered a cautious presentation. Either way, in the end, it's probably neither here nor there. Look at the trend. In the trend there is good news.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "Dominic Raab has resigned as deputy prime minister, following an investigation into claims of alleged bullying.\n\nMr Raab, who was also the justice secretary, had always denied the allegations but said he would quit if bullying claims were upheld.\n\nHe has done that, but in his resignation letter to Rishi Sunak, and in an article penned for the Telegraph newspaper, Mr Raab also hit back.\n\nWhile the report from senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC makes uncomfortable reading in parts, Mr Raab - who's changed his Twitter handle to \"MP for Esher and Walton, father of two, boxing fan\" - has thrown a punch of his own.\n\nIn his letter to the PM, he said ministers needed to be able to give direct critical feedback and exercise direct oversight over their civil servant officials.\n\nHe apologised for any \"unintended\" stress caused, but referred to the \"pace, standards and challenge\" he brought to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nThe report cleared the former frontbencher of shouting and swearing at staff, and he was not found to have used physical gestures - but it did say that style of working as a minister was \"inquisitorial, direct, impatient and fastidious\".\n\nAnd it paints a picture of a man who worked from 7.30 in the morning until late at night and at weekends.\n\nMr Raab was found to have described the work of officials as \"utterly useless\" and \"woeful\" while he was justice secretary.\n\nAnd as foreign secretary, a role he served in from 2019 to 2021, the report says in one instance \"he acted in a way which was intimidating, in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive conduct in the context of a work meeting. His conduct also involved an abuse or misuse of power in a way that undermines or humiliates.\"\n\nFamily: Married to Erika Ray, a Brazilian marketing executive, with two sons\n\nBefore politics: Foreign Office lawyer. He was the lead on a team focusing on bringing war criminals to justice at The Hague\n\nDespite resigning, Mr Raab is entitled to a pay-off of nearly £17,000, a quarter of his ministerial salary, as long as he is not reappointed to another position within three weeks.\n\nBut the MP, who paid his own legal fees during the investigation, faces a pay cut of £67,505 as he loses his ministerial salary. As an ordinary backbencher, he will earn £86,584 a year.\n\nMr Raab was born in 1974, the son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in 1938.\n\nHe was brought up in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, before studying law at Oxford University and switching to Cambridge for his masters degree.\n\nHe worked as a lawyer in the commercial sector and the Foreign Office before entering politics in 2006 as an aide to Brexit-supporting Conservative MP David Davis, and then Remain-backing Dominic Grieve.\n\nFirst elected to Parliament in 2010, the following year Mr Raab angered then-Home Secretary Theresa May by describing some feminists as \"obnoxious bigots\" in an online article also claiming men were getting \"a raw deal\".\n\nMrs May accused him of fuelling \"gender warfare\".\n\nMr Raab remained on the backbenches for five years after becoming an MP.\n\nBut the karate black-belt became a junior justice minister following David Cameron's general election victory in 2015.\n\nHe played a prominent role in the successful Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum, but was sacked by Mrs May when she took over as prime minister.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Raab was branded \"offensive\" by then-Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron after saying \"the typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty; it's someone who has a cash flow problem\".\n\nBut in June that year he returned to government, as a justice minister, this time middle-ranking rather than junior.\n\nIn Mrs May's January 2018 reshuffle he became housing minister - one of the highest-profile non-cabinet roles in government.\n\nAnd in July that year, when David Davis quit, the prime minister promoted Mr Raab to Brexit secretary, a cabinet post.\n\nYet his improved relationship with Mrs May did not last long. In November 2018, he quit, arguing that he could not \"in good conscience\" support the \"backstop\" arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.\n\nAs an influential Brexiteer, his comments were seen as significant in increasing opposition to Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU, which MPs repeatedly rejected.\n\nAfter Mrs May announced she was standing down, Mr Raab entered the contest to become Conservative leader, and prime minister.\n\nIn a crowded field, he failed to get the 33 MPs' votes he needed to progress to the third round. Fellow Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove outlasted him.\n\nMr Johnson, to whom Mr Raab gave his support after his elimination from the race, promoted him to foreign secretary and first secretary of state - effectively deputy prime minister.\n\nBut he only narrowly managed to hold on to his Esher and Walton seat at the 2019 general election, seeing off a strong Liberal Democrat challenge by 2,743 votes.\n\nThe overall Conservative landslide, however, on a promise to \"get Brexit done\", meant he saw his dream of leaving the EU come true on 31 January 2020.\n\nAs foreign secretary and first secretary of state, he was the UK government's de-facto second-in-command.\n\nHe was left in charge of running much of the government when the prime minister was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April 2020.\n\nColleagues, including Mr Johnson's arch-critic and former aide Dominic Cummings, have praised Mr Raab's performance under extreme pressure.\n\nBut he has continued to anger opponents with some of his comments, in 2020 telling talkRadio's Julia Hartley-Brewer he would only \"take the knee\" - go down on bended knee - for \"the Queen and the Mrs when I asked her to marry me\".\n\nHe later qualified his remarks - following opposition criticism of his \"insulting\" and \"flippant\" tone - saying he \"fully\" supported the Black Lives Matter campaign.\n\nIn fact, some of his remarks and gaffes have resulted in mockery. Despite a reputation for being a creature of habit, he dismissed an eye-catching claim by a former diary secretary that he insisted on the same Pret A Manger lunch every day.\n\nAnd as Brexit secretary, he came under fire for saying he \"hadn't quite understood\" how reliant UK trade in goods was on the Dover-Calais crossing.\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Raab was heavily criticised for his handling of the aftermath of the fall of Afghanistan, specifically for remaining on holiday in Crete while the Taliban marched back to power.\n\nHe insisted he'd been across the detail and was in touch with the key players.\n\nDowning Street stood by the minister, however he was later demoted to the role of justice secretary, which although still a cabinet position is not as prestigious as foreign secretary.\n\nMr Raab stayed publicly loyal to Mr Johnson, being one of the few ministers not to resign during the final chaotic week of his premiership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deputy party leaders swap exchanges on bullying claims against him and her previous labelling for her opponents.\n\nIn the leadership race that followed, he enthusiastically threw his backing behind Rishi Sunak - and in August fiercely attacked the rival candidate Liz Truss, calling her economic plans \"electoral suicide\".\n\nThat broadside wasn't forgotten by Ms Truss's team and Mr Raab was not included in her cabinet when she became prime minister.\n\nHowever, Ms Truss was soon gone and Mr Raab returned to government in the familiar roles of justice secretary and deputy prime minister.\n\nAs Mr Sunak's deputy, he stood in for his boss at Prime Minister's Question opposite Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy. Their exchanges across the despatch box were often fiery.\n\nAs well as a big drop in salary, Mr Raab also loses the status of his position at the very top of government. Whether he will return to high office remains to be seen.\n• None Who’s in charge if the PM is ill?", "President Trump, pictured with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has not yet identified a white supremacist group as a terrorist organisation\n\nUS President Donald Trump has labelled a Russian nationalist group as a terrorist organisation.\n\nThe announcement marks the first time the US government has applied the label to a white supremacist group.\n\n\"These actions are unprecedented,\" said Nathan Sales, assistant secretary of State for counterterrorism on Monday.\n\nThe Russian Imperialist Movement is believed to have offered military training to neo-Nazi fighters and aided election interference in the US.\n\nThe group is also thought to have been involved in neo-Nazi bombings at several locations in Sweden in 2016 and 2017.\n\nThe designation has been seen as an unusual move, as President Trump has previously been criticised for failure to do more about the threat of white supremacy.\n\nThe terror designation gives the US government authority to block Americans from providing material support or engage in financial dealings with such groups.\n\nTo receive such a designation, a group must be a foreign organisation and must engage in terrorist activity that threatens the security of US nationals or the national security of the US.\n\nThe Treasury Department can block any American assets belonging to a named terrorist group, and its members can be prevented from entering the US.\n\nThe label has been most frequently used for Islamist extremist groups.\n\nThe Russian Imperial Movement is an ultra-nationalist paramilitary group based in St Petersburg, where it has a training camp, with alleged links to white supremacist organisations in the West.\n\nAccording to Swedish investigators, the group trained two of the three Swedish men convicted of bombings targeting a café and refugee centres in 2016, and a synagogue the following year.\n\nThe group is not believed to be state-sponsored but Russian President Vladimir Putin has \"tolerated\" its activities, the New York Times reports. It supported the Kremlin after the 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by recruiting fighters for the conflict.\n\nThe group is believed to have supported pro-Russia fighters in the Ukraine conflict\n\nThe US is also labelling three of the group's leaders as individual terrorists who will face separate sanctions.\n\n\"This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat,\" Mr Sales said. \"We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.\"\n\nThe designation of the Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organisation suggests the Trump administration is becoming increasingly concerned about a global threat from white supremacist movements.\n\nThe US has a long history of dealing with home-grown white nationalists and supremacists - including the Ku Klux Klan and the group behind the violent 2017 \"Unite the Right\" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Members of a Michigan-based extremist militia group staged the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168, as well.\n\nNow, however, the US is considering similar or even greater dangers sponsored or instigated from abroad, which could be a destabilising force not just in the US but among its allies, as well. Far-right extremism appears to have inspired the 2019 Christchurch shooting at a mosque in New Zealand and attacks in Scandinavia.\n\nThe White House move also represents a change of tone, given that Donald Trump last March said he thought white nationalist violence was the action of \"a small group of people\" and not a rising global threat.\n\nAs is often the case these past few years, the test will now be whether the president echoes the concerns of his administration officials - or contradicts them.\n\nLast year, under a separate authority Mr Trump designated Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organisation - the first time the US had declared another nation's military a terrorist entity.\n\nThe president has faced criticism for minimising the threat of white nationalist violence in the US, especially compared to other terror groups. He was widely condemned for his reaction to the deadly white supremacist rally in Virginia, and his comments suggesting there were \"very fine people\" on both sides.\n\nThis past summer, the US faced a wave of mass violence and attempted attacks, many of them targeting specific minority groups. The government lacks any federal penalties for acts of domestic terrorism, however, like those that exist for international acts of terror.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves is being treated in hospital for an unspecified illness.\n\nThe World Cup winner will have tests on Wednesday, according to his friend and agent Terry Baker, who added that the illness was \"not coronavirus related\".\n\nThe ex-Chelsea and West Ham forward suffered a severe stroke in 2015.\n\nBaker also said the issue does not appear related to the 80-year-old's previous illness, adding: \"Hopefully he won't be in hospital for too long.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Spurs confirmed Greaves was having treatment in hospital.\n\n\"We are in touch with his family and will provide further updates in due course,\" the club said.\n\n\"Everybody at the club sends their best wishes to Jimmy and his family.\"\n\nGreaves scored 44 goals in 57 games for his country and a club-record 220 league goals for Spurs.\n\nHe is fourth on the list of all-time England goalscorers, behind Wayne Rooney (53), Sir Bobby Charlton (49) and Gary Lineker (48).\n\nGreaves was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad but originally missed out on a medal because he was injured during the tournament's group stage.\n\nAfter recovering, Greaves was left out of the starting XI for the final and his replacement, Sir Geoff Hurst, scored a hat-trick as England beat West Germany 4-2 after extra time.\n\nThe World Cup squad players and the families of manager Sir Alf Ramsey and other backroom staff were finally presented with medals in 2009.", "Rebecca Fairclough says she has yet to be called upon despite signing up to volunteer\n\nWhen the NHS invited people to become \"volunteer responders\" a month ago, there was a deluge of applications.\n\nThree quarters of a million people signed up to help with jobs including patient transportation and grocery delivery.\n\nSix hundred thousand were accepted on to the scheme, but so far only 50,000 tasks have been completed.\n\nThere's frustration from volunteers who haven't been used yet.\n\nRebecca Fairclough, from Manchester, applied to become a \"check in and chat\" volunteer - giving phone support to people who feel isolated.\n\nBut although she has spent many hours on standby, she is yet to be called upon.\n\n\"I've been on the app and marked myself as on duty, mainly in the evenings and weekends. So there's a total of 75 hours I've been online ready to volunteer and either make or take calls and I've heard nothing,\" she says.\n\nVulnerable people who are eligible to claim support from the scheme have also complained of it being difficult to access.\n\nAmong them are Rebecca's parents Joanna and Peter who are shielding at their home more than an hour away from her.\n\nPeter has a lung disease which entitles him to claim support from the NHS Volunteer Responder scheme. But his wife Joanna says they weren't aware of it.\n\n\"In the shielding letter it tells you to get friends and family to collect prescriptions, and that's from the government,\" she says.\n\nThe couple say the first three weeks of lockdown were especially difficult for them, but they are no longer in need of extra support because their local village support scheme has helped them.\n\nAway from the main NHS scheme, many smaller scale volunteer schemes have sprung up.\n\nVolunteers are going door-to-door in Liverpool offering help to vulnerable people\n\nIn Liverpool, the St Michael's Community Support Network got under way quickly. It has been going door-to-door to check on people.\n\nOrganiser Kal Ross said: \"We are doing a lot of courtesy calls to keep people company things like that, we've started to deliver hot meals.\n\n\"Really anything we can put our mind to, because the experience within our community is quite significant and if you organise that it can be quite a powerful thing.\"\n\nThe NHS Volunteer Responder Scheme is co-ordinated by the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS).\n\nThe organisers have apologised to volunteers who are still waiting to help, explaining that the system has taken longer to set up than expected.\n\nThey have also set up a new helpline to allow people to request help directly.\n\nRebecca Kennelly, the director of volunteering at the RVS, said: \"I think the key is that we give everybody the opportunity to get themselves into the system.\n\n\"Anybody who feels that they are at risk or vulnerable, who feels that they can get support from a shopping role or prescription pick ups, or maybe a phonecall, please do give us a ring.\"\n\nThe RVS is encouraging those eligible for support to visit its website or phone the hotline which is 0808 196 3646.", "New Yorkers are now required to cover their faces in public Image caption: New Yorkers are now required to cover their faces in public\n\nA man has been charged with hoarding personal protective equipment and sanitiser in New York state and selling it for excess profit.\n\nAmardeep Singh, 45, has been accused of violating the Defense Production Act in the United States, which makes it illegal to accumulate such products and sell them at inflated prices.\n\nAccording to authorities, his business was found to be hoarding more than 100,000 face masks, 10,000 surgical gowns and 2,500 full-body isolation suits along with other forms of PPE and sanitiser.\n\nThe complaint alleges he sold N95 masks for twice their value, disposable gloves for three times their value, and disposable face masks for $1 (£0.81) despite purchasing them for 7 cents (£0.06) each. If convicted, he faces up to a year in prison.\n\nSingh’s attorney, Brad Gerstman, told CNN that the decision to prosecute him was “absurd” and said he was not price gouging.\n\nThere have been more than 271,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in New York, more than any individual country.", "The books were put on the shelves in order of size rather than alphabetical or by genre\n\nA well-meaning cleaner who took the opportunity to give a locked-down library a thorough clean re-shelved all of its books - in size order.\n\nStaff at Newmarket Library, Suffolk, discovered the sloping tomes after the building underwent a deep clean.\n\nJames Powell, of Suffolk Libraries, said staff \"saw the funny side\" but it would take a \"bit of time\" to correct.\n\n\"It looks like libraries will be closed for a while so we'll have plenty of time to sort the books out\", he said.\n\n\"The cleaner is lovely and does a great job in the library. It was an honest mistake and just one of those things so we would never want her to feel bad about it,\" he added.\n\nA tweet by Krystal Vittles, head of service delivery at Suffolk Libraries, about the enthusiastic cleaner has been shared more than 5,000 times.\n\nIn response, one person said it had \"brought laughter\" during lockdown.\n\n\"I think people are just pleased to be able to share any light-hearted stories at the moment as it helps to cheer everyone up,\" Mr Powell said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Krystal Vittles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jay-Natalie La Santa, pictured here with her parents, is one of the youngest people to die of Covid-19 in the US Image caption: Jay-Natalie La Santa, pictured here with her parents, is one of the youngest people to die of Covid-19 in the US\n\nThe five-month-old daughter of New York City firefighter Jerel La Santa and Board of Education employee Lindsey La Santa died earlier this week of Covid-19, after a month in hospital, her family says.\n\nThe baby, Jay-Natalie, had a preexisting heart condition, her grandmother, Wanda La Santa told US media, and was first admitted to a New York hospital on 21 March with a fever.\n\n\"She was a little angel with the most beautiful smile,\" Wanda told NBC News. \"Jay-Natalie had everybody wrapped around her finger.\"\n\nAfter early signs of improvement, Jay-Natalie's condition quickly deteriorated, Wanda said. \"My granddaughter fought a big battle for a whole month in the hospital.\"\n\nJay-Natalie is one of the youngest people to die of Covid-19 in the US. According to a report from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, just three children between the ages of one and 14 had died of the virus as of 2 April.\n\nBoth of the baby's parents tested negative for the virus.\n\nJose Prosper, president of the Hispanic Society of FDNY said that Jay-Natalie's father - who joined the force the same month she was born - called her his \"warrior princess\".\n\n\"Please keep the La Santa family close in prayer,\" Prosper wrote.", "Belgium has been under lockdown since 14 March\n\nBelgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès has announced a detailed plan to gradually lift the country's coronavirus restrictions.\n\nUnder new rules, all shops will be allowed to open their doors again from 11 May, with schools reopening the following week - albeit with a cap on pupil numbers in each class.\n\nBut Ms Wilmès cautioned that \"nothing is set in stone\".\n\nMore than 45,000 people have tested positive for the virus in Belgium.\n\nMore than 6,900 deaths have been recorded in the nation of 11.4 million - the highest rate per capita in Europe. More than half the fatalities have been in care homes, and the number of deaths in hospitals has been falling.\n\nAnother 241 deaths were reported on Saturday, of which 164 were in care homes and 72 in hospital. The number of people being treated in intensive care has fallen to 934.\n\nComparisons with other European countries may be somewhat misleading, as some countries are believed to be under-reporting deaths, while Belgium includes suspected cases in care homes.\n\nAfter hours of discussions on Friday, Prime Minister Wilmès announced a timetable to gradually end the country's lockdown, which started on 14 March.\n\nThe first businesses to open will be fabric shops on 4 May, in order to help people comply with new regulations requiring all Belgians aged 12 or over to wear masks on public transport. Industry will also be allowed to resume activity.\n\nOther shops will reopen a week later, subject to strict conditions.\n\nSchools will start opening up again from 18 May, but no more than 10 children will be allowed in each class and they will have to have at least 4sq m (43sq ft) of space.\n\nCafes and restaurants will not be permitted to open before 8 June.\n\nHowever, the timetable could still change if the outbreak worsens. Authorities will have to ensure that everyone is provided with masks.\n\nA number of other European countries have already announced measures to ease their lockdowns. On Friday, the Czech Republic ended restrictions on free movement which had been put in place to help halt the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSome shops have already reopened in Germany and schools there will gradually reopen from 4 May, although bars, cafes, restaurants, cinemas and music venues will all remain closed.\n\nMeanwhile, Poland's Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski has called for a two-year delay to the presidential election - due to take place in two weeks' time - saying it was the safest situation given the pandemic. So far, the governing Law and Justice party has resisted public and opposition pressure to postpone the vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Captain Tom Moore has become the oldest artist to reach the top spot of BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart.\n\nHis rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone is the fastest-selling single of 2020, with 82,000 copies and proceeds going to the NHS Charities Together fund.\n\nAfter previously raising millions for the NHS with a sponsored walk, he collaborated with Michael Ball and The NHS Voices Of Care Choir to release the song.", "Tom Tugendhat insists he and his colleagues are not \"anti-China\"\n\nBritain needs a better understanding of China's economic ambitions and global role when the coronavirus crisis ends, a new group of Tory MPs says.\n\nThe group - headed by Tom Tugendhat, a prominent critic of China's response to the pandemic - aims to \"promote debate and fresh thinking\".\n\nHe said the China Research Group would not be \"anti-China\".\n\nIt would \"explore opportunities to engage with\" the country and examine its economic aims, Mr Tugendhat added.\n\n\"The coronavirus crisis underlines the urgent need for a better understanding of China's place in the world, and our economic and diplomatic engagement with it,\" said the Tory MP for Tonbridge and Malling.\n\n\"Beijing's long pattern of information suppression has contributed to the unfolding crisis. The (Chinese Communist) Party are now using the current emergency to build influence around the world.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Tugendhat, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, accused the Chinese Communist Party of putting its own survival ahead of that of the survival of people during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe told Radio 4's the World At One: \"The one thing that really marks out the Chinese Communist Party is not that they didn't have sufficient data, but that they deliberately falsified the data.\"\n\nDespite receiving praise for its handling of coronavirus from the World Health Organisation, many, including US President Donald Trump, have accused the Chinese authorities of manipulating information and failing to adequately warn other countries about its deadly nature.\n\nChen Wen, Minister and First Staff Member of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, defended China's response to the initial outbreak in Wuhan, saying the shutdown of the city had reduced the spread to other countries \"by 77%\".\n\n\"Chinese people have paid a high price for that,\" she added.\n\nOn the alleged spreading of disinformation on the origins of the virus, Ms Chen said it was \"maybe as dangerous as the virus itself, if not even more\" and that \"solidarity\" and \"cooperation\" is the only way to beat the virus.\n\nShe hit back at calls for an international inquiry into China's handling of coronavirus outbreak, saying it would be \"politically motivated\" and would not do anybody \"any good\".\n\nMr Tugendhat said his new group, which includes eight other Tory MPs, including former cabinet minister Damian Green, would attempt to look beyond the pandemic to examine China's long-term economic and diplomatic aims.\n\nIn reference to the controversy surrounding the government's decision to allow Chinese technology firm Huawei access to the UK's 5G network, the group will look at the consequences of new technology and who owns platforms.\n\nIt will also examine China's foreign policy, particularly in relation to the world's poorer regions.", "John Adamson has had a beard since he was first able to grow one as a teenager.\n\nA member of Edinburgh Beard and Moustache Club, it had always been a strong part of his identity.\n\nSo the 29-year-old was \"devastated\" when the need to wear a face mask for his job as a care assistant meant it was curtains for his facial hair.\n\nJohn explained: \"The mask was pressing on my face so tightly that it pushed the hair up my nose and into my mouth.\n\n\"The hair was sticking outside the mask, but it was also going inside.\n\n\"I was struggling to breathe... it was a real hazard.\"\n\nHe tried buying several different types of face masks to see if any others would provide a solution.\n\n\"I tried everything to keep the beard as it is very important to me. Many folk have tried and failed to get me to shave it off,\" said John.\n\nBut eventually he ran out of options and was forced to shave off his beard.\n\nHe said: \"I go into the homes of vulnerable people, so I need to wear a mask for my job.\n\n\"I had to make the decision to swallow my pride and shave it off.\n\n\"At first I got my clippers and started shaving the sides as I was trying to see if I could keep some of it.\n\n\"But in the end I had to take the whole thing off. It was devastating because it's like an arm or a leg to me.\"\n\nJohn said his wife of 10 years had never seen his chin before he shaved.\n\n\"I just can't get used to it and I don't like how I look now,\" he added.\n\n\"In fact, I would be more comfortable having no clothes on than having a naked chin.\n\n\"I did it for a really good reason, but I don't like it at all.\"\n\nJohn, from Gifford in East Lothian, estimated that his beard would take at least three months to grow back.\n\nHe said: \"I'm now having to shave twice a day because the hair grows so quickly.\n\n\"Once this is all over I'm growing it back.\"", "Some workers could make the permanent move to work from home, which will lead to lower commuter numbers\n\nThe number of people using public transport in Britain's cities could be 20% lower than normal after the end of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn London, commuters using buses and tubes could fall by as much as 40% from pre-lockdown levels.\n\nRail use could drop by 27%, a poll for transport consultants SYSTRA has found.\n\nThe survey results capture people's current attitudes about returning to work, but some changes may be carried on into the long term.\n\nThe results are bad news for the government, which wants more people to use public transport to cut emissions that are fuelling climate heating.\n\nIt could lead to more people driving to work.\n\nIt's also challenging for public transport operators, which will face a sharp drop in income until public confidence returns.\n\nBut the survey offers a glimmer of good news too. It suggests that of those expecting to reduce their use of buses and trains, 24% said they plan to work from home more, which will reduce emissions.\n\nThey said they wanted to save on the commute time and cost, and to strike a better work-life balance.\n\nThere's a major boost for video-conferencing, too. As many as 67% of people in the 1,500-strong survey said they believe virtual meetings will replace some or all business trips or meetings.\n\nKatie Hall from SYSTRA said: \"Our climate emergency has not been cancelled. There is no doubt that this situation has opened up different ways of working for many, but if people start rejecting public transport over the car for work and leisure trips - that's a massive step backwards. Public transport operators must rise to this challenge.\"\n\nShe said public transport operators must work hard to convince commuters that they'll be safe from the virus.\n\nTransport for London has has cut many services since the coronavirus outbreak swept through the capital\n\nBut she also said transport planners would need to think hard about how travel patterns may change permanently after lockdown.\n\nThe AA's head Edmund King told BBC News he expected that traffic levels would fall overall. That has implications for the government's £28bn roads programme which is predicated on 1% annual growth in transport demand.\n\nThere could also be a boom in walking and cycling in a population that may be more interested in health messages.\n\nThe government recently cut red tape on issuing urban road closures to allow councils to exclude cars and create space for walkers and cyclists more easily.\n\nCycle campaigners want cars excluded from major parts of cities on a permanent basis - which happened recently in Milan.", "Millions of Indian households depend on neighbourhood shops for essentials\n\nIndia has allowed small local stores to reopen more than a month after the country went into lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe interior ministry said only half of staff should work and they had to follow precautions such as wearing face masks and observing social distancing.\n\nHowever shopping malls must remain closed and businesses in coronavirus hotspots will also stay shut.\n\nThe move is part of Delhi's attempt to gradually restart economic activity.\n\nIndia has nearly 25,000 confirmed cases of the virus and 780 people have died.\n\nMillions of Indian households depend on their local shops for their day-to-day groceries and other essentials.\n\nAll shops in rural areas except those in shopping malls were allowed to reopen from Saturday, as are stores in urban areas. However shops in markets are to remain closed.\n\nHowever officials said alcohol stores had to remain closed and online shopping platforms could only be used to buy essential items, Indian media reported.\n\nIndia's lockdown has seen domestic and international travel banned and factories, schools, offices and all shops other than those supplying essential services shut.\n\nThe abrupt halt to economic activity prompted an exodus from big cities as hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who had moved there to find work suddenly found they had way of supporting themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany began long journeys back to their home villages and towns in rural areas, often walking hundreds of miles.\n\nIn March India announced a $22bn (£19bn) bailout for the country's poor to help counter the economic effects of the Covid-19 outbreak - but critics noted that this amounted to just 1% of India's GDP - in stark contrast to the US and Singapore which spent about 10% of their GDP on similar packages.\n\nIndia has nearly 25,000 confirmed cases of the virus\n\nEarlier this month the World Bank said the South Asia region faced its worst economic performance in 40 years because of the pandemic.\n\nThe effects would unravel decades of progress in the region's battle against poverty, it said.\n\nIndia, the biggest economy in South Asia, could see growth of just 1.5% in its financial year, down from a figure of around 5%, the World Bank predicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Secunder Kermani and Anne Soy compare how prepared Asian and African countries are", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "Former chancellor Philip Hammond has urged the government to set out its plan to restart the economy.\n\nMinisters have been reluctant to discuss a lockdown exit strategy, arguing that it might undermine the message for people to stay at home.\n\nMr Hammond said the country cannot afford to wait until a vaccine is developed and called on the government to start easing lockdown measures.\n\nBut Conservative MP Damian Green said the government was acting \"sensibly\".\n\nMr Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The reality is that we have to start reopening the economy. But we have to do it living with Covid.\n\n\"We can't wait until a vaccine is developed, produced in sufficient quantity and rolled out across the population. The economy won't survive that long.\"\n\nMany businesses around the UK have shut up shop, with more than 140,000 firms applying for help to pay their wage bill through the government's job retention scheme.\n\nThose businesses left in limbo now need to be told what requirements they will have to fulfil when the economy starts to reopen, so they can start preparing, Mr Hammond said.\n\n\"If we are all going to have to wear face masks travelling on public transport, businesses need to know that now so that businesses that have capacity to manufacture products like that can start planning to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"If restaurants, when they eventually reopen, are going to have to operate with many fewer tables, they need to start thinking about how they adapt their business model to be able to do that.\"\n\nThe director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies told the BBC this week that the economic impact of coronavirus was likely to push the deficit to as high as £260bn.\n\nMr Hammond said there will be a debate about how to pay for the crisis, whether through higher taxes, restrictions on spending or increased borrowing.\n\nDetails of how the government plans to ease the country out of lockdown have not been publicly revealed, but Mr Hammond said easing the measures will require \"skilful political leadership\".\n\nFormer Cabinet Office Minister Mr Green said ministers were behaving \"sensibly\".\n\nHe said the public has largely obeyed the lockdown and that \"putting that at risk\" could damage the public's health and the economy.\n\nAddressing concerns around transparency and whether the public were being treated as children, Mr Green said: \"I don't think the government is treating the public like children at all.\"\n\nMr Green added: \"I think the government has taken the view, which is a sensible view, that they have established a successful lockdown and that putting that at risk would actually damage the country more than anything else.\"", "Boris Johnson's chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, has attended meetings of the scientific body shaping the government's coronavirus response.\n\nDowning Street denied a Guardian report he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nThe committee, whose membership is not public, gives independent advice.\n\nA senior Tory has called for \"transparency\", while Labour said Mr Cummings' attendance raised \"significant questions\".\n\nThe Guardian reported that Mr Cummings and a data scientist who worked with him on the Vote Leave campaign during the Brexit referendum, Ben Warner, were among 23 people at a Sage meeting on 23 March.\n\nThat was the same day the prime minister announced the nationwide lockdown, bringing in strict new measures to tackle coronavirus.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said Mr Cummings and Mr Warner had attended or listened in to Sage meetings in order to better understand the scientific debate around coronavirus.\n\nHe said they \"occasionally\" asked questions or offered help when \"scientists mention problems in Whitehall\", adding that others \"also listen to meetings without being on, or a member of, Sage\".\n\n\"The scientists on Sage are among the most eminent in their fields,\" the spokesman said. \"It is factually wrong and damaging to sensible public debate to imply their advice is affected by government advisers listening to discussions.\"\n\nHe added: \"'Public confidence in the media has collapsed during this emergency partly because of ludicrous stories such as this.\"\n\nSage members Prof Chris Whitty (left) and Sir Patrick Vallance (right) have been at the centre of the UK's pandemic response\n\nSage is a panel of medical and scientific experts, chaired by the UK's chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance, that provides independent advice to the government during a crisis.\n\nThe make-up of the committee has been kept secret - although individual members can disclose they are part of the group - and its advice has been given to ministers but has not been made public.\n\nNHS England's medical director Stephen Powis, who is one of the few publicly known members of Sage, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I have been confident that what happens at Sage is a scientific discussion involving the scientists and the experts who are members of Sage.\"\n\nConservative MP David Davis said transparency was important and pointed out the monetary policy committee published details of its membership and advice.\n\nThe former Brexit secretary tweeted: \"We should publish the membership of Sage: remove any non-scientist members: publish their advice in full: and publish dissenting opinions with the advice.\"\n\nHis colleague Damian Green, who was Cabinet Office Minister in Theresa May's government, said he \"would be much more worried\" if senior people from Number 10 were not sitting in on these meetings, to ask questions and get the tone of the meeting.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"He is a political adviser, not a medical or scientific expert. If the public are to have confidence in Sage, the government must make clear Dominic Cummings can no longer participate or attend.\"\n\n\"The concern is that political advisers have influenced the debate,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Ashworth also called on the government to be \"entirely transparent\" about its decisions and to publish the minutes of Sage meetings.\n\nSir David King, the government's former chief scientific adviser, said he was concerned by Mr Cummings' attendance because if he participated in the discussion \"this must compromise the independence\" of the group.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"What we don't know is the influence he plays in taking what he interprets from those meetings back to the prime minister.\"\n\nBBC Newsnight policy editor Lewis Goodall said the the disclosure about Mr Cummings would contribute \"to further calls for Sage and the advice that it gives to the government to be published and its membership to be fully disclosed\".\n\nOn Friday, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, a member of the body, told MPs he had no objection \"in principle\" to details of the membership being released.\n\nMr Cummings has recently returned to work after self-isolating with symptoms of coronavirus. His wife, journalist Mary Wakefield, described how he collapsed and was bed-ridden for 10 days.\n• None Dominic Cummings: How does he now earn a living?", "Cemeteries across Northern Ireland have begun to reopen following a decision by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nGraveyards were closed to the public in March due to lockdown measures.\n\nOn Friday the executive agreed to reopen cemeteries following calls from the public.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said it was about \"balancing public health concerns with the basic human need to visit a loved one's grave\".\n\nThe legislation was officially changed on Friday night after the executive discussed the matter at a lengthy meeting.\n\nCemeteries are operated by Northern Ireland's 11 councils, which must implement measures to ensure social distancing.\n\nMid-Ulster Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough councils said their cemeteries would open from Saturday morning.\n\nDerry and Strabane District Council said its cemeteries would reopen from Saturday afternoon, with a one-way system and a cap on numbers at Londonderry's City Cemetery.\n\nBelfast City Council said its cemeteries will reopen from Sunday, with Dundonald and Knockbreda operating normal opening hours and Roselawn and the City Cemetery opening initially on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays\n\nA spokeperson for Belfast City Council explained limits were necessary at Roselawn Cemetery, which had the only crematorium in Northern Ireland and therefore served a much larger population and had a higher level of activity on site.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"For this reason, it will still be necessary to have some limits on opening hours in order to safely manage the facility and protect our staff and members of the public, as well as ensuring the integrity of the cremation service going forward.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mrs Foster said the chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, and chief scientific adviser, Prof Ian Young, had advised the executive that the move was \"proportionate and low risk\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the change struck the balance \"between protecting public health and not inflicting further suffering on individuals.\n\n\"There are a number of people in our community who get great reassurance, mental support and strength by visiting a grave and this step now is a proportionate and empathetic response at this time.\"\n\nLast week, a paper had been issued to executive ministers asking them to consider the matter, but the parties could not come to an agreement at that stage.\n\nThe DUP and UUP had backed the move, Alliance and Sinn Féin voiced opposition for fear it could lead to complacency, while the SDLP wanted to take further advice.\n\nHowever, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who is Sinn Féin's vice-president, said she had since \"listened carefully\" to calls from the public over the course of this week.\n\n\"It's a fine line always to listen to people and understand people's concerns and genuine concerns were expressed,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this week a Catholic priest, Bishop Donal McKeown, had asked the executive to give \"some sense of logic\" for the closures\n\nShe said the issue would be kept under review.\n\n\"It will only be permitted where those in charge of burial grounds can ensure we have compliance with the regulations and appropriate social distancing,\" she added.\n\nIn England, the coronavirus legislation was amended last week to allow cemeteries to open again.\n\nMrs Foster maintained that people must still adhere to advice around social distancing and wakes should not take place ahead of funerals.\n\nShe repeated that a maximum of 10 people should attend funerals.\n\n\"I know a lot is being asked of you as you grieve, but we would not be asking you this if it was not to help save lives,\" said the DUP leader.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said while the move to reopen cemeteries was a \"welcome easement\", it was not a broad lifting of the restrictions.\n\n\"People are still dying in our communities, health service staff are still putting themselves at risk to keep us safe,\" said the MP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NI Executive This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the executive's decision, the moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Rev Dr William Henry, said it was a \"sensible and compassionate response\" that would bring comfort to many.\n\nRev Sam McGuffin, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, said he too was \"content that this situation is about to be rectified\".", "Tata Steel needs about £500m of government support to get through the coronavirus pandemic, the MP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock has said.\n\nTata employs 8,385 people in the UK, including about 4,000 people in Port Talbot and 2,800 elsewhere in Wales.\n\nSky News has reported Tata has approached the UK and Welsh governments for the money after many customers halted production during the crisis.\n\nThe company said it was working with both governments to identify support.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We continue to have ongoing discussions with Tata Steel about what support it needs to sustain a strong steel making presence in the UK and in Wales.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The government has put together a far-reaching package of support to help businesses through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to regularly engage with businesses across all sectors, including those in the steel industry.\"\n\nStephen Kinnock said the limit on the UK government's Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) needed to be raised above £50m.\n\n\"The £50m cap on loans that are now available under the government support scheme is only about 10% of what Tata Steel actually needs,\" he said.\n\n\"Tata Steel estimates that it will take around six months to get back to business as usual, or as close as possible to it and the challenge they have is cashflow over that six month period.\n\n\"And the estimation is in the region of £500m.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe raised the matter in the House of Commons on Wednesday.\n\nResponding to him, First Secretary of State Dominic Raab said: \"I know that the chancellor is looking carefully at the steel sector in the hon. gentleman's constituency, and at all those who are not directly benefitting from this particular scheme to ensure that in the round we are providing the measures that we need in a targeted way to support all the different crucial elements of the economy.\"\n\nA Tata Steel spokesman said there been a sudden drop in European steel demand, adding: \"We continue to work with both the UK and Welsh governments to identify what support is available.\"", "Police Scotland said fewer crimes were being committed on the streets and in town and city centres\n\nRecorded crime in Scotland has fallen by about 25% during the coronavirus lockdown, Police Scotland have said.\n\nThe number of serious assaults dropped by about 40% and house break-ins were down 30% compared with the same period last year.\n\nHowever, \"public nuisance\" incidents - generally related to people reporting others for breaking lockdown rules - have more than doubled.\n\nPolice Scotland said they now accounted for about a fifth of all calls.\n\nFraud has also increased by more than 10% between 24 March and 19 April, according to the quarterly figures.\n\nThe force said there was some evidence that criminals were exploiting the coronavirus crisis to commit offences.\n\nNoise incidents have also increased \"significantly\", which officers believe could be related to the increased amount of time people are spending at home.\n\nThere has been a \"slight decrease\" in domestic abuse incidents, but Police Scotland warned this might not reflect what was going on behind closed doors.\n\nThe UK's lockdown measures came into effect on 23 March, restricting people from leaving their homes unless they had a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nThe measures were initially put in place for three weeks, but were extended for \"at least\" another three weeks on 16 April.\n• None 20%of all incidents now reports of lockdown rule-breaking\n\nThe Deputy Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Fiona Taylor, said the \"significant\" changes to life in the UK were having an effect \"on the nature and level of demand on policing\".\n\nShe also warned that the provisional figures covered a relatively short period and cautioned against making assumptions about longer term trends.\n\nMs Taylor said: \"We are seeing, for example, a slight decrease in domestic abuse incidents but are acutely aware this may not reflect what is happening behind closed doors and we know that people don't always report abuse immediately.\n\n\"For some, this period of physical distancing and isolation may expose them to a greater risk of abuse, harm and neglect.\n\n\"We have been using our social media channels to highlight our concern and raise awareness in communities. We want people to feel safe and we want to prevent harm by identifying people who may be at risk, and putting in place measures that will help keep them safe.\"\n\nThe deputy chief constable went on to say that protecting children remained a priority for Police Scotland and there would be no change to the way officers responded to child protection issues.\n\nPolice Scotland's figures also suggest that breach of the peace has fallen by more than 50%, with possession of drugs down by about a fifth.\n\nBut the force believes it could be \"months or years\" before there is a clear picture on how the pandemic and subsequent social distancing measures had affected crime in Scotland.\n\nThe deputy chief constable added: \"These early indications suggest that there are fewer crimes committed on the streets and in our town and city centres because the overwhelming majority of people are stepping forward to do their part to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf welcomed the fall in crime and said he was pleased people were adhering to physical distancing requirements.\n\n\"However we must continue to seek to protect the public and reduce opportunities generated by the current Covid-19 outbreak that some will use to exploit members of the public,\" he added.\n\nHe said there was help available around the clock for people experiencing domestic abuse in their homes. Scotland's 24 hour domestic abuse helpline is on 0800 027 1234 and support is also available online.\n\n\"These are tough times for everyone and ensuring people and communities across Scotland are safe and resilient is vital,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jordan Davidson (left) killed Nicholas Churton (right) with a machete and hammer\n\nA formal written apology will be given to the family of a murdered vulnerable man by the Probation Service.\n\nNicholas Churton, 67, was killed at his home by Jordan Davidson in a machete and hammer attack in 2017.\n\nDavidson was on licence, having been released from jail in December 2016, after serving two and and a half years for burglary and a weapons offence.\n\nThe Probation Service said it will say sorry for failing to manage Mr Davidson's release properly.\n\nDavidson had served half of a three year burglary term and a further 12 months for possession of an offensive weapon while inside.\n\nFollowing his release, he went on to murder retired wine bar owner Nicholas Churton with a machete and hammer in his Wrexham home in March 2017.\n\nThere had been eight incidents in which Davidson came to the attention of police before the attack.\n\nHe also breached his licence conditions on numerous occasions before the murder, but was never sent back to prison.\n\nMr Churton, who lived alone, was found dead in his living room by a friend\n\nHe was eventually caught and jailed in December 2017 after admitting the murder and 12 other offences. He is currently serving a 30-year minimum term.\n\nA Probation Service spokesman said: \"We apologise to the family and friends of Nicholas Churton for the failings in this case.\n\n\"Since his tragic death, we have bought all offender management in Wales back under the supervision of the National Probation Service and are working on improving information sharing with partner agencies.\"\n\nHe added the service would be writing to the family to apologise formally, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n• None Third inquiry into police over murder", "Tata Steel needs about £500m of government support to get through the coronavirus pandemic, the MP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock has said.\n\nSky News has reported Tata has approached the UK and Welsh Governments for the money after many customers halted production during the crisis.\n\nTata employs 8,385 people in the UK, including about 4,000 people in Port Talbot and 2,800 elsewhere in Wales.\n\nThe UK and Tata have been approached for comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We continue to have ongoing discussions with Tata Steel about what support it needs to sustain a strong steel-making presence in the UK and in Wales.\"\n\nMr Kinnock said: \"The £50m cap on loans that are now available under the government support scheme is only about 10% of what Tata Steel actually needs.\"\n\nHe raised the matter in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Responding to him, First Secretary of State Dominic Raab said: \"I know that the chancellor is looking carefully at the steel sector in the hon. gentleman's constituency, and at all those who are not directly benefitting from this particular scheme to ensure that in the round we are providing the measures that we need in a targeted way to support all the different crucial elements of the economy.\"", "UK companies face a cash flow crisis as many have been forced to close due to the lockdown\n\nPayouts to UK firms over coronavirus could cost £1.2bn, initial estimates from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) indicate.\n\nClose to £900m will go to a small number of firms that have infectious disease insurance, the ABI says.\n\nWatchdogs are predicting a rise in disputes between companies and insurers over whether their cover includes the financial fallout of Covid-19.\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee is urging insurers to be fair with claimants.\n\nMost of the £1.2bn figure is made up of business interruption insurance, but only to those companies which took out specialist policies, such as Wimbledon organisers the All England Club, .\n\nThe organisers of the Wimbledon Championship cancelled its lucrative sporting fixture, but will be covered by insurance\n\nABI chief executive Huw Evans explained why some claims will not result in a payment to firms.\n\n\"Most business interruption insurance policies that most businesses have are very much designed to protect them from fire and floor every day risks that protect their businesses and in the small number of cases it's designed to cover illnesses that come on your premises for a short duration they're not intended and not priced to cover a global pandemic.\"\n\nHowever Mr Evans also said there will be claims that have to go to arbitration between insurers and claimants over whether they are covered for the pandemic.\n\nIf insurers and companies cannot settle a dispute between themselves it goes to the Financial Ombudsman to sort it out.\n\nThe ABI says its early estimate also includes a record £275m paid to customers in cancellation claims on travel insurance, and £25m for claims relating to weddings, school trips and events.\n\nThe initial estimate of £1.2bn in payouts does not include claims made through the major insurance market Lloyd's of London.\n\nCommenting on the ABI's claims, Commons Treasury Select Committee chair Mel Stride said MPs had heard of many UK businesses struggling to get money from their insurers.\n\n\"The ABI has estimated that its members will pay out £900m in business interruption claims relating to coronavirus.\n\n\"Yet, the Committee continues to receive evidence concerning the difficulties that firms are facing in making a successful claim.\n\n\"For example, [Pub and dining firm lobby group] UKHospitality told us that 71% of its members have had claims rejected, with only 1% having any success.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants have been virtually empty across the UK for more than a month\n\n\"There may be many instances where individuals and businesses believe they are covered, but in reality may not be.\n\n\"However, we are concerned that the insurance sector goes the extra mile in meeting claims wherever possible. For example, where there may be grey areas within policies.\"\n\nLast week the Financial Conduct Authority ordered insurance companies to pay out claims to firms \"as soon as possible\" or explain themselves to the watchdog.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce's head of economics, Suren Thiru, said cash flow was an 'urgent concern' for its member businesses \"so it is particularly disappointing that many are facing an uphill struggle to access such a vital lifeline.\n\n\"The insurance industry has the opportunity to demonstrate that it is there for our business communities when they need it most - and work together with government to help their customers weather this unprecedented economic crisis.\"", "About 200 protesters gathered in the German capital, Berlin, to protest against coronavirus measures, which they say are an infringement of their constitutional rights.", "Will holiday parks reopen sometime during the summer? Image caption: Will holiday parks reopen sometime during the summer?\n\nProf Jason Leitch has been answering listeners' questions on Off The Ball.\n\nQ: I live separately from my girlfriend and it has been hard. At what stage of the phased return will we be able to meet up?\n\nA: One of the ways forward may be to create 'bubbles' of families, so you could extend your family unit beyond a single household. That may include boyfriend and girlfriend, with your contacts getting a little bit bigger within a safe environment. Every trip adds risk, but we're looking at how that's going to work in Belgium.\n\nQ: Will I be able to get to my caravan in Blair Atholl at the end of July?\n\nA: I would be surprised if holiday resorts are back open in time for the summer. But, if the numbers stay low and people follow the guidelines and we get some more science to help us get out of the other end, that could just happen.\n\nQ: I've been washing plastic protective gloves in a bucket of hot water and disinfectant. Are they safe to wear again?\n\nA: Kind of. But your best protection is your skin, so keep washing your hands. Gloves sometimes make us take more risks.", "That brings this page's live updates from the Digital England team to a close for today but we'll be back again tomorrow.\n\nAnd in the meantime, coverage continues across the BBC news website & app, on BBC local radio, social media and on BBC TV.\n\nWe hope you have a pleasant evening. Thanks for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe government plans to set up the first of a series of regular meetings involving senior medical directors of the major sports this week in a bid to return to action as soon as possible.\n\nThe move was described by a source close to the plans as a \"quickening of the pace\" and intended to help sport resume \"within weeks\", if progress was made.\n\nThe Chief Medical Officer's staff would also be involved in the weekly meetings, and the Prime Minister has been briefed on the plan.\n\nThe specifics of each sport would be examined by health experts to see what protocols would be needed to get each up and running as soon as possible, meaning some would return sooner than others.\n\nTesting, social distancing, hygiene standards and strict limits on the numbers of people allowed in venues would all be debated.\n\nIt comes just days after Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told MPs that he had been having \"productive talks\" with governing bodies from across British sport on restarting following the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nHowever, a return to action still depends on the government's five criteria being met, especially an increase in testing, and meeting social distancing guidelines.\n\nSport at all levels is on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed the lives of more than 19,000 people in the UK.\n• None The Premier League, Women's Super League and English football leagues have suspended the 2019-20 season indefinitely, while the lower-league season in Scotland has ended.\n• None Cricket in England and Wales remains suspended until 1 July.\n• None The first nine races of the Formula 1 season have been called off with the British Grand Prix scheduled to take place in July.\n• None The London Marathon, which had been set to take place this weekend, has been rescheduled for October.\n• None Rugby union's Premiership clubs are working towards a best-case scenario of returning to action on the weekend of 3-5 July.\n• None Golf's Open Championship, which had been set to take place in Kent in July, has been cancelled with the three other men's majors rescheduled.\n\nThe meetings are viewed as preparatory, and intended to avoid a further delay to seasons being resumed once approval is granted, rather than a sign that it was imminent. Indeed, there is an acceptance that the plans being put in place may not end up being implemented for months if progress elsewhere is not made.\n\nGovernment officials have accepted that at this stage, sport would only be able to take place behind closed doors.\n\nBut there is a recognition that it may provide many people with a much-needed boost to morale after months of lockdown.\n\nOfficials are known to be nervous however about the prospect of fans congregating in large numbers outside stadia to celebrate if titles for instance are confirmed.\n\nDowden said this week that the Premier League was considering making some behind-closed-doors fixtures available free-to-air when the season restarts.\n\nBut officials are said to be mindful of commercial contracts with broadcasters Sky and BT, and recognise the importance of the revenue they generate to the sport more widely.\n\nThe Premier League holds its next meeting on Friday.\n\nThe English Football League has said it \"welcomes the current steps being taken\" by the government and that a return to playing could only come about \"through a continued collaborative approach\".\n\nThe EFL has previously said it hopes to complete the season in 56 days but that it was assumed matches would be played behind closed doors.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday, the organisation - which oversees the Championship, League One and League Two - added that \"suitable testing arrangements\" must be in place before football in England can resume.\n\n\"The position of the EFL remains unchanged in that the priority is to resume the 2019-20 season as soon as it is possible with matches only returning at an appropriate point and based on guidance from the relevant authorities,\" said the statement.", "The distinctly colourful Lennon Walls cropped up across Hong Kong during last year's pro-democracy protests\n\nA Hong Kong tour guide jailed for 45 months for stabbing three people during last year's anti-government protests has received a judge's sympathy.\n\nThe judge compared the protesters to an army that had brought fundamental change to Hong Kong.\n\nJudge Kwok Wai-kin said the defendant was himself a \"victim\" of the anti-government unrest.\n\nThe three victims needed hospital treatment, and one of them was critically wounded.\n\nTony Hung Chun attacked a newspaper reporter and two others with a meat cleaver at a pro-democracy \"Lennon Wall\" of stickers and posters in the Tseung Kwan O area of Hong Kong after a discussion over current affairs, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.\n\nThe discussion, inside a pedestrian tunnel used by protesters to leave messages of support for each other, became heated in August last year.\n\nHung had felt angry when he passed the wall and saw people putting up posters, as he had been out of work for about two months and believed these were the people who had caused the economic downturn, the website reports.\n\nHis lawyer told the judge his income as a tour guide had been badly affected by the protest movement, Radio Television Hong Kong reports.\n\nHong Kong has seen some of its biggest protests in history over a proposed extradition bill\n\nJudge Kwok Wai-kin agreed during sentencing on Friday that the anti-government protesters had been \"like an army\", beating people up and blocking roads.\n\nHe said protesters who hurt ordinary people while pursuing their cause were no different from terrorists, according to local media reports.\n\nTheir extremist conduct was reminiscent of that seen during the Cultural Revolution, the judge is quoted as saying.\n\nThe Cultural Revolution, a campaign launched by then-leader Mao Zedong to get rid of his rivals, led to massive social, economic and political upheaval in China. Millions are thought to have died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHung pleaded guilty in December to three counts of wounding with intent, and apologised to his victims and the people of Hong Kong.\n\nThe judge described Hung as \"an involuntary sacrifice and a bloodstained victim hanging by his last breath\" as the protesters had \"ruthlessly trampled on his right to work, live and survive\", according to the SCMP.\n\nLennon Walls plastered with colourful notes spread across Hong Kong during the protests. They got their name from a wall in Prague that was filled with John Lennon-inspired graffiti after the singer-songwriter's death in 1980.\n\nThe territory saw weeks of protests over a proposal to allow suspects in the city to be extradited to mainland China.\n\nWhile that was later abandoned, the protests morphed into demands for greater democracy and less control from Beijing, and anger against the government remains.\n\nAs a former British colony, Hong Kong is part of China but run under a \"one country, two systems\" arrangement that guarantees it a high level of autonomy, except in foreign affairs and defence.", "Odd combinations have long been a staple of the entertainment industry. For those old enough to have seen it (still available on YouTube), who can forget Prince Edward's cringe-inducing toe-dip into television production with the culture-clash that was It's A Royal knockout? Not the Queen, that's for sure, who went on to show her youngest son how to play the incongruous card with her winning James Bond spoof at the London Olympics.\n\nThe Royal Family's infamous day out at Alton Towers was in 1987, 30 years after the comedian Frank Skinner was born, a fact I learnt from listening to his new podcast, which is another example of the light-entertainment-meets-highfalutin genre.\n\nFrank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is knowingly tapping into the surprising-juxtaposition game, following the likes of Lenny Henry who has successfully evolved from kids' show clown to serious Shakespearian actor.\n\n\"Yes, yes, poetry\" Skinner says in his introduction, acknowledging it might seem an unlikely subject for a man still shaking off a '90s laddish image.\n\nThe comedian and actor, Frank Skinner says he developed his love of poetry while studying English at Birmingham Polytechnic\n\nActually, it's not in the least bit strange that he should be drawn to poetry or Lenny Henry to Shakespeare.\n\nThere are two common attributes shared by the majority of successful comedians: the first being an intellectual curiosity, and the second, an understanding and appreciation of language and its use.\n\nIt is a mark of how the Arts have allowed themselves to become segregated - broadly along class lines - between what is seen as cheap entertainment and classy culture.\n\nIt is a perception, not a reality.\n\nRock, pop, and rap are as worthy an art form as classical music, and stand-up comedy could justifiably be considered performance art. The division between the different artistic forms of human expression is a nonsense.\n\nFrank Skinner shouldn't have to defend his love of poetry, nor the fact that he is approaching it as a fan and not as an academic.\n\nPoetry and comedy are natural bedfellows - a fact that Skinner demonstrates in this one-man-no-guests podcast peppered with amusing asides and left-of-field references - from the absurdist dramatist Eugène Ionesco to a whippet dog called Frank Skinner.\n\nFirst up on the first episode of the first series (I hope there are plenty more) is the 20th Century British poet and artist Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971) and her 1957 classic Not Waving but Drowning, a three-verse meditation on someone with a jolly public persona hiding a desperate soul:\n\nNobody heard him, the dead man,\n\nBut still he lay moaning:\n\nI was much further out than you thought\n\nAnd not waving but drowning.\n\nSkinner's approach is to personalise the poems he discusses, arguing, not unreasonably, that his response is a coming together of his viewpoint with that of the poet.\n\nIt's a familiar argument made particularly well in an essay called the Creative Act, written by Marcel Duchamp in the same year as Smith produced Not Waving but Drowning.\n\nStevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning was first published in 1957, and was voted Britain's fourth favourite poem in a poll in 1995\n\nIt is a very good poem, the title of which has become part of our everyday lexicon. I remember sitting on the beach at Bude in Cornwall, keeping half an eye on my kids bodyboarding while staring out at sea and contemplating what flavour of ice-cream I fancied. I saw a woman waving from her surf board and mentioned the friendly gesture to my wife, who, paraphrasing Smith, said \"she's not waving, she's drowning\".\n\nAnd so she was. Two guys in red swimming trunks, neither of whom looked remotely like David Hasselhoff, surfed out and rescued her. It was very dramatic, but not, Skinner speculates, the real subject of Smith's poem.\n\nIt is not literally about drowning at sea but a distant character who stands outside the swim of daily life: a man who - to all appearances - is waving enthusiastically when in reality he is drowning in obscurity (\"I was much further out than you thought\" the dead man reports). This Skinner can relate to, and tells us the thing he most enjoyed about being famous, was neither the money nor the trappings, but being noticed, being \"heard\":\n\nI was much too far out all my life\n\nAnd not waving but drowning.\n\nIt is not easy to relay the meaning and rhythm of poem while retaining a voice that doesn't sound like a cliche of a worthy 1970s round-table poetry group.\n\nSkinner nails the task, bringing the poet's words to life before veering off on an anecdote or explaining that poetry is broken up into lumps known as verses (fancy language is banished, which is why, perhaps, he chose Smith who used simple language to communicate ideas and feelings of great complexity).\n\nThe show is not perfect, but then it is only one episode old.\n\nHaving got our attention and established his chatty approach, there's scope for Skinner to go a little deeper into the text.\n\nNot Waving but Drowning is a timely poem to study, not just because it speaks to our current anxieties, but also that in 12 short lines Smith introduces three separate voices who tell us the ambiguous story in words chosen specifically for their weaselly slipperiness.\n\nThere is also room for a bit more biographical detail. Obviously, this is Skinner's informal take on poetry, with the way it touches him a large part of the show's structure, but it could be rebalanced to allow the poet to share some the limelight.\n\nWe learn very little about Smith, and almost nothing about William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), the American modernist poet who wrote Skinner's second choice of the week, Danse Russe (1916).\n\nThe American poet, William Carlos Williams once wrote \"The purpose of an artist, whatever it is, is to take the life, whatever he sees, and to raise it up to an elevated position where it has dignity\"\n\nIt is another terrific selection.\n\nA little longer than Smith's, but not by much. It shares the subject of loneliness, but from the other side of the desolate coin. This time our male protagonist is watching the sun rise as his wife and children sleep. He is enjoying a moment of sensual euphoria, suppressed from full expression perhaps, to keep the genie of his genius in the bottle:\n\nIf I admire my arms, my face,\n\nthe happy genius of my household?\n\nIt would have helped to have some biographical detail; to have known that Williams was a paediatrician by day and a poet by night (the genius of the household?): that he was searching for a new American idiom that established a language independent from European influences, and that the poem was indebted to the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's L'après-midi d'un faune (Williams spent time living in France).\n\nClaude Debussy then wrote a piece of music in response to Mallarmé, which was subsequently turned into a dance for the Ballets Russes (hence the title of Williams's poem) by Vaslav Nijinsky, which Williams saw performed in New York having known it'd caused a furore in Paris years earlier when Nijinsky started writhing in ecstasy, alone on the stage, to howls of derision and gasps of delight.\n\nThe influence of Stéphane Mallarmé's poem L'après-midi d'un faune can be seen in William Carlos Williams' Danse Russe\n\nVaslav Nijinsky choreographed and danced in L'Aprés-midi d'un faune for the Ballets Russes in 1912, which William Carlos Williams saw years later\n\nSkinner only touches on this back story and isn't entirely accurate on all his factual details (I don't think Williams lived in New York, he was a man of Rutherford, New Jersey). To an extent that's forgivable, our host says he doesn't go much for background info because he wants to have a relationship with the work of art not the person who made it or what might have influenced it. He then humbly adds, \"that might be an error on my part\".\n\nI suspect it is. The more you repeat read a poem, which Skinner rightly encourages us to do, the more you want to comprehend, and that usually means going beyond the page to the person holding the pen. That's the way into the rest of the writer's work, and the discovering of little jewels like Williams's This is Just to Say, which for some reason reminds me of a Cezanne still life:\n\nFirst-episode teething troubles are to be expected and should not detract from a very welcome new addition to the cultural landscape: a simple idea without any fancy production presented by someone who brings insight and enthusiasm to an art form that is enjoying a resurgence in popularity.\n\nRoll on Monday for the second instalment.\n\nI think it's going to get better and better.", "NHS workers, police and firefighters must get better pay and treatment after they \"see us through\" the coronavirus crisis, a union leader has said.\n\nMatt Wrack, of the Fire Brigades Union, said many of his members were working at testing centres, delivering health supplies and transporting bodies.\n\nHe called the weekly applause for NHS and other key workers \"great\", but added that \"clapping is not enough\".\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"very grateful\" to firefighters.\n\nThey were \"going above and beyond the day job to support the NHS and protect communities by assisting ambulance services, transferring patients and delivering PPE (personal protective equipment), food and medicines\", it added.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and rises were capped at 1% from 2013 to 2018.\n\nThe FBU estimates that, on average, its members are earning £4,000 a year less than they would had their salary increases matched inflation over the past decade.\n\n\"Firefighters haven't felt particularly valued for a long time,\" Mr Wrack said.\n\nBut he added: \"Something that lots of people are beginning to comment on, including people in government, is the key workers who will see us through this crisis.\"\n\nThe FBU, fire service employers and the National Fire Chiefs Council have agreed that firefighters can volunteer to help with tasks such as driving ambulances, delivering food and medicine to vulnerable people, assembling face masks for NHS workers and moving dead bodies.\n\nFirefighters are disinfecting equipment to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\n\"It's great that people are going out and clapping on a Thursday night,\" said Mr Wrack, \"but the question will be - because clapping is not enough - what are we going to do as a society to redress the balance a bit and give recognition?\"\n\nHis demands were not \"all about wages\", he said, adding that pensions had been eroded and workers had to \"have confidence\" employers were ensuring their safety.\n\nThe government has announced up to 10 million key workers can book a coronavirus test.\n\nBut Mr Wrack said: \"There's been a lot of frustration at how slow the UK seems to have been on getting testing up to the levels that we've seen in other countries.\"\n\nHe added: \"Those were political decisions and the people who made them need to be held to account over it. And that needs to start pretty immediately.\"\n\nThe government announced last year that it was awarding above-inflation pay rises to hundreds of thousands of public sector workers.\n\nResponding to Mr Wrack's comments, a Home Office spokesperson said the extra work done by fire and rescue staff was \"hugely important and we are working with the National Fire Chiefs Council to ensure they are properly protected and have the support they need\".", "Mr Lam's small bookshop was crowded with journalists and supporters at the opening\n\nA Hong Kong bookseller who defied mainland China has reopened his bookshop in Taiwan.\n\nLam Wing-kee was one of five booksellers detained in 2015 after selling material critical of the political elite on China's mainland.\n\nHe fled to Taiwan last year for fear he would be sent back to China under Hong Kong's proposed extradition bill.\n\nThe authorities there say the reopening of the bookshop is a symbol of democracy and freedom in Taiwan.\n\n\"The reopening is very meaningful,\" Mr Lam told reporters in the new store in the capital, Taipei.\n\n\"Causeway Bay Books was destroyed by China through violent means. The reopening proves Taiwan is a place with freedom and democracy, and we still have the right to read books,\" he added.\n\nMr Lam had said he wanted a low-key opening because of Covid-19, but his small bookstore on the 10th floor of a building in a popular commercial district of Taipei was crowded with journalists and supporters, as well as flowers and a message from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, reports the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.\n\nHe called on those who took to Hong Kong's streets last year and who thought their safety was at risk to come to Taiwan and continue their rebellion from outside. He said by opening his bookstore, he was also rebelling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lam Wing Kee: \"You can stand up against tyranny\"\n\nIn 2015, Mr Lam was arrested during a visit to mainland China and held for more than 400 days.\n\nHe was among several bookshop owners and staff who disappeared and were later found to have been detained by Chinese authorities, as part of a crackdown on bookshops in the former British colony that sold publications critical of China's leaders.\n\nHis case fuelled fears of China's increasing encroachment on Hong Kong's freedoms, fears which led to the months-long mass protests in Hong Kong last year.\n\nMonths ago, he fled to Taiwan as Hong Kong considered a law that would have allowed extradition to mainland China.\n\nMr Lam's crowdfunding campaign to \"reopen\" the Causeway Bay bookstore - the name of his former shop in Hong Kong - raised more than T$3m on its first day.\n\nIn June 2016, newly returned to Hong Kong, he told journalists he had been released on condition he retrieve a hard disk filled with the names of people, mainly mainland Chinese, who had bought books from his publishing house.\n\nBut he said he had no intention of handing over the data and he detailed his imprisonment - in solitary confinement under 24-hour surveillance, during which he contemplated suicide.\n\nA confession broadcast on Chinese television was, he said, staged and acted out to a script.\n\nChina said Mr Lam had broken the terms of his release.\n\nWhen Hong Kong's political leader, Carrie Lam, proposed a new law that would allow extradition to mainland China, Mr Lam feared he would be \"top of the list\".\n\nHe left Hong Kong for Taiwan - an effectively independent nation that China considers a breakaway province awaiting reunification.", "The UK's official tally of coronavirus-related deaths has passed 20,000 - a figure the chief scientist once said would represent a \"good outcome\". It's a huge number and hard to visualise. How can we grasp the scale of this loss?\n\nOn the afternoon of 17 March 2020, in a Westminster committee room, Sir Patrick Vallance leaned forward in his chair.\n\nBack then, the number of people confirmed to have died in the UK after contracting Covid-19 stood at 71. Stricter measures had just been introduced to tackle the virus. Sir Patrick, the government's chief scientific adviser, was asked if the final tally of British deaths could be limited to 20,000 or below. That would, he told MPs, be \"a good outcome\".\n\nEleven days later, with the official death tally now at 1,091, Stephen Powis, NHS England's medical director, repeated Sir Patrick's benchmark. \"If we can keep deaths below 20,000,\" he told the daily Downing Street media briefing, \"we will have done very well.\"\n\nAlready - less than six weeks after Sir Patrick's statement, and a month on from Stephen Powis's - the 20,000 figure has been surpassed. No-one can predict what the final number of deaths will be when the pandemic is over, or what will ultimately be considered the benchmark for a \"good\" outcome.\n\nNonetheless, the 20,000 figure serves as a landmark and passing it has grim resonance.\n\nOf course, the government is only recording hospital cases where a person dies with the coronavirus infection in their body. Other estimates have been much higher.\n\n\"The daily official tally gives a very limited picture of the impact of the virus - if we take into account reporting delays and deaths outside hospital, we probably passed 20,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 a week ago,\" says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter of the University of Cambridge. \"There are also many thousands of extra deaths in the community that have not been attributed to Covid-19, either through caution in putting it on the death certificate, or reluctance to send people to hospital.\"\n\nAnd even though a ceiling of 20,000 fatalities was considered a hopeful scenario, it was only ever so in the most the limited sense.\n\nA tally on that scale would still be \"horrible\", Sir Patrick told the Commons Health Select Committee back on 17 March. It would mean an enormous number of deaths. \"Having spent 20 years as an NHS consultant as well as an academic,\" he said, \"I know exactly what that looks and feels like.\"\n\nIn the three weeks up to Easter, just under 17,000 more deaths were registered than we would normally see at this time of year, a record spike, most of which can be attributed to the epidemic.\n\nBut more than half of the coronavirus deaths announced daily have been reported since Easter, so by now the true picture is likely to be far higher.\n\nRegistered deaths capture all deaths in the community or care homes and deaths caused indirectly by the virus: people not seeking or getting treatment because our health service is under pressure, or people suffering in the lockdown.\n\nSo that gives a better picture of what is really going on. But it takes up to 10 days for deaths to be registered and analysed.\n\nCould most people say they, too, had a sense of the scale of 20,000 lives lost?\n\nThat is roughly the population of Newquay in Cornwall and Bellshill in North Lanarkshire. It's the capacity of the Liberty Stadium in Swansea or Fratton Park in Portsmouth. You could visualise those places, if you've seen them.\n\nBut while there have been clusters of cases, this comparison obscures the breadth of the virus's impact. Unlike residents of a town or spectators at a sporting ground, the lives lost haven't been concentrated in one particular location. They've been all around.\n\nAnd if you were to attempt to visualise them, they would not look like a randomly selected cross-section of the population, either. People over 70 are at higher risk. So too are those with underlying health conditions. Data suggest men may be affected more than women, and that there has been a disproportionately large impact on people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nYour perception of the death toll may also differ depending on where you are.\n\nIf you live near a main road in London, the UK's coronavirus epicentre, the sound of sirens might have brought home to you the scale of the emergency response. When you look up at the clear spring skies, all but empty of the usual passenger aircraft, your view of the air ambulances carrying patients to hospitals will be unimpeded.\n\nIf you live on the Western Isles of Scotland, where the rate of infections has been dramatically lower, the same sensory cues won't be there for you, though you may notice the lack of vapour trails.\n\nThe very fact of social distancing makes it harder to commemorate even those you lose who are closest to you. Saying goodbye is often impossible. Numbers at funeral gatherings are strictly limited. You mourn the deaths of loved ones on social media, Zoom and Skype rather than at wakes.\n\nYou could compare 20,000 with other death tolls. It's nearly seven times more than the number who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks and five-and-a-half times more than the number who died as a result of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nBut compared with most conflicts and natural disasters, the impact is far more dispersed and hidden. There will be no war cemeteries like those that show the scale of the loss of life in the great conflicts of the 20th Century - though the largest of those, the World War One Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders, with its 11,965 graves, would be too small for 20,000 Covid-19 casualties.\n\nPrevious pandemics might offer a better, if more ominous yardstick. So far, the toll stands at less than 1/10th of the number of British deaths attributed to Spanish flu after WW1.\n\nBut relevant too are the illnesses that kill equivalent numbers each year with minimal attention.\n\n\"Twenty thousand deaths represents a huge amount of illness, human pain and personal loss,\" says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter. \"But it's also important to remember that, although Covid-19 is a far more serious illness than seasonal flu, in each of the winters of 2014-5 and 2017-18 there were over 26,000 deaths associated with flu, which did not receive much attention.\"\n\nBut the most glaring gap in our understanding of the pandemic is the emotional impact of its spread.\n\nEach time a Covid-19 statistic is recorded, how many other people are affected besides? Is it possible to calculate, let alone envisage, the scale of tragedy visited on loved ones, neighbours and friends? Let alone 20,000 times over.\n\nWhen 82-year-old Ruth Burke became the fourth person in Northern Ireland to die with Covid-19, her daughter Brenda Doherty insisted that Mrs Burke was more than just a number. \"I don't want my mum being another statistic,\" Ms Doherty told BBC Radio Ulster. \"She was a loving mother. She was a strong person.\"", "Tackling climate change must be woven into the solution to the Covid-19 economic crisis, the UK will tell governments next week.\n\nEnvironment ministers from 30 countries are meeting in a two-day online conference in a bid to make progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe gathering is called the \"Petersberg Climate Dialogue\".\n\nIt will focus on how to organise a \"green\" economic recovery after the acute phase of the pandemic is over.\n\nThe other aim is to forge international agreement on ambitious carbon cuts despite the postponement of the key conference COP26 - previously scheduled for Glasgow in November (now without a date).\n\nAlok Sharma, the UK Climate Secretary and president of COP26, said: \"I am committed to increasing global climate ambition so that we deliver on the Paris Agreement (to stabilise temperature rise well below 2C).\n\n\"The world must work together, as it has to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, to support a green and resilient recovery, which leaves no one behind.\n\n\"At the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, we will come together to discuss how we can turn ambition into real action.\"\n\nThe informal conference is co-hosted by the UK and Germany.\n\nDeveloped and developing countries will attend, along with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and members of civil society and business. Last week, Mr Guterres warned that climate change was a deeper problem than the virus.\n\nCampaign groups will be sceptical about the meeting. Since the Paris deal to cut emissions, CO2 has actually been rising - although there's currently a blip in the trend thanks to the Covid recession.\n\nThe development charity CARE says it's alarmed that public finance provided from rich countries to developing countries to adapt to inevitable climate change actually decreased in 2018.\n\nSven Harmeling from CARE said: \"If governments fail to make their economic stimulus sustainable and equitable, they will drive our planet much deeper into the existential economic, social and ecological turmoil caused by the climate crisis.\"\n\nThe EU is already set on delivering a green stimulus. The Commission's Green Deal chief, Frans Timmermans, said every euro spent on economic recovery measures after the COVID-19 crisis would be linked to the green and digital transitions.\n\n\"The European Green Deal is a growth strategy and a winning strategy,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"It's not a luxury we drop when we hit another crisis. It is essential for Europe's future.\n\nMeanwhile, China appears set on its current carbon-intensive development path, and President Trump says the US will rescue struggling fossil fuel firms.\n\nEven in Europe there's a degree of push-back against the idea of a green stimulus .\n\nMarkus Pieper, an MEP from the centre-right German CDU party, told the magazine FOCUS that the EU's sweeping plan for investment in clean technologies would no longer be possible.\n\nHe said: \"The Green Deal was a gigantic challenge for an economy in top shape. After the corona bloodletting, it is simply not financially viable.\"\n\nBut the UK climate economist Lord Stern told BBC News: \"The immediate priority is the current Covid crisis – but then we have to build for the future.\n\n\"Timmermans is right and Trump is wrong. We should only be bailing out firms that are going to contribute to tackling climate change.\n\n\"They don’t have be be ostensibly clean tech firms at the moment – but they do have to be committed to cutting their emissions in line with international targets.\"\n\nThe high-level segment on 28 April can be followed live from around 3:10 pm here.", "A further 35 migrants have been intercepted by Border Force boats while attempting to cross the English Channel early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe migrants - who variously identified themselves as Iranian, Iraqi and Kuwaiti - were picked up in three separate incidents.\n\nIt follows the interception of five dinghies carrying 76 migrants in the same area on Friday.\n\nThose on board were taken to Dover and transferred to immigration officials.\n\nThe first boat of the three was intercepted at 03:40 BST carrying 14 men and one woman, who identified themselves as Iranian, Kuwaiti and Iraqi.\n\nBorder Force boats scrambled to a second vessel at 06:35, this time carrying 13 men claiming to be Iraqi and Iranian.\n\nThe third boat intercepted off the Kent coast was carrying seven men, also from Iraq and Iran.\n\nOf the 76 people intercepted on Friday, at least three were thought to be children.\n\nThe Home Office confirmed there were 55 males and 21 females who said they were Iraqi, Iranian, Yemini, Syrian and Kuwaiti, but refused to say how many were children.\n\nImmigration officials wore protective equipment as they processed the migrants on Friday\n\nAll those detained will be monitored for signs of coronavirus, the Home Office said on Friday.\n\nFootage showed officials at the port in personal protective equipment escorting people from Border Force vessels.\n\nCharities have warned that people are living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in migrant camps in northern France, leaving them vulnerable to being infected by coronavirus.\n\nThe Home Office said the pandemic was having no impact on its operational response to the crossings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Another 813 people have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, bringing the total to more than 20,000, the Department of Health has announced.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, the home secretary described the figure as a \"tragic and terrible milestone\".\n\nLast month, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said keeping deaths below 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nMeanwhile, the PM will return to work in Downing Street on Monday morning.\n\nIt is just over two weeks since Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released from St Thomas' hospital in London, where he was treated in intensive care for coronavirus. He has been recuperating at his country retreat, Chequers.\n\nAccording to the latest official figures, a total of 20,319 patients have died in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe first virus-related death was announced in the UK 51 days ago.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"As the deaths caused by this terrible virus pass another tragic and terrible milestone, the entire nation is grieving.\"\n\nShe warned that \"we are not out of the woods yet\", and said people must continue to follow social distancing measures to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nThe government's figures do not account for deaths that have happened in care homes, at home, in hospices or elsewhere in the community.\n\nThese are measured separately by the Office for National Statistics, based on death certificates, and a weekly figure is announced each Tuesday.\n\nLast week that figure indicated that there were at least 1,662 deaths, up to 10 April, that were above the hospital-based number.\n\nThe fact we have now passed the grim milestone outlined by Sir Patrick Vallance in less than two months is both a tragedy for the families affected and a worry to the rest of the country.\n\nThere are strong signs - at least in hospitals - that we have passed the peak of deaths.\n\nThe fact that may have happened without the health service being overwhelmed in the way Italy's was is at least some good news.\n\nHowever, the deaths in care homes, which the daily figures from government do not include, are rising rapidly and could prove very difficult to get under control.\n\nIn fact, if we included them we would have passed the 20,000 mark some time ago.\n\nOn 17 March, Sir Patrick told MPs \"the hope\" was to keep the death toll below 20,000. At the time the number of deaths in UK hospitals stood at 71.\n\nThat ambition was later echoed by NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis, who said the UK would have \"done very well in this epidemic\" if deaths remained below that figure.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's briefing, Prof Powis said it was a \"very sad day for the nation\", adding that his \"heart goes out to families and friends of those loved ones\".\n\nAsked about his and Sir Patrick's previous comments, Prof Powis said: \"What we were emphasising is that this is a new virus, a global pandemic, a once-in-a-century global health crisis.\n\n\"And this was going to be a huge challenge not just for the UK, but for every country.\"\n\nHe added that it was unlikely the UK and other countries would recover from the pandemic in the next few weeks.\n\n\"This is not a sprint, this will be a marathon,\" he said.\n\nFour other countries to date have announced an official number of coronavirus-related deaths exceeding 20,000 - the US, Spain, Italy and France.\n\nGlobally, more than 200,000 people have died with coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University, with confirmed cases standing at more than 2.8m.\n\nMs Patel said the government was working towards returning the UK to normal, but said five tests must be met before lockdown measures can be lifted. \"Quite frankly that is not right now,\" she said.\n\nThe government's five tests for ending lockdown are:\n\nProf Powis said the virus would start to \"spread more\" if social distancing measures were lifted.\n\nHe said it was clear that \"gains\" were being made by following social distancing rules and orders to avoid non-essential travel.\n\nProf Powis urged people to stay at home despite the sunny weather - and said a slight increase in motor vehicle usage was \"a little bit\" concerning\n\nSome 28,760 coronavirus tests were carried out in the UK on Friday. The government has set a target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.\n\nAt Saturday's daily briefing, the home secretary also took the opportunity to speak about the impact the pandemic was having on crime.\n\nDespite a fall in overall crime during the outbreak, Ms Patel said some criminals continued to \"capitalise on this horrendous crisis\".\n\nPraising the \"outstanding frontline police officers\", she singled out a successful raid earlier in the week which uncovered cocaine with a street value of £1m concealed in a shipment of face masks. She also revealed more than 2,000 online scams linked to coronavirus had been taken down.\n\nShe criticised some \"extraordinary dangerous driving\" witnessed by police during lockdown, with one London driver caught doing 134mph in a 40mph zone.", "The UK's official tally of coronavirus-related deaths has passed 20,000 - a figure the chief scientist once said would represent a \"good outcome\". It's a huge number and hard to visualise. How can we grasp the scale of this loss?\n\nOn the afternoon of 17 March 2020, in a Westminster committee room, Sir Patrick Vallance leaned forward in his chair.\n\nBack then, the number of people confirmed to have died in the UK after contracting Covid-19 stood at 71. Stricter measures had just been introduced to tackle the virus. Sir Patrick, the government's chief scientific adviser, was asked if the final tally of British deaths could be limited to 20,000 or below. That would, he told MPs, be \"a good outcome\".\n\nEleven days later, with the official death tally now at 1,091, Stephen Powis, NHS England's medical director, repeated Sir Patrick's benchmark. \"If we can keep deaths below 20,000,\" he told the daily Downing Street media briefing, \"we will have done very well.\"\n\nAlready - less than six weeks after Sir Patrick's statement, and a month on from Stephen Powis's - the 20,000 figure has been surpassed. No-one can predict what the final number of deaths will be when the pandemic is over, or what will ultimately be considered the benchmark for a \"good\" outcome.\n\nNonetheless, the 20,000 figure serves as a landmark and passing it has grim resonance.\n\nOf course, the government is only recording hospital cases where a person dies with the coronavirus infection in their body. Other estimates have been much higher.\n\n\"The daily official tally gives a very limited picture of the impact of the virus - if we take into account reporting delays and deaths outside hospital, we probably passed 20,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 a week ago,\" says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter of the University of Cambridge. \"There are also many thousands of extra deaths in the community that have not been attributed to Covid-19, either through caution in putting it on the death certificate, or reluctance to send people to hospital.\"\n\nAnd even though a ceiling of 20,000 fatalities was considered a hopeful scenario, it was only ever so in the most the limited sense.\n\nA tally on that scale would still be \"horrible\", Sir Patrick told the Commons Health Select Committee back on 17 March. It would mean an enormous number of deaths. \"Having spent 20 years as an NHS consultant as well as an academic,\" he said, \"I know exactly what that looks and feels like.\"\n\nIn the three weeks up to Easter, just under 17,000 more deaths were registered than we would normally see at this time of year, a record spike, most of which can be attributed to the epidemic.\n\nBut more than half of the coronavirus deaths announced daily have been reported since Easter, so by now the true picture is likely to be far higher.\n\nRegistered deaths capture all deaths in the community or care homes and deaths caused indirectly by the virus: people not seeking or getting treatment because our health service is under pressure, or people suffering in the lockdown.\n\nSo that gives a better picture of what is really going on. But it takes up to 10 days for deaths to be registered and analysed.\n\nCould most people say they, too, had a sense of the scale of 20,000 lives lost?\n\nThat is roughly the population of Newquay in Cornwall and Bellshill in North Lanarkshire. It's the capacity of the Liberty Stadium in Swansea or Fratton Park in Portsmouth. You could visualise those places, if you've seen them.\n\nBut while there have been clusters of cases, this comparison obscures the breadth of the virus's impact. Unlike residents of a town or spectators at a sporting ground, the lives lost haven't been concentrated in one particular location. They've been all around.\n\nAnd if you were to attempt to visualise them, they would not look like a randomly selected cross-section of the population, either. People over 70 are at higher risk. So too are those with underlying health conditions. Data suggest men may be affected more than women, and that there has been a disproportionately large impact on people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nYour perception of the death toll may also differ depending on where you are.\n\nIf you live near a main road in London, the UK's coronavirus epicentre, the sound of sirens might have brought home to you the scale of the emergency response. When you look up at the clear spring skies, all but empty of the usual passenger aircraft, your view of the air ambulances carrying patients to hospitals will be unimpeded.\n\nIf you live on the Western Isles of Scotland, where the rate of infections has been dramatically lower, the same sensory cues won't be there for you, though you may notice the lack of vapour trails.\n\nThe very fact of social distancing makes it harder to commemorate even those you lose who are closest to you. Saying goodbye is often impossible. Numbers at funeral gatherings are strictly limited. You mourn the deaths of loved ones on social media, Zoom and Skype rather than at wakes.\n\nYou could compare 20,000 with other death tolls. It's nearly seven times more than the number who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks and five-and-a-half times more than the number who died as a result of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nBut compared with most conflicts and natural disasters, the impact is far more dispersed and hidden. There will be no war cemeteries like those that show the scale of the loss of life in the great conflicts of the 20th Century - though the largest of those, the World War One Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders, with its 11,965 graves, would be too small for 20,000 Covid-19 casualties.\n\nPrevious pandemics might offer a better, if more ominous yardstick. So far, the toll stands at less than 1/10th of the number of British deaths attributed to Spanish flu after WW1.\n\nBut relevant too are the illnesses that kill equivalent numbers each year with minimal attention.\n\n\"Twenty thousand deaths represents a huge amount of illness, human pain and personal loss,\" says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter. \"But it's also important to remember that, although Covid-19 is a far more serious illness than seasonal flu, in each of the winters of 2014-5 and 2017-18 there were over 26,000 deaths associated with flu, which did not receive much attention.\"\n\nBut the most glaring gap in our understanding of the pandemic is the emotional impact of its spread.\n\nEach time a Covid-19 statistic is recorded, how many other people are affected besides? Is it possible to calculate, let alone envisage, the scale of tragedy visited on loved ones, neighbours and friends? Let alone 20,000 times over.\n\nWhen 82-year-old Ruth Burke became the fourth person in Northern Ireland to die with Covid-19, her daughter Brenda Doherty insisted that Mrs Burke was more than just a number. \"I don't want my mum being another statistic,\" Ms Doherty told BBC Radio Ulster. \"She was a loving mother. She was a strong person.\"", "Netflix has seen subscriber numbers surge this year, as lockdowns around the world keep people at home where they want to be entertained.\n\nAlmost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, the firm said.\n\nThat is almost double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019.\n\nHowever, the streaming service, which is behind some multi-million dollar productions, said shutdowns have halted \"almost all\" filming around the world.\n\nAnd sharp declines in the value of many currencies has meant new subscribers outside of the US, where Netflix is based, are not worth as much to the company as they would have been before the crisis. And that has hurt its international revenue growth.\n\nNevertheless, the home-entertainment giant's share price has climbed more than 30% this year as investors bet on its ability to benefit from people spending more time indoors.\n\n\"Netflix is and will continue to be the media company least impacted by Covid-19,\" said eMarketer analyst Eric Haggstrom. \"Their business is a near perfect fit to a population that is suddenly housebound.\"\n\nDemand for streaming has been so high that Netflix last month said it would reduce the quality of its videos in Europe to ease strain on internet service providers. The firm also hired an additional 2,000 customer support staff to handle the increased interest.\n\nNetflix said some 85 million people had watched its original movie, Spenser Confidential, for at least two minutes - the cut-off it uses for viewing figures. Meanwhile, the documentary series Tiger King reached 64 million households.\n\nTiger King focuses on Joe Exotic and his big cat zoo\n\nThe firm expected to add another 7.5 million members in the three months to the end of June - above analyst expectations. But it warned investors that viewers and growth would decline as governments lift lockdowns around the world.\n\n\"Given the uncertainty on home confinement timing this is mostly guesswork,\" it said.\n\nNetflix said it expects to stick to its release schedule through June and has been acquiring other movies to keep its offering fresh. But it said future membership growth could be hurt by delays to upcoming seasons and shows.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, analyst at PP Foresight, said production delays would hurt subscriber growth at all streaming companies in coming months.\n\n\"Arguably, Netflix should fare much better with its broad catalogue,\" he said.\n\nNetflix's early subscriber growth certainly caught the attention of Wall Street investors. But spectacular growth in a period where most of the world's internet users are under orders to stay at home is a bit less impressive.\n\nThe bigger question for Netflix is can it retain those paying customers after Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased.\n\nThe company is facing increasing competition from the likes of Disney Plus and Amazon Prime, which both boast of large archives of content to attract new subscribers.\n\nMeanwhile, newly-launched short-form streaming service Quibi spent billions to release content with top Hollywood talent. And later this year HBO Max and NBCUniversal will launch Peacock in the US.\n\nIn the streaming world, content is king and more rivals mean Netflix will need to shore up its lineup. That's where coronavirus - a positive when it comes to driving subscriber growth - becomes a possible negative. Netflix had to pause the production of new shows during the lockdown.\n\nIts rivals face the same challenge. But big brands like NBCUniversal and Disney are also pulling popular shows they had leased to Netflix and showing on their own services instead.\n\nEurope, the Middle East and Africa accounted for the largest number of new members with almost 7 million new subscribers. Growth in the US and Canada, which has lagged in recent quarters, also jumped, with 2.3 million new members joining the service, compared to just 550,000 in the final months of 2019.\n\nThe firm now has more than 182 million subscribers worldwide.\n\nNetflix said revenue increased to $5.76bn, up more than 27% compared to the same period in 2019. Profits almost doubled, from $344m in the first quarter of 2019 to $709m.", "This video can not be played.", "A couple have held a mock wedding ceremony to mark the day they were meant to get married.\n\nLaura McKinlay and Ruaridh Macmillan, who live near Falkirk, were due to wed on Saturday in Inverness.\n\nBut most marriages and civil partnerships are not taking place because of the lockdown.\n\nLaura and Ruaridh held what they called a \"not our wedding day\" and linked up with family and friends via video calls.\n\nThey had fun on their special day, with Laura using a fitted bed sheet for the veil while Ruaridh wore his pyjamas instead of a kilt.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son Prince Louis has been photographed making a colourful rainbow poster - a symbol of hope during the coronavirus lockdown - to mark his second birthday.\n\nHis handprint artwork is one of several photographs released by the family to celebrate the occasion on Thursday.\n\nSimilar pictures by children have appeared in windows across the country.\n\nPrince Louis was photographed by his mother the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this month.\n\nIn a series of images, Kate has captured her son - wearing a smart blue gingham-style shirt - grinning up at the camera while displaying his brightly painted palms and fingers.\n\nIn one portrait, his coloured digits are raised to his cheeks with apparent excitement.\n\nIn another photo, Louis has smeared colourful paint all over his face, with Kensington Palace posting a light-hearted tweet saying \"Instagram Vs Reality\".\n\nThe duchess - a keen amateur photographer and patron of the Royal Photographic Society - has regularly released pictures she has taken of her other children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, to mark their birthdays.\n\nLouis' artwork is likely to be part of William and Kate's home-schooling lessons, with the duchess recently admitting she kept the make-shift classroom up and running during the Easter holidays.\n\n\"It's just having that bit of structure, actually. It's great, there are so many great tips online and fun activities that you can do with the children so it hasn't been all hardcore,\" she said.\n\nKate also revealed her surprise at her children's awareness about the coronavirus outbreak and how she has tackled the subject with them in \"age appropriate\" ways.\n\nPrince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge, fifth in line to the throne, was born on St George's Day, 23 April 2018, at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, weighing 8lb 7oz.\n\nHe was christened at 11 weeks old, by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace in front of friends and family.\n\nPrince Louis has featured in a number of images released by the Cambridges and recently appeared in a video with his older brother and sister applauding the nation's health workers and carers.\n\nPrince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall wished their grandson a \"very happy birthday\" from their Clarence House twitter account.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAre you celebrating your birthday in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon McDonald spoke to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee by video link\n\nA senior civil servant has said he was wrong to claim the UK took a \"political decision\" not to join an EU scheme to source medical equipment.\n\nThe Foreign Office's Sir Simon McDonald told MPs that ministers were briefed on \"what was on offer\" but said \"no\".\n\nBut he later retracted his comments, saying he had \"wrongly\" told MPs that ministers been briefed on the scheme.\n\nHe said the UK did not receive an invitation to join the scheme because of \"communication problems\".\n\nMinisters have insisted they did not receive emails alerting them to the deadline for joining the EU procurement scheme for gowns, ventilators and testing kits in March.\n\nAnd Health Secretary Matt Hancock denied that politics had been involved in the decision and said he had signed-off on joining efforts to procure more equipment.\n\nHowever, a European Commission spokeswoman suggested the UK was aware of the tender programmes and had chosen not to get involved after its departure from the bloc on 31 January.\n\nLast month the government was criticised for not taking part in an EU plan to bulk buy medical equipment, including potentially life-saving ventilators, that could be used to tackle the coronavirus.\n\nAt the time, Downing Street said the UK was making its own arrangements because it was no longer in the EU.\n\nMinisters denied claims that anti-EU sentiment had played a part in the decision.\n\nDowning Street then issued a statement saying the UK had been invited to take part but officials did not see the email because of a \"communication confusion\".\n\nAsked why the decision was taken not to join the scheme, Sir Simon - who is permanent secretary at the Foreign Office - told the Foreign Affairs Committee that it was a deliberate move by ministers.\n\n\"We left the European Union on 31 January,\" he said.\n\nPushed further, he added: \"All I can say is that it is a matter of fact that we have not taken part. It was a political decision... and the decision is no.\"\n\nBut five hours later, he released a letter to the chair of the committee, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, saying he had been wrong in what he said.\n\n\"Due to a misunderstanding, I inadvertently and wrongly told the committee that ministers were briefed on the joint EU procurement scheme and took a political decision not to take part in it,\" he wrote.\n\n\"That is incorrect. Ministers were not briefed by our mission in Brussels about the scheme and a political decision was not take on whether or not to participate.\"\n\nHe added that \"the facts of the situation are as previously set out\" and the UK missed the opportunity to take part \"owing to an initial communication problem\".\n\nThe EU started to coordinate the process of purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE), testing kits and ventilators at the end of February. The joined effort helps to reduce costs when negotiating with manufacturers.\n\nThe first scheme, to purchase masks, was launched on 28 February.\n\nFor ventilators, the procurement procedure was launched on 17 March, with the closing date of 26 March by which countries had to say whether they would like to participate and how much they would need.\n\nA further scheme for PPE was launched on 17 March and one for testing kits on 19 March.\n\nHowever, so far no PPE, ventilators or testing kits have been delivered through the schemes.\n\nSir Simon had earlier been contradicted by ministers, with Mr Hancock saying he had spoken to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, and as far as he knew there had been no political decision not to participate.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, he revealed that he had now accepted an invitation from the EU to join that particular scheme on an \"associate\" basis but said it had not yet delivered a single item of medical equipment.\n\n\"When we did receive an invitation in the Department of Health… it was put up to me... and we joined and we are now members of that scheme, but as far as we know that scheme hasn't yet delivered a single item of PPE.\"\n\nThe decision not to join earlier had had \"zero\" impact on the UK's current supplies, he suggested.\n\nSpeaking before Sir Simon issued his clarification, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said ministers themselves needed to explain what had happened.\n\n\"We were told the government missed an email invitation to join the EU procurement scheme. Then we were told the decision not to take part was a political decision.\n\n\"Now we are told that the government did sign up to the scheme,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the row reflected the intense pressure on the government over its record on key equipment and whether its rhetoric about doing all it could was backed by the reality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sharon Bamford died just days after her husband Malcolm\n\nA health care assistant, who was a mother-of-two, has died with coronavirus just days after the virus killed her husband.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said their son Christian had survived Covid-19 and had left hospital.\n\n\"Warm, caring and dedicated\" Sharon Bamford, 63, who worked at Swansea's Singleton Hospital, was the eighth Welsh NHS worker to die with the virus.\n\nShe died at Morriston Hospital on Tuesday.\n\nHer death came just days after her 73-year-old husband Malcolm died in the same intensive care unit.\n\nThe health board offered sympathies to the couple's sons Craig and Christian, 34.\n\n\"Sharon was highly thought of by all the patients,\" said Singleton Hospital director Jan Worthing.\n\nShe added Mrs Bamford was also \"loved by her colleagues and friends within the team\".\n\nMrs Bamford had worked at the hospital for \"many years\", and in the haematology and oncology ward since 2005.\n\n\"Sharon's sad death will leave a massive void within the team and within the Singleton family,\" said Ms Worthing.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are obviously with their sons Craig and Chris at this devastating time, with the loss of both Sharon and Malcolm.\"", "A delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) from Turkey is being inspected, Downing Street said, following its late arrival in the UK.\n\nAn RAF aircraft that landed at RAF Brize Norton on Wednesday morning is believed to have delivered up to about half of the promised kit.\n\nOther RAF planes were said to be on standby to collect the rest.\n\nThe delivery was originally expected to arrive on Sunday, and had been due to include 400,000 surgical gowns.\n\nIt is not clear exactly what supplies the flight contained and no clear reason was given for the delay.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister said the consignment was being \"processed\" in line with standard procedure and will be moved \"on to the frontline as quickly as possible\".\n\nThe RAF aircraft that flew the shipment, which left to pick up the delivery at around 17:00 BST on Monday, can carry about 40 tons of cargo - about half of the consignment.\n\nOn Monday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the flight had been delayed by problems in Turkey.\n\nHowever, Turkey's ambassador to the UK, Umit Yalcin, said his government only learned about the deal with a private company on Sunday and insisted it had done everything to help.\n\nThe government remains under pressure for failing to supply enough PPE.\n\nOn Monday, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers - which represents healthcare trusts across England - said that while the 400,000 gowns from Turkey would be welcome, NHS staff were getting through approximately 150,000 gowns a day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, care minister Helen Whately said there was a global shortage of PPE and that some deliveries faced delays or did not turn up.\n\n\"The really important thing therefore is that we are working to secure an excess of supply to make sure that we, in due course, will have more than we need and at least what we need,\" she said.\n\nHelen Whately stressed the importance of reciprocal relationships with other countries over PPE\n\nAsked about reports that some PPE was being shipped from British warehouses to countries like Germany, Spain and Italy, she said there was an \"international market\" in PPE and stressed the importance of maintaining \"reciprocal working relationships\" with other countries.\n\nShe added that the UK was a \"net importer of PPE\" and has been supplied \"many, many times over\" by China in return for equipment it sent at the peak of the epidemic in Wuhan.\n\nThe delivery from Turkey comes after a number of British companies told the BBC their offers to help had gone ignored.\n\nDuring the first virtual Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said some \"are now supplying other countries\" and therefore could have supplied the UK.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is acting as the prime minister's deputy while he recovers from coronavirus, said it was \"not quite right\" to assume that they must have been \"acceptable to UK standards just because they are supplying different needs in different countries abroad\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that offers go through a \"rigorous system of verifying\" because not all are credible, and it was important to \"focus on the biggest, most credible offers first\".\n\nHe said the government was \"actively engaged\" with more than 1,000 companies who buy from abroad and was working with 159 potential manufacturers in the UK.\n\nThe government has delivered more than one billion items of PPE since the start of the crisis, he added.\n\nEarlier, Ms Whately said that while some organisations which offered help already have established supply chains, others that have been set up in the past few days did not and might be unable to provide the standard of equipment required.\n\nThe RAF plane was loaded in Turkey before flying back to the UK\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told the BBC Breakfast it \"doesn't matter\" if some firms could only make small quantities.\n\n\"We need everybody doing what they can as part of this national effort,\" he said.\n\nIt was \"understandable\" that the government \"probably [hasn't] got enough resources\" to respond to all requests, he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is facing fresh questions over the the time it took to join an EU scheme to bulk buy medical equipment - including potentially life-saving ventilators, protective equipment and testing kit - that could be used to tackle the coronavirus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says some coronavirus testing centres stand \"half empty\" as they are not easily accessible to care workers\n\nCoronavirus testing will increase more than five-fold over the next week, the government has promised.\n\nMinisters insist they will meet their target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April - an increase of 82,000 on Monday's levels.\n\nThe government has also revealed that 15 social care workers have died of coronavirus.\n\nAnd new figures suggest coronavirus deaths in care homes in England could have doubled in five days.\n\nIt comes as the latest figures show 759 additional deaths in hospital across the UK, bringing the total to 18,100.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab clashed with new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over testing figures, at the first \"virtual\" Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Raab and Sir Keir were both present in the sparsely populated Commons chamber, with most MPs asking questions from home through video conferencing technology.\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson, who is recovering from Covid-19, watched the proceedings from Chequers, the prime minister's country estate.\n\nSir Keir, who was making his debut at the despatch box as Labour leader, said the UK has been \"very slow and way behind other European countries\" when it comes to coronavirus testing.\n\nHe asked how it was possible to go from 18,000 tests a day to 100,000 in just eight days.\n\n\"All week we have heard from the front line, from care workers who are frankly desperate for tests,\" he told Mr Raab, and asked why the government was not using all the tests that are available.\n\nMr Raab, who was standing in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the government had testing capacity of 40,000 a day.\n\nBased on that, and the fact that new laboratories were coming on stream, the government would meet its testing target, although it would need a \"big increase\" in the next week, he told MPs.\n\n\"I've set the goal of 100,000 tests a day by the end of this month and I'm delighted to say that the expansion of capacity is ahead of plans, even though demand has, thus far, been lower than expected.\n\n\"We are therefore ramping up the availability of this testing and expanding who is eligible for testing, and making it easier to access the tests.\"\n\nSir Keir said the government had been \"slow\" at responding to companies that had offered to supply Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the health service.\n\nAnd he said many care workers were not able to get to testing centres because they were miles away and unable to use public transport because of social distancing.\n\n\"It is little wonder we are seeing these pictures of half-empty testing centres,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nMr Raab acknowledged there were challenges, but added: \"The key point is, it is important to have a target and drive towards a target.\"\n\nOn PPE, Mr Raab said the NHS had \"high standards\" and other countries, with weaker standards, had in some cases had to recall equipment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Care home staff have found it \"emotionally difficult\" coping with deaths from coronavirus\n\nIn a statement following PMQs, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs \"we are at the peak\" of the outbreak but added there could be no relaxation of the lockdown until the government could be sure of avoiding a second wave of cases.\n\nHe added: \"We are ramping up our testing capacity and our capacity for contact-tracing in a matter of weeks, and we'll have it ready to make sure that we can use that as and when the incidence of transmission comes down.\"\n\nHe said the goal was to reach a point where \"we can test, track and trace everybody who needs it\", adding that testing capacity was currently ahead of the government's plans.\n\nAn NHS app to help trace the contacts of people who have been infected is now in beta testing, the health secretary said. Along with greater testing and a fall in the rate of transmission, he said it would allow them to \"control this virus\" with fewer social distancing measures.\n\nMr Hancock praised MPs for being \"united in our purpose and resolve\". \"This may be akin to a war but it's one where the whole of humanity is on the same side,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as new figures showed the number of people recorded as having died of Covid-19 in care homes in England could have doubled in five days.\n\nFigures published by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday went up to 10 April. They showed the deaths of 1,043 people recorded as being linked to Covid 19 in England and Wales - nearly 1,000 of those deaths were in English care homes.\n\nThe care regulator for England, the Care Quality Commission, working with the ONS, is analysing data from care home providers about coronavirus-related deaths and have looked at deaths between April 10 to 15.\n\nIn a statement, they say they anticipate the number of deaths recorded in care homes in England to be double the number reported on Tuesday.\n\nThey have not published the numbers yet, but this preliminary finding would suggest in a five-day period the deaths of nearly 1,000 people in care homes in England could have been linked to Covid-19, which if confirmed would bring the overall total to about 2,000.\n\nThey also say there may be a significant increase in non-Covid-19 related deaths - in line with what the ONS official statistics suggest.\n\nThe figures will be published on 28 April, once verified.\n\nCare providers have always had to notify the CQC when a resident dies, but the forms have now been adjusted to collect information on whether a death is linked to coronavirus.\n\nCriticising the government for heading towards \"one of the worst death rates in Europe\", shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for care home deaths to be reported daily.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"All deaths in care homes are of course recorded.\" But he warned against comparing the different figures to make conclusions about the overall death toll, saying they were compiled on different time frames and needed \"rigorous analysis\" to ensure the comparison was accurate.", "Separated couples exploiting the Covid-19 lockdown to stop an ex-partner from seeing their child could face court action, says a senior judge.\n\nHead of the family courts Sir Andrew McFarlane says children should continue to visit parents they do not live with, as long as both households are healthy.\n\nFamily lawyers told the BBC they have been inundated with separated parents arguing over contact during lockdown.\n\nSome say parents have exploited Covid-19 guidance to stop visits altogether.\n\nThe guidance for parents who live apart states that children under the age of 18 can be moved between their parents' homes after a sensible discussion, and an assessment that the children are not being put at risk.\n\nBut for some parents, trust and communication have broken down, and conversations over child visits can seem impossible.\n\nSir Andrew, who is in charge of family courts in England and Wales, says those ignoring child court orders could end up facing legal action.\n\nHe warns: \"If the parents are acting in a cynical and opportunistic manner, then that's wrong, and the courts will regard it as wrong.\"\n\nSamantha Woodham, family law barrister and co-founder of the Divorce Surgery, says she has been overwhelmed with calls for clarification since the lockdown guidance was introduced.\n\nShe says she has heard about cases where mothers and fathers are abusing the system, and is calling for clearer rules on when parents should and should not be changing child arrangements.\n\nCabinet Minister Michael Gove caused confusion among families when England announced its lockdown.\n\nAppearing on ITV's Good Morning Britain, he said children were to remain in the household they were currently in.\n\nBut minutes later, on BBC Breakfast, Mr Gove said children under the age of 18 could move between households.\n\nMrs Woodham is calling for further clarity in the COVID-19 guidance: \"The fact that the guidance is permissive, stating that children 'can' move between homes, is actually not enough.\n\n\"Being told that children 'should' move between homes would actually really help parents in this time of uncertainty.\"\n\nAlex - not his real name - says he received an email from his ex-partner the day the UK went into lockdown, saying he could no longer see his 10-year-old son, despite a child court order stipulating ongoing visits.\n\nAlex says his ex-partner felt his role as a key worker meant he was at high risk of catching and spreading the virus.\n\nBut he says he is working from home 90% of the time, and has been following all safeguarding guidance.\n\n\"I miss physically seeing him in front of me, being able to have a laugh, talk, see how his day has been,\" he says.\n\n\"I totally understand the fear and worry of any parent if your loved ones are in contact with somebody who is a key worker, but that shouldn't be a reason to punish you.\"\n\nHospital consultant Robert - not his real name - faced a lengthy battle to be in regular contact with his son.\n\nFollowing the restrictions imposed, his ex-partner suspended all contact except for a short phone call once a fortnight.\n\nHe says he feels frustrated that she has disregarded the guidance and his efforts to make it work.\n\n\"All of my proposed assurances to strictly observe social distancing and cancel non-essential travel proved inadequate to the mother, who only sees her opinion and interpretation as the final judgment.\n\n\"Sadly, I won't be the only parent subject to this manipulative interpretation of the current guidance.\"\n\nSir Andrew, however, believes the guidance is adequate.\n\nHe says that a child's safety with regard to the virus is a matter for parental judgement, and the courts would not take that away.\n\nHe is urging families in conflict to focus on children's welfare, and to make sure they are in touch with both of their parents.\n\n\"Do something you don't want to do, for the sake of your child.\"", "Supermarket and shop workers deserve to be paid a minimum of £10 an hour after coronavirus, a union leader has argued.\n\nPaddy Lillis, of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw), said retail \"heroes\" should be rewarded for risking their health to keep people \"fed and watered\".\n\nHe predicted a post-crisis \"day of reckoning\" on pay and conditions.\n\nBut the British Retail Consortium said now was \"not the right time\" to ask for a wage increase.\n\nIt added that, across the retail sector, footfall - the number of people visiting shops - had suffered its \"worst ever decline\" in March.\n\nThe government thanked \"all those working tirelessly in our supermarkets to make sure the public can continue to access essential goods\".\n\nThe average hourly wage for UK sales and customer services workers is £9.77, according to the latest Office for National Statistics data.\n\nThe figure is £15.26 across all professions and the national minimum wage for workers over the age of 25 is £8.72 per hour.\n\n\"Retail workers don't get the respect they deserve,\" said Mr Lillis. \"It's always been seen by government and local authorities and, dare I say it, even customers, that it's a job you do until you get a 'real job'.\n\n\"And I think there's a day of reckoning at the end of this, where there has to be a real recognition that these low-paid workers need to be looked after and given at least £10 an hour - that's a living wage, basically.\"\n\nQueues to get into supermarkets have become a common sight\n\nWhile \"non-essential\" retailers have been forced to close stores because of coronavirus, supermarkets and convenience shops have remained open.\n\nSocial distancing has changed the way they operate, however, with staff and customers being told to stay at least two metres apart while inside and queuing to get in.\n\nMr Lillis told the BBC he had been assured that more PPE, including masks, was on its way.\n\nBut he said self-service checkout areas - where customers are funnelled through a narrow area and may require assistance with scanning and payment - remained a particular concern.\n\n\"Supermarket staff aren't quite like medical workers, in that they haven't got to touch people to do their job,\" he said.\n\n\"But because of the movements of people, they're bound to come into near contact with people quite frequently.\"\n\nWorkers including till operators and shelf-stackers were suffering \"anxiety and stress\", Mr Lillis said, while Usdaw had lost \"a few of our members in the last week through coronavirus\".\n\n\"Retail workers are out there at the sharp end,\" he added. \"I call them the beating heart of communities. They're out there making sure people get fed and watered, and that's an essential service.\"\n\nUsdaw, which has more than 420,000 members, is surveying shop staff about their experiences with customers. Of the 7,500 to have responded so far, around 250 have described being physically assaulted.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown has been in place for almost a month and, every Thursday evening, millions of people in the UK have taken to pavements, balconies and windows to applaud the efforts of NHS staff.\n\nMr Lillis said he did not think this or a similar tribute was necessary for shop staff and other non-NHS key workers, adding: \"There's no point in telling them that they're wonderful and they're heroes if they haven't got the money to provide for the families.\"\n\nTom Ironside, director of business and regulation at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"In recent years retailers have worked hard to increase pay, with many going beyond the legal requirement and extending the National Living Wage rate to staff aged under 25.\n\n\"However, with many retailers struggling to maintain viability in the face of the continued crisis, it is not the right time to be adding even greater pressure to an industry that already operates on very fine margins.\"\n\nA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy spokesperson said: \"We are committed to ensuring that every worker is fairly rewarded for their contribution to the economy.\n\n\"This year's increase to the National Living Wage means that we will be putting an additional £930 into the pockets of 2.4 million of the UK's lowest-paid workers this year.\"", "YouTube has banned coronavirus-related content that does not follow the World Health Organization's guidelines\n\nYouTube has banned any coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts World Health Organization (WHO) advice.\n\nThe Google-owned service says it will remove anything it deems \"medically unsubstantiated\".\n\nChief executive Susan Wojcicki said the media giant wanted to stamp out \"misinformation on the platform\".\n\nThe move follows YouTube banning conspiracy theories falsely linking Covid-19 to 5G networks.\n\nMrs Wojcicki made the remarks on Wednesday during her first interview since the global coronavirus lockdown began.\n\n\"So people saying, ‘Take vitamin C, take turmeric, we’ll cure you,’ those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy,” she told CNN.\n\n“Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”\n\nMrs Wojcicki added YouTube had seen a 75% increase in demand for news from \"authoritative\" sources.\n\nLast week, Facebook announced users who had read, watched or shared false Covid-19 information would receive a pop-up alert urging them to visit the WHO's website.\n\nFacebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, meanwhile, stopped users forwarding messages already shared more than four times by the wider community to more than one chat at a time.\n\nThe culture secretary praised the response from social media and technology companies in banning misinformation about coronavirus.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the work they have done,\" Oliver Dowden told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on Wednesday.\n\nBut he urged them to take down inaccurate information faster during \"out of hours\" periods such as evenings and weekends.\n\nIt comes as some of the UK's largest news publishers, including Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, criticised Google for failing to be transparent about its approach to filtering adverts alongside coronavirus-related content, according to the Financial Times.\n\nBrands are using blacklist filters to prevent their ads running alongside stories including keywords such as \"coronavirus\" and \"pandemic\".\n\nSuch filters are already widely used, to avoid car manufacturers' ads appearing next to stories about road accidents, for example.\n\nBut now some media outlets are reportedly frustrated content they deem \"inoffensive,\" such as uplifting human interest stories, are also being prevented from running these adverts.\n\nIt is estimated keyword ad-blocking could cost the UK newspaper industry $50m (£40m) over the next year.\n\nAnd Digital Minister John Whittingdale discussed the issue with publishers and advertising agencies earlier this month.\n\nGoogle told the Financial Times it was \"in constant discussions regarding how it can help the industry during this difficult time\".", "An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.\n\nThe first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March.\n\nNew information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline.\n\nAutopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19.\n\nSamples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe death of a third Santa Clara individual on 6 March has also been confirmed to be coronavirus-related.\n\n\"These three individuals died at home during a time when very limited testing was available only through the CDC,\" the coroner statement said.\n\nAt the time, the CDC's criteria restricted testing only to people with a known travel history and who were showing specific symptoms.\n\nThe coroner statement said \"we anticipate additional deaths from Covid-19 will be identified\" as more deaths are investigated in Santa Clara county.\n\nThe number of confirmed virus cases in the US has reached more than 825,000. At least 45,000 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nElsewhere in California, health officials from Los Angeles confirmed an additional 1,400 cases of coronavirus in that county, an increase of almost 10% of the total number.\n\nThere are now a total of 15,153 cases in Los Angeles.\n\nThe sudden spike is a result of a \"backlog\" of almost 1,200 cases from a single laboratory, according to Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.\n\n“Over the weekend we received a large backlog of test results from one lab,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a tremendous lag in data reporting to the Department of Public Health and we are working hard to make sure we don’t have backlogs moving forward.\"\n• None Second US coronavirus wave 'could be even worse'", "The US has reported the most coronavirus cases in the world\n\nA second wave of coronavirus cases in the US could be even worse than the first, the country's top health official has warned.\n\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield said the danger was higher as a fresh outbreak would likely coincide with the flu season.\n\nIt would put \"unimaginable strain\" on the US health care system, he said.\n\nThe US has seen more than 800,000 cases - the highest in the world.\n\nMore than 45,000 people have so far died with coronavirus across the US, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCalifornia had its highest one-day rise in new cases on Monday while New Jersey, the worst-hit US state apart from New York, saw its highest increase in deaths in one day.\n\nIn other developments in the US:\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post, Mr Redfield said that \"there's a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through\".\n\nHe urged officials in the US to prepare for the possibility of having to confront a flu and a coronavirus epidemic at the same time.\n\nMr Redfield stressed the importance of getting flu shots. He said that getting vaccinated \"may allow there to be a hospital bed available for your mother or grandmother that may get coronavirus\".\n\nThe CDC chief said that coronavirus had arrived in the US as the regular flu season was subsiding. He argued that if it had arrived at the peak of the winter influenza season, \"it could have been been really, really, really, really difficult\".\n\nHis warning comes as several US states are moving to ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nMr Redfield said that social distancing remained key to curb the spread of the virus and urged officials to keep stressing its importance even as restrictions on movement were lifted.\n\nHe said recent anti-lockdown protests were \"not helpful\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt an anti-lockdown protest in Denver a man wearing scrubs challenged demonstrators\n\nHe urged state and federal officials to step up tests to identify those who have coronavirus and the people they have had contact.\n\nHe said that the Centers for Disease Control planned to hire more than 650 people - more than doubling its current staff - to help with contact tracing among other things.\n\nThe CDC was also exploring the possibility of using Census Bureau workers to help with contact tracing he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The survey asks Facebook users about their health and social distancing\n\nFacebook is to begin asking selected UK users whether they have had symptoms of Covid-19, later on Wednesday.\n\nIt is part of a joint effort with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to track the spread of the disease.\n\nFacebook said it would not have access to users’ health data but would simply pass it on to CMU.\n\nOne expert said data from the surveys would be useful to scientists but probably not, on its own, reveal much about the disease.\n\nFacebook launched the surveys in the US, on 6 April, attracting about a million responses per week.\n\nUsers have been asked questions about their health and whether they have experienced any common symptoms of Covid-19, such as a persistent cough or a fever.\n\nAnd CMU analysts intend “within a few weeks” to use data from the surveys and other sources to forecast how many Covid-19 hospital and intensive care admissions are likely in specific areas.\n\nFacebook has already published a symptom map showing its estimated proportion of people with Covid-19 in areas across the US.\n\nMauricio Santillana, at Harvard University, said the project was “very useful”.\n\n“The Covid-19 outbreak is presenting us with big challenges in terms of estimating prevalence in the population,” he told BBC News.\n\n“The more data sources that we gain access to… the better.”\n\nBut trusting a single data source would not be wise and the Facebook survey data should be treated as “complementary” to other information.\n\nDr Santillana also warned apps and surveys that askes people about their health would not necessarily be able to sustain a broad response from the public.\n\n“We’ve seen that in apps that ask you every week how you’re feeling – usually at the beginning a lot of people get involved enthusiastically and then as time evolves less and less people participate,” he said.\n\nAnd the longer the pandemic continued, the more likely “app fatigue” might become.", "Care home staff have found it \"emotionally difficult\" to cope with the rise in deaths due to coronavirus, a manager has said.\n\nFive residents at Eagle Wood Neurological Care Centre in Peterborough have died with the virus and one was sent home from hospital to spend their final hours there.\n\nCare home assistant Aimee Smith said: \"When you're not used to dealing with end-of-life [care] as much as this can be, it's an eye-opener.\"\n\nDeputy manager Natalie Maxwell said: \"It is very emotionally difficult for the staff and we work as a team, we talk to each other but you're never going to go home and be free of it, because it's still going to be there.\"", "Europe is heating faster than the global average as new data indicates that last year was the warmest on record.\n\nWhile globally the year was the second warmest, a series of heatwaves helped push the region to a new high mark.\n\nOver the past five years, global temperatures were, on average, just over 1C warmer than at the end of the 19th century.\n\nIn Europe, in the same period, temperatures were almost 2C warmer.\n\nThe data has been published as Earth Day marks its 50th anniversary.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the physical signs of climate change and impacts on our planet have gathered pace in the past five years, which were the hottest on record.\n\nThe European data, which comes from the EU's Copernicus Climate Service, 11 of the 12 warmest years on record on the continent have occurred since 2000.\n\nThe European State of the Climate 2019 shows that warm conditions and summer heatwaves saw drought in many parts of central Europe.\n\nWhile the UK saw a new all-time high temperature recorded in Cambridge in July, in many places across the continent, the weather was 3-4C warmer than normal.\n\nThis is reflected in the amount of sunshine that hit Europe across the year. The number of sunshine hours was the largest on record.\n\nThe hot summer weather across Europe was followed by one of the wettest Novembers on record, with rainfall almost four times the normal amount in western and southern Europe.\n\nThe European Arctic region though was below the high temperatures seen in recent years, just 0.9C higher than average.\n\nTaken together, the data show \"a clear warming trend across the last four decades.\"\n\n\"Europe has indeed been warming significantly faster than the global average,\" said Prof Rowan Sutton, director of science (climate) at the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science.\n\nEurope was also hit by heavy rainfall during the later part of last year\n\n\"This is for two reasons. First, land regions in general are warming faster than the oceans, largely because the greater availability of moisture over the oceans damps the rate of warming.\"\n\n\"Secondly, reductions in specific forms of air pollution have contributed to the recent warming in Europe, particularly in summer.\"\n\nWhat will worry researchers is that the mean temperature in Europe over the past five years is averaging almost 2C warmer than pre-industrial figures.\n\nThis suggests that the continent is breaching the promise made in the Paris climate agreement to keep temperatures \"well below\" 2C.\n\n\"In lockdown, sitting on our sofas or our makeshift desks or in many more difficult situations, it would be easy for us to take our eyes off this alarming reality; that 2019 was the warmest year on record for Europe, that November brought us massively more precipitation than normal,\" said Prof Hannah Cloke, from the University of Reading.\n\n\"And for every decade I have been on this planet, it has been getting hotter and hotter and hotter. \"\n\nResearchers in the field are keen to underline that while the coronavirus pandemic might mean a temporary drop in emissions of greenhouse gases, much more will need to be done to arrest the worrying warming trend.\n\n\"While pollution has dropped with economic activity in response to the global pandemic, CO2 is not just disappearing overnight,\" said Prof Daniela Schmidt, from the University of Bristol.\n\nFires made worse by drought were a feature in many European countries in 2019\n\n\"The impact of the warming like sea level rise will be with us for centuries. The pandemic has made us less able to tackle the impact of climate change impacts. Our communities which have just been flooded will find sheltering in their damaged homes much more challenging.\n\n\"We have also learned, though, during the last months that actions taken together to make a difference.\"\n\nThe new data has been published by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.\n\nCommenting on the Earth Day anniversary, the WMO's secretary general, Petteri Taalas, said it was important to continue tackling climate change amid the global pandemic.\n\n\"Whilst COVID-19 has caused a severe international health and economic crisis, failure to tackle climate change may threaten human well-being, ecosystems and economies for centuries,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to flatten both the pandemic and climate change curves.\"\n\nEchoing earlier comments by the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, Mr Taalas commented: \"We need to show the same determination and unity against climate change as against COVID-19. We need to act together in the interests of the health and welfare of humanity not just for the coming weeks and months, but for many generations ahead.\"", "The Endurance's ill-fated voyage marked the end of the \"heroic age\" of Antarctic exploration\n\nIt's going to take a monumental effort to locate the iconic ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.\n\nThis is the conclusion of scientists who tried and failed to find the Endurance, which sank in 3,000m of water in the Weddell Sea in 1915.\n\nThe team says the sea-ice in the area above the wreck site is nearly always thick and extensive.\n\nIt means most expeditions would struggle even to get close enough to begin a search.\n\nThe Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 did amazingly well, reaching the recognised wreck location and launching an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to survey the ocean floor.\n\nBut this robot broke communications with the expedition research vessel, SA Agulhas II, some 20 hours into its mapping operation and was never seen again.\n\nWhat it might have detected, we'll never know. Encroaching sea-ice forced the team to abandon its AUV and to vacate the area.\n\nAn AUV was launched to look for Endurance, but it was lost under the sea-ice\n\nThe expedition scientists have now written up an assessment of the local conditions in this unforgiving sector of the Antarctic. They've also provided some advice for anyone else who might want to search for Shackleton's polar yacht.\n\n\"To finally locate the Endurance on the seafloor would require favourable sea-ice conditions in the central western Weddell Sea, including the presence of wide (open water) leads,\" said Dr Christine Batchelor from the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge, UK.\n\n\"In addition, a two-ship operation may be needed to break ice and successfully launch and recover an autonomous underwater vehicle,\" she told BBC News.\n\nShackleton's story is one of the most extraordinary tales from the \"heroic age\" of Antarctic exploration.\n\nTrapped in sea-ice for over 10 months, his Endurance ship drifted around the Weddell Sea until ultimately it was crushed by the floes and dropped to the deep. How Shackleton and his men then made their escape on foot and in lifeboats is the stuff of legend.\n\nWhere the Endurance went down is well known; the ship's captain Frank Worsley logged the position using a sextant and a theodolite. But reaching this part of the Weddell Sea, just east of the Larsen ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, is extremely difficult, even for modern ice-breakers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Julian Dowdeswell: \"Sea-ice conditions probably haven't changed much since Shackleton's day\"\n\nThe 2019 team used satellite data to appraise the concentration of sea-ice at the wreck site from 2002 to the present. The group shows that in 14 of the 18 years assessed, the conditions were \"bad\". The nearest open water could be 200km or more away.\n\nOne of the \"good\" years was 2002, which allowed the German research vessel Polarstern to make a very close pass and conduct some limited mapping (echosounding) of the seafloor. The resolution was never going to be sharp enough to detect the Endurance but it has yielded interesting insights into the nature of the ocean bed - with encouraging implications for the likely state of the wreck.\n\nEndurance is probably lying on flat terrain that has been undisturbed either by erosion or by underwater landslides. Sediment deposition is also expected to be low, at a rate of less than 1mm a year.\n\n\"So, it's not going to be covered by sediment,\" said Prof Julian Dowdeswell, the director of the SPRI.\n\n\"It's not going to be damaged by something coming in from the side. And at 3,000m, it's way below the maximum depth of any iceberg keel. Glaciologically and geophysically - Endurance should be unharmed.\"\n\nThis all augurs well for future attempts to find what is among the most famous of all wrecks.\n\nSA Agulhas II: A future search is going to need more than one large polar research vessel\n\nIt's certainly right at the top of the list of targets for David Mearns, whose expertise in finding lost ships is world-renowned.\n\nHe commented: \"It is a shame the 2019 search failed in their attempt to locate Endurance's wreck as they had the best ice conditions seen in the past 17 years.\n\n\"This proves my long-held contention that a 'single-ship' expedition is too risky, even with good ice conditions, and that the key to finding Endurance lies in a different approach,\" he told BBC News.\n\nProf Dowdeswell is pessimistic that anyone would fund a mission with the sole objective of locating the Endurance.\n\nMost future efforts, he believes, will be \"add-ons\" to more broader scientific expeditions to the region - as was the case with his venture last year which had the primary objective of studying the melting and retreat of the Larsen ice shelves.\n\n\"Yes, you want AUVs and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to search for, and to photograph, the wreck, but it's a great opportunity to use those state-of-the-art vehicles in order to do science; and there is no doubt that we wouldn't have done as much science without those pieces of kit on board, and we wouldn't have had that equipment on board unless we were looking for Shackleton's Endurance. It was a balance between exploration and science,\" he said.\n\nProf Dowdeswell and colleagues on the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 have published their report in the journal Antarctic Science.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "A rapper from London who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been arrested in Spain.\n\nAbdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 28, who performed as Lyricist Jinn, travelled to the Middle East in 2013.\n\nSpanish National Police posted a video of the arrest operation, branding Abdel Bary \"one of Europe's most wanted Daesh foreign terrorist fighters.\"\n\nHe was detained alongside two other men found in a rented apartment in Almeria, police said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll three men had adapted themselves to the COVID-19 emergency in Spain, after entering the country illegally, according to police there.\n\nThe men rarely went out and wore face masks when they did, officers added.\n\nIn 2014, Abdel Bary's father pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to kill, in the 1998 Al Qaeda bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.\n\nIn a statement, Spanish National Police said the detainee had spent several years in the Syrian-Iraqi conflict zone.\n\nThe other arrested men had yet to be identified, police said.", "Aberdaron, Gwynedd, a county with more second homes than any other in Wales\n\nSenior doctors from across Wales have written to the first minister calling on him to make using second homes illegal during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn the letter, the 15 clinicians warn non-essential travel to the homes is \"highly likely\" to increase the presence of coronavirus in rural areas.\n\nMark Drakeford has said ministers are considering strengthening regulations on people travelling to second homes.\n\nOn Monday, he said more details will be announced by the end of the week.\n\nAll non-essential travel, including to second homes, is illegal under the current rules.\n\nBut the doctors' letter says second homes \"facilitate non-essential movement into rural areas\" placing \"additional pressures on local health and emergency services\".\n\nIt express concern that existing rules are \"insufficient\" in protecting rural Wales against the dangers posed by tourism and holiday home use in the current public health emergency\n\nThe clinicians, who all lead health clusters in different parts of Wales, call on Mr Drakeford to do three things:\n\nThe doctors say that without such action \"we face a very real possibility of a second peak in areas such as north and west Wales\" at the worst moment, when staff resilience is low and global supplies of personal protective equipment is depleted.\n\n\"We appreciate the economic value of tourism, but this cannot be at the cost of the health of our rural population.\n\n\"We hope that the Welsh Government will show the value of devolution by being prepared to act in a swift, innovative, agile and decisive manner to safeguard the people of Wales.\"\n\n\"Let history show that the government of Wales acted when it mattered the most.\"\n\nMark Drakeford has said tougher regulations are being considered\n\nArfon assembly member Sian Gwenllian, who speaks for Plaid Cymru on local government, called on ministers to \"listen to the clinicians and act quickly to protect local communities in Wales\".\n\n\"For weeks we have been calling for tougher measures to stop the few irresponsible individuals who have ignored travelling rules,\" she said.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford told the assembly on Wednesday his government receives weekly reports from chief constables across Wales on the enforcement of regulations.\n\n\"Let me be clear again, travelling to a second home is not an essential journey and police in Wales are and will stop people attempting to do so,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, one of the GPs who signed the letter, Dr Eilir Hughes, told BBC Wales: \"As we understand it, second residence use isn't specifically prohibited and the police are finding enforcement is difficult particularly once tourists have arrived at their second home.\n\n\"This must be strengthened.\"", "The UK will have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year, the government's chief medical adviser has said.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said it was \"wholly unrealistic\" to expect life would suddenly return to normal soon.\n\nHe said \"in the long run\" the ideal way out would be via a \"highly effective vaccine\" or drugs to treat the disease.\n\nBut he warned that the chance of having those within the next calendar year was \"incredibly small\".\n\n\"This disease is not going to be eradicated, it is not going to disappear,\" he said, at the government's daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"So we have to accept that we are working with a disease that we are going to be with globally... for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nThe latest figures show a further 759 people have died with the virus in UK hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 18,100.\n\nProf Whitty said the public should not expect the number of coronavirus-related deaths to \"fall away\" suddenly after the peak.\n\n\"In the long run, the exit from this is going to be one of two things, ideally,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine, and there are a variety of ways they can be deployed... or highly effective drugs so that people stop dying of this disease even if they catch it, or which can prevent this disease in vulnerable people.\"\n\nProf Whitty warned there were multiple different ways in which the coronavirus epidemic would result in deaths or ill health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty on easing restrictions: \"It's going to take a long time\"\n\nAs well as those dying from Covid-19, he said others may die indirectly because the NHS has had to be \"reoriented towards Covid\", leading to fewer elective procedures and screening.\n\nHe also said if the interventions in place \"extend deprivation among people\" that would increase the risk to their long-term health.\n\n\"So what we have to do is think very seriously about this: what is the best balance of measures that gives us the best public health outcome?\"\n\nHe said there was a \"proper trade-off\" which ministers would have to consider.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser and other experts have often said the only secure long term route out of the coronavirus epidemic is the discovery of either a vaccine or effective drugs.\n\nSo Prof Whitty's latest comments are not a total surprise, however they throw cold water on any idea that lockdown restrictions will be fully lifted in the summer or even the autumn.\n\nA vaccine and drugs are unlikely to materialise until next year and until then some form of social distancing will be required, according to Prof Whitty.\n\nBut that certainly doesn't mean all the current restrictions remain in place until then.\n\nSchools, some businesses and public transport might well be reopened in the not too distant future. Pubs and restaurants, under this scenario, will probably be nearer the bottom of the list.\n\nProf Whitty of course is an adviser and it's up to the politicians to decide. They will have to weigh up the impact on the economy and society but also, as they often say, be guided by the science.\n\nAlso speaking at the briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said easing social distancing measures too soon would risk a second spike of coronavirus cases.\n\nHe said this could trigger a second lockdown that would \"prolong the economic pain\" across the country.\n\nMr Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, acknowledged the mental, physical and economic strain social distancing measures were having on people throughout the UK, but said they \"must remain in place for the time being\".\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the defence staff, also joined Wednesday's press conference and described the military response to coronavirus as the \"single greatest logistical feat\" of his 40 years of service.\n\nGen Carter said the military has worked in support of healthcare workers on the front line, and has been involved with planning and testing - along with helping the Foreign Office with repatriation efforts.\n\nHe added that the military was also preparing mobile pop-up testing centres in a bid to roll-out more Covid-19 testing.\n\nEarlier, the government insisted it would meet its target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April - an increase of 82,000 on Monday's levels.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, who was making his debut in Prime Minister's Questions as Labour leader, said the UK had been \"very slow and way behind other European countries\" on testing.\n\nHe asked how it was possible to go from 18,000 tests a day to 100,000 in just eight days.\n\nMr Raab said the UK currently had testing capacity of 40,000 a day and, with new laboratories coming on stream, the government would reach its target.", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "The UK will have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year, the government's chief medical adviser has said.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Prof Chris Whitty described the chances of an available vaccine or drugs to treat coronavirus in the next calendar year as \"incredibly small\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer says \"now is the time\" for the men's and women's governing bodies to merge while tennis is in limbo because of the coronavirus.\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam champion floated the idea in a series of Twitter posts.\n\nHe said a merger of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and the men's Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) \"probably should have happened\".\n\n\"We can come out of this with two weakened bodies or one stronger body,\" Federer said.\n\nLater on Wednesday ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi appeared to back the idea saying: \"Our sport has a big opportunity if we can come together in the spirit of collaboration and unity.\n\n\"Recent cooperation between governing bodies has only strengthened my belief that a unified sport is the surest way to maximise our potential and to deliver an optimal experience for fans on site, on television and online. To that end, I welcome the views of our players.\"\n\nWTA chairman and chief executive Steve Simon said the organisation had been \"regular contact with the ATP\" during the coronavirus pandemic, adding: \"I have long stated that we are at our best as a sport when we can work together, and the recent weeks have highlighted that fact.\n\n\"We look forward to continuing discussions on how we can effectively work together to deliver the greatest value to our fans and to our many stakeholders.\"\n\nBBC Sport understands preliminary discussions have taken place between the two tours about greater collaboration in certain areas.\n\nWhile many high-profile tennis players have backed Federer's plan, Australia's Nick Kyrgios tweeted on Thursday to say: \"We shouldn't merge.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the world number 40 had posted: \"Did anyone ask the majority of the ATP what they think about merging with the WTA and how it is good for us?\"\n\nIn a series of social media posts on Wednesday, Federer added: \"I am not talking about merging competition on the court but merging the two governing bodies that oversee the men's and women's professional tours.\n\n\"It's too confusing for the fans when there are different ranking systems, different logos, different websites, different tournament categories.\"\n\nAmerican tennis legend Billie Jean King, one of the prime movers behind the founding of the WTA, said a merger \"has long been my vision for tennis\".\n\n\"The WTA on its own was always Plan B,\" added King. \"I'm glad we are on the same page. Let's make it happen.\"\n\nSpanish 19-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal added : \"It would be great to get out of this world crisis with the union of men's and women's tennis in only one organisation.\"\n\nReigning Wimbledon champion Simona Halep, two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, Argentine Diego Schwartzman and two-time Grand Slam champion Garbine Muguruza are among the other high-profile tennis players to voice their agreement on social media.\n\nAll tennis has been abandoned until at least 13 July, with Wimbledon cancelling its grass court tournament for the first time since World War Two because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt followed the postponement of the French Open, which was due to begin in May but has been rescheduled to take place in Paris from 20 September to 4 October.\n\nWith all sports facing up to an alarming financial future, one strengthened and unified governing body certainly has a ring of appeal.\n\nThere would also be marketing and scheduling advantages.\n\nThey wouldn't need to change the net to change the logo between matches at combined events, for example. And maybe all televised tennis would be found in the same place, and no longer require several subscriptions to access.\n\nWomen could gain financially as most of their standalone events have lower prize funds, but how would men react to the potential dilution of their income and a brand, which for the moment, is significantly stronger?\n\nHow likely is a merger to happen? Very unlikely in the short term, but not impossible in the longer term - although perhaps only in certain mutually beneficial areas.\n\nI understand preliminary discussions have taken place - which, in itself, is a sign of the sport's new found spirit of co-operation in the age of Covid-19.", "Rural groups say police guidance that people can drive to the countryside to exercise will cause \"untold anxieties\".\n\nThe National Rural Crime Network and other groups said it risks spreading the virus through unnecessary journeys.\n\nDriving to the countryside for a walk is \"likely to be reasonable\" if more time is spent walking than driving, the guidance says.\n\nPolice groups say the advice is not for the public - it is meant to help officers decide when to charge someone.\n\nThe letter challenging the guidance is signed by the National Rural Crime Network, the Countryside Alliance, the National Farmers' Union, and the Country Land and Business Association, who say they represent \"many millions of residents and thousands of businesses\" in England and Wales.\n\nThey said they receive \"hundreds of concerned messages a day\" about people flouting the laws restricting movements, and say there are serious concerns this guidance will \"encourage even more people to carry out unnecessarily long journeys\".\n\nThey have written to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland demanding a change to the pandemic advice.\n\n\"The key message needs to remain: stay home, save lives. Anything which complicates that message is unhelpful,\" the letter says.\n\nThe letter demands that the police guidelines are \"urgently reviewed\".\n\nThe guidance was collated by the National Police Chiefs' Council and the College of Policing, but was based on advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe College of Policing said the advice was for internal purposes - not for the public - and \"was designed to help officers remain consistent with criminal justice colleagues\" when deciding when to charge someone.\n\nIt follows complaints that officers were being heavy-handed in enforcing the law restricting people's movements during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nDerbyshire Police were criticised for filming walkers in the Peak District using a drone in an attempt to warn people away from visiting the countryside. Some people, such as former justice secretary David Gauke, said the walkers appeared to be observing social distancing measures.\n\nUnder the guidance, officers are advised that driving to the countryside for a walk is \"reasonable\" if \"far more time\" is spent walking than driving.\n\nIt also says that police should not intervene if people stop to rest or eat lunch while on a long walk, but short walks to sit on a park bench are not permitted.\n\nSome police forces have used checkpoints to stop motorists making non-essential trips to rural areas\n\nBut the rural groups say the advice needs to be strengthened or it will cause \"increased pressures on rural police forces and communities\".\n\nHuman rights group Liberty says the wide-ranging powers need careful scrutiny, however.\n\n\"Times of crisis can create the conditions for our rights to be swept away,\" says director Martha Spurrier.\n\n\"The government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic by giving police sweeping powers resulting in some heavy-handed policing. This needs to be urgently addressed.\"\n\nUpdate and Correction 22 April 2020: The College of Policing has since clarified that this guidance is for internal use and our article has been updated. An earlier version of the article incorrectly reported that the guidance was published in the week following the Easter bank holiday weekend and this has been amended to make clear that it was made available to police forces on Thursday 9 April.", "This is not an episode of Yes Minister, where the carefully crafted communications of top officials and ministers are fodder for jokes.\n\nBut there is now a rather mysterious situation in Whitehall over some of the decisions that were taken, or not taken, at the outset of this crisis, over what has emerged as one of the trickiest issues.\n\nYou may or may not remember that near the start of this pandemic, the government took a lot of heat over the decision not to take part in an EU-wide effort to pool efforts to purchase the equipment that would be vital for health services to deal with the crisis - including ventilators and personal protective equipment.\n\nFor context, the UK had been a member of the Joint Procurement Agreement deal since 2014.\n\nAs the coronavirus epidemic was starting to take hold, the UK had just departed the EU, but still had the ability during the transition period to take part in those kinds of deals - which may or may not be prove to be effective - as countries around the world were trying to find ways to source vital kit as demand was set to grow and grow.\n\nWhen it emerged that the UK was not taking part in the scheme, ministers and Downing Street offered explanations that the UK had not taken part because we were leaving the EU, and then that there had been a mix-up over EU emails being sent to the wrong address, even though UK officials had been part of some discussions with EU counterparts.\n\nCrucially, they were adamant there had not been a decision to keep out of the schemes for political reasons and, importantly, that the UK would not miss out in any case. (Here is Michael Gove talking about what happened at the end of last month).\n\nOn Tuesday, however, one of the country's most senior officials, Sir Simon McDonald, was quizzed on exactly what had happened by a group of MPs and told a very different tale.\n\nWith hardly any hesitation, he said - in direct contradiction to the government line - that there had been a \"political decision\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon McDonald spoke to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee by video link\n\nEyebrows in Westminster shot up immediately at someone in his position of authority in Whitehall taking such a different position.\n\nWithin hours he was, in turn, directly contradicted by the health secretary at Tuesday afternoon's Downing Street briefing, when Matt Hancock said there had been \"no political decision\".\n\nUnusual enough for a senior official and a senior minister to be giving such different pictures.\n\nThen, a couple of hours later, a letter emerged from Sir Simon saying that there had been a misunderstanding and he had been wrong (although it's worth noting he denied specifically that UK officials in Brussels had briefed ministers).\n\nIt might sound like splitting hairs, but that is different to saying that no such conversations ever took place.\n\nBear with me, though - that may not be the end of the affair.\n\nSources who were part of discussion at the government's emergency Cobra meetings around the time of the start of this crisis - and around the time of our departure from the EU - say there was a discussion involving Mr Hancock about the sensitivities of working with the EU.\n\nOne source said the health secretary had acknowledged the political delicacies of working with the EU in preparing for the crisis on a range of issues, and was urged to put the politics aside.\n\nOne minister present recalls the matter was discussed and, while there was no decision made during the conversations about preparations that could be made in conjunction with the EU, it was clear there was an \"added dilemma\" because of the unfolding politics of our departure from the bloc.\n\nSources close to the health secretary now strongly dispute the notion that there was any discussion of the specific procurement schemes at Cobra at that stage, and stress that ideology has never stood in the way of sourcing the equipment that's needed.\n\nIn any case, the EU schemes are yet to deliver supplies of either ventilators or PPE, so the question of why the UK didn't take part is perhaps academic.\n\nIn addition, the UK has now signed up to a procurement round in the hope of finding therapeutic treatment.\n\nBut the confusion now is another reminder of the government's difficulties fixing the specific but vital issue of sourcing the kit that health workers need.\n\nIt's a question that is likely to come back time and again, as reports from staff on the ground in some areas paint a different picture to ministers' hopes of solving the problem.", "Despite the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the world mustn't forget the \"deeper environmental emergency\" facing the planet.\n\nThat's the view of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in remarks released to celebrate Earth Day.\n\nThe toll taken by the virus is both \"immediate and dreadful\", Mr Guterres says.\n\nBut the crisis is also a wake-up call, \"to do things right for the future,\" said the Secretary General.\n\nMr Guterres re-iterated his view that the coronavirus is the biggest challenge the world has faced since the Second World War.\n\nBut as the world commemorates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the planet's \"unfolding environmental crisis\" is an \"even deeper emergency\", he says.\n\n\"Climate disruption is approaching a point of no return.\n\n\"We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption.\"\n\nA long-term advocate of strong action to tackle global heating, Mr Guterres is now proposing six climate-related actions that should shape the recovery after the virus.\n\nThe world has to deliver new jobs and businesses through a \"clean, green transition\".\n\nTaxpayers' money, when it is used, \"needs to be tied to achieving green jobs and sustainable growth\".\n\nMoney must be used to make people and societies more resilient to climate change, he says.\n\n\"Public funds should be used to invest in the future not the past.\"\n\nFossil fuel subsidies from governments is a theme that Mr Guterres has highlighted many times. These must end he says, and polluters must pay for their pollution.\n\nThe world will need to work together, says the Secretary General, and climate risks will need to be factored into the financial system and be at the heart of all public policy.\n\nThe drought hitting central Chile is making the problems of coping with Covid-19 worse\n\nThe links between climate change and the coronavirus have also been highlighted by many observers and experts in the field.\n\n\"While the pandemic will lead to a temporary dip in global greenhouse gas emissions, this must not distract from the urgent need for rapid fundamental changes in infrastructure, energy, land use and industrial systems to set us on a path to net zero emissions globally by 2050 at the latest,\" said Andrew Norton, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).\n\n\"Land use change and deforestation are primary global drivers of biodiversity destruction. They heighten the risk of further pandemics by bringing humans into contact with new threats such as the coronavirus. Every species lost is an irreversible event that decreases the resilience of natural and human systems on a permanent basis.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, which was first established on April 22 1970, many researchers are keen to highlight how the threats to the planet have grown over time.\n\n\"The Covid-19 pandemic is a reminder that our existence on Earth is fragile,\" said Dr Karen O'Neill, from Rutgers University in the US.\n\n\"Environmentalism since that first Earth Day has expanded to recognise links between human health and ecosystems.\"\n\n\"Degraded environments and pollution make us more likely to encounter novel viruses and to be more vulnerable to those viruses when they start to circulate.\"", "Elizabeth faces a recovery period of up to six months - but feels she has been given a second chance\n\nElizabeth, 49, knows she is lucky to be alive. After falling seriously ill with Covid-19, she was admitted to hospital earlier this month. This is her story, which she chose to tell partly to thank the hospital staff who treated her.\n\nThe first hint I had that something wasn't right was on a Friday.\n\nI felt more tired than normal and by the time I went to bed I was exhausted. That was a particularly tough weekend.\n\nOn the Monday, I started getting pains in my legs, which became excruciating. I thought it was a trapped nerve and took some paracetamol but the doctors later told me the virus had gone directly into my muscles. I had a cough but it wasn't persistent, which people think is always the sign. I was bed-bound for over a week but then once I did get out - to the local petrol station to get some provisions - that was when it hit me.\n\nI got back home feeling freezing cold and shivering. At one point I had four hot water bottles on the sofa and two blankets and I just could not get warm.\n\nIt felt like my body was on fire, and I was getting splitting headaches. I couldn't eat anything, I was vomiting and absolutely wringing wet with sweat, and then my breathing started to get more difficult.\n\nI'm asthmatic and that really worried me, but I still thought I could ride this out at home. Within a few more days I was slipping in and out of consciousness and I have vague recollections of my 15-year-old son telling me he'd called 111 [the NHS non-emergency helpline] for me. The paramedics arrived and I remember hearing one radio the ambulance driver outside saying: \"She's very poorly, we need to bring her in.\" He put an oxygen mask on me and carried me out to the vehicle.\n\nOne of my kids had called my mother, June, and she was there watching. That was one of the hardest things: seeing the look of helplessness on her face. But she couldn't come close because she has a heart condition and is at high risk if she catches the virus.\n\nWhen we arrived at hospital, we were in a queue of ambulances just waiting to off-load patients at A&E. I was lying there for about three hours until it was our turn. They put me in a wheelchair and I remember them saying they had no cubicles, they were full to capacity.\n\nI sat there with my eyes closed listening to everything - people rushing around, phones ringing, general commotion.\n\nThe nurse said: \"I have to swab you for Covid-19.\" He stuck the swab stick so far down the back of my throat that I was retching, and then just as I was recovering, he said: \"Now I have to do it up your nostrils.\" That was followed by a raft of blood tests and a chest X-Ray.\n\nI felt pummelled. All I could think was \"What the hell's going on?\" I felt like passing out. I remember another nurse coming over and telling me: \"Just to let you know, your X-Ray results have come back - you've got pneumonia in the lungs and you'll have to be on oxygen 24/7.\"\n\nAt one point, I felt the most almighty pain in my chest, like I was being compressed with slabs of concrete. They told me it was the pneumonia attacking my lungs and they gave me a shot of morphine. That was followed by terrible stabbing pains in my stomach, as bad as labour contractions, and I cried out: \"I can't take this anymore! I can't carry on!\" By the time the pains subsided, I was almost delirious.\n\nThere were only four beds in my bay, and everyone in there had tested positive for Covid-19 and had an underlying health issue. Two other women already in there were diabetic, and a third woman was brought in opposite me after a couple of days.\n\nI don't remember much of the first few days, just nurses coming in and out all the time, and cleaners coming in to disinfect everything. Most of the noise was from me ringing the bell and gasping for drinks of water. I was so weak it's all I could manage to say, that and \"commode\". I was watching the nurses - they were all working a minimum of 12-hour shifts. You could just see they were absolutely exhausted.\n\nOne night, I saw a man in what was meant to be our all-female ward. I rang the bell and the nurse came and explained he was the son of the woman in the bed opposite me and that she was an \"end-of-life\" patient. I felt dreadfully sad for them but at the same time was thinking: \"So I've got somebody who's about six feet from me who's basically waiting to die and I'm going to hear it.\" They had the curtains pulled round our beds so we did have a modicum of privacy.\n\nThat was when I started hallucinating. I was getting flashbacks of conversations I'd had in my life and people I'd met. At one point I thought: \"Am I alive or dead? Do these flashbacks mean I'm transitioning to death? Is this what people mean when they talk about your life passing before you when you die?\" And then I'm saying: \"No, I don't think actually I am dead, because there's no white light and no angels and nobody calling me.\"\n\nThen all of a sudden - it was the early hours - I heard a male nurse outside the door say: \"She's gone.\" The poor woman opposite me had died.\n\nI waited for them to come in and remove her body, but nothing happened. That lady's body was there for what seemed like hours before they eventually came in. They were cleaning it and then they're wrapping it in plastic, like packaging. Then I heard them put her in a body bag, zip it up and say: \"On the count of three… one… two… three.\"\n\nThe noise of that body coming into contact with a metal trolley - that's a sound you don't forget.\n\nSomeone started cleaning where the woman had been and sprayed lemon scent to try to freshen up the smell. By daytime I was just looking at an empty bed. The day before, I'd been looking at somebody and now the bed was empty. That thought really affected me.\n\nI started watching the woman in the bed diagonal to me. She slipped into a coma, and I watched her daughter come and say desperately: \"Mum, it's me! Mum, it's me!\", and it was pitiful because the woman was already \"gone\". It sounds awful but I was waiting for her for two nights to actually die, which was very distressing. The woman next to me was getting better and she commented that we were in a bay where 50% had died and 50% had lived and that we were on the lucky side of the room.\n\nI had fought to stay alive. After being almost ready to give up at the start, I had told myself: \"No, I've got to carry on, I'm not going yet. I'm 49, I'm not ready to die, not just for me but for my kids and my family and friends.\" My sister, Lorraine, and my brother, Richard, had texted me constantly with love and support, and that gave me the will to fight it.\n\nIt was 8 April and I remember seeing the full moon and thinking to myself that this was the start of a new lunar cycle and I'm going to take this as a sign I'm on the road to recovery.\n\nUnfortunately the comatose woman died after two days and again I heard the same process. The plastic, the zipping, the trolley and the cleaning.\n\nWhat saved my life perhaps was one male nurse who said to me: \"If the doctors say you're medically fit to go home - go! Don't make the mistake of staying in hospital because you feel a bit weak. Believe me, I've seen it on this ward - every patient who's been told by doctors 'you can go home' and have argued saying they don't feel 100% and just want one more night in hospital - every one of them has contracted a secondary illness, because this is a high-risk Covid ward and they've all died.\"\n\nThat same day, they tested my blood oxygen saturation levels and I scraped by. The doctor said: \"You've just made it. I'm happy to discharge you\". I was so excited - I was going home.\n\nIt was freezing outside. I only had a hospital gown and flip flops on, but I could feel the air on my face and I was elated. I don't know the name of the female ambulance driver but she was an angel - she had started her shift at 06:00, and she was picking me up at 00:20 - she'd done an 18-hour day.\n\nThis is what these people are doing. It's not just the nurses and doctors. It's the people who are driving the ambulances. It's the paramedic crews. It's the woman at the desk doing the admin. It's the man coming in cleaning up after a dead body. It's the porter taking it down to the morgue.\n\nEvery single person is playing their part. I have written to the ambulance service and the hospital to thank them for their incredible care and dedication.\n\nI'm bed-bound for the next few weeks and the doctors said it could take three to six months to get over the pneumonia. Since leaving hospital, my mother has been my lifeline, leaving me food parcels on my doorstep.\n\nI touched death and I'm very lucky to be alive. What I'm now looking forward to is appreciating nature. You realise material things don't matter. When I get outside I want to breathe the air, look at birds and enjoy the natural beauty of the world.\n\nI've been given a second chance.\n• None The Covid-19 patient who married hours before dying", "This is the moment a top police officer sheds a tear over nurses' support during his battle with Covid-19.\n\nMedical staff stood to applaud Ch Supt Phil Dolby's departure from hospital after a 24-day stay.\n\nThe West Midlands Police officer spent two weeks in intensive care and needed the support of a ventilator.", "Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asks his first question on his return to the backbenches.\n\nAfter paying tribute to keyworkers \"doing such an incredible job\" and recognising an \"amazing moment in this country's history\" as a result, he references warnings from the World Health Organisation about the virus.\n\nHe quotes the body's director general, who said the way to tackle coronavirus was to \"test, test, test\", Mr Corbyn adds: \"We didn't do that.\"\n\nMr Corbyn says the issue of testing had been raised in the Commons in January and February, and in a meeting he was included in last month, while still Labour leader.\n\n\"We are still no way near the level necessary,\" he says. \"Can he assure us there is going to be a really rapid increase in the level of testing and the availability of testing to get on top of this dreadful virus?\"\n\nMatt Hancock dismisses the question, saying the development of testing \"has been at pace throughout... contrary to the story told by the right honourable gentleman\".\n\nHe says the government has had its \"foot on the gas all the way through because it is incredibly important\".", "Manorfield Primary staff are also supporting the children of key workers\n\nOnly a tiny fraction of vulnerable children in England are taking up the emergency school places kept open for them, official figures show.\n\nThis has prompted concerns \"at risk\" children are facing increased danger in the lockdown, while schools and teachers struggle to get hold of them.\n\nNew data shows only a maximum of 5% of the most needy children have been at school during the Coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner says social workers should be \"knocking on doors\".\n\nThe Department for Education data shows just 29,000 so-called vulnerable children attended school in the week before the Easter holidays.\n\nThis includes a group of children with greater levels of special educational needs - but many of this larger group may be staying at home with their families for a range of legitimate reasons.\n\nHowever, more than 723,000 children were known to children's social care services in 2019.\n\nThe figures were described as \"utterly shocking\" by the Liberal Democrats.\n\nBut children's minister Vicky Ford said children who were not in school were being monitored by social workers and supported in other ways.\n\nAnne Longfield England's Children's Commissioner told the BBC: \"What we now know is, what we've been hearing over the last few weeks, that the vast majority of vulnerable children in this country are not attending, despite the fact that schools are open.\n\n\"What that means is that they are at home, potentially with a cocktail of risks.\n\n\"They may be in homes with quite fragile environments, potentially domestic violence in the home - which we know is increasing, parents with drug and alcohol addictions or indeed severe mental health conditions.\n\n\"So often these children are quite invisible at home and not in the place which is best at keeping them safe - school.\"\n\nMs Longfield said referrals to social services had dropped by half, and she expressed concerns that bored, vulnerable teenagers could be leaving their homes and getting into situations where they would be exploited and groomed by criminals.\n\nShe called for a clearer message from government, adding that \"social workers need to be knocking on doors and everyone needs to be working tirelessly to get these vulnerable children into schools\".\n\nManorfield Primary School in Poplar, east London, has a high percentage of vulnerable children - 72 of the 736 children on its rolls are deemed to be 'at risk'.\n\nBut only a tiny small fraction of these are coming to the school, which has joined up with 10 local primaries to provide a hub for vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\nStaff have been phoning their most vulnerable families every other day to check how they are.\n\nHead teacher Paul Jackson said: \"I've had a senior teacher calling the families of children at risk.\n\n\"If they can't raise anyone, we trawl through the emails. If that doesn't work, we are carrying out home visits.\n\n\"We are trying every means to contact them, and working through the process to refer those we can't get hold of on to social services to see if they're safe.\"\n\nMr Jackson adds: \"When we are in normal operational times, we have concerns about children who go missing, children who may face sexual exploitation, children who are getting into criminality, as well as children who may not get enough to eat.\n\n\"These concerns are still here at this time, if anything they are exaggerated by the situation.\"\n\nManorfield Primary is also providing fun activities for the children of key workers\n\nThese are children of families where there is known to be domestic violence, substance abuse, parental sickness or disability, as well as poverty - which is closely associated with neglect.\n\nAnd if the children are not attending, it is very difficult for the school to know where they are and how they are.\n\nBecause of the high level of need, the school employs its own social worker, Nessa Young.\n\nShe says: \"It's hard because we are trying to support them but we are restricted by what we can do from afar.\n\n\"It's about making an extra phone call to see if there's anything we can do. But we can't see who may be standing next to the phone.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can but there have been a few sleepless nights,\" she says.\n\n\"There is always that nagging feeling: 'Is there something else I can do?' And: 'How can I do it with all these restrictions in place?'\"\n\nOn top of its concerns for children's safety, the school has mounted a massive effort to ensure its community has enough to eat, after numerous families got in touch to say they had run out of money.\n\nIts operation to deliver food parcels to 300 struggling families in east London resembles that of a humanitarian aid charity in a warzone.\n\nManorfield Primary is raising funds to keep the food parcels coming to needy families\n\nTeachers and school staff are bagging up fresh fruit, vegetables and other essentials, to deliver to needy families.\n\nThe school has been topping up the money it gets for free school meals to buy produce for families who find themselves incapacitated by the epidemic.\n\nIt has set up a fundraising campaign to keep this huge effort going, as the school feels what is being offered by the government is not enough for its needy families.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said his first priority was protecting the well-being of children and young people but particularly those vulnerable young people with social worker or special educational needs.\n\n\"Schools are open for them and we're working to make sure those who should attend do so.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man was seen on the balcony of a flat in Dock Head Road, Chatham\n\nArmed police swooped on a block of flats after a man was apparently seen firing weapons from a balcony.\n\nThe alleged shooter was seen outside a flat in Dock Head Road, Chatham, at about 08:35 BST, Kent Police said.\n\nA video posted on Twitter suggested he was seen firing shots and loud bangs could be heard.\n\nOfficers arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of firearms offences and found four suspected imitation firearms at the scene, the force said.\n\nWitness Sandra Pratt, who works at the nearby Dockside Retail Outlet, told BBC Radio Kent she had heard the sound of gunshots.\n\n\"I heard a lot of shouting and what seemed like gunshot. I looked to my left and there was a guy up on the balcony with a rifle and a pistol.\n\n\"So I quickly ran into the shop and we called in any customers wandering by [who had] not realised what was going on and rung the police.\"\n\nArmed officers are at the scene\n\nMs Pratt said the man was on a balcony of a flat on the top floor of the tower block, which she said had about 30 floors.\n\n\"He was carrying on for a good half-an-hour,\" she said.\n\n\"We were all in the front of the shop and you could see the pistol and a rifle and you could see the sparks coming off of it. He was just randomly shooting.\"\n\nIt is not known if anyone was injured.\n\nMs Pratt said people in other flats were looking out to see what was happening and then officers went up \"in all their gear\".\n\nAsked if she felt the public had been in danger, Ms Pratt said: \"Yes, exactly, that's why I ran into the shop terrified.\"\n\nKent Police said they were called to \"a disturbance at a flat\" and armed officers were sent to the scene after members of the public reported seeing a man with weapons.\n\nThe police helicopter was also deployed and patrols remain at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is facing fresh questions over a row concerning an EU scheme to source medical equipment to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nOfficials have insisted the UK did not receive an initial invitation in time because of communication problems.\n\nBut Brussels sources have told the BBC the UK was given ample opportunity to take part in the scheme.\n\nOn Tuesday, a senior civil servant retracted claims the UK had taken a \"political decision\" not to join.\n\nDowning Street has said the government would \"consider\" joining any future EU schemes to procure Personal Protection Equipment (PPE).\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman also said that the UK will participate in a joint EU scheme to procure therapeutic treatments that is \"soon to launch\".\n\nA European Commission official told the BBC it is consulting on whether to launch a joint procurement for therapeutic equipment but no decision has been taken about whether to proceed with it.\n\nLast month the government was criticised for not taking part in the EU plan to bulk buy medical equipment - including potentially life-saving ventilators, protective equipment and testing kit - that could be used to tackle the coronavirus.\n\nAt the time, Downing Street said the UK was making its own arrangements because it was no longer in the EU, although ministers denied claims that anti-EU sentiment had played a part in the decision.\n\nOpposition parties accused the government of putting Brexit before public health.\n\nDowning Street later issued a statement saying the UK had been invited to take part but officials did not see the email because of a \"communication confusion\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon McDonald spoke to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee by video link\n\nAsked on Tuesday why the decision was taken not to join the scheme, Sir Simon McDonald - who is permanent secretary at the Foreign Office - told the Foreign Affairs Committee that it was a deliberate move by ministers.\n\n\"We left the European Union on 31 January,\" he said.\n\nPushed further, he added: \"All I can say is that it is a matter of fact that we have not taken part. It was a political decision... and the decision is no.\"\n\nBut five hours later, Sir Simon retracted his comments after Mr Hancock disputed the suggestion.\n\n\"Due to a misunderstanding, I inadvertently and wrongly told the committee that ministers were briefed on the joint EU procurement scheme and took a political decision not to take part in it,\" he wrote.\n\n\"That is incorrect. Ministers were not briefed by our mission in Brussels about the scheme and a political decision was not taken on whether or not to participate.\"\n\nHe added that \"the facts of the situation are as previously set out\" and the UK missed the opportunity to take part \"owing to an initial communication problem\".\n\nHowever, sources present during Cobra meetings have told the BBC there were discussions about whether to work with the EU at the start of the pandemic.\n\nOne minister present said that while there was no decision made during the conversations, it was clear there was an \"added dilemma\" because of the unfolding politics of the UK's departure from the bloc.\n\nSources close to Health Secretary Matt Hancock strongly dispute there was any discussion about specific EU schemes.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street's daily Covid-19 press briefing on Tuesday, Mr Hancock said he had now signed-off on joining the EU scheme on an \"associate\" basis, but \"the impact on our ability to deliver PPE is zero\" .\n\n\"There is no impact at all because the scheme has not yet made anything available,\" he added.\n\nA European Commission official told the BBC that the UK had not joined any of the four EU procurement schemes on an \"associate\" basis, \"as the deadlines have well passed now and indeed the process is well under way\".\n\nMeanwhile, an RAF plane sent to Turkey to pick up a shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE) has arrived back at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, though it is not yet known exactly what supplies it contained.\n\nThe plane was originally expected to arrive in the UK on Sunday, reportedly bringing back 400,000 surgical gowns.\n\nAnd the UK now has 10,000 ventilators - 3,000 of which are not being used. From early May, 1,500 a week should be supplied by ventilator consortium.\n\nThe EU's Joint Procurement Agreement has four schemes.\n\nThe first two are for personal protective equipment, including face masks, gloves, and liquid resistant clothing. The third is for ventilators, and the fourth is for laboratory equipment, mainly testing kits.\n\nThe EU Commission has confirmed that the UK is not involved in any of them, and has not officially requested to be involved in any of them, despite being \"repeatedly invited\" by the EU to do so.\n\nThe first meeting to establish this joint procurement plan took place at the end of January, two days before the UK left the EU and entered the transition phase. Several other EU meetings on procurement took place, to which a UK representative was \"not always there\" according to EU officials.\n\nOn the 17 March, the procurement procedure was launched, and member states started a public tendering process for suppliers.\n\nThis scheme was international, so suppliers worldwide could take part. The selection process took five days, and the EU commission took five days to co-ordinate, having allowed the fast-tracking of procedures.\n\nThe EU Commission says they are now waiting for member states to put in their orders for the PPE and medical equipment they need. The first allocations will be in the \"coming days and weeks\".\n\nThe EU hasn't put a figure on the total bulk of purchases they've made yet, because \"some countries are still finding more suppliers\", but it's understood to be worth hundreds of millions of euros.\n\nThe EU says the UK can be part of a \"procurement programme in future\", as there are ongoing discussions about what else might be needed. There's now nothing formal for the UK to sign up to, at the moment.\n\nThe boat has been missed on the current programme.", "A group of 25 doctors have written to the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, because they are concerned about the UK's current advice on self-isolation for coronavirus.\n\nThe guidance says people should stay at home and avoid contact with others for seven days if they develop symptoms.\n\nAfter that, self-isolation can end - if they feel well and do not have a fever.\n\nBut World Health Organization advice says people should self-isolate for 14 days after symptoms have cleared.\n\nAnd now, Newcastle University public health expert Prof Allyson Pollock and 24 similarly concerned colleagues are asking to see evidence in support of the UK's stance.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says the recommendations are based on science and expert advice suggesting:\n\nThe UK guidance says a cough may persist for several weeks despite the coronavirus infection having cleared and does not mean self-isolation should be prolonged.\n\nAlthough, if symptoms worsen and especially if a person develops shortness of breath or a new fever, they should contact NHS 111.\n\nThe WHO recommendations provide a framework countries then adapt to suit their national circumstances, it adds.\n\nAn official said: \"The government's response to this virus and all clinical guidance is led by science and a world renowned team of clinicians, public health experts and scientists - including epidemiologists - working round the clock to keep us safe.\"\n\nBut Prof Pollock and her colleagues say there have been reports of a risk of infection beyond seven days - ranging from 10 to 24 days after symptoms begin.\n\n\"We are also concerned about the narrow spectrum of symptoms the UK is using as an indication for self-isolation,\" they write in their letter to Mr Hancock.\n\nThe UK says cough and fever are the key ones but other common ones may include:\n\n\"We are aware that other countries are using a broader range of symptoms for self-isolation,\" they add.", "Sir Keir Starmer asked his first PMQs question as Labour leader, asking First Secretary of State Dominic Raab about coronavirus testing rates.\n\nHe said the UK was “way behind” other European nations, and asked how the 100,000 daily tests pledged by the end of the month would be achieved.\n\nDominic Raab, standing in for Boris Johnson, said he had to “correct him” and the “capacity” was now 40,000 daily, double the figures quoted by the leader of the opposition.", "A barman from Swansea is serving his community in a different way after setting up a Facebook group as the coronavirus pandemic loomed.\n\nPatrick Mulder said he didn’t expect it to blossom into a support network manned by 185 volunteers throughout the Sketty area.\n\nThey not only deliver food and prescriptions but arrange memorable moments, including for one Swansea City supporter who is self-isolating with multiple sclerosis.\n\nMr Mulder said: “The father couldn’t visit him and they were both understandably distressed.\n\n“He told us that his son was a big Swansea City fan, and within hours the manager, Steve Cooper, rang him.\"\n\nOther deliveries have included musical instruments to help people pass the time at home, and a fridge for an NHS worker staying in a hotel to store their insulin medication in.\n\nMr Mulder set up the Sketty Community Outreach Group on 15 March, eight days before the lockdown started.\n\nOn 21 March, the newly-formed group had 3,500 leaflets printed at Geoff’s Print Shop, Tycoch, and then delivered them around the area.\n\n“That ignited the touch paper and the group has been growing steadily ever since,” said Mr Mulder.\n\nPart of its success, he said, was due to Swansea Council local area coordinators Tara Hughes and Ben Davies-Thompson, who have set up a “street champion” scheme to match people in need with their nearest volunteer.", "Millions across the world already rely heavily on food aid to survive\n\nThe world is at risk of widespread famines \"of biblical proportions\" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned.\n\nDavid Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), said urgent action was needed to avoid a catastrophe.\n\nA report estimates that the number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million.\n\nThose most at risk are in 10 countries affected by conflict, economic crisis and climate change, the WFP says.\n\nThe fourth annual Global Report on Food Crises highlights Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria and Haiti.\n\nIn South Sudan, 61% of the population was affected by food crisis last year, the report says.\n\nEven before the pandemic hit, parts of East Africa and South Asia were already facing severe food shortages caused by drought and the worst locust infestations for decades.\n\nAddressing the UN Security Council during a video conference, Mr Beasley said the world had to \"act wisely and act fast\".\n\n\"We could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months,\" he said. \"The truth is we do not have time on our side.\"\n\nIn a call to action, he added: \"I do believe that with our expertise and our partnerships, we can bring together the teams and the programmes necessary to make certain the Covid-19 pandemic does not become a human and food crisis catastrophe.\"\n\nThe WFP chief - who has just recovered from Covid-19 - began his Security Council briefing by saying \"excuse me for speaking bluntly.\" There is no blunting what could happen in a world facing - even before this global health crisis - what David Beasley called the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War.\n\nIn an interview, he also expressed fear that 30 million people, and possibly more, could die in a matter of months if the UN does not secure more funding and food. But this is also a world where donors are reeling from the steep financial cost of their own Covid-19 crises.\n\nMr Beasley says no-one told him they would turn their back on the most vulnerable. But he admitted they would need to take stock at home first. He warned that chaos elsewhere could circle back around the world.\n\nHis blunt warning: \"One way or another, the world will pay for this.\" Better to work together, he says, on the basis of facts, not fear.\n\nThe WFP's senior economist, Arif Husain, said the economic impact of the pandemic was potentially catastrophic for millions \"who are already hanging by a thread\".\n\n\"It is a hammer blow for millions more who can only eat if they earn a wage,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Lockdowns and global economic recession have already decimated their nest eggs. It only takes one more shock - like Covid-19 - to push them over the edge. We must collectively act now to mitigate the impact of this global catastrophe.\"\n\nEarlier this month, this WFP said it was set to halve aid to parts of war-torn Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels due to a funding crisis.\n\nIt said some donors had stopped their aid over concerns that deliveries were being obstructed by Houthi forces.\n\nThe WFP feeds more than 12 million Yemenis a month, 80% of whom are in areas controlled by Houthi forces.\n\nYemen confirmed its first case of Covid-19 earlier this month, with aid agencies warning that the disease could quickly overwhelm the country's weakened health systems.", "Trump says recent comments from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr Robert Redfield that a second Covid-19 wave could be even worse were \"inaccurate\".\n\n\"He was totally misquoted,\" Trump says. \"His whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot.\"\n\nHe says he noted that next autumn \"could be more difficult, more complicated\" if influenza and Covid-19 were circulating at the same time.\n\n\"I think it's really important to emphasise what I didn't say,\" Redfield says.\n\n\"I didn't say this was going to be worse, I said it was going to be more difficult and potentially complicated.\n\n\"The issue that I was talking about being more difficult is we're going to have two viruses circulating at the same time.\"\n\nRedfield says he was accurately quoted in the Washington Post, but takes issue with the headline, “CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating”.\n\nHere's what Redfield is quoted as saying by the Post: “There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through.\n\n\"We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.”", "A test version of the app told users deemed to be at risk to go home by the most direct route\n\nThe NHS is testing its forthcoming Covid-19 contact-tracing app at a Royal Air Force base in North Yorkshire.\n\nIt works by using Bluetooth signals to log when smartphone owners are close to each other - so if someone develops Covid-19 symptoms, an alert can be sent to other users they may have infected.\n\nIn its current state, it tells users either: \"You're OK now,\" or: \"You need to isolate yourself and stay at home.\"\n\nThe health secretary for England said the trials \"are going well\".\n\n\"The more people who sign up for this new app when it goes live, the better informed our response will be and the better we can therefore protect the NHS,\" Matt Hancock told the House of Commons.\n\nHe added the software would be used in conjunction with medical tests and manual contact tracing by humans.\n\nBut some experts say the government may be putting too much faith in technology.\n\n\"We don't need fancy expensive apps where people are going to be exposed to issues of data privacy,\" Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science director Prof Allyson Pollock told BBC News.\n\n\"We should be following... a low-tech model, using people and telephone [interviews].\n\n\"Clinical observation, we found in China and Singapore and Korea, is actually more efficient and gives many more positives.\"\n\nThe NHS hopes to release the app by mid-May, although a final decision on timing will be taken by the government.\n\nRAF Leeming was chosen to host the trial of an early \"alpha\" version of the software because it has past experience of testing apps and other new processes on behalf of the military.\n\nIt set up a scenario designed to simulate people's experience of going shopping, using Bluetooth LE (low energy) signals to log when two phones were near to each other.\n\nNHSX tested the app at an RAF base in the north of England\n\nOne of these phones would then be used to record the fact the user had become \"infected\", in the experiment, causing a cascade of warnings to be sent to other handsets that had earlier been in range.\n\n\"We still have to apply the rules [on] social distancing as we carry it out,\" said Gp Capt Blythe Crawford.\n\n\"So therefore we've set up a scenario whereby people will leave their phones on a table simulating that it's in a shopping arcade, for example, whilst other people might walk past looking in the shop window and their phone happens to pick up it's in proximity to another one.\"\n\nThe on-screen warning for those deemed to be at risk says: \"If you're on public transport, go home by the most direct route [and] stay at least 2m [6.6ft] away from people if you can... find a room where you can close the door [and] avoid touching people, surfaces and objects.\"\n\nThere are plans for a more realistic follow-up \"beta test\" at a later date - possibly in a remote community, where its use would be voluntary - by which time the text will have been changed.\n\nThe tool has been developed by the health service's digital innovation unit, NHSX.\n\nThe prototype app tells users their identity has been anonymised\n\nIt has said the alerts will be sent \"anonymously\", so users will not be told who triggered a warning.\n\nNHSX has also promised to publish its key security and privacy designs as well as the app's source code, so experts in the field can help ensure it is \"world class\".\n\nThe division is working with Apple and Google on the project but has yet to confirm whether it will adopt their protocols.\n\nThe two companies are pressing developers to adopt a \"decentralised approach\", whereby it would be impossible for either specific users or those they had come into contact with to be identified by the authorities or any other external party.\n\nIn any case, NHSX believes its system already prevents it from being able to identify users until they request a swab test.\n\nNHSX also believes it has found a way to ensure its software continues to work in the background on iOS devices.\n\nIf true, this would avoid a problem that has limited take-up of a similar app in Singapore.\n\nEpidemiologists have said 80% of smartphone owners need to use the app if it is to suppress, rather than just slow, the spread of the virus after lockdown measures are relaxed.\n\nBut as about 12% of smartphones in active use in the UK do not support the Bluetooth LE standard required, the target figure will actually be higher.\n\nAnd the government is examining ways to increase involvement.\n\nThe Comarch LifeWristband is currently being trialled in Sofia as a means to track people placed into home quarantine\n\nOne option under consideration is to provide low-cost wearable Bluetooth devices to those without a compatible handset.\n\nA similar scheme is already being trialled in Bulgaria to keep track of people quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Coronavirus is likely to result in a high mortality rate in care homes, England's chief medical officer has said.\n\nChris Whitty said it was hard to prevent deaths in care homes \"sadly because this is a very vulnerable group\".\n\nCurrent statistics were likely to be an \"underestimate\", he added.\n\nIt came as new figures suggested deaths have increased significantly in recent days.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday 1,000 people died in care homes in the week to 10 April.\n\nBut now the health regulator said the five days after that could have seen another 1,000 deaths.\n\nAsked about the figures at the daily Downing Street press conference, Mr Whitty said: \"In care homes, what we have is a large number of people of the most vulnerable age for this virus.\"\n\nWhen it was possible to \"look back over this epidemic\", he added, \"I'm sure we will see a high mortality rate in care homes sadly because this is a very vulnerable group and people are coming in and out of care homes and that cannot, to some extent, be prevented.\"\n\nThe Department of Health has said it also feared a \"significant rise\" in deaths not related to coronavirus among residents.\n\nThe ONS data released on Tuesday showed there had been 1,043 people linked to Covid 19 in England and Wales - with nearly 1,000 of those in English care homes.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates care homes in England, has now produced preliminary data for April 11-15, they suggest there were 1,000 further deaths linked to Covid-19.\n\nThey also say there may be a significant increase in non-Covid deaths - in line with what the ONS official statistics suggest.\n\nThose figures are expected to be published on April 28, once they have been verified.\n\nChristine Mullin's family are asking whether she was well enough protected\n\nChristine Mullin contracted coronavirus in a care home but was subsequently moved to hospital, where she died.\n\nThe 78-year old's death will therefore be reflected in NHS figures.\n\nHer daughter Charlotte said she had \"the start of dementia,\" but was not \"severely disabled\".\n\nShe told the BBC the elderly were identified \"from the beginning\" as a vulnerable group and should have been an \"immediate\" priority in efforts to stop the virus spreading.\n\nFor her family - like many others - the central question is whether vulnerable residents have been well enough protected.\n\nThe notifications from care providers may include some people who died in hospital. As these deaths are already reflected in NHS figures, the numbers collected by the CQC have to be adjusted and checked.\n\nCare providers have always had to notify the CQC when a resident dies.\n\nBut the forms have now been adjusted to collect information on whether a death is linked to coronavirus.\n\nThe reporting mechanism is different from that used by hospitals and the data can take longer to pull together, because there are far more care homes than hospitals.\n\nThe death toll in UK hospitals has now risen in the last 24 hours by 759 to 18,100.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced that 15 social care workers had died in the pandemic.\n\nHe told MPs earlier: \"In the same way that we pay tribute to and we remember all of those NHS staff who have died, so too we do for those who serve our country and look after people in social care.\"\n\nThe daily death figures from UK hospitals have been one of the main statistics used by the government to track the progress of the pandemic.\n\nThe government has always been clear that it does not include people who die in care homes or in their own homes.\n\nBut Mr Hancock warned against comparing the different figures to make conclusions about the overall death toll, saying they were compiled on different time frames and needed \"rigorous analysis\" to ensure the comparison was accurate.\n\nDoubling in five days sounds terrifying, but that is the story of the epidemic.\n\nThe number of deaths announced for the UK as a whole was doubling every three days up to the week before Easter.\n\nAfter that, it slowed down to doubling every week before growth eventually stalled.\n\nSo this trend for care homes from a week ago is not very different to ones we have seen elsewhere.\n\nTheir new data is preliminary and we should be careful about comparing the first week of their data to ONS figures from the preceding week.\n\nBut the big issue has been about knowing what's happening in care homes now: has growth in deaths stalled there too or are they continuing to climb?\n\nThe other data sources we use don't have the answer. Those daily figures from DHSC mainly cover deaths in hospitals, so miss most care home deaths.\n\nThe complete figures based on death certificates that capture care homes take over a week to be collated and analysed.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission are notified of every death of a care home resident, so can give a fuller picture.\n\nBut when they are included in official figures, it will give us critical information about a group of people who are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as the government faces increasing pressure to address a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for care home workers, amid reports of staff, or their employers, having to pay inflated prices for masks and gowns.\n\nLabour former cabinet minister Lord Hain said: \"The government needs urgently to give billions more to care homes instead of leaving them so badly in the lurch during this crisis.\"\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told the BBC the CQC figures were \"alarming\" and accused the government of being \"very slow in responding\".\n\n\"We are now seeing what appears to be a huge number of deaths,\" he added, and he called on the government to \"get it's act together\".\n• None How big is the epidemic in care homes?", "The Manchester-based company has seen sales pick up again this month\n\nOnline fashion retailer Boohoo says it has found a new way of thriving in the coronavirus lockdown - by making people look good on video conference calls.\n\nThe firm said it had seen a rise in sales of smart tops, as people working from home needed to keep up appearances on camera in front of their colleagues.\n\nThe Manchester-based firm said demand for the items had contributed to a rise in sales during April.\n\nAnnouncing its latest financial results, Boohoo said it was seeing \"improved year-on-year growth of group sales during April\", although it declined to give figures.\n\nIn the year to the end of February, the group, which includes PrettyLittle Thing and other brands, made pre-tax profits of £92.2m, up 54% on the previous 12 months.\n\nTrading in March had been \"mixed\" because of the coronavirus pandemic, but performance had improved in more recent weeks, it said.\n\nBoohoo shares rose 5.5% in morning trading on the news.\n\nA Boohoo spokesperson told the BBC: \"People aren't really buying going-out items, but they are buying homewear - hoodies, joggers, tracksuit bottoms.\n\n\"Sales of tops have gone up in particular, with everyone wanting to look smart on Zoom calls.\"\n\nNot all of Boohoo's products have been as well received. On Monday, the firm apologised after its range of fashion face masks caused an outcry.\n\nThe £5 masks came with messages such as \"Eat, sleep, isolate, repeat\" or \"If you can read this, you are too close\".\n\nBoohoo said it was \"very sorry for any upset\" and removed the masks from sale. It insisted they were not designed for \"protection\".", "Thanks for joining us for our online updates today.\n\nThe coronavirus coverage continues across the BBC News website and app, on social media, and across BBC radio and TV channels.\n\nWe will be back again tomorrow. In the meantime, stay safe and have a good evening.", "Ryan Hoyle said he was \"shaking\" when he got an email informing him he had become a multi-millionaire\n\nA man who scooped a £58m lottery win celebrated by having a beer with his brothers - at a 2m (6ft 6in) distance.\n\nRyan Hoyle, 38, said he was \"shaking\" when he got an email informing him he had become a multi-millionaire in Friday's EuroMillions draw.\n\nHe drove to his parents' house, passing his phone through the window for them to \"double-check\" his numbers.\n\nAfter confirming the eight-figure bonanza, he enjoyed a drink in the sunshine with his siblings.\n\nMr Hoyle, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, said he first thought he had won £2.30 when he saw an email from the National Lottery on Saturday.\n\nWhen he read the message, he said it \"looked like a lot of numbers... I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing\".\n\nHe said he was \"shaking and really needed a second opinion so... drove round to mum and dad's house\".\n\n\"I kept a safe distance outside and passed the phone through the window for them to double-check for me.\"\n\n\"It was real - I had won £58m.\"\n\nMr Hoyle then celebrated while socially distancing with his brothers.\n\n\"We kept more than two metres apart. I needed to talk to them... and it really helped with the shock,\" he said.\n\nMr Hoyle, who works as a joiner, said he will finish off renovations on his brother's house despite the windfall.\n\nHe plans to buy himself a new car, swap his rented one-bedroom flat for a new home, treat himself to a Manchester United season ticket and take his daughter, aged 11, to Florida.\n\nBut he said his priority was to help his mother, father and brother \"retire this week\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of motorists have been caught speeding since lockdown measures began\n\nSpeeding motorists have been travelling at more than double the limit during lockdown, UK police have revealed.\n\nOne driver was recorded at 134mph in a 40mph limit in London, while another was clocked at 115mph on a 40mph road in Greater Manchester.\n\nA crash could put a \"huge strain\" on other blue light services, one force said, if it led to injury or staff being exposed to Covid-19 and forced into self-isolation.\n\nForces said the minority ignored rules.\n\nIt comes as Department for Transport data shows motor vehicle use in Great Britain has fallen by two thirds over the past month, particularly since the UK went into lockdown on 23 March.\n\nSupt Julie Ellison, from Greater Manchester Police (GMP)'s specialist operations team, said: \"My officers are working tirelessly to track down these offenders who are using the quieter roads as their own personal racetrack.\"\n\nPolice Scotland also said, over the Easter period between 10 and 14 April, 16 people were found committing drink or drug-driving offences.\n\n\"It is astonishing to see people behave so recklessly, particularly when we all need to be doing our bit to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives,\" said Supt Simon Bradshaw, from Police Scotland's road policing division.\n\nPolice forces are seeing a rise in speeding drivers because roads are quieter during lockdown\n\n\"The concern we currently have relates to those undertaking unnecessary travel. A serious road collision can result in around 20 emergency services staff attending the scene,\" Ch Insp Steve Lenney from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall roads policing unit said.\n\n\"If someone involved in the collision tests positive for Covid-19, then that is a substantial number of emergency services staff forced into self-isolation and unable to work, which puts a huge strain on all blue-light services, not just the NHS.\"\n\nForces reporting an increase in speeding offences also included Northumbria, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Merseyside.\n\nThe all-Wales road safety partnership, Go Safe, said it was \"seeing more vehicles exceeding the speed limit to a higher extent\" despite a drop of more than half in the volume of traffic.\n\n\"The world may have changed, but the speed limit and traffic laws remain the same,\" Teresa Ciano, from the partnership said.Supt Andy Cox, from the Met Police's roads and traffic policing command, said his team had recorded one driver travelling at 134mph in a 40mph zone.\n\nInspector Rosie Leech, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said, \"Despite a 60% reduction in traffic flow, the health advice and business closures, our preliminary figures indicate only a 39% fall in the detection of speeding offences in the four weeks from 17 March, compared to the same period last year.\n\n\"However, this still represents a figure of 2,314 people detected speeding... it is particularly disappointing that so many people have decided to put lives at risk by driving at excessive speeds.\"\n\nJoshua Harris, director of campaigns at road safety charity Brake, said there was \"never an excuse for speeding\".\n\nHe said: \"With only essential travel permitted, we would hope to see speeding decline and so the reported increase is deeply concerning.\n\n\"We urge everyone to follow government guidance and stay home.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nA delayed shipment of protective equipment has finally arrived in the UK from Turkey, but more questions are being asked about why the government didn't sign up to an EU-wide effort to source crucial items early in the crisis. Communication error? Politically-motivated decision? Our political editor explains the whole row. Meanwhile, meet the ordinary people trying to plug the equipment gap.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon McDonald spoke to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee by video link\n\nOnly a tiny fraction of children deemed to be at risk in England are taking up the emergency school places kept open for them, according to official figures. The Children's Commissioner says social workers should be \"knocking on doors\". Schools have also been helping deprived families who are running out of food.\n\nSchools are providing food parcels for children who normally get free meals\n\nRetail \"heroes\" - supermarket and shop workers - should get a pay rise to at least £10 an hour once this crisis is over, a union leader is arguing. Paddy Lillis says they should be rewarded for risking their health to keep people \"fed and watered\". Who decides what key workers earn and is it likely to increase?\n\nConsumer group Which? says many of the UK's biggest airlines and travel companies are breaking the law when it comes to giving customers the refunds they are entitled to. Hear one story of a group unable to get their £17,000 chalet booking refunded, and read more on your rights.\n\nElizabeth says she \"touched death\" after falling seriously ill with Covid-19 and now feels she has been given a second chance. She told her story to the BBC's Raffi Berg, in part to thank the hospital staff who treated her.\n\nElizabeth faces a recovery period of up to six months\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. And follow all the latest from around the world via our live page.\n\nOur health correspondent Nick Triggle looks at how close we might be to the end of lockdown in the UK.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Home tests for coronavirus should be available to NHS staff across the UK \"very soon\", according to the government's testing co-ordinator.\n\nProf John Newton acknowledged that health and care workers have struggled to access testing sites.\n\nThe government said lack of \"demand\" rather than capacity was behind the slow growth in testing numbers.\n\nBut the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unison have challenged this.\n\nThey say long drives or difficulty accessing drive-through sites without a car were preventing staff from being tested.\n\nThere are 27 testing centres in total and there are reports of some staff having to drive hundreds of miles to reach their nearest site.\n\nThe government says there is capacity to do about 40,000 tests a day across the UK, but only about half - 20,000 tests - are actually being processed.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the government was \"absolutely standing by\" its target of carrying out 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.\n\nThe prospect of a home test offers some hope when it comes to another major barrier for staff: the test has to be done within the first few days of experiencing symptoms.\n\nSome have been missing out because people have been too unwell to drive to a testing centre, according to Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts.\n\nBut overall, the proportion of staff who are eligible to be tested is actually quite small, she said.\n\nAt the moment, the priority is to test key workers who are off work either because they have symptoms or someone in their household does.\n\nMs Cordery estimated that roughly 150,000 staff are off at the moment, but about half of those will be suffering from other illnesses. Some will be shielding because of long-term conditions.\n\nShe said the rationale for the government's 100,000 tests a day target wasn't \"entirely clear\", but welcomed the \"challenge\" it provided.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) is trialling a system of UK-wide self-testing for key workers, but until that's ready to roll out, most still can't be tested in their homes.\n\nIn the meantime, head of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair, said testing for staff and their households should take place \"at or close to their workplace\", to make sure it's accessible.\n\nShe said nurses had been telling the College that the existing testing sites were \"located too far away from them\".\n\nWhile some doctors and nurses have been able to be tested at their hospitals, this hasn't generally been possible for care staff scattered across thousands of smaller sites.\n\nIn the case of those self-isolating because someone they live with has symptoms, it's the household members who need to be tested as well as the key worker.\n\nThis group will be larger and harder to reach since their referral will have to come via the health or care employee.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "The government says a communications mix-up meant it missed the deadline to join an EU scheme to get extra ventilators for the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMinisters were earlier accused of putting Brexit before public health when Downing Street said the UK had decided to pursue its own scheme.\n\nBut No 10 now says officials did not get emails inviting the UK to join and it could join future schemes.\n\nLabour is demanding to know why the government had changed its message.\n\nThe party's shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Given the huge need for PPE, testing capacity and crucial medical equipment including ventilators, people will want to know why on Monday ministers were saying they had 'chosen other routes' over the joint EU procurement initiatives but now they are claiming that they missed the relevant emails.\n\n\"We need an urgent explanation from ministers about how they will get crucial supplies to the frontline as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nHe has said the UK \"should be co-operating through international schemes to ensure we get these desperately needed pieces of kit\".\n\nThe EU has said the UK can take part in the procurement project, which will use the EU's buying power to purchase more stock, even though it is no longer a member of the bloc.\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, Downing Street said the UK would not be joining the scheme because \"we are no longer members of the EU\".\n\nThe spokesman added: “We are conducting our own work on ventilators and we’ve had a very strong response from business, and we’ve also procured ventilators from the private sector in the UK and from international manufacturers.\"\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman denied the decision was motivated by Brexit, adding: \"This is an area where we’re making our own efforts.”\n\nThe government faced a backlash from opposition MPs following the statement, with Liberal Democrat Layla Moran accusing the prime minister of putting \"Brexit over breathing\".\n\nDowning Street has now issued a statement saying the UK had missed the deadline for the first round of procurements.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Owing to an initial communication problem, the UK did not receive an invitation in time to join in four joint procurements in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As the (European) Commission has confirmed, we are eligible to participate in joint procurements during the transition period, following our departure from the EU earlier this year.\n\n\"As those four initial procurement schemes had already gone out to tender we were unable to take part in these, but we will consider participating in future procurement schemes on the basis of public health requirements at the time.\"\n\nThe UK currently has 8,000 ventilators available and has placed orders for another 8,000 from existing manufacturers, but there are concerns about capacity in hospitals as the spread of the virus worsens.\n\nLast week, the government put out a call for other British businesses to convert their factories to make the equipment, and has since signed a contract for 10,000 ventilators with Dyson.\n\nBut Boris Johnson's spokesman confirmed the ventilators still needed to go through standards checks and would not be bought and distributed until that happened.\n\nThe EU scheme will use the bloc's joint procurement agreement, which helps member states get the medical supplies it needs to tackle cross-border pandemics.\n\nIt has also created a stockpile of medical equipment - 90% of it financed by the European Commission - to help EU countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Monday morning I had a delivery to my apartment from the nearby off-licence - or liquor store, as they say over here.\n\nAnd I put a jokey picture on Twitter of a bottle of gin and eight bottles of tonic, with the caption that at least I had the next week sorted.\n\nAfter leaving the White House Briefing Room on Monday evening following a marathon two-hour 24-minute press conference, I felt I could have knocked off the whole lot in one sitting.\n\nThis has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping, head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill Clinton's news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.\n\nI was at this president's first White House gathering when he called me \"another beauty\". I was in Helsinki when he had his first news conference with Vladimir Putin, and seemed to prefer to believe the Russian leader over his own security and intelligence chiefs on interference in the 2016 election.\n\nI was in Vietnam when Mr Trump gave a news conference after his talks with Kim Jong-un had unceremoniously collapsed. So I've sat in on some corkers.\n\nWhat made last night's encounter unique was the context. And secondly, this was, if you like, a distillation - all the talk of gin, I think, forced me to use that word - in one news conference of what three and a half years of Donald Trump has been like to cover.\n\nThere are more than 23,000 Americans dead because of coronavirus and more than half a million infected - and remember that, in early March, Donald Trump was saying there were a handful of cases, but that would soon be down to zero.\n\nYet Donald Trump walked into the briefing room with scores to settle with the media. This wasn't about the dead, the desperately sick, the people fearful of catching the virus. This was about him. And more particularly his profound sense of grievance that the media has been critical of his handling of Covid-19.\n\nRefrigerator lorries are being used as makeshift mortuaries in New York\n\nIf you think that is an unfair exaggeration, after a few moments he said he was going to play a video. It had been produced by White House staff, even though it bore all the hallmarks of a campaign video. If it was a movie, it would have been called \"Coronavirus: Why Donald Trump is Great - and the Media Awful\".\n\nOne of the reporters quoted in the film would complain immediately afterwards that her words had been taken out of context.\n\nIf you were watching the news conference on TV, you would have seen the film. But in the briefing room, where I had my vantage point, Donald Trump was alternately scowling at us, then pointing and smiling derisively and then smirking, as if to say, \"Look at all you losers - I've nailed you with this\".\n\nContempt seemed to ooze out of every pore. Central to the president's argument is that at the end of January he stopped a lot of flights coming from China and that had saved countless thousands of American lives.\n\nPaula Reid from CBS pushed back forcefully, arguing that, bold move though that was, it wasn't followed through with any meaningful action in February, when testing was minimal and precious time was lost.\n\nThe president was enraged. You could see the fury coursing through him as he was extremely rude to her (he didn't answer the detail of her arguments, though). He called her a \"fake\" and \"disgraceful\".\n\nSo here we have a president who apparently hates us. But. But. But. He stuck around and answered questions for a full hour and a half. It was like a band on their farewell tour wanting to do one more encore. He loves it. He is in his element. And he hates us too.\n\nGoing back to my previous experience of news conferences, I always think you are lucky if you get to ask one question. Most often you don't get to ask one - particularly if you are from a foreign news organisation. I think I asked five questions of the president (and one of them got a \"that's a very good question\" - 10 points for me). He loves to engage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis president is more accessible than any senior politician I have ever known. And who can complain about that? He stood there and took all questions for an age, knowing full well this was playing out across all the US networks - and around the world, given the range of messages I got from all and sundry. But it is also confounding. You feel he wants to be loved, and can't understand it when love is not forthcoming.\n\nThen there is power. Coronavirus is unlike any enemy he has faced before. It's unlike any enemy that any of us have come up against, as it doesn't have a face. And Donald Trump is great when there's a name and a face. \"Lyin' Ted\", \"Sleepy Joe\", \"Crooked Hillary\", \"Little Marco\" - and on and on and on. But there really isn't much point insulting a virus. It doesn't respond and seems utterly indifferent to what names it is called.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Trump's attitude toward coronavirus has shifted\n\nBefore the White House, the president ran a family business where everyone answered to him. At Monday night's news conference he gave every impression of wanting to run America like that.\n\nHe has said he wants to reopen the US for business as quickly as possible - if you're interested, my Q&A with him concerned the feasibility of that, a laudable ambition. But is that his prerogative, or that of the 50 state governors? Remember, the US has a federal constitution.\n\nDonald Trump was in no doubt last night that it was up to him to decide when America lifted the shutters and changed the sign on the door from \"closed\" to \"open\".\n\nBut if it was down to the individual states to decide on when it was appropriate to issue \"shelter in place\" orders - and the president said he couldn't order six states controlled by Republican governors to enforce social distancing - how can it be his prerogative to order the reverse?\n\nAfter listening to the president, Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York state, said this: \"The constitution says we don't have a king. To say, 'I have total authority over the country because I'm the president', it's absolute, that is a king. We didn't have a king. We didn't have King George Washington - we had President George Washington.\"\n\nThat is not how the guy who ran the family firm sees it.\n\nAt the end of this rollercoaster of a ride of a news conference, I tried to make sense of it as I left the White House.\n\nLike so much in this divided country, I suspect it is entirely a question of where you stand. His supporters will probably have loved him sticking it to the media the moment he walked into the briefing room.\n\nHis opponents will have been appalled that he could put the coverage of his own handling of the crisis above the suffering of the American people.\n\nBefore I made it into the briefing room last night, I had to have my temperature taken in a tent that's been erected just outside the White House estate on Pennsylvania Avenue. And I had to have it taken again before I would be allowed to enter the briefing room.\n\nGood thing they didn't do blood pressure. I'm sure a fair few people - participants and observers - would have had very different before and after readings.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has resumed airing live matches after being deemed an \"essential service\" in Florida.\n\nNew WWE fights were broadcast on Monday night, without a ringside audience.\n\nThe wrestling company had been airing pre-recorded programmes for several weeks, but Florida's Republican governor said live production could continue as an essential function.\n\nThe pro-wrestling company welcomed the decision signed by Governor Ron DeSantis exempting \"professional sports and media production with a national audience\" from a state-wide stay-at-home order.\n\nThe company said: \"We believe it is now more important than ever to provide people with a diversion from these hard times\".\n\nWWE had previously come under scrutiny for continuing with recording events despite coronavirus, with some stars choosing not to participate over health concerns.\n\nThe company said it was taking precautions to \"ensure the health and wellness of our performers and staff.\"\n\nThe US is the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic with 554,684 confirmed cases and 23,608 deaths. In Florida, over 20,000 cases and more than 460 deaths have been reported.\n\nThe state is under an executive order which limits movement outside of homes in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nProfessional basketball, baseball and American football have all been suspended in the US, and international tennis, football and Olympics events are delayed or cancelled.\n\nFive of WWE's six weekly shows - Raw, Smackdown Live, NXT, 205 Live and Main Event - have been broadcast without interruption from WWE's training facility in Florida since the lockdown began.\n\nThe only exception is NXT UK, which is pre-taped in front of audiences across the United Kingdom. As no similar exemption has been made across the Atlantic, the show this week aired a retrospective looking at the history of the brand.", "The first death at Stanley Park Care Home was in late March\n\nThirteen residents of a County Durham care home have now died after displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nManagers at Stanley Park care home in Stanley said they were \"devastated\" by the deaths.\n\nThe first death was in late March with the latest confirmed by home operator Care UK on Monday.\n\nIt has not been disclosed how many other residents at the 72-bed home are ill. One resident who tested positive for the virus is in hospital.\n\nFive deaths were announced overnight on Sunday before the 13th was later reported on Monday.\n\nCare UK said the latest resident to die had been living in the home and had some symptoms that could indicate Covid-19, though no test had been carried out.\n\nCare UK regional director Karen Morrison said: \"We are completely devastated that this many residents have lost their lives to what we believe to be Covid-19.\n\n\"My heart goes out to the families and friends of residents who have passed away over the past few days. We are all thinking of them at this difficult time and send our condolences and best wishes.\n\n\"The team at the home continue to be absolutely amazing and I cannot thank them enough.\n\n\"Despite all that has happened, they continue to deliver the very best care in a kind and professional way.\n\n\"They have had all the necessary PPE and have been using it meticulously ever since the first case was seen at the end of last month.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The impact of infection with Xylella - the trees on the right have not yet been exposed to the bacterium\n\nResearchers say the economic costs of a deadly pathogen affecting olive trees in Europe could run to over €20 billion.\n\nThey've modelled the future worst impacts of the Xylella fastidiosa pathogen which has killed swathes of trees in Italy.\n\nSpread by insects, the bacterium now poses a potential threat to olive plantations in Spain and Greece.\n\nThe disease could increase the costs of olive oil for consumers.\n\nXylella is considered to be one of the most dangerous pathogens for plants anywhere in the world. At present there is no cure for the infection.\n\nIt can infect cherry, almond and plum trees as well as olives.\n\nIt has become closely associated with olives after a strain was discovered in trees in Puglia in Italy in 2013.\n\nThe organism is transmitted by sap-sucking insects such as spittlebugs.\n\nThe infection limits the tree's ability to move water and nutrients and over time it withers and dies.\n\nPlants infected with the bacterium have to be destroyed to prevent the spread\n\nIn Italy, the consequences of the spread of the disease have been devastating, with an estimated 60% decline in crop yields since the first discovery in 2013.\n\n\"The damage to the olives also causes a depreciation of the value of the land, and to the touristic attractiveness of this region,\" said Dr Maria Saponari, from the CNR Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection in Italy.\n\n\"It's had a severe impact on the local economy and jobs connected with agriculture.\"\n\nAs well as in Italy, the Xylella bacterium has now been found in Spain, France and Portugal.\n\nTackling it at present involves removing infected trees and trying to clamp down on the movement of plant material and the insects that spread the disease.\n\nBut if these measures fail, what will be the financial impact of the infection?\n\nIn this new study, researchers modelled different scenarios including what would happen if all growing ceased due to tree death.\n\nThey also compared this worst case with a scenario where replanting with resistant varieties occurred.\n\nThe team made projections for Italy, Spain and Greece, which between them account for 95% of European olive oil production.\n\nOlive trees dry up and ultimately die from the Xylella infecton\n\nIn Spain, if the infection expanded and the majority of trees became infected and died, the costs could run to €17 billion over the next 50 years.\n\nA similar scenario in Italy would amount to over five billion, while in Greece, the losses would be under two billion.\n\nIf the rate of infection is slowed down, or resistant varieties are planted instead, then these costs would be significantly reduced.\n\nHowever, the authors believe, whatever happens, there will likely be a knock-on impact on consumers.\n\n\"The expected effect could be that there would be a shortage of supply,\" said lead author Kevin Schneider from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.\n\n\"And I would expect that if prices go up, consumers will be worse off.\"\n\nThe authors say that while their analysis looks at economics, there are also potentially large touristic and cultural losses caused by the bacterium that can't be ignored.\n\n\"You really hear devastating stories of infected orchards that were inherited over generations,\" said Dr Schneider.\n\n\"It's the same orchard that their grandparents were once working on. So how do you put an economic number on the loss of something like this. The cultural heritage value would be far larger than we could compute.\"\n\nThere are a growing number of scientific initiatives to try and take the fight to the bacterium, including using insect repelling clays, vegetative barriers and genetic analysis to determine why some plants are more susceptible to the infection than others.\n\nUltimately, the researchers believe that beating the pathogen will require trees that are resistant to the disease.\n\n\"Seeking resistant cultivars or immune species is one of the most promising, and environmentally sustainable, long-term control strategies to which the European scientific community is devoting relevant research efforts,\" said Dr Saponari,\n\n\"Sustainable strategies to reduce the population of the insects is the other pillar for the control of the vector-borne disease, in this regard, mechanical intervention to remove weeds in spring is one of the most efficacious applications to reduce the populations of the insect, indeed several other strategies are also being studied to implement the control of the insects,\" she added.\n\nWhile two varieties of olive tree have been found to have some resistance, the authors are calling for research in this area to be significantly boosted.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).", "The UK's mobile networks have reported a further 20 cases of phone masts being targeted in suspected arson attacks over the Easter weekend.\n\nTrade group Mobile UK said it had been notified of incidents in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nOne of the targeted sites provides mobile connectivity to a hospital in Birmingham.\n\nThe figure represents a lower incidence rate than had been the case the previous weekend.\n\nMobile UK added it had received no reports of staff being targeted over the period.\n\nAttacks on 5G masts pre-date the coronavirus pandemic. But there are concerns a surge in the amount of vandalism has been caused by conspiracy theories, which falsely claim the deployment of 5G networks has caused or helped accelerate the spread of Covid-19.\n\n\"Theories being spread about 5G are baseless and are not grounded in credible scientific theory,\" said a spokesman for Mobile UK.\n\n\"Mobile operators are dedicated to keeping the UK connected, and careless talk could cause untold damage.\n\n\"Continuing attacks on mobile infrastructure risk lives and, at this challenging time, the UK's critical sectors must be able to focus all their efforts on fighting this pandemic.\"\n\nVodafone said one of the masts attacked was used by patients and staff at a hospital in Birmingham\n\nThe chief executive of Vodafone UK added that one of the targeted sites serves Birmingham's Nightingale hospital.\n\n\"It's heart-rending enough that families cannot be there at the bedside of loved ones who are critically ill,\" wrote Nick Jeffrey on LinkedIn.\n\n\"It's even more upsetting that even the small solace of a phone or video call may now be denied them because of the selfish actions of a few deluded conspiracy theorists.\n\n\"Imagine if it were your mum or dad, your gran or grandad in hospital. Imagine not being able to see or hear them one last time. All because you've swallowed a dangerous lie.\"\n\nThe minister for digital infrastructure had earlier described such attacks as being \"irresponsible and idiotic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Warman MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMobile UK's announcement came hours after media regulator Ofcom said it was assessing comments made by ITV presenter Eamonn Holmes about 5G technology and coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday, he had cast doubt on media reports which had explicitly refuted the myth that the two are linked.\n\nBut this morning, he clarified his position saying: \"There is no connection between the present national health emergency and 5G, and to suggest otherwise would be wrong and indeed it could be dangerous.\"\n\nThere have also been reports of potential cases since the Easter break.\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a phone mast was on fire in Dagenham, Essex.\n\nThe Met police told the Barking and Dagenham Post: \"Some evacuations were carried out as a precaution, but residents have since been allowed to return to their homes. There are no reports of any injuries.\"\n\nPolice in Huddersfield have also said they are trying to determine exactly how a phone mast came to be on fire in the early hours of this morning.\n\nThe fire destroyed communications equipment used by the emergency services as well as three mobile phone network providers, the local fire service said.\n\nRecent attacks on telecoms infrastructure have not been limited to the UK.\n\nOn Saturday, the newspaper De Telegraaf reported there had been four incidents in the Netherlands over the previous week. It said in one case, arsonists had left an anti-5G slogan painted on the damaged equipment.\n\nThere have also been reports of a suspected case in Ireland, where two masts caught fire on Sunday. Network provider Eir said the affected infrastructure was not being used for 5G, but was being upgraded to boost 4G coverage for a nearby hospital and the surrounding area.\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nThere have dozens of reported attacks on telecoms equipment over the past weeks\n\nOne falsely suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other falsely claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nEarlier this year, scientists at the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection completed a major study of related research into the topic.\n\nWhile it recommended slightly tighter limits on the transmitting capabilities of handsets themselves to minimise any chance of damage caused by human tissue being heated, its key finding was that there was no evidence that either 5G networks or earlier systems could cause cancer or other kinds of illness.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought. In any case, Covid-19 is a virus rather than a bacteria.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.", "Scientists are trying to work out why coronavirus can affect people in such different ways\n\nA vast store of DNA is being used to study why the severity of symptoms for coronavirus varies so much.\n\nUK Biobank - which contains samples from 500,000 volunteers, as well as detailed information about their health - is now adding Covid-19 data.\n\nIt is hoped genetic differences could explain why some people with no underlying health conditions can develop severe illness.\n\nMore than 15,000 scientists from around the world have access to UK Biobank.\n\nProf Rory Collins, principal investigator of the project, said it would be “a goldmine for researchers”.\n\n“We could go very quickly into getting some very, very important discoveries,” he said.\n\nSome people with coronavirus have no symptoms - and scientists are trying to establish what proportion this is.\n\nOthers have a mild to moderate disease.\n\nBut about one in five people has a much more severe illness and an estimated 0.5-1% die.\n\nUK Biobank has blood, urine and saliva samples from 500,000 volunteers whose health has been tracked over the past decade\n\nAnd it has already helped to answer questions about how diseases such as cancer, stroke and dementia develop.\n\nNow, information about positive coronavirus tests, as well as hospital and GP data, will be added.\n\nProf Collins said: “We’re looking at the data in UK Biobank to understand the differences between those individuals.\n\n“What are the differences in their genetics? Are there differences in the genes related to their immune response? Are there differences in their underlying health?\n\n“So it is a uniquely rich set of data - and I think we will transform our understanding of the disease.”\n\nSmall genetic differences could explain why some people become very ill\n\nFor what will scientists be looking?\n\nResearchers will be scouring the entire genome, searching for tiny variations in DNA.\n\nOne area of particular interest is the ACE2 gene, which helps make a receptor that allows the virus to enter and infect cells in airways.\n\nWhat about healthy people who become very ill?\n\nIn addition to the UK Biobank study, a team led by Prof Jean-Laurent Casanova, from the Rockefeller University, in New York, is planning to study people under 50 with no underlying medical conditions who are taken into intensive care units.\n\nHe told BBC News: “We are recruiting these patients worldwide, almost in every country.\n\n“We have sequencing hubs distributed all over the world.\n\n\"They collect samples, they sequence the genomes of these patients,and then together we analyse them.”\n\nPast research has shown some diseases, including flu and herpes, can make people with genetic variations - or inborn errors of immunity, as Prof Casanova calls them - especially ill.\n\n“There are surprising inborn errors of immunity that render human beings specifically vulnerable to one microbe,\" he said.\n\n“And this inborn error of immunity can be silent, latent, for decades, until infection by that particular microbe.\n\n“What our programme does is to essentially test whether this idea also applies to Covid.”\n\nScientists from all over the world are hoping to understand more from patients' sequenced genomes\n\nWho else is looking at coronavirus genetics?\n\nProf Andrea Ganna, from the University of Helsinki, in Finland, is leading a major effort to pull together genetic information on coronavirus patients from around the world.\n\n“There are long-standing studies, involving hundreds of thousands of people, and other smaller ones collecting data on patients who test positive,\" he said.\n\n\"It’s such a huge diversity and there are a lot of countries involved and we will try to centralise it.”\n\nIn Iceland, for example, Decode Genetics has sequenced the genomes of about half the population.\n\nIt is now carrying out mass testing for coronavirus.\n\nAnd every time someone tests positive, it then sequences the DNA genetic code of the virus to see how it changes as it spreads.\n\nChief executive Dr Kari Stefansson said: “There is the possibility that the diversity in people’s response to the virus is rooted in the sequence diversity of the virus itself - that we may have many strains of the virus in our community and some of them are more aggressive than others.\n\n“The other possibility is that this may be rooted in genetic diversity in a patient. Or it may be a combination of both.”", "Roisin's cancer treatment has been stopped for 12 weeks\n\nCancer doctors say difficult decisions are having to be made to postpone some patients' care during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe NHS says all essential treatment should continue during the outbreak.\n\nAnd a cancer hub has been set up by the NHS to carry out urgent surgery.\n\nBut treatments such as chemotherapy can weaken the immune system, and potentially put patients at greater risk from Covid-19. Some of those affected have been expressing concern.\n\nRoisin Pelan is 38 and lives in Lancashire. She has incurable breast cancer and had been taking chemotherapy tablets every day. Every three months she also visits the hospital to receive the drug intravenously.\n\nLast month she was told her chemotherapy treatment would be stopped for 12 weeks.\n\n\"It's terrifying they've stopped treatment that I know is keeping me alive,\" she says.\n\n\"To have that taken away is just unbearable. How do we know it's only going to be 12 weeks? This pandemic could go on a lot longer.\"\n\nNHS England has told trusts that all essential and urgent cancer treatments must continue but specialists should discuss with patients whether it is riskier for them to undergo it or delay.\n\nDan Ruston is taking pills at home to treat a stomach tumour\n\nDr Jeanette Dickson, the President of the Royal College of Radiologists, says that, for the majority of patients, treatment is continuing as usual, but admits it is hard for those whose care has been interrupted.\n\nShe says staffing levels are also stretched.\n\n\"It is especially difficult for patients who have been well on treatment up to now. And it's difficult for the staff. No one knows whether we can continue to deliver treatments over this week or next week,\" Dr Dickson said.\n\nBut doctors are finding new ways of working during the outbreak.\n\nTwenty-five-year-old Dan Ruston's chemotherapy pills to treat a tumour in his stomach are being posted to his home in Cheshire.\n\n\"I take one in the morning and one at night, very simple. So I don't have to brave it in the outside world,\" he says.\n\nThis month new cancer hubs involving several NHS trusts and private hospitals launched in Manchester and London.\n\nThe hubs match patients requiring urgent operations to surgeons across different \"Covid-light\" hospitals, meaning there are fewer patients with coronavirus being cared for there and less chance more vulnerable people could be exposed to the virus. More hubs are expected to open across the country in the coming weeks.\n\nThirty-two-year-old Louise Andrews is a patient under Westminster and Chelsea Hospital but had a lump removed from her breast by a surgical team at the Royal Marsden Hospital.\n\n\"I was relieved. We were literally just waiting by the phone everyday hoping that someone would call to say they could fit me in anywhere. Moving forward was so important to me.\"\n\nProf Peter Johnson, clinical director for cancer, admits the coronavirus epidemic is putting a huge strain on NHS resources.\n\n\"But we are straining every sinew to make sure diagnosis and treatments can continue,\" he says.\n\n\"In some circumstances it may be safer to delay treatment or treat patients in different ways to normal and clinicians and patients have to make those decisions together.\"\n\nProf Johnson also revealed there has been a sharp drop in the number of referrals for investigations for suspected cancer and has urged anyone who is worried about themselves to speak to their GP.\n\nLynda Thomas, chief executive officer at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"We know this is a very anxious time. One in three calls to our support line last week were from patients concerned about the coronavirus.\n\n\"We will be working closely with the NHS to monitor and support this vital care being delivered.\"", "The global economy will contract by 3% this year as countries around the world shrink at the fastest pace in decades, the International Monetary Fund says.\n\nThe IMF described the global decline as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nIt said the pandemic had plunged the world into a \"crisis like no other\".\n\nThe Fund added that a prolonged outbreak would test the ability of governments and central banks to control the crisis.\n\nGita Gopinath, the IMF's chief economist, said the crisis could knock $9 trillion (£7.2 trillion) off global GDP over the next two years.\n\nWhile the Fund's latest World Economic Outlook praised the \"swift and sizeable\" response in countries like the UK, Germany, Japan and the US, it said no country would escape the downturn.\n\nIt expects global growth to rebound to 5.8% next year if the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020.\n\nMs Gopinath said today's \"Great Lockdown\" presented a \"grim reality\" for policymakers, who faced \"severe uncertainty about the duration and intensity of the shock\".\n\n\"A partial recovery is projected for 2021,\" said Ms Gopinath. \"But the level of GDP will remain below the pre-virus trend, with considerable uncertainty about the strength of the rebound.\n\n\"Much worse growth outcomes are possible and maybe even likely.\"\n\nThe IMF predicts the UK economy will shrink by 6.5% in 2020, compared with the IMF's January forecast for 1.4% GDP growth.\n\nA decline of this magnitude would be bigger than the 4.2% drop in output seen in the wake of the financial crisis.\n\nIt would also represent the biggest annual fall since 1921, according to reconstructed Bank of England data dating back to the 18th century.\n\nHowever, this is half the annual rate expected by the OBR, which expects GDP to drop by 35% in the three months to June.\n\nThe UK's furlough scheme, which is designed to keep workers in a job amid the government lockdown, is expected to limit the rise in unemployment to 4.8% in 2020, from 3.8% last year.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged billions of pounds in wage subsidies and loan guarantees to help workers and businesses through the shutdown.\n\nThe Bank of England has also slashed interest rates to a new low and freed up billions of pounds for commercial banks to lend.\n\nMs Gopinath said that for the first time since the Great Depression, both advanced and developing economies were expected to fall into recession.\n\nThe IMF warned that growth in advanced economies would not get back to its pre-virus peak until at least 2022.\n\nThe US economy is expected to contract by 5.9% this year, representing the biggest annual decline since 1946. Unemployment in the US is also expected to jump to 10.4% this year.\n\nA partial recovery is expected in 2021, with expected US growth of 4.7%.\n\nThe Chinese economy is expected to expand by just 1.2% this year, which would be the slowest growth since 1976. Australia is expected to suffer its first recession since 1991.\n\nThe IMF warned that there were \"severe risks of a worse outcome\".\n\nIt said that if the pandemic took longer to control and there was a second wave in 2021, this would knock an additional 8 percentage points off global GDP.\n\nThe Fund said this scenario could trigger a downward spiral in heavily-indebted economies.\n\nIt said investors might be unwilling to lend to some of these nations, which would push up borrowing costs.\n\nThe IMF added: \"This increase in sovereign borrowing costs or simply fear of it materialising, could prevent many countries from providing the income support assumed here.\"\n\nWhile longer lockdowns will constrain economic activity, the IMF said quarantines and social distancing measures were vital.\n\nIt said: \"Upfront containment measures are essential to slow the spread of the virus and allow health care systems to cope and to help pave the way for an earlier and more robust resumption of economic activity.\n\n\"Uncertainty and reduced demand for services could be even worse in a scenario of greater spread without social distancing\"\n\nThe IMF set out four priorities for dealing with the pandemic.\n\nIt called for more money for health care systems, financial support for workers and businesses, continued central bank support and a clear exit plan for the recovery.\n\nIt urged the world to work together to find and distribute treatments and a vaccine.\n\nThe Fund added that many developing nations would need debt relief in the coming months and years.\n• None Four out of five jobs affected by virus globally", "A leading UK-based firm will be summoned on Tuesday by MPs to answer questions over security concerns.\n\nThere are concerns that the Chinese owner of Imagination Technologies has renewed efforts to transfer ownership of sensitive security software to companies controlled by China.\n\nLawmakers worry the coronavirus crisis is diverting attention from controversial technology transfers.\n\nThe fear is that networks in the UK, Europe and the US could be compromised.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee said he was concerned that technology developed by Imagination Technologies, based in Hertfordshire, could be used to fine tune the design of so-called \"backdoors\" into strategically important digital infrastructure.\n\n\"The world has changed and companies - particularly tech companies - are on the frontline,\" said Mr Tugendhat.\n\n\"Whoever writes the code, writes the rules for the world, more than any regulation passed by bureaucrats. There's no point in taking back control from Brussels, only to hand it over to Beijing.\"\n\nImagination Technologies was acquired by a US-based but Chinese state-owned investment firm called Canyon Bridge in September 2017, which is in turn owned by a Chinese state-owned investment fund called China Reform.\n\nMr Tugendhat said Theresa May's government approved the acquisition on the basis that Canyon Bridge was licensed and regulated by US law.\n\nSince then it has moved its headquarters to the Cayman Islands and as such is no longer a US-controlled entity.\n\nSeveral senior executives, including chief executive Ron Black, have stepped down recently citing concerns about the future direction and ownership of the company.\n\nMr Evans is understood to have said in his resignation letter: \"I will not be part of a company that is effectively controlled by the Chinese government.\"\n\nAn attempt by China Reform to stage a boardroom coup ten days ago by appointing four of its own directors were aborted, but the call for evidence comes amid renewed concerns that the Chinese owners of Imagination are preparing a fresh attempt to transfer sensitive technology patents to mainland China.\n\nHuawei executives were quizzed by MPs about whether China would have the ability to snoop on UK mobile network communications in April 2019\n\nAs well as designing graphics and virtual reality software for computer chips, industry experts say that Imagination also produces software which can detect whether any weaknesses in sensitive digital networks - so-called \"backdoors\" are the result of error or intention.\n\nThe UK has already approved the limited use of Chinese-owned Huawei equipment in the construction of new superfast 5G networks that promise to deliver better connectivity for use in autonomous cars, utilities, power stations, the national health service and many others.\n\nThere is no suggestion that Huawei is directly connected to Imagination, or its ultimate owners - the state-owned China Reform investment fund.\n\nThe call for evidence comes a day after EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager warned that companies across the EU - many of which have been or are being pushed the brink of bankruptcy by the economic effects of Coronavirus - are vulnerable to takeover from Chinese companies.\n\nIn the UK, the Treasury is considering plans for the state to take ownership stakes in thousands of businesses, to prevent mass bankruptcies of businesses unable or unwilling to take on extra debt.\n\nThe situation is delicate as many EU countries are gratefully accepting donations of virus-fighting equipment from China. The country, which appears to be \"first in - first out\", is now emerging from a crisis from which it bore the initial brunt.\n\nNeither Imagination Technologies, nor its owner China Reform returned the BBC's request for comment.", "The US, like other countries, is grappling with shortages of medical supplies, but shies away from central directives\n\nIn a normal year Michael Rubin's athletic apparel factory in Pennsylvania would be ramping up for the start of baseball season, churning out team uniforms and clothing to sell to fans. Instead his company, Fanatics, has remade itself into a gown and mask manufacturer for hospitals facing shortages of protective gear as they fight the coronavirus.\n\nFanatics isn't alone. Thousands of companies across the US have responded to pleas for help from hospitals facing shortages of critical health supplies.\n\nClothing companies like Gap and Hanes are making gowns and scrubs. Ford and General Motors are repurposing fans and batteries, typically used in cars, to make ventilators. Boeing and Apple are making face shields. Luxury brands, distilleries - even state prisoners - are producing hand sanitiser.\n\n\"We felt it was our responsibility to help pitch in,\" says Mr Rubin. Firms responding in what he calls this \"dire time of need\" aren't necessarily going to profit from the enterprise but they are proving a point: The private sector is famously good at responding nimbly and quickly to changing demands.\n\nThe shortages in the US are are not unique, nor is the response from the private sector.\n\nIn the UK, engineering firm Dyson has designed a new ventilator; in France, Chanel is contributing masks; in Germany, Volkswagen and other firms are manufacturing protective equipment.\n\nBut the White House has been notably hands-off when it comes to establishing any co-ordinated, centralised response, says Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. This has led to a free-for-all, as local governments and hospitals competed to buy products or find donations, scam artists emerged, and prices skyrocketed.\n\nThe US has allowed \"pure capitalism to serve as an incentive\" says Dr Sanders.\n\n\"Companies want to step up to the plate and so many are. I really applaud them, but I also find it even more frustrating because I see the chaos.\"\n\nIn the European Union, the shortages were caused by inadequate reserves of equipment, as coronavirus cases surged and shipments from overseas were delayed. But in the US, which has a national stockpile of supplies, including badly-needed ventilators, a slow federal response has added to the problem, says Prashant Yadav, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a professor at INSEAD.\n\n\"Outcomes are pretty bad in both [Europe and America], but in one place they don't have large resources in a stockpile. They didn't have a large manufacturing base,\" he says. \"Our decision-making wasn't working right or our coordinating mechanisms weren't working right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConverting factories to make basic products like sanitiser or masks isn't necessarily that difficult or expensive. Mr Rubin's factory shipped its first masks within three days and now produces about 10,000 daily.\n\nBut getting companies to start making machines like ventilators - which have dozens of parts sourced globally - is far more complex and requires government intervention, says Dr Sanders.\n\nWhile some states, including California, have voluntarily sent existing ventilators to virus hotspots like New York, Dr Sanders says a national response is needed, to ensure there is a clear inventory of what's on hand and the ability to shift resources to the places that need it most.\n\n\"This is supply chain 101 ... it's not like it's really that hard,\" she says. \"The lack of coordinated national response is really infuriating.\"\n\nUnder pressure to act, President Donald Trump has targeted some companies with orders to produce items in high demand and banned exports of medical supplies. Federal health officials also announced a $50m deal with General Motors to produce 30,000 ventilators.\n\nBut for weeks Mr Trump resisted using the full extent of his authority to compel firms to produce equipment and prioritise deliveries.\n\nMr Trump has suggested a government report about shortages was politically motivated\n\n\"We're a country not based on nationalising our business,\" he said last month. \"Call a person over in Venezuela. Ask them, how did nationalisation of their businesses work out? Not too well. The concept of nationalising our business is not a good concept.\"\n\nNew York Senator Chuck Schumer, a leading Democrat, last week called on the president to appoint a national 'czar' to oversee distribution and production. \"The hunting and pecking isn't working,\" he told reporters.\n\nIt is not clear that the president will change tack.\n\nLuckily in some places the private sector efforts are coming through. St Luke's University Health Network, which worked with Fanatics to design its masks, now has about 30 days worth of protective gear on hand, says vice president Chad Brisendine. Contributions from non-traditional suppliers account for \"a quarter or more\" of that.\n\n\"Between the external, local, non-traditional suppliers, plus the donations, that really helped us,\" Mr Brisendine says.\n\nBut the Pennsylvania hospital system has still been forced to introduce new cleaning procedures so it can reuse masks and other equipment more intensively, he adds.\n\nMr Brisendine says he's worried the wider needs are so great, even a stronger federal response wouldn't resolve the problems his health network now faces.\n\n\"I just wonder how fast they can move,\" he says. \"When you need it, you needed it yesterday.\"", "The Next website has had to stop taking orders after it reopened in a limited way following a three-week break.\n\nThe retailer said demand exceeded capacity by about 08:30 BST and the site will be closed until Wednesday.\n\nThe fashion retailer had stopped taking orders on 26 March and closed its High Street stores on 23 March, a day before the UK went into lockdown.\n\nBut it reopened online on Tuesday after Next said it had strengthened social distancing measures at its warehouses.\n\nInitially, the site will only sell necessities such as children's clothes and selected small home items, although that could be extended in time.\n\n\"The idea is to begin selling in low volumes, so that we only need a small number of colleagues in each warehouse at any one time, helping to ensure rigorous social distancing is complied with,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"To achieve these limited volumes, Next will only allow customers to order the number of items that it believes can be picked safely on any given day.\"\n\nAll \"non-essential\" shops have been told to close\n\nAt that point, it said it would stop taking orders and convert the website to \"browse only\" until the following morning, which is what happened on Tuesday.\n\nExplaining Tuesday's surge, a spokesman said the firm had only asked people who wished to return to work to come in.\n\nAbout 3,000 staff have volunteered, but all will need to go through a safety training course meaning most will not be back at work for several weeks.\n\nNext usually employs 7,000 people across its eight distribution centres, which include a site at South Elmsall in West Yorkshire.\n\n\"As those numbers rise, then the amount of volume that the warehouses can cope with will rise and therefore the website will open for longer each day,\" the spokesman told the BBC.\n\nNext, which makes more than half of its sales online, has warned it faces a \"very significant drop in sales\" as a result of the effect of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nLike other fashion retailers, it had been facing waning consumer demand before the crisis, but since all \"non-essential\" High Street shops were forced to shut, those problems have intensified.\n\nAccording to research from Retail Economics and Alvarez & Marsal, sales across the UK's fashion retail sector are thought to have plunged by 70% since the lockdown, forcing retailers including Primark and Next to pause or cancel orders.\n\nMost had just taken delivery of their latest spring and summer collections and now face a £15bn mountain of stock that cannot be sold, the research said.\n\nSeparately, online retailing giant Amazon has said it will now allow more sales of non-essential items from third-party sellers in the US, who make up the majority of sales on its site.\n\nFor almost a month, it has prioritised deliveries of household items and medical supplies at its American fulfilment centres. The curbs will remain in place in Europe, although the firm is keen to reverse them soon.\n\nOf the US move, the firm said: \"Products will be limited by quantity to enable us to continue prioritising products and protecting employees, while also ensuring most selling partners can ship goods into our facilities.\"\n\nAmazon has faced protests from current warehouse staff in the US and Europe over whether it has provided adequate protection from coronavirus infections at its warehouses.\n\nHowever, on Monday it urged US workers who had lost jobs because of the coronavirus slowdown to apply for as many as 75,000 new positions it is offering.\n\nLast month, Amazon took on 100,000 extra US staff to fill priority online orders for food and medical equipment for existing customers.\n\nBut it still has a waiting list for new customers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say.\n\nTour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said one had reached the abandoned town of Pripyat, which used to serve the plant.\n\nHe said it was now just 2km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored.\n\nGreenpeace said the fires were much bigger than the authorities realised.\n\nThe NGO's Russia branch, quoted by Reuters, said the largest fire covered 34,000 hectares, while a second fire just a kilometre from the former plant was 12,000 hectares in area.\n\nMr Emelianenko also said that if the fire engulfed Pripyat it would be an economic disaster, as supervised tourist visits provided valuable revenue.\n\nIn 2018 more than 70,000 people visited the town. Last year that figure was even higher, after the success of an HBO mini-series about the disaster.\n\nPolice said the fire had been burning since the weekend of 4 April, after a man set fire to dry grass near the exclusion zone. It has since moved closer to the nuclear plant.\n\nMore than 300 firefighters with dozens of pieces of special hardware are reportedly working at the site, while six helicopters and planes are attempting to extinguish the fire from above.\n\nOfficials say radiation in the area is at \"normal\" levels\n\nThe fire is now 5km (three miles) from the nuclear site\n\nKateryna Pavlova, acting head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, told the Associated Press news agency that they “cannot say the fire is contained”.\n\n“We have been working all night, digging firebreaks around the plant to protect it from fire,” she said.\n\nOn 5 April Yegor Firsov, acting head of Ukraine’s state ecological inspection service, said in a Facebook post that radiation levels in the area had risen substantially above normal.\n\nGovernment officials later rejected this finding, and said the levels in the area were “within normal limits”. Mr Firsov also withdrew his remarks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 'real' Lyudmila from Chernobyl speaks for first time\n\nSmoke from the fire is now blowing towards Kyiv.\n\nChernobyl nuclear power station and the nearby town of Pripyat have been abandoned since 1986, when the plant’s No. 4 reactor blew up.\n\nThe explosion sent a cloud of radioactive fallout across much of Europe, with the area immediately around the plant worst affected.\n\nPeople are forbidden from living within 18 miles (30km) of the power station.\n\nChernobyl continued to generate power until the plant's last operational reactor was finally closed in 2000.", "CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid was met with a fiery response when she challenged President Trump during a coronavirus briefing.\n\nMr Trump touted his ban on travel from China at the end of January as an example of his administration taking decisive action. However, he did not declare a national emergency until 13 March - and public health experts have criticised the response to the outbreak, including early testing failures and a shortage of protective equipment.\n\nThe reporter asked Mr Trump what his administration had done in February, \"with the time you bought with your travel ban\".", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "The new helpline is aimed at people who do not have a support network at home\n\nA helpline has been opened to provide advice to Scots who are at high risk from coronavirus and do not have a support network at home.\n\nThe service is aimed at people who are older, disabled, are pregnant, or who received a flu jab for health reasons.\n\nIt will connect them to local services which can help provide food and medicine as well as emotional support.\n\nCommunities Secretary Aileen Campbell said it would let \"our most vulnerable\" access \"the essential help they need\".\n\nThe phone number is 0800 111 4000, and it will initially operate between 09:00 and 17:00 - although this could later be extended.\n\nThe government said the dedicated NHS Inform website for Covid-19 was still the fastest way for people to get the latest health advice and information.\n\nPeople should only contact NHS 24 - by dialling 111 - if they are displaying symptoms which are particularly severe, which have not improved after seven days or which worsen during home isolation.\n\nThe new helpline is aimed at people who are in particular at-risk groups - such as those over 70 and those who need the support of mental health services - beyond those who fall into the \"shielding\" category.\n\nIt is primarily focused on people who do not have internet access, with the government pointing anyone else looking for support to its Ready Scotland website.\n\nThe phone line will link callers to their local council, who can help arrange deliveries of food and medication as well as links to social work services for vulnerable children or adults and contact with local volunteer groups.\n\nAlison Evison, president of council umbrella group Cosla, said the impact of the virus was \"even worse\" for people without a support network.\n\nShe said: \"This national helpline and support arrangements will provide reassurance to our most vulnerable citizens. It is there to support those who are at home with nobody around to help them and with no other way of seeking local assistance. It will allow them to immediately access the essential help they need.\"\n• None Coronavirus lockdown 'unlikely to be lifted' soon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGSK and Sanofi, two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical giants, are joining forces to try and create a vaccine to stop the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe bad news is that the vaccine - even if it is successful - will not be ready till the second half of next year.\n\nGSK's chief executive Emma Walmsley told the BBC that vaccines usually take a decade to develop and test.\n\nA plan to make a vaccine available in just 18 months was a huge acceleration of the normal process, she said.\n\nGSK is also involved in a tie-up with the UK's other pharma giant AstraZeneca to help the government hit its target of conducting 100,000 tests by the end of April.\n\nEmma Walmsley said she hoped that the UK's two biggest pharmaceutical companies could help provide 30,000 daily tests by the beginning of May.\n\nA substantial contribution but leaving some way to go to hit the target.\n\nGSK also said it would channel any profits made from its vaccine programme into increased research and development into future virus threats.\n\nWhen asked whether it was appropriate for any company to profit from a global emergency Emma Walmsley promised that the company would not show any net profit from vaccine sales and along with future research investment, GSK would use any profits to subsidise vaccine deliveries to developing countries.\n\nOther groups have promised faster vaccine results. Sarah Gilbert, an Oxford University professor engaged in a separate search for a vaccine, said she was \"80 per cent confident\" her team's development would work by autumn.\n\nThere are more than 20 vaccines currently in development. Among those under way at the moment are:\n\nGSK boss Walmsley said she wished other companies and partnerships good luck in developing their own solutions.\n\nBut she also said that they were uniquely placed to bring expertise, complementary science and - perhaps most importantly - manufacturing muscle to produce a desperately needed vaccine in the quantities needed.\n• None The vaccines that work - and the others on the way", "More than 200,000 more employees could now be furloughed following changes to the government scheme to help pay people's wages.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which covers 80% of workers' pay, will take applications from Monday from companies which have laid off workers.\n\nInitially, it only supported those already employed on February 28. The cut-off date is now to 19 March.\n\nHowever, many recently employed workers will still miss out.\n\nWorkers need to have been on the payroll by 19 March - the day before the scheme was first announced. This will not cover people who were not put on the PAYE system until later in the month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrian Buzer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmployers would need to have notified HM Revenue and Customs that a new employee was on the payroll. This is done through the Real Time Information (RTI) system which updates the tax authority when someone is paid.\n\nSo somebody paid late in March is unlikely to be covered by their current employer.\n\nHowever, the Treasury wants to guard against businesses hiring \"ghost\" employees to fraudulently claim furlough payments.\n\nThe plight of new starters has prompted a campaign for them to be included in the furlough scheme by unions, opposition parties, and the workers themselves.\n\nHMRC has promised to release wages for furloughed workers by the end of April. The scheme currently runs until 1 June.\n\nBut there are fears firms could start to cut staff unless the government soon clarifies whether the scheme will be extended.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said it is worried companies will be forced to start redundancy procedures this Saturday to comply with the minimum 45-day consultation period.\n\nCBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn, said: \"We are very concerned that businesses will be forced into a position potentially of having to make people permanently redundant.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the scheme, which pays wages for March, April and May, could run for longer.\n\n\"The scheme is open for an initial three months and we hope conditions will improve sufficiently during this period. However, the Chancellor has been clear he will review extending it for longer if necessary,\" said a Treasury spokesperson.\n\nBut Ms Fairbairn said businesses need clarity from the government before 18 April: \"What we are saying to government is that firms need to be able to plan.\n\n\"These are massive decisions being taken on a day-to-day basis that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and having that clarity of a 45-day notice period for business is absolutely vital.\"\n\nHMRC chief executive Jim Harra told the BBC's Today programme that the chancellor Rishi Sunak \"has been clear that if it needs to be extended then he will look to do that\".\n\nMr Harra added that the system through which companies can claim funding to pay their furloughed workers will be accessible from Monday.\n\nHe said he was \"confident\" employers will get the money in time to pay people by the end of the month.\n\n\"Most employers run their payroll on the last banking day of the month which would be 30 April and there is time to get your claims in in time and to get money before then,\" he said.\n\nSome people who changed jobs around this time have found themselves without any income.\n\nFelicity Williams, age 30, handed in her notice at the Richmond-on-Thames estate agency where she worked on 27 February, with her last day set for 28 March.\n\n\"Obviously between those two dates it became apparent that the coronavirus was going to shut things down and there would be some difficulties with me starting my new job on 1 April,\" she said.\n\nFelicity Williams has unsuccessfully asked her former employer four times to furlough her\n\nAlthough government guidelines state that Ms Williams can go back to her previous employer and ask them to furlough her, she said the company is unwilling to help.\n\n\"I've been to them four times now and pleaded with them to re-employ me and put me on furlough, just so I've got some sort of income coming in, and every time it has been a no,\" she said.\n\nMs Williams said she is also unable to claim universal credit because she lives with her boyfriend, who has savings and an income.\n\nShe said: \"I have my own bills, I have my own credit cards, my own loans that I need to pay off, and obviously I've frozen them for the short term. But it is not going to help me out in terms of paying rent and bills and food.\"\n\nMr Harra said: \"I think in all of these schemes designed to help the economy, we've had to design them so they can be implemented very quickly and time, in some senses, has been the enemy of perfection.\n\n\"But there are a whole range of schemes available to help businesses and people and I'm confident that the vast majority of employees who have been furloughed will get help.\"", "Fans of the Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows have staged a DIY \"airshow\" in their back garden while in lockdown.\n\nMartin Bridge said his family normally visited as many airshows as possible, and took a holiday every year in the Red Arrows' home county, where there are numerous RAF stations and lots of military aircraft to see.\n\nHe hopes his family's tribute display will mean other fans still manage to see a show.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor: Coronavirus will have \"very significant impact\" on economy\n\nA forecast by the UK's tax and spending watchdog suggests the coronavirus crisis will have \"serious implications\" for the UK economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned the pandemic could see the economy shrink by a record 35% by June.\n\nMr Sunak stressed that the forecast was only one possible scenario.\n\nBut he said it was important that the government was \"honest with people about what may be happening\".\n\nHe said the OBR figures suggest that the scale of what the UK is facing \"will have serious implications for our economy\", in common with other countries.\n\n\"These are tough times, and there will be more to come,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nHowever, he said that while the government could not protect every business and household, \"we came into this crisis with a fundamentally sound economy, powered by the hard work and ingenuity of the British people and British businesses.\"\n\nThe OBR also expects the economic impact of the crisis to be temporary, he said.\n\nHe added that the government is \"not just going to stand by\" and not act to support the economy.\n\n\"Our planned economic response is protecting millions of jobs, businesses, self-employed people, charities, and households,\" he said.\n\n\"Our plan is the right plan.\"\n\nMr Sunak added that at the moment \"the single most important thing we can do to protect the economy is to protect the health of our people.\"\n\nThe OBR said a three-month lockdown followed by three months of partial restrictions would trigger an economic decline of 35.1% in the quarter to June alone, following growth of 0.2% in the first three months of this year.\n\nRobert Chote, the chairman of the OBR, said a drop of this magnitude would be the largest \"in living memory\".\n\nWhile the UK economy would contract by 12.8% this year under this scenario, it is expected to get back to its pre-crisis growth trend by the end of 2020.\n\nThe OBR stressed the actual amount of growth would depend on how long the lockdown lasted, as well as how quickly activity bounced back once restrictions were relaxed.\n\nIn any case, it expects half of any sharp drop in growth in the second quarter to be reversed in the three months to September as the economy starts to recover.\n\nSeparately, the International Monetary Fund warned the virus would push the UK into its deepest slump for a century.\n\nIn its report, the IMF said it expects the UK economy to shrink by 6.5% in 2020, while the global economy will contract by 3%.\n\nCoronavirus-related deaths in UK hospitals have risen to 12,107, an increase of 778 on Monday's total.\n\nAnd more than one in five deaths in England and Wales is linked to coronavirus, figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics data showed the virus was mentioned on 3,475 death certificates in the week ending 3 April.\n\nIt helped push the total number of deaths in that week to more than 16,000 - a record high and 6,000 more than expected at this time of year.\n\nThe OBR's estimates said a three month lockdown would push up the UK's borrowing bill to an estimated £273bn this financial year, or 14% of gross domestic product (GDP).\n\nThis would represent the largest deficit as a share of GDP since World War Two.\n\nWhile borrowing is expected to jump, the OBR said the government's unprecedented financial help for workers and businesses would help to limit any long-term damage.\n\nThe OBR expects a more lasting impact on unemployment, which is estimated to rise by 2.1 million to 3.4 million by the end of June.\n\nUnder this scenario, unemployment would hit 10%, from its current 3.9% rate, before easing to around 7.3% at the end of the year.\n\nThe jobless rate is expected to remain elevated until 2023, when it is expected to drop back to 4%, in line with the OBR's March forecast.\n\nThese are incredible numbers indicated by the government's official, though independent, forecasters at the OBR.\n\nThey illustrate what is at stake, and why the government has to get its economic rescue plans spot on. They will feature at the COBR discussions. Indeed some senior public health experts believe that the government needs an economic counterpart to the influential SAGE committee of scientists.\n\nBut this isn't quite about a direct trade off. That existed clearly on the way in - the economy was shut down to protect public health. On the way out of these measures, the balance is not straightforward.\n\nIf the lockdown is lifted prematurely, the health system could fall over, workers might just refuse to go to work anyway, and none of that would be positive for the economy.\n\nIndeed when it is lifted, the absence of a vaccine means that these trade offs are likely to be considered week by week and sector by sector, for months to come.\n\nThe OBR expects UK debt to be higher for years to come, with extra borrowing expected to push Britain's debt share to above 100% of GDP this financial year if the lockdown lasts for three months.\n\nWhile this will drop sharply as the UK economy recovers, public debt is expected to remain at 84.9% of GDP in four years time, much higher than the 75.3% forecast in the March Budget.\n\nMr Chote said a longer lockdown could have more serious consequences for the economy.\n\nHe said: \"The longer the lockdown goes on, the more likely it is that the future potential of the economy is scarred by business failures, by less business investment and by the unemployed finding it harder to get back into the labour market.\"\n\nHowever, the OBR stressed that the restrictions were necessary to protect the economy from a more prolonged slowdown.\n\nIt said extra spending by the Treasury to support the economy would also limit the economic damage.\n\n\"The government's policy response will have substantial direct budgetary costs, but the measures should help limit the long-term damage to the economy and public finances - the costs of inaction would certainly have been higher,\" the OBR said.\n\nIt added that while the lockdown was the main constraint on economic activity, relaxing these measures too soon would cause greater damage.\n\n\"The reason why most of the short-term economic impact comes from these measures is that they are successful in limiting the spread of the disease.\n\n\"If the measures were not stringent enough to control the disease, then the economic impact from illness would be that much greater.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer is calling for more transparency\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is urging the government to publish an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown this week.\n\nThe government is expected to announce on Thursday that social distancing measures will continue.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would back such a move but to maintain public trust \"there needs to be transparency\".\n\nThe government said talking about an exit before the virus had reached its peak risks confusing the public.\n\nThe Labour leader has written to Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he continues his recovery from coronavirus, to say Labour would support a continuation of the measures.\n\nBut, he said, the government needed to set out an exit strategy to maintain trust and to ensure that arrangements are in place for it.\n\n\"We've got to have the trust of the public,\" Sir Keir told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that it was \"inevitable that the lockdown will have to continue\".\n\n\"For that trust there needs to be transparency and openness - they need to know what the thinking is on when lockdown will end.\"\n\nHe said that government planning was previously not quick enough, and said, \"let's not repeat that\".\n\n\"Mass testing and then tracing is likely to be amongst the options for ending the lockdown,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"If that is right we need the government to say so because decisions need to be taken now to make sure that the number of tests that are needed and that the arrangements are in place so they can be implemented at the relevant time.\"\n\nHe said that he believed \"in principle\" schools should be amongst the first institutions to restart following easing of lockdown measures.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Breakfast, however, Sir Keir said it would be \"wrong\" to put a time on when schools should reopen.\n\n\"Until we know the curve is flattening, then I'm afraid we have to stay in the conditions we're in,\" he said.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab, Sir Keir said millions of people had \"played their part\" and made sacrifices and \"in return, the government needs to be open and transparent with the public about how it believes the lockdown will ease and eventually end\".\n\nSir Keir warned the \"silent pressures\" on communities across the UK \"cannot be underestimated\", and said that to maintain morale and hope \"people need a sense of what comes next\".\n\nThe government said that \"extensive work\" is being done on an exit strategy from lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said that, for now, the focus needs to be on getting the public to stay at home while the government builds the capacity of the NHS.\n\nHe added that the government would be \"led by medical and scientific advice on when we are past the peak and when it is the appropriate stage to talk about next steps.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told ITV's This Morning: \"We'd all love to be able to spread a great deal of optimism and say: 'This is going to end on X date', but the fact of the matter is, we don't have the answers to all of this right now.\"\n\nShe said the country was yet to reach the peak of the virus and the restrictions were there \"rightly so\" to stop the spread.\n\nConservative MP Laura Trott, who is a member of the Commons' health and social care select committee, told the BBC it was \"not possible\" for a \"really conclusive plan to be drawn up unless you've reached the peak of the epidemic\".\n\n\"Until we've reach the peak, until we understand the impact the measures we are currently taking - how that's affecting hospital admissions, the number of deaths and how the NHS is coping with those - we can't really formulate a proper plan for how we are going to then exit.\"\n\nThe government has previously indicated that work is under way on a plan to lift restrictions, but no details have been published.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday at the Downing Street daily press conference, Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted the government's priority would remain saving lives.\n\nAnd he warned that the government will not be able to protect every UK business and every household during the pandemic but if ministers had not taken the actions they had, \"the situation would be much worse\".\n\nNHS England's Medical Director, Prof Stephen Powis, told the news conference lockdown compliance levels among the public were \"very high\" and this was beginning to have an impact on hospital admissions,\n\n\"We need to keep it that way. We absolutely need to make sure that we keep the benefits of this going forward and we don't take a foot off the pedal, we don't become complacent,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted the UK economy could shrink 35% between April and June, while unemployment surges by more than two million.\n\nBut it predicted a sharp bounce back, with GDP likely to jump 25% in the third quarter and a further 20% in the final three months of 2020.\n\nThe watchdog based its calculations on a three-month lockdown followed by a partial lifting for three months.", "The public want to thank NHS workers - but not everyone thinks the gifts are appropriate\n\nNHS hospitals are using Amazon Wish Lists to appeal for donations of everyday items during the pandemic.\n\nBBC News has identified more than 10 hospital trusts in England and Wales requesting products for staff and patients.\n\nBut some medics have raised concern about whether it is right to make such appeals.\n\nAmazon Wish Lists allow users to highlight products they would like others to buy them.\n\nThe account holders can specify the number of units desired and write accompanying comments about each item.\n\nSome of the NHS accounts have specified:\n\nAnyone can access these lists through shared links and purchased items are delivered to the account owner.\n\nIn addition to the NHS's own lists, there are further cases of charities and other third-party organisations setting up Wish Lists on the health system's behalf.\n\nSome list creators have given an explanation for each item\n\nAmong the other requested products are vitamins, coffee, computer wipes, talcum powder, energy bars and stationery.\n\n“This Wish List has been created to help support staff and service-users during the coronavirus outbreak,” South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust says on its page.\n\n“Help us to provide activities to our isolated patients and to those unable to receive visitors at this time.”\n\nOther NHS trusts and boards talk of wanting to provide “care packages” for staff, who “may have to stay unexpectedly in hospital accommodation”.\n\n“We have put together a small list of items that will make our staff feel valued and boost morale,\" says a page set up by United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.\n\nThe public appear to be responding.\n\nA list set up by a charity to gift items to East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust staff says it has had to pause requests because of the high response rate.\n\n“We have been truly humbled and overwhelmed by your generosity... if we need to reopen the list at a later date we will be in touch,\" it posted on Facebook.\n\nBut several NHS staff have suggested it would be better if people donated to other causes.\n\n“I'm a healthcare professional and I work for an NHS Ambulance Service,\" one wrote in a tweet shared more than 600 times.\n\n\"Whilst I appreciate the kindness and generosity, I don't need free pizza, free coffee or money-off vouchers et cetera.\n\n\"Please give to those who have lost their income.”\n\nAnother, who said they were a paramedic, wrote: “Financially, I'm sure I'll be fine.\n\n\"What makes me uneasy are people who are out of work bringing donations to our station.\n\n\"It's lovely but we don't need it.”\n\nAnd a third said: \"As much as I greatly appreciate the gesture, please please please offer a free cup of coffee or pizza to the families who are struggling to feed their children, the homeless on the streets, the older generation or self-employed and to anyone else who is suffering financially from Covid-19 measures and are not covered by government grants or loans.”\n\n\"As [visitors] were now unable to visit for the foreseeable future, we could see a real patient dignity situation arising where patients would not have access to clean clothing and a growing lack of toiletries,\" wrote spokeswoman Susan Bailey\n\n\"We then launched an appeal for toiletries, underwear and nightwear and it had such a positive response that we have now temporarily paused our appeal.\n\n\"We normally keep a small stock of items like this for patients who may be admitted as emergencies or who may not have family members able to visit, but nothing like the scale needed at present. Hence the appeal.\"", "The voucher scheme was set up in response to fears that children on free school meals might go hungry\n\nMany families of children eligible for free school meals are having to wait up to a week for supermarket vouchers, despite an upgrade to the website responsible for delivering them.\n\nUnder a government scheme, families in need in England should receive vouchers worth £15 a week per child.\n\nThe Edenred website that runs the scheme was rebuilt over the weekend, the Department for Education says.\n\nBut some schools say they are still struggling to log on.\n\nOn Tuesday, Danny Sohal, business and resources manager at Chiswick School, in west London, said vouchers the school had ordered on 7 April had finally been approved - although not yet emailed to parents.\n\nBut its 8 April orders had still not been processed.\n\nAttempts to log on to the platform were still being met with error messages.\n\nAnd telephone queuing times were over an hour.\n\nWhen his call had finally been answered, Mr Sohal had been told the error messages were being sent to try to limit traffic to the site and allow Edenred to work through the backlog, which, he added, could be up to 16 million vouchers.\n\nThe Department for Education said the site had been taken down on Thursday for an upgrade to boost capacity in the face of massive demand.\n\nBut orders made prior to that should be processed on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, the DfE added: \"We know that the free school meal voucher system is delivering for thousands of schools.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with our supplier Edenred to resolve any outstanding issues quickly.\"\n\nTo avoid swamping its system Edenred has advised schools to use the same order codes to bulk-buy vouchers, for example, for all children in the same household over several weeks.\n\nLast week, ministers announced the scheme would run throughout the Easter holidays.\n\nAbout 1.3 million children in England are entitled to free school meals and, until the scheme was announced, schools had been making their own arrangements.\n\nSchools across the UK were closed last month to all pupils except the children of key workers such as doctors, nurses and delivery drivers, some vulnerable children and those with more serious special educational needs.", "India has the largest postal service in the world\n\nIndia has the largest postal service in the world - and now it is stepping in to help deliver lifesaving medicines during a countrywide lockdown aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The BBC's Ayeshea Perera in Delhi reports.\n\nRed postal vans are a familiar sight in India. They make thousands of journeys every day, criss-crossing the country's wide network of post offices in 600,000 villages.\n\nThe postal service does much more than deliver letters and packages. It is also a bank, a pension fund and a primary savings instrument for millions of Indians. Now it will also be transporting medical equipment and drugs to where they are needed most, at a time when transport has come to a standstill.\n\nWhen India went into total lockdown on 24 March in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus, all businesses - apart from essential services - were ordered to shut and people were told to stay home. Given that the announcement was made barely four hours ahead of the lockdown going into effect, many industries were left in the lurch - including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and labs at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19.\n\nMedical institutes and pharmaceutical companies were caught out by the sudden lockdown\n\n\"We were facing a lot of difficulties. We usually rely on courier services to send out products to customers, but none of them were responding, probably because they didn't have curfew passes or delivery people,\" Ashok Kumar Madan, the executive director of the Indian Drug Manufacturer's Association (IDMA), told the BBC. Many of these products, he added, were essential medicines such as for heart conditions or cancer.\n\nThen, he got a call from Alok Ojha, the senior superintendent of the postal service in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.\n\nThe postal service had already partnered with the IDMA in the western state of Gujarat to deliver medicines and equipment as a priority. Mr Ojha was offering to do the same on a much wider scale.\n\n\"We were definitely looking for a solution, and the postal service has unhindered access the country,\" Mr Madan said.\n\nThat is because India Post is among only a few industries deemed \"essential services\" and allowed to operate normally during the lockdown.\n\nA number of institutions have used the postal service since the lockdown began\n\n\"We thought we could help with this as we have a supply chain that is intact. Many people I spoke to said this would help as it helps keep drugs in the market and prevents hoarding,\" Mr Ojha told the BBC.\n\nAs word spread, many people began calling and asking for help.\n\nDr Ujjala Ghoshal, a microbiologist at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in the northern city of Lucknow, told the BBC she got in touch with Mr Ojha when a batch of Covid-19 testing kits she urgently needed was stuck in the capital Delhi, 550km (340 miles) away.\n\n\"The Institute of Medical Research told us that we would have to send someone to Delhi to collect the kits because the courier company they usually used was not working, but there was no way we could do it because of the lockdown,\" she said.\n\nThe postal service, she said, made an exception and actually went to the institute to pick up the kits, instead of having them dropped off at a post office. She received them a day after she made the request.\n\nMany other institutions and companies have made similar requests. Mr Ojha says ever since the lockdown began, the postal service has been used to deliver everything from batches of lifesaving drugs to Covid-19 tests, to N95 masks and ventilators, moving medicine and equipment between major cities and states - mostly via the red postal vans.\n\nIndia's red postal vans make tens of thousands of journeys every day\n\nFor longer or very urgent journeys - such as a consignment of defibrillators that had to be transported from the state of Tamil Nadu in the south to Uttar Pradesh in the north - cargo planes are used. Sometimes, the consignments must be handled with special care - one drug manufacturer who asked for help said his medicines needed cold chain maintenance, which means they need to be frozen while transported. And so far, every request made to the department has been fulfilled.\n\n\"We are the best-connected service in India. We are everywhere. And in this case, we knew we could help,\" Mr Ojha says.\n\nAnd with the lockdown set to be extended, he anticipates that the service will play a larger role in the weeks ahead.", "After years of living with others, Lucia was excited to finally have a place to herself.\n\nThe photographer had recently moved back to Italy from New York. She enjoyed spending time on long, meandering walks with her camera, and going out for food with friends.\n\nBut within a couple of months Milan, where she lived, had become the epicentre of Europe's coronavirus outbreak. She and millions of other Italians were ordered into lockdown, told to stay home unless absolutely necessary.\n\nThe first few weeks were the hardest, as the monotony of days isolated in her apartment took its toll. But now more than a month on, Lucia is adjusting to being alone. She still misses her freedom and physical contact with others, but feels fortunate that she and her loved ones are healthy, when so many across her country have died.\n\n\"Sometimes I get worried about the future, about how life will be after this ends,\" she says. \"I wonder if there will ever be a real life outside our homes.\"\n\nMissing street photography, Lucia has been documenting her own time inside instead\n\nAlmost 4,000 miles away, the only human faces Aparna sees now belong to security guards.\n\nThe 26-year-old lives alone in her mother's old apartment in Gurgaon, near Delhi.\n\nTwice a day she leaves to walk her dogs, Jules and Yogi, as the guards keep watch over her complex's locked gates. Aparna has only ventured beyond them once.\n\nA national lockdown was announced in India on 24 March\n\n\"My hands are dry, the surroundings are quiet and the dogs are oblivious,\" Aparna (pictured) says of her situation\n\nThere are millions more stories like this around the world. As governments scramble to contain the deadly Covid-19 pandemic by restricting public life, many living alone have had to accept that they might not spend time with anyone else for a long time.\n\nI know because I'm among them.\n\nWeeks into the UK lockdown, my ordinary life in London goes on but it looks and feels different. Trips to the office have become a rarity. I feel lucky to have a cat for company and the ability to go outside for walks when others can't, but it's hard not knowing when I'll next see my close friends or family, who live hundreds of miles away.\n\nThese days the same screens that host our work meetings carry the burden of our social lives too. With the exception of conversations over the telecom or chance encounters with neighbours by the bins, all of my human contact is now online.\n\nDaily screen-time gone up during isolation? You're not alone\n\nWith so many other people across the world living by themselves through this strange experience, I decided to try to find expert advice and others self-isolating alone.\n\nThat's how I found Lucia, Aparna and Angie: three women continents apart, going through the same.\n\nAngie, from Maine, has lived by herself for four years. Getting her own space became an important part of her growth and healing after a divorce. But as the US became gripped by coronavirus and local restrictions hit, the downfalls of her living situation became apparent.\n\nA couple of weeks ago, when Angie was laid-off from work, she was left to deal with it alone. \"In normal circumstances, if you were to lose your job, you'd be met with a hug by a family member or invited over by a friend for cheering up,\" she says.\n\nThere is plenty of research to suggest our social relationships can be as important to our physical health as our mental one. Research links pervasive loneliness to higher mortality rates and other health complications.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How loneliness can affect your physical and mental health\n\nProfessor Naomi Eisenberger is a social psychologist at UCLA known for her research on how the brain behaves when it experiences social rejection and disconnect.\n\nShe says our current situation, with billions of people cut-off from their normal lives, is unprecedented. She stresses the importance of people living alone trying to stay connected with those we care about.\n\n\"One of the things I've heard from people is that it's interesting that now you start realising who you actually feel close to, because it doesn't matter who lives near you or who is easy to get to,\" she says.\n\nHer research group is also looking into whether the virtual communication we are all currently filling our schedules with is enough to feel truly connected.\n\nDr Eisenberger says having a pet, especially one you can touch and hug, can help reduce stress\n\nProfessor Stephanie Cacioppo, an expert in behavioural neuroscience and psychiatry at the University of Chicago, is also full of practical tips for those living alone. She and her late husband were known for their pioneering research that draws a distinction between being alone and feeling lonely.\n\nShe says adjusting our mindset and expectations is key to avoiding feelings of loneliness. This means accepting events are beyond our control and knowing that being away from the people and things we love is only temporary.\n\n\"Right now you live alone. And right now you have no choice. So you can either scream all day long or make the most of it,\" Dr Cacioppo says.\n\nFor Angie, this has meant reconnecting with her art. She's started posting daily illustrations - which we have used throughout this feature - as a way to share her emotions and perspective on living alone through the pandemic.\n\nAngie says her art is the \"main thing keeping her going\"\n\nHer nameless, faceless character is seen living out quiet and relatable personal moments. \"When I start to feel alone, I imagine other people like me, feeling the same emotions or doing the same things in that very moment all around the world,\" she says. \"It helps me feel grounded and connected.\"\n\nAnother practical task to try and stay grounded, Dr Cacioppo suggests, is keeping a journal of your emotions during isolation: making note of the things that make you feel happy or accomplished throughout the day.\n\n\"People have done studies showing that self-compassion or a gratitude towards others, but also towards yourself, can really improve the well-being and happiness level,\" she says. These acts of kindness don't need to be time-consuming or expensive, she explains. \"Everyone has their own things that are really good for self-care.\"\n\nDr Cacioppo urges anyone living along to \"learn how to become your own best friend\"\n\nBoth experts I spoke to stressed the importance of building routine into our days in self-isolation, explaining that regular social contact can help regulate us in all kinds of ways, down to our sleeping and eating patterns.\n\nDr Cacioppo advises people to plan life only in the short-term, even one or two days ahead. \"We have all lost control of our reality. We had schedules, we had activities planned,\" she says. \"We could just see the schedule of next week and we knew exactly what we would do and now it's a little bit different.\"\n\nTrying to set three manageable goals per day, she suggests, can help instil a feeling of accomplishment. \"Then you can go to bed more peaceful because you know that you have a structure and something to do - a purpose - for tomorrow,\" Dr Cacioppo says.\n\nThis importance of feeling a part of something larger is something that comes up time and time again. In California, another woman has created an online movement achieving just that.\n\nOn 30 March writer Olivia Gatwood posted a photograph of herself on Instagram captioned: \"Self-portrait of a lady in quarantine.\"\n\nSoon dozens, then hundreds, of other women around the world sent her their own.\n\nOlivia's original black-and-white photograph (top left) has inspired hundreds of other women to take their own\n\nGatwood has now decided to curate an Instagram account featuring these images, Girls of Isolation, connecting women across the globe within this strange, shared but disparate reality we now are living.\n\nAparna was one of those who submitted a self-portrait. The lockdown prompted her to pick up her camera for the first time in more than a year and she has been documenting her life under the pandemic since.\n\nWhen asked what advice she would give others, she had a simple message: \"Listen to yourself and be kind to yourself, you can finally take the time to do nothing/everything/anything without guilt or compromise.\"\n\n\"It's definitely a crazy time when the real world feels more like a film script,\" Aparna says\n\nDr Cacioppo says one positive that may come from the unrelenting tragedy of the outbreak is that, as nations and as people, we could end up feeling more connected than ever before.\n\nIt's a sentiment Aparna agrees with. \"This situation reminds us how vulnerable we are and more importantly how equally vulnerable,\" she says.\n\n\"It's become easier than ever before to relate to other human beings across the world and that's something both essential and beautiful to recognise, even in trying times such as these.\"\n\nAll artwork and photographs are copyright.", "David Lloyd says its venues have been threatened with legal action by landlords\n\nGym and leisure centre bosses say they face being evicted during the coronavirus crisis over non-payment of rent.\n\nTrade body UKActive said urgent action is needed to safeguard exercise venues as unscrupulous landlords use a loophole to threaten eviction.\n\nNew rules to protect commercial tenants were introduced last month.\n\nBut they don't prevent landlords from taking steps to force tenants to pay rent withheld because of the lockdown.\n\n\"A worrying number have decided to pursue statutory demand notices or winding up orders,\" said Huw Edwards, chief executive of UKActive.\n\n\"We need the government to act now to direct...that landlords cannot do this.\n\n\"With 2,800 gyms at risk of permanent closure, and 100,000 jobs at stake, time is of the essence.\"\n\nSection 82 of the government's Coronavirus Act 2020 came into force on 25 March to help protect commercial tenants.\n\nIt banned the forfeiture of commercial leases until 30 June 2020 - or longer if the government deems necessary - for non-payment of rent.\n\nHowever, the Act does not prevent landlords from taking certain actions, including Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR), making a debt claim, issuing a statutory demand, or commencing winding-up proceedings - each of which is lethal to businesses with no income.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"In these exceptional times, we urge landlords to act in a socially responsible way, exercising judgement and discretion with their tenants.\"\n\nUKActive says it has evidence to show a growing number of cases where landlords are planning to instigate legal proceedings against operators.\n\nThe trade body said it expects the first cases to start this week and warned that pubs, restaurants, cafes, cinemas, and retailers could face similar threats.\n\n\"Many of our members are faced with the harsh reality of no revenues for a long period, so must take steps to preserve cash, including not paying their rent for the quarter ahead,\" said Mr Edwards.\n\nHe said some landlords have engaged in constructive discussions to reduce the pressure on tenants, however, a number have decided to pursue statutory demand notices or winding up orders.\n\nDavid Lloyd Leisure, which owns David Lloyd Clubs, appealed to one landlord to request a waiver of rental payments due on 25 March 2020 until the crisis eases and the government allows its clubs to re-open.\n\nPureGym says the economic impacts of the coronavirus outbreak are being placed solely on commercial tenants\n\nThe request was refused immediately by the landlord and was instead met with the threat of legal action through the issuing of a statutory notice.\n\n\"This situation is unfortunately entirely outside of our control,\" said David Lloyd boss Glenn Earlham.\n\n\"We want to work together with landlords to ensure we can survive this pandemic and emerge with businesses able to continue to pay rent and other costs in the future.\"\n\nPureGym has seen similar instances across its facilities.\n\n\"The burden of dealing with the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to fall on commercial tenants rather than being shared equitably by landlords as well,\" said Humphrey Cobbold, chief executive of PureGym.\n\n\"Time is of the absolute essence, given that proceedings such as statutory demands and winding up orders threaten to force companies into insolvency within days of being issued.\"", "Police Scotland has launched a campaign targeting sexual predators who groom children online, with internet use rising during the virus lockdown.\n\nOfficers said the social distancing restrictions prompted by coronavirus had created a \"period of heightened risk\" for child sexual exploitation.\n\nThey have launched a social media campaign titled #GetHelpOrGetCaught.\n\nIt is designed to target men who have a history of offending or who are thought to be at risk of offending.\n\nThe campaign features a video warning potential offenders that grooming children is just as unacceptable online as when carried out face to face.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said protecting children from abuse online was \"one of our top priorities\", and was a particular issue during lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"We are acutely aware that people are at home, that they have more time to access the internet and that the potential risk of online child abuse is therefore extremely high.\n\n\"Online child sexual abuse is not virtual, its repercussions are real. Grooming, indecent communication and causing children to participate in sexual activity are all serious criminal offences.\n\n\"Offenders will be identified and arrested and they will face the consequences of their actions - not just a conviction but the potential loss of family, reputation and work or livelihood. Abusers are responsible for their actions, it is up to them to take action and stop, to get help or get caught.\"\n\nThe video warns offenders that grooming is no less serious when carried out online rather than face to face\n\nThe campaign, which will cost about £55,000, will run across social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube for an initial four-week period.\n\nStuart Allardyce, director of campaign group Stop It Now Scotland, said many men who had been caught committing online offences said they knew what they were doing was wrong, but that they didn't know how to stop.\n\nHis group runs a helpline for potential offenders, and he urged them to \"reach out to us for confidential and anonymous help\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe French Grand Prix is set to be the next Formula 1 event to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation on Monday that restrictions on public events would continue until mid-July.\n\nFrance's round of the F1 championship is due to be held at the Circuit Paul Ricard, near Marseille, on 28 June.\n\nF1 was unable to officially confirm the situation surrounding the race when contacted by BBC Sport.\n\nMacron said France's lockdown would be extended until 11 May, after which creches and schools would progressively reopen, while bars, restaurants, and cinemas would stay shut. There would be no summer festivals \"before mid-July\".\n\nThe move seems to make it impossible to hold an event that was attended by 135,000 people last year.\n\nThe race would be the 10th grand prix to be called off at the start of a season that has been laid waste by the coronavirus crisis.\n• None Formula 1: UK-based teams receive more than 20,000 orders from NHS\n\nF1 says it is considering all options as it looks for a way to reconfigure the season later this year.\n\nThe hope is the season can start in Europe in the summer, and it is possible that the first races at least could be held behind closed doors.\n\nRoss Brawn, F1's managing director, said last week that a viable World Championship season could be held before the end of the year, even if the first race did not take until October. But he added that the season could run into January 2021 to fit in more races.\n\nF1 is facing a serious financial shortfall as a result of the lack of racing as all three of its main revenue streams are under threat - race-hosting fees, broadcast rights and sponsorship income.\n\nOnly one race has so far been cancelled permanently, with Monaco deciding to give up on its event this year because it said it could not find a suitable alternative slot.\n\nAll the others have been postponed in the hope of finding alternative dates once racing can get under way.\n\nThe F1 teams are on a factory shutdown, having brought the traditional summer break forward from August so as to be in the best place possible once travel restrictions are lifted.\n\nFive of the seven UK-based teams have placed many of their staff on enforced leave as a result of the lack of action.\n\nAnd F1's bosses have taken a series of steps to cut costs with the future so uncertain.\n\nMeasures include the postponement by a year of a major regulation change that was scheduled to come into force in 2021, and the requirement for teams to use the same cars for the 2021 season as they will this year.\n\nAnd bosses are in the midst of negotiations over lowering the budget cap that is set to come into force next year at $175m (£137.9m).\n\nA reduction to $150m has already been agreed informally and there is a meeting scheduled for this week to discuss the idea of potentially reducing it to $125m.", "Anti-Jeremy Corbyn sentiment within Labour hindered the party from tackling anti-Semitism, says a leaked report.\n\nThe internal party document said an \"abnormal intensity of factional opposition\" to the former leader \"inhibited the proper functioning\" of the party and its complaints procedure.\n\nBut it also said Labour was \"ill-equipped\" and did not act fast enough.\n\nThe Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said the report was leaked as an attempt to \"smear whistleblowers\".\n\nIt is understood the document - dated March 2020 - is a draft drawn up to help inform the party's responses to an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).\n\nThe watchdog launched a probe into anti-Semitism within Labour in May 2019 after a complaint from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.\n\nA Labour spokesman said the party had submitted \"extensive information to the EHRC and responded to questions and requests for further information\" - but none of that detail was included in the leaked report.\n\nThe party's new leader and deputy, Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, said the leaking of the document and some of its content - such as conversations between staff -\"raised a number of matters of serious concern\".\n\nThey said they would launch an urgent investigation into why the report was commissioned, its contents, and how it ended up in the public domain.\n\nThe leaked document said Labour's latest investigation into anti-Semitism in the party revealed \"a litany of mistakes, deficiencies, and missed opportunities to reform, develop and adapt a clearly failing disciplinary system\", and \"disproved any suggestion that anti-Semitism is not a problem in the party\".\n\nIt also said the \"rigorous and far-reaching reforms necessary to bring the party's procedures up to standard were not undertaken early enough\".\n\nHowever, the document claimed the \"extremely strained relationship\" between Mr Corbyn and Labour headquarters during his tenure had stopped oversight \"over the disciplinary process\", with the party's management being \"generally more obstructive than it was constructive\".\n\nIt included transcripts of WhatsApp messages between staff, which it said showed opposition to Mr Corbyn, and said, at the extreme, some seemed to have \"taken a view that the worse things got for Labour, the happier they would be since this might expedite Jeremy Corbyn's departure from office\".\n\nThe report claimed to have found \"no evidence\" of anti-Semitism complaints being handled differently to other forms of complaint, and said that in 2019, half of all anti-Semitism complaints came from a \"one individual\" who the reports accuses of being \"rude and abusive\" to party staff.\n\nIt also claimed there had been a \"steady, if imperfect, rate of improvement\" after Mr Corbyn's ally, Jennie Formby, took over as general secretary from the former post holder, Ian McNicol.\n\nThe document praised measures taken by Mr Corbyn since 2018, including the introduction of fast track expulsions, describing the moves as \"transformational\".\n\nIt added: \"These safeguards ensure that the past mistakes in the handling of anti-Semitism complaints cannot be repeated now.\"\n\nBut the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, which reported Labour to the EHRC, said the report \"serves as an exhibit of the party's failure to address the crisis\" and should be handed over to the watchdog.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive, Gideon Falter, said: \"In the dying days of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Labour Party appears to have invested in a desperate last-ditch attempt to deflect and discredit allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Rather than properly dealing with cases of anti-Semitism and the culture of anti-Jewish racism that prevailed during Mr Corbyn's tenure, the party has instead busied itself trawling through 10,000 of its own officials' e-mails and WhatsApp messages in an attempt to imagine a vast anti-Corbyn conspiracy and to continue its effort to smear whistleblowers.\"\n\nMomentum - the group originally set up to back Mr Corbyn as Labour leader - has called on his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, to announce a full inquiry into the report.\n\nLabour has been plagued with allegations since 2016.\n\nMr Corbyn held an internal investigation early on in his tenure, but it was widely criticised by Jewish members of the party, with a number - including MPs - leaving over his handling of the row.\n\nThe party's new leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has apologised to the Jewish community for the ongoing issue.\n\nHe has been praised by leaders for \"achieving more in four days\" than Mr Corbyn did \"in four years\" on tackling anti-Semitism.", "An inquiry is under way after a number of residents at a care home died in an outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nRoseland Court Care Home in Tregony, Cornwall, has been closed to visitors since last month.\n\nThe exact number of deaths has not been revealed. However, one of them is known to be 79-year-old Roger Lemin.\n\nHis son, Gary, told the BBC he laid no blame with the home.\n\nQuote Message: These people are absolute heroes, dealing with an unprecedented situation for them. I really do think they need help and have a really grown-up conversation about what is going on in these homes, and how we can change the model they are using so there is some way of restricting infections.\" from Gary Lemin These people are absolute heroes, dealing with an unprecedented situation for them. I really do think they need help and have a really grown-up conversation about what is going on in these homes, and how we can change the model they are using so there is some way of restricting infections.\"\n\nPublic Health England and Cornwall Council said they were working together to support staff and residents.\n\nHome operator HC-One said its thoughts and sympathies were with all families who had lost a loved one and they were doing their utmost to support them.\n\nIt said a comprehensive coronavirus contingency plan was in place and PPE supplies at all of their homes were very good.", "Eamonn Holmes with co-host and wife Ruth Langsford on This Morning\n\nTV regulator Ofcom has said it is assessing comments made by presenter Eamonn Holmes about 5G technology and coronavirus \"as a priority\".\n\nThe watchdog has received 419 complaints about remarks he made on ITV's This Morning on Monday.\n\nHe cast doubt on media reports refuting the myth that 5G causes the virus \"when they don't know it's not true\".\n\nOn Tuesday he said there's no link, but that many are \"looking for answers and that's simply what I was trying to do\".\n\nThe theory linking coronavirus with 5G - which is used in mobile phone networks and uses signals carried by radio waves - has led a number of phone masts to be set alight or vandalised.\n\nHolmes made his original remarks in a segment with the programme's consumer editor Alice Beer, who dismissed the theory as \"not true and it's incredibly stupid\".\n\nHolmes told her: \"I totally agree with everything you are saying but what I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true.\n\n\"No-one should attack or damage or do anything like that, but it's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative. That's all I would say, as someone with an inquiring mind.\"\n\nHe was criticised on social media and by scientists who have dismissed the theories as \"complete rubbish\".\n\nOn Tuesday, an Ofcom spokesperson said: \"We are assessing this programme in full as a priority.\"\n\nOfcom assesses all complaints to decide whether to launch a full investigation, and is prioritising cases relating to potentially harmful or inaccurate information about coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday's programme, the presenter told viewers: \"I want to clarify some comments that some of you may have misinterpreted from me yesterday, around conspiracy theories and coronavirus and this involved the roll-out of 5G.\n\n\"Both Alice Beer and I agreed in a discussion on this very programme on fake news that it's not true and there is no connection between the present national health emergency and 5G, and to suggest otherwise would be wrong and indeed it could be dangerous.\n\n\"Every theory relating to such a connection has been proven to be false and we would like to emphasise that.\n\n\"However many people are rightly concerned and are looking for answers and that's simply what I was trying to do, to impart yesterday.\n\n\"But for the avoidance of any doubt I want to make it completely clear there's no scientific evidence to substantiate any of those 5G theories. I hope that clears that up.\"\n\nResponding to the host's original comments on Monday, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, said: \"The opinions of the mainstream media or the state hardly come into the debate.\n\n\"Numerous doctors and scientists around the world have said that the disease is caused by a virus, something completely different to a mobile phone signal.\"\n\nBeer reiterated her view that \"the 5G conspiracy theory is nonsense and should be quashed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alice Beer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman did not respond directly to Holmes' comments but said the 5G theory was \"complete nonsense\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working with social media companies to make sure these entirely bogus claims are not circulated.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Measles outbreaks may occur as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, officials say, because some vaccination programmes are having to be delayed.\n\nUnicef says 117 million children in 37 countries may not get immunised on time.\n\nThere have been several large outbreaks in countries across Europe where MMR vaccine uptake has been low.\n\nThe UK has already lost its measles-free status, because of rising cases of the potentially deadly infection.\n\nThe disease, which causes coughing, rashes and fever, can be prevented by two doses of the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine, available free to all young children in the UK.\n\nHere, 95% of five-year-olds have had the first jab - the World Health Organization (WHO) target - but only 87.4% have had the second.\n\nAnd as measles is highly infectious, even small declines in uptake can have an impact.\n\nThe WHO says countries with no active outbreak of measles can temporarily pause their immunisation campaigns if necessary.\n\nAnd 24 countries, including several already dealing with large measles outbreaks, have decided to delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:\n• Bangladesh\n• Brazil\n• Bolivia\n• Cambodia\n• Chad\n• Chile\n• Colombia\n• Djibouti\n• the Dominican Republic\n• the Democratic Republic of Congo\n• Ethiopia\n• Honduras\n• Kazakhstan\n• Kyrgyzstan\n• Lebanon\n• Maldives\n• Mexico\n• Nepal\n• Nigeria\n• Paraguay\n• Somalia\n• South Sudan\n• Ukraine\n• Uzbekistan\n\nBut Unicef says even more may face disruptions.\n\n\"If the difficult choice to pause vaccination is made due to the spread of coronavirus, we urge leaders to intensify efforts to track unvaccinated children so that the most vulnerable populations can be provided with measles vaccines as soon as it becomes possible to do so,\" it said\n\nSpokeswoman Joanna Rea added: \"Disruptions to routine vaccine services will increase the risk of children contracting deadly diseases, compound the current pressures on the national health services and risks a second pandemic of infectious diseases.\"\n\nThe UK continues to offer children MMR as part of its routine immunisation schedule.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisations at Public Health England, said: \"The national immunisation programme is highly successful in preventing serious and sometimes life-threatening diseases, such as pneumonia, meningitis, whooping cough, diphtheria and measles.\n\n\"During this time, it is important to maintain the best possible vaccine uptake to prevent a resurgence of these infections.\"\n• None Why is the UK seeing a rise in measles cases?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Altman says the health system is \"staked against\" care homes\n\nMany older people are being \"airbrushed\" out of coronavirus figures in the UK, charities have warned.\n\nThe official death toll has been criticised for only covering people who die in hospital - but not those in care homes or in their own houses.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey told the BBC the daily figure was based on hospital deaths because \"it's accurate and quick\".\n\nMeanwhile, scientists will begin a review of the UK lockdown later.\n\nThe evaluation will be passed to the government - but ministers have said it was unlikely restrictions would change.\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a total of 406 such deaths registered up to 3 April had occurred outside of hospitals.\n\nThat would have added an extra 11% to the official UK figures, based solely on deaths in hospitals, that were being reported at that time.\n\nOf those extra deaths, 217 took place in care homes, 33 in hospices, 136 in private homes, three in other communal establishments and 17 elsewhere.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief medical officer has said details about the number of coronavirus-related deaths in care homes remain unclear, but it was reported last week that there were cases of Covid-19 in 20 care homes across the nation.\n\nIndustry leaders from Age UK, Marie Curie, Care England, Independent Age and the Alzheimer's Society have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding a care package to support social care through the pandemic.\n\nThey have also called for a daily update on deaths in the care system.\n\nIt comes after the government confirmed there had been coronavirus outbreaks at more than 2,000 care homes in England - although they did not specify the number of deaths that had occurred.\n\nThe figures prompted the charity Age UK to claim coronavirus is \"running wild\" in care homes for elderly people.\n\n\"The current figures are airbrushing older people out like they don't matter,\" Caroline Abrahams, the charity's director, said.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain's largest care home operator, HC-One, said coronavirus was present in two-thirds - 232 - of the group's care homes.\n\nIts director, Sir David Behan, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that coronavirus deaths represented about one-third of all deaths at HC-One's care homes over the last three weeks. HC-One has 329 care homes throughout England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nMHA, a charity which operates 131 homes, said there had been 210 coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nAbout 410,000 people live in care homes in the UK, living in 11,300 care homes for older people supplied by 5,500 different providers.\n\nAddressing why deaths in care homes are not being included in the government's data, Ms Coffey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the figures published weekly by the ONS is a \"fair\" way of establishing the \"unfortunate picture\" of where deaths are occurring.\n\nEngland's care home regulator, the Care Quality Commission, has said it will begin recording deaths in adult social care from this week - asking care providers to give daily updates on the number of confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nLabour's shadow social care minister Liz Kendall said daily figures were essential to dealing with the \"emerging crisis\" in care homes and called for the government to offer social care \"whatever resources it needs\".\n\nConservative peer and former work and pensions minister Baroness Altmann told Today that \"one or two\" people in care homes had said to her they felt as though older people are being treated \"like lambs to the slaughter\".\n\n\"They [care homes] are left without protective equipment, they are left without testing,\" she said.\n\nShe added that \"the mark of a civilised society\" was \"how it treats it most vulnerable and oldest citizens\".\n\nIt comes after Ms Abrahams said care homes were \"underprepared\" for the outbreak, adding that the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and testing was leading to the spread of coronavirus across the care home sector.\n\nHowever, Ms Coffey told the Today programme that the care sector was not being left behind, adding that PPE was being delivered \"to over 26,000 care settings across the country including care homes, home care providers and also hospices\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty told the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing that 92 homes in the UK reported outbreaks in one day.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care later confirmed 2,099 care homes in England have so far had cases of the virus.\n\nCare England has estimated there have been nearly 1,000 deaths from coronavirus in care homes, leaving social care as \"the neglected front line\".\n\nThe Labour Party has called on the government to publish daily figures of deaths in care homes to highlight the \"true scale\" of the spread of the virus, which causes the Covid-19 disease.\n\nThe issue has regularly been raised by journalists at the daily Downing Street briefing and the government response has been that the number announced each day is based on hospital figures as this can be quickly gathered and analysed - whereas deaths in the wider community take much longer to be collated after death certificates are issued by doctors.\n\nThe government says it is following the international standard by quoting the hospital figures each day - and that the fuller ONS figures can lag many days behind.\n\nThe latest care homes to confirm residents have died with symptoms of the virus include a home in Drumchapel, Glasgow, a specialist dementia home in Selston, Nottinghamshire, and a home in County Durham where 13 residents have died.\n\nThe Department of Health's official death number of deaths of people in hospital with coronavirus rose to 11,329 on Monday - up by 717 in a day.\n\nThe BBC's science editor David Shukman said the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) meeting later in the day will evaluate various ways coronavirus is unfolding in the UK.\n\nIt will look at hospital admissions, the approach to testing, data on intensive care capacity and deaths, the effectiveness of lockdown tactics, and whether or not the public should be advised to wear face masks outdoors.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has defended itself after reports it missed three chances to bulk-buy PPE for healthcare workers treating virus patients.\n\nHealth workers in 25 EU countries are set to receive deliveries of kit worth £1.3bn in the coming days, according to the Guardian.\n\nThe paper reports the UK missed three opportunities to join the scheme and has not taken part in talks on future purchases.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would \"consider participating in future EU joint procurement schemes on the basis of public health requirements at the time\".\n\n\"We will continue to work with European countries and others in order to make sure that we can increase the capacity within the NHS,\" they said.\n\nHow have you adapted to isolation during the pandemic? Do you have an relative living in a care home? Are you a care home employee? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Eamonn Holmes with co-host and wife Ruth Langsford on This Morning\n\nTV presenter Eamonn Holmes is at the centre of a controversy after casting doubt on media outlets that debunk the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.\n\n\"What I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true,\" the ITV This Morning host said.\n\n\"It's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative.\"\n\nHe was criticised on social media and by scientists who have dismissed the theories as \"complete rubbish\".\n\n\"The opinions of the mainstream media or the state hardly come into the debate,\" said Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading.\n\n\"Numerous doctors and scientists around the world have said that the disease is caused by a virus, something completely different to a mobile phone signal.\"\n\n5G radio signals are electromagnetic waves, he explained. \"Electromagnetic waves are one thing, viruses are another, and you can't get a virus off a phone mast.\n\n\"Similarly, sensible studies have failed to corroborate the claim that the signals emitted by 5G masts are able to suppress our immune systems.\"\n\nHolmes made the remarks on Monday in a segment with the programme's consumer editor Alice Beer, who said the 5G theory, which has led a number of phone masts to be set alight or vandalised, was \"not true and it's incredibly stupid\".\n\nHe told her: \"I totally agree with everything you are saying but what I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true.\n\n\"No-one should attack or damage or do anything like that, but it's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative.\n\n\"That's all I would say, as someone with an inquiring mind.\"\n\nOn Twitter, scientist and author Dr David Robert Grimes suggested the presenter should \"talk to the scientists & physicians who are experts 1st\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr David Robert Grimes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeer later reiterated her view that \"the 5G conspiracy theory is nonsense and should be quashed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Alice Beer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are aware of a number of attacks on phone masts and abuse of telecoms engineers apparently inspired by crackpot conspiracy theories circulating online.\n\n\"Those responsible for these criminal acts will face the full force of the law.\"\n\nScientists have called the rumours that there is a link between 5G and coronavirus \"complete rubbish\" and a biological impossibility.\n\nHowever, that has not stopped false claims being shared on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Some posts have now been removed, but in recent weeks the conspiracy theory has been shared by verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers.\n\nThis highlights the difficulty with covering misinformation about coronavirus. A lack of information and complex explanations often fail to satisfy a desire for immediate answers.\n\nThat allows misleading information - including conspiracy theories - to thrive.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government does not expect to make changes to coronavirus lockdown restrictions this week, Dominic Raab has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary said the UK's plan \"is working\" but that \"we are still not past the peak of this virus\".\n\n\"Keep this up, we have come too far, lost too many loved ones and sacrificed too much to ease up,\" he said.\n\nIt came as the government said it might change its advice to the public on wearing face masks outdoors.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the daily Downing Street news conference the guidance was subject to an ongoing review.\n\nHe added that the government had already seen \"more persuasive\" data suggesting masks can stop a person passing the virus to someone else, rather than preventing them from catching it.\n\nThe World Health Organization said it remains the case that medical masks should be reserved for healthcare workers, not the general public.\n\nMr Raab - who is standing in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he recovers from coronavirus - said a meeting of scientific advisers would take place to review evidence relating to the current lockdown restrictions this week.\n\n\"We don't expect to make any changes to the measures currently in place at that point and we won't until we're confident, as confident as we realistically can be, that any such changes can be safely made,\" he said.\n\nHe told the news conference that easing restrictions too early would \"risk a second wave\" of infections.\n\nResponding to claims the government lacks an exit strategy, Mr Raab said it was \"crucially important that we do not take our eye off the ball or the public's focus\" off social distancing measures.\n\nHe admitted the government had been \"concerned\" people \"might start ignoring the advice or cutting corners given the temptation to go out into the sunshine\" over the Easter weekend. However, he said the \"overwhelming\" majority of people stayed at home.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Coronavirus Q&A programme, Sir Patrick Vallance said of the lockdown: \"It is important that we continue it long enough and that we do not just say 'victory - remove it immediately in totality'.\n\n\"The next phase of this is understanding how and when to release these measures in a way that is safe.\"\n\nThe number of deaths in UK hospitals has risen to 11,329 - up by 717 since Sunday.\n\nThe Department of Health said a further 4,342 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt has become a vexed issue in this pandemic and the UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the country's stance was being reviewed.\n\nSo far the UK has advised against the use of face masks by the general public.\n\nThere remains concern that wearing one gives people a false sense of security leading to them slacking off other measures such as hand washing.\n\nBut the United States changed its mind and recommends that even healthy people do wear them.\n\nThat shift was in part due to the science showing people were infectious for a day before they start showing symptoms.\n\nThe World Health Organization's special envoy on coronavirus, Dr David Nabarro, said he thought wearing face masks would become the \"norm\".\n\nHe said the priority was health care workers and then for people who have the disease to minimise their risk of spreading it.\n\nBut in the future he can see face masks being recommended for people who can't socially distance in their jobs, such as hairdressers, and then eventually everyone.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser, told the briefing that 92 care homes had detected an outbreak of coronavirus in the last day alone.\n\n\"If an outbreak is suspected public health authorities will go in to do testing to check if an outbreak has taken place,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Health later confirmed to the BBC that coronavirus outbreaks have been detected at 2,099 facilities in England so far.\n\nProf Whitty added that he would like to have \"much more extensive testing\" in care homes due to the \"large numbers of vulnerable people\" there.\n\n\"One of the things we want to do is to extend the amount of testing of people in care homes as the ability to test ramps up over the next few weeks,\" he said.\n\nLiz Kendall, Labour's shadow minister for social care, called on the government to publish daily figures of deaths in care homes \"so we know the true scale of the problem and how fast it is spreading\".\n\nIt came as 13 residents of one 72-bed care home in County Durham were confirmed to have died after displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Patrick warned the number of deaths recorded in the UK is likely to rise in the coming days before they could plateau.\n\nHe said: \"I think this week we are going to see a further increase, thereafter we should see a plateau as the effects of social-distancing come through. That plateau may last for some time and begin to decrease.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the coronavirus? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Angela was 34 weeks pregnant when she was put into a coma Image caption: Angela was 34 weeks pregnant when she was put into a coma\n\nA US mother who was pregnant when she tested positive for Covid-19, has delivered her baby daughter while in a medically induced coma.\n\nAngela Primachenko, a 27-year-old respiratory therapist from Vancouver, Washington, was on a ventilator when doctors chose to induce labour in order to increase her odds of beating the illness and for the child's own safety.\n\n\"I feel like I'm a miracle walking,\" she told NBC News after tests showed that she was now Covid-negative.\n\nPrimachenko was 33 weeks pregnant when she became ill on 24 March. Eight days later she was fighting for her life.\n\nAfter being removed from the ventilator on 6 April, she looked down and immediately knew that she must have given birth.\n\n\"After all the medication and everything I just woke up and all of a sudden I didn't have my belly any more,\" she said.\n\n\"It was just extremely mind-blowing.\"\n\nShe has yet to hold her daughter Ava, who remains in hospital, but has FaceTimed with the newborn.\n\nPrimachenko will be allowed to visit after she has twice tested negative, NBC reports. Ava's test came back negative.\n\nWashington is one of the hardest hit US states, with 10,500 coronavirus cases and 516 deaths.", "Lots of people are finding it difficult to meet the demands of their mortgage\n\nOne in nine mortgage holders in the UK has taken a so-called \"payment holiday\" as their finances have been hit by the effects of coronavirus.\n\nLenders have agreed that 1.2 million homeowners can delay repayments as jobs are cut and wages reduced.\n\nTypically, this defers a mortgage bill of £775 a month, with borrowers given the option of delaying up to three months of repayments.\n\nMore are likely to take up the option, which should not affect credit ratings.\n\nMany frustrated mortgage holders have struggled to get through to their lender as phone lines have been so busy, leaving banks - who face their own staffing pressures - to prioritise the most vulnerable.\n\nUK Finance, which represents banks and which compiled the figures, said payment holidays were best organised, if possible, by filling in a form provided online by most lenders.\n\nBanks and building societies have offered up to three months of mortgage repayment deferrals for those struggling financially. This does not mean these bills are being cancelled, as they will still need to be paid at a later date.\n\nFor the typical capital and interest repayment mortgage, about £775 is being deferred each month.\n\nThe number of deferrals in place more than tripled in the two weeks between 25 March and 8 April, growing from 392,130 to 1.24 million. This is an increase of nearly 850,000, or an average of around 61,000 payment holidays being granted by lenders per day.\n\nWere they all to take a three-month break, a total of about £2.6bn would have been deferred.\n\nThe total would have risen since then, and is likely to increase further.\n\n\"Payment holidays aren't always the right solution for everyone. We would therefore encourage any mortgage customers concerned about their financial situation to check with their lender so they can find out more information on the support available and how to apply,\" said Stephen Jones, UK Finance chief executive.\n\nHe stressed that people should not simply cancel their direct debit without talking to their lender as this could lead to charges and could affect their chances of borrowing in the future.\n\nRobin Fieth, chief executive of the Building Societies Association (BSA), said: \"We know that this is a difficult time for many homeowners with a mortgage, and building society staff have been working hard to offer individuals the right solution.\"\n\nSome mortgages that track the Bank of England's interest rates have been getting cheaper after policymakers cut the base rate to its lowest-ever level in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHowever, most homeowners are on fixed-rate deals and so would have seen no reduction in their current monthly mortgage bill. With incomes having been hit, this has put strain on household finances.\n\nSome mortgage lenders, meanwhile, have been pulling out of offering new deals to people who cannot offer a large deposit, as much of the UK mortgage and housing market goes into lockdown itself.\n\nThat has ruled out first-time borrowers or existing homeowners with little equity in their home looking for a new deal.", "Tom Moore is aiming to walk 100 laps of 25m around his garden\n\nA 99-year-old army veteran who has joined the fundraising fight against Covid-19 has \"smashed\" his £500,000 target.\n\nTom Moore aims to complete 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday, walking with the aid of a frame.\n\nHe originally hoped to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together, to thank \"magnificent\" staff after recent treatment for a broken hip and cancer.\n\nHe said: \"I thank the British public from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\n\"Who would have thought that when I set a target of £1,000 a week ago, it could have reached £500,000?\" he added.\n\nMore than 24,000 people have contributed funds; he has appeared on TV; and singer and actor Jason Donovan has tweeted him birthday wishes.\n\nMr Moore served in India and Burma during World War Two\n\nMr Moore has completed 70 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, and is taking them on in 10-lap chunks.\n\nHowever, with the hot weather over the weekend, he decided to do 10 laps over two days to pace himself.\n\nHe is still ahead of schedule and hopes to complete the 2.5km (1.6 miles) distance by Thursday, instead of his initial target of his 100th birthday on 30 April.\n\nMr Moore was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and trained as a civil engineer before enlisting in the army for World War Two, rising to captain and serving in India and Burma.\n\nMr Moore said he can achieve his target if he goes \"slow and steady\"\n\nMr Moore's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, said when she told him he had reached £500,000 \"there was stunned silence\".\n\n\"We are completely floored by the amount of support flooding in - it's just incredible and he is smashing his target,\" she said.\n\n\"We say he needs a rest but he says that so long as he is slow and steady, he will reach it.\"\n\nA 100th birthday party with 100 guests has had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBut when a 1940s-style singer booked to attend serenaded him online, he was able to join in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rose Mitchell was diagnosed with coronavirus in a care home and died 24 hours later.\n\nHer daughter, Karin Pointon, has thanked carers for getting to know \"the little things\" about her mother in a difficult time.\n\nShe spoke to the BBC's Alex Forsyth about the hard decision not to go and say goodbye.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "Women's fashion retailers Oasis and Warehouse are expected to appoint administrators soon, putting about 2,300 jobs at risk.\n\nThe owner of the High Street brands, Icelandic bank Kaupthing, had been in talks to sell the businesses before the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHowever, the crisis, which has seen many shops temporarily close, has knocked the legs from under the sale.\n\nThe fashion retailers are expected to appoint Deloitte as administrators.\n\nThere is expected to be interest from bidders to buy the business, a source said, but with the current economic uncertainty, it is not clear how many jobs ultimately could be saved.\n\nAs first reported by Sky News, after the administration begins, Deloitte is expected to furlough many of the employees who keep their jobs under the government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\nThe chains were forced to shut their 90 UK stores because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe group also has 437 concessions in department stores including Debenhams and Selfridges.\n\nHigh Street retailers in the UK were facing a tough environment before the crisis, due to rising costs and changes in people's shopping habits.\n\nBut the temporary closure of many shops due to the coronavirus pandemic has heaped more pressure on retailers.\n\nIndependent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.\n\nSome retailers such as Primark have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nMeanwhile fashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nLast week department store chain Debenhams, which employs about 22,000 staff, confirmed it had entered administration for the second time in a year.\n\nIts 142 UK stores remain closed in line with Government guidance and the firm said it will work to 're-open and trade as many stores as possible' when restrictions end.\n\nAt the same time floral fashion firm Cath Kidston filed for administration, putting 950 jobs at risk.", "By last Tuesday, the death toll from coronavirus in New York City had passed that of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.\n\nThe figure was reached only three weeks after the first coronavirus death in the city.\n\nThe outbreak has placed New York at the centre of the global pandemic and put an unprecedented strain on the city's emergency workers and frontline staff.\n\nOver the course of Tuesday, six of those people - two doctors, an undertaker, two senior care home staff and a food delivery worker - kept diaries of their day and shared them with the BBC.\n\nKathleen Flanagan returns from a late shift at a nursing home. The TV is on in the living room, playing the sitcom That '70s Show. As has become the custom in her household she shouts \"Hello\" to let her family know that she is home and to make sure they avoid contact with her.\n\nShe heads downstairs into the laundry room, takes off her clothes and showers.\n\nEverything she has worn at work must go into the washing machine before she sees her husband and children.\n\nWhen she heads back up the stairs, she is greeted by a bouquet of sunflowers in the kitchen. A card from her eight-year-old son reads: \"Keep kicking butt Mom!\"\n\nTwo of her three sons are asleep on the couch waiting for her. She cooks eggs and spinach for dinner and shares details of her day with her husband - the good news is that coronavirus patients in one of the centres she oversees are starting to look better, but in another the situation is getting worse.\n\nShe opens her laptop to do some work and falls asleep somewhere between 01:00 and 02:00.\n\nDoctor Jennifer Haythe is woken by a call from the intensive care unit at her hospital, letting her know about a Covid-19 patient whose condition is deteriorating.\n\nThe 46-year-old hangs up the phone and tosses and turns in bed, worrying about the patient. She rethinks the plan for them and then is met by the increasingly familiar feeling of loneliness.\n\nLike many healthcare professionals working with coronavirus patients, Jennifer is living separately from her family. She is staying in an apartment in Greenwich Village, while her husband and children are in their house upstate.\n\nFaced with an eerie silence outside and missing her loved ones, she does a deep breathing exercise: \"In for four, hold for seven, out for eight.\" It must work because she falls asleep.\n\nOutside the city, in the New York state town of Corinth, Faith Willett, a director of nursing at a care home, is woken by a member of staff reporting a high fever. She advises her to self-isolate and contact a doctor as soon as possible.\n\nFaith feels sick and struggles to fall back to sleep. She scrolls through her phone to see the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak, paying close attention to local updates that might be worrying residents and their families.\n\nThe news feels so surreal that the 46-year-old nurse wonders if she's asleep. She wakes her husband to ask if she's dreaming. \"No, babes, you're awake,\" he replies. He tells her to get some rest.\n\nAfter a few hours of disturbed sleep, she wakes to her alarm. She grabs her computer and scans the latest updates from her colleagues. She can breathe a sigh of relief. There are no confirmed cases - for now.\n\nFuneral director Steven Baxter is already out of the house. His hours have completely changed since the virus struck, as he and funeral workers across New York struggle to keep up with the rising number of fatalities.\n\nThe days of wearing a suit to work are gone. He now dons \"scrubs\" that he can throw out afterwards, without risking cross-contamination. The trainers he wears to work are always kept outside.\n\nHe sets off to a nursing home, where he has to collect the body of yet another coronavirus victim. It is the first of several such visits he will have to make that day.\n\nBack in Greenwich Village, doctor Jennifer Hayth wakes up to her alarm. She opens her eyes with the fleeting hope that the past few weeks have been a bad dream.\n\nShe has a shower and gets ready for work. There are no dogs for her to walk, no husband to kiss goodbye and no children to prepare breakfast for.\n\nShe heads to a coffee shop where a woman walking her dog notices her doctor's uniform and thanks her. In the cafe, the only other customer - a retired police officer - pays for her coffee.\n\nThe Cat Stevens song Peace Train comes on the radio as she drives to work at Columbia University Medical Center. She hasn't heard it for a while and it makes her feel energised. She looks over the highway at the USNS Comfort - a Navy hospital ship docked in New York City where coronavirus patients are being treated - and thinks to herself that it seems almost majestic.\n\nArriving at work, she puts on her mask, gown, gloves and other equipment required for working with coronavirus patients and heads over for another day in the ICU.\n\nNurse Kathleen Flanagan wakes to a hug from her eight-year-old son. Before she leaves the house, he performs a dance to the song High Hopes by the band Panic! At the Disco.\n\nShe listens to it again in the car, applying the lyrics to her own life.\n\nMama said don't give up, it's a little complicated...\n\nHad to have high, high hopes for a living\n\nAs she listens to the song, she passes the traffic light where last month she received a phone call that changed everything. A colleague at a nursing and rehabilitation centre in New York City told her that two residents had fevers and respiratory symptoms - the first signs of coronavirus in any of the six Centers Health Care facilities she oversees.\n\nShe was heading to a different centre at the time and was faced with the decision of whether to help remotely or change her plans and put herself on the frontlines of the outbreak. She turned her car around.\n\nHer normal job does not include direct patient care. But three weeks later, she continues to take a hands-on role at the centres with coronavirus patients in spite of the risks.\n\nAt the Glens Falls Center nursing home, Faith Willett has been at work for about an hour and there is already cause for concern.\n\nBefore leaving the house this morning, she said her personal mantra aloud to herself in the shower: \"We've got this.\" Like every day in recent weeks, she hoped there would be no signs of coronavirus in the centre.\n\nBut as a nurse walked out of a resident's room during the routine morning checks, Faith could tell from her eyes it was bad news - the resident had a high temperature and was getting short of breath while reading her Bible.\n\nCoronavirus has forced carers like Faith Willett to go against all their natural instincts\n\nAll the staff at the home know this might end up being the day the virus made its way in. Masks need to be issued and the door to the resident's room must be closed, with only designated caregivers in full protective equipment allowed in.\n\nYou should never close a door to a resident's room unless they ask you to - it's a violation of their rights; it's forced isolation; it's mistreatment, she thinks. But she reminds herself that they must go against all their instincts as caregivers to save lives.\n\nA nurse in full protective equipment goes into the room to perform the test. There are tears in the nurse's eyes but they soften as she walks in. She completes the test, packages it and takes it to the lab. Faith admires the woman's bravery for being able to do it.\n\nSteven Baxter is sorting through death certificates and other documentation at Gannon Funeral Home in Manhattan. The phone line has just opened so he is preparing for another day of calls from families who have lost loved ones to the virus.\n\nThe 53-year-old recently converted the chapel in the funeral home into a morgue. He has a rule: the dead need to be treated with respect and given adequate space. But the number of bodies coming in is hard to keep up with.\n\nLater today he will need to take the bodies of eight Covid-19 patients to be cremated, and to chase a supplier about cremation boxes, which are increasingly in short supply.\n\nIt will be about three weeks before the person he collected this morning can be cremated - the pandemic has put a strain on the system, creating major backlogs.\n\nAll his days are merging into one at the moment. The \"removal\" this morning was like any other in the time of coronavirus - he put on a respirator and other protective equipment, and used disinfectant spray as he worked to ensure he was safely transferring the body.\n\nPeople not directly on the frontline are also performing critical jobs to prevent the virus spreading.\n\nSince the pandemic began, doctor Michael Morgenstern has swapped his subway commute for a walk upstairs. This morning, he logs on to video conferencing platform Zoom for his first appointment of the day.\n\nMany of his patients are elderly and part of his role now is explaining the risks of coronavirus to them, and the precautions they should take.\n\nThe first patient wants to go out and visit two other doctors. Michael asks the son, who is also on the call, to try to see if the appointments can be conducted over the phone or through a video platform.\n\nHe is concerned about people exposing themselves to the virus and has spent much of his morning up to now working on a petition calling for the public to wear non-medical face masks, in line with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control.\n\nHe repeats the mantra \"an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure\" to himself as he works.\n\nHis legs shake as he begins his second appointment of the day. He's nervous about what's happening in the world.\n\nFaith Willett gets a call from the nurse who fell ill - she can't get tested and has instead been labelled \"presumed positive\".\n\nFaith is angry about the lack of testing for a frontline worker. She worries that the residents may have been exposed and then finds herself wondering - selfishly, she thinks - if she too might have been.\n\nFive other people working at the home have been tested for Covid-19 because of symptoms - four were negative and the fifth is pending.\n\nFaith and her colleagues all worry about the same thing: they don't want to be the person who brings the virus into the facility.\n\nAt another nursing and rehabilitation home, Kathleen Flanagan has spent much of the morning checking on residents with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe hospital calls to discuss returning one long-term resident, assuring her that he is alert and responsive.\n\nTwo others are at the hospital. One is not doing well. When asked who his next of kin are, she replies: \"We are his family.\"\n\nShe urges the doctor to fight for him.\n\nAt the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, a hospital worker takes a moment to pause\n\nMichael Morgenstern sees his next patient via video call. An elderly person with cancer.\n\nThe cancer appears to be spreading but while the patient is continuing with chemotherapy, they are holding off on adding radiation treatment for now because of the Covid-19 risk.\n\nMichael is worried. He advises relatives who are still going outside to consider wearing face masks when they are around the patient.\n\nHe continues to see patients and work with volunteers for his coronavirus campaign throughout the morning. One of the patients was born only shortly after the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, he thinks to himself.\n\nDoctor Jennifer Haythe is carrying out rounds in the ICU. Everyone she sees is a Covid-19 patient. They are all on ventilators.\n\nShe passes colleagues but can only see their eyes. In them she sees stress, but also hope and courage.\n\nA patient is transported through Jennifer's hospital in Manhattan\n\nAs she attends to sick and dying patients she thinks about what it must be like for them and their families.\n\n\"A hospital without visitors. What is that?\" she asks herself.\n\nSarujen Sivakumar, a 22-year-old Lebanese-born delivery team manager for Eat Offbeat - a catering company led by immigrants and refugees - heads out to work.\n\nLike many businesses across New York, his company has had to re-model amid the pandemic and now sells coronavirus \"care packages\" of a week's worth of meals and snacks.\n\nAs he begins his journey, he is struck again by how quiet the city is. In the six years since he arrived here as a refugee, he has never seen it like this. There are no groups talking to each other, no performers at the subway station. He feels almost as if he is in a video game.\n\nBefore the outbreak, he would greet his colleagues with special handshakes and hugs. But as he walks into the kitchen today, he knows he has to keep his distance.\n\nAt the Glens Falls nursing home, it is visiting time.\n\nFaith and her colleagues bring residents into the dining room where there are big windows through which they can see their relatives.\n\nFamilies wait outside in their cars and take turns coming to the windows. They have agreed to limit their visits to 10 minutes each.\n\nAs emotional reunions take place through the glass, Faith observes the range of tears being shed - joy, laughter, sadness and, of course, fear.\n\nThe chefs at Sarujen's company say they are too scared to take the train to work any more, but also worry about how they would survive financially if the company stops running.\n\nSarujen knows how hard he and others at the company worked to get where they are today. He worries that if it closes, it won't be the same again in the future.\n\nThere is little time to talk about it in depth as they have deliveries to get on with.\n\nSteven Baxter heads to a funeral home to collect the body of another coronavirus victim.\n\nHe received a call the previous day from a man whose father had died. He couldn't afford what the company was charging for a cremation and needed someone else to take over.\n\nAs he collects the body, Steven is angry about what he sees as exploitation of victims of a health crisis. He believes the price that was being charged is four times the average in the city.\n\nIt's the news everyone had been dreading. The result for the fifth employee tested at Faith Willett's home comes back positive.\n\nShe tells herself there's no time to feel - she needs to act.\n\nShe begins the difficult process of alerting residents and their families.\n\nMessages in support of medical staff have appeared outside Mount Sinai West Medical Center\n\nWhile speaking to a patient earlier in the day who was unable to get a mask, doctor Michael Morgenstern shows him how to fashion one out of a T-shirt.\n\nHe decides others may also need to see how to do this so shoots a video and shares it online.\n\nAs Sarujen drops off his last package, he gets a call asking him to join a team meeting about the future of the company.\n\nAt the meeting, they agree that the delivery drivers will take the chefs to and from work so they can avoid trains.\n\nHe is happy that he can continue working but exhausted from stress over the virus and the day's concerns over his job.\n\nSteven Baxter returns home from the funeral home but his day isn't over.\n\nHis twin sons are playing basketball in the backyard. They ask him if he has to shower. When he says yes, they know what sort of day he must have had.\n\nFor the next few hours, he deals with calls from more bereaved families. He doesn't have time to speak with his wife, who is also a funeral director.\n\nHe falls asleep before his children. He has to be at another nursing home to collect another body at 04:00.\n\nJennifer has a hot bath and is ready to crawl into bed. Even though her hours haven't changed, she feels much more exhausted than before.\n\nAs she responds to more texts about patient care, she reviews how she feels. Achy, tired, sore throat. She wonders if she should get tested.\n\nFaith Willett gets a call from a nurse who says she can't do an upcoming shift. She isn't unwell but news has got around about today's positive result at the nursing home.\n\nThe nurse's skills and training are invaluable. Faith can't understand the woman's decision, which she sees as jumping ship at a time of crisis.\n\nJennifer watches an episode of TV sitcom Friends. It is all she can manage to watch these days - she struggles to focus on anything too heavy.\n\nShe has a goodnight FaceTime with her children before turning out the lights. She hasn't seen them in person for eight days.\n\nAs she closes her eyes, she makes a mental note: \"Thank the cast of Friends when this is over.\"\n\nKathleen Flanagan has been home for about an hour. It was the usual routine - a shout of \"hello\" to the family again, clothes in the washing machine again, a shower again.\n\nShe has time for only one meal a day at the moment. Today it was eggs and spinach, again.\n\nShe goes to sleep with The Office playing on Netflix. It is her winding-down time before she has to start again. But her phone stays close in case anyone needs her.\n\nThere are only a few hours before Faith has to start work again. She has been trying to get some rest but is woken by an email reminder from the department of health about an upcoming call about the virus.\n\nThere has been no news from her nursing home of new or worsening symptoms. But that doesn't mean she can relax.\n\nThroughout this day, Tuesday 7 April, another 779 people died of coronavirus in New York state - a new high.\n\nThis grim record is surpassed again the next day.\n\nAll images were taken on Tuesday, 7 April\n• None 'Like 9/11 every day': A New York paramedic's diary", "Tributes have been paid to healthcare worker Leilani Medel from Bridgend who has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nMrs Medel, 41, who was originally from the Philippines, died on Thursday at the Princess of Wales Hospital.\n\nHer husband Johnny remains in a critical condition in hospital having also developed symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from the Philippines, Mrs Medel's aunt Shiela Ancheta said: “It doesn't seem real that she is gone from us. She was full of life.\n\n“We just want her to know how much we will miss her, and how much her family is hurting.\n\n“She will always be remembered as a modern hero during this pandemic.\"\n\nFlowers have been left on the doorstep of the family’s home in Coychurch, Bridgend.\n\n“We’ve known them since they moved in,\" said one neighbour.\n\n\"They were always very friendly. They were lovely. Very generous, very kind.”\n\nIt’s understood Mrs Mendel worked as an agency nurse in several care homes across south Wales.\n\nHelen Whyley, director of the Royal College of Nursing Wales, said: \"I am devastated to learn that another nurse has passed away.\n\n“This is the third reported death of a nursing professional in Wales due to Covid-19.\n\n“Nurses have been at the forefront of the battle. For those who have sadly passed away, we will always remember their sacrifice and dedication to caring for their patients.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gareth Roberts died in hospital in the early hours of Saturday\n\nA nurse who died after contracting coronavirus \"paid the ultimate price\" due to a lack of personal protective equipment, a friend has claimed.\n\nGareth Roberts, 65, worked as a nurse across the Cardiff and Vale health board area for more than 40 years.\n\nThe husband, father and grandfather died in hospital in Merthyr Tydfil in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nHis friend said he had little to no protection from the virus which the health board said it would investigate.\n\n\"He didn't have PPE. In the beginning he said he didn't have anything,\" his childhood friend Janette Leonard said.\n\n\"He had a paper mask, plastic gloves and a pinny, that's alright if you are making sandwiches but not when you are going to nurse people with the disease.\"\n\nMr Roberts' wife Linda was told to attend his bedside in the early hours of Saturday when it became clear he would pass away\n\nMr Roberts had devoted his life to caring for people, working as a nurse since the 1980s and coming out of retirement in January 2015.\n\nOver the last few weeks, as concerns about the virus escalated, he had been working extra shifts to help cover the wards at Llandough Hospital near Penarth.\n\nBut he became ill himself with Covid-19, and gradually his condition deteriorated.\n\nAt the weekend, his family were called to his bedside at Prince Charles Hospital, and Ms Leonard said his wife was with him when he passed away.\n\n\"For Gareth, he paid the ultimate price,\" said Ms Leonard.\n\n\"We're angry. Why would you send a soldier on to the front line without combat gear? It's unthinkable.\"\n\nJeanette Leonard, a friend of Mr Roberts since childhood, says his sense of humour would \"make you weak\"\n\nMr Roberts loved his job but he was also a husband to Linda, a father to Ceri and Dean and a grandfather to 16-year-old Zac, who he and Linda had brought up after their son Dean passed away 11 years ago.\n\nMs Leonard said his sense of humour was so dry, and \"you couldn't not love him\".\n\n\"He'd come out with things and you'd be weak,\" she said.\n\n\"Cariad [Welsh for love] was his favourite word. The nursing sister in the ward was saying to me she'll miss him saying 'come on cariad, we can do this together'.\n\n\"That's how he was - a proper genuine, lovely guy.\"\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has paid tribute to Mr Roberts and said it would investigate the claims over a lack of PPE.\n\nGareth Roberts devoted 40 years of his life to caring for people as a nurse\n\nRuth Walker, the health board's executive nurse director at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said: \"We are aware of the concerns raised by some staff in the media regarding the availability and or inaccessibility of PPE.\n\n\"As a result of the inferences made we are taking a more detailed look into the availability of PPE at UHL and we regularly check our systems to ensure that we get stock to the right place at the right time.\n\n\"As a health board, we have enough PPE equipment available and in stock, providing the right level of PPE is used in the right circumstances to meet the national guidance as well as the high standards we have set ourselves.\n\n\"If a colleague has not found this to be the case and they have encountered either a shortage or a perceived shortage we would encourage them to raise it immediately.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working hard to make sure all front-line NHS and social care staff had the protection and support they needed to undertake their roles\n\n\"So far, we've distributed more than 10.4 million items of PPE from our pandemic stocks, over and above our usual supply,\" a spokesman said.\n\nMs Leonard has now set up a fundraising page to help Mr Roberts' family with funeral costs, which raised £2,700 in less than a day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows wildfires near the nuclear disaster site this week\n\nA fire that threatened the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant has been contained, Ukrainian authorities said.\n\nEmergency services said on Tuesday there were still some \"smouldering\" parts of the forest floor, but there was \"no open fire\" left.\n\nThere had been fears the blaze could threaten the site of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe.\n\nGreenpeace Russia said on Monday one blaze was just one kilometre from the plant itself.\n\nThough fires are common in the area, Greenpeace said this was the worst in decades. Police have arrested a 27-year-old man and accused him of starting the blaze.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was \"carefully monitoring\" the situation and praised emergency services for their \"courage\".\n\nHe tweeted that \"society needs to know the truth and to be safe\".\n\nThe reactor complex (circled) pictured on 9 April by a satellite operated by the Planet company\n\nBy Monday (13 April), the satellite imagery indicated that conditions had improved significantly\n\nIn 1986, the former nuclear plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown that spread radioactive fallout across Europe.\n\nChernobyl and the nearby town of Pripyat have been abandoned ever since, although they have attracted large numbers of tourists in recent years.\n\nHundreds of firefighters as well as planes and helicopters were sent to tackle the fire.\n\nOn Tuesday, state emergency services announced the blaze had largely been contained.\n\n\"There is no open fire,\" a statement said, adding that there was \"a slight smouldering of the forest floor\" in separate places.\n\n\"We are trying to stop the spread of several hot spots of fire,\" said Volodymyr Demchuk, a senior official from Ukraine's emergency service.\n\nAircraft dropped 538 tons of water on the blaze on Monday, the statement said. Background radiation in and around the capital Kyiv \"is within normal limits\".\n\nAuthorities have been fighting the flames for more than a week\n\nAn image from 12 April shows part of the exclusion zone blackened by the flames\n\nOver the past week there have been concerns the fire could threaten the plant and even spread radioactive chemicals.\n\nSergiy Zibtsev, head of the Regional Eastern European Fire Monitoring Center, told AFP news agency that the fire had become \"super-huge\" and \"unpredictable\".\n\nLocal tour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said on Monday that one fire had reached Pripyat and was even just 2km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored. \"The situation is critical,\" he wrote on Facebook.\n\nIn 2018 more than 70,000 people visited the town. Last year that figure was even higher, after the success of an HBO mini-series about the disaster.\n\nChernobyl nuclear power station and Pripyat have been abandoned since 1986, when the plant’s No. 4 reactor blew up.\n\nPeople are forbidden from living within 30km (18 miles) of the power station.\n\nChernobyl continued to generate power until the plant's last operational reactor was finally closed in 2000. A giant shield built to cover the reactor was installed in November 2016, replacing a decaying sarcophagus built in 1986 to seal in nuclear materials.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Captain Tom Moore told the BBC that the nurses and doctors \"deserve every penny\"\n\nA 99-year-old army veteran who has raised more than £4m to help the NHS in the fight against Covid-19 has vowed to keep going even though he has smashed his original £1,000 target.\n\nTom Moore aimed to complete 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday, walking with the aid of a frame.\n\nHowever he has now said he will not stop and hopes to do another 100.\n\nNHS Charities Together, which will benefit from the funds, said it was \"truly inspired and humbled\".\n\nNearly 170,000 people from around the world have donated money to his fundraising page since it was set up last week.\n\nMr Moore began raising funds to thank the \"magnificent\" NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nHe hoped to walk 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, in 10-lap chunks, before his 100th birthday at the end of the month.\n\nMr Moore served in India and Burma during World War Two\n\nAs funds topped the £1m mark earlier, \"Captain Tom\", as he is known, described it as \"almost unbelievable\".\n\n\"When you think of who it is all for - all those brave and super doctors and nurses we have got - I think they deserve every penny, and I hope we get some more for them too.\"\n\nMr Moore's efforts have \"humbled\" the NHS charity for which he is raising money\n\nEllie Orton, chief executive of the charity on the receiving end of Mr Moore's fundraising, said: \"I think I absolutely join the rest of the country in being truly inspired and profoundly humbled by Captain Tom and what he has achieved.\n\n\"Thank you for being an inspiration and a role model.\"\n\nMr Moore uses a walking frame to help him on his laps of the garden\n\nMoney raised by him and others for the charity is being spent on well-being packs for NHS staff, rest and recuperation rooms, electronic devices to enable hospital patients to keep in contact with loved ones, and working with community groups to support patients once they have been discharged from hospitals.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Captain Tom Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Moore was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire and trained as a civil engineer before enlisting in the army for World War Two. He rose to captain and served in India and Burma.\n\n\"I do [laps] each day, so that eventually I'll get to 100, then after that I shall continue and do some more,\" he said.\n\nThe support so far had been \"absolutely fabulous\", he added.\n\n\"Let's all carry on and remember that things will get better,\" Mr Moore said.\n\n\"We have had problems before - we have overcome them - and we shall all overcome the same thing again.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden's campaign to take on Donald Trump in November's election.\n\nSenator Sanders pulled out of the contest to be the Democratic Party's nominee last week, leaving Mr Biden as the only remaining candidate.\n\nIn a live split-screen webcast, former vice-president Mr Biden thanked his former rival for the endorsement.\n\nSenator Sanders urged all Americans to unite to defeat Mr Trump.\n\nHe described him as \"the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country\".\n\n\"Today I am asking all Americans - I'm asking every Democrat, I'm asking every independent, I'm asking a lot of Republicans - to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which I endorse,\" Mr Sanders, 78, said.\n\n\"It's imperative that all of us work together.\"\n\nMr Biden, 77, said he was \"deeply grateful\" for the endorsement and said he needed Mr Sanders not just for the campaign, but to govern.\n\n\"You've put the interests of this nation and the need to beat Donald Trump above all else. As you say - 'Not me, us',\" he said.\n\nAddressing the Vermont senator's supporters, Mr Biden added: \"I see you, I hear you, I understand the urgency of what it is that we have to get done in this country, and I hope you'll join us.\"\n\nMr Biden said he and Mr Sanders were setting up policy working groups to address issues including climate change, health care and college fees.\n\nIt emerged shortly afterwards that Mr Biden had beaten Mr Sanders in last week's Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary - held amid controversy because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSenator Sanders, a self-described \"Democratic socialist\", ended his presidential campaign last week, telling supporters he could see no feasible path to get enough votes to win the nomination.\n\nHe became an early front-runner, popular with younger voters, and made healthcare and income inequalities key election issues.\n\nHowever, he slipped behind Mr Biden in recent weeks.\n\nMr Sanders, an Independent, had sought the Democratic presidential nomination before, losing out in 2016 to Hillary Clinton.\n\nIt has become gospel among some Democrats that Bernie Sanders's extended 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, which did not conclude until early June, created divisions within the party that contributed to Donald Trump's general election victory.\n\nSanders didn't formally endorse Clinton until mid-July, and while he campaigned for her in the autumn, critics suggest it was with insufficient enthusiasm.\n\nExit polls don't conclusively show that Sanders voters hurt Clinton, but the pain of 2016 colours the entirety of Democratic presidential politics in 2020.\n\nAnd so Bernie Sanders popped up on a Joe Biden webcast on Monday to offer his formal endorsement, just five days after he suspended his presidential campaign.\n\nBoth sides spoke of co-operation and a unity of purpose - with a kind of rapport that was missing between Sanders and Clinton four years ago. It's the sort of performance that will make party elders hopeful that the supposed mistakes of the past will not be repeated.\n\nThe real test, however, is whether Sanders's supporters - particularly younger voters - will heed their leader's urging.\n\nThey don't have to love Biden for him to beat Trump, but they will have to show up to vote.", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "The number of men and women marrying each other has fallen to its lowest level on record, official statistics show.\n\nA total of 235,910 opposite-sex marriages were registered in England and Wales in 2017- a decrease of 2.8% compared with 2016.\n\nThe number has fallen by 45% since 1972, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nOverall, there were 242,842 marriages during 2017 - 2.8% less than 2016.\n\nKanak Ghosh, from the ONS, said: \"Marriage rates for opposite-sex couples are now at the lowest level on record.\n\n\"This continues a gradual long-term decline seen since the early 1970s, with numbers falling by a third over the past 40 years.\"\n\nIn 2017, there were 21.2 marriages per 1,000 unmarried men and 19.5 marriages per 1,000 unmarried women aged 16 years and over.\n\nThe average age at which opposite-sex couples got married was 38 for men and 35 for women.\n\nIn 2017, there were 6,932 marriages of same-sex couples of which 56% were between female couples and 44% between two men.\n\nA further 1,072 couples converted their existing civil partnership into a marriage, according to the ONS.\n\nThe figures also show less than a quarter (22%) of all marriages in 2017 were religious ceremonies - the lowest percentage on record.\n\nCivil marriages have outnumbered religious marriages every year since 1992.", "As the death toll from coronavirus continues to climb, hospitals across the UK are working flat out to create more intensive care beds for those who are critically ill. Speaking to the BBC, one intensive care doctor describes the crippling reality of a lack of support and equipment faced by some health-care workers in England.\n\nSeveral healthcare workers in England have told the BBC of a lack of equipment in their hospitals. Warned against speaking to the media, they were unwilling to talk publicly. However, one intensive care doctor from the Midlands wanted to go on record. The BBC agreed to change her name in order to protect her identity.\n\nDr Roberts describes a hospital on the brink. Intensive care is already full of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients. All operations deemed non-urgent, even the cancer clinics, have been cancelled. There is a lack of staff, a lack of critical care beds, a shortage of basic antibiotics and ventilators.\n\nAll this, combined with the looming uncertainty of what will be the expected peak, estimated to hit the UK around 14-15 April, means hospital staff are already feeling the strain.\n\nHowever, nothing Dr Roberts describes is quite as alarming as the fact that these medical professionals, who continue to care for critically ill patients for 13 hours every day, are having to resort to fashioning personal protective equipment (PPE) out of clinical waste bags, plastic aprons and borrowed skiing goggles.\n\nDr Roberts shown in the left picture, tying a bin bag covering the sides and back of her colleague's head\n\nWhile the public attempts to keep to a social distance of two metres, many NHS staff are being asked to examine patients suspected of coronavirus at a distance of 20cm - without the proper protection.\n\nWith potentially fatal implications, Dr Roberts says several departments within her hospital are now so fearful of what's coming next, they have begun to hoard PPE for themselves.\n\n\"It's about being pragmatic. The nurses on ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit) need it now. They are doing procedures which risk aerosol spread of the virus. But they've been told to wear normal theatre hats, which have holes in them and don't provide any protection.\n\n\"It's wrong. And that's why we're having to put bin bags and aprons on our heads.\"\n\nThe government has acknowledged distribution problems, but says a national supply team, supported by the armed forces, is now \"working around the clock\" to deliver equipment.\n\nNHS England also said more than one million respiratory face masks were delivered on 1 April, but with no mention of much-needed head protection and long-sleeved gowns.\n\nDr Roberts says her hospital has not received anything from the government, and what they do have is causing concern.\n\n\"The respiratory protection face masks we're using at the moment, they've all been relabelled with new best-before end dates. Yesterday I found one with three stickers on. The first said, expiry 2009. The second sticker, expiry 2013. And the third sticker on the very top said 2021.\"\n\nPublic Health England has said all stockpiled pieces of PPE [personal protective equipment] labelled with new expiry dates have \"passed stringent tests\" and are \"safe for use by NHS staff\". But Dr Roberts says she is not convinced.\n\nDr Roberts pulls expiry date stickers from the packaging on a face mask\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care also said it was \"working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army… If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place\".\n\nIt said its new guidance on PPE was in line with World Health Organization advice to \"make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing\".\n\nCurrently ventilated and under Dr Roberts' care are three of her colleagues, all of whom have tested positive for coronavirus. One is an intensive care doctor working on a Covid ward, who, like Dr Roberts, only had access to inadequate protection.\n\nThe other two were both working on non-Covid wards and therefore were wearing no PPE. However, given their symptoms, Dr Roberts believes both of them contracted the virus while at work.\n\nAlthough colleagues continue to visit, as with all other patients, no relatives are allowed anywhere within the hospital.\n\n\"The hardest thing at the moment is having to tell families you are withdrawing care, over the phone. Telling them their relatives are dying or have died but we can't let you come and see them,\" says Dr Roberts.\n\n\"Normally you can say to their relative who's at the bedside, 'We're going to do everything we can', but I haven't felt able to say that, because at the moment, I can't.\n\n\"I can't necessarily give them the best care on a ventilator, I can't guarantee the best nursing care, because the best nurses are being stretched four ways. We're running out of antibiotics, and I can't guarantee all the treatments that I know would help them.\"\n\nNHS England says it has no record of how many medical professionals have been admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus at work.\n\nHowever, the two hardest-hit countries in Europe are counting. Spain's emergency health minister announced on 27 March that more than 9,400 health-care workers had tested positive, and in Italy, as of 30 March, more than 6,414 medical professionals were reported to have been infected.\n\nIn the UK, several health workers are known to have died from coronavirus, including Areema Nasreen, a staff nurse in the West Midlands, Thomas Harvey, a health-care assistant in east London, Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha in central London, Dr Alfa Saadu in north London, Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester.\n\nBased on projections from Italy and Spain, Dr Roberts says health-care workers are bracing for the peak to hit in less than two weeks.\n\n\"If cases rise as quickly as they did in Spain and Italy, then quite frankly, we are screwed. All of our overspill areas will soon be full.\n\n\"The anaesthetic machines we have, which are designed to work for two to three hours at most, have been running for four to five days straight. We're already getting leaks and failures.\"\n\nAlso short of PPE, an intensive care nurse in Spain wears a bin bag and a protective plastic mask, donated by a local company\n\nExtra intensive care beds, set up in several operating theatres and wards, have nearly doubled the hospital's capacity to support critically ill patients, particularly those who can't breathe for themselves and need to be put on a ventilator.\n\nHowever, by expanding intensive care, Dr Roberts says it's the nursing staff who are disproportionately affected.\n\n\"Intensive care nurses are highly trained and normally deliver care one-to-one to those critically ill. Their patients may be asleep, but they have such a close relationship, they can describe every hair on a patient's head.\n\n\"But now, with these extra beds, nurses are under pressure to look after up to four patients, while delivering the same level of critical care. They are in tears and really struggling. They are the most important part of the system, but that's where it's going to fall down\".\n\nOutside in the hospital car park, Dr Roberts describes how a new temporary building has appeared in the ambulance bay with just one purpose - to vet all patients for symptoms of coronavirus before they are admitted.\n\nIt is run by a clinician, who, Dr Roberts points out, could otherwise be looking after patients. She describes the unit as a \"lie detector\".\n\n\"It's really common for people to lie about their symptoms just to get seen. People who should have stayed at home, but they come to A&E.\n\n\"So now every single patient gets vetted in the car park, to make sure those with Covid symptoms go to the right part of the hospital and don't infect everyone else, like those who've come in with a broken arm.\"\n\nBut for Dr Roberts, it's not just about those turning up at A&E, it's everyone.\n\n\"Most hospital staff, we are isolating ourselves when we are not at work, so as not to put other people at risk.\n\n\"But the most frustrating thing for us is to see the parks full, or Tescos even busier than usual. Please stay at home.\"", "Bettina Biazzo’s sons Rocco and Marco safeguard Easter eggs to be delivered to a hospital in Crawley\n\nPeople across England have been donating chocolate Easter eggs to key workers such as NHS staff to say 'thank you\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFrom local football clubs to multi-million pound companies, many have said they wanted to show support over the Easter holidays.\n\nChris Collins, who donated eggs on behalf of the sports team he coaches, said it was “our little way of saying thank you very much”.\n\nMr Collins, 50, and his wife, Suzy, 40, originally bought 40 eggs to give to the players of the Bootham Futsal Club.\n\nChris and Suzy Collins said they had \"nothing but praise\" for NHS staff after she was treated following a motorcycle crash\n\nAfter the outbreak, with all club fixtures and training suspended, the couple - from York - said it was “only right” to donate the eggs to the nearby York District Hospital.\n\n“We thought, it’s the least we can do for the NHS,” Mr Collins said.\n\n“There’s not a lot of good news around at the moment, people are struggling, but when things go wrong it brings out the good in people,” he added.\n\n“It’s such a minor thing we’re doing, but hopefully it will make staff smile while doing what is a horrible job at the moment.”\n\nBettina Biazzo said she couldn't wait to see the faces of NHS staff when she delivered the eggs\n\nBettina Biazzo, 39, started raising money to get 75 Easter eggs to staff at Crawley Hospital.\n\n“One of my friends works at the hospital and said ‘I’m trying to get eggs for my nurses’, they’re working such long hours, they haven’t got time to queue up at the shops to get Easter eggs.”\n\nBetween her and a colleague, Ms Biazzo said they had raised enough to buy 100 eggs each and planned to deliver them as a surprise.\n\n“I think we all feel helpless in the lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"I’m stuck indoors and wanted to do something. I think people, especially those who are self-isolating and haven’t got friends or family nearby, want to feel like a part of something.”\n\nAdam Everett said delivery of eggs went down well at his local hospital\n\nFootball coaches Adam Everett, 17, and Jake Garner, 18, from Ely, Cambridgeshire, also donated chocolate eggs meant for players in their girls squads.\n\nMr Everett, whose mother is an NHS nurse, said: “They've been doing selfless acts for other people's wellbeing, they should be rewarded for that.\n\n“I know I don’t want to go out and risk myself getting the virus, but they’ve got to.”\n\nSurprising staff with the gift at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Mr Everett said: “They didn’t have a clue, I went in and said ‘I’ve got 27 Easter eggs for you’, they were shocked and really grateful for the act of kindness.\n\n“I think everyone’s starting to realise week to week how severe this virus is, and they’re starting to look at what they can do for others.\n\n\"The issues we have as a country have been put to one side and everyone is having to get along, it feels like a very united country,” he added.\n\nLouisa Hobson said NHS staff acted quickly to save her life during a hospital stay in 2017\n\nLouisa Hobson, who lives near Winchester, said she wanted to do something for NHS staff, but rather than give them something “essential” like personal protective equipment (PPE), she wanted to “put a smile on their faces”.\n\nThe 41-year-old started a crowdfunding page, raising enough to purchase 300 Easter eggs, to be distributed to Winchester Royal County Hospital, Alton Community Hospital and a local GP surgery.\n\n“I thought about staff not being able to see their families over Easter and wanted to do something to let them know we were thinking of them,” she said.\n\n“It’s something nice to do and it’s also achievable for a lot of people, a lot of us don’t know where to get things like PPE, but this is more a morale booster than anything else.”\n\nLarge retailers and manufacturers have also been stepping up to get Easter treats to NHS and other front line workers.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of facebook post by The Countess Charity\n\nA spokeswoman for confectionery company Mars Wrigley said more than one million eggs had been donated to hospitals and councils either directly or through charities.\n\nKerry Cavanaugh, the company’s marketing director said: “This is a small gesture to say thank you to our NHS and carers for their amazing work at this extraordinary time.”\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS East of England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by NHS East of England\n\nRetailer Marks and Spencer has said it will be giving all emergency services, health and social care and NHS workers a free Percy Pig Easter egg.\n\nA spokesman said the company wanted to “do our bit” to support families celebrate Easter during “this difficult time”.\n\nChocolate makers Cadbury said more than 250,000 Easter eggs had been delivered to NHS and care home staff, as well as those at risk of food poverty.\n\nBrand manager Claudia Miceli said: \"We’re pulling out all the stops to support those making such incredible self-sacrifice\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The construction of the hospital took just under two weeks\n\nThe NHS Nightingale Hospital set up inside Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is now operational, it has been confirmed.\n\nInitially built with a 500-bed capacity, it can be increased to 1,500 or more if needed.\n\nIt is designed to take coronavirus patients from 23 Midlands hospitals, if units cannot cope with demand.\n\nTwo further Nightingale Hospitals are also being planned for Sunderland and Exeter.\n\nDespite being ready to take patients if needed, only staff training and cleaning was taking place at the site in the West Midlands on Friday, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust (UHB) confirmed.\n\nDr David Rosser, chief executive of the trust which is leading the hospital, said: \"We would all prefer that these beds - just like the extra beds the NHS has freed up across the region - are needed as little as possible, and so we would continue to urge members of the public to stay at home to help NHS staff save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Conservative mayor Andy Street said putting together the Birmingham facility in under two weeks had been a \"Herculean effort\".\n\n\"However despite the accomplishment, my hope is actually that it is hardly ever used,\" he added.\n\n\"Patients will only be admitted when our existing hospitals start to reach capacity, and currently, they are coping very well with demand and have sufficient critical care space available.\"\n\nA 460-bed Nightingale Hospital is being built in an industrial unit in Washington, Tyne and Wear.\n\nThe site, owned by Sunderland City Council, close to the A19, will be divided into 16 wards.\n\nWhile chief nursing officer Ruth May announced another was to be opened in Exeter.\n\nWork has been carried out to convert an industrial site in Sunderland into a Nightingale Hospital\n\nSharon Hodgson. MP for Washington and Sunderland West, said the dedicated facility would \"help save lives and will take some of the pressure off local hospitals, such as Sunderland Royal, South Tyneside District Hospital, the QE in Gateshead and Newcastle hospitals, and ensure that local people are cared for locally\".\n\nOther temporary hospitals have already been set up in London, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate.", "A global deal to cut oil production by more than 10% appears to be on track after the US promised to reduce supply.\n\nMexico, which initially baulked at the scale of the cuts, said President Donald Trump had suggested the US might make cuts on behalf of its neighbour on Friday 10 April.\n\nOil prices have been plunging due to coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nHowever the prospect of unprecedented cuts to supply failed to boost the oil price on Thursday.\n\nG20 oil ministers held talks on Friday to finalise the draft agreement, which would see cuts of 10 million barrels per day.\n\n\"This is a time for all nations to seriously examine what each can do to correct the supply/demand imbalance,\" said US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.\n\nAmerica would \"take surplus off the market\" by storing \"as much oil as possible\", he added.\n\nMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the US would make 250,000 barrels per day in additional cuts to oil output, to help Mexico contribute to global reductions.\n\nMr Lopez Obrador, who has made increasing oil output one of the priorities of his administration, said US President Donald Trump had spoken to him on Thursday and offered to help before Mexico announced it would cut output by 100,000 barrels per day.\n\n\"President Trump said the United States committed to reducing by 250,000 (barrels), on top of what it was going to do, for Mexico, in order to compensate,\" he said.\n\nOpec+, which includes Russia, had said it would cut production in May and June by 10 million barrels a day to help prop up prices. The cuts will then be eased gradually until April 2022.\n\nHowever,a final agreement was dependent on Mexico signing up, after it questioned the level of production cuts it was asked to make, Reuters had reported.\n\nOil prices have recently slumped as the coronavirus pandemic has grounded planes, halted travel and put a brake on industry across the world. That coincided with a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, further pushing down the price of crude.\n\nOn Thursday, the Opec producers' organisation and its allies reached a tentative agreement to cut production by about 10% compared to what was being produced before the crisis. Another 5 million barrels is expected to be cut by other oil exporting countries.\n\nOpec said the cuts would be eased to eight million barrels a day between July and December. They would later be eased again to six million barrels from January 2021.\n\nNevertheless, Brent crude closed down by 4% at $31.48 a barrel on Thursday as the agreement began to take shape. Despite the scale of the cuts agreed, they are unlikely to compensate for the sharp fall in demand for oil.\n\nA conference call is taking place on Friday between energy ministers from the G20 who will be hoping to finalise the agreement. It will be hosted by Saudi Arabia.\n\nOpec secretary-general Mohammed Barkindo called for action for the oil industry to combat the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn Thursday he said: \"There is a grizzly shadow hanging over all of us. We do not want this shadow to envelope us. It will have a crushing and long-term impact on the entire industry.\"\n\nThe global coronavirus pandemic hit demand for oil in March as restrictions on business and consumer activity were introduced in dozens of countries in quick succession.\n\nCrude had already fallen to just over $31 (£24.90; €28.30) a barrel at the start of the month after Saudi Arabia failed to convince Russia to back production cuts that had previously been agreed with the other members of Opec. By the end of March crude had fallen to $22.58, its lowest price in 18 years.\n\nSome analysts have questioned whether any agreed cuts would succeed in boosting the price of oil, given the prospect of a sharp and possibly prolonged global economic downturn, as the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organisation have warned.\n\nIf it does remain subdued, lower prices on the wholesale oil market could lead to cheaper production costs of some materials, such as plastic. That would potentially be reflected in prices of everyday consumer goods. However, producer countries will see sharp reductions in revenue.\n\nThis story was originally published on Thursday 9 April, but has been updated to correct a factual error.", "It's not known how the virus might affect great apes like gorillas\n\nGreat apes have been put on lockdown against the threat of coronavirus.\n\nGorilla tourism in Africa has been suspended, while sanctuaries for other apes, such as orangutans, have closed to the public.\n\nIt's not known if great apes can contract the virus, but there are growing fears that our closest living relatives might be equally at risk.\n\nThis week a tiger at Bronx Zoo tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nNew measures have been put in place to protect big cats and their caregivers.\n\nDr Kirsten Gilardi is chief veterinary officer for Gorilla Doctors, which provides veterinary care to gorillas in the forests of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\n\"We don't know if it's infected mountain gorillas; we have not seen any evidence of that,\" she said. \"But because mountain gorillas are susceptible to human pathogens, we know that they can develop respiratory illness.\"\n\nDr Eddy, head veterinarian in DRC, treating an injured gorilla (prior to the outbreak)\n\nMountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are an endangered species of great ape found only in the forests of Rwanda, Uganda and the DR Congo. All three countries have seen human cases of coronavirus, with gorilla tourism currently suspended.\n\nThe work of vets and rangers who care for wild gorillas continues, but with added precautions. \"Much of what we're practicing right now, in terms of social distancing, and self-quarantine, are at the heart of the recommendations for protecting great apes as well,\" said Dr Gilardi, who is also a veterinary professor at the University of California, Davis.\n\nThe new virus is part of the coronavirus family, which includes the common cold, Sars and Mers\n\nEven before the outbreak, people were asked to stay seven metres away from gorillas at all times. New guidance from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) calls for a minimum distance of 10 metres from great apes, with visits by humans reduced to the minimum needed to ensure their safety and health. No person who is ill, or who has been in contact with a sick person in the preceding 14 days, should be allowed near them.\n\nHabitat loss and poaching are big threats to the survival of great apes, but viruses are also a concern. Infectious disease is now listed among the top three threats to some great ape groups. Past research has shown that chimps can contract the common cold virus, while the Ebola virus is thought to have killed thousands of chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa.\n\nSerge Wich, professor of primate biology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, said many governments had closed down tourism with great apes, while researchers and sanctuaries were taking extra measures.\n\nHe said: \"We don't know, if they were to get infected, what the health effects would be, but obviously given the health implications for people it's a risk we do not want to take with great apes so these precautions everyone's taking are an important step to try to reduce that risk.\"\n\nSepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre on the island of Borneo is one of many sanctuaries for great apes that has closed its doors to the public.\n\nSusan Sheward, founder and chairwoman of Orangutan Appeal UK, said in a statement: \"This disease could be fatal for the already critically endangered orangutan, it is a risk that we cannot afford take. OAUK will do everything it can to make sure that the orangutans at Sepilok stay healthy and safe.\"\n\nThere are four types of great apes alive today: gorillas (Africa), bonobos (Africa), orangutans (SE Asia), and chimpanzees (Africa). Humans are closely related to great apes, sharing a common ancestor several million years ago.", "The coronavirus pandemic continues to affect public gatherings, including places of worship\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is to lead the first national digital Easter Sunday service from the kitchen of his flat in London.\n\nIn his pre-recorded sermon Archbishop Welby will praise the courage of people working on the front line in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nCanterbury's will include readings by Prince Charles and Joanna Lumley.\n\nIt is part of efforts to reach people staying at home during the lockdown. Public gatherings, including at places of worship, are restricted due to the pandemic.\n\n\"After so much suffering, so much heroism from key workers and the NHS, we cannot be content to go back to what was before as if all is normal,\" Archbishop Welby will say.\n\n\"There needs to be a resurrection of our common life.\"\n\nJustin Welby is to broadcast from his kitchen at his London home\n\nThe archbishop, who normally preaches to a congregation of about 1,500 people at Canterbury Cathedral on Easter morning, will also acknowledge the uncertainty society is facing in the broadcast.\n\n\"So many people right across the country are anxious about employment, food, are isolated from loved ones and feel that the future looks dark,\" he will tell a virtual congregation.\n\n\"People right across the globe feel the same uncertainty, fear, despair and isolation. But you are not alone.\"\n\nThe service led by Archbishop Welby will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and on the Church of England's website and Facebook page from 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nSeparately, Canterbury Cathedral will broadcast recordings from Prince Charles, who previously tested positive for coronavirus, and Joanna Lumley will contribute a reading for evening prayer to be broadcast later on Sunday.\n\nRecorded at Birkhall, his home in Scotland, Prince Charles will read the Easter Day Gospel from St John chapter 20:1-18 which will be released on the cathedral's website from midday.\n\nLumley will read The Road to Emmaus for evening prayer.\n\nThe oldest bell at Canterbury Cathedral will also toll every evening in remembrance of those who have died from coronavirus, and celebrate those working on the front line.\n\nThe 17th Century bell, named Harry, will ring out over Canterbury at 20:00 BST every day.\n\nMeanwhile, The Dean of York, the Rt Revd Dr Jonathan Frost, will host a special video service at 11:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"Confined to our homes as we seek to stay safe, it is to box-sets or drama series to which many of us will turn. A good story can draw us in, reframe our perspective and open up new horizons.\n\n\"The true story of the last days of Jesus of Nazareth can do the same.\"\n\n\"It's all there... love and betrayal, politics and broken dreams.\"\n\nDr John Sentamu said the best prayers were said at home\n\nThe Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, who is due to retire in June, added: \"The church has got to remember it never began in a building.\"\n\n\"It actually began in a garden, on the road and in a house.\n\n\"So we have to rediscover the best prayers are said at home.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nImages have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise.\n\nWorkers in hazmat outfits were seen stacking wooden coffins in deep trenches in Hart Island.\n\nOfficials say burials are being ramped up at site, which has long been used for people with no next-of-kin or families who cannot afford a funeral.\n\nNew York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country.\n\nThe state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 is nearly 162,000, of whom 7,844 have died.\n\nSpain has recorded about 157,000 cases and Italy 143,600, while China, where the virus emerged last year, has nearly 83,000 cases.\n\nThe US as a whole has recorded 467,000 cases and about 16,700 deaths. Globally there are 1.6 million cases and 97,000 deaths.\n\nAbout 40 bodies were buried on Thursday\n\nThe drone footage comes from Hart Island, off the Bronx in Long Island Sound, which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial site for those with no next-of-kin, or families who cannot afford funerals.\n\nNormally, about 25 bodies a week are interred on the island, according to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nBut burial operations have increased from one day a week to five days a week, with around 24 burials each day, said Department of Correction spokesman Jason Kersten.\n\nPrisoners from Rikers Island, the city's main jail complex, usually do the job, but the rising workload has recently been taken over by contractors.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the dead have no next-of-kin or could not afford a funeral. However, the city has cut the amount of time it will hold unclaimed remains amid pressure on morgue space.\n\nNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated earlier this week that \"temporary burials\" might be necessary until the crisis had passed.\n\n\"Obviously the place we have used historically is Hart Island,\" he said.\n\nThe coronavirus has changed everything about life, and now it's upending the rituals of death.\n\nNew Yorkers have been shocked by the grim scenes: ambulances constantly blaring down eerily deserted streets, body bags being forklifted into refrigerated trucks outside hospitals and now new trenches being dug on Hart's Island for possible mass burials.\n\nThe remote cemetery, accessible only by boat, is a place regarded historically with sorrow because of its mass graves with no tombstones, just unclaimed bodies.\n\nThe city's morgues can only handle so much before temporary burials for Covid-19 victims, once an absolute worst-case scenario, become necessary.\n\nFuneral directors talk openly about how scared and depressed the spiking death toll has left them. Even before this week's record number of deaths, some families have had to wait a week or more to bury and cremate their loved ones.\n\nThe daily rise in coronavirus deaths announced in New York state on Friday was 777 - down slightly from the record high of 799 the day before.\n\nGovernor Andrew Cuomo said he took \"solace\" from this fact, as well as the continued decline in the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to New York hospitals.\n\nHe said the state was succeeding in \"flattening the curve\" but was still enduring \"great pain\".\n\nOn Thursday, another glimmer of hope was heralded as official projections for the nationwide death toll were lowered.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told NBC News' Today show the final number of Americans who would die from Covid-19 in the outbreak \"looks more like 60,000\".\n\nIn late March, Dr Fauci estimated \"between 100,000 and 200,000\" could die.\n\nMourners attend a funeral in Brooklyn, New York, as the city's coronavirus death toll hit a record high for a third day\n\nThe 60,000 projection would match the upper estimate for total flu deaths in the US between October 2019 to March 2020, according to government data.\n\nBut Vice-President Mike Pence stressed on Thursday that Covid-19 was about three times as contagious as influenza.\n\nThe White House has previously touted estimates that 2.2 million Americans could die from coronavirus if nothing was done to stop its spread.\n\nStay-at-home orders have in the meantime closed non-essential businesses in 42 states, while drastically slowing the US economy.\n\nNew data on Thursday showed unemployment claims had topped 6 million for the second week in a row, bringing the number of Americans out of work over the last three weeks to 16.8 million.\n\nChicago, meanwhile, imposed a curfew on alcohol sales from 21:00 local time on Thursday to stop the persistent violation of a ban on large gatherings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How caravans are helping frontline medics with a place to stay\n\nThe measure, due to remain in place until 30 April, comes after health officials this week said black Chicagoans account for half of all the Illinois city's coronavirus cases and more than 70% of its deaths, despite making up just 30% of the population.\n\nFigures from Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York reflect the same racial disparity in coronavirus infections.\n\nPresumptive Democratic White House nominee Joe Biden joined growing calls on Thursday for the release of comprehensive racial data on the pandemic.\n\nHe said it had cast a spotlight on inequity and the impact of \"structural racism\".\n• None 13%of the US population is African American", "Police have been enforcing restrictions on non-essential travel\n\nAfter almost three weeks of life in lockdown, a survey suggests a significant minority of people in the UK are finding it \"extremely difficult\" to cope.\n\nThe research, conducted by King's College London and pollsters Ipsos Mori, finds 15% of the population already say they are finding the restrictions very challenging and another 14% expect they will be unable to cope within the next month.\n\nHowever, nine out of 10 people support the lockdown and have been attempting to follow the government's guidelines on social distancing and handwashing.\n\nThe survey of 2,250 adults was conducted a week ago and reveals the hardship and suffering already being experienced by some households.\n\nHalf of those surveyed (49%) said they had felt more anxious and depressed than normal. Over a third (38%) said they were having trouble sleeping and more than a fifth of people (22%) said they were already facing significant money problems or were almost certain to do so in the near future.\n\nAmong workers, 16% said they had either already lost their job or were very likely to do so in the near future.\n\nYounger people appear to be struggling to cope with the restrictions more than older people. Among 16-24-year-olds, a quarter (24%) said they were finding it extremely difficult to cope with the lockdown. Only 11% of those aged 45 to 75 said they were struggling.\n\nThe emotional challenges of being cooped up behind closed doors are revealed in the survey. A fifth of people (19%) said they had argued more with people in their home and a similar proportion said they were drinking more alcohol that normal. A third said they were eating more food or less healthily than previously.\n\nWhatever the challenges, the lockdown appears to have inspired a wave of community spirit. A majority of people (60%) said they had offered to help a neighbour and 47% had received assistance from the local community.\n\nBritain seems prepared for the restrictions to last some time with 41% of adults surveyed expecting the lockdown to last for at least another six months. Half the population (51%) thought it would be more than a year before life returns to normal.\n\nThe public, though, seems supportive of the restrictions to protect the health service and prevent the virus spreading. Only 5% of people said they opposed the lockdown with two-thirds of the population (68%) strongly supporting the \"stay at home\" instruction.\n\nA majority of people (60%) say they have \"completely followed\" the government guidelines on leaving the house as little as possible with another 27% saying they have complied nearly all the time. Only 1% admit to ignoring the advice.\n\nMessages on staying 2m (6ft) apart from people outside the home, avoiding places where people gather and washing hands for at least 20 seconds appear to have been effective. Nine in 10 people say they have followed the official guidance.\n\nThe almost total support for and compliance with the restrictions suggested in the survey will be a relief to government ministers. With the expectation that the lockdown will continue for some time yet, it is important for public order that people generally believe the measures are being followed by others.\n\nIt also appears the key messages are being understood by the public, although the survey does find a few misconceptions persist. One in seven people (15%) thought seasonal flu was deadlier than coronavirus and almost a third (31%) believed \"most people\" in the UK had already had the virus without realising it.\n\nA quarter (25%) believed the conspiracy theory that coronavirus was \"probably created in a lab\" - one of several conspiracy theories currently circulating on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.\n\nSurveys like this also help the government identify areas where their messaging is not as clear as it needs to be. One finding that may give officials cause for concern is that two in five (39%) think they should be shopping \"little and often to avoid long queues\", when the advice is only to go out to shop for basic necessities and as infrequently as possible.\n\nOnly 12% of people agreed that \"too much fuss\" was being made about Covid-19. During the swine flu epidemic in 2009, 55% of people thought the response to that virus was over the top.\n\nThe survey also asked people about the government's handling of the crisis. While 58% of people thought ministers had adapted well to changing scientific and other information, 42% thought the response had been confused and inconsistent.", "Concerns have been raised by a senior official in the NHS that children with illnesses unrelated to Covid-19 are going to hospital too late and coming to harm as a result, a leaked email seen by BBC Newsnight says.\n\nThe possible reasons for the late presentation include general advice given about Covid-19; patient access to NHS 111, and parental concern about bringing children to hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe comments by the National Clinical Director for Children and Young People in NHS England emerged on the same day as figures showed A&E attendance numbers in England were down 29% from the same time last year.\n\nNHS England and the Department for Health and Social Care said people should always come forward for urgent care.\n\nThey added that parents with serious concerns about the health of their child should use the online NHS 111 service or call 999 for an emergency.\n\nThe email, dated 31 March, detailed several cases from one part of the UK. The children described were aged from 10 years old down to just six months.\n\nIn one case, a mother reported that she was waiting to be spoken to on NHS 111 for more than 60 minutes while her child \"arrested\" - medical terminology for the heart or breathing stopping. The child subsequently died.\n\nIn another case referred to in the email, a mother says she was told the ambulance service was too busy whilst her child was \"semi conscious and vomiting\".\n\nAnd another set of parents were reported not to have taken their unwell child to hospital for five days as they believed there was \"risk in hospitals of Covid-19\". The child also died.\n\nThe email made it clear that this evidence was ultimately anecdotal.\n\nDr Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said that children coming to doctors with symptoms similar to Covid-19 were \"more likely to have a non-Covid condition\".\n\nDr Richard Brown, a consultant paediatrician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said there had been \"recurrent themes\" like ruptured appendixes, severe sepsis in young children who had not come to hospital as soon as they should.\n\nHe added that it was not just amongst children that they were seeing a drop in people coming to seek medical care.\n\n\"The kinds of things we'd expect to see in general practice that we're concerned we might not be seeing would be early presentation of cancer type symptoms, for example, which we'd usually recognise and refer rapidly for assessment.\"\n\nAnecdotally, fewer patients than doctors expect are coming to them with heart problems and strokes. Some doctors have told Newsnight they are keeping notes on patients who may have received suboptimal care because resources have been diverted elsewhere.\n\nOn Thursday, the medical director for NHS England Stephen Powis encouraged people needing emergency care - including those with sick children - to seek out care \"just as you always have done\" - and the interim Chief Medical Officer of Scotland said that parts of the health service were \"eerily quiet\".\n\nExperts say they think there'll be a spike in all cause mortality - deaths for all different reasons not just Covid-19. This has been flagged as a potential problem in reviews of previous outbreak including the 2009 swine flu pandemic\n\n\"We know that in previous pandemics both overseas and in the UK when they've hit mortality from other conditions has gone up,\" Dr Marshall said adding: \"In the flu crisis 10 years ago in the UK we saw a higher mortality rate for heart attacks and strokes.\"\n\nAll doctors Newsnight spoke to, as well as the government, urged people to seek medical help if they needed it.\n\n\"The important message that I want to get across today is that children who are seriously ill should present to their emergency department. We can keep children safe and will continue to do so if we receive these referrals,\" Dr Brown said.", "The UK economy is forecast to fall an incredible amount in the current pandemic-afflicted quarter ending in June.\n\nThe forecast comes from the projections of more than a dozen top economists, who are surveyed every month by the Treasury, and were contacted by the BBC.\n\nWhile the same economists predict a similarly large positive rebound after that, this year, annual UK GDP is still anticipated to fall significantly.\n\nWhile there is no precedent for shutdowns of large swathes of the economy, 14 of the top economists from the City and business have calculated how much economic activity is being lost.\n\nThe estimates have an average of -14%. However they range from JP Morgan's calculation that UK GDP in the April-June quarter will come in at -7.5% - a sharp contraction - to Capital Economics' forecast of -24% - suggesting nearly a quarter of entire economic activity will be lost.\n\nHalf the forecasts seen by the BBC are between -13% and -15%. Quarterly figures normally move by fractions of a percent.\n\nFor reference, just a few weeks ago, before the pandemic hit the UK, the average forecast for this quarter was a fall of just 0.2%. The official Budget forecast a month ago, before the Coronavirus effects, pencilled in growth of 0.4%.\n\nThe BBC understands that analyses circulating in the Treasury are in line with the larger end of such declines. But the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) has not yet been asked to update projections from the time of the Budget a month ago.\n\nOne OBR member, Sir Charles Bean, has referred to it being \"not implausible\" that for as long as the lockdowns are in force, economic activity will be reduced \"by somewhere between a quarter and a third\", and that a three-month lockdown \"would knock something like 6-8 percentage points off annual GDP\".\n\nLast week, the OECD group of leading economies said that the immediate hit to the UK economy would be worth 26% of the economy. But it did not put a timeframe on that.\n\nThe Bank of England is currently preparing new forecasts for its Monetary Policy Report, to be published early next month. Last month, Bank governor Andrew Bailey said he could not put a precise number on the likely GDP fall, as it depends on how Covid-19 evolves. But \"every picture we look on at has a very sharp V on it\", he said.\n\nBosses of businesses offering services, like barbers and hairdressers, say they have no idea when cash will start rolling in again\n\nSuch movements have no precedent within a single quarter. The closest comparison would be the sharp fall in the economy during the early 1920s depression, although that occurred over three economic quarters. A prolonged fall such as seen a century ago is not what forecasters are predicting right now.\n\nThese sorts of numbers are anticipated across the developed world, as most nations pursue forms of shutdown to control the spread of the virus and protect health systems from being overwhelmed.\n\nThe forecast declines illustrate the difficult balancing act for the government in deciding when and how to lift lockdowns, now not expected until May at the earliest.\n\nThey also illustrate the fundamental economic policy challenge that the Treasury and Bank of England are trying to manage - to try to help ensure that there is a sharp rebound from these huge hits, avoiding prolonged damage to the economy.", "Three-quarters of the world's workers have seen their place of work close at least partially during the pandemic, the UN says\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth \"sharply negative\" this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.\n\nKristalina Georgieva said the world faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nShe forecast that 2021 would only see a partial recovery.\n\nLockdowns imposed by governments have forced many companies to close and lay off staff.\n\nEarlier this week, a UN study said 81% of the world's workforce of 3.3 billion people had had their place of work fully or partly closed because of the outbreak.\n\nMs Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, made her bleak assessment in remarks ahead of next week's IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.\n\nEmerging markets and developing countries would be the hardest hit, she said, requiring hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid.\n\n\"Just three months ago, we expected positive per capita income growth in over 160 of our member countries in 2020,\" she said.\n\n\"Today, that number has been turned on its head: we now project that over 170 countries will experience negative per capita income growth this year.\"\n\nShe added: \"In fact, we anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.\"\n\nMs Georgieva said that if the pandemic eased in the second half of 2020, the IMF expected to see a partial recovery next year. But she cautioned that the situation could also worsen.\n\n\"I stress there is tremendous uncertainty about the outlook. It could get worse depending on many variable factors, including the duration of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer comments came as the US reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits had surged for the third week by 6.6 million, bringing the total over that period to more than 16 million Americans.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve said it would unleash an additional $2.3tn in lending as restrictions on activity to help contain the coronavirus had forced many businesses to close and put about 95% of Americans on some form of lockdown.\n\nSeparately, UK-based charity organisation Oxfam warned that the economic fallout from the spread of Covid-19 could force more than half a billion more people into poverty.\n\nBy the time the pandemic is over, the charity said, half of the world's population of 7.8 billion people could be living in poverty.\n\n2021 would only see a partial recovery, Ms Georgieva said\n\nOn Thursday, following marathon talks, EU leaders agreed a €500bn (£440bn; $546bn) economic support package for members of the bloc hit hardest by the lockdown measures.\n\nThe European Commission earlier said it aimed to co-ordinate a possible \"roadmap\" to move away from the restrictive measures.\n\nEarlier this week, the International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency, warned that the pandemic posed \"the most severe crisis\" since World War Two.\n\nIt said the outbreak was expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours across the world during the second quarter of 2020 - the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers losing their jobs.\n\nLast month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned that the global economy would take years to recover.\n\nSecretary general Angel Gurría said that economies were suffering a bigger shock than after the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001 or the 2008 financial crisis.", "Police have been patrolling near supermarkets to ensure social distancing rules are followed\n\nDowning Street says people can buy whatever they want from shops that remain open amid concerns some police are overstepping lockdown powers.\n\nThere have been cases of police warning shoppers against buying \"non-essential\" items.\n\nNo 10 also said people can use their gardens as they wish, after a video showed police confronting a family for letting their children play outside.\n\nMeanwhile, the PM has been up and walking as his recovery continues.\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson, who was discharged from intensive care to a hospital ward on Thursday night, \"has been able to do short walks, between periods of rest, as part of the care he is receiving to aid his recovery\".\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Johnson had spoken to his doctors and thanked \"the whole clinical team for the incredible care he has received\".\n\nThe number of people who have died in UK hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus has now reached 8,958, a record increase of 980 on Thursday.\n\nAsked about suggestions that police were patrolling the supermarket aisles to see what people were buying, Downing Street said people were allowed to buy whatever they wanted from shops permitted to be open.\n\n\"We set out a list of shops which could remain open and if the shops are on that list then they are free to sell whatever they have in stock,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nPolice in Cambridge had to clarify a social media post - since deleted - by an \"over-exuberant\" officer who suggested they were monitoring aisles of \"non-essential\" goods in supermarkets.\n\n\"The force position, in line with national guidance, is that we are not monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets,\" they said.\n\nOn Thursday, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was \"not appropriate\" for police to be checking people's supermarket trolleys after Northamptonshire Police threatened to introduce the measures.\n\nChief Constable Nick Adderley said the force would consider roadblocks and searches of people's shopping if the public did not follow the rules. He later called his remarks \"clumsy\".\n\nWith South Yorkshire Police also having apologised for a \"well-intentioned but ill-informed\" officer who told a family not to play in their own front garden, Downing Street said people could use their gardens as they choose - as long as they are with members of their household.\n\nThe government is seeking to reassure the public about the lockdown rules as it stresses the measures are working to reduce the spread of infection and the number of people admitted to hospital.\n\nNewly-elected Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to be transparent over its lockdown strategy and to clarify how long Mr Johnson will be \"out of action\".\n\n\"We need robust replacement arrangements in place and we need to know what they are, as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday morning, the prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson, said there would have to be a \"period of adjustment\" before his son returned to work.\n\nEarlier, individual nations reported their own coronavirus death figures, which are calculated using a different timeframe to the UK-wide figures.\n\nNHS England announced a further 866 deaths in English hospitals. In Scotland, 48 more people died, in Wales there were 29 more deaths, and in Northern Ireland there were 10.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick has been accused of breaching the rules on travel, but Downing Street said it was \"confident\" he complied.\n\nThe MP for Newark in Nottinghamshire travelled from London to a second home in Herefordshire, and separately visited his parents in Shropshire, the Daily Mail and the Guardian reported.\n\nThe government has advised against travel to second homes - and urged people to distance themselves from elderly relatives.\n\nMr Jenrick has said he was delivering essentials to his parents, including medicines, which is allowed under the rules, and his family consider Herefordshire to be his primary home.\n\nNo 10 said ministers sometimes had \"no option\" but to travel to work from Whitehall and Mr Jenrick \"has been doing important work in London on safeguarding the vulnerable\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "People around the UK did a round of applause for all of the people working in the fight against coronavirus.", "Upmarket chocolate retailer Hotel Chocolat closed all its UK stores three weeks ago. The firm was forced to \"turn on a sixpence\" reorganising the warehouse to make it safe for staff. But it has paid off.\n\n\"As it turns out, we've sold more Easter eggs than last year,\" says boss Angus Thirlwell.\n\nOnline sales of Easter eggs are surging as UK consumers turn to the internet during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThorntons too said it had seen \"a significant increase in online orders\" since the lockdown started.\n\n\"Demand is four times higher than average - and we have received approximately one million visitors to our site this week,\" they added.\n\nEaster is big business in Britain. In 2019, consumers spent £1.1bn on buying items to celebrate the festival, according to research firm Mintel, with £206m of that spent on Easter eggs alone.\n\nBut with the coronavirus lockdown preventing families and friends from meeting up to celebrate and Easter egg hunt activities cancelled, the usual opportunities for buying and sharing the traditional treats are limited.\n\nThorntons opens its website for just two hours each days to accept new customer orders\n\nFacing the surge in online traffic, Thorntons has decided to open its website at 09:00 each day for just one or two hours for customer orders, before closing it again.\n\nHotel Chocolat is taking a different approach. Rather than have its staff waste time searching for products in the warehouse to fulfil orders, the chocolate maker has reduced the range of products that people can purchase online.\n\nInstead, the retailer has created themed bundles and pre-packs the items into boxes the moment they come off the production line.\n\n\"We've created 30 new products from scratch,\" said Mr Thirlwell, adding that customers had been much less demanding about their packages during the lockdown than they would typically be.\n\nIn contrast, aisles fully stocked with Easter eggs have been widely discounted in supermarkets across the UK in the last two weeks, which is unusual for the run-up to the Easter holiday weekend.\n\nIn Tesco, almost all branded Easter eggs are selling on two-for-one deals, while Sainsbury's lifted its three-item limit per customer on Easter eggs several days before it eased restrictions on other food products.\n\nSupermarkets have been heavily discounting Easter eggs in stores\n\nThe BBC asked Tesco and Sainsbury's about their Easter egg sales, but the supermarkets declined to comment.\n\nChocolate manufacturer Kinnerton Confectionery makes many of the branded Easter eggs sold in these supermarkets, and it too has seen demand move online.\n\n\"With travel restrictions extending over Easter, consumers have turned to order Easter eggs online for home delivery to their loved ones,\" Julia Catton, marketing and innovation director at Zertus UK, the parent company for Kinnerton Confectionery and several other chocolate brands, told the BBC.\n\n\"Some of our major customers have increased their online range to help customers, but this has been further hampered by limitation of home delivery slots in many retailers.\"\n\nKinnerton itself set up a new online shop to allow customers of its Nomo vegan and \"free-from\" chocolate range to make direct orders if they couldn't get the products from supermarkets.\n\nHowever, according to US market research firm IRI, overall Easter confectionery sales for the week ending 28 March were down 17% year-on-year.\n\nMs Catton added: \"The next few days will be important for Easter egg sales to see if demand improves.\"\n\nOther analysts also feel that there will be a significant impact on Easter spending, and that not everyone is buying Easter eggs.\n\nIndependent retail expert Kate Hardcastle says consumers will have to decide between the must-haves and nice-to-haves: \"It's just not front-of-mind focus for anyone, and it's also an extra cost for a lot of families they just can't afford.\"\n\nMintel is running a weekly survey tracking the impacts of coronavirus on consumer spending in the UK. It says that in the last week, almost a quarter of British consumers increased the shopping they are doing online.\n\nBut in the last seven days, it also found that 46% of consumers have cut back on non-essential spending.\n\nDespite this, Hotel Chocolat's Angus Thirlwell says that his business is seeing consumer behaviour it's never seen before in its 27-year-history.\n\n\"There's a lot of people using online food shopping for the first time. People are asking for help in making orders on the online chat and calling customer service,\" he said.\n\nHotel Chocolat is also seeing customer messages that show a shift in consumer habits, says Mr Thirlwell: \"We're seeing messages like, 'Here's something to keep your strength up', or 'Thinking of you', sent to key workers, and families saying 'Here's some chocolate so we can FaceTime eating chocolate together'.\n\n\"Chocolate does play an important part in keeping morale up.\"", "Air industry bodies have called on the UK government to expand support for the sector, which is reeling due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey say providing more help for aviation, and extending the duration of that help, will stave off job losses.\n\nThe Department for Transport said aviation firms could already draw on an \"unprecedented\" government aid package.\n\nAnd Greenpeace said the UK shouldn't \"open the cheque book\" for \"polluting\" sectors.\n\nBodies representing the UK's aerospace industry, airlines and airports claim that if action isn't taken now, the aviation sector in Britain could be left behind when an economic recovery comes.\n\nAt present, hundreds of aircraft are grounded, airports are operating at minimal capacity, and aerospace production has slowed.\n\nBut industry groups ADS Group, Airlines UK and the Airport Operators Association warned this could just be the beginning.\n\nThe groups, whose members include Airbus, BAE Systems, British Airways, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, said they didn't expect demand for flights to recover quickly, meaning that much of the aviation workforce may not be needed for months to come.\n\nThe aviation industry is fighting for survival - and not just in the immediate future.\n\nAs far as the present crisis is concerned, the government has made it clear there won't be a special deal for the sector. Companies will have to make use of the measures already set out by the chancellor.\n\nBut many of them can't do that because they don't fit the government's criteria - so the plea now is at least to make those measures more flexible, so that more businesses can benefit.\n\nThen there's the recognition that although the industry's grounding appeared to happen almost overnight, its recovery is likely to be very slow. What we're seeing now is just the beginning.\n\nBut if we're going to see fewer flights - then there won't be a need for as many people working in the industry for quite a while. There's a risk of significant layoffs.\n\nAnd then there's the question of what happens when flights do restart. If different countries all have different restrictions and procedures in place, it could become a nightmare for the humble traveller.\n\nSignificant challenges - which aviation groups say the government needs to help solve.\n\nThe groups have asked the government to extend its Job Retention Scheme - under which it will pay for staff to be laid off for short periods - beyond its current end date in May.\n\nAnd they want relief from business tax rates that have already been given to the retail and hospitality sectors to be extended to all UK aviation firms - as has happened in Scotland.\n\nThey are also calling for the government to work with other countries to ensure that when travel restrictions are removed, it is done in a coordinated manner so that customers aren't left confused and put off from travelling.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport said that the aviation sector is \"important to the UK economy\" and that firms can draw upon an \"unprecedented package of measures\" announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, \"including schemes to raise capital, flexibilities with tax bills, and financial support for employees.\"\n\n\"We are continuing to work closely with the sector and are willing to consider the situation of individual firms, so long as all other government schemes have been explored and all commercial options exhausted, including raising capital from existing investors,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHowever, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that any support the UK government extends to the sector should be conditional on aviation cleaning up its act.\n\n\"The government cannot simply open the cheque book for polluting industries with no questions asked,\" said Greenpeace executive director John Sauven.\n\n\"Any public money going to airlines must come with strict and clear conditions attached.\n\n\"Government support must be used to help employees and plan for a transition to a cleaner more resilient economy. It should not be spent on bonuses, dividends, and lobbying against environmental standards.\"\n\n\"If airlines want the public to bail them out, they need to provide public good in return.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has tested positive for coronavirus and is in hospital but is showing no symptoms, his family have announced.\n\nDalglish was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for treatment of an infection which required intravenous antibiotics.\n\nThe 69-year-old former Celtic and Scotland forward was routinely tested for coronavirus after being admitted.\n\n\"Unexpectedly, the test result was positive but he remains asymptomatic,\" the Dalglish family said.\n\nDalglish won the Scottish league title four times at Celtic before moving to Liverpool in 1977. At Liverpool his honours included eight league Championships as a player and manager and three European Cups.\n\nHe also won the Premier League as Blackburn Rovers manager in 1995.\n\nThe statement added: \"He would like to take this opportunity to thank the brilliant NHS staff, whose dedication, bravery and sacrifice should be the focus of the nation's attention at this extraordinary time.\n\n\"Prior to his admission to hospital, Sir Kenny had chosen to voluntarily self-isolate for longer than the advised period together with his family. He would urge everyone to follow the relevant government and expert guidance in the days and weeks ahead.\n\n\"He looks forward to being home soon. We will provide further updates as and when it is appropriate.\"", "Anthony Almojera, a senior paramedic in New York City, has written a diary for the BBC of one day in his working life. He says that day - last Sunday - was the worst in his 17-year career.\n\nWe arrive at a house and I put on my mask, gown and gloves.\n\nWe find a man. His family says he has had a fever and cough for five days. We start CPR and I watch the medics pass a tube down his throat to breathe for him.\n\nWe work on him for about 30 minutes before we pronounce him dead. I make sure the crews are OK and get back in my truck - decontaminating everything first. I hit the button to go available.\n\nTwenty minutes later, I get another cardiac arrest. Same symptoms, same procedures, same results.\n\nWe hit the button, get another one.\n\nHit the button after that, get another one.\n\nThere's only one patient we've seen so far who I feel wasn't Covid-19 and that's because it was a suicide. Imagine: I was there and my brain felt relief. This person's dead and it's a suicide. I felt relief that it was a regular job.\n\nIt is now around 11:00 and I've done about six cardiac arrests.\n\nIn normal times, a medic gets two or three in a week, maybe. You can have a busy day sometimes, but never this. Never this.\n\nRead more of Anthony's account here", "\"If our workers don't die from coronavirus, they'd die of starvation.\"\n\nThis is the stark assessment of how the pandemic is impacting the clothing industry from garment factory owner, Vijay Mahtaney, the chairman of Ambattur Fashion India.\n\nIn normal times, Vijay Mahtaney and his partners Amit Mahtaney and Shawn Islam employ a total of 18,000 workers in three countries - Bangladesh, India and Jordan. But the outbreak has forced them to shut down the majority of the business, with just one factory, in Dhaka, partially operational.\n\nCoronavirus lockdowns aren't the only thing affecting their ability to pay their workers. They say their main problem is unreasonable demands from big clients - mainly in the US and the UK.\n\n\"Some brands are showing a true sense of partnership and high level of ethics in trying to ensure at least enough cash flow to pay workers,\" Amit Mahtaney, the chief executive of Tusker Apparel Jordan, told the BBC.\n\n\"But we've also experienced demands for cancellations for goods that are ready or are work in progress, or discounts for outstanding payments and for goods in transit. They are also asking for a 30 to 120 day extensions on previously agreed payment terms.\"\n\nIn an email obtained by the BBC, one US retailer has asked for a 30% discount \"for all payables - current or order\", including those already delivered.\n\nThe reason they cite is to \"get through this extraordinary period\".\n\n\"Their attitude is one of protecting only shareholder value without any regard to the garment worker, behaving in a hypocritical manner, showing complete disregard to their ethos of responsible sourcing,\" Vijay Mahtaney said.\n\n\"Brand focus on share price, now means some of them don't have money for this rainy day, and are coming to the weakest link in the supply chain, asking us to help them out when they could be applying for a bailout from the US government stimulus package,\" Vijay added.\n\nIt comes as garment manufacturers have been hit hard by two major issues related to coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe problems started in February when factories couldn't get the raw materials they needed from China, the world biggest exporter of textiles, which accounted for some $118bn (£67bn) in 2018.\n\nThen as China's textile factories reopened in recent weeks - giving garment manufacturers hopes of getting operations back on track - demand collapsed as retailers were forced to shut their doors after governments around the world imposed lockdowns.\n\nChina may be known as the factory of the world, but when it comes to clothes, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar play a growing role.\n\n\"Garment manufacturing has been diversifying away from China for around ten years due to China's high costs,\" according to Stanley Szeto of apparel maker Lever Style which supplies premium brands including Hugo Boss, Theory, Vince, and Coach, as well as online names like Bonobos, Stitch Fix and Everlane.\n\nIt means that garment manufacturing is a crucial industry for many of Asia's developing economies, with World Trade Organization data showing that Bangladesh and Vietnam are amongst the world's four largest exporters of clothing. Bangladesh now accounts for 6.7% of market share, followed by Vietnam with 5.7%.\n\nBangladesh has more than four million garment workers, and textile and apparel products made up more than 90% of the country's exports last year.\n\nCambodia and Sri Lanka also rely on the industry for more than 60% of their exports, according to Sheng Lu at the University of Delaware's department of fashion and apparel studies.\n\nThe industry accounts for more than half of all manufacturing jobs in Bangladesh, and 60% in Cambodia, with production being a particularly important employer of women.\n\nAssociate Professor Lu thinks the coronavirus pandemic could see countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and India cutting between 4% to 9% of garment sector jobs.\n\nThat is partly why the Bangladeshi government is trying to help the industry.\n\n\"It has offered a generous stimulus package to subsidise wages, convert loans to long-term debt and offer very reasonable interest rates,\" said Shawn Islam, managing director of Sparrow Apparel Bangladesh. \"While it's not enough to weather the storm, it will help.\"\n\nThe Cambodian government has also announced tax holidays for textile factories and proposed a wage subsidy scheme for workers.\n\nThat is because this outbreak could result in a longer term impact like labour shortages, price increases of raw materials and a lack of production capacity, said Associate Professor Lu.\n\nAfter growing criticism and pressure, some brands including H&M and Zara-owner Inditex have committed to paying in full for existing orders from clothing manufacturers.\n\n\"Brands have profited for many years from producing in low wage countries without social security systems and have in many cases built up huge empires through this business model,\" said Dominique Muller of Labour Behind the Label. \"Decades of exploitation must now be paid back to care for their workers.\"\n\n\"Retailers have to help out. Richer governments' bailouts of the industry are also critical,\" he said.\n\nWithout it, he claims, the industry could be wiped out completely.\n• None Coronavirus: 'We may have no clothes left to sell'", "Dr Sam Pashneh-Tala's team has crowdfunded over £15,000 to make the face shields\n\nUniversities, tech firms and 3D print enthusiasts with their own printers are responding to the shortage of healthcare workers' personal protective equipment (PPE) - and in some case more complex hospital medical supplies - by making it themselves.\n\nIn general, 3D-printed kit is fairly cheap to produce in terms of materials required, and can be turned around in a matter of hours on each printer.\n\nThere's a motivated community who want to make it and it can be distributed locally to those who need it without a centralised supplier - so is it the solution to the current PPE shortage?\n\nUnfortunately, it's not quite that simple.\n\n\"3D printing is this technology where on the face of it people envisage this kind of Star Trek replicator, where you press a button and something gets made out of nothing,\" said Dr Sam Pashneh-Tala, a bioengineer at the University of Sheffield.\n\n\"This is not true - you have to understand the limitations.\"\n\nAnd while it is undoubtedly in demand - there are a few issues to bear in mind.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any official guidance for healthcare workers about the use of 3D-printed protective kit.\n\nThe BBC contacted several medical organisations, government departments and the NHS. They all replied, but none thought it was for them to say whether it was advisable for healthcare workers to use it.\n\nThe MHRA which oversees medical equipment, pointed to its guidelines on manufacture during the pandemic - but not all face masks, for example, are considered by it to be medical supplies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are various types of 3D printer and a range of materials they can print with. Both the printers and the materials vary in price, quality and suitability for different projects. Some materials, for example, will result in a more porous product, making it more difficult to clean.\n\nWhile templates are being shared and modified among the 3D-printer community for creating PPE kit, not one of the resulting products has a CE Kitemark, the European safety standard, which ultimately means that there is no quality benchmark.\n\nFor this reason they cannot be sold - so no maker should be offering them in exchange for cash.\n\nIt is also impossible to guarantee how sterilised these products are because of where they are made and packaged, and as a result they are being given out with the guidance that they should only be used once.\n\nDr Pashneh-Tala is part of a team at the University of Sheffield called iForge that has so far made 600 face shields for healthcare workers using a combination of 3D-printed frames, visors made from laser cutting and elastic.\n\nHe says they have been sent to local GP practices, social workers and paramedics.\n\nIn terms of materials each shield costs less than £1.80 - but a laser cutter can cost thousands.\n\nHe says they are manufactured in a controlled environment.\n\n\"We put them through a cleaning process designed to deactivate Covid-19 specifically,\" he said.\n\n\"It's for the user to determine if that is suitable. Healthcare providers so far have been happy.\"\n\nGary Riches is 3D-printing face shields from his home\n\nWhile professionals and experts are on the case there's also an army of enthusiasts using their own 3D printers at home.\n\nGary Riches, a software engineer from Hertfordshire, is part of a co-ordinated network of thousands of volunteer 3D printers called 3DCrowd UK.\n\nSo far, he has made 150 face shields on his two 3D printers at home, and says he has delivered 39 of them to community nurses and midwives locally.\n\n3DCrowd UK is using a template that has been approved in the Czech Republic although not officially in the UK.\n\nMr Riches feels strongly that it's worth the risk.\n\n\"If we worry too much about whether it's 100% perfect then nobody who needs it will get it,\" he said.\n\n\"If you can step up, you have to step up.\"\n\nAnd there's certainly the demand - 3DCrowd UK says it has received requests for nearly 350,000 face shields so far.\n\nSome 3D printers have gone even further. Last month, an Italian firm called Isinnova hit the headlines when it announced it had 3D-printed ventilator tubes for a hospital in Brescia, a region badly hit by Covid-19.\n\nThe tubes can only be used for eight hours at a time and the regular supplier said it could not send replacements in good time.\n\nHowever, IDC analyst Galina Spasova urged caution about their use.\n\n\"While such 3D-printed items have proven helpful in emergency situations, the safety of these designs is under examination,\" she wrote in a blog post.\n\n\"At this stage, there is little visibility on the outcomes of the use of these components. They remain uncertified medical devices and should be used with caution and as a last resort.\"\n\n\"With a face shield, there's reasonably low risk - it doesn't have working parts beyond covering your face,\" he said.\n\n\"For a higher-end application - what kind of performance are you getting? Proper certification and testing is needed. There are people who are pushing for that.\"\n\n3DCrowd UK is seeking more volunteers for its network but it too is clear about what it can offer.\n\n\"There are 3D printers that can print medical-grade things but for anything important, that for now has to remain in the hands of the professionals,\" said adviser Seb Lee-Delise.\n\n\"I'd be incredibly wary of making anything that goes on or inside or around a patient.\"", "There were 1,132 coronavirus-related breaches reported between 25 March and 7 April\n\nGreater Manchester Police has warned people not to breach lockdown rules over Easter after it had to break up 660 parties during the pandemic.\n\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins said \"each and every one of us need take this seriously\".\n\nThere were 1,132 coronavirus-related breaches reported between 25 March and 7 April, the force said.\n\nThat included 494 house parties - some with DJs, fireworks and bouncy castles - and 166 street parties.\n\nOne woman in Bury became the first person in Greater Manchester to be charged under the Coronavirus Act 2020 after police had to repeatedly shut down one of the gatherings.\n\nThe force, which has released updated figures, also had to deal with 122 different groups gathering to play sports, 173 more gatherings in parks and 112 incidents of anti-social behaviour and public disorder.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said such behaviour was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"They are putting everybody at risk,\" he said.\n\n\"The vast majority of people in Greater Manchester are observing the guidelines, but we cannot have a situation where we've got people flouting the rules.\n\n\"If you are going out and about you are putting at risk the most vulnerable members of our community and you need to have a good hard look at yourself.\"\n\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins warned against breaching the rules over the Easter weekend\n\nThe region's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Beverley Hughes, said the number coronavirus-related incidents had risen considerably.\n\nOfficers responded to about 500 callouts a day last weekend, she said.\n\nHowever, she said calls for enforcement for businesses not complying with the rules had fallen.\n\nMr Hopkins said: \"We understand the desire people will have to spend time with family and friends over the Easter period, however it is vital that we follow the government guidelines.\n\n\"The single most important action we can take in fighting coronavirus is to stay at home in order to save lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're getting the PPE out there but there's clearly a huge task ahead to keep it flowing\"\n\nThe UK will now ensure daily deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline workers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told the daily coronavirus briefing it had been a \"Herculean effort\", after criticism the government was not doing enough to protect critical NHS staff.\n\nOfficials told the briefing the lockdown was \"beginning to pay off\" but it was still a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 980 hospital deaths, bringing the total to 8,958.\n\nThat death toll, which does not include those who died in care homes or the community, has now exceeded the worst daily figures seen in Italy and Spain.\n\nBut England's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was \"impossible to say we have peaked\", adding that the measures the country was taking with social distancing needed to continue.\n\nThe total number of deaths worldwide has now passed 100,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in the US.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said that some NHS and care workers were saying they were still struggling to get protective equipment and they felt unsafe, despite earlier pledges by the government. He asked if Mr Hancock was acknowledging the previous plans were insufficient.\n\nThe health secretary responded that it had been an \"enormous challenge\", but that 742 million pieces of protective gear had been delivered so far.\n\n\"But there's clearly a huge task ahead to keep it flowing and to make sure that those who need it get it,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock also told the briefing that the protective equipment - such as masks, gloves and aprons - must be used only where it was most needed.\n\n\"There's enough PPE to go around, but only if it's used in line with our guidance. We need everyone to treat PPE like the precious resource that it is,\" he said.\n\nHe also cautioned against using protective gear outside of health and social care settings, saying handwashing, social distancing and staying at home were the best ways for people to stay safe.\n\n\"A front door is better than any face mask,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThose looking after Covid-19 patients are themselves most at risk of catching the virus.\n\nProtective gear and testing are vital not only for protecting staff, but also for minimising the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThere have been constant stories of doctors, nurses or care home staff not getting the protection they need.\n\nThe government says it has been, in part, a logistical problem. Instead of supplying just over 200 hospital organisations with PPE they are now delivering to 58,000 separate organisations including pharmacies, care homes and GP surgeries.\n\nWe are still not at the peak of the outbreak, despite some positive signs in the data.\n\nHowever, even if we pass the peak and cases start to fall it won't mean all restrictions can be lifted.\n\nThe best estimate of the proportion of people infected (and potentially immune in the UK) is 4%. Or to put that another way - more than 63 million are still vulnerable to the infection. So lifting the lockdown could lead to another surge in cases.\n\nInstead the government will have to decide which restrictions to lift, which to keep and what new strategies to introduce in order to suppress the virus.\n\nMr Hancock said that because of \"huge international demand\" the UK was having to create a domestic manufacturing industry for protective equipment from scratch, as well as buying from abroad.\n\nHe said Burberry had offered to make protective gowns, Rolls-Royce and McLaren were making visors and hand sanitiser was being made by drinks company Diageo and chemicals producer Ineos.\n\nSusan Masters, national director of nursing policy and practice at the Royal College of Nursing, said the amount of PPE being delivered would only be impressive \"when nursing staff stop contacting me to say what they need to use wasn't available\".\n\n\"The calls are still coming through - people are petrified. They have seen colleagues die already.\"\n\nAt the government's briefing, chief nursing officer Ruth May paid tribute to frontline staff who had died after contracting coronavirus.\n\n\"The NHS is a family and we feel their loss deeply,\" she said.\n\nAppealing to the public to continue observing the lockdown rules, she said it was \"frustrating\" for NHS staff to see people failing to observe the social distancing.\n\n\"It is enormously frustrating... there's also still occasions where my colleagues are getting abuse from their neighbours for driving off to work,\" she said.\n\n\"Our nurses, our healthcare staff, need to be able to get to work, it's right and proper they do, but my ask of everybody, please stay at home, save lives and protect my staff.\"\n\nThere is no hiding from the fact that today's announcement of 980 new UK deaths has surpassed Italy and Spain's worst days during this pandemic.\n\nWhile these two countries are now seeing daily death figures coming down, the UK's have been closing in on 1,000 for several days - and the true death toll is likely to be higher once deaths not yet reported have been added in.\n\nYet the NHS has not been overwhelmed in the way that Italy's hospitals appeared to be, particularly in the north.\n\nThe message is that the NHS has spare capacity and intensive care beds not yet used, thanks to planning and everyone's efforts to stay at home.\n\nThere was even a plea from health officials that anyone with serious and worrying health problems of any kind should contact the NHS as usual.\n\nThe hope is now that the UK's social distancing measures will have the same effect as Italy and Spain's lockdowns, and deaths will start to fall - not just slow down - in the weeks to come.\n\nMr Hancock was challenged on a report in Health Service Journal that he had been failing to observe social distancing rules himself, holding regular video calls in his office surrounded by between 10 and 20 colleagues.\n\nSenior NHS leaders expressed alarm that the health secretary was providing a bad example, the report said.\n\nMr Hancock insisted that he followed social distancing rules on the occasions when he had to come into the office.\n\nIt comes after Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended his travel moves following reports he flouted the government's lockdown rules.\n\nMr Hancock also told the briefing 15 drive-through testing centres had been opened across the UK to enable all frontline NHS and social care staff to be screened for the virus.\n\nThe 19,100 tests carried out in the last day still fall well short of the health secretary's target of 100,000 a day by the end of April.\n\nBut he said new \"Lighthouse mega-labs\" were on track in Cheshire and Glasgow, and another has opened in Milton Keynes. Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and GSK were opening an additional testing facility in Cambridge, he added.\n\nThe government also announced new Nightingale temporary hospitals to be opened, with 460 beds in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and a smaller facility in Exeter.\n\nIt brings the total number to seven, with units in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate as well.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A man has been jailed after coughing at a policeman and telling the officer he had coronavirus.\n\nSimon Kibble, 29, of Trethomas, Caerphilly, assaulted the officer after throttling his girlfriend in an alcohol-fuelled attack.\n\nKibble admitted two charges of common assault and was sentenced to 16 weeks.\n\nCardiff Magistrates Court heard the policeman had spoken of how these were \"scary times\" for frontline officers and a feeling of \"heightened anxiety\" during the pandemic.\n\nJudge Shomon Khan said: \"Alcohol was an aggravating factor in this deeply unpleasant incident.\n\n\"Coronavirus can bring out the best in people but it can also bring out the worst in the people.\n\n\"This has had a serious impact on the officer and his family.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nApple and Google are jointly developing technology to alert people if they have recently come into contact with others found to be infected with coronavirus.\n\nThey hope to initially help third-party contact-tracing apps run efficiently.\n\nBut ultimately, they aim to do away with the need to download dedicated apps, to encourage the practice.\n\nThe two companies believe their approach - designed to keep users, whose participation would be voluntary, anonymous - addresses privacy concerns.\n\nTheir contact-tracing method would work by using a smartphone's Bluetooth signals to determine to whom the owner had recently been in proximity for long enough to have established contagion a risk.\n\nIf one of those people later tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, a warning would be sent to the original handset owner.\n\nNo GPS location data or personal information would be recorded.\n\n\"Privacy, transparency and consent are of utmost importance in this effort and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with interested stakeholders,\" Apple and Google said in a joint statement.\n\n\"We will openly publish information about our work for others to analyse.\"\n\nPresident Trump said his administration needed time to consider the development.\n\n\"It's very interesting, but a lot of people worry about it in terms of a person's freedom,\" he said during a White House press conference.\n\n\"We're going to take... a very strong look at it, and we'll let you know pretty soon.\"\n\nThe European Union's Data Protection Supervisor sounded more positive, saying: \"The initiative will require further assessment, however, after a quick look it seems to tick the right boxes as regards user choice, data protection by design and pan-European interoperability.\"\n\nBut others have noted that the success of the venture may depend on getting enough people tested.\n\nApple is the developer of iOS. Google is the company behind Android. The two operating systems power the vast majority of smartphones in use.\n\nSome countries - including Singapore, Israel, South Korea and Poland - are already using people's handsets to issue coronavirus contagion alerts.\n\nOther health authorities - including the UK, France and Germany - are working on initiatives of their own. And some municipal governments in the US are reportedly about to adopt a third-party app.\n\nThe two technology giants aim to bring coherence to all this by allowing existing third-party apps to be retrofitted to include their solution.\n\nThis would make the apps interoperable, so contact tracing would continue to work as people travelled overseas and came into contact with people using a different tool.\n\nApple and Google have been working on the effort for about two weeks but have not externally revealed their plans until Friday.\n\nIf successful, the scheme could help countries relax lockdowns and border restrictions.\n\nThe companies aim to release a software building-block - known as an API (application programming interface) - by mid-May.\n\nThis would allow others' apps to run on the same basis.\n\nRecords of the digital IDs involved would be stored on remote computer servers but the companies say these could not be used to unmask a specific individual's true identity.\n\nFurthermore, the contact-matching process would take place on the phones rather than centrally.\n\nThis would make it possible for someone to be told they should go into quarantine, without anyone else being notified.\n\nThe two companies have released details of the cryptography specifications they plan to use to safeguard privacy, and details of the role Bluetooth will play.\n\nThey hope this will convince activists their approach can be trusted.\n\nApple and Google say another benefit of their solution is developers would not risk the iOS and Android versions of their apps becoming incompatible because of a buggy update.\n\nIn addition, they believe it would be less taxing on battery life than current contact-tracing systems.\n\nPhase two of the initiative involves building contact-tracing capabilities into the iOS and Android operating systems. Users could then switch the capability on and off again without having to download an app at all.\n\nApproved third-party apps would still be able to interact with the facility if desired.\n\nThe facility would be delivered via a future system software update. But the companies have yet to say when this would occur.\n\n\"This is a more robust solution,\" they say, suggesting there would be wider adoption if users did not have to download additional software for themselves.\n\nIt also provides the companies with the ability to easily disable tracing on a regional basis when the pandemic ends.\n\nWhile Apple and Google hope others will see benefits of adopting their approach, this is not guaranteed.\n\nAn independent effort - the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) initiative - revealed its own attempt to deliver a privacy-centric solution on 1 April.\n\nAbout 130 technologists and scientists are involved and the group has already made contact with several European governments.", "The PM outside Downing Street before he was admitted to hospital\n\nBoris Johnson is taking short walks between periods of rest as part of the care he is receiving for coronavirus.\n\nThe prime minister has also thanked the team looking after him for the \"incredible care\" he has received, a Downing Street spokesman said.\n\nMr Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive.\n\nEarlier on Friday, his father said Mr Johnson \"must rest up\" after he was moved from intensive care.\n\nStanley Johnson spoke of his \"relief\" that his son had begun his recovery, adding that he thought his illness had \"got the whole country to realise this is a serious event\".\n\nThe No 10 spokesman said: \"[Mr Johnson] has spoken to his doctors and thanks the whole clinical team for the incredible care he has received.\n\n\"His thoughts are with those affected by this terrible disease.\"\n\nEarlier, the spokesman said the prime minister was back on a ward and \"in very good spirits\", emphasising that Mr Johnson was at an \"early stage\" of his recovery from coronavirus.\n\nNHS England has announced 866 more people have died in England after testing positive for coronavirus, and separate figures show there have been 48 more in Scotland, 29 more in Wales and 10 more in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, scientific adviser Prof Neil Ferguson, who was asked about coming out of lockdown, said it would likely \"be targeted by age, by geography\".\n\nProf Ferguson, of Imperial College London, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that work to end the coronavirus lockdown in the UK was the \"number one topic and priority\" both in the scientific community and in government. \"Every waking minute, as it were,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking about what measures might be needed to end the lockdown, Prof Ferguson said the UK would have to introduce larger levels of testing at community level \"to isolate cases more effectively\".\n\nHowever, he suggested the lockdown would have to remain in place for \"several more weeks\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for clarity about how long the prime minister will be \"out of action\".\n\n\"We need robust replacement arrangements in place and we need to know what they are, as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has launched a campaign urging people to stay at home over the Easter Bank Holiday.\n\nIt comes as Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended his travel moves amid reports he flouted lockdown rules.\n\nThe MP for Newark in Nottinghamshire is said to have travelled from London to a second home in Herefordshire, and separately visited his parents in neighbouring Shropshire, according to the Daily Mail and the Guardian.\n\nThe government has advised against travel to second homes - and urged people to distance themselves from elderly relatives.\n\nMr Jenrick said he had been in London on ministerial duties and left for what he said was a family home in Herefordshire to join his wife and children.\n\nHe added that he visited his parents to deliver essentials, including medicines - allowed by the rules.\n\nDowning Street has defended Mr Jenrick, saying it was \"not an unnecessary journey\" for cabinet ministers commuting to and from London to rejoin their family.\n\n\"We're confident that he complied with the social distancing rules,\" a spokesman said.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"important for public confidence\" that Mr Jenrick explained the purpose of the journey.\n\nBut he added that if the housing secretary had delivered medicine to his parents, \"clearly... it fits within the four exceptions\".\n\nProf Paul Cosford, medical director for Public Health England, said government guidelines were \"quite clear\" that people must stay at home except in one of four circumstances, including exercise, essential shopping for food and medicines, healthcare and essential work.\n\n\"I can't comment on Mr Jenrick, it sounds as if what he did was within one of the four guidelines to me, but others will obviously have to think about that more,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nAsked about the government's lockdown exit strategy, Prof Cosford said he \"could conceive of circumstances in which some of the restrictions are lifted sooner and some are lifted later\", but cautioned that there was still an \"awfully long way to go\".\n\nMeanwhile, the German army is donating 60 mobile ventilators to the NHS. There are currently 10,000 available in the UK and the government says 18,000 are needed.\n\nThousands of masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) suits for the UK are also scheduled to arrive at RAF Brize Norton later on Friday from Nato ally Turkey.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - who is standing in for Mr Johnson - acknowledged it was hard for people hoping to go out and be with their families over Easter, but urged restraint.\n\nMr Raab was speaking ahead of a bank holiday weekend forecasted to see temperatures as high as 26C in London on Saturday, though cooler weather is expected on Sunday.\n\nHe said lockdown restrictions will stay in place until evidence showed the UK had moved beyond the peak of the virus.\n\nThe new campaign aims to reinforce the importance of staying at home over Easter\n\nPolice forces across the UK have urged people to stay at home over the Easter weekend, with police in North Ireland warning of increased patrols, and forces in Wales vowing a crackdown on unnecessary travel.\n\nPolice Scotland officers will also be on patrol to explain the risks to public health of flouting guidance.\n\nSome forces and local authorities said they had already turned away would-be holidaymakers making journeys to popular destinations on Thursday.\n\nDowning Street has given its \"full backing\" to officers enforcing the lockdown rules.\n\nHowever, some forces have been criticised for their handling of the new measures.\n\nOn Friday morning, the Cambridge Police Twitter account posted a statement to \"clarify\" officers were \"not monitoring\" what people are buying from supermarkets.\n\nAn earlier post suggested officers were patrolling \"non-essential\" aisles at Tesco supermarket in Barhill.\n\nThe force said the initial post, since deleted, was made by an \"over-exuberant\" officer.\n\n\"The force position, in line with national guidance, is that we are not monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets,\" Cambridge Police tweeted.\n\nOn Thursday, Northamptonshire's chief constable was criticised for saying he would not rule out road blocks or checking supermarket trolleys - later confirming that the force would not be judging people on what they are buying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch people around the UK clap for NHS workers on 9 April\n\nA number of Easter-themed government adverts will be running in newspapers and on social media urging people to stay at home during the holiday.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We understand that people will want to spend time with their friends and families this Easter, and we recognise that we are asking the public to make sacrifices in the fight against this disease.\n\n\"We are at a crucial moment in preventing further transmission of coronavirus, and so it is vital that we continue following the government's guidance.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long-lost sisters Margaret and Sue are enjoying the chance to get to know each other\n\n\"The lockdown has been an absolutely fantastic silver lining for us. It's given us an opportunity to make up for lost time.\"\n\nSue Bremner and her husband David, from Shropshire, are stranded in New Zealand due to the coronoavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it's given Sue the chance to get to know her long-lost sister Margaret Hannay - who she didn't know existed for more than 40 years.\n\nMargaret, 71, was given up for adoption at two weeks old by her mum, who had a short relationship with Sue's dad in 1948. It was only last year that the sisters met for the first time after Margaret - who lives in Auckland - got in touch with Sue in the UK.\n\nSue, 65, and her husband went out to see her sister again as part of a two-month trip across New Zealand and Australia on 5 March.\n\nBut two weeks later, the country went into lockdown and they couldn't get back to the UK. So Sue has been able to spend some extra time with Margaret and her husband, John.\n\n\"We've been having a wonderful time here,\" says Sue, who lives in Ludlow. \"We've been spending lots of time together drinking wine and cooking and having fun.\"\n\nMargaret says she now calls her sister the \"Sue-chef\"\n\n\"We haven't killed each other yet,\" Margaret laughs. \"It's been great. It's really hard, as you probably know, to share a kitchen with someone. But we seem to manage, everything works.\"\n\nSue found out she had an older sister in 2000 when her dad told her that he'd had a child with another woman before he'd met her mum.\n\n\"My dad asked me would I try to find Margaret because he wanted her to know there's never been a day gone past when he hadn't thought about the child that had been adopted.\n\n\"He was very regretful that somebody had been brought into the world and he didn't know them and he wanted to apologise for that.\"\n\nSue gave her details to the General Register Office - which holds records of births and deaths - and searched on social media and ancestry websites.\n\nShe was told she wouldn't be able to find out any information about her sister unless Margaret got in touch saying she wanted to be found.\n\nMargaret (second left) met up with her siblings John (far left), Sue and Lawrence (far right) for the first time last year\n\nMargaret, who moved to New Zealand 45 years ago, always knew she was adopted but didn't really have any desire to track down her birth parents. But last year, she told her daughter she had started to wonder whether she had any siblings.\n\nShe then got in touch with the General Register Office and within two weeks they got back to her to say she had a sister - giving her Sue's contact details.\n\n\"I was sitting there in bed with my first morning cup of tea with John snoring next to me and I opened this email and I was like, 'Oh I've got a sister',\" says Margaret.\n\n\"So when he woke up he found me sitting in bed with my cup of tea sobbing. When I told him he was delighted as he has two older brothers. I always wanted to have brothers and sisters but I never did.\"\n\nSue says it was \"amazing\" when she got an email from Margaret introducing herself - but unfortunately their dad had died before they were reunited.\n\n\"Receiving that email was like winning the pools. I would've loved to have told my dad but I just kind of feel he's inside me and he knew it was happening.\"\n\nMargaret and Sue spoke to the BBC on FaceTime from Auckland\n\nMargaret and Sue also have two brothers - Lawrence and John Connell - and all four siblings met up for the first time in the UK last year.\n\n\"It was a great opportunity for all of a sudden meet the rest of family to see how we all got on,\" says Margaret. \"Since we've known each other we've found so many similarities it's uncanny.\"\n\nSue and Margaret say they both like weak coffee and they suffer from \"wobbly knees\".\n\nSue and her husband have already had two flights back to the UK cancelled - but are booked on a flight to return home on Saturday.\n\nCurrently, there's only been one coronavirus related death in New Zealand and their daughter - who is a doctor - even advised them to stay on there.\n\n\"She says stay where you are, it's very safe in New Zealand. But we've got children back in the UK and grandchildren. It's a hard decision. Your heart is pulled to come back. We need to get back really but we're having a wonderful time.\"\n\nThe sisters had planned to meet up again in the UK later this year - but they've put the trip on hold until 2021 now.\n\n\"I'm already starting to plan as I've got to match this stay,\" says Sue. \"I'm thinking of booking Ludlow Castle and getting all the family together.\"", "Universities face uncertainty over student numbers during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nUniversities across the UK are calling for emergency funding of at least £2bn, warning some institutions will go bust without it.\n\nUniversities UK says the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to sharply cut overseas student numbers and put universities in financial danger.\n\nThey are asking for controls on student numbers in each university, to keep fee income at similar levels to last year.\n\nUniversities are promising to honour any offers already made to students.\n\n\"Without government support, some universities would face financial failure, others would come close to financial failure and be forced to reduce provision,\" says a letter from higher education leaders to ministers across the UK.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, says the proposals would help universities to \"weather the very serious financial challenges posed by Covid-19\".\n\nHe says academic researchers have made a \"huge contribution\" to tackling the coronavirus pandemic - and their expertise will be needed in the \"recovery of the economy and communities following the crisis\".\n\nThey are calling for an extra £2bn in research funding and on top of that to provide emergency loans for universities that faced \"significant income losses\".\n\n\"Targeted support\" should be available to protect strategically important subjects such as science and medicine, say the industry leaders.\n\nThis would be in response to cash pressures from the pandemic:\n\nThere have been warnings of unprecedented \"volatility\" in this year's admissions - which, if left unchecked, could see some universities expanding but others left with too few students to be financially viable.\n\nThis is a particular risk for universities in England and Wales, which are highly dependent on tuition fee income.\n\nUniversities are calling for controls on the number of students each institution can recruit this year\n\nIn response, Universities UK is asking for controls on the number of students each university in England and Wales can recruit this year, keeping them to levels expected before the coronavirus outbreak, to stop financially unsustainable swings in numbers.\n\nThe scale of concern was suggested in an internal email from a Russell Group university seen by the BBC this week, which warned the university could lose a quarter of its income next year.\n\nThe letter from Universities UK to ministers says that to provide \"stability\" for students currently applying, all offers already made would have to be honoured if students made the required grade.\n\nThere is also a call to push back by a year the point at which European Union students are categorised as overseas students, when they will face higher fees and visa restrictions.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU lecturers' union said the plan was a \"piecemeal approach that fails to recognise the size of the problem, or the damage we risk doing to our academic capacity\".\n\nEva Crossan Jory, vice president of the National Union of Students, said any extra funding must support students, \"especially considering the mounting discontent that courses are not being delivered as promised and demands for refunds\".\n\nShe backed calls for the government to \"step in\" to protect higher education, but said it should include \"refunding or all or part of the fees\".\n\n\"The scale of the financial challenges facing higher education institutions are clearly very serious\", said Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney.\n\nHe promised to work closely with universities to help them \"emerge from this crisis\".\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said universities had been \"at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus\" and ministers would work to ensure they had the \"necessary investment\".\n\nIn England, a Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The outbreak poses significant challenges to the sector and the government is working closely with universities to understand the financial risks and implications they might face at this uncertain time.\"", "That's all from our live page service on this Good Friday.\n\nMany thanks for being with us throughout the day and allowing us to share the latest stories from around England.\n\nWe'll be back with more updates and information on Saturday.\n\nUntil then - stay home, stay safe and save lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary urges people not to give coronavirus a second chance to \"hurt our country\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has urged the public to stay indoors over this Easter weekend, telling people: \"Let's not ruin it now.\"\n\nHe said after almost three weeks of lockdown \"we are starting to see the impact of the sacrifices we've all made\".\n\nMr Raab said it was still \"too early\" to lift the restrictions.\n\nA total of 7,978 people have now died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, up by 881 on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily briefing, Mr Raab said a decision on whether to ease the lockdown measures would not come until \"the end of next week\".\n\nHe was deputising for the prime minister, who has been in hospital since Sunday after contracting coronavirus.\n\nBoris Johnson was moved out of intensive care on Thursday evening, with a No 10 spokesman saying: \"He is in extremely good spirits.\"\n\nMr Raab stressed that the lockdown restrictions would have to stay in place until evidence showed the UK had moved beyond the peak of the virus.\n\nHe said: \"After all the efforts everybody has made, after all the sacrifices so many people have made let's not ruin it now.\n\n\"Let's not undo the gains we've made, let's not waste the sacrifices so many people have made.\n\n\"We mustn't give the coronavirus a second chance to kill more people and to hurt our country.\"\n\nThe first secretary of state was speaking ahead of a bank holiday weekend which has been forecast to be warm, and Downing Street earlier said it gave its \"full backing\" to police forces to enforce the lockdown rules.\n\nThe announcement of another 881 deaths of people with coronavirus is yet another tragic piece of news.\n\nAnd we know that the true death toll to date is higher: this figure doesn't include people who have died with coronavirus but whose death has not yet been reported to the Department for Health and Social Care.\n\nHowever this is a fall in the daily total compared to Wednesday's announcement of 938.\n\nAny fall in the daily figure is to be welcomed, but the scientists advising the government have warned that we shouldn't be surprised if tomorrow's figures once again set a record.\n\nThey have suggested that the peak of the epidemic may not arrive before next week.\n\nThe trends over the last week do suggest that the measures that everyone are taking are having an effect on the epidemic.\n\nUntil last Saturday, the number of deaths was doubling every three-and-a-half days, growing by just over 20% every day.\n\nSince then, the growth in the number of deaths has halved, down to about 10% a day.\n\nEven once we pass the peak, we will see more people fall victim to this virus - but there are growing suggestions in the data that the lockdown is having the expected effect.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, said social distancing measures were curbing the number of new cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHe explained that the death toll would continue to rise for about two weeks after intensive care admissions stabilise, as deaths lag behind admissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Rosser, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham, warned people must not become \"falsely reassured\" by the flattening of the curve.\n\nDr Rosser said he did not want hospitals \"to start reaping the consequences\" next week if people broke the rules.\n\nAccording to new coronavirus laws, the health secretary must review the restrictions at least once every 21 days, with the first review due by 16 April.\n\nThere are now 65,077 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK, an increase of 4,344 on Wednesday.\n\nAmid all the speculation about when and how the UK's lockdown may be relaxed, it's worth looking back at the original scientific advice that led to the measures in the first place.\n\nIt makes clear that nothing is likely to change soon.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory committee, Sage, has always suggested that a 13-week programme of interventions will be needed.\n\nAnd although that sounds like very precise timing, it all depends on how the British public responds.\n\nThe scientists made a fairly pessimistic assumption: that only 50% of households would observe the requirements.\n\nSo what might a timetable look like?\n\nOnce the peak in daily deaths has been reached - possibly in the next week or so - even the best-case scenario suggests that it will take a month or two for the numbers dying to fall to low levels.\n\nThat gets us well into May and maybe to early June, and it'll be a brave political decision to ease the restrictions any earlier if there's a risk of a 'second peak', with a resurgence of the virus.\n\nMr Raab earlier chaired a virtual meeting of the emergency Cobra committee to discuss the lockdown measures.\n\nAnd on Thursday evening he held a conference call with all opposition leaders to update them on the government response to the pandemic.", "A teacher has died at the age of 35 after it is believed she contracted Covid-19, the school's principal has said in a letter to parents.\n\nEmma Clarke, who taught at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn, Cheshire, died on Thursday after becoming unwell, the school has said.\n\nIn a letter to parents, principal Tony Rawdin described Ms Clarke as \"one of those people who everyone liked\".\n\nShe was \"a much-loved and gifted member of staff\", he added.\n\n\"She was a brilliant science teacher and very popular with her pupils, not least her Year 11 tutor group, and her colleagues,\" said Mr Rawdin.\n\nHe said staff and students would be able to remember Ms Clarke together when the academy reopens.\n\nMr Rawdin added: \"For now, I speak for everyone connected with the school in saying that we will always remember Emma extremely fondly.\"\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thank you for joining us today for our live updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales, we will be back shortly after 06:00 tomorrow. Tonight many of you took to the streets to clap, hoot and play instruments to show support for key workers.\n• Another 41 people in Wales have died after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number to 286, Public Health Wales has said\n• Incident director Dr Robin Howe said another 16 confirmed new cases brought the total in Wales to 4,089\n• Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved from intensive care, but remains in hospital for close monitoring\n• The lockdown in Wales will remain in place for \"several more weeks at the very least\"\n• Four inmates at Cardiff Prison have tested positive for coronavirus\n• With warm weather forecast, police are warning people not to be tempted to break restrictions", "A doctor who warned the prime minister about a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS workers has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nConsultant urologist Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, died at Queen's Hospital in Romford, east London, on Wednesday.\n\nFive days before he was admitted to hospital, Dr Chowdhury had appealed for \"appropriate PPE and remedies\" to \"protect ourselves and our families\".\n\nMatt Hancock said the UK has made a \"Herculean effort\" to deliver PPE.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, he said the \"plan to protect the people who protect us\" included creating a new domestic manufacturing industry.\n\nDr Chowdhury's son Intisar described the consultant urologist as a \"kind and compassionate hero\" who had been in \"such pain\" when he wrote the appeal to the government on Facebook.\n\n\"He wrote that post while he was in that state, just because of how much he cared about his co-workers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added he was \"so proud\" that his father had had the \"courage... to point out something wrong that the government was doing\".\n\n\"I'm glad it is getting the attention now that it needs to protect NHS workers on the front line because it pains me to say that my father is not the first and he is unfortunately not going to be the last NHS front-line worker to die.\"\n\nDr Chowdhury, who worked at Homerton University Hospital in east London, was admitted to hospital on 23 March.\n\nThe hospital's chief executive Tracey Fletcher said he would be \"greatly missed by every member of the urology department, as well as by all those who knew him in outpatients, wards, theatres and management\".\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said it was \"so tragic\" that the 53-year-old had died after issuing a warning about a lack of PPE.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to him and all the other healthcare workers who are providing frontline care,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care previously said it was \"working closely\" with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army and \"if staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place\".", "Royal Mail is putting \"profits before safety\" say postal workers, who claim the company is failing to protect them from the risk of catching coronavirus.\n\nThere is a shortage of gloves, masks and hand sanitiser, employees from across the UK have told the BBC.\n\nThey also claim social distancing at work is \"almost impossible\".\n\nRoyal Mail says it has invested £15m in protective equipment and that the health and well-being of staff is their top priority.\n\nOver the last two weeks, staff at eight Royal Mail sites, including three in Scotland, have walked out over safety concerns. The BBC has seen footage of employees working shoulder-to-shoulder in one sorting office, with limited social distancing measures in place.\n\nA supervisor based in the north of England said: \"It's more than two weeks since the lockdown and we're in a situation where there is still a lack of PPE [personal protective equipment], there's still a lack of sanitisers, there is still a lack of direction.\"\n\nHe said staff feel as though they are \"forced to choose between their jobs and their health\".\n\n\"I'm scared that my job will be in danger if I refuse to do a task because I believe it puts me in an unsafe position,\" he added.\n\nSince the lockdown began there have been unofficial walk-outs at Royal Mail sites in Chatham, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Warrington, Didcot, Edinburgh, Alloa and Fife.\n\nDelivery and sorting office staff based in the North West and the Midlands have described difficult conditions with \"no space\" to keep safely two metres apart. They too feared for their jobs if they raised concerns publicly.\n\nOne postman said: \"The buildings we work in aren't designed for people to be able to space out. Everyone's gathered together. We're under each others' skin. It's just completely impossible\".\n\nHe also criticised the company's response after he raised worries about insufficient supplies of hand sanitiser during delivery rounds.\n\n\"When this was all kicking off, we were saying [to management] we need this stuff. But our big boss upstairs just said 'no you just need to wash your hands'. I'd love to wash my hands, but nowhere's open. Everything's shut. It's ridiculous.\"\n\nAnother postman said: \"We are touching 850 letterboxes with no protection. Coronavirus is spoken about like a nuisance at my office.\"\n\n\"It's not too much to ask to be equipped for the job,\" he added.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents thousands of postal workers, accuses Royal Mail of being slow to act in response to the crisis.\n\nNorth West divisional rep Ian Taylor said it had been \"busier than Christmas\" with parcels and said it was imperative that protective equipment reached frontline staff.\n\nThe CWU estimates that 20% of Royal Mail staff are currently off work. That equates to around 26,000 postmen and postwomen who are either sick or self-isolating, at a time when parcel deliveries have soared as more people shop online during the lockdown.\n\n\"People really do need to think about what they are buying at this particular time, it's placing incredible strain on frontline posties,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\nPostal workers told the BBC that they were 'exhausted' by the extra workload, delivering items like home gym kits and garden furniture, as well as junk or advertising mail.\n\nTo ease the workload, Royal Mail has changed its policy on junk mail. It will now only be delivered to people already receiving letters or parcels.\n\nStaff are delivering an increased number of parcels as people order products online\n\nThe company refutes the union's claims and says \"wherever possible\" workers were being kept least two metres apart. Regular handwashing with soap and water is promoted amongst staff and there is \"enhanced disinfectant cleaning of communal areas.\" The company has bought 400,000 bottles of hand sanitiser, it said.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"In assessing the risks to our people and making the necessary operational changes to protect them, we take professional medical and health and safety advice on a daily basis.\n\n\"We have already made a series of adjustments to our parcel-handling procedures to protect our colleagues and our customers.\"", "Mourners attend a funeral in Brooklyn, New York, as the city's coronavirus death toll hit a record high for a third day\n\nNew York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country outside the US, according to latest figures.\n\nThe state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 jumped by 10,000 on Thursday to 159,937, placing it ahead of Spain (153,000 cases) and Italy (143,000).\n\nChina, where the virus emerged last year, has reported 82,000 cases.\n\nThe US as a whole has recorded 462,000 cases and nearly 16,500 deaths. Globally there are 1.6 million cases and 95,000 deaths.\n\nWhile New York state leads the world in coronavirus cases, its death toll (7,000) lags behind Spain (15,500) and Italy (18,000), though it is more than double the official figure from China (3,300).\n\nPhotos have emerged of workers in hazmat outfits burying coffins in a mass grave in New York City.\n\nAbout 40 coffins were buried on Thursday\n\nDrone footage showed workers using a ladder to descend into the huge pit where the caskets were stacked.\n\nThe images were taken at Hart Island, off the Bronx, which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial site for those with no next-of-kin, or families who cannot afford funerals.\n\nBurial operations at the site have ramped up amid the pandemic from one day a week to five days a week, according to the Department of Corrections.\n\nPrisoners from Rikers Island usually do the job, but the rising workload has recently been taken over by contractors.\n\nNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated earlier this week the city's public cemetery might be used for burials during the pandemic.\n\n\"Obviously the place we have used historically is Hart Island,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is it too soon for a thriller movie on coronavirus?\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths in New York state increased to 799 on Wednesday, a record high for a third day.\n\nBut Governor Andrew Cuomo took heart from the fact that the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to New York hospitals dropped for a second day, to 200.\n\nHe said it was a sign social distancing was working. He called the outbreak a \"silent explosion that ripples through society with the same randomness, the same evil that we saw on 9/11\".\n\nAnother glimmer of hope was heralded on Thursday as official projections for the nationwide death toll were lowered.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House's coronavirus task force, told NBC News' Today show on Thursday the final number of Americans who will die from Covid-19 in the outbreak \"looks more like 60,000\".\n\nIn late March, Dr Fauci estimated \"between 100,000 and 200,000\" could die.\n\nThe 60,000 projection would match the upper estimate for total flu deaths in the US between October 2019 to March 2020, according to government data.\n\nBut Vice-President Mike Pence stressed on Thursday that Covid-19 is about three times as contagious as influenza.\n\nThe White House has previously touted estimates that 2.2 million Americans could die from coronavirus if nothing was done to stop its spread.\n\nStay-at-home orders have in the meantime closed non-essential businesses in 42 states, while drastically slowing the US economy.\n\nNew data on Thursday showed unemployment claims topped 6 million for the second week in a row, bringing the number of Americans out of work over the last three weeks to 16.8 million.\n\nChicago meanwhile imposed a curfew on liquor sales from 21:00 local time on Thursday to stop the persistent violation of a ban on large gatherings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How caravans are helping frontline medics with a place to stay\n\nThe measure, due to remain in place until 30 April, comes after health officials this week said black Chicagoans account for half of all the Illinois city's coronavirus cases and more than 70% of its deaths, despite making up just 30% of the population.\n\n\"We are putting this curfew in place because too many individuals and businesses have been violating the stay-at-home order,\" said Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday.\n\nGun violence in Chicago on Tuesday left seven dead and 14 injured, which city officials said was unforgivable given the virus crisis.\n\n\"Every one of those ER beds taken up by a gunshot victim could be somebody's grandmother, somebody with pre-existing conditions, somebody that is in danger of losing their lives because of the pandemic,\" Supt Charlie Beck said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘I just had a baby - now I’m going to the frontline.’\n\nFigures from Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York reflect the same racial disparity in coronavirus infections.\n\nPresumptive Democratic White House nominee Joe Biden joined growing calls on Thursday for the release of comprehensive racial data on the pandemic.\n\nHe said it had cast a spotlight on inequity and the impact of \"structural racism\".\n\nMeanwhile, a court has blocked parts of Texas' temporary abortion ban, which the state announced last month citing the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe order against \"medically unnecessary\" procedures was introduced to reserve valuable medical resources for those treating Covid-19 only, the state's Republican attorney general said in March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italian PM Giuseppe Conte told the BBC in April how the lockdown could be eased\n\nBut Judge Lee Yaekel, a George W Bush appointee, granted a temporary restraining order against the ban on Thursday.\n\n\"As a minimum, this is an undue burden on a woman's right to a previability abortion,\" he wrote in his ruling.\n\nWhile there is still no vaccine for Covid-19, America's culture wars have proved similarly incurable.\n\nLegal battles have also ensued over whether guns shops should be closed during the pandemic, and if religious services should be exempt from state orders that ban large gatherings.", "When Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington took his own life in 2017, most fans probably thought they would never hear new music from him again.\n\nBut this weekend a new album, featuring vocals Chester recorded more than 20 years ago, is being streamed around the world.\n\nIt's based on songs he wrote with Grey Daze, the band he was in before Linkin Park - and features guest stars from the music industry and Chester's family.\n\n\"It felt like it gave me a little bit of closure with losing him, something that I was able to work on for a couple of years in his honour,\" Grey Daze's drummer Sean Dowdell tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"And I feel like I did my friend justice, you know?\"\n\nChester Bennington, pictured here in 2001, sold over 70 million albums with Linkin Park\n\nDuring their career, Linkin Park sold tens of millions of albums, won two Grammy Awards and released a collaboration album with Jay-Z.\n\nBut Sean says - even with all this going on - it was actually Chester's idea to reform their 90s band Grey Daze.\n\n\"In 2016, we decided we wanted make sure people got to hear this music,\" he says.\n\nLinkin Park's debut album, Hybrid Theory, came out in the year 2000\n\nChester never got the chance to re-record his vocals - but Sean still wanted to finish the project however he could.\n\nThat meant keeping the original vocals intact but re-recording absolutely everything else.\n\n\"That's one of the reasons this took two and a half years because we were in uncharted territory - we had to reverse engineer these songs.\n\n\"And I think we did a great job. I think we created a masterpiece.\"\n\nGrey Daze's album is being streamed to fans for the first time this weekend\n\nThe album, called Amends, features not only Grey Daze's original line-up, but also Chester's friends from bands including Korn and Breaking Benjamin - and even members of his family.\n\n\"About halfway through the recording process a kind of a lightning bolt hit me in the chest,\" Sean says. \"I realised we could actually give something back to Chester during this process.\n\n\"We realised we could have his children come in and sing these songs with him - something he never got to do while he was alive.\n\n\"So we had Chester's son Jaime come in to sing backing vocals on a track called Soul Song and I think his dad would be very proud of the job he did.\"\n\nJaime Bennington is one of Chester's six children\n\nSean says going back to the old music was sometimes difficult - but eventually it felt like he and Chester were working together again.\n\n\"We wrote all the lyrics together and while I was writing from more of a philosophical point of view, I can clearly see, now he's gone, that these were real pain points that he was living in his life.\n\n\"When you're writing it, it has one meaning and then after you lose your friend, and you look back, it takes on a whole new meaning.\"\n\nThe album was originally supposed to be released on April 10 but, because of the coronavirus lockdown, this has been pushed back to June.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nNot wanting to disappoint people, though, the band are holding virtual listening parties this weekend, where fans can sign up to hear the record before it comes out.\n\n\"Chester was not a rock star in my world he was just one of my best friends,\" Sean says.\n\n\"One of the tragic things about Chester was he was so giving for other people and put them so much higher than himself that he never really got to a point of appreciating himself or loving himself.\n\n\"That's the one tragedy in all of this is that Chester really never felt like he was enough for anybody and it's one of the things that led him down this path with his depression.\n\n\"But he was a wonderful man.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Anneliese Dodds is the new shadow chancellor\n\nThe last thing UK business needs in the current economic climate is a \"chaotic exit\" from EU trading rules, Labour's new shadow chancellor has warned.\n\nAnneliese Dodds urged ministers not to put \"ideology over national interest\".\n\nThe UK has left the EU but has given itself until 31 December to negotiate a trade deal, until which time most EU rules will still apply.\n\nNew Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said it was \"a mistake\" to put that date into legislation.\n\nMs Dodds, who served in her predecessor John McDonnell's shadow Treasury team, warned against the \"kind of chaotic exit that has always been a threat under this Conservative government\".\n\nShe called for \"desperately needed\" co-operation with the EU and other international bodies on the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMs Dodds, who represents the Oxford East constituency, was an MEP before entering the Westminster Parliament in 2017.\n\nIn an interview with the PA news agency, she said: \"Very sadly we've seen in areas like provision of protective equipment, testing capacity, ventilators and so forth, what happens when there isn't that co-ordination and when international systems aren't necessarily working in the way that they should be working.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think we've seen that ideological approach from government towards the EU in particular, so I really hope that that changes because we don't really have the luxury currently I think to be indulging in a partisan approach to these matters.\"\n\nShe backed Sir Keir Starmer's stance on Brexit, which saw the Labour Party fight the 2019 election on a promise to renegotiate a Brexit deal with Brussels and then put it to a referendum.\n\n\"Now clearly we didn't win the last general election, we have left the EU,\" she told PA.\n\nBut the \"key questions\" were now about how jobs can be protected \"in a very difficult economic climate\", she added.\n\nThe last thing UK business would want was \"a kind of chaotic approach to trade coming at the end of the year after this very, very difficult period that we're going through economically now,\" said Ms Dodds.\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, has said he wanted to \"reassure everyone\" contacts were continuing between the UK and EU during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe added: \"We have remained in touch throughout, both sides have exchanged legal texts, and last week we had a series of conference calls to explore and clarify technicalities.\"", "On 9 February 2019, Blaine Johnson, better known as Cadet, was on his way to perform a gig at Keele University when the taxi he was in crashed, killing him and injuring the other passengers in the car. More than a year later, as his debut album Rated Legend is released, Cadet's cousin Krept reflects on their at-times complicated relationship. As told to Kameron Virk…\n\nIt's hard putting private things out in the open. I do it in my music because I know how much people look at artists and think that everything's great. But when you're open and honest and let them know that you're going through just as much stuff as they're going through, it helps. It can literally save lives. That's why I've been so honest about how hard it's been for me since Cadet died. As his debut album comes out, I want to just take a minute to reflect on his life and our relationship.\n\nSome people have such mad stories that they have to figure out a way to talk about them. Cadet was 100% one of those people. He was such a talented storyteller. Anyone who's heard his music knows that.\n\nWhen you come from a certain place, a certain background, and you go through so much stuff… if you like doing music, you like rapping, to put it into words is not gonna be difficult. I think that's what separates a lot of people. It's just their story.\n\nBut before the world knew him as Cadet, he was Blaine Johnson, my cousin. And for a period he was MC Bubbly too! Yeah. MC Bubbly. When he spat his first bar, at my dad's house in Brixton, that's what he was called. The lyric was actually good - but I was like 'Bro, you can't be called MC Bubbly'.\n\nCadet was always a funny kid. He was a troll before we knew what trolls were\n\nBlaine was less than a month younger than me. So growing up we were always together. Like, always. His dad and my dad are brothers, but our mums are close too. I've got an older brother, and we were all really close. But my brother spent some time in Jamaica, and it was just me and Blaine together. It was like he was my brother.\n\nWe used to spend every Sunday at my nan's. Those Sundays were a vibe. We all used to go there - Cadet, me, my dad, his dad, Cadet's sister Chandler, our nan and granddad, our auntie - sometimes other cousins too. My nan used to cook every Sunday so there was always food there. But it wasn't even just for that reason: we just used to go there, play games and buss jokes - and Cadet would be dancing. He was always dancing when we were younger. The guy loved body-popping. And he was so sick! He could've been a professional dancer if he stuck with it. I used to body pop a bit too - but he was to the point where when we used to go parties, he used to get in the middle and start body popping and everyone would go crazy.\n\nThere's something else that sticks with me from that age too - an image I just can't get out of my head. I don't know why my dad did it - Cadet must've been being naughty. But we were at the petrol station, and you know where it says how much the petrol is per litre? There was a little peg on there. He lifted Blaine up and hung him on there by his pants. I just remember Blaine swinging helplessly and crying and I can't get that out of my head. I used to laugh about it every day.\n\nLudo was our family game - we used to play it every Sunday at our nan's\n\nWhen we got a bit older I took advantage of the 417 bus, which went from my house in Gipsy Hill to his in Clapham Common. It dropped me literally right outside. So from when I was allowed to travel by myself, in secondary school, I'd get on there and it would take me all the way there, or he'd come to mine. Then when Cadet started living with his dad in South Norwood we used to walk to Crystal Palace from my house and jump on the 410 bus down to his dad's.\n\nThose buses are where his name came from - their brand name was Cadet. We were just on the bus and I saw the Cadet thing and I just said, \"Cadet! Why don't you call yourself Cadet?\" He was like \"Cadet?…. Yeah. Yeah, that's hard!\" We must've been 14 or 15, and ever since then he's been Cadet.\n\nI started rapping before him, just because all my friends were. They were doing sets in the ends and I was like, I need some bars to jump in the set. That's when I started writing. And then he saw all of us were spitting, so he started. The maddest thing is even when his name was MC Bubbly, the lyrics were good - I knew from then he could spit.\n\nWe went to Richmond College together when we turned 16 and made a whole new friendship group.\n\nThings started changing after that though. I went to uni in Portsmouth, and Cadet started working. So we just didn't see each other.\n\nMe, Cadet and his dad Paul at a restaurant in south London back when we were still at college\n\nMe and Konan started making a name for ourselves at this point too. We put out our first mixtape in my first year of uni. So I'm doing uni, I'm doing music, and then we're just getting into mad problems and involved in street stuff too. It was like three different lives I was living. It was balancing bare stuff.\n\nIt looked like me and Konan were already successful - and any time me and Cadet spoke, it felt like he was asking for stuff. 'Oh, can you do this for me. Can you promote that?' But we weren't making no money, we were still building.\n\nWe weren't even seeing each other on Sundays now, because I was in Portsmouth. My family thought I was distancing myself. Cadet didn't fully understand until a few years later, when he was in the \"groundwork stage\" of his own career - as I call that period in mine - that I was just working. He talks about it on the new album.\n\nBut we weren't speaking openly at the time. There was a communication breakdown. He used to make songs or freestyles every now and then and send shots for me. And I was like, why does he keep doing that? And then he'd ask me to promote it! I was like 'Are you alright?' It was weird.\n\nIt really took off for me and Kone in the next few years. We did the remix of Otis, which went crazy viral. But it was a mad period - this was just after the situation happened with Konan, where his step-dad was killed. But we capitalised on the Otis momentum, dropped Paranormal, and ended up going on tour with Skepta. He gave us some advice - basically told us to keep doing us and not chase the labels or the radio - and we never really looked back.\n\nMobo Awards, BET Awards and a record deal followed. But I never got a call from Cadet. I'm definitely someone who thinks 'Everyone's got their own life'. I don't expect nothing from anyone. But that was the person I was closest to my whole life, and I didn't get to share that with him.\n\nWinning a BET Award was crazy - we couldn't believe the Americans knew our song\n\nWe'd still see each other sometimes, round nan's on a Sunday. And when we were together it was normal. But for me relationships aren't just about when you see each other - it's about when you're not with each other too. I'm sure at some point he would have said 'I'm proud of you'. But it wasn't how it would have been if we were close. I know that for a fact.\n\nAt this point I'd had enough. I just kept thinking, 'Why are we like this? How did it get like this?' I missed that relationship - and I knew it had gone because of the music. The only thing that was gonna build our relationship back was him doing music and taking it seriously.\n\nThat's when I messaged him and said 'Bro, you're coming Wireless'. I needed to inspire him. I knew how talented he was, and that if he took it seriously, he would get big. Sometimes you just need that little fire.\n\nWireless that year was mad - there were loads of celebrities backstage. When he saw them coming up to us, he was like, 'What's going on? These man are actually getting big!' There must've been 5,000 people in the crowd that day, singing every single word back. All our friends watched us perform from the side of the stage. Cadet was the last person to leave - I could see it had worked. He was inspired.\n\nI knew taking Cadet to Wireless in 2015 would change his mindset\n\nThings felt pretty normal after that. We started talking all the time - mostly about his music. As far as I was concerned, our relationship was fixed. But he was still sending shots for me on freestyles - like on Slut. I thought that was just about music, so I was like, whatever. As long as you're doing music, you can say what you want. But I didn't know all of the stuff he thought had been going on.\n\nThat's when the letters came.\n\nHe told me he was dropping something, to look out for it. From when I saw the title, Letter To Krept, I just knew it was gonna be honest.\n\nI was in my house in Bermondsey and watched it as soon as it was uploaded. I wanted to hear it. And then I just started writing. I was glad he did it because then it was like, now I can explain my side to you.\n\nWhen I heard the lyric about his girlfriend - that he thought I knew she was cheating on him, I was like, 'Rah, swear down you thought that?' Until the letter came out I had no idea he'd been thinking that the whole time.\n\nI was happy with the way it played out though. He likes expressing and telling his truth in music, and I do as well. So I was cool with how that happened. At the same time I knew that if I responded to him it was only gonna help his career.\n\nAfter I said what I needed to in my reply - about him asking for my help but not putting the work in himself - the air was cleared. It was back to normal. We didn't even need to build anything back up - because we'd been so close for the rest of our lives, except for that six-year period in the middle. It was the same as it was before, just with no weird elephants in the room.\n\nWe finally got to witness each other flourish. I got to share those big moments I'd always wanted to with him. At this point Cadet was hitting hard with the freestyles. He knew his lane, he knew what his fans wanted, and he was delivering. And when it came to storytelling, he was in his own lane. When he spat I had to just sit back like, 'Wow. That's talent'.\n\nBut he felt underrated. He didn't think he was getting his dues. I remember we all had a conversation and I said how if you tell people something enough, it becomes true. As an example, Giggs calling himself the Landlord - you end up calling him that. That was when he started calling himself Underrated Legend. It was a smart move from Cadet to put that out there, because then everyone starts saying he needs his ratings!\n\nBut Cadet's thing was, 'Rapping about my life is cool, but that's not really getting me the bookings. We're not going to be able to shut down the clubs or the festivals with that.'\n\nUntil Advice came. That was the hit he'd been looking for. He'd been dabbling, and he got it so right with that one. But it was almost never a song. Cadet and Deno done it as a freestyle in the car, put the video on social, and left it at that. Konan rang him and was like 'Bro. Cadet. Bro. This is a banger! Record a video and put this out ASAP'. He did, and it was his biggest song ever.\n\nCadet's biggest song - Advice with Deno - was almost just a freestyle\n\nAfter that, he just kept on going. He started feeling like he was finally getting the recognition he deserved. You see when you start getting records like that back? You start getting serious money. He was like, 'Rah, I'm about to actually join the crew'. He started getting bookings - he was booked for Wireless - and he started feeling like a real artist.\n\nI'm glad he got to feel that. He was chasing it and he got there, he knew what it felt like to have a massive record. That's something that makes the way he died so much easier for me.\n\nA month before Cadet died, I lost one of my closest friends, Nash, to suicide. I met Nash in college but we became mad tight. We were all in the same group chat - me, him and Cadet.\n\nI remember playing Broski, about Nash passing away, to Cadet. We played it and just sat back like, 'Wow. I can't believe he's gone'.\n\nThen a month later, it happened again.\n\nWhen I found out, I was in Dubai. My girlfriend took me for my birthday.\n\nThe day before, Cadet messaged me saying, \"Yo cuz, I just want you to know I love you.\"\n\nI was like, 'You're dumb man. You're soft'. He told me he'd got me the socks I'd asked for for my birthday.\n\nThe next day my friend CJ called as I was boarding my flight home. I knew something was wrong because it was late in the UK, like 2am. So for you to call me at 2am, knowing I'm abroad, something's wrong. And it's someone that doesn't call me a lot - we don't have phone conversations like that. So I know there's a reason he's calling me, and I know he's always with Cadet. I picked up and he was crying. I just knew. He didn't even have to tell me what happened. I knew exactly what he was going to say.\n\nI hung up the phone and nearly dropped to the floor. I had to put my bags down, take a seat and have a breather. My girlfriend was helping me. All I kept saying was there's no way. There's no way, there's no way, there's no way. I was trying to ring people, and eventually I got through to my dad. He was crying, and that made me cry. All this time I'm having to board a plane. It was the worst, absolute worst, worst, worst feeling I've ever had.\n\nBy the time I landed home, I'd been seeing the response on social media. I could see all the love he had, I could feel it. But his mum, dad and our nan, they weren't seeing it. As adults they know that their kids are doing well as musicians, but they don't really know until they see you at a concert or something. So I needed them to see all the love that was being poured out on social media.\n\nThat's why I said Hyde Park - 'Everyone come to Hyde Park, we're gonna let off some balloons for Cadet'. I needed them to see the impact that he made. At first they didn't understand why I was saying Hyde Park. They wanted to do something in Clapham. But I had to explain - this is bigger than South London. When they saw all the people they couldn't believe it. There must have been 1,000. They couldn't believe it, that he had so much love. My uncle never cries. That was the first time I've seen him break down. It was hard, it was so hard. It still is.\n\nI started to learn about what happened on the night he died. I had to speak to the people that were in the car with him. He was in a packed car and he's the only one that died. I spoke to his friend Money that was there, his DJ, and Ed his cameraman. They were all in the car. Cadet was behind the driver. The DJ was next to him, Money was on the left behind the front passenger and then Ed was in the passenger.\n\nWhat they found mad was the fact that they called an Uber, and they missed it. So the Uber they actually got in wasn't the original Uber they were meant to get in. They got into a second Uber and they were driving for like five minutes on country roads. They said they turned a corner and a car crashed into them. Head on collision. He died instantly. There wasn't any other major injuries. I know Ed fractured something. But no-one had life-threatening injuries. Cadet hit his head. That's what killed him. Whatever he hit is what killed him.\n\nBut they weren't even meant to be in that Uber. It's like something out of Final Destination. You call an Uber, you just, JUST, about miss it. You cancel it and have to call another one and it just so happens that at that time, this guy is coming around the corner.\n\nIf they got in a car one minute earlier that wouldn't have happened. If they got in that first cab, this wouldn't have happened. That's what I find mad.\n\nAfter the funeral I was just keeping busy. I was getting ready for his show, the Rated Legend show. We put it on in Brixton Academy on his birthday, two weeks later. It was like Avengers Assemble. Everybody was being helpful - the venue, my agent, all the artists, 1Xtra who helped with logistics. Everyone came on time, it was perfect. It was like 'Rah, all these people, these artists, they all had respect for Cadet'.\n\nI have no idea how, but we pulled the Rated Legend tribute show together in two weeks\n\nAfter he passed, loads of producers started hitting us up saying they'd recorded songs with him. It ended up being 50, 60 songs or something. It just kept on being more and more. I was like, 'This guy was working his arse off! Why's he got so many songs?!'\n\nWe tried to get a cohesive body of work out of it. That's what his mum and dad wanted. The family listened to all the songs and decided what they liked, and Rated Legend is the culmination of putting those together and finishing them off.\n\nWe set up the Cadet Trust too - which funds organisations that are doing something good for young people or in the community. All these kids that we're funding and helping, when they get to where they get to in life, they're gonna be able to say 'Cadet helped me get here'. We just wanted to leave something in his name that can benefit people who are chasing their dreams.\n\nMy first child is due later this year. Having something missing from your life and then having something added is a weird feeling. But I really can't wait for my daughter to arrive. It's going to help take my mind off loads of stuff, like my friends that I've lost. It feels like finally I'm gaining something instead of losing people.\n\nI know the relationship my daughter would have had with Cadet. He was so good with kids. I know for a fact, when she got old enough, he would have come over like, 'I'm taking her out'. That's the kind of person he is. He would've been an amazing uncle.\n\nFor me, I just want people to know how special he is. That's what this album is. I want people to listen to it, and to hear this amazing body of work he made without even trying to. I want people to think, 'Wow, imagine if he'd been trying to make an album?' I want people to see how much potential he had. And I want people to no longer call him underrated - he's surpassed that now.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League clubs will ask players to take a 30% pay cut in order to protect jobs as it was announced the season will not resume until \"it is safe and appropriate to do so\".\n\nAll clubs have agreed to put the proposed \"combination of conditional reductions and deferrals\" to players.\n\nThe Premier League will advance £125m to the EFL and National League, and give £20m towards the NHS.\n\nClubs still intend on completing all league and cup fixtures.\n\nThe EFL, Women's Super League and Women's Championship have all suspended play without setting a target return date, meaning the entirety of English football is on hold indefinitely.\n\n\"It was acknowledged that the Premier League will not resume at the beginning of May - and that the 2019-20 season will only return when it is safe and appropriate to do so,\" a Premier League statement said.\n\n\"Any return to play will only be with the full support of government and when medical guidance allows.\"\n• None What are Premier League and English football's options amid coronavirus?\n• None Hearts: No player asked to take more than 30% cut - Ann Budge\n\nPlayers had faced scrutiny, notably from health secretary Matt Hancock, to take a cut in wages and \"play their part\" in offering support during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSome clubs had furloughed non-playing staff as a result of the shutdown of the sport.\n\nBefore the Premier League statement was released, club captains - led by Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson - held discussions over the creation of a charitable fund which could benefit the NHS.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) has previously written to its members urging them not to agree any reduction or deferral in wages until they have spoken to the union.\n\nAfter a meeting of clubs on Friday, the Premier League proposed a cut in wages in order to \"protect employment throughout the professional game\".\n\n\"This guidance will be kept under constant review as circumstances change,\" the Premier League said. \"The league will be in regular contact with the PFA and the union will join a meeting which will be held tomorrow (Saturday) between the league, players and club representatives.\"\n\nCrystal Palace winger Andros Townsend had spoken of his frustration with Hancock \"deflecting blame on to footballers\", stating players were an \"easy target\" and often supported charities.\n\nThe Premier League said it was aware of \"severe difficulties\" throughout the football pyramid and with clubs unable to play fixtures, moved to help \"immediately deal with the impact of falling cash flow\" at EFL and National League clubs.\n\nJulian Knight, chair of the government's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, welcomed the financial help for smaller clubs but said as the wage cut had not yet been agreed by players, the situation was \"not much further along\".\n\nKnight had previously said clubs that furlough non-playing staff without imposing cuts on player wages should be subjected to a windfall tax if they do not change their approach by Tuesday.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"It is absolutely right that a reduction of players' wages is on the table when there are lower-paid staff at some clubs being furloughed.\n\n\"The football authorities must all be aware of the strength of public feeling on this and I expect them to show leadership on the matter.\n\n\"It is important that the Premier League helps the national effort in response to the coronavirus pandemic and I will continue to work closely with the football authorities.\"\n\nThe league's statement also expressed \"huge appreciation for the heroic efforts of NHS staff and all other key workers who are carrying out critical jobs in such difficult circumstances\" with £20m immediately committed \"to support the NHS, communities, families and vulnerable groups during the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nAnalysis - what now for football?\n\nEngland's football bodies decided they had little option other than to extend the current suspension.\n\nIt means the FA Cup will be stuck at the quarter-final stage for a bit longer, promotion and relegation issues are unresolved and Liverpool nervously await the chance to complete their first league title triumph since 1990.\n\nBut while nothing seems to be happening, plenty of conversations are occurring and scenarios for concluding the historic 2019-20 season are being discussed.\n\nFundamentally though, these are the five options on the table:\n\nRead more from Simon here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"People must, at every stage, respect these guidelines\"\n\nA five-year-old child with underlying health conditions is among those with coronavirus whose deaths were reported in the past day, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe latest figures show 4,313 people with the virus have now died in the UK - up by 708 on Friday's figure.\n\nMr Gove said hundreds of ventilators were being manufactured every day and more had been sourced from abroad.\n\nPeople have been warned to stay at home despite the warm weather this weekend.\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Gove at the government's daily briefing, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said: \"The sun might be out, but that does not mean you should be out.\"\n\nHe said there was some evidence that social distancing measures were reducing transmission, and that the latest figures suggested new cases had begun to \"stabilise\".\n\nHowever, he stressed that there was \"no room for complacency\".\n\nDuring the briefing, Mr Gove paid tribute to one of the youngest victims of the outbreak.\n\n\"Our thoughts today are also with the family of the five-year-old with underlying health conditions who has tragically died,\" he said.\n\nThe recent trends in deaths (doubling roughly every 3.5 days) would have predicted about 800 deaths today.\n\nRemember that doubling every few days means that we should expect to see record new highs regularly.\n\nScientists remind us to look for evidence that the growth is slowing down - the first step on the journey to falling numbers of deaths.\n\nSo, compared to that projection, there is a potential silver lining to these figures - if the pattern continues.\n\nBut one day of below-trend growth is far too soon to know for sure.\n\nIt takes over three weeks from infection to death to being reported in these figures.\n\nSo while we can hope to see the effects of pre-lockdown social distancing soon, it will take longer for the effect of the lockdown, announced on 23 March, to become apparent.\n\nThere are now 41,903 confirmed cases in the UK, the Department of Health said.\n\nThere were 212 deaths in the Midlands, more than in London, where there were 127.\n\nMr Gove said seven healthcare professionals have now died.\n\nUrging people to stay at home, he called on the public to remember two NHS nurses who died on Friday after contracting Covid-19.\n\nHe said: \"Each had three young children. They died doing everything they could to help the sick and suffering.\"\n\nAimee O'Rourke, 39, died at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, Kent, while Areema Nasreen, 36, died after spending weeks in intensive care at Walsall Manor Hospital.\n\nCarrie Symonds said she is showing symptoms as the PM remains in isolation\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in self-isolation in Downing Street after testing positive for coronavirus while his pregnant partner Carrie Symonds tweeted that she has spent a week in bed with the main symptoms.\n\nShe said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nProf Powis said people were adhering to social distancing measures, and that public transport use remains \"extremely low\".\n\nSchool attendance was down as low as 2%, Mr Gove added.\n\nHowever, Prof Powis added that people must \"resist the temptation\" to go out in the warm weather.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council tweeted on Saturday that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront, making social distancing \"impossible\".\n\nSussex Police said that two people had been summonsed to attend court after having a barbecue on Hove beach.\n\nMr Gove said there was \"evidence to suggest\" there has been a lower level of compliance for some young people.\n\nHe said it might be that some of the messages and channels the government has used have not reached some segments of the population, adding: \"It may be that young people feel that they are less likely to be affected and less likely to be infected.\"\n\nAlso in the briefing, Mr Gove said that ventilators - in addition to those being made in the UK - had been sourced from abroad, including 300 that arrived from China on Saturday.\n\nHe said the government had also secured new non-invasive ventilation capacity with the help of UK manufacturers.\n\nThis would help to ensure patients do not need to be placed on invasive ventilators, which involve patients being intubated and supported to breathe with machinery taking oxygen directly into their lungs.\n\nMr Gove said a team from University College London working with Mercedes Benz have produced a new device which has been clinically approved.\n\n\"They produced 250 yesterday, will produce the same number today and tomorrow, rising to 1,000 a day next week,\" he said.\n\nHe branded conspiracy theories spread on social media blaming new 5G masts for the spread of Covid-19 \"dangerous nonsense\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Saturday morning.\n\nSunny weather this weekend is expected to provide one of the biggest challenges for maintaining the social distancing measures, as police warn the public not to make unnecessary journeys to beaches or national parks.\n\nOfficial figures suggest that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all testing a higher proportion of their population for coronavirus than England, despite England having a higher proportion of deaths.\n\nDespite slashed schedules, BA is still operating flights - and unions are accusing it of being slow to protect staff after a number of cabin crew members fear they may have caught the virus.\n\nA number of whisky bottling plants in Scotland are set to reopen after halting production due to the virus outbreak, with trade unions and manufacturers disagreeing about whether the industry qualifies as an \"essential service\".\n\nTo follow the rules on social distancing. Tap here to find out more.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Five London bus workers have died after being diagnosed with coronavirus\n\nFive London bus workers have died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nUnite said their members had been doing \"a heroic job in getting NHS and care workers to their places of work\" and described the loss as a \"tragedy\".\n\nRegional secretary Peter Kavanagh said the union would be assisting families \"in every possible way\".\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said it was \"extremely saddened\" by the deaths, while mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nIt is understood three were drivers and two were controllers.\n\nUnite said it had contacted Mr Khan, who shared its view \"that bus drivers must be fully protected\".\n\n\"We are absolutely committed to doing everything in our power to make the driving of buses safe during this unprecedented crisis,\" said Mr Kavanagh.\n\nVehicles are being deep-cleaned and safety measures are in place\n\nCurrent safety measures include deep-cleaning vehicles, erecting screens around the driver, providing hand sanitiser and blocking off the seats closest to the driver.\n\nMr Khan said he will continue to make enhancements across public transport in London to ensure there are even higher levels of protection.\n\n\"My thoughts are with their friends and families at this awful time,\" he said.\n\n\"I have been clear that our incredible public transport staff, on the buses, tubes, trams and trains, are critical workers, making a heroic effort to allow our NHS staff to save more lives.\n\n\"But we all need to play our part too and that means fewer Londoners using the public transport network. Please follow the rules. Stay at home and do not use public transport unless it is absolutely unavoidable.\"\n\nSadiq Khan is asking people to only travel on public transport if absolutely necessary\n\nGareth Powell, TfL's managing director for surface transport, said they had been offering the bus companies for whom the drivers worked \"every support possible\".\n\n\"The safety of our staff and customers is our absolute priority and we have been working closely with the bus companies, the mayor and Unite to implement a range of changes and improvements to keep the bus network and garages safe for those operating and using it, in accordance with Public Health England advice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mobile phone mast fires are being investigated amid conspiracy theories claiming a link between 5G and coronavirus.\n\nThere have been fires at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.\n\nA video, allegedly of the blaze in Aigburth, was shared on YouTube and Facebook, claiming a link between the mobile technology and Covid-19.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said it was \"dangerous nonsense\".\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said on Twitter \"there is absolutely no credible evidence\" of a link, while trade body Mobile UK said such rumours and conspiracy theories were \"concerning\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DCMS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMerseyside Police said an investigation is under way after the telecommunications box in Aigburth caught fire on Friday.\n\nA video of what appears to be the incident, which happened shortly after 22:00 BST, was shared on YouTube.\n\nVerification from the BBC's disinformation team suggests the video is authentic, however, it is unclear whether the box has anything to do with 5G technology.\n\nMerseyside Fire and Rescue Service said it is also investigating a blaze it extinguished at a 5G mast in the village of Melling, north of Liverpool, on Friday night.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said the fire in Birmingham involved a 70ft tower on a telecommunications site. However, it said the cause was yet to be identified and it could not confirm the mast was 5G.\n\nA West Midlands Police spokesman said: \"We're aware of a fire involving a phone mast, but are awaiting further details on its cause.\"\n\nAt the government's daily coronavirus briefing earlier, Mr Gove said conspiracy theories linking 5G with Covid-19 were \"just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well.\"\n\nNHS Director Stephen Powis told the press conference 5G infrastructure is critical both to the general population who are being asked to stay at home and to the healthcare response to the virus.\n\n\"I'm absolutely outraged and disgusted that people would be taking action against the infrastructure we need to tackle this emergency,\" he said.\n\nMobile UK said key workers had suffered abuse and threats from people about damaging infrastructure under the pretence of claims about 5G.\n\n\"This is not acceptable and only impacts on our ability as an industry to maintain the resilience and operational capacity of the networks to support mass home working and critical connectivity to the emergency services, vulnerable consumers and hospitals.\"\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nOne suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.", "Debenhams, the department store chain, is facing administration for a second time.\n\nThe retailer is set to appoint administrators as early next week to protect the company against claims from creditors as it tries to restructure its business.\n\nDebenhams has already closed 22 stores this year and plans to shut a further 28 in 2021.\n\nHowever, the coronavirus outbreak has ramped up pressure on the firm.\n\nLike much of the rest of the High Street, Debenhams 142 stores are closed.\n\nAlthough the business is still trading online, it has a large amount of stock which it cannot sell.\n\nIt is understood that Debenhams is concerned about potential legal claims from suppliers who have yet to be paid.\n\nA Debenhams spokesperson said: \"Like all retailers, Debenhams is making contingency plans reflecting the extraordinary current circumstances.\n\n\"Our owners and lenders remain highly supportive and whatever actions we may take will be with a view to protecting the business during the current situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is expected that the most likely outcome is a pre-pack administration, where a company arranges to sell its business to a pre-determined buyer before administrators are appointed.\n\nLast April, Debenhams fell into the hands of its lenders, comprising a group of banks and hedge funds led by US firm Silver Point Capital, after struggling for years to keep up with competition from rivals.\n\nIt has also faced rising costs in running its big stores as well as grappling with a huge amount of debt.\n\nA source familiar with the company's current thinking told the BBC that if a pre-pack was to happen, the current owners intend to take the business out of administration once stores are allowed to re-open and were in talks to inject funding as part of its existing turnaround plan.\n\nLandlords have already been told that a number of restructuring scenarios are being explored, which have \"varying outcomes\" for the business, landlords and Debenhams' 20,000 workers.", "Matthew Kelly from Salford has written a poem paying tribute to the staff of the NHS fighting the coronavirus.\n\nMr Kelly said he was inspired to write after hearing the challenges his partner faces as a district nurse.\n\nThis clip is from Chiles on Friday on 3 April 2020", "Aimee O'Rourke died in the hospital where she worked\n\nIt is \"inevitable\" more health workers will die from coronavirus, the UK's largest nursing union has said.\n\nTheresa Fyffe, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, was speaking after the deaths of nurses Aimee O'Rourke and Areema Nasreen, who had both tested positive for the virus.\n\nShe said the circumstances of both deaths had to be reviewed and protocols for frontline staff examined.\n\nEngland's chief nurse Ruth May has also raised fears over more deaths.\n\nIt comes amid reports that up to 30 nurses are off sick with coronavirus at Southend Hospital in Essex.\n\nMs Fyffe said there were still concerns about whether staff had the personal protective equipment (PPE) they needed \"not just in the NHS - in the communities, in the care homes, in the hospices, wherever care is being provided\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said a hotline was available for ordering PPE.\n\nDuring the government's daily briefing on Saturday, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said seven healthcare professionals have now lost their lives.\n\nEngland's chief nurse Ruth May fears more nurses will die\n\nMs Fyffe said nurses were unable to keep a safe distance from patients, adding: \"People have forgotten that when you are a nurse... you are working with patients who are actually up close and personal.\n\n\"I do believe, sadly, it is inevitable we will see more nurses and other healthcare professionals die.\"\n\nDuring Friday's government briefing, nursing chief Ms May paid tribute to Ms O'Rourke and Ms Nasreen, who were both mothers-of-three in their 30s and worked on the frontline in facilities in Margate and Walsall.\n\nShe added: \"I worry there's going to be more [deaths].\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said nurses were treating patients with coronavirus without any protection at all and putting themselves, their families and their patients at risk.\n\n\"We will not accept anything less than aprons, gloves and masks for all staff, in all settings,\" she added. \"But that is a minimum.\"\n\nShe said the RCN had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the end of March asking him to intervene.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We are working round the clock to make sure that our heroic frontline healthcare staff feel safe, and the full weight of the government is behind the effort to make sure PPE is reaching the frontline.\n\n\"We are working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army.\n\n\"If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place and Public Health England recently updated PPE guidance in line with World Health Organisation advice to make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing.\"\n\nSouthend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said no-one was available to comment until Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blue Bell Inn landlady Mandy Mallinson said she was having birthday drinks with her husband\n\nA landlady whose pub was shut down after police were called to a \"lock-in\" during the coronavirus lockdown said she \"wished she'd kept the door shut\".\n\nMandy Mallinson said she had been celebrating her husband's birthday at the Blue Bell Inn in Nottinghamshire.\n\nShe admitted six regulars had turned up uninvited, but insists it was not a planned \"lock-in\".\n\nA councillor said the pub had been visited on successive weekends over concerns it was \"flouting\" rules.\n\nNottinghamshire Police were called to the premises in Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, last weekend and used new powers to shut down what they described as a \"lock-in\".\n\nMs Mallinson said: \"If I could go back, I would have locked my door and not let anyone in. I wish to God I had just shut it.\"\n\nBut she argues the police were wrong to describe it as a \"lock-in\" because the till was closed, beer nozzles were turned off and the doors were open.\n\n\"People chose to come, drop off presents and thought they'd have a quick drink,\" she said.\n\n\"We weren't selling beer, they brought their own. We didn't invite them, it was not a planned party.\"\n\nShe said it only lasted 30 minutes before police arrived.\n\nCh Supt Rob Griffin said the force's actions \"send a very clear message\" that \"police and our partners will not tolerate those people who deliberately break the rules and put other people's lives in danger\".\n\nAshfield District Council's deputy leader Helen-Ann Smith said a community protection officer had visited the pub on 23 March after reports it had been \"open all that weekend\" as well.\n\nShe said they left a note as no-one responded.\n\nShe added: \"If this were the first time, I could possibly understand it. But the rules have been put in place for a reason.\n\n\"The staff at King's Mill Hospital are working so hard, while five minutes down the road there are people flouting the regulations. It's a smack in the face.\"\n\nMs Mallinson denied opening over the first weekend and said she had not received a visit or note.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Withers, the acclaimed 1970s soul singer behind hits Ain't No Sunshine and Lean On Me has died from heart complications aged 81, his family said.\n\nThe singer died on Monday in Los Angeles, the family told the Associated Press.\n\nThey described him in a statement as a \"solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world\".\n\n\"He spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other,\" the statement said.\n\nKnown for his smooth baritone vocals and sumptuous soul arrangements, he wrote some of the 70s best-remembered songs, including Just The Two Of Us, Lovely Day and Use Me.\n\nOn Lovely Day, he set the record for the longest sustained note on a US chart hit, holding a high E for 18 seconds.\n\nAlthough he stopped recording in 1985, his songs remained a major influence on R&B and hip-hop.\n\nHis track Grandma's Hands was sampled on Blackstreet's No Diggity, and Eminem reinterpreted Just The Two Of Us on his hit 1997 Bonnie And Clyde.\n\nLean On Me has recently become associated with the Coronavirus pandemic, with many people posting their own versions to support health workers.\n\n\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father,\" said Withers' family in a statement.\n\n\"With his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other.\n\n\"As private a life as he lived, close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones.\"\n\nUS musician Chance the Rapper led tributes, describing the singer as \"the greatest\" and recalling some of his own personal memories.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chance The Rapper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Chance The Rapper\n\nRock star and actor Lenny Kravitz posted that his \"voice, songs, and total expression gave us love, hope, and strength\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lenny Kravitz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson said he was \"very sad to hear about Bill Withers passing\" - calling him \"a songwriter's songwriter\" - while John Legend added that \"life wouldn't be the same without him\" and his music.\n\nAnd BBC Radio 2's Trevor Nelson wrote the star's music was \"a remedy for these nonsensical times\".\n\n\"He was a genius singer/songwriter. Can't listen to Bill without feeling emotional.\"\n\nBorn in 1938, Withers was the youngest of six children. His father died when he was a child and he was raised by his mother and grandmother.\n\nHis entry to the music world came late - at the age of 29 - after a nine-year stint in the Navy\n\nHe taught himself to play guitar between shifts at his job making toilet seats for the Boeing aircraft company, and used his wages to pay for studio sessions in LA.\n\n\"I figured out that you didn't need to be a virtuoso to accompany yourself,\" he told Rolling Stone magazine in 2015.\n\nHe recorded his first album, Just As I Am, with Booker T Jones in 1970. It included the mournful ballad Ain't No Sunshine, which earned him his first Grammy award the subsequent year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BillWithersVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe scored another million-selling hit with Lean On Me in 1972.\n\nGospel-tinged and inspirational, the song was based on his experiences growing up in a West Virginia coal mining town: When times were hard, neighbours would lend each other help and assistance, and the memory stuck with the singer.\n\nIt was later performed at the inaugurations of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut Withers quit at the top, walking away from his career after scoring a pop hit with Just The Two Of Us, although he occasionally toured with Grover Washington Jr in the 1990s.\n\nAs a younger man, he suffered with a debilitating stutter, and in 2015, he and fellow stutterer Ed Sheeran put on a benefit concert for the Stuttering Association For The Young.\n\nThe same year, Withers was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame, and when asked how it felt by US TV show CBS Good Morning, he joked, \"It's like a pre-obituary!\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDespite his influence on generations of musicians, he did not keep track of music after his career ended.\n\n\"These days,\" he said in 2015, \"I wouldn't know a pop chart from a Pop-Tart.\"\n\nBut he was aware that his compositions had become part of the fabric of music.\n\n\"What few songs I wrote during my brief career, there ain't a genre that somebody didn't record them in,\" he told Rolling Stone in 2014. \"I'm not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with.\"\n\n\"The hardest thing in songwriting is to be simple and yet profound,\" agreed Sting in Still Bill, a documentary about Wither's career, \"and Bill seemed to understand, intrinsically and instinctively, how to do that,\"\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Marcia, and children, Todd and Kori.\n\nThe star was given an Ivor Novello songwriting award in the UK three years ago\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Steve Chase set up a DJ booth on his driveway in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, to bring a little cheer to his neighbours during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEveryone had to stick to social distancing rules and remain in their own gardens.\n\nBut that didn't stop the whole street from having a good time, including Cedric and Judy celebrating their 54th wedding anniversary.", "More than 4,300 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus. Among them are frontline medical staff. Sirin Kale tells the story of two of them.\n\nThe two men did not know each other, probably their paths never crossed, but in death they would find a strange symmetry. Dr Amged El-Hawrani and Dr Adil El Tayar - two British-Sudanese doctors - became the first working medics to die of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nTheir families don't want them to be remembered in this way - but rather as family men, who loved medicine, helping their community, and their heritage.\n\nLike the many men and women who come from overseas to join the NHS, El-Hawrani, 55, and El Tayar, 64, left behind friends and relatives back home to dedicate their careers to the UK's health service. They married and had children - El-Hawrani settling in Burton-Upon-Trent; El Tayar in Isleworth, London. And they became pillars of their communities, while maintaining ties to the country of their birth, the Sudan that both men loved.\n\nTheir stories are illustrative of the many foreign-born medics who even now are battling Covid-19.\n\nAdil El Tayar was born in Atbara in northeast Sudan in 1956, the second of 12 children. His father was a clerk in a government office; his mother had her hands full raising her brood. Atbara was a railway town, built by the British to serve the line between Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, and Wadi Halfa in the north. It is a close-knit community, where the first Sudanese labour movement started, in 1948. Everyone knows everyone.\n\n\"He came from humble beginnings,\" says Adil's cousin, Dr Hisham El Khidir. \"Whatever came into that household had to be divided amongst 12 kids. It's the reason he was so disciplined when he grew up.\"\n\nIn Sudan in the 1950s and 1960s, bright young men became doctors or engineers - respected professions that would give their entire family a better life. And when you're one of 12 children - well, that's a lot of people to help look after. Adil knew this, which is why he was a diligent student, even from a young age. But he didn't mind, in Sudanese culture, looking after your family isn't seen as a burden. It's just what you do.\n\n\"He was always so serious, so focused,\" Hisham remembers. \"He wanted to do medicine early on, because it was a good career in a third-world country.\" He had a calm, caring disposition. \"Never in the years I knew him, did I ever hear him raise his voice.\" Hisham looked up to Adil, who was eight years older than him, and later followed in his footsteps to become a doctor.\n\nThe El-Hawrani family lived almost 350km (217 miles) away, down the single-track railroad that links Atbara to the capital Khartoum. It was there that Amged was born in 1964, the second of six boys. His father Salah was a doctor, and in 1975 the family moved to Taunton, Somerset, before settling in Bristol four years later.\n\nAmged El-Hawrani (left) as a child - with father Salah and older brother Ashraf\n\n\"Dad was one of the first waves of people coming over from Sudan in the 1970s,\" remembers Amged's younger brother, Amal. \"We didn't know any other Sudanese families growing up in the UK. It was just us and English people. It felt like an adventure. Everything was new and different.\"\n\nOnly a year apart in age, Amged and his older brother Ashraf were inseparable. \"They both could have done anything,\" says Amal. \"They were intelligent, they were all-rounders. They loved football and technology. They embraced everything - just drank it all in.\"\n\nAmged loved gadgets. \"He'd always turn up with this bit of kit he'd just bought,\" Amal laughs, \"saying, 'Look, I've just bought this projector that can fit in your pocket, let's watch a film!'\"\n\nAmged El-Hawrani's graduation photo from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1993\n\nAmged and Ashraf both studied medicine, like their father. And then in 1992, tragedy struck - Ashraf died of an asthma attack, aged 29. It was Amged who discovered his body.\n\n\"It had a huge emotional impact on him,\" Amal says. \"But he became the rock of the family.\" He even named his son Ashraf, after his brother.\n\nOver the coming decades, Adil and Amged forged careers in the NHS. Adil become an organ transplant specialist, while Amged specialised in ear, nose, and throat surgery.\n\nThe life of an NHS doctor isn't easy - it is high-stakes work, which often takes you away from your family.\n\nBut Adil's children always felt that he had time for them. \"No matter how tired he was, he would always get home from work and make sure he spent time with each of us,\" says his daughter Ula, 21. \"He cared about family life so much.\"\n\nAdil El Tayar with members of his family\n\nAdil loved to potter about in his garden, tending to his apple and pear trees, and planting flowers all around. \"It was his happy place,\" says Ula. He also loved to collect new friends. \"He'd have barbecues in summer, and there would often be some random person there you'd never met before,\" Adil's son Osman, 30, jokes. \"You'd wonder where he'd picked them up from.\"\n\nAmged was intellectually curious, and a great conversationalist. \"He was one of those people who had an encyclopedic knowledge of everything,\" says his brother Amal. He was also a Formula One fan - Ayrton Senna was his legend. \"Amged was generous, and without guile,\" remembers his friend Dr Simba Oliver Matondo. They met when they took the same class at university, and spent their student years eating Pizza Hut food - a big treat back then - and watching Kung Fu films.\n\nThe National Health is staffed by many foreign-born workers - 13.1% of NHS staff say their nationality is not British, and one-in-five come from minority backgrounds.\n\nAs of 3 April, four British doctors, and two nurses, have died after testing positive for COVID-19. Five were from BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] communities. In addition to Adil and Amged, there is Dr Alfa Sa'adu, born in Nigeria, Dr Habib Zaidi, born in Pakistan, and nurse Areema Nasreen, who had Pakistani heritage. \"We mourn the passing of our colleagues in the fight against Covid-19,\" says Dr Salman Waqar of the British Islamic Medical Association. \"They enriched our country. Without them, we would not have an NHS.\"\n\nBoth Adil and Amged considered themselves British. \"Amged was in this country for 40 years,\" says Amal. \"He was as British as tea and crumpets.\" But they kept close ties with their native Sudan. \"When someone emigrates to the UK, they don't just cut all their ties with their country,\" Adil's cousin Hisham explains. \"They make a better life for themselves, but they maintain their roots.\"\n\nAdil returned to Khartoum in 2010, to set up an organ transplant unit. \"He wanted to give something back to the less fortunate in Sudan,\" his son Osman explains. Since Adil's death, his family has received dozens of phone calls from people in Sudan, telling them about their father's charity work. They knew their dad spent a lot of time helping people back home in Sudan - they'd overhear his phone calls.\n\nBut none of Adil's children realised just how many people he'd helped, until after he died.\n\nAmged was also charitable, climbing in the Himalayas in 2010 to raise money for a CT scanner for Queen's Hospital Burton, where he worked. Like Adil, he was connected to his heritage. \"He'd always reminisce about growing up in Sudan,\" says his brother Amal. \"He was very proud to be Sudanese.\"\n\nHis friend Matondo was a frequent visitor at Amged's mum's house in Bristol, where they'd eat \"ful medames\", a traditional fava bean stew, and feta cheese with chillies. A supporter of Al Merrikh - the Manchester United of Sudan - Amged arranged for the Khartoum team's dilapidated pitch to be repainted, picking up the bill himself.\n\nBoth doctors cared deeply about the NHS, an institution they had spent their lifetimes serving. \"Adil really believed in this excellent system that provided free care at the point of delivery to everyone who needed it,\" says his cousin Dr Hisham El Khidir.\n\nHis passion rubbed off on his children - Osman and his sister Abeer, 26, both followed in Adil's footsteps to become doctors. The day Osman was accepted as a surgical registrar - a prestigious, competitive post - Adil was emotional. \"He was so happy,\" Osman remembers. \"He just kept saying, 'Mashallah, mashallah.'\"\n\nWhen both doctors got sick, they didn't think much of it, their families say. Amged was the first to fall ill. His mother had recently recovered from a nasty bout of pneumonia, and in late February, after finishing a long shift, he drove to Bristol to see her. Amged felt unwell in the car, but assumed he was probably just exhausted.\n\nBy 4 March, he was admitted to Burton's Queen's Hospital. His colleagues put him on a ventilator. He was later transferred to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, where he was put on a more sophisticated ECMO machine, to breathe for him. Amged would stay on that machine, fighting for his life, for nearly three weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Adil was working in the A&E department of Hereford County Hospital. On the 13 March, the first UK death from coronavirus was reported in Scotland. The very next day, Adil started feeling unwell. He came back to the family house in London, and self-isolated.\n\nOver the next few days, his condition deteriorated. On the 20 March, Abeer didn't like how her dad looked - he was breathless, and couldn't string a sentence together - and she called an ambulance. Doctors at West Middlesex University Hospital put Adil on a ventilator. But even then, alarm bells weren't ringing. \"We thought, this is bad,\" says Osman. \"But we had no idea it would be fatal.\"\n\nOn 25 March, Adil's family received a call from the hospital. Things were very bad, and they should come now. They raced there to be with him. Adil's children watched their father die through a glass window. They weren't allowed in the room, because of the risk of contagion.\n\n\"That was the most difficult thing,\" says Osman. \"Having to watch him. I always knew that one day my father would die. But I thought I would be there, holding his hand. I never imagined I would be looking at him through a window, on a ventilator.\"\n\nAdil spent decades serving the NHS. But his family feels that the NHS didn't do enough for him in return, by giving him the protective gear that might have prevented him contracting coronavirus. \"I think it's unbelievable in the UK in 2020 that we're battling a life-threatening disease, and our frontline staff are not being safely equipped with PPE to do their job,\" says Osman. \"Bottom line is that it's wrong and it needs to be addressed immediately.\"\n\nAmid repeated claims of shortages in some parts of the NHS, the government has offered frequent bulletins on the volume of personal protective equipment being delivered. The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he will \"stop at nothing\" to protect frontline health workers - describing the situation as \"one of the biggest logistical challenges of peacetime\".\n\nAll the time Adil had been in hospital, Amged had clung onto life. But on the 28 March, doctors decided to take Amged off the ECMO machine. Dressed in protective gear, Amged's brother Akmal was allowed into his room, to hold his hand. Amal watched from behind a window.\n\nAmged will be buried in Bristol, beside his dad, and close enough for his mum to visit.\n\nAt his own request, Adil will be buried in Sudan, besides his father and grandfather. Getting the repatriation paperwork sorted is proving difficult, given the coronavirus lockdown. \"The last wishes of someone who died are very sacred in our culture,\" explains Osman. \"We will make it happen.\"\n\nAdil's children won't be able to attend the funeral - although cargo planes are flying, there are currently no passenger flights to Sudan. But he won't be buried alone. The community of people Adil grew up with - his siblings, and their children, and the people he supported over the years, will bury him instead. In Sudanese tradition, every mourner digs their hand into the dust, and throws soil into the grave. \"There are hundreds of people waiting to bury him,\" says Osman. \"I've been on the phone with them all. They're waiting for him to arrive.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the garden Adil loved so much is overgrown. \"It's a sad view,\" says Ula. \"It's dishevelled now he's not around. He was always the one who kept it together.\" But the apple tree will be coming into blossom soon.\n\nTop image copyright: El Tayar family and University Hospitals Derby and Burton. All images subject to copyright.", "Parishioners washing their hands as a preventative measure in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe\n\nOn 12 January - less than three months ago - the coronavirus was confined to China. Not a single case had been found outside the country where it emerged.\n\nAnd then, on 13 January, the virus became a global problem. A case was recorded in Thailand before Japan, South Korea and the United States soon followed.\n\nAcross the world, a trickle of cases became a flood.\n\nThere have now been more than a million Covid-19 cases worldwide, in countries from Nepal to Nicaragua. But as the death tolls rise, and the hospitals overflow, is anywhere still coronavirus-free?\n\nThe answer, perhaps surprisingly, is yes.\n\nIn North Korea, no reported cases and more missile tests\n\nThere are 193 countries which are members of the United Nations.\n\nAs of 2 April, 18 countries had not reported a Covid-19 case, according to a BBC tally using data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSome, experts agree, are likely to have unreported cases. North Korea, for example, is officially on zero, as is war-torn Yemen.\n\nBut there are countries where the virus has not landed. Most are small islands with few visitors - in fact, seven of the world’s 10 least-visited places, as per UN data, are free of Covid-19.\n\nThat remoteness means one thing: in this age of social-distancing rules, island nations are the original self-isolators.\n\nBut the president of one such place is not complacent. In fact, he tells the BBC, Covid-19 is already a national emergency.\n\nNauru, in the Pacific Ocean, is almost 200 miles (320km) from anywhere – Banaba Island, part of Kiribati, is the nearest land. The nearest \"major\" city with direct flights is Brisbane, 2,500 miles south-west.\n\nIt is the second-smallest UN state in terms of land (after Monaco) and, with just over 10,000 people, the second-smallest in terms of population (after Tuvalu).\n\nIt is also one of the least-visited places on Earth. Although it does not appear in the most recent UN data, one tour operator says the country has just 160 tourists a year.\n\nYou may think such a distant place would not need to distance itself further. But a country with one hospital, no ventilators, and a shortage of nurses, cannot take any chances.\n\nThe policy, says President Lionel Aingimea, is called \"capture and containment\".\n\n\"We're keeping things at the border,\" he says. \"We're using our airport as the border and our transit facilities as part of our border.\"\n\nThose in quarantine are checked for symptoms every day. When some developed fever, they were isolated further and tested for Covid-19. The kits were sent to Australia, but all came back negative.\n\nDespite living through a crisis, ordinary Nauruans are \"calm and collected\", says the president. As for himself, he is grateful to other countries for their help - particularly Australia and Taiwan, which Nauru has full relations with - and to his religion.\n\n\"When we started doing this capture and containment policy, I went to God in prayer, and he gave me a scripture which I've kept to heart, which is Psalms 147, verses 13 and 14. That has kept me in good stead as we walk through - as the Bible says - this valley of death.\"\n\nAnd, while he tries to keep Nauru’s Covid-19 tally on zero, he knows the rest of the world is not as fortunate.\n\n\"Every time we look at the [Covid-19] map it looks like the world has got a measles outbreak - there's red dots all over the place,\" he says.\n\n\"So we're making sure as a nation…we believe that our prayers will be helping all the other nations going through these tough times.\"\n\nThere are fears impoverished Nauru would not be able to cope with a possible outbreak\n\nNauru is not the only small Pacific country to have declared a national emergency - Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu, and others, have done the same.\n\nDr Colin Tukuitonga, from Niue in the South Pacific, is sure it is the right policy.\n\n\"Their best bet without a doubt is to keep the bloody thing out,\" he says from New Zealand. \"Because if it gets in then you’re stuffed, really.\"\n\nDr Tukuitonga is a public health expert, a former World Health Organization commissioner, and is now an associate dean at the medical school at Auckland University.\n\n\"These places don't have robust health systems,\" he says. \"They're small, they're fragile, many don't have ventilators. If an outbreak did occur it would decimate the population.\"\n\nAnd, he says, many Pacific islanders are already in poor health.\n\n\"Many of these places have high rates of diabetes, heart disease and chest conditions - all those conditions [are linked to] a more severe form of the virus.\"\n\nIf there were a severe outbreak in any of the small Pacific nations, they would have to send their patients abroad. But that is easier said than done, when countries are locking down their borders.\n\nSo, Dr Tukuitonga says, their best bet is to stay on zero for as long as possible.\n\n\"The very isolation of small populations across a big ocean - which has always been a problem for them - has come to be a protection,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nA small number of countries with land borders have also until now been spared coronavirus cases.\n\nIt was only on Thursday that Malawi, a landlocked country of 18 million people in east Africa, reported its first cases. But it had prepared for them.\n\nThe country has declared a \"state of disaster\", closed schools, and cancelled all visas issued before 20 March. It is also \"ramping up testing\", says Dr Peter MacPherson, a public health expert from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, whose work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and who is based in Malawi.\n\nHe says the \"extra week or two we've had to prepare\" has been valuable, and he is \"quietly confident\" that Malawi will cope.\n\n\"We have been very affected by the HIV epidemic over the past 30 years and also the TB pandemic,\" he says.\n\n\"A lot of that very effective response has been basic but effective public health - well-functioning programmes at district level, doing the basics, but doing them very, very well.\"\n\nEvidence says coronavirus will come to every country, says Dr MacPherson. So if not Malawi, where might the last place in the world to catch Covid-19 be?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why staying at home is a matter of life and death\n\n\"It’s likely to be those South Pacific, very remote islands, I would put my money on that,\" says Andy Tatem, a professor in spatial demography and epidemiology at the University of Southampton.\n\n\"But in our globalised economy I’m not sure there’s anywhere that will escape such an infectious disease.\"\n\nThe lockdowns - such as those in Nauru - may work, he says, but they cannot last forever.\n\n\"Most of these countries rely on some kind of importation from outside - whether it's food or goods or tourism - or exporting their own goods. It's possible they can lock down completely, but it will be damaging – and they'll have to open up eventually.\"\n\nAnd, he warns, the number of cases is nowhere near peaking.\n\n\"We all have these lockdowns, so it's not burning through the population, and we still have a very large proportion [of people] not getting it.\n\n\"It's great for health systems, but it means we have a lot of susceptible people in the world. We are going to have to live with this virus for quite some time.\"", "Police patrol Brighton beach - normally packed with people on a sunny weekend at this time of year\n\nPeople across the UK appear to be adhering to social distancing rules despite the temptation to go out in the sunny weather, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nPolice face \"one of their biggest challenges\" of the coronavirus lockdown as the weather improves.\n\nMr Gove told the government's briefing that people must respect the lockdown.\n\nHe said there was \"evidence to suggest\" there has been a lower level of compliance among young people.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council tweeted on Saturday that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront, making social distancing \"impossible\".\n\nAnd Sussex Police said that two people had been summonsed to attend court after having a barbecue on Hove beach.\n\nMeanwhile, Lambeth Council in south London said Brockwell Park would be closed on Sunday after more than 3,000 people spent the day there sunbathing or in large groups on Saturday.\n\nMr Gove said it might be that some of the government's messages had not reached some segments of the population.\n\n\"It may be that young people feel that they are less likely to be affected and less likely to be infected,\" he added.\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis added: \"The sun might be out, but that does not mean you should be out.\"\n\n\"It's the lives and the health of all of us, our friends, our relatives, your friends, your relatives, that depend upon us following these instructions,\" Prof Powis told the briefing.\n\n\"This is the time we need to make sure we stick to that guidance and don't deviate from it.\"\n\nPolice have been patrolling London's parks, including here, in Greenwich\n\nThe warning comes as the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has risen above 4,000, including a five-year-old with underlying health conditions.\n\nMr Gove told the briefing: \"I know that lockdown is challenging, I know it's very difficult, particularly for families with children.\n\n\"But people must at every stage respect these guidelines because that is the only way of making sure we restrict the spread of the disease.\"\n\nWhen asked about an exit strategy, he said: \"There's no fixed point, no specific date in the calendar at which we can say things will change, we are keeping them under review.\n\n\"The prime minister said that the current lockdown proposals will be reviewed in what is just over a week's time.\"\n\nPeople exercise along the seafront on Boscombe Beach, in Bournemouth, amid the lockdown\n\nA forecast of warm weather across much of the UK this weekend has led to warnings from local councils, tourism bosses and police urging people to stay away from coastal areas, national parks and other visitor destinations.\n\nRestrictions state that everybody must stay at home where possible, and only leave if they have a \"reasonable excuse\", such as exercise or shopping for basic necessities.\n\nKaty Bourne, Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Newsnight this weekend was set to be \"one of the biggest challenges for policing so far\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer told the BBC it was a \"pivotal weekend\", urging people to \"play their part\" and avoid travel.\n\nMr Sawyer told the BBC that people would have to examine their own conscience if they endangered lives by travelling to tourist hotspots this weekend.\n\n\"If a £60 ticket makes you do something and 684 people dying yesterday didn't, then I think you've got to take a good look at yourself as to whether you've realised the seriousness and significance of where we are,\" he said.\n\nHe added that officers would in the first instance \"explain\" and \"encourage\" people to follow government guidelines on essential travel, describing enforcement as \"a last resort\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures showed 4,313 people with the virus have now died in the UK, up by 708 on Friday's figure.\n\nThere are now 41,903 confirmed cases, the Department of Health said.\n\nHow have you been affected by the coronavirus? Tell us about your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A new high in UK deaths - but cases are slowing\n\nThe number of 708 deaths is a new high, but a fall in cases indicates the UK is slightly below trend. The drop in new confirmed cases from 4,450 on Friday to 3,735 cases shows a continued slowdown. New cases were growing by about 20% a day up to last weekend. In the last week, that slowed to about 10% a day. That's even after allowing for the expansion of testing to include NHS workers. Even if Saturday's fall is followed by rises, it is evidence that case growth is slowing. The figure of 708 new deaths is a record high, but it is also below scientific expectations. Deaths have been growing by just under 25% each day. That means doubling every 3.5 days. A continuation of that would have taken us from 684 deaths on Friday to more than 800. The first day of a below trend growth is too soon to call a turn, but there is hope that the slowdown we're seeing in case numbers will eventually feed through into the numbers of new deaths.", "Palestinian couple Ammar and Baraa show off their rings before getting married near Hebron, West Bank Image caption: Palestinian couple Ammar and Baraa show off their rings before getting married near Hebron, West Bank\n\nThe global pandemic has brought us many remarkable images - from photos of the world's busiest spots abandoned to ordinary events turned upside-down by measures to control the virus. Here are some of the most eye-catching pictures from Saturday:\n\nA day of remembrance was held in China to honour victims of Covid-19 on the annual Tomb Sweeping Day that remembers the dead Image caption: A day of remembrance was held in China to honour victims of Covid-19 on the annual Tomb Sweeping Day that remembers the dead\n\nA new field hospital is under construction near Golokhvastovo, Moscow in Russia Image caption: A new field hospital is under construction near Golokhvastovo, Moscow in Russia\n\nMedics clap to show gratitude to health workers in Spain on a day when the country recorded its lowest death toll for a week Image caption: Medics clap to show gratitude to health workers in Spain on a day when the country recorded its lowest death toll for a week\n\nThe normally crowded Chinatown in London is quiet on a weekend when the government instructed people to stay home Image caption: The normally crowded Chinatown in London is quiet on a weekend when the government instructed people to stay home\n\nImages of crowds are surprising now when we are used to seeing empty city streets - this picture is from Sweden, which has not introduced a lockdown Image caption: Images of crowds are surprising now when we are used to seeing empty city streets - this picture is from Sweden, which has not introduced a lockdown", "Up to 4,000 prisoners in England and Wales are to be released in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus, the Ministry of Justice has said.\n\nInmates with two months or less still to serve will be released on temporary licence in stages.\n\nThe selected low-risk offenders will be electronically tagged and can be recalled at the first sign of concern.\n\nIt is seen as a way to avoid thousands of prisoners - many of whom share cells - becoming infected.\n\nAcross 29 jails, 88 prisoners have tested positive for the virus with a further 1,200 believed to be self-isolating.\n\nSex offenders and those convicted of violent or sexual offences, as well as anyone who is a national security concern or a danger to children, will not be considered for release, the Prison Service said.\n\nNo inmate convicted of Covid-19-related offences - including coughing at emergency workers or stealing personal protective equipment - will be eligible either, said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).\n\nLord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC said: \"This government is committed to ensuring that justice is served to those who break the law.\n\n\"But this is an unprecedented situation because if coronavirus takes hold in our prisons, the NHS could be overwhelmed and more lives put at risk.\"\n\nThe MoJ also said no prisoners with symptoms of coronavirus would be released, nor would those who do not have housing and health support in place.\n\nMr Buckland previously announced that pregnant inmates could be granted temporary release to protect them and their unborn children from coronavirus.\n\nMothers behind bars with their children who pass the same checks could also be released, he said.\n\nThe legislation for the measures is expected to be put in place on Monday.\n\nThis is the last thing Boris Johnson's government ever wanted to do.\n\nIn their general election manifesto, the Conservatives promised criminals would be \"kept off our streets\". Since then, a series of measures have been announced to ensure those convicted of the most serious crimes - including terrorism - stay behind bars for longer.\n\nSo an emergency early release scheme, which means that almost 5% of the prison population of England and Wales will be let out before they've even reached the halfway point of their sentence, was not an easy decision for Number 10 to make.\n\nMore politically palatable options were considered, such as transferring prisoners to army bases and immigration removal centres, but they are fraught with practical difficulties.\n\nThe danger for the government of this scheme - the largest since 80,000 offenders were let out early as part of Labour's End of Custody Licence programme between 2007 and 2010 - is that some of those released will commit further, possibly horrendous, crimes.\n\nUltimately, ministers decided the alternative - infected prisoners overwhelming hospitals - was even worse.\n\nThe prisons union welcomed the news but raised concerns over staff pressure.\n\nAbout 8,000 prison staff have been absent due to issues related to Covid-19, around a quarter of the total workforce.\n\nIan Lawrence, general secretary of trade union Napo, said its members working in the National Probation Service and in community rehabilitation companies were \"already over-stretched\".\n\n\"Probation providers must work to ensure this new cohort can be supervised safely and not cause additional operational pressure and stress to the workforce,\" he added.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, up to 200 offenders are being let out early and the Scottish government is considering similar measures.\n\nFrance has also announced plans to release 5,000 prisoners early, along with 3,500 in the US state of California.\n\nAustralia, Germany, and Canada have already given the go-ahead for the early release of prisoners.", "Ian Blackford and Sir Ed Davey have both congratulated the new Labour leader Image caption: Ian Blackford and Sir Ed Davey have both congratulated the new Labour leader\n\nThe other opposition parties in Westminster have offered their congratulations to Sir Keir Starmer on his election as Labour leader.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, says it is \"vital opposition parties work together effectively to hold the UK government to account - and ensure people get the support they need in the coronavirus crisis\".\n\nHe appeals to Sir Keir to support SNP pledges on financial support during the outbreak and its calls to pause trade negotiations with the EU. And he adds a warning: \"Support for Labour has collapsed in Scotland. If they are ever to regain trust, they must stop ignoring Scotland's wishes and respect our democratic right to choose our own future.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' acting leader, Sir Ed Davey, also pledges to work with Sir Keir to hold the government to account over its response to coronavirus.\n\nHe says his party will always work with others when it comes to \"pursuing our liberal values\".\n\nHe adds: \"As the chapter closes on one Labour leader, we hope the new one can see the Labour party play a constructive role in building an effective multi-party opposition. That will be the litmus test of Keir Starmer’s leadership.\"", "Ivor was on holiday when he became ill in Goa\n\nA British man has been left stranded in an Indian hospital following emergency surgery - after narrowly missing the last flights home.\n\nIvor Gunton, 77, became ill during an annual trip to Gura with wife Geraldine Davis, 72.\n\nAfter he underwent the operation Ms Davis returned to the UK, expecting her husband to follow on a flight that day.\n\nBut upon arriving in the UK, Ms Davis was told the timing of border closures had meant her husband was left behind.\n\nThe pair, who have been married for 38 years, tried to return to Bristol as soon as Mr Gunton could travel, but a curfew was imposed due to coronavirus.\n\nMs Davis was able to fly out of the country on March 21, expecting her husband to be following by air ambulance the same day.\n\n\"It was horrible, and now he is alone. The thought of not knowing when he will be back is even worse.\"\n\nBut Mr Gunton, who underwent an operation to remove an intestinal tumour at Mothercare Hospital in Goa, has refused to let his predicament get him down.\n\n\"He is a strong character,\" his wife said.\n\n\"If that was me I would not be able to get through it.\"\n\nIvor was due to come home the same day as his wife\n\nMs Davis said: \"We spend five months every year in India but this time Ivor started getting abdominal pain and was sent to hospital where he was given two CT scans.\n\n\"The second one showed a tumour.\"\n\nCoronavirus had already begun to spread in India and it became clear they needed to get home quickly.\n\nIn the fortnight since Mr Gunton was stranded, the couple's insurers, Royal Bank of Scotland, have been trying to liaise with the hospital, where he remains, to have him airlifted.\n\nThey need permission from the Indian Aviation Authority to repatriate him, but say they must wait for the results of coronavirus testing.\n\nIt is likely that will take up to a week.\n\n\"This, to me, is completely incomprehensible,\" said Ms Davis. \"In the time it takes for the results to come and for the repatriation to then be requested he could easily catch the virus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nA number of British Airways cabin crew fear they may have contracted the coronavirus after operating long-haul flights over the past two weeks.\n\nUnions are calling on airlines to do more to minimise the exposure of staff.\n\nBut BA pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the virus.\n\nBA said it has taken steps to reduce contact between customers and crew, adding that personal protective gear, like masks and gloves, was available.\n\nHowever, one pilot told the BBC that equipment was not always accessible and that staff sometimes travelled \"shoulder-to-shoulder\" on buses at airports.\n\nDespite slashing its flight schedule amid travel restrictions, BA is still operating some flights to destinations such as New York, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, where more than 6,000 people have died across the country.\n\nThis week the airline also helped repatriate hundreds of British nationals from Peru. Along with other UK-based airlines, BA is now working with the Foreign Office to bring back people who are stuck abroad.\n\nPublic Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.\n\nBA said it was \"keeping vital links open\" and its teams were \"doing an amazing job\".\n\nThe in-flight service on flights operated by BA and its rivals has been greatly reduced to minimise person-to-person contact. Passengers on long-haul flights are now handed a packed lunch and a drink when they board the plane.\n\nAlthough some long-haul routes which are still operating can be relatively empty, social distancing hasn't been possible on some domestic and repatriation flights. One pilot operating a domestic flight with a UK-based airline out of Manchester this week refused to take off until he was given a bigger aircraft.\n\nAnd BBC News has learnt that Public Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.\n\nIn an email sent to the pilots' union Balpa, Public Health England said \"seating passengers separated by one seat either side would be a sensible approach.\"\n\nHowever, this suggestion would be incredibly costly for any repatriation flights organised by the Foreign Office and might not be feasible for airlines who have had their business wither in recent weeks.\n\nEasyjet, which is also expected to run some of the government's repatriation flights, said it has also been implementing practises to minimise contact like ensuring that its staff don't touch passengers' travel documents when they board.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it had put \"meticulous\" cleaning processes in place and created \"isolation areas\" on its flights for passengers showing symptoms of the virus.\n\nA BA pilot told the BBC that the airline had been \"very slow\" to put in measures to protect staff.\n\n\"I know the company is struggling but up until the last three or four days there has been a complete disregard for our health and safety.\"\n\nThe pilot, who flies long-haul routes, acknowledged that this week there were signs that issues were being addressed.\n\nHe said pilots recently received an email stating that bigger buses would be used to transport staff at airports so that they can observe social-distancing advice. At Heathrow employees have also been given access to car parks so that they can avoid getting on buses.\n\nAnother BA staff member who contracted the virus said they did have access to a \"flimsy mask\", however protective equipment was not always available. BA insisted that the welfare of its staff was paramount.\n\nBrian Strutton from the pilot's union Balpa said it was essential that staff involved in repatriation efforts were provided with protective equipment.\n\n\"We're hearing pilots saying they're worried about flying, for their own safety and their family's safety,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet there has been no discussion or consultation with us to provide assurance.\"\n\nBalpa has written to the Department for Transport to express its concerns and it has issued its own safety guidance to pilots. The department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nCrews have also been notified that they are now classified as \"critical workers\" and were told that if they were rostered they would be expected to turn-up to work.\n\nHowever, BA insisted that repatriation flights would only be operated by staff who volunteer. Easyjet also said that its rescue flights for stranded British nationals have always been operated by staff who have volunteered.\n\nThe Unite union, which represents cabin crew, said the guidance from aviation regulators and other government bodies over keeping airline crews safe was inconsistent.\n\nUnite's aviation officer Oliver Richardson called on the industry to urgently agree a set of protocols \"to minimise the risk to those working and flying\".", "Matt Hancock and England's chief nursing officer Ruth May told people to stay inside\n\nStaying at home this weekend is an instruction and \"not a request\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said, as he updated the country on the coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock said that while warm weather was forecast in some areas this weekend \"the disease is still spreading\".\n\nEngland's chief nursing officer Ruth May also paid tribute to two nurses who have died from the disease.\n\n\"Please stay at home for them,\" she urged people.\n\nAreema Nasreen, 36, had spent weeks in intensive care with coronavirus, while Aimee O'Rourke, 39, died at the hospital where she worked.\n\n\"They were one of us, they were one of my profession, of the NHS family,\" said Ms May. \"I worry that there's going to be more and I want to honour them today and recognise their service.\"\n\nIt comes as latest figures showed a further 684 people with the virus died in the UK, bringing the total to 3,605. There are 38,168 confirmed cases.\n\nIn Scotland, the number of deaths has risen by 46, while in Wales a further 24 people died. In NI, the number of people who died with coronavirus has risen by 12.\n\nMr Hancock - who recently ended his seven days of self-isolation after contracting the virus - said: \"We cannot relax our discipline now. If we do, people will die.\n\n\"I end with the advice we all know. This advice is not a request - it is an instruction.\n\n\"Stay at home, protect lives and then you will be doing your part.\"\n\nAimee O'Rourke, who worked at a hospital in Margate, Kent, was described as \"highly talented\"\n\nThe warning follows messages from local councils, tourism bosses and police urging people to stay away from beauty spots, as the Easter holidays begin and warm weather is expected.\n\nMr Hancock also said the UK has set up three national clinical trials looking at how existing drugs can be altered to treat Covid-19.\n\nHe added that more patients are needed to volunteer to take part in the trials - but England's deputy chief medical officer later clarified that people cannot apply themselves and it was up to doctors to refer patients.\n\nMs May also appealed to the public to stay at home, saying: \"This weekend is going to be very warm and it will be very tempting to go out and enjoy those summer rays.\n\n\"But please, I ask to remember Aimee and Areema. Please stay at home for them.\"\n\nThis was one of the longest daily briefings that has been held since the coronavirus outbreak began.\n\nIt is the first time we've been given detail of clinical trials which are under way in the UK to treat patients with Covid-19 and find out which medicines will help those who are sick.\n\nAt the moment there is no single proven drug to tackle coronavirus and a vaccine is still a long way off.\n\nThe trials involve patients from primary to critical care and more than 900 people are already involved.\n\nA word of caution though, even if clinicians give their patients the go ahead to take part, it will probably take a few months for that data to be gathered and then made available.\n\nNew cases have been slowing down recently: dipping slightly at the weekend and growing more slowly this week (doubling roughly every five days). Even that trend would have predicted over 5,000 new cases today, and so this looks like further evidence that the case numbers could be slowing down (as long as every patient who needs testing is getting tested).\n\nToday's figures on deaths follow the recent trends closely (doubling roughly every 3.5 days).\n\nRemember that doubling every few days means that we should expect to see record new highs regularly.\n\nIt takes more than three weeks from infection to death to being reported in these figures.\n\nSo while we can hope to see the effects of pre-lockdown social distancing soon, it will take longer for the effect of the lockdown, announced on 23 March, to become apparent.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen, 93, will speak to the nation on Sunday evening about the coronavirus outbreak in a rare special address.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the message, recorded at Windsor Castle, will be broadcast on TV and radio at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe Queen's address will be broadcast on TV, radio and social media, Buckingham Palace said. She has been staying at Windsor Castle since mid-March as a precaution.\n\nIt is only her fourth special address at a time of national crisis during her 68-year reign. The other occasions were after the Queen Mother's death in 2002, ahead of Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral in 1997, and during the First Gulf War in 1991.\n\nThe Queen also made a televised address to mark her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.\n\nThe monarch, 93, released a statement about the outbreak last month, when the number of UK deaths stood at 144.\n\nShe said the UK was \"entering a period of great concern and uncertainty\" and praised the work of scientists, medics and emergency staff, saying everyone has a \"vitally important part to play\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said Sunday's speech had been decided \"in close consultation with Downing Street\" as \"they have had it in their minds for some days now\".\n\nHe suggested the speech might include thanks for NHS staff and key workers, as well as an emphasis on the important role individuals can play - while also aiming to reassure and rally people.\n\nThe heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was seen in public for the first time on Friday after being diagnosed with coronavirus and spending seven days in self-isolation.\n\nHe opened the first of the National Health Service's emergency field hospitals to treat coronavirus patients in east London's ExCel centre, via a video-link from his home on the Queen's Balmoral estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles opens the UK's first emergency field hospital to deal with coronavirus patients.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced he had contracted the virus last Friday, said he will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the virus including a high temperature.", "New Look says it is suspending payments to suppliers for existing stock \"indefinitely\", telling them in a letter that the stock can be collected by its owners.\n\nThe retailer is also cancelling orders for its Spring and Summer clothing lines and won't pay costs towards them.\n\nNew Look told the BBC it did not take the decision lightly. \"This is a matter of survival,\" it told suppliers.\n\nOne small firm said New Look’s behaviour was “totally out of order”.\n\nThe supplier, which provides clothing for several High Street chains and did not want its name published, told the BBC it was not currently owed money by New Look and had no outstanding orders with the retailer.\n\nHowever, it added that New Look’s approach would “devastate smaller companies down the supply chain at a time when they need help the most”.\n\nNew Look’s instructions to suppliers came in the form of a letter, signed by chief executive Nigel Oddy and dated 2 April, which has been seen by the BBC.\n\nAll New Look stores have been closed since 21 March. The firm said it was still trading online, but its distribution centre was full and it could receive no more goods.\n\n“We are acutely aware that our suppliers are facing their own challenges at this time, and that both their businesses and employees are being affected,” Mr Oddy wrote in his letter.\n\n“Government support schemes continue to be announced throughout the world, and we encourage you to pursue any options that are available to you.”\n\nThe supplier who contacted the BBC said small firms could not afford to trade in those circumstances and accused New Look of “passing all the risk on to the supply chain”.\n\nThe firm said it, and others like it, had its designs manufactured in China and could not afford to take on all the liability by itself.\n\nIt added: “The new reality in China is that factories now insist on deposits for all orders placed on behalf of grocers and large retailers, as they cannot afford orders to be cancelled with no compensation to cover raw materials and production.”\n\nThe firm called on those big retailers to “play their part in helping the whole supply chain by paying these deposits up front at the point of order”.\n\n“Since the middle of March, our revenue has collapsed from £160,000 per day to virtually nothing, as almost all of our retail customers in the UK have chosen or had to close for the foreseeable future,” the supplier said, adding that it had already furloughed 90% of its staff.\n\nNew Look was already facing difficulties before the coronavirus pandemic struck.\n\nIt closed dozens of stores in 2018 and 2019 because of “challenging” retail conditions on the High Street.\n\nA New Look spokesperson said: \"Whilst our online sales channels remain open, albeit on a significantly reduced basis, we have regrettably had to inform suppliers that we cannot place new orders until further notice and will be temporarily postponing outstanding supplier payments until the situation improves.\"\n\n\"We have not taken this decision lightly and have only done so out of absolute necessity, given the exceptional circumstances we are in. We greatly value our relationships with suppliers and are actively identifying opportunities where they can hold product for use for autumn-winter this year or spring-summer next year.\"", "President Trump has invoked a Korean War-era law to demand that US firms provide more masks\n\nThe US has been accused of redirecting 200,000 Germany-bound masks for its own use, in a move condemned as \"modern piracy\".\n\nThe local government in Berlin said the shipment of US-made masks was \"confiscated\" in Bangkok.\n\nThe FFP2 masks, which were ordered by Berlin's police force, did not reach their destination, it said.\n\nAndreas Geisel, Berlin's interior minister, said the masks were presumably diverted to the US.\n\nThe US company that makes the masks, 3M, has been prohibited from exporting its medical products to other countries under a Korean-War-era law invoked by President Donald Trump.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trump said he was using the Defence Production Act to demand that US firms provide more medical supplies to meet domestic demand.\n\n\"We need these items immediately for domestic use. We have to have them,\" Mr Trump said at the daily Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the White House.\n\nPresident Trump said medical supplies being diverted from abroad were needed urgently in the US\n\nHe said US authorities had taken custody of nearly 200,000 N95 respirators, 130,000 surgical masks and 600,000 gloves. He did not say where they were taken into US hands.\n\nMr Geisel said the diversion of masks from Berlin amounted to an \"act of modern piracy\", urging the Trump administration to adhere to international trading rules.\n\n\"This is not how you deal with transatlantic partners,\" the minister said. \"Even in times of global crisis, there should be no wild-west methods.\"\n\nMr Geisel's comments echo the sentiments of other European officials, who have complained about the buying and diversion practices of the US.\n\nIn France, for example, regional leaders say they are struggling to secure medical supplies as American buyers outbid them.\n\nThe president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, compared the scramble for masks to a \"treasure hunt\".\n\n3M has been ordered to stop exporting US-made N95 respirator masks\n\n\"I found a stock of masks that was available and Americans - I'm not talking about the American government - but Americans, outbid us,\" Ms Pécresse said. \"They offered three times the price and they proposed to pay up-front.\"\n\nAs the coronavirus pandemic worsens, demand for crucial medical supplies, such as masks and respirators, has surged worldwide.\n\nEarlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was considering changing its guidance on whether people should wear face masks in public.\n\nAt present, the WHO advises that masks do not provide sufficient protection from infection to justify mass usage. But some countries have taken a different view, including the US.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trump announced that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will now recommend that Americans use non-medical, cloth face coverings to help prevent the spread of the virus.\n\nNew York's Mayor Bill de Blasio has urged residents to cover their faces when outside\n\nThe US has 273,880 recorded cases of Covid-19, the highest number in the world by a large margin.\n\nCovid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, has affected more than one million people and killed almost 60,000 globally, the latest figures show.\n\nIn a separate development, 3M said the Trump administration had asked it to stop exporting US-made N95 respirator masks to Canada and Latin America.\n\nThe request had \"significant humanitarian implications\", the company warned, and could prompt other countries to act in kind.\n\nThe company says it manufactures about 100 million N95 masks per month - about a third are made in the US, and the rest produced overseas.\n\nPresident Trump said he had used the Defence Production Act to \"hit 3M hard\", without providing additional details. The law dates back to 1950 and allows a president to force companies to make products for national defence.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Friday that \"it would be a mistake to create blockages or reduce trade\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Justin Trudeau says it would be a 'mistake' for the US to block medical supplies from Canada", "The Queen will reflect on the \"enormous changes\" to daily life\n\nThe Queen is to stress the value of self-discipline and resolve during the coronavirus pandemic in a special address to the nation on Sunday.\n\nIn a rare speech, she will acknowledge the grief, pain and financial difficulties Britons are facing during this \"time of disruption\".\n\nShe will also thank NHS staff and key workers, and emphasise the important role individuals can play.\n\nHer address will be broadcast on TV, radio and social media at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe Queen is expected to say: \"I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.\n\n\"A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.\"\n\nShe will add: \"I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.\n\n\"And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.\n\n\"That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country.\"\n\nThe message was filmed by a single cameraman wearing protective equipment, with all the other technical staff in another room.\n\nIt will be intended to reassure and rally people, BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said.\n\nThe decision to deliver the address has been made \"in close consultation with Downing Street\", he added.\n\nThe number of deaths in the UK reached 4,313 on Saturday - up by 708 on Friday's figure.\n\nThe Queen's address will come less than a week after the Prince of Wales came out of self-isolation, following his diagnosis of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles opens the UK's first emergency field hospital to deal with coronavirus patients.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, spent seven days self-isolating in Scotland after testing positive and displaying mild symptoms.\n\nOn Friday, he opened the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London via video link.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the Queen last saw her son, the heir to the throne, on 12 March, and was \"in good health\".", "Watford General Hospital is run by the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust\n\nA hospital has asked all patients to stay away until further notice, except for women expecting to give birth, due to problems with its oxygen equipment.\n\nWatford General Hospital has declared a critical incident and earlier urged any emergency patients to go to other hospitals with A&E units.\n\nThe hospital said the decision was taken as a \"result of a technical issue with our hospital's oxygen equipment\".\n\nIt added that the problem did not \"pose any risk to our patients\".\n\n\"A small number of patients are being transferred to other hospitals in the area, with each patient being fully assessed in line with existing safety guidelines before they are moved,\" a West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust spokesman said.\n\nPatients have been asked not to attend Watford General Hospital's A&E Unit\n\nAs of 17:00 BST on Thursday, 29 people had died at the NHS trust's hospitals after being diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nThe trust is responsible for Watford General as well as Hemel Hempstead and St Albans City hospitals.\n\nCurrent NHS advice tells people with coronavirus or suspected symptoms to avoid hospitals and other medical settings like pharmacies.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police suspect there may have been a terrorist motive behind the attack in Romans-sur-Isère\n\nFrench police have launched a terrorism investigation after two people were killed and five wounded in a knife attack in south-east France.\n\nThe attacker entered a tobacconist shop in Romans-sur-Isère, near Grenoble, and stabbed the owners and a customer.\n\nHe then attacked more people at two other shops before being arrested.\n\nProsecutors said the suspect was a Sudanese refugee in his 30s who lived in the town. Two other people have also been arrested, police said.\n\nAt the time of his arrest on Saturday, the man was \"found on his knees on the pavement praying in Arabic\", prosecutors said.\n\nDavid Olivier Reverdy, of the National Police Alliance union, said the man had asked police to kill him.\n\nCounter-terrorism prosecutors said they had launched an investigation into \"murder linked to a terrorist enterprise\".\n\nThe suspect was not previously known to the police or intelligence services, news website France Bleu reported.\n\nOn a visit to the town, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said: \"This morning, a man embarked on a terrorist journey.\"\n\nPresident Macron described the attack as an \"odious\" incident\n\nTown mayor Marie-Helene Thoraval told AFP news agency that after leaving the tobacconist, the suspect went to a butcher's shop where he grabbed another knife before attacking people queuing outside a bakery.\n\nThe butcher's shop owner, Ludovic Breyton, said: \"He took a knife, jumped over the counter, and stabbed a customer, then ran away. My wife tried to help the victim but in vain.\"\n\nIn a statement, the prosecutor's office said initial investigations suggest the attacker had \"a determined murderous course aimed at seriously disturbing public order by intimidation or terror\".\n\nDuring a search of the suspect's home, \"handwritten documents with religious connotations were found\", it said.\n\nProsecutors said they arrested a second Sudanese man at the suspect's home and on Sunday revealed that a third person - \"a young Sudanese man from the same household\" - was also in custody.\n\nTwo of the wounded are said to be in a critical condition.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron described the attack as an \"odious\" incident that further saddened a country already going through an ordeal.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims of the Romans-sur-Isère attack - the injured, their families,\" he tweeted.\n\nMr Macron promised that \"light will be shed\" on the crime.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emmanuel Macron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrance is currently in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. People are only allowed out to buy basic necessities or for exercise.\n\nThe country has been on high alert since 2015, when Paris was hit by a series of attacks attributed to the Islamic State group.", "A number of whisky bottling plants which suspended work due to coronavirus are set to reopen.\n\nThe GMB Scotland union says facilities owned by Edrington, Inver House and North British have approached staff about coming back to work.\n\nOther firms in the whisky and spirits industry, such as Diageo and Grants, have kept open plants with scaled-back operations.\n\nTrade unions argue that all production should be halted due to Covid-19.\n\nEdrington said a \"controlled restart\" with a significantly reduced number of staff would allow it to sustain the business and help safeguard employment.\n\nWhile its bottling facilities in Glasgow and Speyside will re-open on Monday the company's distilleries will remain closed for at least three months.\n\nThe development comes as a survey of GMB Scotland members in the sector found just 18% believed that adequate social distancing measures were being followed in their workplace.\n\nKeir Greenaway, GMB Scotland organiser for the whisky and spirits sector, said some his members had also reported getting abuse from members of the public for going to work.\n\nHe said: \"The ones that were shut are now looking to reopen because they look around and see that others have not followed them in taking the sensible approach in suspending operations. Workers are anxious and scared.\n\n\"They don't have confidence their health and wellbeing can be protected by their employers.\n\n\"The public health guidelines exist for good reasons; to stop the spread of this deadly virus and to save lives. Yet whisky and spirits giants think its business as usual in the midst of a killer pandemic.\"\n\nAbout 700 members responded to the GMB Scotland survey issued last weekend over email, with only 7% of respondents stating they should continue producing whisky during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA further 89% of workers said their families had expressed concern that they were still working during the lockdown.\n\nThe trade union wants the Scottish government to force the suspension of production.\n\nEdrington's portfolio includes The Macallan and The Famous Grouse\n\nEdrington said it has worked closely with union representatives on its plans to reopen and highlighted the fact it is also producing hand sanitiser at its Glasgow site.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Our start-up teams will be made up of those with no underlying health issues individually or within their household, and don't rely on public transport.\n\n\"Although we already go beyond government guidelines, we have introduced new enhanced social distancing and hygiene measures as part of our restart plan to ensure the health and safety of our people. \"\n\nThe company suspended its operations on 25 March to allow it to get clarity on advice from both the UK and Scottish governments.\n\nNo one from North Bridge or Inver House was available for comment.\n\nThe Scotch Whisky Association said those companies continuing to operate were doing so with \"significantly scaled-back operations\" and in \"rigorous compliance\" with social distancing guidelines.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The UK government has also made clear that food and drink production, including alcohol, are essential services and that manufacturing should continue where appropriate safety and social distancing protocols can be put in place in order to re-stock supermarkets and off-licences that remain open during the crisis.\"\n\nThe SWA said about 12 million litres of ethanol would be produced for about 50 million bottles of hand sanitiser in the next two months.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"This is not business as usual. For companies, large and small, which continue to operate, this is not about profit but about ensuring businesses can be in a position to contribute to Scotland's economic recovery.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"In this public health crisis it is vital that all businesses align fully with the social distancing measures introduced to protect the nation's heath, wellbeing and economic future.\n\n\"As such we would advise all business premises, sites and attractions to close now unless their activity is essential to the health and welfare of the country.\n\n\"We have published guidance which makes clear that businesses can only continue to operate if they can, by working together with staff and unions, establish ways to keep their employees safe, both in travelling to work and at work.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM took part in the clap for carers on Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the coronavirus including having a temperature.\n\nThe prime minister tested positive for the virus last Friday and had been due to come out of self-isolation today.\n\nMr Johnson continues to work from home and chaired a coronavirus meeting on Friday morning.\n\nHe was seen on Thursday applauding the NHS and other key workers from his flat in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted on Twitter, Mr Johnson said: \"Although I am feeling better and I've done my seven days of isolation alas I still have one of the minor symptoms.\n\n\"I still have a temperature. So in accordance with government advice I must continue my self isolation until that symptom itself goes.\n\n\"But we're working clearly the whole time on our programme to beat the virus.\"\n\nHe also added with expected good weather over the weekend that people may be tempted to ignore the advice and spend more time outside.\n\n\"I just urge you not do do that,\" he said. \"Please, please stick with the guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson warns public to 'stick with the guidance'\n\nHe added: \"This country has made a huge effort, a huge sacrifice and done absolutely brilliantly well in delaying the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Let's stick with it now and remember that incredible clapping last night for our fantastic NHS. We are doing it to protect them and save lives.\"\n\nIt's been more than a week since the prime minister stood at the podium in Downing Street to deliver the daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nSince announcing he'd tested positive for the virus seven days ago his public appearances have been limited to video clips filmed on his phone from inside his flat, above 11 Downing Street.\n\nHe did venture on to the doorstep of No 11 last night to join the national clap for keyworkers and NHS staff - picked up by TV cameras notably stood some distance away.\n\nIn his latest self-shot message, he said he was still showing mild symptoms of the virus and would therefore stay in isolation until they passed.\n\nAnd in a direct plea to the public, he urged people to stick to social distancing guidelines this weekend.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday, to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson was following official guidance which states that you should continue to self-isolate if a temperature persists beyond the advised seven days.\n\nHe said he was not aware of any more cabinet members who had been infected.\n\nMr Johnson spokesman said the PM was continuing to work with Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, who has also tested positive for the virus. It is not known if Mr Whitty is still in isolation.\n\nMr Hancock has said the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target 100,000 coronavirus tests a day, announced at Thursday's news conference.\n\nHe said he was not relying on new antibody blood tests to meet the goal, which was announced after criticism of the UK's testing strategy.\n\n\"It's got to happen. I've got a plan to get us there, I've set it as a goal and it's what the nation needs,\" he said.\n\nLabour has called for more details on what kind of tests will be involved.\n\nIt came as the Prince of Wales officially opened London's new 4,000 bed NHS Nightingale Hospital via a video link from his Scottish home.", "The airport said it was working with a range of agencies to find alternatives for the rough sleepers\n\nUp to 200 rough sleepers are reportedly using Heathrow Airport as a refuge during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIt comes despite councils being told to house homeless people, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nAirport bosses did not comment on the numbers involved, but said they were working with agencies to find alternatives for people.\n\nPaul Atherton who regularly beds down at Terminal Five said he had noticed many more rough sleepers.\n\nThe 52-year-old who works in Charing Cross said the amenities he relied on in central London had now been forced to close.\n\nOn 27 March, the government told councils to house rough sleepers within the week.\n\nMr Atherton has chronic fatigue syndrome. He said the airport was a safer place to be if his condition worsens.\n\n\"Where else do we go? That's the reality, we go to central London there is nothing open,\" the qualified photographer and film producer said.\n\n\"McDonald's, all public lavatories are shut. I use gyms to get showered, all the gyms are closed.\"\n\nPaul Atherton has regularly been sleeping rough at Heathrow airport\n\nA spokesman for Heathrow said the airport's Travel Care Team was assisting in re-housing people.\n\n\"It is working in partnership with external outreach organisations, local authorities and government to relocate homeless people already at the airport, only when they are able to offer safe, alternative accommodation,\" he said.\n\nOutreach workers are also patrolling the airport to engage with and help homeless people.\n\nBut Mr Atherton said there had been \"complete chaos\" in securing hotel rooms despite the travel care team working with charity Thames Reach.\n\nThames Reach is also working with councils and the Greater London Authority to get the rough sleepers into single room accommodation, but said the numbers of people involved had made it a \"complex task\".\n\nA volunteer who helps the homeless in Hillingdon said the airport was going \"above and beyond\" to help rough sleepers.\n\n\"We have offered accommodation to all of the rough sleepers in other parts of the borough who we are in contact with,\" a Hillingdon council spokesperson said.\n\nAccording to the Mayor of London's office, more than 600 people have been given rooms and more than 1,000 are available working with hotel partners.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which leads the rehousing efforts at Heathrow, said councils in England had been given £3.2m to help rough sleepers.\n\nAn MHCLG spokesperson said: \"We have worked with Hillingdon Council and the Greater London Authority to ensure the vast majority of rough sleepers who were previously sleeping in Heathrow Airport have been given offers of safe and suitable accommodation, and will continue working with them to ensure those who remain are also protected from the pandemic.\"\n\nMr Atherton has since be re-housed by Westminster City Council.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major US mask manufacturer, 3M, says the government has asked it to stop exporting US-made N95 respirator masks to Canada and Latin America.\n\nThe request had \"significant humanitarian implications\", it warned, and could prompt other countries to act in kind.\n\nOn Thursday, the US invoked the Korean War-era Defence Production Act to demand that 3M provide more masks.\n\nCanada's prime minister said stopping 3M's exports would be a \"mistake\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump said he had used the Defence Production Act to \"hit 3M hard\", without providing additional details. The law dates back to 1950 and allows a president to force companies to make products for national defence.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, 3M said the government had invoked the act \"to require 3M to prioritise orders from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) for our N95 respirators\", and had also requested that 3M import more respirators made in its overseas factories into the US. It said it supported both moves.\n\nHowever, 3M added that the government also requested that it stop exporting respirators made in the US to Canada and Latin America.\n\n\"There are significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators,\" it said.\n\n3M added that such a move \"would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same\", which would lead to the overall number of respirators being made available to the US decreasing.\n\nThe company says it manufactures about 100 million N95 masks per month - about a third are made in the US, and the rest produced overseas.\n\nThe Trump administration has not provided details on its communications with 3M. On Thursday night, Mr Trump tweeted: \"We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks... Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing - will have a big price to pay!\"\n\nMeanwhile, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Thursday: \"We've had issues making sure that all of the production that 3M does around the world, enough of it is coming back here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Justin Trudeau says it would be a 'mistake' for the US to block medical supplies from Canada\n\nCanada does not manufacture any N95 masks domestically, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Friday that \"it would be a mistake to create blockages or reduce trade\".\n\n\"There are thousands of nurses in Windsor who work in Detroit every single day, and Americans depend on them. There are medical products and other essential goods that move across the border in both directions... these are things Americans rely on.\"\n• None Should more of us wear masks?", "Official data suggests testing for coronavirus per head of population in England has been considerably slower so far than that in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAs of 8 April, 343 people have been tested per 100,000 of the UK population, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. These are diagnostic swab tests to establish whether an individual is infected by coronavirus.\n\nAcross the four nations, the numbers break down as follows:\n\nThat means that up to 8 April, 79% of the people tested in the UK were in England, despite England having roughly 84% of the country's population. England has also had 83% of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK so far, and 91% of deaths recorded in hospitals.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has already said the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day in the UK by the end of April.\n\nAnd the slower pace of testing in England has raised further concern because much of the procurement and allocation of tests has now been centralised for all four nations.\n\nExperts say England has far more laboratories than the other UK nations, and it is important to create a uniform testing platform so all labs are testing in exactly the same way.\n\nBut Dr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter medical school, says accreditation of labs has been too slow.\n\n\"This is nothing to do with capacity,\" he says, \"capacity can be expanded very quickly, and there are plenty of labs.\"\n\n\"This is a simple test and we just need to get on with it. We don't need this stranglehold by Public Health England [PHE].\"\n\nWhen asked to comment on the slower pace of testing in England so far, PHE pointed out that it is not directly responsible for laboratory accreditation. That's the job of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, although it is up to PHE and the Department of Health to ask for certain standards to be maintained.\n\n\"PHE has moved heaven and earth to develop an accurate test, ensuring that every hospital patient that needs one has been tested,\" said PHE's chief executive Duncan Selbie in a statement.\n\n\"We and our NHS colleagues have delivered our promise of 10,000 tests a day on time and are on track for 750,000 tests per month [25,000 per day] by the end of April,\" he said.\n\n\"We have supported NHS laboratories to get their COVID-19 testing up and running, to make sure the tests they are using provide accurate results.\"\n\nThat of course does not explain the discrepancy in testing figures between different nations within the UK so far.\n\nThe pace of testing in England has been increasing over the past week, but a rapid acceleration may only happen when private laboratories join those run by public health bodies.\n\nOne new testing facility is being developed by the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and GSK with the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"We believe we will start testing by mid-April,\" AstraZeneca's CEO Pascal Soriot told the BBC's Today programme, \"and be at scale with 30,000 tests a day by early May.\"\n\nAll four nations are also obviously trying to increase testing as much as possible in public health facilities as part of the UK-wide effort.\n\nThe Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said NHS Scotland's testing capacity in hospitals would increase to at least 3,500 a day \"by the end of this month, at the latest\".\n\nShe said that figure should be compared to the \"pillar one\" target in England of 25,000 tests a day - done in NHS and public health laboratories - by the end of April.\n\nThis piece was published on 3 April and updated on 8 April to include the latest figures.", "Two members of staff at Burlington Court care home have tested positive for Covid-19\n\nThirteen residents at a Glasgow care home have died in one week following a suspected outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nStaff at Burlington Court Care Home, Cranhill, said they were \"closely monitoring\" the health of other people in their care and that \"strict protocols\" were in place.\n\nAll of the deceased residents had underlying health conditions and their families have been made aware.\n\nTwo staff members have tested positive and are being treated in hospital.\n\nAs first reported in The Scottish Sun, the care home said tests were not carried out on residents as they were only carried out when people were admitted to hospital.\n\nA Four Seasons Health Care spokeswoman said: \"With deep sadness we can confirm that 13 residents at Burlington Care Home have passed away over the past seven days.\n\n\"Our condolences are with their families and we are providing them with our ongoing support during this difficult time.\n\n\"The passing of a loved one is always traumatic irrespective of the circumstances.\n\n\"Within the home the focus of the team continues to be the ongoing care and protection of all our residents and our colleagues, two of whom are currently being treated for coronavirus.\"\n\nShe said strict protocols on infectious diseases were in place, including social distancing, and staff were \"closely monitoring\" the health of other residents and workers.\n\n\"In these exceptional circumstances we are sincerely grateful for the dedication of our colleagues and can assure our residents and their families that we are putting all our resources and energy into supporting and protecting everyone in our homes,\" she added.\n\nHand-drawn pictures of rainbows are in the windows of the care home\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with the families and friends of those affected as well as the staff and wider community.\n\n\"These are unprecedented times and our social care sector is working under very challenging circumstances to care for people during the pandemic.\n\n\"The social care sector plays a vital role in supporting people to live well in their homes or in a homely setting and we will do everything we can to support the sector to provide people with the support they need.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Nicola Sturgeon said her thoughts were with the care home residents and the families of those who have died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRev Muriel Pearson, minister of Cranhill Parish Church, has said her congregation will be \"desperately shocked and saddened\" by the deaths.\n\nShe said members have been visiting residents of Burlington Care Home since it was built.\n\n\"We are all thinking of the staff and residents of one of the best care homes where the staff are great and treat the residents like family,\" she added.\n\n\"In days to come we will be able to mourn together and to celebrate the sacrificial caring offered by social care staff and medical staff.\"\n\nThe Care Inspectorate have been made aware of the deaths and are in contact with the care service, as well as the local health and social care partnership.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the tragic death of residents at this care home as a result of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the loved ones of those affected as well as the the staff and wider community of the home.\n\n\"All of Scotland's social care sector is working under very difficult circumstances to care for people during the pandemic and the Care Inspectorate is doing all it can to support them.\"", "Virginia Crosbie, MP for Ynys Môn, spent some time with North Wales Police today.\n\nShe told BBC Wales: \"People are worried about other people coming on to the island and I have seen this on social media, so I thought I would take a look at it myself.\n\n\"So there was a big police presence today, loads of vans and pulling absolutely everybody over.\n\n\"I was really, really pleased that only a handful of people came along - one man had wanted to see a friend but really most are staying at home...\n\n\"Most people are staying in and doing the right thing - it really is a minority - yes there are people who are here on holiday but most people are obeying the rules.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe winner of the three-month contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader will be announced on Saturday.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is the favourite to be elected in a ballot of party members, trade unionists and other supporters.\n\nThe ex-director of public prosecutions, who became an MP in 2015, is up against fellow shadow cabinet member Rebecca Long-Bailey and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy.\n\nThe party will also choose a new deputy leader, with education spokeswoman Angela Rayner seen as the frontrunner.\n\nThe results of both elections are due to be announced at 10.45 BST.\n\nMembers will learn the outcome via e-mail and the media after a planned special conference to unveil the winner was cancelled due the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe candidates for leader have each been asked to record victory speeches, one of which will be released alongside details of how many votes each candidate received.\n\nThe process of choosing a new leader began in December after Labour lost its fourth general election in a row.\n\nAll three candidates have said the party must put the divisions of recent years behind it\n\nMr Corbyn said he would stand down after the party secured its lowest number of seats since 1935.\n\nSix candidates initially entered the contest but Clive Lewis, Jess Phillips and Emily Thornberry either dropped out or were eliminated before the final ballot got underway on 24 February.\n\nSir Keir, who served in Mr Corbyn's top team for more than three years as shadow Brexit secretary, emerged early on as the frontrunner after securing the most backing from MPs and local Labour branches.\n\nThe lawyer, who led the Crown Prosecution Service before entering politics, argued that he was best equipped to unite different wings of the party after years of internal infighting.\n\nAll the candidates have said rooting out anti-Semitism in the party and reconnecting with \"left-behind\" voters in traditional heartlands, who backed Brexit, must be a priority if Labour is to rebuild trust and map a path back to power.\n\nAmong those eligible to cast their votes in the leadership and deputy leadership ballots were 114,000 new members who joined since the election.\n\nMembers of affiliated trades unions and other affiliated groups were also able to take part, as well as about 14,700 \"registered supporters\" who paid £25 to take part on a one-off basis.\n\nBoth ballots used a preferential system, with members ranking the candidates in order of preference.\n\nIf one candidate fails to get more than half the first preference votes, the second preference votes of the lowest-ranked candidate will be redistributed until the contest produced a winner.\n\nThe other candidates vying to become deputy leader are shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray, Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritish boxer Anthony Yarde has announced his grandmother has died from coronavirus.\n\nShe is the second member of his family to die as a result of the pandemic, following his father’s death last Friday.\n\nThe 28-year-old appealed to people to “just stay home” as he said his grandmother had died on Thursday.\n\n“My dad and his mother have passed just days apart,” the light-heavyweight fighter wrote on social media.\n\n“It’s serious! People are still going out when they don’t need to. I know there’s a lot of opinions about Covid-19 and I have mine but I just know opinions ain’t worth risking your life and others. Just stay home.”\n\nThe latest Government figures on Friday showed a further 684 people in the UK have died from coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,605. There are 38,168 confirmed cases.\n\nYarde said his father had been “fit with no health issues”.\n\nHis promoter Frank Warren wrote on Twitter: “We are extremely sad to learn that Anthony Yarde has now lost his nan to the coronavirus.\n\n“We can’t begin to imagine what Anthony and his family are going through and our sincere condolences go out to them.\n\n“Please listen to his heartfelt personal plea, stay at home to save lives.”\n\nYarde’s next fight was set to be against fellow Briton Lyndon Arthur on 11 April, but the event has been delayed until 11 July because of the pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The new Labour leader recorded a video where he spoke of the \"honour\" of the post and the effect of coronavirus\n\nSir Keir Starmer has vowed to lead Labour \"into a new era with confidence and hope\" after decisively winning the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe 57-year old defeated Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey in a ballot of party members and other supporters.\n\nThe lawyer, who became an MP in 2015, won on the first round of voting, with more than 50% of ballots cast.\n\nAfter his victory, Sir Keir spoke to PM Boris Johnson and agreed to meet next week to discuss the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn a video message released by the Labour Party, Sir Keir promised to work constructively in opposition and said he hoped Labour \"when the time comes can serve our country again - in government\".\n\nAnd he apologised for the \"stain\" of anti-Semitism that has tainted Labour in recent years. He pledged to \"tear out this poison by its roots\" and said his success would be judged on whether former Jewish members return to Labour.\n\nThe full results of the leadership contest were:\n\nJust over 490,000 people voted, out of the 784,151 eligible to take part in the three-month contest triggered by Mr Corbyn's decision to step down after Labour's heavy defeat in last year's general election.\n\nSir Keir won a majority in every section of Labour's selectorate, including 78% of the 13,000 registered supporters who paid a one-off £25 fee to take part.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner has been elected deputy leader, replacing Tom Watson, who stood down as an MP before the election. She defeated four other candidates but the contest was much closer, going to a third round of voting.\n\nThe 40-year old Ms Rayner beat Rosena Allin-Khan and Richard Burgon in a third round of voting, after fellow MPs Ian Murray and Dawn Butler had earlier been eliminated.\n\nSaturday's result was announced by e-mail after plans for a public event were dropped due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir has described himself as a socialist but not a Corbynite, and vowed to keep key policies from the Corbyn era, such as nationalising rail, mail and water and repealing anti-union laws, in a 10-point plan.\n\nThe MP for Holborn and St Pancras, in London, had been the odds-on favourite to win the contest, having received the backing of more MPs and local Labour branches than his rivals as well as significant union support.\n\nHe led the Crown Prosecution Service before entering frontline politics. He served in Mr Corbyn's top team for more than three years where he was responsible for the party's Brexit policy.\n\nHis two rivals paid tribute to him, Mrs Long-Bailey saying he would be make \"brilliant prime minister\" and she \"would do all she could to make that a reality\".\n\nMs Nandy said she was proud of her campaign and offered Labour's new leader her \"full support in the challenges that lie ahead\". \"Our country is crying out for fresh leadership. We start today.\"\n\nSir Keir's first task will be to lead Labour's response to the coronavirus emergency, and he has accepted an invitation to take part in cross-party talks with the prime minister and the government's top scientific advisers next week, to \"work together\" on the crisis.\n\nHe has already spoken to England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, about the current situation.\n\nSir Keir said he had been elected \"at a moment like no other\" and promised to work \"constructively\" with the government to confront the pandemic and not engage in \"opposition for opposition's sake\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer supporter David Lammy says his election win is “good news for the country”\n\nBut he added: \"We will shine a torch on critical issues and where we see mistakes or faltering government or things not happening as quickly as they should we'll challenge that and call that out.\n\n\"Our purpose when we do that is the same as the government's, to save lives and to protect our country.\"\n\nMr Corbyn congratulated his successor and said he looked forward to working with him to \"elect the next Labour government and transform our country\".\n\nOther prominent Labour figures have welcomed Sir Keir's decisive victory, with former leader Ed Miliband saying \"his decency, values and intelligence are what our country needs at this time of crisis\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy, who backed Sir Keir's candidacy, said he was \"ecstatic\" about the outcome.\n\nOutgoing shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who backed Ms Long-Bailey, urged the party to \"unite now as a movement to achieve our socialist aim\".\n\nSir Keir received an early boost after his supporters won effective control of Labour's National Executive Committee, the party's ruling body, following a series of separate elections.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Sir Keir's team had not been expecting a clean sweep and it would make it much easier for him to run the party and make any changes he wanted.", "Mr Johnson last attended the government's daily briefing on 26 March\n\nBoris Johnson's return to work on Monday after more than three weeks out of action will be a \"boost for the country\", his deputy has said.\n\nThe PM has arrived in Downing Street to resume full-time duties after a fortnight recovering from coronavirus.\n\nHe will chair the morning meeting of the government's coronavirus \"war cabinet\" on Monday.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been standing in for him during his absence, said he was \"raring to go\".\n\nThe PM spent a week in hospital, including three nights in intensive care, after being admitted on 5 April.\n\nDuring his hospitalisation, he received regular oxygen treatment to help his breathing.\n\nAfter he was discharged on 12 April, Mr Johnson suggested his condition \"could have gone either way\" and praised the staff at St Thomas' Hospital in central London who looked after him.\n\nHe has not been doing any official government work during his convalescence at Chequers, on medical advice.\n\nBut last week he spoke to the Queen and US President Donald Trump and also met senior ministers, including Mr Raab and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to discuss the next stage of the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nIt is unclear at this stage whether he will lead Monday's press briefing - which has not fronted for a month.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it was good to have the prime minister back and his return would be a \"boost for the government and a boost for the country\".\n\nIt has been a \"difficult time\", acknowledged Dominic Raab of the period he's spent deputising for the PM.\n\nThe government has been without its leader through much of this tumultuous time but Boris Johnson is now well enough to be back in charge as the next major decision looms - where the lockdown goes from here.\n\nRemember, by law, the measures have to be \"reviewed\" every three weeks.\n\nThe PM returns to intense debate within government, within his party and among opposition MPs about the impact of the lockdown and what combination of measures will come to replace the blunt instrument of asking us all to stay at home.\n\nEveryone is mindful of rushing to relax restrictions in case the virus starts to spread rapidly and widely again - and Boris Johnson has his own recent experience of being struck down too.\n\nBut there are growing concerns about the profound effect on the economy and all of our lives - as well as what needs to be in place before restrictions can be eased.\n\nThe government's message is clear, that things won't snap back to how they were before - but the prime minister will ultimately be the one to make the decision about where the new balance lies.\n\nThe foreign secretary, who as first secretary of state is the second most senior member of the cabinet, praised other ministers and civil servants for \"stepping up to the plate\" during the PM's absence.\n\nAsked whether he had enjoyed the experience of temporarily running the country, he said this \"did not do justice\" to the task he had been faced with and his thoughts throughout had been with Mr Johnson and his family, \"particularly when we knew it was touch and go\".\n\nOn Saturday, the number of recorded UK hospital deaths of people with the virus exceeded 20,000. These figures, the fifth highest in the world, do not include deaths in care homes and in the community.\n\nCritics say Mr Johnson was far too slow to respond once the threat to the UK became clear, with the Liberal Democrats calling for a public inquiry into the \"appalling\" fatality rate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab on PPE: \"We're doing everything we can amid an international supply shortage\"\n\nMr Raab said the figures were a \"grim milestone\" but defended the UK's handling of the crisis, saying the death toll would have been higher if ministers had not followed scientific advice and made key decisions at the right time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves: \"Businesses, schools and other organisations need time to plan if they are to reopen\"\n\nWhile the UK was \"not in the place\" it wanted to be in terms of supplies of protective kit to NHS workers, he insisted it was doing all it could and the UK was the \"international buyer of choice\" amid a global shortage.\n\nOpposition parties have wished Mr Johnson well on his return but said he urgently needs to give more detail about his approach to easing aspects of the current lockdown next month, if it is deemed safe to do so.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said the UK should \"potentially\" be following the example of countries like Belgium, Germany and Denmark which have already signalled partial re-opening of some businesses and schools.\n\n\"We want to work with the government in bringing forward a plan and getting it right,\" she told Andrew Marr.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge show, the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham suggested businesses, including shops, should only be allowed to open if they followed strict social distancing rules.\n\nThe ex-Labour minister said such a \"standards-based\" approach could be enforced by the Health and Safety Executive and would be fairer than favouring different sectors of the economy or parts of the country.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nChelsea Flower Show will be held virtually for the first time after it was cancelled due to coronavirus.\n\nThe famous event has taken place at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea every year since 1913, apart from gaps during World War One and World War Two.\n\nIt was called off in March due to lockdown but the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) will host free content including garden tours on its website.\n\nThe charity said it hoped it would \"inspire more people to get growing\".\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nEvery morning of the virtual event between 18 and 23 May, a leading designer, florist or gardening personality will provide a tour of their own private gardens.\n\nDaily \"school gardening clubs\" will take place to provide activities for families to garden together, while \"potting bench\" demonstrations will show techniques for growing and maintaining plants.\n\nThe Royal Family also traditionally visit the show\n\nLunchtimes will see RHS advisers being joined by a special guest for an interactive Q&A session, while a special series of programmes celebrating the show will be broadcast on BBC One and Two throughout the week.\n\nUK growers who would have been at the event will also provide behind-the-scenes tours of their nurseries and some will replicate the displays they would have had in the Great Pavilion.\n\nThe charity's director general, Sue Biggs, said: \"We really hope the virtual show will help fill the gap caused by the sad but necessary cancellation of this year's show.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With the country in lockdown, friends Jordan Hooper, Jaymz Goodman and Elijah Woakes were missing going to their favourite nightclub in Birmingham.\n\nIn order to entertain themselves at home they decided to recreate it in Minecraft.\n\nAfter posting pictures of their creation on social media they were overwhelmed with the response.\n\nSo, they decided to host their very own virtual night out on Minecraft, asking players to join their server for a small donation to charity.\n\nSnobs nightclub in Birmingham matched the donations and the boys raised more than £2,000 for NHS Charities Together.", "A former Commonwealth Games athlete is unable to access a potentially life-saving drug due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSarah Wright, 33, was in the British Shooting team when in 2018 she found out in the same week that she had breast cancer and was pregnant.\n\nAfter many unsuccessful treatments she was accepted on to a new trial in San Francisco, in the US, during lockdown.\n\nBut since March, Britons have been banned from travelling to the country.\n\nMrs Wright's husband, Adam, said: \"We have the money, but can't get into the country.\"\n\nAfter enduring chemotherapy throughout her pregnancy, in 2019 she gave birth to a health baby girl, Everleigh.\n\nSix weeks after she was born, Mrs Wright was told her surgery and treatment were unsuccessful and the cancer had spread to her liver and lungs.\n\nMr Wright said: \"It was horrendous.\n\n\"We went from thinking she'd beaten it, to feeling like she was being read her last rites.\"\n\nEight months on, she has exhausted all treatments available through the NHS, including a clinical trial at Maidstone hospital.\n\nSarah Gray (maiden name) competing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow\n\nEarly results from a new US drug indicates it is effective in fighting tumour cells in a short amount of time.\n\nMrs Wright was accepted on the trial earlier this month after a biopsy showed she has a high chance of it being effective.\n\nMr Wright, 35, said his wife has the full support of her oncologist, however President Donald Trump banned Britons from travelling to the US as part of a coronavirus lockdown in March.\n\nHe said: \"We need to get passage to USA for the clinical trial, or obtain Leronlimab in the UK. But given it is not approved yet the red tape of this makes it very unlikely.\n\nSarah with Adam Wright, before she became ill\n\n\"Going to San Francisco is the only chance Sarah has for more months or years to spend as a family and see our little girl grow up.\n\n\"She's always been so strong and independent, but she's not the mum she wants to be and it's heartbreaking.\n\n\"Rounds and rounds of horrific chemo have left her too weak to even hold Everleigh now.\n\n\"Sarah is not getting better, and we don't know how long she has left.\"\n\nThe treatment is manufactured by Cytodyn, which have been contacted for a comment.\n\nThe trial involves blood tests taken in San Francisco, before eight-weeks worth of injections are given to participants to administer themselves.\n\nThe Wrights would only need to be in the US for a couple of days before returning home.\n\nSarah and Adam Wright shortly after Everleigh was born\n\nAshford MP Damian Green is involved in their case, and has made contact with the American Embassy to see if any exceptions can be made to allow Sarah to travel.\n\nHe said: \"If there's any situation where you might offer a relaxation, it would be this.\"\n\nA spokesman for British Shooting said the news was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHe added: \"At any other time, this would be something the Wright family could arrange without an issue, but 2020 is not like any other year.\"", "Officials in Guayaquil, Ecuador say the hospital was in chaos because of the coronavirus outbreak\n\nA 74-year-old Ecuadorean woman who was declared dead from the coronavirus has been found alive, in a case of mistaken identity.\n\nThe family of Alba Maruri were informed of her death last month and later sent what they were told were her ashes.\n\nBut Ms Maruri awoke from a three-week coma in hospital on Thursday and asked doctors to call her sister.\n\nHer family were overjoyed at the news - but are unclear whose ashes they have in their home.\n\nThe hospital has apologised for the mix-up. Ms Maruri lives in the city of Guayaquil, the epicentre of Ecuador's Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LaHistoria This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEcuador has been badly affected by the pandemic, with more than 22,000 cases and nearly 600 reported deaths.\n\nAccording to local newspaper El Comercio, Ms Maruri was admitted to hospital last month with a high fever and breathing difficulties.\n\nOn 27 March her family were told she had died. They were shown a corpse in the hospital morgue, but had to be kept at a distance because of the fear of contagion.\n\nMs Maruri's nephew, Jaime Morla, told hospital officials he thought it was his aunt.\n\n\"I was afraid to see her face,\" he told AFP. \"I was a metre and a half away. She had the same hair, the same skin tone.\"\n\nThe body was taken away and cremated, and the ashes sent to the family.\n\nBut then on Thursday, Ms Maruri regained consciousness and told the astonished doctors her name. She provided them with her home phone number and asked for her sister, Aura, to pick her up.\n\nA team from the hospital visited the family home to apologise, El Comercio reported, and said the hospital had been in chaos at the time because of the number of coronavirus cases and deaths.\n\n\"It is a miracle. For nearly a month we thought she was dead. Imagine,\" said Aura. \"And I have someone else's ashes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many families in Ecuador's port city are waiting to bury their loved ones\n\nThe family say they want authorities to compensate them for the mix-up and to reimburse the cost of the cremation.\n\nMs Maruri has also been bought a new mattress as her family had thrown her old one away.", "Per Olov Enquist at his home in Stockholm in 2011\n\nOne of Sweden's best-known authors, Per Olov Enquist, has died aged 85.\n\nHis career spanned more than half a century, and his work won acclaim not just in his native country but across Europe, especially France and Germany.\n\nEnquist's plays and novels - described as pessimistic in their outlook - often deal with questions of truth, and the blurred lines between fact and fiction.\n\nThe film Pelle the Conqueror, whose screenplay he helped write, won an Oscar for best foreign-language film.\n\nBorn in 1934 in northern Sweden, he penned more than 20 novels, plays and essays which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and won a number of awards at home and abroad.\n\nThe Visit of the Royal Physician - which won Sweden's top literary honour in 1999, the August Prize - earned him broad international acclaim. It tells the story of a romance between the physician of the mad Danish King Christian VII and the queen, youngest sister of George III of England.\n\nEnquist won a second August award for his autobiography A Different Life in 2008. He died on Saturday.", "John Adamson has had a beard since he was first able to grow one as a teenager.\n\nA member of Edinburgh Beard and Moustache Club, it had always been a strong part of his identity.\n\nSo the 29-year-old was \"devastated\" when the need to wear a face mask for his job as a care assistant meant it was curtains for his facial hair.\n\nJohn explained: \"The mask was pressing on my face so tightly that it pushed the hair up my nose and into my mouth.\n\n\"The hair was sticking outside the mask, but it was also going inside.\n\n\"I was struggling to breathe... it was a real hazard.\"\n\nHe tried buying several different types of face masks to see if any others would provide a solution.\n\n\"I tried everything to keep the beard as it is very important to me. Many folk have tried and failed to get me to shave it off,\" said John.\n\nBut eventually he ran out of options and was forced to shave off his beard.\n\nHe said: \"I go into the homes of vulnerable people, so I need to wear a mask for my job.\n\n\"I had to make the decision to swallow my pride and shave it off.\n\n\"At first I got my clippers and started shaving the sides as I was trying to see if I could keep some of it.\n\n\"But in the end I had to take the whole thing off. It was devastating because it's like an arm or a leg to me.\"\n\nJohn said his wife of 10 years had never seen his chin before he shaved.\n\n\"I just can't get used to it and I don't like how I look now,\" he added.\n\n\"In fact, I would be more comfortable having no clothes on than having a naked chin.\n\n\"I did it for a really good reason, but I don't like it at all.\"\n\nJohn, from Gifford in East Lothian, estimated that his beard would take at least three months to grow back.\n\nHe said: \"I'm now having to shave twice a day because the hair grows so quickly.\n\n\"Once this is all over I'm growing it back.\"", "Chile has confirmed more than 13,000 cases of Covid-19\n\nChile's government has said it will go ahead with a controversial plan to issue certificates to people who have recovered from Covid-19.\n\nThe documents would be given to people to allow them to return to work, Deputy Health Minister Paula Daza said.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is \"no evidence\" that people who contract coronavirus are immune from being infected again.\n\nIt said certificates could inspire false confidence and help it spread.\n\nChile has reported 189 virus-related deaths and more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\n\"There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection,\" the WHO said in a briefing note on Friday.\n\nThe body argued that so-called \"immunity certificates\" could even be harmful, because they could lead people to ignore public health advice and therefore increase the risk of transmitting the disease.\n\nBut Ms Daza told reporters on Sunday: \"One of the things that we know is that a person who has had the illness has a lower probability of becoming ill again.\"\n\nShe added that the certificates would not confirm that people had immunity to Covid-19, but rather state that they had recovered from the disease and had completed a period of isolation.\n\nAt least 200,000 people have died with the coronavirus across the world, and many governments are now trying to find ways to ease their lockdown restrictions.", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "Sunday was supposed to be the culmination of more than a million training miles and the collection of many millions more for good causes around the country and world.\n\nFor some, despite the London Marathon’s postponement until October, it still will be.\n\nThe 2.6 Challenge, which aims to raise money for charity during the lockdown, begins on Sunday with people all around the country dreaming up creative activities to inspire donations and sponsorship. Here are some of the stories so far…\n\nEleanor Davis was supposed to be on the startline of the elite race in South-East London on Sunday.\n\nShe will still be pulling on her trainers, but instead it will be to run into one of Stockport’s covid wards where she works as a doctor.\n\nShe is part of a 12-strong team of some of Britain’s top women’s marathon runners who will each run 2.6 miles as part of a relay.\n\nAlso involved are Jess Piasecki, the fastest British woman in 2019, Jo Pavey, a World and European medallist and Hayley Carruthers, who crawled over the line to a new personal best and viral fame in the 2019 race.\n\nDavis usually works part-time so that she can combine her medical career with her sporting one, but has been working extra shifts since the coronavirus pandemic extended to the UK. Although she has been covering longer distances at a slower pace over the past few weeks, the incentive of another virtual challenge inspired her to a new 5km personal best last week.\n\nShe and her team-mates will be raising funds for mental health charity Mind.\n\nOn the men’s side Dewi Griffiths, who missed last year's World Championships through illness, will be aiming to do two laps of his regular 5.5 mile training loop, clocking under 26 minutes for each. He will be raising money for Air Ambulance Wales.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson won the London Marathon wheelchair race six times, in addition to 16 Paralympic medals, during her career.\n\nThis will be the first time that she has not spent a spring day in the capital in 30 years of competing and commentating at the London Marathon.\n\nShe will be doing 10.3km - \"a marathon is a bit beyond me these days!' - on the roads near to her house as she shares the full marathon distance with two colleagues from ukactive, a non-profit organisation promoting fitness for all that she chairs, who are raising money for the Trussell Trust, which supports food banks.\n\nHer kit will be different to that used during her racing days.\n\n\"I don't think I can vaguely fit my bottom in that anymore!\" she told BBC Sport when asked if she would be dusting off her old race chair.\n\n\"It was built for me when I weighed 45kgs and the diameter across the top was only nine inches. So I will be doing it in my day chair, which is fine. Ish!\n\n\"I still do lots of physical activity, just not in that race chair. My old wizened shoulders mean I use a hand bike, go to the gym and do lots of stretchy band work.\"\n\nShe and her colleagues are completing a total of five backyard marathons between them.\n\nFor some, even the 26.2 is not enough.\n\nKate Jayden, a 33-year-old compliance officer and endurance athlete, was supposed to be doing the London Marathon as her first race of 2020.\n\nThe race’s postponement has meant she has ended up doing more rather than less however.\n\nAs you read this, her challenge has already begun with a 26.2-hour indoor cycle ride in her living room. She will climb off the bike at 02:20 BST on Sunday morning, before moving just a few yards to climb aboard a treadmill and begin a 26.2-mile run at 09:00 BST.\n\n“I’m known for doing crazy challenges but this one is a little crazy even by my standards,” said Jayden.\n\n“The mental strength for this will be the real test on a treadmill and in the same place in the same room for so long.”\n\nShe will have some virtual company for the running leg of her challenge with friend Jenna Maudlin, in lockdown several hundred miles north in Scotland, completing 26.2 miles via more than 2,000 laps of a 20-metre course around the car park at her block of flats.\n\nShe will be doing each mile in a different way, for example dressed as a dinosaur, side-stepping or galloping like a horse, after suggestions from her friends and sponsors.\n\nMaudlin, who has previously cycled from Lands End to John O’Groats and ran 17 marathons in 2017, hopes her variety of styles can compensate for the monotony of the course.\n\n“One of the things I loved about those previous events, was seeing new things and new places and it helped with motivation, so running over 2,000 times round a car park is mentally going to be very tough!” she told BBC Sport.\n\nJayden is raising money for Trussell Trust and Mind, while Maudlin is running for Age UK, Mind and Save the Children.\n\nDr Adam Revill fell ill with coronavirus on 29 March. A consultant in the intensive care unit at Torbay Hospital, it would have wrecked his plans to run under three hours at the Manchester Marathon had the race not been postponed because of the outbreak.\n\nThankfully his symptoms were relatively mild and he is back on the wards and back in his kit for a back-garden marathon, taking on his sister who is doing the same in her own garden in the Midlands.\n\n\"I think those 260 laps are going to be the hardest thing I have done,\" he told BBC Sport. \"Lots of turning corners, lots of ups and downs. I am aiming for four hours if we can. And to beat my sister if I can!\n\n\"It won't be the slowest marathon I have done though. I ran the Medoc Marathon in Bordeaux where the chateaus open up and crack open the good stuff for you. There is a six-and-a-half hour limit and we pushed it to the limit!\"\n\nCheered on by daughters Ava and Matilda, he is raising money for the Rowcroft Hospice.\n\n\"It costs about £8m to run their hospice, 75% of which comes from the community,\" he said. \"But because of the lockdown they are not raising any money from the shops or events like the London Marathon. It is an excellent cause.\"\n\nDavid Smith is a veteran of the back-garden marathons. He has already completed ‘Brighton’ and ‘Manchester’ this month in his garden in Chesterfield – a total of just over 500 laps on each occasion, punctuated by a break for bacon sandwiches from the kitchen halfway through.\n\nOn each occasion he brings some local flavour to the course by recreating local landmarks and his well-worn Scooby Doo fancy dress.\n\n“We have a bicycle wheel for the London Eye and a wheelie bin representing Canary Wharf,” he told BBC Sport.\n\n“Scooby Doo is the same age of me – 50 years old – and is still on TV today. Everyone recognises and connects with him. I have about three different Scooby Doo outfits – a warmer one for winter, a lightweight one for spring and then a summer one.”\n\nBefore lockdown came into force, Smith claimed several marathon world records to his name, including the fastest controlling a tennis ball (four hours 13 minutes) and the fastest wearing bike leathers (four hours), set in the heat of the London race of 2018.\n\nAll his efforts are to raise money for Sands, the stillborn and neonatal death charity.\n\nWhen not running, Smith works as a pharmacist, seeing first hand the stress and strain that coronavirus has brought to some of the most vulnerable in society.\n\n“We have been extremely busy. There are a lot of people out there who are quite frightened, not only dispensing prescription, but advising people and delivering medication to the vulnerable. I have been very proud of my team, who have been coming in and working extra hours to help.”\n\nThe 2.6 Challenge is being supported by a host of stars from stage, screen and sport including singer Ellie Goulding, actor Stephen Fry, Rugby World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson, Wales and Real Madrid footballer Gareth Bale, British tennis number one Johanna Konta, Tour de France winner Chris Froome and a team of 26 Olympians creating a 26-minute workout video with a succession of 60-second cameos.\n\nThe BBC Sport website will run a live text commentary page from 10:00 BST on Sunday to feature the best of the 2.6 Challenge's opening day, and would love to feature your activity. Send us a picture and tell us why you're doing it to #bbcathletics on Twitter.", "NHS bosses say it is a \"good thing\" that the Nightingale hospital has received no patients\n\nBirmingham's Nightingale hospital is \"not being used at all\" 10 days after it was opened by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nSet up inside the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the site is intended to take up to 500 coronavirus patients at a time from 23 Midlands hospitals.\n\nThe chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said it was a \"good thing\" the hospital had not received patients.\n\nIt showed the NHS had \"absorbed\" the extra pressure Dr David Rosser said.\n\nPrince William officially opened the NHS Nightingale hospital in Birmingham on 16 April\n\n\"It was never going to be a great thing to have to open this extra capacity because it didn't come with new staff,\" he said. \"And of course the more beds you open the more you need to stretch.\"\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham, which runs the temporary hospital, is the biggest NHS trust in England and last week had recorded more deaths than any other in the country.\n\nThere are now more than 148,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK and more than 20,000 people with the virus have now died in hospitals.\n\nAlong with London, the Midlands has seen the highest number of deaths linked to coronavirus.\n\nThe temporary field hospital has an initial capacity of 500 which can be scaled up to 1,500\n\nUnlike the ExCel in London, Birmingham's Nightingale hospital was always devised as a step-down facility, so it would accept patients who had recovered sufficiently from coronavirus or who were not suitable for ventilation.\n\nFortunately, although the number of coronavirus cases have been significant, social isolating is working and the NEC has not been required for this purpose.\n\nTrusts who have also had up to 20% of their staff off self-isolating or sick have not wanted to second employees to the new facility because their rotas are already stressed.\n\nThe Birmingham Nightingale is expected to be in use for 12-18 months and may be called upon if there is a second greater surge.\n\nMore than 400 civilian contractors, along with military personnel and about 500 clinical staff, were involved in building the temporary field hospital, which took eight days to build.\n\nDr Rosser said the trust was \"hugely proud of getting it up and running but we're also paradoxically proud of the fact that we didn't need to use it\".\n\nHowever, he added that he felt trepidation about about lockdown restrictions being relaxed in case it \"bounced back on the NHS quite quickly\".\n\nDr Rosser said he was \"hugely proud\" at how quickly the hospital was made operational\n\nThe trust noticed an increase in cases a week after reports of people flouting the rules over the Easter weekend, he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab rejected calls for an early easing of the coronavirus lockdown, stressing that the outbreak was still at a \"delicate and dangerous\" stage.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Care homes are facing increasing costs pressures during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nWales could lose half of its care homes within a year unless urgent action is taken, a leading industry figure has said.\n\nCare Forum Wales chair Mario Kreft said many are already taking out loans and considering imminent closure because of rising costs and reduced revenues.\n\nHe said the situation would be exacerbated with coronavirus putting the already fragile sector in jeopardy.\n\nThere are 643 care homes for over-65s in Wales.\n\n\"We have members who are increasing their staffing costs. They're increasing other costs like buying their own PPE,\" Mr Kreft said.\n\n\"And of course we're seeing falling occupancy as people pass and as other homes choose not to admit people, because they're terrified that it's going to introduce the virus into those homes and obviously affect the residents they have.\"\n\nMr Kreft said a typical care home needed to have 90% occupancy to be viable and anything below 85% is not sustainable - but some homes are down 25 to 30% occupancy.\n\nHe added that some had been in touch with Care Forum Wales, which represents 450 homes, about closures this week.\n\n\"We have got people that are seriously talking to their banks, seriously talking within their organisation, whether the best thing and the safest thing for everybody is simply to close the doors,\" he said.\n\n\"We've never, ever encountered anything quite like this in the history of the care sector in Wales, and the UK.\"\n\nMario Kreft believes the sector faces challenges like never before\n\nMr Kreft said there would be more closures \"week on week\" through the summer unless a plan is put in place.\n\nOne south Wales care home for dementia residents, which is part of the Caron Group, said it was losing £10,000 a week as a result of an outbreak, because of the bill for extra resources to fight the virus and a fall in the number of residents.\n\nManaging director Sanjiv Joshi said he was using the reserves of his group of 14 homes to prop it up and was talking to the bank about loans, but he did not think this was a sustainable solution.\n\nGlyn Williams, who runs a 28-bed residential home at Bodedern on Anglesey, has launched an online appeal to raise £33,000 towards the costs, fearing he will have to shut within the month.\n\nCare home owners are setting up funding pages and taking out loans\n\nThe Welsh Government announced £40m to help the adult social care sector get through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"This is ring-fenced and is being provided through the local authority hardship fund. Further details will be available early next week.\"\n\nBut care home owners want it to go straight to the frontline now and a plan devised for the future.\n\n\"There is the promise help but there isn't actual help and we don't know where this help is going to come from and how long it will be sustained for,\" Mr Kreft said.\n\n\"We could possibly lose half of the care homes within a year, because that is the sort of scale of this.\"\n\nA Welsh Local Government Association spokesman said it would work with organisations to support protect vulnerable residents.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders, the Welsh Conservative spokesperson for social care, said: \"If this stark warning comes true, the human impact will be devastating for the residents, their families, and the employees of care homes here in Wales.\"", "Police have urged the public to follow the lockdown rules and stay home\n\nTrying out a new catapult, taking a quad bike for a \"walk\" and buying drugs are just some of the random excuses people have used for breaking coronavirus lockdown guidelines.\n\nForces in Wales have released examples of just some of the reasons people have given for supposed \"essential\" travel.\n\nPolice said most people were following advice to stay home.\n\nHowever they said a \"a small minority had selfishly put others at risk\" and had been fined.\n\nIt is almost five weeks since strict rules were announced to limit the spread of coronavirus which will continue into May.\n\nPolice say the message is now so clear that individuals who are outside for reasons other than those permitted in the guidelines would face \"greater enforcement activity\", including a fixed penalty notice of £60.\n\nAmong the excuses given to Gwent Police officers were:\n\nGwent Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman said: \"We understand this is a difficult time for all people.\n\n\"The vast majority of our communities are adhering to the guidance and we are grateful for the real difference they are making.\n\n\"A small minority are continuing to go against these guidelines.\"\n\nRhyl seafront promenade has largely been deserted during lockdown\n\nWales' three national parks are all closed however North Wales police said it was still turning away day-trippers, walkers and off-road bikers from Snowdonia.\n\nAmong the motorists stopped across north Wales, they had:\n\nThree men from the Wirral were fined after ignoring warnings not to camp near Wrexham\n\nNorth Wales Assistant Chief Constable Nigel Harrison said: \"The main enforcement we are using is the power to direct people home to their home address and where required we will report people so that fixed penalty notices (FPNs) can be issued.\n\n\"As a whole our communities recognise the importance of sticking to government direction so we can all help save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo men and two women from Cardiff were fined after they called to be rescued after getting lost on a Rhondda mountain.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had also been called to:\n\nLabour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth Stephen Doughty blasted \"totally irresponsible\" people for getting stranded on Sully Island in the Vale of Glamorgan during the lockdown.\n\nHe was responding to Penarth Coastguard after it tweeted it had been called out to assist five times in as many weeks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Penarth Coastguard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest and mid Wales usually see a large number of visitors to tourist attractions such as the Pembrokeshire Coast and Brecon Beacons national parks and have a large number of holiday homes and second properties.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has issued 368 FPNs for breaching Covid-19 regulations between 27 March and 14 April.\n\nHowever it had also seen a 35% reduction in crime compared with the same period the previous year.\n\nAmong the reasons given to officers were:\n\n\"Going fishing for crabs in Tenby is not essential travel,\" said Dyfed-Powys Police\n\nChief Constable Mark Collins said: \"Annually we welcome more than 10 million people to our area, and while together with our partners we have said for now, our counties are closed, some people haven't listened to this and have continued to put communities and the NHS at risk.\"\n\nThe force is also among those to have raised concerns that speeding motorists have been travelling at more than double the limit during lockdown.\n\nOfficers said some drivers were taking advantage of the quiet roads and using them as \"racing tracks\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cemeteries across Northern Ireland have begun to reopen following a decision by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nGraveyards were closed to the public in March due to lockdown measures.\n\nOn Friday the executive agreed to reopen cemeteries following calls from the public.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said it was about \"balancing public health concerns with the basic human need to visit a loved one's grave\".\n\nThe legislation was officially changed on Friday night after the executive discussed the matter at a lengthy meeting.\n\nCemeteries are operated by Northern Ireland's 11 councils, which must implement measures to ensure social distancing.\n\nMid-Ulster Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough councils said their cemeteries would open from Saturday morning.\n\nDerry and Strabane District Council said its cemeteries would reopen from Saturday afternoon, with a one-way system and a cap on numbers at Londonderry's City Cemetery.\n\nBelfast City Council said its cemeteries will reopen from Sunday, with Dundonald and Knockbreda operating normal opening hours and Roselawn and the City Cemetery opening initially on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays\n\nA spokeperson for Belfast City Council explained limits were necessary at Roselawn Cemetery, which had the only crematorium in Northern Ireland and therefore served a much larger population and had a higher level of activity on site.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"For this reason, it will still be necessary to have some limits on opening hours in order to safely manage the facility and protect our staff and members of the public, as well as ensuring the integrity of the cremation service going forward.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mrs Foster said the chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, and chief scientific adviser, Prof Ian Young, had advised the executive that the move was \"proportionate and low risk\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the change struck the balance \"between protecting public health and not inflicting further suffering on individuals.\n\n\"There are a number of people in our community who get great reassurance, mental support and strength by visiting a grave and this step now is a proportionate and empathetic response at this time.\"\n\nLast week, a paper had been issued to executive ministers asking them to consider the matter, but the parties could not come to an agreement at that stage.\n\nThe DUP and UUP had backed the move, Alliance and Sinn Féin voiced opposition for fear it could lead to complacency, while the SDLP wanted to take further advice.\n\nHowever, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who is Sinn Féin's vice-president, said she had since \"listened carefully\" to calls from the public over the course of this week.\n\n\"It's a fine line always to listen to people and understand people's concerns and genuine concerns were expressed,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this week a Catholic priest, Bishop Donal McKeown, had asked the executive to give \"some sense of logic\" for the closures\n\nShe said the issue would be kept under review.\n\n\"It will only be permitted where those in charge of burial grounds can ensure we have compliance with the regulations and appropriate social distancing,\" she added.\n\nIn England, the coronavirus legislation was amended last week to allow cemeteries to open again.\n\nMrs Foster maintained that people must still adhere to advice around social distancing and wakes should not take place ahead of funerals.\n\nShe repeated that a maximum of 10 people should attend funerals.\n\n\"I know a lot is being asked of you as you grieve, but we would not be asking you this if it was not to help save lives,\" said the DUP leader.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said while the move to reopen cemeteries was a \"welcome easement\", it was not a broad lifting of the restrictions.\n\n\"People are still dying in our communities, health service staff are still putting themselves at risk to keep us safe,\" said the MP.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the executive's decision, the moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Rev Dr William Henry, said it was a \"sensible and compassionate response\" that would bring comfort to many.\n\nRev Sam McGuffin, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, said he too was \"content that this situation is about to be rectified\".", "Tata Steel needs about £500m of government support to get through the coronavirus pandemic, the MP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock has said.\n\nTata employs 8,385 people in the UK, including about 4,000 people in Port Talbot and 2,800 elsewhere in Wales.\n\nSky News has reported Tata has approached the UK and Welsh governments for the money after many customers halted production during the crisis.\n\nThe company said it was working with both governments to identify support.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We continue to have ongoing discussions with Tata Steel about what support it needs to sustain a strong steel making presence in the UK and in Wales.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The government has put together a far-reaching package of support to help businesses through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to regularly engage with businesses across all sectors, including those in the steel industry.\"\n\nStephen Kinnock said the limit on the UK government's Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) needed to be raised above £50m.\n\n\"The £50m cap on loans that are now available under the government support scheme is only about 10% of what Tata Steel actually needs,\" he said.\n\n\"Tata Steel estimates that it will take around six months to get back to business as usual, or as close as possible to it and the challenge they have is cashflow over that six month period.\n\n\"And the estimation is in the region of £500m.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe raised the matter in the House of Commons on Wednesday.\n\nResponding to him, First Secretary of State Dominic Raab said: \"I know that the chancellor is looking carefully at the steel sector in the hon. gentleman's constituency, and at all those who are not directly benefitting from this particular scheme to ensure that in the round we are providing the measures that we need in a targeted way to support all the different crucial elements of the economy.\"\n\nA Tata Steel spokesman said there been a sudden drop in European steel demand, adding: \"We continue to work with both the UK and Welsh governments to identify what support is available.\"", "Police Scotland said fewer crimes were being committed on the streets and in town and city centres\n\nRecorded crime in Scotland has fallen by about 25% during the coronavirus lockdown, Police Scotland have said.\n\nThe number of serious assaults dropped by about 40% and house break-ins were down 30% compared with the same period last year.\n\nHowever, \"public nuisance\" incidents - generally related to people reporting others for breaking lockdown rules - have more than doubled.\n\nPolice Scotland said they now accounted for about a fifth of all calls.\n\nFraud has also increased by more than 10% between 24 March and 19 April, according to the quarterly figures.\n\nThe force said there was some evidence that criminals were exploiting the coronavirus crisis to commit offences.\n\nNoise incidents have also increased \"significantly\", which officers believe could be related to the increased amount of time people are spending at home.\n\nThere has been a \"slight decrease\" in domestic abuse incidents, but Police Scotland warned this might not reflect what was going on behind closed doors.\n\nThe UK's lockdown measures came into effect on 23 March, restricting people from leaving their homes unless they had a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nThe measures were initially put in place for three weeks, but were extended for \"at least\" another three weeks on 16 April.\n• None 20%of all incidents now reports of lockdown rule-breaking\n\nThe Deputy Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Fiona Taylor, said the \"significant\" changes to life in the UK were having an effect \"on the nature and level of demand on policing\".\n\nShe also warned that the provisional figures covered a relatively short period and cautioned against making assumptions about longer term trends.\n\nMs Taylor said: \"We are seeing, for example, a slight decrease in domestic abuse incidents but are acutely aware this may not reflect what is happening behind closed doors and we know that people don't always report abuse immediately.\n\n\"For some, this period of physical distancing and isolation may expose them to a greater risk of abuse, harm and neglect.\n\n\"We have been using our social media channels to highlight our concern and raise awareness in communities. We want people to feel safe and we want to prevent harm by identifying people who may be at risk, and putting in place measures that will help keep them safe.\"\n\nThe deputy chief constable went on to say that protecting children remained a priority for Police Scotland and there would be no change to the way officers responded to child protection issues.\n\nPolice Scotland's figures also suggest that breach of the peace has fallen by more than 50%, with possession of drugs down by about a fifth.\n\nBut the force believes it could be \"months or years\" before there is a clear picture on how the pandemic and subsequent social distancing measures had affected crime in Scotland.\n\nThe deputy chief constable added: \"These early indications suggest that there are fewer crimes committed on the streets and in our town and city centres because the overwhelming majority of people are stepping forward to do their part to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf welcomed the fall in crime and said he was pleased people were adhering to physical distancing requirements.\n\n\"However we must continue to seek to protect the public and reduce opportunities generated by the current Covid-19 outbreak that some will use to exploit members of the public,\" he added.\n\nHe said there was help available around the clock for people experiencing domestic abuse in their homes. Scotland's 24 hour domestic abuse helpline is on 0800 027 1234 and support is also available online.\n\n\"These are tough times for everyone and ensuring people and communities across Scotland are safe and resilient is vital,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus has led to a \"global slowdown\" in the removal of internet child abuse images, say campaigners.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation says tech firms have fewer staff to delete illegal material, making it easier for sexual predators to view and share.\n\nAlmost 90% fewer suspicious web addresses, or URLs, have been deleted during the pandemic, says the charity.\n\nThe warning comes as the IWF's annual report reveals Europe is the \"hub\" for child sexual abuse photos and videos.\n\nIn 2019, 89% of URLs containing abuse material were found on computer servers based in Europe, compared with 79% in 2018.\n\nServers in the Netherlands, which has a strong technological infrastructure and low costs, hosted the most illegal content discovered by IWF staff - 93,962 URLs, or 71% of the total.\n\n\"We have seen a real and frightening jump in the amount of child sexual abuse material that is being hosted right on our doorstep here in Europe,\" IWF chief executive Susie Hargreaves said.\n\nCountries must adopt a \"zero tolerance\" strategy to the problem by tackling supply and demand, Ms Hargreaves added.\n\n\"While the UK doesn't have this 'hosting' issue, our problem is that many consumers of child sexual abuse live here,\" she pointed out.\n\nShe praised staff at the charity who last year removed 132,676 web pages and newsgroups showing child sexual abuse material, after assessing reports from people across the globe.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how often the team sees this content, they never lose their humanity or fail to be shocked by the level of depravity and cruelty that some, a minority, engage in,\" she said.\n\nThe immediate problem identified by the IWF is that social-distancing and self-isolation rules have cut the number of staff able to flag and respond to reports of illegal content in technology companies, call centres and law enforcement.\n\nAs a result, it is taking longer for child abuse images to be removed.\n\nBetween 16 March and 15 April, 1,498 URLs were deleted compared with 14,947 in the previous four weeks.\n\n\"Hotlines and abuse teams across the globe need to be aware there is a slowdown of this content being removed and to be mindful of doing what they can, within their ability, to get this content taken down,\" the charity said.", "The rate of increase of helpline calls has been growing (Picture posed by model)\n\nCalls to a national domestic abuse helpline rose by 49% and killings doubled weeks after lockdown, a report by MPs has revealed.\n\nFollowing the \"surge\" in violence, the report called for a government strategy on domestic abuse during the pandemic.\n\nMPs also said \"safe spaces\", where victims can seek help, should be rolled out to supermarkets and other shops.\n\nThe Home Office said it was increasing funding to support helplines and online services.\n\nResearchers at the Counting Dead Women Project told MPs 14 women and two children had been killed in the first three weeks of lockdown.\n\nThe figure is the largest number of killings in a three-week period for 11 years and more than double the average rate, they said.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline run by Refuge was 25% above average in the second week of lockdown and 49% higher than normal after three weeks.\n• None 16people killed in first three weeks - highest is 11 years\n• None 49%rise in calls to abuse helpline, compared with average\n• None 35%rise in calls to Men's Advice Line, in first week\n\nMale victims of abuse have also been calling for help in greater numbers, with the Men's Advice Line seeing calls rise 35% in the first week of lockdown.\n\nWithout a comprehensive government strategy to cope with the consequences of this violence, the home affairs select committee said \"we will be dealing with serious consequences for a generation\".\n\nIt said the strategy should include raising awareness, prevention, victim support, housing and a criminal justice response, supported with dedicated funding and ministerial leadership.\n\nMPs have also called for more help to allow victims access support at times when they may be unable to use the phone or ask friends for help.\n\nThat could include expanding the Safe Spaces scheme piloted in pharmacies, where victims can indicate to staff they need help, to other shops such as supermarkets.\n\nStaying home was essential to prevent coronavirus spreading, said Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the committee. But \"for some people home isn't safe\" and \"urgent action\" was needed to protect them.\n\nWhile the government's national public information campaign is welcome, she said it \"needs to go much further\".\n\n\"Things are particularly hard for vulnerable children. We can't abandon them in the middle of this crisis,\" Ms Cooper said.\n\nThe committee said there will also be an \"acute\" need for support when restrictions are eased, as victims may face escalating violence if they try to leave.\n\n\"The emotional, physical and social scars from domestic abuse can last a lifetime,\" said Ms Cooper.\n\nThe report also highlighted a lack of space in refuges, with 64% of requests for a space for victims declined in 2018-19.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said the need for funding had \"never been greater\", with cuts since 2010 having \"decimated\" services while the pandemic has sent demand soaring.\n\n\"All women who need to escape during lockdown and beyond must be assured of a safe place to stay with specialist support,\" she said. This should also apply, she added, to those with people with insecure immigration status who are not allowed to access most government benefits.\n\nSafeguarding Minister Victoria Atkins said that as well as a national awareness-raising campaign, the government was providing additional funding for helplines and online support, and was helping charities access some of the £750m aid announced by the chancellor earlier this month.\n\n\"The government has prioritised those at risk of domestic abuse in this national health emergency,\" she said.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for issues about domestic abuse, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the prime minister is \"raring to go\" as he is due to return to work tomorrow.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr if he had relished standing in during Boris Johnson's treatment for symptoms of coronavirus, Mr Raab said his job had been to \"step up just like the rest of the country\".\n\n\"When your prime minister is stricken with the coronavirus, and particularly when we knew it was touch and go, you're thinking very much personally of him but also the role of leading the government,\" he said.\n\n\"I also think of the country, and the position it's in. And like all of those key workers, like the rest of the country, my job is just to step up to the plate.\"", "Jordan Davidson (left) killed Nicholas Churton (right) with a machete and hammer\n\nA formal written apology will be given to the family of a murdered vulnerable man by the Probation Service.\n\nNicholas Churton, 67, was killed at his home by Jordan Davidson in a machete and hammer attack in 2017.\n\nDavidson was on licence, having been released from jail in December 2016, after serving two and and a half years for burglary and a weapons offence.\n\nThe Probation Service said it will say sorry for failing to manage Mr Davidson's release properly.\n\nDavidson had served half of a three year burglary term and a further 12 months for possession of an offensive weapon while inside.\n\nFollowing his release, he went on to murder retired wine bar owner Nicholas Churton with a machete and hammer in his Wrexham home in March 2017.\n\nThere had been eight incidents in which Davidson came to the attention of police before the attack.\n\nHe also breached his licence conditions on numerous occasions before the murder, but was never sent back to prison.\n\nMr Churton, who lived alone, was found dead in his living room by a friend\n\nHe was eventually caught and jailed in December 2017 after admitting the murder and 12 other offences. He is currently serving a 30-year minimum term.\n\nA Probation Service spokesman said: \"We apologise to the family and friends of Nicholas Churton for the failings in this case.\n\n\"Since his tragic death, we have bought all offender management in Wales back under the supervision of the National Probation Service and are working on improving information sharing with partner agencies.\"\n\nHe added the service would be writing to the family to apologise formally, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n• None Third inquiry into police over murder", "Trade figures have issued new social distancing guidelines for shops to prepare for any easing of the lockdown.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium and Usdaw's advice includes providing hand sanitiser for customers.\n\nHelen Dickinson, the BRC's boss, said: \"The safety and wellbeing of retail colleagues and customers remains the highest priority.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday that \"careful steps\" will be needed when easing the lockdown.\n\nThe industry body and the union issued the advice to non-food retailers, closely based on what is already happening in many food stores. Some suggestions include:\n\nShops that were deemed \"non-essential\" have been shut since the government set out strict new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus on 23 March.\n\nThose allowed to trade under lockdown include supermarkets, pharmacies, newsagents and post offices.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said that \"Non-food retail should only start trading again when expert public health advice agrees.\n\n\"However, we need to be ready and we need to make sure that the proper preparations and measures are put in place.\"\n\nCompanies that had temporarily shut stores are starting to reopen amid lockdown measures, after introducing new social distancing controls.\n\nDIY chain Homebase reopened 20 of its UK stores for a trial period on Saturday, following the lead of its competitor B&Q.\n\nHardware shops were included on the government's list of essential retailers that were allowed to trade under the restrictions and Homebase customers could continue to shop online.\n\nThe boss of UK shoe repair firm Timpson, James Timpson, said on social media that it will reopen 40 of its outlets based in supermarkets, which are classified as essential retailers, next week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Timpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeyond the retail sector, low cost airline Wizz Air has also announced plans to restart some flights from Luton Airport from 1 May, although the Foreign Office is still advising against all but essential journeys.\n\nThe company is introducing what it calls \"enhanced\" health and safety measures. Cabin crew will wear masks and gloves, while passengers will be given sanitising wipes.\n\nWizz Air managing director Owain Jones said that the flights will provide an \"essential service\"\n\nThe airline also said it would introduce distancing measures, but did not give any further details.\n\nSeveral housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey and Vistry have also announced they will return to work in May.\n\nTaylor Wimpey plans to restart work on most of its building sites across England and Wales next month. Its staff will follow new safety guidelines, while subcontractor work will resume afterwards.\n\nVistry - formerly Bovis Homes - announced construction would resume on most of its \"partnership sites\", which are typically affordable housing projects, from Monday.\n\nThe firm added that a \"significant\" number of private housing construction sites would also reopen.", "One minute Tom Brady is being thrown out of a Tampa park, the next the city's mayor is cheerfully apologising and hinting the area could one day be renamed if the quarterback delivers.\n\nIt would appear the 42-year-old's new home city is keen to ensure all parties get off on the right foot.\n\nNo sooner had Brady joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers than he was asked to leave a park in the area during a workout because of the city's coronavirus shutdown.\n\nStill, if you've won the Super Bowl six times and are regarded as one of the greatest of all time (GOAT), people will go out of their way to make you feel at home.\n\nIn a witty letter, the city's major Jane Castor wrote: \"Tom, my apologies for the miscommunication when you arrived - not the best first impression.\n\n\"But given my law enforcement background, I couldn't help but have someone investigate the sighting of a GOAT running wild in one of our beautiful city parks. No harm - no foul and thanks for being a good sport.\"\n\nBrady ended a 20-year spell with the New England Patriots to join Tampa Bay, who have also signed his former team-mate Rob Gronkowski for the 2020 season.\n\nGronkowski, who has openly discussed his love of partying, was also addressed in the letter and politely warned: \"Just remember: 'No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service' is still in effect around here.\"\n\nTampa will host Super Bowl 55 on 7 February 2021, so Castor simply asked the pair: \"So let's gets serious, how can we help you guys win the Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl 55? It is our aim to be the first team to win a Super Bowl in our own back yard. We dream big and set the bar high around here, more importantly, we get things done.\"\n\nAnd Brady, it seems, now has new motivation.\n\nThe four-time most valuable player in the Super Bowl has reportedly sought to trademark the terms TOMPA BAY and TAMPA BRADY in recent weeks.\n\nIt appears, with success, the door may be open for change.\n\nAfter signing off her letter, mayor Castor wrote: \"PS - Tom, it's Tampa Bay. You win us a Super Bowl and we'll discuss Tampa Brady.\"", "Finnbar Cork pictured with his father Tristan, an NHS paramedic\n\nA paramedic who set up a cancer charity in memory of his son has been forced to put some of its activities on hold as he returns full-time to the front line.\n\nFinnbar Cork, from Norfolk, died aged five in 2016 while suffering from a brain tumour, leading parents Tristan and Claire to launch Finnbar's Force.\n\nWhile the charity is carrying on, Mr Cork said some plans would be delayed.\n\n\"I felt I needed to use my skills and experience, where I can best apply them is on the front line,\" he said.\n\nMr Cork, 37, said during the coronavirus crisis the charity - which supports local families of children with cancer - was focusing on handing out emergency grants, totalling about £10,000 so far, and running errands.\n\n\"We've had families come to us in real dire straits, where parents have lost their jobs overnight or been furloughed and things had already been hard for them,\" he said.\n\nClaire, pictured with Tristan, Finnbar and daughter Nell, works as a practice nurse and in a care home\n\nMr Cork works at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's casualty department and on ambulance shifts, but had recently gone part-time to dedicate more time to Finnbar's Force.\n\nGiven the number of deaths among healthcare workers, he said anxiety among staff was \"palpable\", with the uncertainty reminding him of his son's illness.\n\nMr Cork, who lives in Hethersett with wife Claire, a practice nurse who also works at a nursing home, and daughter Nell, seven, said the pandemic had given him a \"dilemma\".\n\n\"The reality is charities are going to get a small percentage of the money they usually do, and this could knock us back by a year or even more,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to improve things for families, but I have spent 20 years in my job and want to be part of the fight.\n\n\"Like a soldier, if a war happens, that's why you did your training.\"\n\nFinnbar was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was five\n\nThe charity's plans to launch dedicated play and family slots for children waiting for chemotherapy, and to employ a specialist liaison worker between families and medics, have been delayed.\n\nIt has also had to cancel some fundraising events.\n\nMr Cork said he worried about the charity's long-term future, but that its low costs and savings meant he had every intention it was \"still going to be there\" for families in need.\n\nHe urged anyone with innovative fundraising ideas to get in touch and turn out at its events later this year.\n\n\"There are lots of important local charities - crucial for people with health problems, disabilities or in poverty - and for lots of people there aren't any other options,\" he said.\n\nFinnbar was treated at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Addenbrooke's in Cambridge\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None The NHS staff living away from their families", "Furloughed workers may be encouraged to work as fruit and vegetable pickers to help farmers fill a labour shortage, the environment secretary has said.\n\nGeorge Eustice told the daily Number 10 coronavirus briefing that only a third of the usual workforce was available.\n\nMany more would be needed in the summer and \"we are working with industry to identify an approach\" to get furloughed employees to help, he said.\n\nMuch of the work would normally be done by seasonal migrant labourers.\n\nAccording to the British Growers Association, 70,000 seasonal staff a year are needed.\n\nHowever farmers say the pandemic has restricted the availability of foreign workers and have complained they cannot recruit enough domestic labour.\n\nEarlier this month special charter flights were arranged to fly in workers from Romania.\n\nMr Eustice did not spell out how furloughed workers would be recruited.\n\nHe said the international food chain is continuing to work well, but added the government was \"acutely aware\" that the British season for soft fruits and salads was about to begin.\n\nMr Eustice estimated only about a third of the migrant labourers who normally work in the UK are in the country - and they arrived before lockdown.\n\n\"We are working with industry to identify an approach that will encourage those millions of furloughed workers in some cases to consider taking a second job, helping get the harvest in in June.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not an issue at the moment since the harvest has barely begun, but we do anticipate that there will be a need to recruit staff for those sectors in the month of June.\"\n\nShadow Environment Secretary Luke Pollard said the government needed to explain what support it could offer those working in the food supply sector, in particular farmers who are worried about their crops rotting in fields due to lack of agricultural labour.\n\nFurloughed staff have the right to seek work elsewhere during the shutdown as long as they have the permission of their main employer and are able to complete any training required of them while stood down.\n\nGuidance published on the government's website says those on furlough who take on new work must be ready to return to their normal job at any time and must complete the relevant paperwork making their situation clear to the tax authority\n\nMr Eustice also told the briefing that food availability is improving, with both staffing levels in supermarkets and online delivery slots increasingly.\n\nMany food retail staff who had been self-isolating through suspected coronavirus have returned to work, he said. \"Absence levels are down from a peak of typically 20% in food businesses three weeks ago, to less than 10% at the end of last week, and, in some cases, individual companies reporting absences as low as 6%.\"\n\nAnd UK supermarkets are adding an extra 300,000 delivery slots, following complaints, especially from vulnerable shoppers, that they were unable to book online slots.\n\nThere were 2.1 million delivery slots at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, a figure that increased to 2.6 million as demand soared.\n\nMr Eustice confirmed it is now increasing to 2.9 million, although he admitted this may still not be enough to meet demand.", "Rangers say they will produce \"our evidence at the appropriate time\" after calling for an independent inquiry into the Scottish Professional Football League's handling of an early end to the season.\n\nHearts, who also want a general meeting of all clubs to consider the circumstances, and Ross County today called on the Ibrox club to reveal details they say came from a \"whistleblower\".\n\nAn investigation by auditor Deloitte concluded there was \"no evidence of impropriety\" in the vote that led to the Championship, League One and League Two being ended early, with the Premiership likely to follow.\n\nBut Rangers say: \"It is vital that those involved in making those decisions have the confidence and support of member clubs. An independent investigation provides a route to achieving this.\n\n\"The evidence will be provided to all member clubs well in advance of a general meeting to approve an independent investigation.\"", "The report was commissioned by GCHQ and had access to much of the intelligence community\n\nUK spies will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter a range of threats, an intelligence report says.\n\nAdversaries are likely to use the technology for attacks in cyberspace and on the political system, and AI will be needed to detect and stop them.\n\nBut AI is unlikely to predict who might be about to be involved in serious crimes, such as terrorism - and will not replace human judgement, it says.\n\nThe report is based on unprecedented access to British intelligence.\n\nThe Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think tank also argues that the use of AI could give rise to new privacy and human-rights considerations, which will require new guidance.\n\nThe UK's adversaries \"will undoubtedly seek to use AI to attack the UK\", Rusi says in the report - and this may include not just states, but also criminals.\n\nThe future threats could include using AI to develop deep fakes - where a computer can learn to generate convincing faked video of a real person - in order to manipulate public opinion and elections.\n\nIt might also be used to mutate malware for cyber-attacks, making it harder for normal systems to detect - or even to repurpose and control drones to carry out attacks.\n\nIn these cases, AI will be needed to counter AI, the report argues.\n\n\"Adoption of AI is not just important to help intelligence agencies manage the technical challenge of information overload. It is highly likely that malicious actors will use AI to attack the UK in numerous ways, and the intelligence community will need to develop new AI-based defence measures,\" argues Alexander Babuta, one of the authors.\n\nThe independent report was commissioned by the UK's GCHQ security service, and had access to much of the country's intelligence community.\n\nAll three of the UK's intelligence agencies have made the use of technology and data a priority for the future - and the new head of MI5, Ken McCallum, who takes over this week, has said one of his priorities will be to make greater use of technology, including machine learning.\n\nHowever, the authors believe that AI will be of only \"limited value\" in \"predictive intelligence\" in fields such as counter-terrorism.\n\nThe 2002 Tom Cruise film predicts a world in which crime can be predicted\n\nThe often-cited fictional reference is the film Minority Report where technology is used to predict those on the path to commit a crime before they have carried it out.\n\nBut the report argues this is less likely to be viable in real-life national security situations.\n\nActs such as terrorism are too infrequent to provide sufficiently large historical datasets to look for patterns - they happen far less often than other criminal acts, such as burglary.\n\nEven within that data set, the background and ideologies of the perpetrators vary so much that it is hard to build a model of a terrorist profile. There are too many variables to make prediction straightforward, with new events potentially being radically different from previous ones, the report argues.\n\nAny kind of profiling could also be discriminatory and lead to new human-rights concerns.\n\nIn practice, in fields like counter-terrorism, the report argues that \"augmented\" - rather than artificial - intelligence will be the norm - where technology helps human analysts sift through and prioritise increasingly large amounts of data, allowing humans to make their own judgements.\n\nIt will be essential to ensure human operators remain accountable for decisions and that AI does not act as a \"black box\", from which people do not understand the basis on which decisions are made, the report says.\n\nThe authors are also wary of some of the hype around AI, and of talk that it will soon be transformative.\n\nInstead, they believe we will see the incremental augmentation of existing processes rather than the arrival of novel futuristic capabilities.\n\nThey believe the UK is in a strong position globally to take a lead, with a concentration of capability in GCHQ - and more widely in the private sector, and in bodies like the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.\n\nThis has the potential to allow the UK to position itself at the leading edge of AI use but within a clear framework of ethics, they say.\n\nThe deployment of AI by intelligence agencies may require new guidance to ensure safeguards are in place and that any intrusion into privacy is necessary and proportionate, the report says.\n\nOne of the thorny legal and ethical questions for spy agencies, especially since the Edward Snowden revelations, is how justifiable it is to collect large amounts of data from ordinary people in order to sift it and analyse it to look for those who might be involved in terrorism or other criminal activity.\n\nAnd there's the related question of how far privacy is violated when data is collected and analysed by a machine versus when a human sees it.\n\nPrivacy advocates fear that artificial intelligence will require collecting and analysing far larger amounts of data from ordinary people, in order to understand and search for patterns, that create a new level of intrusion. The authors of the report believe new rules will be needed.\n\nBut overall, they say it will be important not to become over-occupied with the potential downsides of the use of technology.\n\n\"There is a risk of stifling innovation if we become overly-focused on hypothetical worst-case outcomes and speculations over some dystopian future AI-driven surveillance network,\" argues Mr Babuta.\n\n\"Legitimate ethical concerns will be overshadowed unless we focus on likely and realistic uses of AI in the short-to-medium term.\"", "Tyler Roye was attacked near the Arena tram stop in Croydon on 26 February\n\nPolice are searching for a \"distinctive\" Gucci bag which was stolen from a man during a fatal stabbing in south London.\n\nTyler Roye died in hospital three hours after he was attacked near the Arena tram stop in Croydon on 26 February.\n\nThe Met said they were \"very keen\" to hear from anyone who had recently acquired a similar Bengal tiger print bag or had been offered one for sale.\n\nA 23-year-old man has been charged with murder.\n\nSam Odupitan, of Longheath Gardens, Croydon, has also been charged with two counts of robbery and remains in custody.\n\nPolice said they were keen to hear from anybody who had acquired or been offered a similar bag\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 200 protesters gathered in the German capital, Berlin, to protest against coronavirus measures, which they say are an infringement of their constitutional rights.", "Will holiday parks reopen sometime during the summer? Image caption: Will holiday parks reopen sometime during the summer?\n\nProf Jason Leitch has been answering listeners' questions on Off The Ball.\n\nQ: I live separately from my girlfriend and it has been hard. At what stage of the phased return will we be able to meet up?\n\nA: One of the ways forward may be to create 'bubbles' of families, so you could extend your family unit beyond a single household. That may include boyfriend and girlfriend, with your contacts getting a little bit bigger within a safe environment. Every trip adds risk, but we're looking at how that's going to work in Belgium.\n\nQ: Will I be able to get to my caravan in Blair Atholl at the end of July?\n\nA: I would be surprised if holiday resorts are back open in time for the summer. But, if the numbers stay low and people follow the guidelines and we get some more science to help us get out of the other end, that could just happen.\n\nQ: I've been washing plastic protective gloves in a bucket of hot water and disinfectant. Are they safe to wear again?\n\nA: Kind of. But your best protection is your skin, so keep washing your hands. Gloves sometimes make us take more risks.", "Police were called to a property in Aldborough Road North\n\nA one-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy have been stabbed to death in east London.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man and two children injured in Aldborough Road North in Ilford at about 17:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe girl died at the scene while the boy died in hospital, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA 40-year-old man was taken to hospital in a critical condition, where he remains.\n\nPolice said all three were known to each other.\n\nDetectives have launched a murder investigation, although the Met said it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThomas Dodds, 78, who lives about 20 yards from the scene, described hearing a woman scream before police cars and ambulances arrived.\n\nHe said: \"It sickens me, a young baby and a three-year-old. Someone who did that doesn't have a heart, to put a knife into a baby.\"\n\nA nurse who lives on the road, who asked not to be named, said she \"knew something nasty and serious\" had happened when an air ambulance arrived.\n\n\"I knew something terrible had happened but when it came out that two children had died, I was shaken.\"\n\nThe three-year-old boy died in hospital from stab injuries, police said\n\nJas Athwal, leader of Redbridge Council, tweeted: to say his thoughts were with the family and wider community \"who are grieving this unspeakable tragedy\".\n\nThere have been 21 fatal stabbings in London so far this year - six of them in the borough of Redbridge.\n\nOn 20 January three men - aged 29, 30 and 37 - were stabbed to death on Elmstead Road in Seven Kings and 24-year-old Ricardo Fuller was also fatally stabbed outside a nightclub near Ilford High Road on 7 March.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump's plans to deliver a graduation speech at the West Point military academy in New York are being questioned.\n\nMr Trump is due to speak on 13 June at the academy, located about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City.\n\nNew York state is the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe academy has said \"the size and scope of the graduation ceremony will be determined by safety considerations\" for all attendees.\n\nCadets have been attending classes virtually since they left campus for spring break on 6 March.\n\nThe president announced on 17 April he would be giving the West Point commencement address this year.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, that came as a surprise to West Point event organisers, who had yet to finalise graduation ceremony plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn a weekend editorial, the New York Daily News cautioned \"there's no reason to believe that New York State, nor the academy itself, is prepared to host a graduation ceremony amidst a pandemic\".\n\nIn a statement, the academy said approximately 1,000 cadets would have to return to campus to pack their dorm rooms, graduate and \"eventually move to Army Officer Basic Training\".\n\nCadets would be coming back to campus starting in late May and would be subject to a \"detailed Covid screening, testing, quarantine, and integration plan\", it added.\n\nThe statement noted that this \"graduation ceremony will look different from recent graduation ceremonies because of current social health force protection measures\" and this would be likely to limit family participation.\n\nRecently, the US Naval Academy in Maryland called off its own commencement and instead held a virtual graduation.\n\nHowever, the Air Force Academy in Colorado allowed seniors to graduate last week, but required them to maintain strict social distancing. Vice-President Mike Pence spoke at that event.\n\nThe president has previously spoken at Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force academy graduations.\n\nAs of Sunday morning, there are 941,628 confirmed cases of the virus in the US and there have been 54,024 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Mark Drakeford: \"I have asked for a report that will be on my desk tomorrow so that I can be sure that any glitches... are being ironed out\"\n\nPeople need to know that the recording of coronavirus deaths \"can be relied upon\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he would receive a report on the under-reporting of deaths in north Wales on Monday.\n\nThe investigation was launched after it was revealed that Betsi Cadwaladr health board failed to report numbers daily for a whole month.\n\nMr Drakeford also defended a delay in launching an online booking system for coronavirus tests for key workers.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Wales programme, he said further \"systems\" were becoming available to increase testing for key workers, rising from 1,300 tests to 1,800 available daily this week.\n\nHe said the number of tests being taken up had been rising but there was more work to do to make sure all of the testing capacity was being used.\n\nDrive-through coronavirus testing centres have opened in Cardiff and Newport, with others planned\n\nLast Sunday, Mr Drakeford said he hoped the online booking system would \"be up this week\".\n\nBut he said this Sunday that it had been tested over the last week \"to make sure it will withstand the pressure\" it could face from workers trying to get a test and would be used \"more extensively\" next week.\n\nHe said a similar system in England had \"fallen over\" within hours of being used.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the system for recording the number of coronavirus deaths in north Wales.\n\nOn Thursday, Betsi Cadwaladr health board reported 84 deaths across north Wales between 20 March and 22 April.\n\nIt resulted in a jump of 110 in the total confirmed deaths with coronavirus in Wales - the biggest daily increase in the figures.\n\nThe health board said the delay was due to issues with its reporting system.\n\nPublic Health Wales has repeatedly warned the number of deaths could be higher than figures showed, as they only included the deaths formally reported to them, those who died in hospitals, and some care homes, and whose tests were analysed in a laboratory.\n\nPlaid Cymru said an \"urgent explanation\" was needed, whilst the Welsh Conservatives said it \"smacks of incompetence of the highest level\".\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"Ministers are entitled and the Welsh public is entitled to know that the figures that Public Health Wales publishes every day are as accurate as they can be.\n\n\"I have asked for a report that will be on my desk tomorrow so that I can be sure that any glitches that have been there are being ironed out.\n\n\"I understand that Public Health Wales publishes the figures every day, they are doing it urgently, they always say those figures are subject to review.\n\n\"But I need to know, and people in Wales need to know, that those figures can be relied upon and I expect to have that confirmed to me tomorrow,\" he added.\n\nOn Friday, the Welsh Government published a framework for the lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions, which will be done in phases, \"like a traffic light\" moving from the red zone to amber and then to green.\n\nAsked whether some restrictions could last potentially for a year, the first minister said: \"I don't see us going back to places where there is the biggest risk - mass gatherings, that sort of thing.\n\n\"There will be some things that we will only get back to doing right at the end of the process.\n\nShavannah Taj said Wales TUC had heard examples of care staff being told to use bin liners if they run out of PPE\n\nOn personal protective equipment (PPE), Shavannah Taj from the Wales TUC told the programme her union was hearing \"real horror stories\" about care workers using makeshift equipment.\n\nShe added: \"We've had examples given to us, this week alone, where a care worker was told that if you run out of aprons, best bet for you is to use some black bin liners and make your own.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he was \"confident\" there was enough PPE in the system \"to take us into next week\".\n\nHe said there was a shortage of fluid-resistant gowns across the UK and Welsh workers had enough for a further week, but stores needed to be replenished.", "The military has started testing essential workers in the UK for coronavirus in mobile units operating in \"hard to reach\" areas.\n\nAt least 96 new pop-up facilities, which will travel to care homes, police and fire stations, prisons and benefits centres, are planned in total.\n\nEleven of those mobile sites are up-and-running in areas including Salisbury, Carlisle and Watford.\n\nIt comes as the government aims to reach 100,000 tests a day by Thursday.\n\nThe latest figures released by the government reveal a running total of 20,732 deaths of people with coronavirus, not including those in English care homes, which are collated separately.\n\nThere were 29,058 tests carried out on Saturday, an increase from the 28,760 tests carried out the day before, but still far short of the government's daily target of 100,000 - which it aims to achieve by the end of April.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show the government has to \"ramp testing right up\" but added it was \"on track\" to hit its target.\n\n\"We have certainly got to get the daily testing right up to hundreds of thousands which, along with the tracking and tracing, gives us… more flexibility because we can open up measures, open up access,\" Mr Raab said.\n\n\"That, along with the vaccine and therapeutics will be the medium to long-term way of dealing with coronavirus sustainably and responsibly for good.\"\n\nDrive-through testing facilities have been set up around the country\n\nSome health and care workers have previously reported having to make long journeys to their nearest drive-through testing centres.\n\nMany care homes have said none of their staff have been tested, while others have spoken of struggles to access official test centres after reporting online they have symptoms.\n\nOf 210 care providers contacted by the BBC earlier this week, 159 said none of their workers had been tested.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said at the daily government press briefing that the capacity for testing has risen to more than 50,000 a day, adding that \"significant numbers\" of people in care homes are obtaining tests.\n\nThe new pop-up facilities, which can be set up in 20 minutes, see swabs collected by \"specially trained\" military personnel and taken to one of three \"mega labs\" to be processed, with results expected within 48 hours.\n\nThe number of units is being scaled up after a successful pilot last week. An extra 80 or so units, expected to be running by the start of May, will travel to areas where there was \"significant demand\", the government said.\n\nThe armed forces will staff 92 of the units, while civilian contractors will operate a further four located in Northern Ireland, the DHSC said.\n\nAnd mobile units set up by the military to carry out tests at care homes will be in operation in Scotland by next week, the Scottish health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland: \"We anticipate in the coming week we will have five of those and that is to be followed by a further eight.\"\n\nThe UK has come a long way on testing. When the first cases of coronavirus emerged, the government was reliant on eight Public Health England labs, which could carry out little more than 1,000 tests a day.\n\nThat then expanded to include hospital labs, before a network of drive-through testing centres was created - there are around 30, but they will increase to nearly 50 soon - supported by three mega-labs for processing tests.\n\nThe aim is to get to the target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month.\n\nBut as the range of people entitled to testing has increased, one of the issues has been ensuring it is available close to where people need it. A drive-through centre 30 miles from a care worker who does not have access to a car is of little use for example.\n\nThe pop-up testing centres run by the military, which are also coinciding with the development of home testing kits, are an attempt to remedy that and ensure the full testing capacity is used. Currently only around half the 50,000 available tests on any given day are being carried out.\n\nProf John Newton, who is co-ordinating coronavirus testing for the government, said the new mobile testing units would help achieve the goal of performing 100,000 tests a day by \"providing tests to vital frontline workers wherever they need them\".\n\nHe said efforts to increase capacity had resulted in \"scores of new testing facilities and Britain's largest network of diagnostic labs in history\".\n\nSince Friday, millions of key workers and people they live with have been able to book appointments online to be tested. Those too ill to travel should also be able to order home kits - although numbers are limited.\n\nOn Sunday morning home kits were no longer available within 15 minutes of the site reopening at 08:00 BST.\n\nAppointments to visit a test site in England ran out about seven hours after the website opened on Sunday, much later than in the previous two days. Slots became available again at about 20:00 BST.\n\nSpaces remained available in Scotland throughout the day.\n\nKey workers in Wales and Northern Ireland cannot currently book tests online. Both nations appear as options on the government's online system but with a label saying no slots are available.\n\nThe tests offered are swab tests that determine whether people currently have the virus - rather than whether they have had it in the past.\n\nOne of those who sought a test was Kevin Melia, who works as an NHS theatre support worker at Chester Hospital and has been self-isolating at home because he thinks he has Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nHe suffers from asthma and has a low immune system after having his leg amputated last year, he told the BBC.\n\nMr Melia, who lives in Liverpool, said he tried to book an appointment on Sunday, but was told the nearest centre was in Birmingham.\n\n\"It's around 100 miles from where I live, this was at 8:30 this morning. I think this is just outrageous,\" he said.\n\nBut Suzy Sard said for her, the process was \"very well organised\".\n\nShe booked a slot at a centre in Portsmouth after her ex-husband displayed symptoms and she and her children were advised to self-isolate.\n\n\"I jumped at the chance to take a test so that I could get back to normality,\" the teaching assistant from Basingstoke said.\n\n\"When we arrived it was very well organised and all the staff there had personal protective equipment.\n\n\"The whole process took just over an hour. The staff were very polite and I was impressed with the service, considering how quickly it has been set up.\"\n\nDoctors' leaders say all key workers should wear face masks\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) has said testing for healthcare staff should not be allocated on a \"first come, first served\" basis.\n\nBMA chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said the new booking system \"offered no practical help\" to healthcare workers, adding that about 90,000 health and care staff are self-isolating.\n\n\"There is no point putting forward a proposal unless its matched with adequate capacity,\" he said.\n\nThe BMA has also accused ministers of dragging their feet over calls for families of healthcare workers who lose their lives fighting coronavirus to be financially supported.\n\nThe government said it was currently considering the financial support for the families of those on the front line.\n\nMore than 100 healthcare workers have died with the virus so far, according to BBC analysis.\n\nThe BMA has also called for all key workers to be provided with face masks to combat the spread of the virus.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? Are you a key worker trying to get a test? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I would want to make sure that Scotland did what I judged was best to protect the population.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Scotland could have a different exit from the Covid-19 lockdown if she felt the UK government had taken \"premature\" decisions.\n\nThe first minster told the BBC she would do what she judged best to protect Scotland's population.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon added she would not take a different path \"for the sake of it\".\n\n\"It's not political in any way, shape or form,\" she told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nA total of 1,249 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Scotland, according to the latest Scottish government data.\n\nStatistics published on Sunday showed that another 18 people had died with virus, though the actual number of deaths is much higher.\n\nThe UK's total hospital death toll of those infected with Covid-19 passed 20,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe first minister said lifting lockdown measures that have been in place since 23 March and renewed for a further three weeks on 16 April would not be the \"flick of a switch\".\n\n\"As we do start to ease them, there will be a real need for caution and a slow, gradual process,\" she said.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if she would like to close the border between England and Scotland so she could pursue a different strategy, Ms Sturgeon said she had no power to do that.\n\n\"I don't have the power to close borders but these are discussions of course we want to continue to have with the UK government,\" she said.\n\n\"On this question of will Scotland do things differently - not for the sake of it we won't. Only if the evidence and our judgement tells us that that is necessary.\n\n\"If the UK government took decisions that I thought were premature in terms of coming out of the lockdown, than clearly I would want to make sure that Scotland did what I judged was best to protect the population.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC it was important to have simple and consistent social distancing measures across the UK as the virus \"doesn't respect borders or boundaries\".\n\nShe added: \"I think that's still the starting point but I think we all have to take decisions that we judge to be right.\"\n\nSpeaking later on the same programme, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Andrew Marr there would not be a \"binary easing up of measures\", but careful steps to find a \"new normal\".\n\n\"We need to take a sure-footed way forward that protects life but also ensures our way of life,\" he said.\n\nMr Raab, who has been deputising for Boris Johnson while he recovers from coronavirus, said social distancing measures would be \"with us for some time\".\n\nBut he told the BBC it was possible to see how non-essential businesses could adopt measures taken by essential businesses during the lockdown, like spaced queuing.\n\nHe added that the virus should not be allowed to come back for a \"second spike\" which could result in a second \"protracted lockdown\" and be bad for public health and the economy.", "The UK's official tally of coronavirus-related deaths has passed 20,000 - a figure the chief scientist once said would represent a \"good outcome\". It's a huge number and hard to visualise. How can we grasp the scale of this loss?\n\nOn the afternoon of 17 March 2020, in a Westminster committee room, Sir Patrick Vallance leaned forward in his chair.\n\nBack then, the number of people confirmed to have died in the UK after contracting Covid-19 stood at 71. Stricter measures had just been introduced to tackle the virus. Sir Patrick, the government's chief scientific adviser, was asked if the final tally of British deaths could be limited to 20,000 or below. That would, he told MPs, be \"a good outcome\".\n\nEleven days later, with the official death tally now at 1,091, Stephen Powis, NHS England's medical director, repeated Sir Patrick's benchmark. \"If we can keep deaths below 20,000,\" he told the daily Downing Street media briefing, \"we will have done very well.\"\n\nAlready - less than six weeks after Sir Patrick's statement, and a month on from Stephen Powis's - the 20,000 figure has been surpassed. No-one can predict what the final number of deaths will be when the pandemic is over, or what will ultimately be considered the benchmark for a \"good\" outcome.\n\nNonetheless, the 20,000 figure serves as a landmark and passing it has grim resonance.\n\nOf course, the government is only recording hospital cases where a person dies with the coronavirus infection in their body. Other estimates have been much higher.\n\n\"The daily official tally gives a very limited picture of the impact of the virus - if we take into account reporting delays and deaths outside hospital, we probably passed 20,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 a week ago,\" says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter of the University of Cambridge. \"There are also many thousands of extra deaths in the community that have not been attributed to Covid-19, either through caution in putting it on the death certificate, or reluctance to send people to hospital.\"\n\nAnd even though a ceiling of 20,000 fatalities was considered a hopeful scenario, it was only ever so in the most the limited sense.\n\nA tally on that scale would still be \"horrible\", Sir Patrick told the Commons Health Select Committee back on 17 March. It would mean an enormous number of deaths. \"Having spent 20 years as an NHS consultant as well as an academic,\" he said, \"I know exactly what that looks and feels like.\"\n\nIn the three weeks up to Easter, just under 17,000 more deaths were registered than we would normally see at this time of year, a record spike, most of which can be attributed to the epidemic.\n\nBut more than half of the coronavirus deaths announced daily have been reported since Easter, so by now the true picture is likely to be far higher.\n\nRegistered deaths capture all deaths in the community or care homes and deaths caused indirectly by the virus: people not seeking or getting treatment because our health service is under pressure, or people suffering in the lockdown.\n\nSo that gives a better picture of what is really going on. But it takes up to 10 days for deaths to be registered and analysed.\n\nCould most people say they, too, had a sense of the scale of 20,000 lives lost?\n\nThat is roughly the population of Newquay in Cornwall and Bellshill in North Lanarkshire. It's the capacity of the Liberty Stadium in Swansea or Fratton Park in Portsmouth. You could visualise those places, if you've seen them.\n\nBut while there have been clusters of cases, this comparison obscures the breadth of the virus's impact. Unlike residents of a town or spectators at a sporting ground, the lives lost haven't been concentrated in one particular location. They've been all around.\n\nAnd if you were to attempt to visualise them, they would not look like a randomly selected cross-section of the population, either. People over 70 are at higher risk. So too are those with underlying health conditions. Data suggest men may be affected more than women, and that there has been a disproportionately large impact on people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nYour perception of the death toll may also differ depending on where you are.\n\nIf you live near a main road in London, the UK's coronavirus epicentre, the sound of sirens might have brought home to you the scale of the emergency response. When you look up at the clear spring skies, all but empty of the usual passenger aircraft, your view of the air ambulances carrying patients to hospitals will be unimpeded.\n\nIf you live on the Western Isles of Scotland, where the rate of infections has been dramatically lower, the same sensory cues won't be there for you, though you may notice the lack of vapour trails.\n\nThe very fact of social distancing makes it harder to commemorate even those you lose who are closest to you. Saying goodbye is often impossible. Numbers at funeral gatherings are strictly limited. You mourn the deaths of loved ones on social media, Zoom and Skype rather than at wakes.\n\nYou could compare 20,000 with other death tolls. It's nearly seven times more than the number who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks and five-and-a-half times more than the number who died as a result of Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nBut compared with most conflicts and natural disasters, the impact is far more dispersed and hidden. There will be no war cemeteries like those that show the scale of the loss of life in the great conflicts of the 20th Century - though the largest of those, the World War One Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders, with its 11,965 graves, would be too small for 20,000 Covid-19 casualties.\n\nPrevious pandemics might offer a better, if more ominous yardstick. So far, the toll stands at less than 1/10th of the number of British deaths attributed to Spanish flu after WW1.\n\nBut relevant too are the illnesses that kill equivalent numbers each year with minimal attention.\n\n\"Twenty thousand deaths represents a huge amount of illness, human pain and personal loss,\" says Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter. \"But it's also important to remember that, although Covid-19 is a far more serious illness than seasonal flu, in each of the winters of 2014-5 and 2017-18 there were over 26,000 deaths associated with flu, which did not receive much attention.\"\n\nBut the most glaring gap in our understanding of the pandemic is the emotional impact of its spread.\n\nEach time a Covid-19 statistic is recorded, how many other people are affected besides? Is it possible to calculate, let alone envisage, the scale of tragedy visited on loved ones, neighbours and friends? Let alone 20,000 times over.\n\nWhen 82-year-old Ruth Burke became the fourth person in Northern Ireland to die with Covid-19, her daughter Brenda Doherty insisted that Mrs Burke was more than just a number. \"I don't want my mum being another statistic,\" Ms Doherty told BBC Radio Ulster. \"She was a loving mother. She was a strong person.\"", "'Up to 10% of UK population may have been infected'\n\nOxford University's Prof Christophe Fraser told the BBC's Andrew Marr between three and 10% of the population was predicted to have contracted coronavirus by this stage - up to six million people. Prof Fraser is working on developing an app which would allow for tracing people who had been in touch with those with Covid-19. Prof Fraser said the app helps deal with the problem of 50% of transmissions taking place from people who are infected but not yet showing symptoms. He said with the software, people could be alerted if they had come into contact with a person with symptoms, in which case they should observe stronger social-distancing, or a confirmed case which would mean going into isolation.", "Supermodels like Naomi Campbell, along with many musicians and artists, have taken to live streaming to entertain their fans during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nWith lockdowns and curfews imposed in several countries across Africa, people have been feeling the effects of isolation.\n\nBBC Africa spoke to several high-profile personalities about their live-stream experiences and how it's helping them connect with their fans.", "A further 35 migrants have been intercepted by Border Force boats while attempting to cross the English Channel early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe migrants - who variously identified themselves as Iranian, Iraqi and Kuwaiti - were picked up in three separate incidents.\n\nIt follows the interception of five dinghies carrying 76 migrants in the same area on Friday.\n\nThose on board were taken to Dover and transferred to immigration officials.\n\nThe first boat of the three was intercepted at 03:40 BST carrying 14 men and one woman, who identified themselves as Iranian, Kuwaiti and Iraqi.\n\nBorder Force boats scrambled to a second vessel at 06:35, this time carrying 13 men claiming to be Iraqi and Iranian.\n\nThe third boat intercepted off the Kent coast was carrying seven men, also from Iraq and Iran.\n\nOf the 76 people intercepted on Friday, at least three were thought to be children.\n\nThe Home Office confirmed there were 55 males and 21 females who said they were Iraqi, Iranian, Yemini, Syrian and Kuwaiti, but refused to say how many were children.\n\nImmigration officials wore protective equipment as they processed the migrants on Friday\n\nAll those detained will be monitored for signs of coronavirus, the Home Office said on Friday.\n\nFootage showed officials at the port in personal protective equipment escorting people from Border Force vessels.\n\nCharities have warned that people are living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in migrant camps in northern France, leaving them vulnerable to being infected by coronavirus.\n\nThe Home Office said the pandemic was having no impact on its operational response to the crossings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Another 813 people have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, bringing the total to more than 20,000, the Department of Health has announced.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, the home secretary described the figure as a \"tragic and terrible milestone\".\n\nLast month, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said keeping deaths below 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nMeanwhile, the PM will return to work in Downing Street on Monday morning.\n\nIt is just over two weeks since Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released from St Thomas' hospital in London, where he was treated in intensive care for coronavirus. He has been recuperating at his country retreat, Chequers.\n\nAccording to the latest official figures, a total of 20,319 patients have died in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe first virus-related death was announced in the UK 51 days ago.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"As the deaths caused by this terrible virus pass another tragic and terrible milestone, the entire nation is grieving.\"\n\nShe warned that \"we are not out of the woods yet\", and said people must continue to follow social distancing measures to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nThe government's figures do not account for deaths that have happened in care homes, at home, in hospices or elsewhere in the community.\n\nThese are measured separately by the Office for National Statistics, based on death certificates, and a weekly figure is announced each Tuesday.\n\nLast week that figure indicated that there were at least 1,662 deaths, up to 10 April, that were above the hospital-based number.\n\nThe fact we have now passed the grim milestone outlined by Sir Patrick Vallance in less than two months is both a tragedy for the families affected and a worry to the rest of the country.\n\nThere are strong signs - at least in hospitals - that we have passed the peak of deaths.\n\nThe fact that may have happened without the health service being overwhelmed in the way Italy's was is at least some good news.\n\nHowever, the deaths in care homes, which the daily figures from government do not include, are rising rapidly and could prove very difficult to get under control.\n\nIn fact, if we included them we would have passed the 20,000 mark some time ago.\n\nOn 17 March, Sir Patrick told MPs \"the hope\" was to keep the death toll below 20,000. At the time the number of deaths in UK hospitals stood at 71.\n\nThat ambition was later echoed by NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis, who said the UK would have \"done very well in this epidemic\" if deaths remained below that figure.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's briefing, Prof Powis said it was a \"very sad day for the nation\", adding that his \"heart goes out to families and friends of those loved ones\".\n\nAsked about his and Sir Patrick's previous comments, Prof Powis said: \"What we were emphasising is that this is a new virus, a global pandemic, a once-in-a-century global health crisis.\n\n\"And this was going to be a huge challenge not just for the UK, but for every country.\"\n\nHe added that it was unlikely the UK and other countries would recover from the pandemic in the next few weeks.\n\n\"This is not a sprint, this will be a marathon,\" he said.\n\nFour other countries to date have announced an official number of coronavirus-related deaths exceeding 20,000 - the US, Spain, Italy and France.\n\nGlobally, more than 200,000 people have died with coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University, with confirmed cases standing at more than 2.8m.\n\nMs Patel said the government was working towards returning the UK to normal, but said five tests must be met before lockdown measures can be lifted. \"Quite frankly that is not right now,\" she said.\n\nThe government's five tests for ending lockdown are:\n\nProf Powis said the virus would start to \"spread more\" if social distancing measures were lifted.\n\nHe said it was clear that \"gains\" were being made by following social distancing rules and orders to avoid non-essential travel.\n\nProf Powis urged people to stay at home despite the sunny weather - and said a slight increase in motor vehicle usage was \"a little bit\" concerning\n\nSome 28,760 coronavirus tests were carried out in the UK on Friday. The government has set a target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.\n\nAt Saturday's daily briefing, the home secretary also took the opportunity to speak about the impact the pandemic was having on crime.\n\nDespite a fall in overall crime during the outbreak, Ms Patel said some criminals continued to \"capitalise on this horrendous crisis\".\n\nPraising the \"outstanding frontline police officers\", she singled out a successful raid earlier in the week which uncovered cocaine with a street value of £1m concealed in a shipment of face masks. She also revealed more than 2,000 online scams linked to coronavirus had been taken down.\n\nShe criticised some \"extraordinary dangerous driving\" witnessed by police during lockdown, with one London driver caught doing 134mph in a 40mph zone.", "The UK went into lockdown to prevent the NHS becoming overloaded Image caption: The UK went into lockdown to prevent the NHS becoming overloaded\n\nLockdown was an emergency stop - the only immediately available measure to put the brakes on a virus that outpaced our ability to contain it.\n\nAnd it has worked. The best estimates are that the rate of infection in the UK is now at a point where the number of new infections is decreasing. To keep it there, though, the next step has to be a very careful one.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, one of the government’s key scientific advisers, explained in a podcast called UnHerd how taking the brakes off too abruptly would drive that infection rate back up and cost thousands more lives.\n\nWhat he and other scientists will do now is create models of different scenarios as we enter a new lockdown phase.\n\nWith the best data they have on this very new disease, they will calculate the impact - on that all-important infection rate - of reopening schools, of easing travel restrictions and of opening up certain types of businesses.\n\nThe post-lockdown restrictions on our lives - and there will be many - will be guided by those careful calculations.\n\nBut it will be down to the government to weigh the risks and the benefits and to tell us what the next phase in our “new normality” will look like.", "Local councils in England are \"extremely concerned\" they will not get more funding to tackle coronavirus.\n\nThe Local Government Association's Richard Watts has written to Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick warning of \"extreme cost-cutting\".\n\nIn his letter, obtained by the BBC, Mr Watts appeals for a guarantee the government is \"still willing to do whatever it takes\" to help them.\n\nAn extra £1.6bn has been given to local authorities since the outbreak began.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said Mr Jenrick had \"been clear that [they] will support councils to provide services to their communities during the pandemic\".\n\nCouncils face increased costs from supporting vulnerable people, while their income from fees and rates is falling.\n\nMr Watts - the LGA's resource chairman - began his letter by thanking the minister for his \"hard work on behalf of local government\", and said measures, including the £1.6bn funding and deferral of business rates payments, were \"helpful in providing some stability and certainty\".\n\nBut he said the cash was an \"insufficient sum\" and members of the LGA had heard from the department that \"further funding may not be forthcoming despite previous promises\".\n\nHe wrote: \"This is having a real impact on councils' confidence that they will be given the financial means to see this challenge through and could cause some to take extreme cost-cutting and rationing measures.\"\n\nMr Watts said he had seen evidence some social care authorities had already committed up to three times more spending than the grant allocation allows because they expected extra funding, and the cash put forward already was \"vanishingly small\" compared to what they are needing to spend on increased homelessness.\n\nHe also claimed finance directors from the councils have been holding off issuing reports that show they are \"spending beyond [their] means\" because of promises of extra funding.\n\nMr Watts said there were pressures that would go beyond the coronavirus outbreak too, such as an increased demand in social care and council tax support.\n\nHe said the \"income base is collapsing\" for councils, with leisure centres shut, public transport cut and parking fees not coming in, as well as lower business rates being collected.\n\n\"This loss of income represents a real reduction in the resources available to councils to fund services and will mean that, in the absence of any compensation, the balanced budgets set by councils will not be deliverable,\" wrote Mr Watts.\n\nHe said the \"point of focus\" for the government should be ensuring local authorities have \"confidence that the government will support them\".\n\nMr Watts concluded his letter, saying: \"We would like urge you and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to set out in a clear joint letter of intent that the government is still willing to do whatever it takes and provide further funding to councils up front.\"\n\nAnd he called for a \"commitment to compensate [councils] fully for costs, net loss of income and savings that cannot be delivered as result of this crisis, so that they can continue to focus on delivering the response to the greatest challenge the UK and the world have seen in decades, as opposed to worrying about whether they need to start rationing because no further support might be forthcoming\".\n\nThe government has previously said it would keep funding for local councils under review.\n• None Councils 'on brink of financial failure'", "As the death toll from coronavirus continues to climb, hospitals across the UK are working flat out to create more intensive care beds for those who are critically ill. Speaking to the BBC, one intensive care doctor describes the crippling reality of a lack of support and equipment faced by some health-care workers in England.\n\nSeveral healthcare workers in England have told the BBC of a lack of equipment in their hospitals. Warned against speaking to the media, they were unwilling to talk publicly. However, one intensive care doctor from the Midlands wanted to go on record. The BBC agreed to change her name in order to protect her identity.\n\nDr Roberts describes a hospital on the brink. Intensive care is already full of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients. All operations deemed non-urgent, even the cancer clinics, have been cancelled. There is a lack of staff, a lack of critical care beds, a shortage of basic antibiotics and ventilators.\n\nAll this, combined with the looming uncertainty of what will be the expected peak, estimated to hit the UK around 14-15 April, means hospital staff are already feeling the strain.\n\nHowever, nothing Dr Roberts describes is quite as alarming as the fact that these medical professionals, who continue to care for critically ill patients for 13 hours every day, are having to resort to fashioning personal protective equipment (PPE) out of clinical waste bags, plastic aprons and borrowed skiing goggles.\n\nDr Roberts shown in the left picture, tying a bin bag covering the sides and back of her colleague's head\n\nWhile the public attempts to keep to a social distance of two metres, many NHS staff are being asked to examine patients suspected of coronavirus at a distance of 20cm - without the proper protection.\n\nWith potentially fatal implications, Dr Roberts says several departments within her hospital are now so fearful of what's coming next, they have begun to hoard PPE for themselves.\n\n\"It's about being pragmatic. The nurses on ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit) need it now. They are doing procedures which risk aerosol spread of the virus. But they've been told to wear normal theatre hats, which have holes in them and don't provide any protection.\n\n\"It's wrong. And that's why we're having to put bin bags and aprons on our heads.\"\n\nThe government has acknowledged distribution problems, but says a national supply team, supported by the armed forces, is now \"working around the clock\" to deliver equipment.\n\nNHS England also said more than one million respiratory face masks were delivered on 1 April, but with no mention of much-needed head protection and long-sleeved gowns.\n\nDr Roberts says her hospital has not received anything from the government, and what they do have is causing concern.\n\n\"The respiratory protection face masks we're using at the moment, they've all been relabelled with new best-before end dates. Yesterday I found one with three stickers on. The first said, expiry 2009. The second sticker, expiry 2013. And the third sticker on the very top said 2021.\"\n\nPublic Health England has said all stockpiled pieces of PPE [personal protective equipment] labelled with new expiry dates have \"passed stringent tests\" and are \"safe for use by NHS staff\". But Dr Roberts says she is not convinced.\n\nDr Roberts pulls expiry date stickers from the packaging on a face mask\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care also said it was \"working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army… If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place\".\n\nIt said its new guidance on PPE was in line with World Health Organization advice to \"make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing\".\n\nCurrently ventilated and under Dr Roberts' care are three of her colleagues, all of whom have tested positive for coronavirus. One is an intensive care doctor working on a Covid ward, who, like Dr Roberts, only had access to inadequate protection.\n\nThe other two were both working on non-Covid wards and therefore were wearing no PPE. However, given their symptoms, Dr Roberts believes both of them contracted the virus while at work.\n\nAlthough colleagues continue to visit, as with all other patients, no relatives are allowed anywhere within the hospital.\n\n\"The hardest thing at the moment is having to tell families you are withdrawing care, over the phone. Telling them their relatives are dying or have died but we can't let you come and see them,\" says Dr Roberts.\n\n\"Normally you can say to their relative who's at the bedside, 'We're going to do everything we can', but I haven't felt able to say that, because at the moment, I can't.\n\n\"I can't necessarily give them the best care on a ventilator, I can't guarantee the best nursing care, because the best nurses are being stretched four ways. We're running out of antibiotics, and I can't guarantee all the treatments that I know would help them.\"\n\nNHS England says it has no record of how many medical professionals have been admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus at work.\n\nHowever, the two hardest-hit countries in Europe are counting. Spain's emergency health minister announced on 27 March that more than 9,400 health-care workers had tested positive, and in Italy, as of 30 March, more than 6,414 medical professionals were reported to have been infected.\n\nIn the UK, several health workers are known to have died from coronavirus, including Areema Nasreen, a staff nurse in the West Midlands, Thomas Harvey, a health-care assistant in east London, Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha in central London, Dr Alfa Saadu in north London, Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester.\n\nBased on projections from Italy and Spain, Dr Roberts says health-care workers are bracing for the peak to hit in less than two weeks.\n\n\"If cases rise as quickly as they did in Spain and Italy, then quite frankly, we are screwed. All of our overspill areas will soon be full.\n\n\"The anaesthetic machines we have, which are designed to work for two to three hours at most, have been running for four to five days straight. We're already getting leaks and failures.\"\n\nAlso short of PPE, an intensive care nurse in Spain wears a bin bag and a protective plastic mask, donated by a local company\n\nExtra intensive care beds, set up in several operating theatres and wards, have nearly doubled the hospital's capacity to support critically ill patients, particularly those who can't breathe for themselves and need to be put on a ventilator.\n\nHowever, by expanding intensive care, Dr Roberts says it's the nursing staff who are disproportionately affected.\n\n\"Intensive care nurses are highly trained and normally deliver care one-to-one to those critically ill. Their patients may be asleep, but they have such a close relationship, they can describe every hair on a patient's head.\n\n\"But now, with these extra beds, nurses are under pressure to look after up to four patients, while delivering the same level of critical care. They are in tears and really struggling. They are the most important part of the system, but that's where it's going to fall down\".\n\nOutside in the hospital car park, Dr Roberts describes how a new temporary building has appeared in the ambulance bay with just one purpose - to vet all patients for symptoms of coronavirus before they are admitted.\n\nIt is run by a clinician, who, Dr Roberts points out, could otherwise be looking after patients. She describes the unit as a \"lie detector\".\n\n\"It's really common for people to lie about their symptoms just to get seen. People who should have stayed at home, but they come to A&E.\n\n\"So now every single patient gets vetted in the car park, to make sure those with Covid symptoms go to the right part of the hospital and don't infect everyone else, like those who've come in with a broken arm.\"\n\nBut for Dr Roberts, it's not just about those turning up at A&E, it's everyone.\n\n\"Most hospital staff, we are isolating ourselves when we are not at work, so as not to put other people at risk.\n\n\"But the most frustrating thing for us is to see the parks full, or Tescos even busier than usual. Please stay at home.\"", "As we bring our live coverage to an end for the day, here's a reminder of today's developments:\n\nPublic Health Wales announced that 28 more people have died after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nA shortage of personal protective equipment is creating \"immense distress and heightened anxiety\" for Welsh nurses, according to the Royal College of Nursing.\n\nA new drug for recovering heroin addicts is being rolled out across Wales to prevent them having to make daily trips to over-stretched pharmacies.\n\nWe'll be back with the latest on the outbreak in the morning.", "Police were caught on camera appearing to not be adhering to the social distancing rules\n\nLondon's mayor has expressed concern after videos appeared to show police failing to observe social distancing rules.\n\nMet officers were filmed taking part in the 'Clap for Carers' on a crowded Westminster Bridge on Thursday.\n\n\"While many people adhered to social distancing guidance, it appears that some did not,\" the Met said.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said it was \"not unreasonable\" for the public to query how this could happen.\n\nThe Met added: \"We regularly remind our officers of the importance of social distancing, where practical.\"\n\nHowever, a video posted by Damir Rafi appeared to show many police and members of the public ignoring the regulations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street has now intervened after comments appeared on social media criticising the police for not observing distancing rules.\n\n\"We would ask that everyone takes responsibility and adheres to social distancing rules so that we can safely show our appreciation for those who are working so hard to fight coronavirus,\" said the Prime Minister's official spokesman.\n\nFormer Met and Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Kevin Hurley was also critical.\n\n\"This is about persuading the public to stay at home to save lives,\" he said.\n\n\"How much better if the commissioner had just walked around the corner into one of the estates at eight o'clock and started clapping?\"", "A government scheme to release prisoners early to help jails deal with coronavirus has been suspended after six offenders were freed by mistake.\n\nThe inmates were mistakenly let out of two open prisons in Gloucestershire and Derbyshire, and a young offenders institution in south-east London.\n\nOfficials said the men \"returned compliantly to prison when asked to do so\".\n\nThe Prison Service said it had now strengthened its processes.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland had previously said rigorous checks would take place before inmates were let out on the scheme.\n\nUp to 4,000 prisoners - those who were due to be freed within two months anyway - were eligible for the early release programme across England and Wales.\n\nOfficials said on Tuesday that hundreds would be freed by the end of the week - with 14 pregnant prisoners and mothers with babies among those released.\n\nThe six men were released mistakenly from Sudbury and Leyhill prisons and Isis young offenders institution in south-east London.\n\nThe Prison Service attributed the releases to \"human error\" and said processes were being changed to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.\n\nA statement said: \"We are aware of a small number of low-risk offenders who were released from prison under the temporary early release scheme following an administrative error.\n\n\"The men were released too early but were otherwise eligible under the scheme, and returned compliantly to prison when asked to do so.\n\n\"We have strengthened the administrative processes around the scheme to make sure this does not happen again.\"\n\nMeanwhile, campaigners have threatened to take legal action against the government unless vulnerable and elderly prisoners are immediately released to protect them from contracting coronavirus.\n\nThe Prisoners' Advice Service (PAS) warned such inmates were at an increased risk of dying or becoming seriously ill if they test positive for the virus, and called on Mr Buckland to take urgent action.\n\nCoronavirus cases have been confirmed in more than half the prisons in England and Wales.\n\nA total of 255 prisoners tested positive for coronavirus in 62 jails, and 13 inmates have died.\n\nThe most recent figures also show coronavirus has affected 138 prison staff across 49 sites, as well as seven prisoner escort and custody services employees.\n• None Coronavirus: Up to 4,000 inmates to be freed", "Doctors and nurses in England are to be asked to treat coronavirus patients without fully protective gowns and to reuse equipment due to shortage fears.\n\nThe decision came in a reversal of guidance to hospitals from Public Health England on Friday.\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC reported the plan was being considered as a \"last resort\".\n\nIt comes as NHS Providers warned some hospitals' supplies could run out in 24 hours.\n\nChris Hopson, head of the association, which represents healthcare trusts across England, said in a tweet: \"We have now reached the point where the national stock of fully fluid repellent gowns and long-sleeved laboratory coats will be exhausted in the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours.\"\n\nHe said that national leaders have left \"no stone unturned\" - but gowns that were ordered weeks ago are currently only arriving in \"fits and starts\".\n\nPublic Health England changed its guidance, which until now required long-sleeved, disposable, fluid-repellent gowns for people treating Covid-19 patients.\n\nNow it says if these gowns are not available, staff can wear washable medical gowns or non-fluid-repellent equipment.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC said the measures were considered earlier this week to cope with \"acute supply shortages\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded 847 new coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals on Thursday, taking the total to 14,576.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"New clinical advice has been issued today to make sure that if there are shortages in one area, frontline staff know what PPE to wear instead to minimise risk.\"\n\nAnd Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he \"would love to be able to wave a magic wand\" to increase supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"But given that we have a global situation in which there is less PPE in the world than the world needs, obviously it's going to be a huge pressure point,\" he told a virtual committee of MPs.\n\nMr Hancock admitted the supply of gowns was \"tight\" but said he was aiming to get enough gowns to staff this weekend.\n\nHe added that the government was doing everything it could \"to get that PPE to the front line\".\n\nDr Rob Harwood, consultants committee chairman at the British Medical Association, said: \"If it's being proposed that staff reuse equipment, this must be demonstrably driven by science and the best evidence - rather than availability - and it absolutely cannot compromise the protection of healthcare workers.\n\n\"Too many healthcare workers have already died. More doctors and their colleagues cannot be expected to put their own lives on the line in a bid to save others, and this new advice means they could be doing just that. It's not a decision they should have to make.\"\n\nAt least 50 NHS workers have now died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Week after week, we hear of problems in PPE getting to the front line despite what ministers tell us at Downing Street press conferences.\n\n\"This ongoing failure needs fixing and ministers must explain how they will fix it urgently.\"", "Kris has been put up in a hotel in west London during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nGiving rough sleepers rooms in hotels should lead to a significant long-term reduction in rough sleeping after the coronavirus outbreak, says a charity for homeless people.\n\nAround 2,000 people have been brought in off the streets in England and put into Travelodges and budget hotels.\n\nSt Mungo's charity says it is an unprecedented opportunity to stop people returning to the street.\n\n\"It's a silver lining in a very grey sky,\" said charity CEO Howard Sinclair.\n\n\"Out of something awful, something positive has come,\" said Mr Sinclair, whose charity has helped to house rough sleepers in hotels, protecting them and preventing the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nHe says it unexpectedly created a huge opportunity to assess the needs of people suddenly taken off the streets, allowing charity workers to look for accommodation and provide support for mental health problems or addictions.\n\nMr Sinclair says this could \"change the landscape\" in terms of reducing the long-term numbers of rough sleepers.\n\nHe says there are still rough sleepers who have avoided being brought under a roof.\n\nBut he is confident that this mass-scale intervention will make a \"significant dent\" in how many will return to the streets.\n\nRough sleepers have been brought inside during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government says 90% of rough sleepers in England have been invited to come indoors during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe opportunity followed the collapse in the tourist industry during the lockdown measures, which left many hotels empty.\n\nThe government and local authorities paid for hotel rooms to house rough sleepers, who could not be left on the streets during the pandemic, either as a risk to themselves or the wider community.\n\nMr Sinclair says the average life expectancy for someone living on the streets is 45 - and that the ill-health of rough sleepers made them highly vulnerable to the coronavirus.\n\nThe biggest number of people being put up in hotels or other temporary accommodation is in London - but there are also people in Bristol, Brighton, Reading, Oxford and Bournemouth.\n\nCharities such as St Mungo's are providing staff in hotels - in which drug use is banned and alcohol discouraged, with the temporary residents getting their own room, meals and laundry.\n\n\"I'm grateful, more than anything,\" says Kris, who is staying in a hotel near Paddington, west London.\n\nHe says it can be lonely being stuck in a hotel room for 23 hours a day for weeks at a time, but he is being well-treated and he hopes it will be \"a great opportunity to get something permanent\".\n\n\"What's going round in my mind is the uncertainty of what happens next,\" he says. But for the moment he has the security of being indoors.\n\nHe usually sells the Big Issue and says he misses his customers and the social life outside, as the magazine has had to stop sales on the streets.\n\nLord Bird, founder of the Big Issue, says putting homeless people into empty hotels has become a chance to get to grips with rough sleeping.\n\n\"We believe very strongly it's an opportunity to move people indoors - and that it's something that should become permanent.\"\n\nHe says there is an irony that attitudes towards rough sleepers have \"gone from utter neglect from the authorities to saying you matter because of fear of spreading the virus\".\n\nBut he warns \"not to expect a happy-ever-after\" outcome - as people living on the streets will have many complex problems from \"decades of neglect\" and might not find it easy to be kept alone indoors.\n\n\"The streets have been turned into a theatre of social collapse,\" says Lord Bird, whose magazine is now being sold in supermarkets and online.\n\nDave, who has been homeless for 15 years, has been put up in a flat in Devon.\n\nHe misses the outdoors and the sounds of sleeping by the sea, but says he has adapted to the indoor life.\n\nWith a roof over his head, he is thinking of volunteering for the NHS.\n\n\"The extra security is nice,\" Dave says, and he thinks it will help homeless people who were at risk from \"undesirables\" who might prey on them.\n\n\"A lot of vulnerable people on the streets will be away from that now. It's great.\n\n\"It raises a few questions about why they couldn't do it before,\" he says.\n\nNickie Aiken, MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, said there had to be \"plans in place to avoid a cliff edge situation once the lockdown is lifted\".\n\nShe said funding specialist workers to go into the hotels to help rough sleepers \"kick their drink and drugs habits\" would \"pay for itself\" in the long run.\n\n\"We have a golden opportunity to help more people to turn their lives around and seek the support they so desperately need. It would be unforgivable to waste this chance,\" said Ms Aiken.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said there had been a \"massive collaborative effort across government, local authorities, health providers and charities - backed by £1.6bn of government funding to help councils respond to coronavirus\".\n\nShe said the scheme for rough sleepers would ensure \"some of the most vulnerable in society are protected from the pandemic. We're also helping vital services, such as mental health or drug and alcohol addiction support, to remain open\".", "Protective gowns and masks could be reused by health workers under \"last resort\" coronavirus plans revealed in a leaked Public Health England document.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC also showed that some hospitals have begun laundering single-use gowns to preserve stocks.\n\nThe British Medical Association said this \"underlines the urgency\" of protective equipment shortages.\n\nPublic Health England said the safe reuse of items was being considered.\n\nHowever, it said no decisions had been made.\n\nA document seen by the BBC has revealed new details of plans to tackle shortages of personal protective equipment, known as PPE.\n\nIt is understood that the chief medical officers and chief nurses of the four UK nations recently discussed the issue.\n\nFollowing the meeting, a draft document written by Public Health England and dated 13 April suggested solutions for \"acute supply shortages\" of PPE.\n\n\"These are last-resort alternatives, but given the current in-country stock and the reduced ability to re-supply, we are suggesting that these are implemented until confirmation of adequate re-supply is in place\", it said.\n\nThe document said some of the last-resort measures would need to be reviewed and approved by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIn the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of vaporised hydrogen peroxide to decontaminate certain masks.\n\nIt is understood that the infection and prevention and control team at NHS England believe the Health and Safety Executive should be responsible for reviewing the guidance in this area.\n\nNHS staff use an app to request crucial PPE and managers also have access to a government hotline.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC also showed some hospitals have trialled and begun reusing single-use, fluid repellent gowns that they have laundered.\n\nDiscussions are understood to be taking place about whether to ask local launderettes to re-open to process the cleaning of gowns.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, council chair of the British Medical Association, said: \"This underlines the urgency with which we need this situation sorted.\n\n\"The government must be honest about PPE supplies.\n\n\"If [Public Heath England] is proposing the reuse of equipment, it needs to be demonstrably driven by science and the best evidence in keeping with international standards, rather than by availability, and with absolutely no compromise to the protection of healthcare workers.\"\n\nIn a statement, Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England, said: \"PPE is a precious resource and it is crucial that everyone in health and social care has access to the right protective equipment.\n\n\"All options are being considered to ensure this, including the safe reuse of items, but no decisions have been made.\"\n\nThe HSE said it was right that, where possible, \"strategies for optimising the supply of PPE should be explored\".\n\n\"We are discussing with Public Health England ways in which pressure can be eased on the supply chain. This includes potentially reusing certain equipment where it is safe to do so,\" it said.", "Japan, which initially appeared to have the virus under control, has recorded a flurry of new cases\n\nDoctors in Japan have warned that the country's medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases.\n\nEmergency rooms have been unable to treat some patients with serious health conditions due to the extra burden caused by the virus, officials say.\n\nOne ambulance carrying a patient with coronavirus symptoms was turned away by 80 hospitals before he could be seen.\n\nJapan, which initially appeared to have the virus under control, passed 10,000 confirmed cases on Saturday.\n\nMore than 200 people have now died with Covid-19 and the capital Tokyo remains the worst-affected area.\n\nGroups of doctors at GP surgeries in the city are assisting hospitals with the testing of potential coronavirus patients in order to ease some of the pressure on the health system, officials say.\n\n\"This is to prevent the medical system from crumbling,\" Konoshin Tamura, the deputy head of an association of GPs, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Everyone needs to extend a helping hand. Otherwise, hospitals would break down,\" he added.\n\nTwo medical associations said the coronavirus outbreak was reducing the ability of Japan's hospitals to treat other, serious, medical emergencies.\n\nHospitals are already turning away patients, and all this while the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 remains relatively low compared with other countries.\n\nDoctors have complained of a lack of protective equipment, which suggests Japan has not prepared well for the virus. This is despite the fact it was the second country outside China to record an infection, way back in January.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been criticised for not introducing restrictions to deal with the outbreak sooner for fear they could harm the economy.\n\nHis government has argued with the governor of Tokyo, who wanted tougher measures introduced more quickly.\n\nOnly on Thursday did Mr Abe extend a state of emergency to the whole country.\n\nThe government is also working to increase the rate of testing by introducing drive-through facilities. In recent weeks, Japan has conducted far fewer tests than in other countries and experts say this has made it more difficult to track the spread of the disease.\n\nLast month it conducted just 16% of the number of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests that South Korea did, according to data from Oxford University.\n\nAnd unlike South Korea - which has brought its outbreak largely under control through a programme of large-scale testing - the Japanese government said that carrying out widespread testing was a \"waste of resources\".\n\nTesting is also governed by local health centres, not on the national government level - and some of these local centres are not equipped to carry out testing on a major scale.\n\nBut, on Friday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated that the government was shifting its policy on testing and rolling it out more widely.\n\n\"With help from regional medical associations, we will set up testing centres,\" he told a news conference.\n\n\"If home doctors have decided testing is necessary, test samples are taken at these centres and sent to private inspection firms\" he said. \"Thus, the burden on public health centres will be lessened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to self-isolate successfully to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\nHis comments came shortly after he announced a nationwide state of emergency due to the worsening outbreak.\n\nThe move allowed regional governments to urge people to stay inside, but without punitive measures or legal force. It will remain in force until 6 May.\n\nAfter the initial state of emergency came into force on 8 April, a number of other regional governors called for the measures to be extended to their areas, saying that cases were growing and their medical facilities were overwhelmed.\n\nJapan's two emergency medical associations also issued a joint statement warning that they were \"already sensing the collapse of the emergency medical system\".\n\nAnd the mayor of Osaka appealed for people to donate their raincoats, so they could be used as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers whom he said were being forced to fashion PPE out of rubbish bags.", "Earlier on Friday we reported that a boss of an NHS trust had contacted the BBC with concerns about the provision of gowns for staff during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe had asked the BBC for the phone numbers of Burberry and Barbour - two companies which have become involved in making gowns - because he was concerned about supply shortages.\n\nWe should clarify that the person concerned is not the boss of an NHS trust but is part of a network of organisations helping to source personal protective equipment for some NHS trusts.\n\nThe mistake was caused by a misunderstanding of the person's role in the fight against the pandemic.", "Germany has brought the infection rate down considerably\n\nGermany's health minister says the month-long lockdown has brought his country's coronavirus outbreak under control.\n\nJens Spahn said that since 12 April the number of recovered patients had been consistently higher than the number of new infections.\n\nThe infection rate has dropped to 0.7 - that is, each infected person passed the virus to fewer than one other.\n\nIn Germany 3,868 have died of Covid-19 - fewer than in Italy, Spain or France.\n\nHowever, the number of fatalities is still rising in Germany, as is the number of infected health care workers.\n\nSo far almost 134,000 people have been infected in Germany.\n\nThe degree of lockdown varies across Germany's regions - it is tightest in the states of Bavaria and Saarland.\n\nOn Wednesday Chancellor Angela Merkel announced tentative steps to start easing the restrictions. Some smaller shops will reopen next week and schools will start reopening in early May, with the focus on students due to sit exams soon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mrs Merkel warned there was \"little margin for error\" and that \"caution should be the watchword\". Sports and leisure facilities, as well as cafes and restaurants, will remain closed indefinitely.\n\nGermany's network of diagnostic labs has been praised internationally for having responded rapidly to the pandemic. By early April Germany was doing more than 100,000 swab tests daily, enabling more coronavirus carriers to be traced than in other EU countries.\n\nMr Spahn said that by August, German companies would produce up to 50 million face masks a week for healthcare workers.\n\nOn Friday the eastern state of Saxony became the first German state to make the wearing of masks compulsory on public transport and in shops. Mask-wearing is compulsory in neighbouring Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.", "The state of emergency is to be extended to the whole of Japan\n\nIt was once seen as something of a success story - a region that worked to contain, trace and isolate the virus - leading to a huge drop in numbers. But Hokkaido is in the spotlight again as it struggles to deal with a second wave of infections.\n\nIn late February, Hokkaido became the first place in Japan to declare a state of emergency due to Covid-19.\n\nSchools were closed, large-scale gatherings cancelled and people \"encouraged\" to stay at home. The local government pursued the virus with determination - aggressively tracing and isolating anyone who'd had contact with victims.\n\nThe policy worked and by mid-March the number of new cases had fallen back to one or two a day. On 19 March the state of emergency was lifted, and at the beginning of April, schools re-opened.\n\nBut now, just 26 days after the state of emergency was lifted, a new one has had to be imposed.\n\nHokkaido has acted independently of the central government, which placed Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures under a state of emergency last week. A nationwide state of emergency was declared on Thursday.\n\nIn the last week, Hokkaido has recorded 135 new confirmed cases of Covid-19. Unlike the first outbreak in February, there is no evidence the virus has been re-imported from outside Japan.\n\nNone of the new cases are foreigners, nor have any of those infected travelled outside Japan in the last month.\n\nWhat does this tell us about how the virus outbreak was handled in Hokkaido?\n\nFirstly, if you get on top of it really early, you can get it under control.\n\n\"It is relatively easy to tackle clusters, to contact trace and isolate,\" says Professor Kenji Shibuya of King's College London.\n\n\"The authorities were quite successful in their cluster control approach. Japan was in the very early phase of the outbreak back then. It was localised and it was a success story.\"\n\nHokkaido's containment measures seemed to be working at first\n\nIn this respect, Hokkaido has some similarity to what happened in the South Korean city of Daegu. There, a large outbreak in a religious cult was aggressively traced. Those infected were isolated and the outbreak was suppressed.\n\nBut the second lesson from Hokkaido is much less reassuring.\n\nAfter the Daegu outbreak, the South Korean government began a massive testing program to try and track the epidemic. Japan has done the opposite.\n\nEven now, more than three months after Japan recorded its first case, it is still only testing a tiny percentage of the population.\n\nInitially, the government said it was because large-scale testing was a \"waste of resources\". It's now had to change its tune a bit and says it will ramp up testing - but several reasons appear to have slowed it down.\n\nFirstly, Japan's health ministry fears that hospitals will be overwhelmed by people who test positive - but only have minor symptoms. And on a wider scale, the testing is the responsibility of local health centres and not on a national government level.\n\nSome of these local centres are simply not equipped with the staff or the equipment to deal with testing on a major scale. Local hotlines have been overwhelmed and even getting a referral from a doctor is a struggle.\n\nThe combination of these reasons mean authorities in Japan don't have a clear idea of how the virus is moving through the population, says Prof Shibuya.\n\n\"We are in the middle of an explosive phase of the outbreak,\" he said.\n\n\"The major lesson to take from Hokkaido is that even if you are successful in the containment the first time around, it's difficult to isolate and maintain the containment for a long period. Unless you expand the testing capacity, it's difficult to identify community transmission and hospital transmission.\"\n\nThe third lesson is that this \"new reality\" is going to go on a lot longer than most people expect.\n\nHokkaido has now had to re-impose the restrictions, though Japan's version of a Covid-19 \"lockdown\" is a rather softer than those imposed elsewhere.\n\nMost people are still going to work. Schools may be closed, but shops and even bars remain open.\n\nProf Shibuya thinks without tougher measures Japan has little hope of controlling this so called \"second wave\" of infections now taking place, not just in Hokkaido, but across the country.\n\n\"The key lesson\" he says \"is even if you are successful in containment locally but there is transmission going on in other parts of the country, as long as people are moving around, it's difficult to maintain a virus-free status\".\n\nEven so, the economy in Hokkaido is already hurting badly. The island is hugely dependent on tourism, and Japan has banned travel from the US and Europe and most countries in Asia.\n\nA friend who owns a bar in the city of Chitose has been forced to shut it down and lay off his staff. Further north in the city of Asahikawa, Naoki Tamura told us his bar is still open but there are now almost no customers.\n\n\"One or two come by each night,\" he says.\n\n\"There used to be many tourists from China and South East Asia. They are completely gone. We don't hear any foreign language spoken on the street now. Smaller lodging places are having to shut down. Tourism businesses are really struggling.\"\n\nThe new state of emergency is officially due to finish on 6 May, the end of Japan's \"Golden Week\" holiday.\n\nBut one local government official working on epidemic suppression in Hokkaido told us they may now have to keep measures in place for much longer.\n\n\"We feel we have to keep on doing the same thing,\" he said. \"The goal is to minimise contact between people to stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nSo how long does that mean?\n\n\"Till we find a vaccine,\" he says. \"We have to keep on trying to stop the expansion.\"", "About 2,500 people live on Scilly, with the majority of businesses reliant on the tourism sector\n\nSome seasonal workers on the Isles of Scilly have been left stranded without income due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe islands, 28 miles off Cornwall, shut down transport links on 21 March, after the workers had arrived.\n\nStaff can only receive 80% of their pay through furlough if they were registered for tax before 19 March.\n\nThe tourism board for Scilly said the outbreak had come at \"the worst possible time, coinciding exactly with the start of the tourist season\".\n\n\"The impact is completely extraordinary and catastrophic - nothing happens here without the tourism industry,\" said Nick Bond, executive director of the Islands Partnership.\n\nThe vast majority of income has traditionally been generated between March and October, when the weather would be better, but also when the transport links to the mainland UK would usually be fully operational.\n\nThe Partnership had projected 70,000 visitors would spend £34m on Scilly during 2020 and said tourism accounted for 85% of the economy.\n\n\"The great difficulty for small and medium sized businesses is not knowing when we might be back to normal again,\" Mr Bond said.\n\n\"We are talking to members and businesses about how government measures don't meet the needs of the tourism and visitor economy. Seasonal staff who arrived after the date that the government scheme applies to - the staff members are stranded.\"\n\nScillonians have been showing their support for key workers\n\nSeasonal workers fill many of the hospitality and retail roles on Scilly between these months each year.\n\nMarley Morgan from Penzance in Cornwall arrived on 15 March to start work as a chef at a hotel on St Mary's and said he felt \"helpless\".\n\n\"It is a beautiful place and a great escape, but the reason we are all here is that it's a great opportunity to make money,\" he said.\n\nHis hotel is allowing the nine staff who have arrived from Cornwall, Yorkshire, Hungary and Latvia to stay in their accommodation without charge, for now.\n\n\"We are hoping we may reopen in late June,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\nThe government pushed the date back for furloughed workers to 19 March but this would only help people who had been registered for tax purposes by this date.\n\nMany seasonal workers, including Mr Morgan would not qualify.\n\nMarley Morgan arrived on Scilly as a seasonal worker but has been left with no income\n\nHe said workers were looking out for each other and scraping by, but said: \"Morale is pretty low. It's rough at the moment.\"\n\nMr Morgan said his previous employer was currently unable to help him and it would take five weeks to receive any universal credit.\n\nHaving given up his tenancy and full time job before moving to Scilly he said he was reluctant to return home and put himself at risk through travelling.\n\n\"This was a really good opportunity for me work-wise as well as financially so I'd beat myself up if things were to go back to normal and I missed out,\" he said.\n\nArriving on 13 March was Adrian Pinnell, who was hoping to do his 16th straight season and his 11th as restaurant manager at another hotel.\n\nAfter initial confusion that saw him and his wife Sit told to move out of the hotel for insurance purposes, a compromise has been reached.\n\nAdrian Pinnell has worked the season in Scilly for many years\n\n\"They have asked me to do 10 hours' work a week in a caretaker role. They pay me £100, and £50 of that goes back to them in rent,\" he said.\n\nThe Pinnells split their year between Thailand and Scilly, have no home in the UK and are also not eligible for the furlough scheme.\n\n\"We may have to go to my mum in Cheltenham but we aren't sure if that classes as essential travel,\" Mr Pinnell said.\n\nThe Isles of Scilly Council said it would consider each case individually regarding essential travel.\n\nNick Bond said: \"Businesses have brought staff over after the deadline and those individuals are rather stranded. Their employer, or the organisation that was to be their employer, has a moral obligation to look after them.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of planning in terms of bringing those teams on board and getting them over to Scilly to get up and running. Not knowing when we will be back in business makes that whole process problematic.\"\n\nMr Bond said some businesses would fold but added \"we have got to be optimistic that there will be recourse to funds through different channels\".\n\n\"People's safety is first and foremost, and then ensuring businesses remain in business,\" he said.\n\n\"Looking forward we have a great tourism offer here and the industry will bounce back.\"", "Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group is serving notice on landlords to walk away from more than 100 stores by the end of the summer.\n\nThe fashion group owns brands such as Topshop and Dorothy Perkins and has 550 stores across the UK, but all are shut due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nArcadia was struggling before the pandemic.\n\nIn 2019 it did a deal to survive with landlords to cut rents and close 23 stores - and 12 more closed this year.\n\nLike other retailers grappling with the fallout from deserted high streets and a collapse in sales, Sir Philip's retail empire has been thrown into turmoil.\n\nSir Philip Green's retail empire, Arcadia, had earlier this year closed some sites after tough Christmas trading\n\nMost of his 16,000 staff are being paid through the government's furlough scheme and bosses are taking a pay cut.\n\nBut the coronavirus crisis is now accelerating a potentially dramatic shrinkage of the business.\n\nArcadia has already been closing stores over the years as leases expired.\n\nLast June's rescue deal, known as a company voluntary arrangement, also included many break clauses on leases which allow Arcadia to hand back the keys at relatively short notice.\n\nA number of other leases are also coming up for renewal.\n\nThe BBC understands that Arcadia has typically given three months' notice on at least 100 leases, and potentially it could be significantly higher than that.\n\nHowever, it does not mean all the affected stores will shut.\n\nNew agreements could be reached with some property owners who would have to swallow further rent reductions.\n\nOther retailers are also reviewing store portfolios.\n\nDebenhams said on Friday that seven of its stores would not reopen.\n\nIt is trying to secure new deals with landlords that include a five-month rent and service charge holiday.\n\nThe department store chain has agreed terms on 120 of its 142 stores so far and is in advanced discussions about the remainder of its estate. The business is in administration to protect it from creditors during the lockdown.\n\nArcadia's move buys the business flexibility amid huge uncertainty about the economic landscape ahead.\n\nHigh street retailers are all trying to hoard cash and slash costs and are worried about trading once restrictions are eased.\n\n\"I'm not blaming him [Sir Philip]. You've got to do what you've got to do to protect the business,\" said one landlord.", "The outbreak has changed the way we all live and work - and, as a result, it's given us a whole new, unprecedented set of problems.\n\nWhat if you can't stand your partner, now that you're in lockdown together and can no longer ignore their annoying traits? Or worse - what if you broke up just before the order to stay at home, and are now awkwardly stuck under the same roof?\n\nIf you're lucky enough to work from home, how do you deal with difficult children - or a boss who likes to micromanage you remotely?\n\nWhat if you still have to go in to work - and your boss won't let you wear a mask?\n\nWhat if your parents are driving you crazy?\n\nOr what if you just feel really lonely?\n\nFrankly, this is a time when we could all use some advice and support - so we spoke to some of the US's favourite advice columnists, to find out what problems are bothering their readers the most - and what advice they have.\n\nYou can read more here.\n\nThe authors of Dr Nerdlove, Savage Love, Sense and Sensitivity, The Moneyist, Ask a Manager and ¡Hola Papi! are here to help Image caption: The authors of Dr Nerdlove, Savage Love, Sense and Sensitivity, The Moneyist, Ask a Manager and ¡Hola Papi! are here to help", "Det Con John Coker has been described as \"charismatic, kind and thoughtful\"\n\nA detective with British Transport Police (BTP) has died with coronavirus, the force has said.\n\nDet Con John Coker, 53, who was based at Euston's criminal investigations department, leaves a wife and three children.\n\nHe was \"charismatic, kind and thoughtful\" and \"much-loved and respected by all those he worked with\", Chief Constable Paul Crowther said.\n\nSo far, more than 14,600 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Crowther said his thoughts were with Det Con Coker's family and colleagues.\n\nHe added: \"John has been part of the BTP family for over a decade... he will be greatly missed by all in the force.\"\n\nAccording to BTP, Mr Coker first fell ill on 22 March and was taken into intensive care after his health did not improve. He died on Friday.\n\nTributes have also been paid to a Greater Manchester Police staff member, Marcia Pryce, 61, who died on 2 April after contracting coronavirus.\n\nMs Pryce worked for the force for more than 30 years.\n\nHer sister Amira Asantewa said: \"Marcia was a powerhouse, a positive influence in my life and the lives of the many people she knew and loved.\n\n\"She touched the lives of so many friends and colleagues over the years and made relationships that lasted a life time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Perception in Latin America that Covid-19 is rich person's disease\n\nIn Ecuador, the death toll stands at 403 but new figures from one province suggest thousands have died. The government in Guayas province reported 6,700 deaths in the first two weeks of April, far more than the usual 1,000 deaths there in the same period. The first recorded case was of an Ecuadorean woman returning from Spain. It backs the perception in Latin America that Covid-19 is a rich person's disease - a virus introduced to the region by affluent parts of society who had been travelling abroad. The high death toll is also a devastating consequence of the combination of an overburdened healthcare system and a deeply unequal society which means not everybody is able - or willing - to socially distance and stop work. Authorities argue they were quick to impose strict regulations and people chose to disregard measures but experts argue more could be done - and one thing that could help is testing. While Ecuador is not the worst offender in the region, low testing rates have made it very difficult to understand how the virus has moved through communities, some of which have been devastated by the high death toll. Read more about the situation in Ecuador here.", "Coronavirus testing will be rolled out to people working in public services such as police, fire and prison staff, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nCapacity was rising \"sharply\" but not as many NHS staff had come forward for tests as had been expected, he said.\n\nThe government said 21,328 tests were carried out on Thursday but there had been capacity for at least 38,000.\n\nMeanwhile, scientists say they should have at least a million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by September.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said there were \"no guarantees\" and it was not possible to put a date on when a vaccine would be created by.\n\nProducing one is \"a colossal undertaking\" and \"a complex process which will take many months\", he told the government's daily press briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded 847 new coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals on Thursday, taking the total to 14,576.\n\nThe figure does not include hundreds more who have died in care homes and the community.\n\nSpeaking by videolink to an online meeting of the Commons health committee earlier, Mr Hancock said the government had prioritised testing for hospital patients and NHS workers before expanding it to residents and staff in social care.\n\nHe added some 50,000 NHS workers had been tested so far.\n\nHowever, he said it was \"frustrating\" there was capacity for 10,000 more tests a day than were carried out on Thursday.\n\nThe government has a target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nEligibility for testing will also be expanded to critical local authority workers, the judiciary and Department for Work and Pensions staff, he said.\n\n\"We're able to do that because of the scale-up of testing,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock said he hoped anyone with symptoms would be able to be tested \"relatively soon\".\n\n\"Now we've got the curve under control, I want to be able to get back to the position that we can test everybody with symptoms - and I anticipate being able to do that relatively soon because we're increasing capacity, as I say,\" he said.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, welcomed the expansion of testing.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is a shame it has come this late, with thousands of firefighters already self-isolating - this is something that could have been easily avoided.\"\n\nMr Wrack said there were also issues around how accessible testing was, with many testing centres far out of town.\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, told the committee some sick NHS workers were compelled to drive for up to two hours to be tested.\n\nAlso speaking to the committee, Prof Anthony Costello, the director of University College London's Institute for Global Health, said there could be 40,000 deaths in the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said the UK had been \"too slow\" to react on a number of fronts to the crisis which may lead to it having \"probably the highest death rate in Europe\".\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, previously said it would be a \"good outcome\" if total UK deaths could be kept below 20,000.\n\nWarning that the UK would face \"further waves\" of the virus, Prof Costello said a system needed to be put in place that \"cannot just do a certain number of tests in the laboratory\" but one that reached out at \"district and community level\".\n\nSpeaking at the briefing, Sir Patrick said there was beginning to be a \"gradual decrease\" in the number of coronavirus patients in London hospitals and a flattening or decrease in other areas.\n\n\"The numbers are not only at a plateau but beginning to come down in some areas and that will translate into fewer people in intensive care in due course,\" he said.\n\n\"But do not expect this to be quick. This is not going to be a sudden drop, there will be a plateau - it will take a while for the numbers to come right down and that's why it's important that we continue with the strong social distancing measures that we have in place.\"\n\nSir Patrick added that he unfortunately expected the number of coronavirus-related deaths to continue to plateau \"for a little while\" before starting to come down slowly.", "Chemists have been getting up to a week's worth of prescriptions a day since the coronavirus crisis began\n\nA new drug for recovering heroin addicts is being rolled out across Wales to prevent them having to make daily trips to over-stretched pharmacies.\n\nBuprenorphine can be given as a monthly injection instead of alternatives such as methadone which are given daily.\n\nWales is the first UK nation to routinely offer the drug.\n\nOne woman on the treatment said: \"You just feel well... your life is your own again.\"\n\nChemists are among the businesses allowed to remain open in the UK and have been getting up to a week's worth of prescriptions a day since the coronavirus crisis began.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the new service will help to ensure people continue to receive support for their addiction and we continue to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nAnnouncing the roll-out, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said former heroin users were at greater risk of contracting coronavirus because, as a result of their substance misuse, they have poorer immune systems and many have underlying health conditions.\n\nA mother-of-one, who has been on the treatment for the past six months, said it was \"liberating\" and made her \"hopeful for the future\".\n\nShe said: \"I became an addict when I was a teenager after a bad relationship.\n\n\"Before I knew it my life was in a downhill spiral.\"\n\nShe stopped using heroin a decade ago, but six years later she relapsed and was using the drug again for a year.\n\n\"Even when I've sorted myself out I would wake up feeling dreadful and anxious,\" she said.\n\n\"I would have to take something to feel better - over-the-counter medication - I never just felt well.\"\n\nThe 36-year-old, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: \"It is like a sentence. You have got to march up to the chemist every day.\n\n\"Even though I had been clean for three-and-a-half years, I wouldn't feel that was true because I would still take something every morning to feel better.\n\n\"Every morning I felt I hadn't achieved anything because of that. This takes that away.\"\n\nSince being put on a buprenorphine pilot scheme in Wales, she said the monthly injections had given her \"independence\" and a clear head.\n\nShe said: \"With opiate-based medication you lose sensation, you don't yawn, feel goose bumps as there is a deadening effect on your body, you feel numb. But you don't get that with this. It makes you feel well, but also awake in a way you don't with methadone, which makes you feel dopey.\n\n\"It is only the last two months it has occurred to me that I just feel okay. I can't remember the last time that happened.\n\n\"It is like having an angel on your shoulder.\"\n\nThe use of the slow-release drug had been in the early stages of being trialled in a few areas across the UK, having only been approved for use at the end of last year.\n\nCardiff-based drugs charity Kaleidoscope Project believes it is the biggest prescriber of the drug in the UK.\n\nIts chief executive Martin Blakebrough said: \"It is still a relatively new drug, it has been used very sparsely in some parts of England. So they are looking to us to see how it works.\n\n\"We carefully picked people for the pilot who we felt would benefit, so the response has been positive, we just need to make sure people are still accessing other therapies as it is only a medical fix and doesn't deal with other underlying issues someone might have.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are two groups in particular we are using it with - the first is people who are on relatively low doses, but who still have to go to the pharmacy regularly and take their medicine under supervision. The second is people who have more chaotic lifestyles, they can't keep appointments, so we are keeping them stable by giving them a monthly dose.\"\n\nVaughan Gething said: \"This new service will help to ensure people continue to receive support for their addiction and we continue to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\n\"The staff in community pharmacies and our substance misuse services are doing an incredible job in very difficult circumstances. Reducing both their workload and the risk to their own health is vital.\"", "Councils in England have warned that the coronavirus crisis is pushing them to the brink of financial failure.\n\nThe Local Government Association said that without more funding some authorities would be forced to cut \"vital\" services.\n\nCouncils face increased costs from supporting vulnerable people, while income from fees and rates is falling.\n\nThe government said it was providing £1.6bn extra to help them \"provide services\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe LGA welcomed this, but said more money was needed and called for a \"cast-iron commitment\" to cover the costs of coronavirus-related work.\n\nMany councils were already under severe financial strain before the coronavirus crisis, particularly those responsible for social care.\n\nSince 2010 many local authorities have had to cut services to balance the books. The crisis has resulted in extra pressure on services that support the most vulnerable: the elderly, disabled and homeless.\n\nAt the same time income from fees and charges has dried up, and there's fear that council tax revenues may fall as people face financial hardship.\n\nAt the start of this crisis, council leaders said they largely felt reassured by government promises of support. Now - with so much demand on the Treasury - there's scepticism about how much more funding will be forthcoming.\n\nLocal government, which often feels like a forgotten frontline service, wants to ensure its voice is heard among the calls for support. Hence this stark warning about the potential consequences for crucial services if it doesn't get more cash.\n\nThe LGA says councils are spending more on helping disabled, older and homeless people through the crisis, but leisure and planning services at many town halls have been scaled back or closed, meaning income has \"dried up\".\n\nRichard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board, said: \"Additional funding is urgently needed to help councils get through this crisis, support the vulnerable and adapt to life once we defeat this virus, when our local services will be needed more than ever to help communities rebuild.\n\n\"It would be wrong and unacceptable if councils are then forced to make further cutbacks to the very services that will have helped the nation through this crisis and the key workers who are producing heroics on the front line see their jobs placed at risk.\"\n\nThe government has announced councils will be able to defer £2.6bn in business rate payments owed to central government.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"We've already provided £1.6bn of additional funding and have announced new measures to help ease immediate cash flow pressures faced by councils in England.\"", "The Queen addressing the nation during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nThere will be no gun salutes to mark the Queen's 94th birthday on Tuesday because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nA Buckingham Palace official said the monarch had decided it would not be appropriate at this time.\n\nIt is believed to be the first time in her 68-year reign that there will be no such salute, which usually take place at Hyde Park and the Tower of London.\n\nThe Trooping the Colour parade in June to mark the Queen's official birthday has already been cancelled.\n\nThat announcement came after the government introduced restrictions in the UK which required people to stay at home.\n\nOver the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, the Queen stressed the importance of maintaining the coronavirus lockdown, saying \"by keeping apart we keep others safe\".\n\nThat message followed her televised address to the nation on 5 April in which she stressed the country would overcome the virus, and told Britons in lockdown: \"We will meet again.\"\n\nGun salutes are used to mark special royal occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries\n\nThe Palace said the Queen's birthday on 21 April would not be marked in any special way, adding that any phone or video calls she has with family would be kept private.\n\nThe Queen cut short her official duties because of the coronavirus crisis, and is staying at Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh.\n• None Queen: 'We will succeed' in fight against virus", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 99-year-old war veteran has been left \"speechless\" after raising more than £23m for the NHS.\n\nCapt Tom Moore originally aimed to raise just £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge hailed him as a \"one-man fundraising machine\".\n\nHis daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said: \"There are no words left to say. We cannot believe people's generosity and he's just floored by it.\"\n\nMs Ingram-Moore continued: \"We're all speechless. It's not even two weeks since this started. We're just working our socks off supporting him and this phenomenon.\n\n\"Yesterday we did 35 interviews and another 17 today but the Yorkshireman takes it all in his stride.\n\n\"He's become an A-list celebrity. I'm just the sidekick.\"\n\nMore than a million people have now made donations to his JustGiving page.\n\nAnd more than half a million people have called for Capt Tom to be knighted in a petition to the Honours Committee.\n\nThe petition, which was set up earlier this week, has received more than 680,000 signatures after his efforts grabbed the nation's attention.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is looking at ways to recognise his \"heroic efforts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Captain Tom, the 99-year-old who raised more than £20m for the NHS\n\nAs he finished the challenge on Thursday, having raised about £14m, Capt Tom said it was \"an absolutely fantastic sum of money\".\n\nIn a tweet, he said he would be doing \"less walking\" on Friday but would be talking to TV channels in the United States, Argentina, Europe and the Middle East.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 2 he said the sum of money was \"absolutely enormous\" and \"very difficult to imagine\". He also thanked everyone who had donated for their support.\n\n\"I say thank you very much indeed. I appreciate it because the object for which we're donating is so important and so necessary... I think you're all so kind and thoughtful contributing to this cause,\" he said.\n\nThe total includes an undisclosed donation from the Duke of Cambridge, who, with the Duchess of Cambridge, recorded a special video message for the veteran.\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nPrince William said: \"It's amazing and what I love also is that he's a 99-year-old war vet.\n\n\"He's been around a long time, he knows everything and it's wonderful that everyone has been inspired by his story and his determination.\n\n\"He's a one-man fundraising machine and God knows what the final total will be. But good on him, and I hope it keeps going.\"\n\nIn response, Capt Tom said: \"It's absolutely amazing that my super prince can say something like that.\"\n\nHe also said it was \"a moment we will never forget\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapt Tom, who is originally from Keighley in West Yorkshire, has seemingly risen from nowhere to the status of near national treasure.\n\nKeighley Town Council has tweeted that it will \"honour the fundraising hero\" with the freedom of the town.\n\nCapt Tom began raising funds to thank NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nWith the aid of a walking frame, he completed 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, in 10-lap chunks well before his birthday on 30 April.\n\nNHS Charities Together said it was \"truly inspired and humbled\" by his efforts.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Roads, streets and public spaces have been changing since the government announced the UK lockdown on 23 March and urged people to stay at home.\n\nCity centres are eerily quiet, once-gridlocked roads now run clear and building sites are dormant.\n\nMeanwhile in the East Midlands, car production has been suspended at the Toyota factory, Twycross Zoo is closed to visitors and weddings have been postponed at Tissington Hall.", "Home energy use is up by up to 30% during the middle of the day, new analysis by energy firms reveals.\n\nMuch of the population is working from home and schools have closed, meaning home computers and televisions are busier than ever.\n\nThe highest peak is at lunchtime, when cooking is added to the power consumption of working from home.\n\nBut overall, the country is actually using less energy because of businesses being closed.\n\nThe National Grid reports that morning and afternoon electricity demand is down by nearly 20%. But most of that is due to lower demand from large, industrial users like factories.\n\nAt home, where individuals are paying, overall demand is up - and may reveal some details about our new habits.\n\nMany people are no longer commuting to the office - giving them longer to stay in bed before getting ready for work. Energy providers can see that, in a \"delay\" to early electricity demand.\n\n\"Households are consuming 21% less electricity than usual at 07:30, as fewer people commute to work, and are taking back the time to sleep later instead,\" a spokeswoman for Bulb Energy said, based on data from more than 2,000 smart meters.\n\nOvo Energy is seeing similar results from a sample of 230,000 customers.\n\n\"Morning routines are less structured and therefore the peak has reduced by up to 20%, as many people are working from home or not working at all,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are seeing big changes in the way people consume energy during the lockdown period.\"\n\nAny energy being saved in the morning is being consumed later. Ovo reports seeing up to a 30% increase in the midday period, and Bulb reports a 27% rise. EDF did not provide figures, but said it was seeing notably higher consumption in the middle of the day.\n\nBulb also says it is seeing a 7% drop in energy use between 21:00 and 23:00, \"suggesting people are switching off earlier too\".\n\nDespite the midday surge, overall domestic demand has increased by only a few percentage points, rather than dramatically surging - partly due to weekend use remaining mostly the same.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The surprising truth about UK energy use\n\nOvo says that \"balancing out the ups and downs\", it is only seeing a 6% overall increase in domestic consumption. EDF says it is only seeing a 3% rise.\n\nBulb said overall use across the week is flat. But it also calculated its weekday usage separately - and said use is up by 17% between 09:00 and 17:00 Monday-Friday. At the weekend, electricity use is actually down 3% - which it attributes to the warmer weather.\n\nGas use, too, is not showing any clear surge in demand, since many people use it for central heating, and the lockdown coincided with warmer weather.\n\nDespite those small overall numbers, energy bills may rise for some more than others. Professionals who use power-hungry computing equipment, or shared households with many people, could see their bills increase.\n\nIn March, the government agreed a deal with energy providers to support those who may have difficulty paying their bills during the crisis, which has left many people out of work.\n\n\"With millions of people having to stay at home, our energy bills will likely rise as we use more gas and electricity,\" says Guy Anker, deputy editor of financial site MoneySavingExpert.com.\n\n\"So with money tight for so many, it makes it even more imperative to cut back on usage where you can, and also to cut back on your bills by ditching rip-off tariffs.\"\n\nSwitching from a standard tariff could save people up to £350 a year, he says - and using one of the many available price comparison sites should only take five minutes.\n\n\"Your supply isn't cut off as part of the process, while no one visits your home unless you want or need smart meters - though installations are paused for now, so it's not an issue during the lockdown.\"", "Police have urged people not to drive to the Lincolnshire coast to take exercise.\n\nIt comes after details of a document - previously sent to police forces across the UK - were made public.\n\nThe document - entitled \"what constitutes a reasonable excuse to leave the place where you live\" - was issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council and the College of Policing,\n\nOn exercise, it states driving to the countryside for a walk is \"reasonable\" if \"far more time\" is spent walking than driving.\n\nQuote Message: If you don't need to travel in your car to go for a walk, because you can walk from your house, then actually don't do that.. There is opportunity for the majority of our communities in the county to go from their home address or very close to their home address without the need to travel half an hour to the coast\". from Jason Harwin Deputy Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police If you don't need to travel in your car to go for a walk, because you can walk from your house, then actually don't do that.. There is opportunity for the majority of our communities in the county to go from their home address or very close to their home address without the need to travel half an hour to the coast\".", "At the coronavirus press briefing, President Trump said thatsome governors have been too tough with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nHe said protestors in Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia have a right to express their views because \"they’ve been treated a little bit rough\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and the Rolling Stones Together At Home\n\nSome of the biggest names in music have joined forces to celebrate healthcare workers in a globally televised concert.\n\nLady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish were among more than 100 artists who performed songs from their living rooms, due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Rolling Stones even managed to play together from four separate locations.\n\nThe eight-hour show also featured real-life stories from those on the front line of the fight against Covid-19.\n\nThe event raised almost $128m (£102m), with proceeds going towards vaccine development and local and regional charities, organisers Global Citizen said.\n\nLady Gaga, who curated the line-up, called the event \"a love letter to the world\".\n\nDedicating the show to first responders and medical staff, she said the participating musicians all wanted \"to give back a little bit of the kindness that you've given us\".\n\nShe went on to play an upbeat version of Charlie Chaplin's Smile, adding: \"We want to get to the other side of this pandemic and we know you do too.\"\n\nPaul McCartney joined the programme shortly after, calling health-care workers \"the real heroes\" of the crisis and remembering his mother Mary, who was a nurse during the Second World War.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nTitled One World: Together At Home, the concert was organised by the Global Citizen movement and the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nIt began with a montage of people under lockdown applauding the efforts of healthcare workers around the world - from France, Spain, the UK, the US and elsewhere.\n\n\"To all of our frontline healthcare workers, we are with you. Thank you for being there for us,\" read an on-screen caption.\n\nProceeds generated from the concert will go to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO, but Lady Gaga made clear the show was not a fundraising telethon and would focus on entertainment and messages of solidarity.\n\nThe global music marathon began with US singer songwriter Andra Day\n\nFirst to perform was US singer songwriter Andra Day, who sang the ballad Rise Up from her apartment, setting the tone for the rest of the evening.\n\nOne Direction star Niall Horan followed shortly afterwards singing Black and White with an acoustic guitar from his living room and former bandmate Liam Payne appeared with the song Midnight.\n\n\"It's a pretty dark time for us all right now... and I feel we're all being brought a lot closer together by this solidarity,\" he said.\n\nThe Killers' singer Brandon Flowers (right) made a special dedication to teachers who are working through the pandemic\n\nBrandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers performed their hit Mr Brightside, while US singer Adam Lambert gave a rendition of the Tears for Fears song Mad World - which he first performed as an X Factor contestant in 2009.\n\nJohn Legend teamed up with Sam Smith to cover Ben E King's Stand By Me, while Billie Eilish played a soulful version of Bobby Hebb's Sunny.\n\n\"I love this song,\" said the star. \"It's always warmed my heart and made me feel good, and I wanted to make you guys feel good, too.\"\n\nThe Rolling Stones also delivered a spirited version You Can't Always Get What You Want - despite drummer Charlie Watts being reduced to banging on flight cases and the arm of a sofa, in the absence of his drum kit.\n\nRita Ora gave a pre-recorded performance of her 2014 song I Will Never Let You Down\n\nBritish singer Rita Ora urged viewers to stay safe and follow WHO recommendations, before singing I Will Never Let You Down.\n\nAnnie Lennox, meanwhile, appeared to address President Donald Trump's threat to pull funding from the WHO earlier this week.\n\n\"In this unprecedented moment in history we have a collective responsibility to make sure that global health systems are strong enough to identify and prevent future pandemics before they happen again,\" said the singer, although she didn't mention President Trump by name.\n\nEllie Goulding and Christine + The Queens also addressed the mental health issues arising from the coronavirus lockdown, urging viewers to reach out to friends if they were feeling low.\n\n\"I know it's hard,\" said Christine, whose real name is Heloise Letissier, \"and don't hesitate to reach out to people virtually if you feel down.\"\n\nThe concert was split into two parts, with a six-hour \"pre-show\" streamed on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube; followed by the main two-hour broadcast, which was shown simultaneously by all three of the main US TV networks.\n\nChat show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon hosted that portion of the show, during which Fallon teamed up with hip-hop group The Roots and dozens of healthcare workers to perform a coronavirus-themed version of the 80s hit Safety Dance.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video 2 by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\n\nOther performers included Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Burna Boy, Luis Fonsi, Hozier and Stevie Wonder - who played a cover of Bill Withers' song Lean On Me.\n\nTaylor Swift also gave an emotional performance of her ballad Soon You'll Get Better, sat against the pastel-coloured floral backdrop of the piano room in her house.\n\nOriginally written as a memoir of Swift's grief over her mother's cancer diagnosis, the lyrics about hospital waiting rooms and desperate prayers took on an added resonance in the context of the pandemic.\n\nThe show closed with Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Andrea Bocelli and John Legend collaborating on a version of The Prayer - originally written for the 1998 film Quest For Camelot - whose lyrics seek a way out of the darkness.\n\n\"When we lose our way / Lead us to the place / Guide us with your grace / To a place where we'll be safe.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Global Citizen This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn the UK, BBC One will screen excerpts of the concert at 19:15-21:15 BST on Sunday, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, Dermot O'Leary and Clara Amfo.\n\nThey will also introduce extra performances from British artists like Little Mix, Sir Tom Jones and Rag 'N' Bone Man, and stories from frontline workers in the UK. Additional footage from the main concert will also be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lang Lang: \"We are so pleased and so honoured to be playing for them\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"I told local councils I would give them the resources to do the job\"\n\nParks and cemeteries must remain open and family can attend loved ones' funerals, Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nSpeaking at Number 10, he said \"people need parks\" but they must observe social distancing and not congregate in groups.\n\nHe also announced an extra £1.6bn for local councils in England.\n\nAnd the ethnicity of victims will be recorded, in an attempt to understand why it affects some groups more.\n\nGiving the government's daily briefing, Mr Jenrick said he had \"made it clear\" to councils that all parks must remain open, after some closed their gates in recent weeks.\n\nHe said lockdown measures were harder for those without gardens or open spaces and that they needed to be accessible for \"the health of the nation\".\n\nMr Jenrick said funerals can go ahead with close family members present so that they can say a \"respectful goodbye\" to those they love.\n\nHe pointed to the death of 13-year-old Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, who died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nThe tragedy was compounded after the family could not attend his funeral, he continued - adding: \"That is not right and it shouldn't have happened.\"\n\nStanding alongside the minister, NHS England's medical director addressed the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS and other caring staff.\n\nProf Stephen Powis said it was \"critical\" PPE gets to NHS staff so they can follow the best possible guidance on its use.\n\nMr Jenrick said 400,000 gowns were arriving in the UK from Turkey on Sunday.\n\nCouncils are facing increased costs during the coronavirus outbreak, from supporting vulnerable people and providing essential services.\n\nMr Jenrick said council workers were the \"unsung heroes\" of the coronavirus response.\n\nThe additional £1.6bn announced doubles the amount the government has said it will pay.\n\nMr Jenrick has said the new total of £3.2bn in funding means an extra £300m would go to the devolved administrations - £155m for Scotland, £95m for Wales and £50m for Northern Ireland.\n\nLocal Government Association (LGA) chairman, Cllr James Jamieson, welcomed the extra cash pledge, saying it would give councils \"breathing space\". But Richard Watts, the LGA's resource chairman, had previously warned Mr Jenrick of \"extreme cost-cutting\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"There does appear to be a disproportionate impact of the virus upon BAME communities\".\n\nMr Jenrick thanked 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore, who has raised an \"astonishing\" £23m for the NHS, and announced he would be guest of honour at opening of the new Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate next week.\n\nHe also acknowledged research was needed to better understand the disproportionate impact of the virus on people from BAME communities.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer has asked Public Health to look at what might be accounting for increased risks and increased deaths in particular groups.\n\nProf Powis said he was also concerned, especially as a number of NHS England staff were from the groups affected and he wanted to know what they could do to support and protect them.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years.\n\nThe rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on 27 May, taking two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nBoth the rocket and spacecraft were developed by private company SpaceX.\n\nNasa has been using Russian rockets for crewed flights since its space shuttle was retired in 2011.\n\nIf successful, SpaceX – headed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - will become the first private firm to send Nasa astronauts into space.\n\nThe Falcon Nine rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will take off from the space centre’s historic Pad 39A, the same one used for the Apollo and shuttle missions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the critical moments from the SpaceX test\n\nIt will take astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley approximately 24 hours to reach the ISS.\n\nOne American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are currently aboard the ISS.", "Health care workers have to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to help prevent catching coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC has been inside Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge to see how much protective clothing staff working in the Intensive Care Unit have to wear to stay safe.", "The National Lottery said the winner will take home £58,366,487.50 after matching all five main numbers and the lucky stars.\n\nFriday's winning main numbers were 16, 28, 32, 37, and 45 - with lucky star numbers 1 and 11.\n\nIt comes after a player in South Ayrshire made a claim for a separate £57.8m Euromillions prize a month after winning it.\n\nA claim has been staked for Friday's jackpot, operator Camelot has said.\n\nIf the winner is an individual, as opposed to a syndicate, the jackpot would instantly see their wealth equal that of singer Harry Styles and Man City's Sergio Aguero, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nHarry Styles and Sergio Aguero are reported to have fortunes worth around £58m\n\nIt is up to the winning ticket-holder to decide if they wish to go public with their news.\n\nMeanwhile, Camelot confirmed on Friday that a claim had finally been made for the 17 March jackpot.\n\nIt said the claim is going through a validation process before any payment is made. Once confirmed, the winner will have the option of whether to reveal their identity - and explain why they waited a whole month before claiming the prize.", "After eight draining weeks of culinary challenges, Thomas Frake has become the latest winner of BBC One's MasterChef.\n\nThe 32-year-old, who lives in London and works in finance, beat 31-year-old David Rickett and 24-year-old Sandy Tang to become the show's 16th winner.\n\nFriday's grand final saw the remaining three chefs cook three courses for judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace.\n\nTorode described the winner as \"a real talent\" and \"a grafter\", while Wallace praised his \"definitive style\".\n\nThomas's winning menu began with monkfish scampi, continued with an ox cheek main and finished with a salted caramel custard tart dessert.\n\nWallace called his \"exceptional\" efforts \"proper, old-fashioned, hearty grub\" that \"had his heart and his soul in every single forkful\".\n\nThomas is the show's 16th winner since its 2005 relaunch\n\nThomas, who beat 59 other amateur cooks to win the MasterChef 2020 trophy, said his victory was \"a dream come true\".\n\n\"I can't see me not working in food for the rest of my life because it just makes me happy seeing other people happy with it,\" he continued.\n\nBorn in east London and raised with his three younger brothers in London and Kent, he now lives in south London with his girlfriend.\n\nHe said his ambition was to one day own a gastropub - \"maybe a classic East End boozer or a picturesque country pub.\"\n\nThe 2020 MasterChef final is available to view on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lomond MRT on a rescue just before call-outs stopped\n\nScottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) says its teams have not been called to a mountain rescue since 22 March.\n\nThe organisation said it was the longest time between call outs since the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001.\n\nThe crisis, the worst to hit agriculture in decades, led to months long restrictions on access to land.\n\nLast month, SMR urged people to heed advice around coronavirus and to stay at home.\n\nGlencoe and Lochaber mountain rescue teams, who are not members of SMR, also issued appeals urging people not to visit Scotland's hills and mountains.\n\nThey warned an incident potentially risked exposing rescuers and the wider public to the virus.\n\nIt would also divert the emergency services and NHS from their work dealing with Covid-19.\n\nOn Friday, SMR said it had been 26 days since its teams had been called to a mountain rescue.\n\nThanking the public for heeding last month's warning, SMR said: \"We can do this. Stay safe, stay local, stay well.\"\n\nOver the weekend of March 21 and 22, Skye, Lomond and Braemar mountain rescue teams were involved in mountain rescues.\n\nSMR teams are typically involved in a more than 400 rescue operations a year, with the vast majority involving hillwalking in summer.", "How did the biggest cluster in the US emerge in a corner of South Dakota? Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory and questions remain about what the company did to protect staff.\n\nOn the afternoon of 25 March, Julia sat down at her laptop and logged into a phony Facebook account. She'd opened it in middle school, to surreptitiously monitor boys she had crushes on. But now, many years later, it was about to serve a much more serious purpose.\n\n\"Can you please look into Smithfield,\" she typed in a message to an account called Argus911, the Facebook-based tip line for the local newspaper, the Argus Leader. \"They do have a positive [Covid-19] case and are planning to stay open.\" By \"Smithfield\", she was referring to the Smithfield Foods pork-processing plant located in her town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The factory - a massive, eight-story white box perched on the banks of the Big Sioux River - is the ninth-largest hog-processing facility in the US. When running at full capacity, it processes 19,500 freshly-slaughtered hogs per day, slicing, grinding and smoking them into millions of pounds of bacon, hot dogs and spiral-cut hams. With 3,700 workers, it is also the fourth-largest employer in the city.\n\n\"Thank you for the tip,\" the Argus911 account responded. \"What job did the worker who tested positive have?\"\n\n\"We are not exactly sure,\" Julia wrote back.\n\n\"OK, thanks,\" Argus911 replied. \"We'll be in touch.\"\n\nThe next day, at 7:35am, the Argus Leader published the story on its website: \"Smithfield Foods employee tests positive for coronavirus\". The reporter confirmed through a company spokeswoman that, indeed, an employee had tested positive, was in a 14-day quarantine, and that his or her work area and other common spaces had been \"thoroughly sanitised\". But the plant, deemed part of a \"critical infrastructure industry\" by the Trump administration, would remain fully operational.\n\n\"Food is an essential part of all our lives, and our more than 40,000 US team members, thousands of American family farmers and our many other supply chain partners are a crucial part of our nation's response to Covid-19,\" Smithfield CEO Kenneth Sullivan said in an online video statement released 19 March to explain the decision to keep factories open. \"We are taking the utmost precautions to ensure the health and well-being of our employees and consumers.\"\n\n\"There had been rumours there were cases even before that,\" she recalled. \"I heard about people getting hospitalised from Smithfield specifically. They only know from word of mouth.\"\n\nJulia does not work at the factory. She is a graduate student in her 20s, stuck back at home after her university shut in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Her parents, two long-time Smithfield employees with whom she is especially close, told her what was happening at the factory that day. She is just one of several adult children of factory workers - many the first-generation children of immigrants, some calling themselves Children of Smithfield - who have taken it upon themselves to speak out about the outbreak.\n\n\"My parents don't know English. They can't advocate for themselves,\" said Julia. \"Someone has to talk for them.\"\n\nHer family, like many others in Sioux Falls, did everything they could to avoid falling ill. Julia's parents used up all their remaining vacation time to stay home. After work, they took off their shoes outside and headed straight into the shower. Julia bought them cloth headbands at Walmart to pull over their mouths and noses while on the line.\n\nFor Julia, alerting the media was just the next logical step in trying to keep them all healthy, by creating public pressure to close the plant down and keep her parents home. Instead, it marked the beginning of nearly three anxiety-filled weeks during which her mother and father continued to report to a factory they knew could be contaminated, to jobs they could not afford to lose. They stood side-by-side less than a foot away from their colleagues on production lines, they passed in and out of crowded locker rooms, walkways and cafeterias.\n\nDuring that time, the number of confirmed cases among Smithfield employees slowly mounted, from 80 to 190 to 238.\n\nBy 15 April, when Smithfield finally closed under pressure from the South Dakota governor's office, the plant had become the number one hotspot in the US, with a cluster of 644 confirmed cases among Smithfield employees and people who contracted it from them. In total, Smithfield-related infections account for 55% of the caseload in the state, which is far outpacing its far more populous Midwestern neighbour states in cases per capita. According to the New York Times, the Smithfield Foods case numbers have surpassed the USS Theodore Roosevelt naval ship and the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois.\n\nThose figures were released one day after the first Smithfield employee died in hospital.\n\n\"He got that virus there. He was very healthy before,\" his wife, Angelita, told the BBC in Spanish. \"My husband will not be the only one to die.\"\n\nThe Smithfield pork plant, located in a Republican-led state that is one of five in the US that has not issued any kind of shelter-in-place order, has become a microcosm illustrating the socioeconomic disparities laid bare by the global pandemic. While many white-collar workers around the country are sheltering in place and working from home, food industry workers like the employees at Smithfield are deemed \"essential\" and must remain on the front lines.\n\n\"These jobs for essential workers are lower paying than the average job across America, in some cases by significant margins. So home health aides, cashiers - absolutely essential, on the front lines, have to physically report to work,\" said Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Brookings Institute. \"They are more predominantly African American or Hispanic than the overall working populations.\"\n\nThe workforce at Smithfield is made up largely of immigrants and refugees from places like Myanmar, Ethiopia, Nepal, Congo and El Salvador. There are 80 different languages spoken in the plant. Estimates of the mean hourly wage range from $14-16 an hour. Those hours are long, the work is gruelling, and standing on a production line often means being less than a foot away from your co-workers on either side.\n\nThe BBC spoke to half a dozen current and former Smithfield employees who say that while they were afraid to continue going to work, deciding between employment and their health has been an impossible choice.\n\n\"I have a lot of bills. My baby's coming soon - I have to work,\" said one 25-year-old employee whose wife is eight months pregnant. \"If I get a positive, I'm really worried I can't save my wife.\"\n\nFood processing plants throughout the country are experiencing coronavirus outbreaks which have the potential to disrupt the country's food supply chain. A JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado has shut after five deaths and 103 infections among its employees. Two workers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa also died, while 148 others were sickened.\n\nThe closure of a large meat processing facility like the one in Sioux Falls causes massive upstream disruption, stranding farmers without a place to sell their livestock. About 550 independent farms send their pigs to the Sioux Falls plant.\n\nWhen announcing the shutdown, Smithfield CEO Sullivan warned of \"severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions\" for the supply of meat.\n\nBut according to Smithfield employees, their union representatives, and advocates for the immigrant community in Sioux Falls, the outbreak that led to the plant closure was avoidable. They allege early requests for personal protective equipment were ignored, that sick workers were incentivised to continue working, and that information regarding the spread of the virus was kept from them, even when they were at risk of exposing family and the broader public.\n\n\"If the federal government wants the company to stay open, then whose responsibility is it to make sure these companies are doing what they have to do to keep them safe?\" said Nancy Reynoza, founder of Que Pasa Sioux Falls, a Spanish-language news source who said she's been hearing from distraught Smithfield workers for weeks.\n\nThe BBC submitted a detailed list of questions and worker allegations to Smithfield, and they did not comment on the allegations put to them on individual cases.\n\n\"First and foremost, the health and safety of our employees and communities is our top priority each and every day,\" the statement said. \"Beginning in February, we instituted a series of stringent and detailed processes and protocols in early March that follow the strict guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to effectively manage any potential Covid-19 cases in our operations.\"\n\nThe outbreak left people like Julia, whose mother has underlying, chronic health conditions, overwhelmed by the fear that her parents were putting their lives at risk in an attempt to keep their jobs.\n\n\"My parents are all I have. I have to think about potentially not having them in my life,\" she said, her voice breaking. \"I want to share what's going on so there's an actual track record of what the company isn't doing.\"\n\nAhmed first saw Neela on the Smithfield floor during one of their shifts. He liked her skin, she liked his laugh. When he started asking around about her, Ahmed learned that they were both from the same village in Ethiopia and they both spoke the same language, Oromo.\n\n\"Wow, I'm so excited. In my breaktime, I keep searching where she work,\" Ahmed recalled. \"Right away, I stop by her line. I say, 'Hey, what's up.' I tell her she's beautiful.\"\n\nAhmed took Neela to a trendy New American restaurant. They went on a week-long vacation to Wisconsin Dells, a campy Midwest vacation destination known for its water slides and hot springs. They fell in love and got married.\n\nNow Neela is eight months pregnant with their first child. Although she quit Smithfield back in December, Ahmed continued going to work during the outbreak even though he was terrified that he would infect his wife and their unborn baby with the virus. Because Neela started having difficulty walking in her third trimester, Ahmed needed to help her - they can't isolate from one another.\n\nAhmed says two of his friends in the plant have tested positive. Then he began exhibiting symptoms himself.\n\n\"Smithfield - they don't care about employees,\" said Neela. \"They only care about their money.\"\n\nAccording to Kooper Caraway, president of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO, union officials approached management at Smithfield in early March to request multiple measures to increase worker safety, including staggering shifts and lunch schedules, which can pack 500 workers into the factory cafeteria at once. He said they also requested personal protective gear like masks and overcoats, temperature-checking at the doors and sanitation stations.\n\n\"This was before anyone at the plant tested positive,\" said Caraway. \"Management dragged their feet, didn't take worker demands seriously.\"\n\nTim was a new employee going through orientation when he heard about the first case from someone sitting next to him. But he says after that initial announcement, the company got very quiet.\n\n\"We didn't really hear nothing more about the coronavirus outbreak,\" he said. \"We thought it was good.\" Then, on 8 April, the South Dakota State Health Department confirmed there were 80 cases at the plant. Multiple employees told the BBC that they found out from media reports, not from management at Smithfield.\n\n\"I've found out about some people having the virus in my department, but other co-workers told me,\" said Julia's mother, Helen.\n\nA temperature checking station was erected under a white tent at the main entrance to the factory, but Reynoza and Caraway both said that they were told workers with running elevated temperatures were allowed to come into the factory anyway. According to Helen, if workers wanted to avoid the temperature check, they could enter a side door.\n\nSmithfield instituted other changes, like building cardboard cubicles around lunch table seats to create a barrier between workers, staggering shifts, and putting out hand sanitiser stations. But multiple workers said - and photos sent to the BBC seem to confirm - that personal protective equipment came in the form of beard nets to wear over their faces, which do not protect from airborne particles like a surgical or N95 mask would.\n\n\"I haven't read anything from the CDC that says a hair net over your face will do much good,\" said Caraway.\n\nSmithfield did not respond to questions about the beard nets or provide details about what PPE they made available to workers, writing instead that, \"given the stress on supply chains, we have been working around the clock to procure thermal scanning equipment and masks, both of which are in short supply\".\n\nAt a JBS Plant in Worthington, Minnesota, 30 minutes away from Sioux Falls, union representatives said their company provided workers with \"gloves, surgical masks, face shields, overcoats\", according to the Star Tribune.(On Friday, it emerged that the JBS Plant has 19 confirmed cases). A spokesman for Tyson Foods told the New York Times that their policy is to notify employees if they have been in contact with anyone who is confirmed to have the virus.\n\nIn response, some employees started bringing their own masks to the plant. Others began quarantining themselves from family.\n\nKaleb, who has been with Smithfield for 12 years, told the BBC that for the past two weeks, he's been sealing himself in a room away from his wife, his six-month-old daughter and his three-year-old son because he can't be sure he isn't bringing the virus home with him everyday.\n\n\"My little boy you know, I lock the door - he knock on the door. 'Hey, daddy you wanna come out?' I say, 'Go with your mom,'\" he says. \"I don't have a choice. What can I do? I want to try to save my family.\"\n\nIf employees like Kaleb were to quit, they would be ineligible for unemployment. Advocates are hearing from visa-holders who fret that even if they were to apply for unemployment, they might be considered \"public charges\" which could render them ineligible for permanent residency under a new rule enacted by the Trump administration last year. (According to a spokeswoman for the Ways and Means Committee, unemployment compensation is an \"earned benefit\" that would not disqualify visa-holders from residency.)\" The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (Cares) Act excludes anyone living in a mixed-status household with an undocumented family member.\n\n\"They do not qualify for anything,\" said Taneeza Islam, the executive director of South Dakota Voices for Peace and an immigration lawyer. \"Their choice is between putting food on the table, and going to work and getting exposed.\"\n\nOn 9 April, with 80 cases confirmed, Smithfield released a statement saying that the plant would close for three days over the Easter weekend for deep cleaning, and return to full capacity that Tuesday. \"The company will suspend operations in a large section of the plant on April 11 and completely shutter on April 12 and April 13,\" a statement from the company read.\n\nBut the BBC learned through interviews with workers and advocates that Smithfield employees were still being called into work on all three days. Reynoza took videos showing the company parking lot filled with cars, and employees entering the plant. Caraway said he learned subsequently that the plant was running at about 60-65% capacity, meaning hundreds of workers were still coming in.\n\n\"I haven't stopped working yet. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday and they want me to come back today,\" Tim told the BBC on the Monday after Easter weekend. \"I'm terrified. Terrified. Like I'm at a loss for words. [But] I got four kids to take care of. That income is what provides a roof over my head.\"\n\nSioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, who said he was impressed and satisfied by the mitigation efforts taking place at Smithfield, admitted he felt surprised when he learned that the plant was still partially open.\n\n\"There could have been more transparency by them on the measures they were taking,\" he said. \"The message to the public didn't match the actual plan.\"\n\nSmithfield began offering employees a $500 \"responsibility bonus\" if they finished their shifts through the end of the month, which Islam characterised as a \"bribe\" to work in unsafe conditions.\n\nSara Telahun Birhe, an organiser with Children of Smithfield, said her mother had previously decided she would not return, but changed her mind when she heard about the bonus. \"We're devastated by the idea that she's going to go in just for $500,\" Telahun Birhe said.\n\nIn its statement, Smithfield wrote that the bonus is part of Smithfield's #ThankAFoodWorker initiative, adding: \"Employees who miss work due to Covid-19 exposure or diagnosis will receive the Responsibility Bonus.\"\n\nIn part due to the incomplete shutdown and in part due to the rising number of cases coming out of the plant, on 11 April both South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and TenHaken sent a joint letter to Smithfield calling for a 14-day \"pause\" in operations. The next day, Smithfield leadership announced that they would comply - on 15 April, meaning there was still one more day of work in a building.\n\nCaraway said workers who went in on the final Tuesday received roughly double their normal wages but there had been no deep clean. \"They're still going into a dirty building.\"\n\nSmithfield did not respond to questions about when its Sioux Falls factory underwent deep cleaning, writing that \"our facilities are thoroughly cleaned and sanitized every single day\".\n\nBoth of Julia's parents were scheduled to work at Smithfield on Tuesday 14 April, its final day in business before the 14-day shutdown. Then, on Saturday, Helen started to cough. The next day, as fluffy white snow flew over Sioux Falls, Julia insisted that her mother get tested. Helen tried to put it off, saying it was nothing.\n\n\"My mom just really hates going to the doctor,\" said Julia, who eventually won the argument and Helen went to a drive-in testing centre at the local hospital. They stuck a swab into the back of each nostril and sent her home.\n\n\"If I were to have Covid-19, I clearly would have gotten it at the factory,\" she said. \"This week I have worked on three different floors. I've eaten in two different cafeterias. Just imagine every place I've been in, touched inside that factory. I've been walking through the whole place.\"\n\nOn the Tuesday they were scheduled to return to work, Julia's parents woke up at 4am like they normally do and called into Smithfield to explain that they couldn't come while awaiting Helen's test result.\n\nThe call finally came later that afternoon.\n\nJulia spoke to the medical technician on her mother's mobile phone, while her parents sat watching her face for a reaction. When Julia heard the words \"positive for Covid-19\" she gave them a thumbs up, which she meant to indicate \"positive\". Helen and Juan misunderstood, and reached out for one another, a gesture of celebration that horrified Julia as she scrambled to explain that, no, Helen does have the virus. Her father retreated into the kitchen, where Julia glimpsed him trying to hold back tears.\n\nOn the same day that Helen received her results, the issue of the Smithfield plant had turned fully political. Mayor TenHaken formally requested that Governor Noem issue a shelter-in-place order for Sioux Falls' surrounding counties as well as an isolation centre. She denied both requests. Despite the steep increase in cases, Noem also continued to decline to issue a shelter-in-place order in South Dakota, specifically saying that such an order would not have prevented the Smithfield outbreak.\n\n\"That is absolutely false,\" she said.\n\nInstead, she approved the first state test of hydroxychloroquine, a drug that President Donald Trump has frequently cited as a possible treatment for coronavirus.\n\nIt was also the same day that Agustin Rodriguez Martinez, a quiet, deeply religious man originally from El Salvador, died from the illness, alone in hospital. He was 64, the first known death connected to the outbreak at Smithfield Foods. Reynoza, a friend of his for the past decade, said that he rarely complained about his gruelling job sawing the legs off pig carcasses and that he doted on his wife Angelita, whom he knew for only a month before they married. They were together for 24 years.\n\nAngelita says she noticed something was off when her husband started coming home with the lunch she had packed him untouched. He began experiencing symptoms on 1 April, seven days after the first case of coronavirus was reported publicly at the factory. First there were the headaches, then aches and chills. Next came the shortness of breath. According to Angelita, on his final day of work at the factory, he was mopping the floors with a fever.\n\nBy that Sunday, he could no longer breathe.\n\nAngelita brought him to hospital, but was not allowed to go with him. She learned through her pastor that he was put on a ventilator almost immediately. He was on it for 10 days before he died on 14 April. \"I took him to the hospital and left with nothing,\" she said. \"Now I have nothing.\"\n\nAlongside her grief, Angelita is also angry at Smithfield Food for not closing the factory earlier. \"They care more about their money than our lives,\" she said in tears. \"The owners don't care about our pain. Mothers are crying for their children. Wives are crying for their husbands. There are so many cases of the virus there.\"\n\nThe 73-year-old widow also shared that she has developed a cough.\n\nTwo days after her mother's positive coronavirus diagnosis, Julia woke up on the couch with a headache, a cough and a dry throat. For the first time since the pandemic arrived in her life, she had slept through the night but awoke feeling more exhausted than ever.\n\nAfter calling the Covid hotline and informing them she was the daughter of a Smithfield worker, Julia pulled on her faux fur-trimmed parka, disinfected the steering wheel and gear shift in her mom's car, and set out towards the drive-thru testing site.\n\nShe was in relatively good spirits, despite the fact that almost everything she had attempted to prevent when she tipped off the local newspaper nearly a month ago had come to pass. The factory had remained open. Her mother had the virus and her father was exposed. Her city had become the epicentre of the pandemic in the state of South Dakota. People died.\n\nAnd now, she might be sick, too.\n\n\"I just wanna cry,\" she said, as she steered towards the hospital.\n\nAll over the city, Smithfield workers and their families were going through a similar experience. The same day Julia's mother got her diagnosis, Sara Telahun Birhe was relieved to find out that her mother's Covid-19 test was negative. Neela and Ahmed got the call that he was infected, and the couple sealed themselves away from one another in separate bedrooms. They communicate via text. She makes him ginger tea and leaves it for him on the counter. He obsessively disinfects everything he touches.\n\nTim said he worked his final shift at Smithfield while experiencing symptoms on Tuesday 14 April, and went in for a test the following day. He is still awaiting results. He said 20 people on his crew have tested positive.\n\nAt about the same time that Julia set off to get her test, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were entering the Smithfield plant, along with representatives for the state and local health departments. According to the South Dakota governor's office, CDC officials were flown in from Washington DC to \"assess\" what it would take to safely reopen the plant. Meanwhile, Smithfield announced the closure of two more of its facilities in Missouri and Wisconsin, where \"a small number of employees… have tested positive for Covid-19\".\n\nAlthough she arrived just 20 minutes after the testing site opened, Julia was greeted by a line of 15 cars ahead of her. \"I hate waiting in line,\" she muttered, sipping from her water bottle, every now and then emitting a soft cough.\n\nAfter 30 minutes, she pulled up to what looked like a huge garage and a sign that instructed, \"have ID and insurance card ready\".\n\n\"OK, now I'm anxious,\" she said. \"I don't want to do this.\"\n\nShe and the car ahead of her pulled into the bay, and a healthcare worker in a full protective suit, mask, gloves and face shield plunged a long swab into Julia's right nostril and then her left. She grimaced and shuddered.\n\n\"Do you need a Kleenex?\" the tester asked. \"Yes, please,\" said Julia.\n\nWith instructions to \"go home, stay home, don't go anywhere,\" the bay doors opened and Julia pulled back out into the sunlight. \"That was so uncomfortable that I actually am crying,\" she said, pulling into a parking spot to collect herself.\n\nJulia sat at the steering wheel watching cars go in and out of the parking lot. She lamented the fact that now their household had a new potential infection, the clock on their quarantine had to restart. \"I just want to go to TJ Maxx,\" she said, smiling.\n\nAfter a few minutes, it was time to turn towards home, her parents, and the house Helen and Juan worked so many hours in the plant in order to afford, where they would all quarantine together for at least the next 14 days.\n\n\"Now it's just a waiting game,\" said Julia. \"I guess I can't get too in my head about it. But I will.\"\n\nShe should have her results in five days.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak said companies will now be able to apply for a government wage subsidy for their furloughed workers in June\n\nThe government pay scheme for workers who have downed tools but remain employed has been extended.\n\nMore than nine million workers are expected to be furloughed, or put on state-paid leave, under the government's job retention scheme .\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said on Friday the wage subsidy would be available for another month until the end of June.\n\nBusiness groups and firms such as Swissport earlier warned if the scheme was not extended, more jobs would go.\n\nThe chancellor said the salary scheme would be extended again \"if necessary\".\n\n\"With the extension of the coronavirus lockdown measures yesterday, it is the right decision to extend the furlough scheme for a month to the end of June to provide clarity,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"It is vital for people's livelihoods that the UK economy gets up and running again when it is safe to do so, and I will continue to review the scheme so it is supporting our recovery.\"\n\nUnder the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the government will cover 80% of workers' wages for March, April and May if they are put on leave.\n\nEmployers will pay workers and reclaim the money from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) at the end of April. They can apply to join the scheme from Monday.\n\nFigures from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) suggest nearly a fifth of smaller firms and half of companies will access the help.\n\nCBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn earlier warned that more redundancies would occur if the policy was not extended\n\nThe Confederation for British Industry (CBI) welcomed the salary subsidy extension after repeatedly warning that many firms could start to cut staff without one.\n\n\"This extension means that firms will no longer be forced to issue redundancy notices over the next few to days to comply with 45-day consultation requirements, and can instead return to focusing on protecting jobs and their businesses,\" said CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\n\"It's absolutely clear that these vital support systems must stay in place until it's safe for people to return to work and we can begin to restart and revive our economy.\"\n\nChief executive of the Airport Operators Association Karen Dee said: \"Airports are making significant use of the job retention scheme, which has helped to address some of the challenges they are currently facing, so it is good news that the Chancellor has decided to extend it\".", "Concerns have been raised that updated government guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE) could put hospital staff and patients at risk.\n\nHealthcare workers have been advised to reuse gowns or wear different kit if stocks in England run low.\n\nUnions representing doctors and nurses have expressed concerns about the updated Public Health England guidance.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded another 888 coronavirus deaths, taking the total number of hospital deaths to 15,464.\n\nThere have been warnings some hospitals could run out of the gowns used in intensive care units this weekend. The government said it is working to provide the PPE stocks hospitals need.\n\nHealthcare staff treating patients with Covid-19 have previously been advised to wear long-sleeved disposable fluid-repellent gowns.\n\nBut Public Health England changed its guidance on Friday, outlining three options if the gowns are not available as \"some compromise is needed to optimise the supply of PPE in times of extreme shortages\".\n\nOne option is for hospitals to reserve the gowns for surgical operations and procedures which are likely to transmit respiratory pathogens.\n\nAnother is for staff to reuse \"(washable) surgical gowns or coveralls or similar suitable clothing (for example, long-sleeved laboratory coat, long-sleeved patient gown or industrial coverall) with a disposable plastic apron for AGPs (aerosol-generating procedures) and high-risk settings with forearm washing once gown or coverall is removed\".\n\nFront-line workers are particularly at risk. The British Transport Police has announced that a 53-year-old detective has died with coronavirus, leaving behind a wife and child.\n\nGreater Manchester Police announced that Marcia Pryce, 61, who worked in the force's intelligence bureau, died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, councils in England have warned that the coronavirus crisis is pushing them to the brink of financial failure.\n\nElsewhere, Buckingham Palace has confirmed the Queen will not be marking her 94th birthday next Tuesday with gun salutes this year.\n\nThere have been warnings that trusts across England will run out of PPE over the weekend.\n\nChris Hopson, chairman of NHS Providers, which represents healthcare trusts across England, said in a tweet: \"We have now reached the point where the national stock of fully fluid-repellent gowns and long-sleeved laboratory coats will be exhausted in the next 24 to 48 hours.\"\n\nHe said that national leaders have left \"no stone unturned\" - but the gowns are made in China and those that were ordered weeks ago are currently only arriving in \"fits and starts\".\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing said the guidance was developed without a full consultation and the British Medical Association (BMA) - which represents doctors - said any change must be driven by science, not availability.\n\nDr Rob Harwood, consultants committee chairman at the British Medical Association, said: \"Too many healthcare workers have already died.\n\n\"More doctors and their colleagues cannot be expected to put their own lives on the line in a bid to save others, and this new advice means they could be doing just that. It's not a decision they should have to make.\"\n\nDr Harwood added: \"It's a real disappointment to us that the government has been unable, even after a month, to address this progressively worsening shortage of PPE.\"\n\nUnison, the UK's largest trade union, has warned that staff in \"high risk areas\" might refuse to work if gowns run out.\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said surgeons should \"not risk their health\" if fluid repellent gowns or coveralls were not available.\n\nHe said he was \"deeply disturbed\" by the new guidance, which, he said, implied that \"even in the operating theatre\" surgeons and their teams may not require proper PPE.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital show how health care workers put on PPE\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"New clinical advice has been issued today to make sure that if there are shortages in one area, front-line staff know what PPE to wear instead to minimise risk.\"\n\nThe spokesman added the advice is in line with World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control guidance on PPE use in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nNiall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, representing health service trusts, said the situation was \"worrying\" and \"less than satisfactory\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The reality is that there is a chance, and I don't think it's definite, but there is a chance that hospitals could run out or, indeed other parts of the system could run out of the gowns which are required to treat some, not all, Covid patients.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the government needs to \"bring the British people into its confidence\" over how it plans to end the lockdown.\n\n\"People have done what they were asked with good humour and common sense,\" he told BBC News, adding that businesses in particular needed clarity.\n\nIn a sign of growing frustration at the lack of detail from the government about how it plans to end the lockdown, Conservative MPs are adding their voices to the calls for clarity.\n\nSenior figures on the backbenches have gently suggested that ministers need to do more to explain when and how restrictions on our daily lives may end.\n\nThe government says any talk of lifting the lockdown would distract from the critical message for people to stay at home in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nBut Tory MPs are joining Labour and others who say people are capable of doing that while being kept informed about the eventual return to something like normality.\n\nDowning Street has acknowledged that there is a debate taking place across government departments about how an exit strategy might work, when the time comes.\n\nBut while ministers insist they are guided by scientific and medical evidence, the political decision to move towards lifting the lockdown may have to wait until the prime minister has recovered and is able to return to work.", "Authorities in Paris have banned exercise outside during the day, as deaths from coronavirus continue to rise in France daily.\n\nThe new rules are in force between 10:00 and 19:00 local time, and come into effect on Wednesday.\n\nThe death toll in France has risen above 10,000 - the fourth-highest figure after Italy, Spain and the US.\n\nThe toll in French hospitals - not counting care homes - was 607 for the past 24 hours, health officials said.\n\nThe total now is 10,328, a rise of 16% compared with the Monday total. However, the latest data for care homes is not complete.\n\nParis mayor Anne Hidalgo and the chief of police said the new jogging rules would make people exercise \"when the streets are generally at their quietest\".\n\nThe Paris daytime jogging ban followed a sunny weekend marked by large groups of people running and walking in the city, despite police controls that include fines for violating the lockdown.\n\nOn Tuesday, French Health Minister Olivier Véran said the outbreak had yet to reach its peak, telling broadcaster BFMTV, \"We are still in a worsening phase of the epidemic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French President Emmanuel Macron: 'We are at war'\n\nFrance has been under strict lockdown measures for almost a month. Anyone who goes outside is required to carry a document stating their reason for leaving home: shopping for necessities, visiting a doctor, or exercise within 1km (half a mile) of their address.\n\nPolice have fined hundreds of thousands of people for breaking the tight restrictions.\n\nThere have been positive signs that the outbreak may be slowing. Monday's figures from the French health ministry showed only a small rise of people who need intensive care treatment.\n\nPeople who do not carry the correct papers may face fines\n\nBut there have also been concerns about the situation in French care homes. Until recently, reported deaths from the virus only included those who died in hospitals, and not elsewhere.\n\nMr Véran on Monday announced there would be a \"vast operation\" nationwide to screen nursing homes, their residents and their careworkers, in a bid to tackle the crisis there.", "This video can not be played.", "Border Force vessels were sent to intercept migrant boats in the Channel\n\nFour boats carrying up to 57 migrants have been intercepted by the Border Force in the English Channel.\n\nSome of those on board, including 23 people on one boat, said they were Iranian, the Home Office said.\n\nIt comes after 63 migrants tried to cross the English Channel on Tuesday, despite lockdown measures remaining in place in the UK.\n\nAll of those brought to the UK will be monitored for signs of Covid-19, the Home Office added.\n\nThe boat carrying 23 people, was discovered by police near Pett in Hastings at 13:22 BST.\n\nA Sussex Police spokesman, said: \"HM Coastguard assisted with a search for the boat, which was found at Rock-a-Nore, near Hastings, later in the afternoon.\n\n\"A number of people, believed to have come from the boat, were detained and arrangements were being made to hand them over to Border Force officers.\"\n\nAll were taken to Dover where they underwent medical checks and were passed to immigration officials, a government spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added Border Force and all operational staff had the relevant personal protective equipment (PPE) available to them, in line with Public Health England guidance during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSince January 2019, over 155 people who entered the UK illegally on small boats have been returned to Europe.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mother of a London bus driver who died after contracting coronavirus said transport workers were being put at risk\n\nTransport staff should stop working if they are not provided with adequate safety equipment, a union has advised.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport workers (RMT) union said members who were not given the necessary protection measures must refuse to work.\n\nThe instruction follows the deaths of 14 transport workers in London, as well as others elsewhere in the UK.\n\nNew measures have been introduced for bus workers in the capital but some have said they do not go far enough.\n\nNine bus workers have died in the capital after contracting coronavirus, while at least three have died elsewhere in the UK including two in the North West and one in the South West, according to the Unite union.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan has called the deaths \"devastating\", adding it was \"really important we treat public transport workers as heroes\".\n\nWhen asked whether there had been a failure to protect bus drivers when the virus first emerged, Mr Khan said it was \"a question I ask myself and my top team all the time\".\n\n\"We've made sure we've got the most safety measures we can possibly take in London.\"\n\nSome drivers previously said the protection measures put in place were \"inadequate\".\n\nUnite, the union representing 20,000 London bus workers, said the deaths of drivers \"have got to stop\" and \"more action is urgently needed\".\n\nSigns are being used on buses to encourage people not to use seats near the driver\n\nThe RMT said there had been \"escalating concerns that many employers are not taking steps to protect transport workers\".\n\nGeneral secretary Mick Cash said members in rail and bus sectors across the country had been advised to \"stop work on safety grounds if employers do not provide protection from Covid-19\".\n\n\"That means that if they are not provided with PPE, including masks, eye defenders and gloves where necessary, they should not be working,\" he added.\n\nIn London, a four-week trial is due to begin on several Abellio routes operating out of Walworth bus garage, where passengers will only be able to board buses through the middle doors.\n\nMost buses in London have both front and middle doors, with passengers usually using the front ones for boarding.\n\nTfL said the trial would allow it to improve social distancing for drivers while seeing \"how the change works in live operations and whether it causes any issues\".\n\nOther safety measures being used across the network include signs to discourage people from sitting near the driver and adding an extra layer of protection to the clear screen that separates the driver from passengers.\n\nAnti-viral disinfectant is also being used to clean the interiors of vehicles.\n\nTfL's director of bus operations, Claire Mann, said: \"London's hard-working transport workers are making a heroic effort at the frontline of the fight against this pandemic, and it is only right we consider everything we can to protect them.\"\n\nThe number of people using London's buses has fallen by about 85% compared to last year\n\nTfL said it had worked with Unite and bus operators to improve safety for workers, but the union has called for further \"urgent\" action.\n\nRegional secretary Pete Kavanagh said there was \"no time for trials\" and the transport authority \"needs to instruct all bus companies to lock front doors with passengers no longer entering the bus next to the driver with immediate effect.\n\n\"To improve social distancing, which will protect drivers and passengers alike, the maximum number of bus passengers must also be reduced,\" he said.\n\nUnite has also called for similar measures to be introduced across the UK, adding transport staff \"will start to look at the option to remove themselves\" if they were not.\n\nDanny O'Hanlon, a bus driver who operates in north London, told the BBC he was always \"nervous\" and \"apprehensive\" whenever at work as the way people currently board buses meant \"there's automatic contact the minute they get on\" while the screen around his cab was also not sealed.\n\nHe said he was not living with his wife or four-year-old daughter at present for fear of passing the virus to them.\n\nThe number of people using buses in the capital has fallen by about 85% compared to this time last year.\n\nTransport bosses have said they are \"encouraged\" by the fall in passengers and have called for those who \"really have to go to work\" to try to avoid the rush hours.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has submitted his resignation\n\nThe acting secretary of the US Navy has resigned amid uproar over his handling of a coronavirus outbreak on an aircraft carrier.\n\nThomas Modly fired the USS Theodore Roosevelt's captain after he pleaded for help in a letter leaked to media.\n\nMr Modly apologised on Monday after it emerged he had called Captain Brett Crozier's actions \"naive\" and \"stupid\".\n\nThe secretary's exit comes a day after US President Donald Trump signalled he might get involved in the dispute.\n\nDefence secretary Mark Esper said Mr Modly had \"resigned of his own accord\".\n\nThe Pentagon chief said the crew's health and safety were a priority for the department.\n\nCapt Crozier was fired last week, and footage of his crew sending him off the warship with applause went viral.\n\nMr Modly flew 8,000 miles on Monday to the Pacific island of Guam, where the USS Theodore Roosevelt is docked, and berated the crew for having cheered the captain as he left the ship.\n\nMr Modly told the crew what their former captain did \"was very, very wrong\" and amounted to \"a betrayal of trust with me, with his chain of command\", according to recordings leaked to US media.\n\n\"If he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public... then he was a) too naive or too stupid to be the commanding officer of a ship like this,\" Mr Modly said. \"The alternative is he did it on purpose.\"\n\nAmid rebukes from members of Congress, Mr Modly issued an apology the same day, saying: \"I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid. I think and always believed him to be the opposite.\"\n\nCapt Crozier sent a letter to defence officials on 30 March begging for assistance with a coronavirus outbreak on his vessel, which has more than 4,000 crew.\n\n\"We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,\" he wrote, requesting the quarantine of nearly the entire crew.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Trump said he had no role in Mr Modly's departure, which he described as a \"really unselfish\" decision.\n\nAt the same time, the president emphasised Capt Crozier \"made a mistake\" with the letter, saying: \"He didn't have to be Ernest Hemingway.\"\n\nWhen asked about the controversy on Monday, President Trump told reporters: \"You have two good gentlemen and they're arguing. I'm good at resolving arguments.\"\n\nThe president said he \"heard very good things\" about Capt Crozier and did not want his career to be ruined \"for having a bad day\", but added that \"the letter should not have been sent to many people unclassified\".\n\nThe US Navy is investigating Capt Crozier's actions.\n\nDemocratic lawmakers in Congress have called for an inquiry into the decision to fire the captain.\n\nFormer Vice-President and current Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden also spoke out.\n\nHe said Capt Crozier's firing was \"close to criminal\" and he should have been commended for saying \"what had to be said\".\n\nOver 155 of the aircraft carrier's crew have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMore than 1,000 sailors who have tested negative for the virus are ashore in Guam, quarantining in hotels.", "Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1bn (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to Mr Dorsey, the donation represented approximately 28% of his wealth.\n\nHe made the announcement on Twitter, writing that the \"needs are increasingly urgent\".\n\nMr Dorsey did not lay out exactly where the funds would be sent to help in the battle against Covid-19.\n\nIn the US there is a shortage of ventilators and personal protective equipment, and business and individuals are also struggling economically.\n\nMr Dorsey will use shares he owns in Square to fund the donations which will be distributed through the Start Small Foundation.\n\nThe 43-year-old is the chief executive of both Twitter and Square.\n\nHe said he was using shares of Square and not Twitter because he owned \"a lot more\" of them. The shares will be sold over time, which could impact on their value and the overall size of the donation.\n\nOnce the Covid-19 pandemic has been \"disarmed\", the funds will go toward girls health and education and research into universal basic income.\n\nIn a six-part Twitter thread, Mr Dorsey said he wanted to donate to causes where he could see an impact in his lifetime.\n\nThe donations will be made through a limited liability company. It is a tool many wealth individuals use for donations, but is often criticized for a lack of transparency.\n\nMr Dorsey sought to get ahead of this charge by posting a link to a google doc which will publicly track the funds donations.\n\nThe Twitter boss is not the only tech billionaire to pledge part of their wealth towards coronavirus-related efforts.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has committed $30m, the bulk of which is focused on efforts to create a treatment.\n\nAmazon's Jeff Bezos has donated $100m to food banks in the US to help those struggling with hunger during this period.\n\nApple's chief executive Tim Cook announced in March the company would donate medical supplies to Italy which has been hit hard by the virus.", "More than nine million workers are expected to be furloughed under the government's job retention scheme (JRS).\n\nThat is according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation, using the latest figures on take-up of the scheme from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).\n\nThe cost to the taxpayer over three months is estimated at £30-40bn.\n\nFresh figures from the BCC suggest nearly a fifth of smaller firms plan to furlough all their staff.\n\nAnd 50% of companies are putting most of their staff into the scheme.\n\nThe Job Retention Scheme aimed at protecting jobs has been widely welcomed by companies, which have seen their incomes plummet because of the shutdown and which need help to stay in business and keep staff on.\n\nThe figures underline the surge in demand for the JRS from firms hit by the shutdown that would otherwise have to make far more people redundant, worsening recent jumps in unemployment.\n\nEmployees can be put on furlough - a leave of absence - and firms can keep paying them, but 80% of their wages will be reimbursed by a grant from the government. The Treasury has promised companies the scheme will be ready by the end of the month.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank calculates that if that pattern is repeated across the economy, then at least a third of private sector employees - somewhere between 7 million and 10 million people - will be furloughed.\n\nThe cost to government on those figures would be £30-£40bn over three months - roughly similar to the amount the government spends each year on police and safety.\n\nMark Reynolds, chief executive of construction company Mace Group, said he had put 800 staff on furlough,\n\nIf the shutdown continues beyond May and into the summer, the cost could be even greater.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"The purpose of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is to keep people in employment, protecting people's jobs and incomes and reducing long-term damage to the economy.\"\n\nBCC director general Adam Marshall told the BBC: \"So many businesses around the country need cash quickly. If they don't receive some of the funding urgently by the end of this month, many of them are going to have to take drastic steps.\n\n\"I'm afraid that we would see an increase in the rate of business failures. And we'd see a lot of otherwise viable companies going to the wall. That's why it's so important that the furlough scheme and the other government support schemes get cash out to the front line as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMark Reynolds, chief executive of construction company Mace Group, said he had put 800 staff on furlough,\n\n\"What the furlough scheme's enabled us to do is keep the capacity and capability within our business so that when we come through this, we can then re-deploy our people immediately so we can go back to work,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSaj Devshi changed jobs after the February 28th cut-off date and doesn't qualify to be furloughed by his new employer.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, said: \"By subsidising up to 80% of workers' wages, the scheme will help millions of workers who would otherwise face catastrophic hits to their living standards. The cost of the scheme depends on firms' take-up and the length of time workers need to be furloughed for.\n\n\"But with recent surveys implying that at least a third of the private sector workforce could be paid through the scheme, it is likely to cost as much as £30bn to £40bn over three months. The economic and social cost of mass unemployment in the absence of such a scheme would be far, far greater.\"\n\nHowever, what amounts to a giant safety net still has holes large enough for tens of thousands of people to slip through.\n\nSaj Devshi changed jobs after the 28 February cut-off date and doesn't qualify to be furloughed by his new employer.\n\nHe's calling for the Chancellor to review the scheme, which he believes is unfair for many new starters.\n\n\"I'm really worried about what the impact's going to be for many people in my position,\" he said.\n\n\"It's real simple to fix this; all they need to do is remove the cut-off date that they've imposed, other countries are not following this model. There are easy ways to verify people's employment.\n\n\"I'd also like to see former employers step up during this time of national emergency and rehire former employees using the furlough scheme, which has been specially designed to save peoples incomes during this period.\"", "A \"worryingly low number” of vulnerable children allocated a school place to keep them safe during the coronavirus crisis are turning up, officials have told BBC Newsnight.\n\nIn some areas just a quarter of the “at risk” children meant to be in school are attending, the programme has been told, while in others, the figure is below 10%.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council lead on child protection, Norfolk’s Chief Constable Simon Bailey, warned there might be an impact upon child sex abuse.\n\n\"Yes I think it’s possible, in exactly the same way as I’ve got to work on the premise that we will also see more children groomed and abused online,” he said.\n\nThe Department for Education said: “Being in school can keep vulnerable children safe and ease pressure on families, which is why we have enabled these children to continue attending despite schools being closed for other pupils.\"\n\nYou can watch the full story Newsnight at 22:45 BST on BBC Two or the BBC iPlayer.", "Kinderdijk, a Unesco World Heritage site, has been closed to visitors as part of the Dutch lockdown Image caption: Kinderdijk, a Unesco World Heritage site, has been closed to visitors as part of the Dutch lockdown\n\nThe Netherlands is looking at ways to ease lockdown measures, but life may never go back to the way it was BC (before coronavirus). Social distancing is here to stay, says Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\n\"We should all start thinking about how we can adapt still further to the 1.5-metre society. The way back will be step by step and based on science,\" he told reporters. (In some parts of Europe, people are told to keep at least 1.5 metres away from others, although the WHO guidance says two metres.)\n\nIf the curve of hospital and intensive care admissions continues to level off, the Dutch lockdown measures could be eased from 28 April.\n\nBut Mr Rutte cautions against any hurry. \"We have an intelligent lockdown. It will be an intelligent un-lockdown.”", "A doctor who specialised in treating the elderly has died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nDr Anton Sebastianpillai, who was in his 70s, died on Saturday, four days after being admitted to Kingston Hospital.\n\nThe consultant geriatrician, who qualified as a doctor in Sri Lanka in 1967, had a long association with the hospital in south-west London.\n\nKingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said he had last worked on 20 March.\n\nIt had previously been reported that Dr Sebastianpillai had retired, but the BBC has been told this was not the case.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I confirm the death of a consultant geriatrician who was part of the team at Kingston Hospital,\" a trust spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Dr Anton Sebastianpillai died on Saturday having been cared for in the hospital's intensive care unit since 31 March.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his family.\"\n\nDr Sebastianpillai trained at the Peradeniya Medical School in Sri Lanka and qualified in 1967, according to the institution.\n\nIn an obituary notice, he was referred to as a \"distinguished alumnus\".\n\nIn a tweet, acting Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said Dr Sebastianpillai's death was \"very sad news\" and he had been \"privileged\" to meet the \"hugely respected\" consultant and author.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This Basque company making rubber gloves may be thriving but the Spanish economy as a whole is in difficulties\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep divides in Europe, with EU member states arguing over how to tackle the economic fallout.\n\nItaly and Spain have accused northern nations - led by Germany and the Netherlands - of not doing enough.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has even warned that if the EU fails to come up with an ambitious plan to help member states saddled with debt by the fight against coronavirus, the bloc could \"fall apart\".\n\nEU Council and Commission chiefs released a statement on Monday that said a \"strong package is in the making\".\n\nA teleconference between Eurozone finance ministers on Tuesday went on for seven hours and was set to continue through to Wednesday morning after Italy refused to back down on its demands.\n\nA similar meeting two weeks ago bore little fruit. As a result, leaders sent their finance ministers back to the drawing board.\n\nItaly, Spain, France and some other EU states want to share out coronavirus-incurred debt in the form of \"coronabonds\" (or eurobonds) - mutualised debt that all EU nations help pay off.\n\nSome from these hard-hit nations have been angered by a perceived indifference from other EU states.\n\nWealthier countries like Germany are not yet digging deeper into their pockets to help out poorer nations like Italy and Spain.\n\nItaly remains the epicentre of the crisis in Europe, with the highest death toll - more than 17,000; next comes Spain, with nearly 14,000 deaths, Johns Hopkins University data shows.\n\nEven before the economic damage of this crisis, Italy's public debt was 133% of its GDP (total output), or about $2.3tn (£2tn) - the highest in the eurozone after Greece.\n\nGermany wants to set up an EU rescue fund and lend using mechanisms set up during the financial crisis of a decade ago.\n\nThis week, a group of Italian mayors and other politicians bought a page in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper to remind Germany that it was never made to pay back its debts after World War Two.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Gavin Lee took a road trip in Europe's Schengen area to see how free movement has changed\n\nPublic opinion has also been shifting in Germany.\n\nEconomists, politicians and commentators who once railed against mutualising eurozone debt to bail out Greece amid the last financial crisis are calling for exactly that to help Southern Europe deal with the coronavirus.\n\nEven the German tabloid Bild, that led the anti-Greece charge 10 years ago, is now calling for coronabonds. The situation today is more like a natural disaster then a crisis sparked by risky lending, the paper argues.\n\nFor years some economists have urged the eurozone to issue common bonds, to address the structural fragility that the euro crisis exposed. But others, mainly in northern Europe, argue that taxpayers in wealthier countries should not have to bail out countries whose politicians were fiscally irresponsible.\n\nFinance ministers are likely to converge on three ways to prop up the economy - use of the €410bn ($443bn; £360bn) European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund; the European Investment Fund; and a European Commission scheme called SURE, a new €100bn fund to help workers and businesses hit by the crisis.\n\n“There is an agreement emerging on the first three options, but that is not enough,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told journalists ahead of Tuesday’s meeting.\n\nMr Le Maire wants a fund worth “several hundred billion euros” in joint borrowing to finance economic recovery.\n\nBut Austria, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands have refused to back joint borrowing, anxious that they could be liable for repaying the debts of member states in the south.\n\nThe EU will probably agree on economic support through the usual channels, not through new coronabonds.\n\n\"There is a lot of room for solidarity within the existing instruments and institutions,\" read a statement from EU Council and Commission chiefs on Monday.\n\nGermany's Chancellor Angela Merkel recommended using the ESM in this crisis, and also praised the European Central Bank (ECB) for launching €750bn in bond purchases to calm the sovereign debt markets.\n\nA dramatic loss of confidence in southern European sovereign debt - especially that of Greece - threw the eurozone into crisis in 2010, and led to multiple bailouts, at huge cost to taxpayers.", "Large's widow, Patsy McGinnis, and son, Ryan, paid tribute from their home\n\nThe family of comedian Eddie Large say not being able to be with him when he died \"was the hardest part\", and \"the bit that made us the most sad\".\n\nLarge - real name Hugh McGinnis - who was part of double act Little and Large, died in hospital with coronavirus, aged 78.\n\nThe comedian's family said they had been unable to visit him in hospital due to restrictions around the virus.\n\nHis wife, Patsy McGinnis, said they never expected him to get the disease.\n\nIt was Covid-19 that \"just finished him off\", she said.\n\n\"We were shocked to find he had that; his health wasn't good and I know our time together wasn't going to be very long,\" said Ms McGinnis.\n\nLarge, 78, was famous for his partnership with Syd Little\n\nSpeaking from their home in Portishead, near Bristol, his son Ryan said their father's health \"just started to get worse and worse\".\n\n\"That was the hardest part, not being able to be with dad [in hospital], and the bit that makes me the most sad,\" he said.\n\n\"We always had that hope that dad would be coming home but as soon as he was diagnosed with Covid-19, he just deteriorated quite quickly and that was the end unfortunately.\n\n\"You'd be speaking to him [on a video call] and it looked like he was on death's door and struggling to speak to us.\n\nThe pair largely stepped away from the limelight when the show ended in 1991\n\n\"But then you'd hear off-camera a nurse coming into the room and dad's eyes would open wide and he'd say: 'Here she is, my number one, Miss Southmead 1978 runner up'.\n\n\"You could just hear the nurses laughing and you're thinking he's so close to potentially not being being with us, and he's still making them laugh.\n\n\"That's all he wanted to do and what he did all the time.\"", "Bruce Springsteen has said he is \"crushed by the loss\" of US country-folk singer John Prine.\n\nThe Grammy-winning songwriter died on Tuesday, aged 73, due to Covid-19 complications, his publicist confirmed.\n\nPrine had been in hospital in Nashville since last week with coronavirus symptoms, with his wife and manager, Fiona Whelan Prine, posting updates about his condition online.\n\nPrine was revered by his peers including Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.\n\n\"John and I were 'New Dylans' together in the early 70s and he was never anything but the lovliest guy in the world,\" tweeted The Boss.\n\n\"A true national treasure and a songwriter for the ages.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe album included songs like Angel from Montgomery, Paradise, and Sam Stone, which gave bittersweet tragic-comic snapshots of American society and fed into the anti-war movement.\n\nAfter serving in the US army in Germany during the Vietnam war, Prine returned home to Chicago where he worked as a postman.\n\nWhile doing his mail rounds, he wrote songs that would see him emerge, from open mic nights, as a key player on the windy city's folk revival scene in the 1970s and go on to become one of America's most influential artists.\n\n\"I likened the mail route to being in a library without any books. You just had time to be quiet and think, and that's where I would come up with a lot of songs,\" Prine told the Chicago Tribune in a 2010 interview.\n\n\"If the song was any good I could remember it later and write it down,\"\n\nSpeaking to the Huffington Post in 2009, Dylan - who performed with Prine - described his music as \"pure Proustian existentialism\".\n\n\"Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.\"\n\nRobbie Robertson, from The Band - who used to back Dylan - described Prine as \"a genius\".\n\n\"His work... a beacon of clear white light cutting through the dark days,\" added former Led Zeppelin frontman and solo star Robert Plant. \"His charm, humour and irony we shall miss greatly.\"\n\nHe won his first of four Grammy Awards in 1991, for The Missing Years, which bagged best contemporary folk album. It was a category he would top again in 2005 for Fair and Square.\n\n\"We join the world in mourning the passing of revered country and folk singer/songwriter John Prine,\" the Recording Academy wrote in a statement.\n\n\"Widely lauded as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, John's impact will continue to inspire musicians for years to come. We send our deepest condolences to his loved ones.\"\n\nPrine underwent cancer surgery on his throat in 2008 - and on his lungs in 2013 - but joked that it had actually improved his singing voice.\n\n\"If I can make myself laugh about something I should be crying about, that's pretty good,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The NHS is launching a hotline to support and advise healthcare staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nVolunteers from charities including Hospice UK, the Samaritans and Shout, will listen to concerns and offer psychological support.\n\nThe phone line for England will be open between 07:00 and 23:00 every day, while the text service will be available around the clock.\n\nStaff can find details here. Samaritans is available to the general public.\n\nIt comes as staff face increasing pressure to care for rising numbers of patients who are seriously ill with the virus.\n\nSince the outbreak began, more than 6,000 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus and among them are front-line medical staff.\n\nAdil El Tayar (left) and Amged El-Hawrani - two British Sudanese doctors - were the first working medics to die of coronavirus in the UK\n\nAs well as workload pressures and the emotional toll, some staff say they have had to work in situations where they feel unsafe because of a lack personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nProf Tom Dening from the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham said: \"The mental health of NHS staff is going to be absolutely crucial in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Staff are being exposed to high levels of personal risk, long hours in difficult environments clad in PPE, and also the possibility of something known as moral injury, which is the distressing awareness you may feel when you know you can't meet all the needs of the people you are trying to care for.\n\n\"This combination of factors would rattle even the most resilient of us.\"\n\nAimee O'Rourke died in the hospital in Kent where she worked as a nurse\n\nWhile staff can still talk to each other and their managers, the NHS hotline will offer support outside the workplace.\n\nThere will be 1,500 volunteers to support the 1.4 million nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers in the NHS.\n\nAnyone who requires further help will be signposted to services ranging from practical and financial assistance to specialist bereavement and psychological support, says the service.\n\nDanny Mortimer, from NHS Employers, said: \"As the pandemic continues, our people will face new and growing challenges on a daily basis, and it's therefore more important than ever that they are able to access resources to help them manage their wellbeing, in a way that suits their needs.\"\n\nPrerana Issar, chief people officer for the NHS, said: \"We need to do everything we can to support our incredible NHS people as they care for people through this global health emergency.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a group of mental health experts, led by Dr Michael Bloomfield at University College London, have issued advice and a video for front-line healthcare workers on how to cope with stress during the Covid-19 crisis:\n\nAre you a NHS worker? How are you dealing with the additional stresses and challenges during the coronavirus crisis? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in London on Monday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is \"improving\" after two nights in intensive care with coronavirus, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nMr Johnson was now sitting up in bed and \"engaging positively\" with the clinical team at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the chancellor added.\n\nMr Sunak also said a Cobra meeting on Thursday would discuss \"the approach\" to take in reviewing lockdown measures.\n\nIt comes as a record 938 daily deaths were reported in UK hospitals.\n\nThe total number of UK deaths now stands at 7,097, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nThe PM was taken to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive for the virus - and was then moved to intensive care on Monday.\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Sunak said Mr Johnson was \"receiving excellent care from the NHS team at St Thomas'\".\n\n\"The prime minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts are with him and his family,\" he said.\n\nLater, Downing Street said the prime minister \"continues to make steady progress\" but remained in intensive care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson \"sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team.\" - Sunak\n\nThough the daily rise in deaths was larger than the previous highest toll of 786 - on Tuesday - the deputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Dame Angela McLean, said new cases were not \"accelerating out of control\".\n\nBut NHS England medical director Stephen Powis warned now was not the time to become \"complacent\".\n\nHe said: \"We are beginning to see the benefits, I believe (of the government's lockdown measures), but the really critical thing, I believe, is that we have to continue following instructions, we have to continue following social distancing, because if we don't, the virus will start to spread again.\"\n\nThe number of deaths reported today (938) is a new high for the coronavirus epidemic in the UK, but it is still lower than expected if deaths had been following their long-term trend of doubling every three to four days.\n\nThe daily figure is, however, closing in on Italy's worst day of deaths on 27 March.\n\nThere are cautious hopes that Italy - which has reached 17,127 total deaths - has turned a corner, and in Spain too - with a total of 14,555 deaths - figures show the death toll is on a downward trend.\n\nSo what about the UK? Numbers of new daily cases of coronavirus may give us a clue. In the past week, they have stayed relatively constant at around 4-5,000.\n\nWith more people being tested every day as part of the government's plans to ramp up testing to NHS staff, as well as hospital patients, steady numbers of cases suggest there could be the light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 and being taken to intensive care are also showing signs of levelling off.\n\nSo it is now hoped, that with nearly three weeks of social distancing behind us, the number of people dying will soon start to show the same pattern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sunak said Thursday's Cobra meeting would discuss the approach the government would be taking towards reviewing lockdown measures.\n\nAccording to the government's coronavirus legislation, the health secretary must review the need for restrictions - announced by Mr Johnson on 23 March - at least once every 21 days, with the first review to be carried out by 16 April.\n\nMr Sunak said the review would happen \"around\" the three-weeks point, which would be based on evidence that will \"only be available next week\".\n\n\"I think rather than speculate about the future, I think we should focus very seriously on the here and now and the present,\" he added.\n\nThe chancellor also unveiled a £750m funding package to keep struggling charities afloat during the pandemic.\n\nThe measures, which involve cash grants direct to charities providing key services during the crisis, follow concern that some charities are facing collapse because of enforced shop closures.\n\nMr Sunak added, however, it was \"simply not possible\" to \"save every single job, protect every single business or indeed every single charity\".\n\nKarl Wilding, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, said the move was an important first step but warned \"it will not be enough to prevent good charities around the country from closing their doors\".\n\nHe estimated charities were set to lose out on £4bn in fundraising between March and June, in addition to facing rising costs.\n\nAnd shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds, who was appointed to the role after Sir Keir Starmer became Labour's new leader, said the announcement was welcome but fell \"far short\" of filling the financial \"black hole\" many organisations were facing.\n\nAsked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the crisis would lead to a recession, Mr Sunak said: \"I have been very honest that this will have a significant impact on our economy.\"\n\nHe added that the government had put in place \"an enormous amount of support to help as many people as possible to get through this\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Lorry driver Maurice Robinson has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to 39 counts of manslaughter after the deaths of a group of Vietnamese migrants.\n\nThe 31 males and eight females were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October in Grays, Essex.\n\nAt the same Old Bailey hearing, co-defendant Gheorghe Nica, 43, denied 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nBoth men appeared via video-link at the hearing, which was conducted virtually with most lawyers and court reporters attending by Skype.\n\nThe bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered at an industrial estate soon after the lorry arrived in the UK on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nAmong the men, women and children were 10 teenagers, two of them 15-year-old boys.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nIn March, it was revealed they all died from asphyxia and hyperthermia.\n\nAnother three men charged with other offences in connection with the deaths also appeared at the Old Bailey via video-link.\n\nRomanian national Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 27, of Hobart Road in Tilbury, Essex, denied a charge of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 23, of Corkley Road in Darkley, County Armagh, has previously denied conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nValentin Calota, 37, of Cossington Road in Birmingham, was not asked to enter a plea to the charge of conspiring to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nMr Nica, a British Romanian citizen of Mimosa Close in Langdon Hills, Essex, also denied one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nRobinson also admitted one charge of transferring criminal property, but denied a charge of transferring criminal property.\n\nProsecutor William Emlyn Jones QC asked for three weeks to decide whether to proceed with a trial against Robinson on that charge.\n\nThe other defendants face a trial at the Old Bailey lasting up to eight weeks. It is scheduled to begin on 5 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson is \"responding to treatment\" for coronavirus as he approaches a fourth night in hospital.\n\nThe prime minister was being kept in St Thomas' Hospital in London \"for close monitoring\" and remained clinically stable, his official spokesman said.\n\nDowning Street said he was not working but could contact those he needed to.\n\nThe number of people to die with the virus in UK hospitals has increased by a record 938 in a day, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nThe total death toll now stands at 7,097.\n\nIt comes after No 10 said a review of lockdown rules would go ahead next week, but the public must \"stick with\" the measures at what was a \"critical time\".\n\nA ban on public gatherings of more than two people and the closure of shops selling non-essential goods were among the series of restrictions announced by Mr Johnson on 23 March to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nDowning Street said a relaxation of the rules would be considered \"on or around\" the three-week mark on Monday.\n\nAccording to the government's coronavirus legislation, the health secretary must review the need for restrictions at least once every 21 days, with the first review to be carried out by 16 April.\n\nBut health minister Edward Argar said the peak in cases must pass \"before we can think about making changes\", adding: \"It's too early to say when we will reach that peak.\"\n\nThe lockdown in Wales will be extended and not lifted next week, First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said it seemed \"likely\" the rest of the UK would follow suit.\n\nThe prime minister was admitted to St Thomas' on Sunday, on the advice of his doctor, after continuing to have a cough and high temperature 10 days after testing positive for the virus. The prime minister was given oxygen before being taken to intensive care on Monday.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson was in \"good spirits\" on Wednesday as he continued to receive standard oxygen treatment. He was breathing without any assistance, such as mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.\n\nThe Queen and other senior royals sent messages to Mr Johnson's family and his pregnant fiancee, Carrie Symonds, saying they were thinking of them, and wished the PM a full and speedy recovery.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Mr Johnson, said on Tuesday he was \"confident\" the PM would recover from this illness, describing him as a \"fighter\".\n\nIn the latest figures across the UK:\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures - which use a different timeframe to those of individual nations - said the number of coronavirus hospital deaths rose to 7,097 on Wednesday- a record increase of 938 compared with 786 on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told Tuesday's Downing Street briefing the number of coronavirus cases in the UK \"could be moving in the right direction\".\n\nAs of 9:00 BST on Wednesday, 232,708 people had been tested for coronavirus, of which 60,733 tested positive, the department said.\n\nSpikes or dips in recorded cases and deaths may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend.\n\nA photo of the Queen and quotes from her Sunday speech are shown at Piccadilly Circus\n\nThe armed forces are helping ambulance services, including the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust\n\nAhead of a spell of sunny weather forecast in some parts of the UK later this week, Mr Argar urged people to stay at home \"however lovely the weather this Easter weekend\".\n\n\"If we are, as the statistics appear to show, making a little bit of progress, now's the time to hold to it,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nRegarding a review of lockdown measures, he said: \"We need to start seeing the numbers coming down and that's when you're in the negative.\n\n\"That's when you have a sense when that's sustained over a period of time, that you can see it coming out of that. We're not there yet and I don't exactly know when we will be.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think we're nowhere near lifting the lockdown.\n\n\"We think the peak - which is the worst part of the virus - is still probably a week and a half away.\"\n\nWorkers are building the new NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in the SEC in Glasgow\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manchester Central conference centre has been converted into a new hospital\n\nMeanwhile, the first patients have been admitted to the NHS Nightingale Hospital in east London - a temporary facility set up at the ExCel conference centre.\n\nThe admissions come two weeks after the hospital with a planned capacity of 4,000 was formally announced - although an NHS spokesperson stressed limits had not been reached at other sites in London.\n\nThe second NHS Nightingale Hospital, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, is to be opened on Friday, Downing Street said. It will have capacity for up to 2,000 patients if needed.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added a third Nightingale Hospital was expected to open in \"the next week or so\" in Manchester.\n\nThe armed forces are working on plans to build a further five temporary hospitals to deal with the pandemic, BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said.\n\nThere are plans to build up to 17 temporary hospitals if needed.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Stargazers have enjoyed the emergence of what is known as a pink moon in the night skies of Europe.\n\nDespite its name, there is not any noticeable colour difference to the full moon - due to reach a peak in the UK at 03:55 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe pink supermoon name is a northern Native American reference to an early-blooming wildflower and is first seen across North America as spring begins.\n\nApril's supermoon is the third of the year, following the worm moon on 9 March. Here, the moon is seen above Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening\n\nA bright glow was cast on central London as the city continued to observe social distancing measures\n\nThe pink moon rises over the Shard skyscraper in London\n\nThe scene at Mow Cop in Staffordshire. The hashtags #supermoon, #pinkmoon and #superpinkmoon all trended on social media as the UK looked skyward\n\nThe view from the Angel of the North in Gateshead. The moon can look up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter in the sky as it reaches its closest point to Earth, known as its perigee\n\nThe supermoon radiated over landmarks, such as the Kelpies sculpture in Falkirk, Scotland. Many people on social media reflected on how the lunar light projects a sense of calm and positivity amid the coronavirus pandemic\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the pink supermoon rose above well-known landmarks including the Reichstag Building in Berlin\n\nThe majesty of Rome was illuminated by the supermoon\n\nIn Paris, the supermoon could be seen between the two towers of Notre Dame\n\nThousands - including a family at the Rock of Dunamase in the Republic of Ireland - took pause to glance upwards and take in the view\n• None Why the Pink Moon won't actually be pink", "Tesco has said that most food will still need to be purchased in-store amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket giant said it wasn't able to meet demand as more shoppers stay at home, despite the fact it has increased its online grocery shopping capacity by more than 20%.\n\nIt said in the first weeks of the virus, there was \"significant panic buying\", with sales up almost a third.\n\nTesco said that had now subsided with food stocks \"returning to normal\".\n\n\"Between 85% and 90% of all food bought will require a visit to a store and here significant changes to the store environment have been implemented to maximise safety for colleagues and customers,\" chief executive Dave Lewis said.\n\nMr Lewis said that during its peak week of stockpiling, Tesco sold:\n\nIn contrast, he said sales of clothing and fuel both fell by 70%.\n\nThe chain said it would continue trying to \"prioritise home delivery for the most vulnerable in society\".\n\nMr Lewis said that Tesco normally operates 660,000 home delivery slots but it is now running around 805,000.\n\nHe said that last Friday night, the government gave Tesco a list of 110,000 names of people it classed as vulnerable. The supermarket has contacted these people and offered them slots.\n\nThe statement came as the chain reported a sharp fall in pre-tax profit for the year to the end of February, down almost 19% to £1.3bn, largely due to restructuring costs in Europe.\n\nThe chain also said it was impossible to forecast sales for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTesco said the virus could add almost £1bn in extra costs due to extra staff and store expenses. It said it had already experienced a \"significant absence\" of staff amid the virus and had recruited more than 45,000 new staff over the past two weeks to cope with the heightened demand.\n\nMr Lewis said some 50,000 colleagues have been absent out of about 320,000 employees.\n\nThe supermarket has also agreed to pay a dividend of 6.5p to shareholders, based on its last financial year.\n\nTesco is asking those who can come into store to do so\n\nThis has attracted some criticism as the grocer has benefitted from a business rates holiday to the tune of £585m while seeing record sales during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nTesco also intends to pay a dividend on the current financial year, though at a lower level.\n\nThe supermarket giant reported group sales up 1.3% to £64.8bn.\n\nLike-for-like sales, which strips out revenue from new shops opened during the year to February, fell 0.6%. Same store sales in the UK fell by 0.6%.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, told the BBC's Today programme: \"Some people will ask if [paying dividends] is appropriate\" at the moment.\n\n\"If you're seen to be benefitting from emergency measures such as state aid or the furloughing scheme, companies need to be very careful in terms of perception right now.\"\n\n\"But it's not an entirely straightforward question, there might be some staff who are investors who are looking forward to those dividends,\" he added.\n\nAll the major supermarkets had restricted customers to buying fixed numbers of individual items to keep shelves full amid stockpiling.\n\nSupermarkets have been super busy these last few weeks. Stockpiling and the knock-on effects of pubs, restaurants and cafes in lockdown have seen an unprecedented increase in sales.\n\nBut the sales bonanza in feeding the nation is coming at a significant cost.\n\nTesco says the full financial impact is impossible to predict but reckons that it could mean nearly £1bn in extra costs. Much of that is through staffing, including the bill for the hiring of 45,000 workers to cope with the surge in demand and cover staff who get sick.\n\nTesco thinks if customer behaviour is returned to normal by the end of the summer, these additional expenses could be offset by higher food sales and the £585m it will save from not having to pay business rates thanks to the tax relief introduced by the Government last month.\n\nHowever, Tesco and other retailers such as Aldi, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsbury's have since removed some limits and changed others.\n\nTesco now operates a three-item limit on its most sought-after items including pasta, toilet paper and hand sanitiser.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League players have launched a \"collective initiative\" to help generate funds for the National Health Service and distribute them \"where they are needed most\".\n\nThe initiative - named #PlayersTogether - has been set up to \"help those fighting for us on the NHS frontline\" amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt has partnered with NHS Charities Together (NHSCT).\n\nHancock had previously said players should \"take a pay cut and play their part\".\n\nFormer England captain and Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker tweeted he was \"proud of our players\".\n\n\"Footballers are doing their bit as I was confident they would,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Let's hope that others that are in a position to help, those that weren't unfairly targeted, do likewise.\"\n\nMore than 7,000 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nWhat have the players said?\n\nIn a statement - posted by more than 150 top-flight players on social media - they said they were \"collaborating together to create a voluntary initiative, separate to any other league and club conversation\".\n\nThe intention, they said, was to \"try and help, along with so many others in the country, to make a real difference\".\n\nThe level of contributions has not been announced but the players said the initiative would help \"quickly grant funds to the NHS frontline\".\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nPremier League clubs previously said they would ask players to take a 30% pay cut in order to protect jobs.\n\nHowever, the Professional Footballers' Association said such a cut could harm the NHS, adding players were \"mindful of their social responsibilities\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport earlier on Wednesday, former England striker and Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer said it should be up to the players to decide the best way to help.\n\nPremier League football has been postponed indefinitely because of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nClubs have announced a number of measures to support fans and the local communities.\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nThe chief executive of NHS Charities Together thanked the players for their \"fantastic\" initiative.\n\n\"It sends an amazing message of support to the NHS staff and volunteers working so tirelessly to save lives,\" Ellie Orton said.\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford said it had been tough to get to this stage.\n\n\"I think there has been plenty of occasions, for me personally, where we've tried to help but we've not helped in the best way possible,\" Rashford told BT Sport.\n\n\"You can get some backlash from that. We wanted to take our time with the decision.\n\n\"We want to help in the best way possible and getting money to the right places is a massive thing.\"", "A busy lizzie, an example of a flower able to recover quickly from being trampled on\n\nSome flowers can recover with remarkable speed after a major accident, such as being walked upon by humans.\n\nScientists found that species including orchid and sweet pea could re-orient themselves in 10-48 hours after an injury\n\nThese plants are able to bend, twist and reposition their stems to ensure that they reproduce.\n\nBut others such as buttercups fail to bounce back after damage.\n\nThe remarkable abilities of some flowers to recover quickly from serious injury, have been previously overlooked by science, say the authors of this new work.\n\nResearchers looked at 23 native and cultivated flower species in the UK, Europe, Australia and North and South America.\n\nThey examined species which had suffered accidents and they also carried out experiments where the flowers were tethered at either 45 or 90 degrees off their normal orientation.\n\nFor many flowers, their ability to reproduce depends on the careful alignment of their sexual organs or stigma and their nectar tubes in order for a visiting pollinator to help them make seeds.\n\nThe scientists found that when these species were damaged, they could accurately reposition their sexual organs.\n\n\"The common spotted orchid does it largely by just bending the main stem,\" said Prof Scott Armbruster from the University of Portsmouth who led the research.\n\n\"It's pretty quick, within a day or two, it's reoriented its main stem so that now all the flowers are in the right position,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The slightly more interesting ones were where each individual flower re-orients on its own, by the sub stem, that's what's called the pedicel connecting the flower to the main stem, and that is bending or twisting. And that's what you see with aconitum.\"\n\nThese rapid recovering species were usually bilaterally symmetrical flowers, which is where the left and right hand sides mirror each other. Examples of these types of flowers include snapdragon, orchid and sweet pea.\n\nA bilaterally symmetrical orchid, one of the flowers capable of bouncing back quickly from an injury\n\nOther species, termed radially symmetrical, such as sunflower, petunia, buttercup and wild rose have far fewer abilities to bounce back. Even if they lose their orientation, they are still capable of reproducing.\n\n\"The ones that do it are the ones where it matters. And the ones that don't do it are the ones where it doesn't really matter,\" said Prof Armbruster.\n\n\"The radially symmetrical flowers like clematis had a nice radially symmetrical flower. And the same with passion flower, and they don't bounce back. We tether them and they just stay there or they might change position but not in a way that corrects their position.\"\n\nThe research has been published in the journal New Phytologist.", "Ria Lakhani on the day she was discharged from hospital\n\nBreathing is perhaps the most natural of reflexes. Who has to remember to breathe?\n\nRia Lakhani does. In recovery at home in north-west London after a severe case of Covid-19, the sales executive is learning something that most of us never give a second thought to.\n\n\"It used to be such a natural action but now I have to remember how to inhale and exhale,\" she says.\n\nIn self-isolation, she still can't hug her husband, or see her parents and siblings. And she still wakes up at night struggling to breathe.\n\nRia started to show symptoms of Covid-19 while in hospital, where she had been admitted for an operation. Seven years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare condition which makes swallowing difficult and means she often regurgitates solids. The surgery was designed to help her manage this oesophageal disease, called achalasia.\n\nBut she stresses her condition had made her especially careful about looking after her health.\n\nHer admission to hospital was supposed to be routine. But while recovering there she began to struggle with her breathing. She then developed a temperature.\n\nWhile everyone hoped it was just a side-effect of her surgery, a Covid swab test was taken as a precaution. Ria was restless and started taking notes on her phone, documenting her experience on Facebook.\n\n\"My room was now cordoned off and the rest of the ward evacuated,\" she wrote. \"I closed down an entire ward?! I miss my family so much. With Covid-19 tests so limited I felt ashamed I was being given a swab so quickly when there are others who were more likely to have it. I was certain I was clear. I followed all guidelines.\"\n\nIt was to no avail. Ria's virus test was positive.\n\nRia was given oxygen at hospital\n\nAs her condition deteriorated, and she required more oxygen, she was transferred to one of London's major Covid-19 treatment centres.\n\nRia remembers the concerned looks on the faces of doctors watching her during two difficult days and one night, as her body tried desperately to fight off the disease. She says what she went through in that time has irrevocably changed her.\n\n\"Things went from bad to worse - taking a breath became as hard as climbing a mountain,\" she wrote on Facebook. \"I could see the more and more concerned looks on the faces of the many heroes treating me. More and more doctors looking in, murmuring to each other - observations taken every minute and scrutinised incessantly. Scary, uncertainty, unnerving, so many feelings, so many thoughts in my head, questions I was scared to hear the answers to.\"\n\n\"I almost died,\" she says, speaking from home to the BBC. \"I almost didn't come out of there. There was a point when I actually started to write difficult messages to my family. I almost died now I'm alive. How can life go back to normal after that?\"\n\nRia is not clear whether she developed pneumonia but says even now, from her recovery bed at home in Harrow she can hear a \"crackling sound\" in her lungs\".\n\nHer recovery has been slow. In hospital she could barely move at first and was given morphine on top of the oxygen because of the pain. She says it was hard to talk.\n\n\"Getting a sentence out was like running a marathon.\"\n\nBut amid it all, there were glimpses of hope. She developed a bond with a 96-year-old deaf woman, named Iris, in the neighbouring bed. They began to look out for each other despite the age difference.\n\n\"I needed her as much as she needed me,\" she adds.\n\nAnd she found hope in the small acts of kindness of medical staff - \"true heroes\" in her words.\n\n\"It was the small wins and things like the nurses making sure Iris had a constant supply of hot tea and a sneaky extra slice of cake that made me smile.\"\n\nAt home, she has to maintain a distance from her husband and continues to be besieged by coughing fits.\n\nBut she's relieved that she was able to fight the virus, especially considering how many people have died.\n\n\"There was a point in this journey that I didn't know if I would see the light of day again. Nothing was certain, and even though I've always known how much I love my family - in those moments I learned how much I need them. I can't explain the moment I left the hospital, I'll never take anything for granted again.\"\n\nRia is back home with her husband but they now have to keep a distance from each other\n\nHave you had coronavirus or know someone who contracted the virus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo van drivers escaped serious injury when a bridge over a river in northern Italy collapsed on Wednesday.\n\nThe provincial road would normally have been busy but there was little traffic when the bridge fell, because of coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nImages from the scene show a red courier vehicle apparently still upright on the collapsed road.\n\nThe driver was hit by falling masonry and airlifted to hospital, but his injuries were described as minor.\n\nThe driver of a second van was able to clamber out of his vehicle unscathed but suffering from shock, reports said. Firefighters were checking the river in case anyone else was involved.\n\nA red, Bartolini courier van was visible from a fire brigade video from the scene\n\nThe condition of Italy's road bridges has come under close scrutiny ever since 43 people died in the collapse of the giant Morandi bridge in Genoa in August 2018.\n\nCars fell 45m (148ft) as a 200m stretch of the structure serving the busy A10 motorway collapsed. Decaying steel rods suspending the bridge were blamed for the disaster. The bridge was operated by Autostrade per l'Italia, a subsidiary of the Atlantia company.\n\nThis latest bridge collapse took place 100km further east. The bridge links the regions of Liguria and Tuscany. Italian officials said the structure over the River Magra was some 400m in length and around 7-8m in height.\n\nResidents in Caprigliola, the closest town to the bridge, said they heard a loud bang at around 10:20 local time (08:20 GMT) on Wednesday morning, followed by the sound of tumbling masonry.\n\nIt soon emerged that motorists had reported a crack in the bridge after a period of bad weather last November.\n\nOne of the van drivers managed to clamber out of his vehicle\n\nThe bridge was repaired and then inspected by technicians before being given the all clear. It had previously been run by the local authority in Massa Carrara, the province on the Tuscany side, but then placed under the control of Anas, a firm run by state-owned railway group Ferrovie dello Stato.\n\n\"It's a sheer stroke of luck that a collapse hasn't turned into a tragedy - because of a lack of traffic caused by the coronavirus emergency,\" said Michele de Pascale, head of the Italian provinces union UPI.\n\nHe warned that Italy's provinces had been saying for some time that the country's infrastructure was crying out for urgent maintenance.\n\nA local mayor, Roberto Valettini, said he had sent three letters to the bridge operator warning about the bridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It took seconds for the remaining two towers of the Morandi bridge to be demolished", "The people were residents at Castletroy Residential Home\n\nFifteen residents at a care home have died during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFive of those who have died at Castletroy Residential Home in Luton have been confirmed as having Covid-19.\n\nThe home has 69 beds for elderly people with nursing or personal care needs.\n\nDr Sultan Salimee, from Public Health England (PHE) East, said it was \"continuing to work closely with the care home, providing public health advice to stop the virus spreading\".\n\nThe other 10 residents who died were not tested for coronavirus, a PHE spokeswoman said.\n\nA statement from the care home said Castletroy staff \"worked very hard to shield our residents, themselves and their families whilst continuing to provide care and support.\"\n\nIt added: \"We send our condolences to the families and friends at this sad time.\n\n\"It's very sad, they are our family too.\"\n\nA PHE statement said: \"In occasions where some cases have already been tested positive in a care home, we do not advise testing of new cases as it will not change the public health management.\"\n\nThe local council leader said it was a \"tragic situation\"\n\nHazel Simmons, leader of Luton Council, said she was \"desperately sad to hear about the tragic situation\".\n\nShe said: \"To lose so many residents in one care home is heartbreaking, and our love, thoughts and prayers are with the friends and families of those who have died, as well as the staff at the home.\"\n\nSarah Owen, Labour MP for Luton North, said in a statement that the \"devastating\" news showed that \"workers in care homes are at the sharp end of this crisis.\"\n\nShe said: \"They [care workers] must be given the right protective equipment, testing and guidance to ensure they can carry out their jobs as safely as possible.\"\n\nThe news comes as it was confirmed that seven residents have died at a care home in east London; eight at one in Dumbarton; and 12 at another in Cranhill, Glasgow.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £750m package to keep struggling charities afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move follows concern that some charities are facing collapse, with income shrinking because of enforced shop closures.\n\nBigger charities such as Oxfam and Age UK have furloughed two-thirds of staff.\n\nThe measures involve cash grants direct to charities providing key services during the crisis.\n\nAs part of the scheme, £360m will be directly allocated by government departments to those charities.\n\nAnother £370m will go to small local charities, including those delivering food and essential medicines and providing financial advice.\n\nAnnouncing the move, Mr Sunak said the government could not match every pound of spending that the UK's 170,000 charities would have received this year.\n\nHe also said charities were eligible for help through the government's job retention scheme.\n\nHowever, he said the government wanted to help the charities that were \"on the front line of fighting the coronavirus\".\n\n\"Shutting up shop at this moment would contravene their very purpose,\" he added.\n\nMr Sunak also said the government would match all donations to the BBC's Big Night In fundraising event on 23 April, pledging a minimum of £20m.\n\n\"We need the gentleness of charity in our lives,\" he said.\n\nJeff Kennedy has been using his own money to sustain the charity he runs\n\nCharity organiser Jeff Kennedy, who runs the Community First Aid Corps in Morecambe, says he has yet to study the details of the Treasury's plan, but that his organisation urgently needs help.\n\nIn normal times, his six-person team provides first aid cover at public events in exchange for donations, but a string of cancellations has left the charity on the brink of going bust.\n\nMr Kennedy said his team had found a new role in the community by collecting shopping for vulnerable people and walking their dogs, but income had dried up, while accommodation and utility bills still needed to be paid.\n\n\"We don't know whether we'll be able to come through this,\" Mr Kennedy told the BBC. \"I've been using my life savings, putting money in out of my own pocket, for a few weeks now, just to keep us afloat.\"\n\nIn the run-up to Mr Sunak's announcement, charities including the St John Ambulance Association had warned that they could go bust unless they received state aid.\n\nThe ambulance association will now receive assistance as part of the package, as will hospices, Citizens Advice and charities dealing with vulnerable children and victims of domestic abuse.\n\nSir John Low, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, said the set of measures from the Treasury would \"offer important and welcome support for civil society at this very difficult time for us all\".\n\nBut there was still \"a long way to go\", he added.\n\n\"Recognising the humbling generosity of the British public right now is so vital as we rally together in the face of such a national challenge,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: \"While this announcement is welcome, it falls far short of filling the financial black hole many organisations are facing.\n\n\"Ministers should continue to look at what additional measures can be made available.\n\n\"We must also see concerted action to guarantee this support can get to charities swiftly, to prevent further damage being done.\"\n• None Coronavirus: Six sectors still crying out for help", "Public Health Wales said no one has been harmed as result of the error\n\nSome Welsh NHS staff with Covid-19 have been given wrong test results and were told they did not have coronavirus, BBC Wales has learned.\n\nThey are among a group of ten who have been given incorrect results - including eight from Aneurin Bevan Health Board and two from elsewhere.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the ten had Covid-19 and were told they did not, or vice versa.\n\nThe Gwent-based heath board said the staff were contacted \"immediately\".\n\nIt happened when a small number of test samples from a batch of 96 were attributed to the wrong patients.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said some clinicians who were positive for Covid-19 were told they were negative, and the other way around.\n\nPHW said 10 out of 96 members of staff in a testing group were subject to \"a recording error\" which was picked up \"within hours\" by quality checking systems.\n\nIt is not clear where the other two individuals, which are not from Aneurin Bevan Health Board, are from. PHW confirmed that the testing was done in its labs and it was its error.\n\nPHW said it contacted all the parties and health boards involved, and established no harm was caused.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan Health Board area has seen the highest numbers of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Wales.\n\nFrank Atherton, the chief medical officer for Wales, has previously said that the large number of tests carried out there, along with its proximity to London, help to explain why it has become a hotspot for the virus.\n\nA spokesman for the health board said: \"Since the 14th of March we have undertaken circa 1,600 staff tests.\n\n\"As part of our checking process, we identified a local transcribing issue with eight test results that led to us giving staff members wrong results.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the staff were contacted \"immediately\", and the health board has undertaken a \"detailed review\" of all staff tests and \"taken action to remove any further risk of transcribing errors\".\n\nBBC Wales has asked whether any of the staff members given false negatives attended work before being told they were, in fact, positive.\n\nIn a statement PHW said it followed up the cases \"to establish if any harm had occurred due to the incorrect information being communicated to individuals.\"\n\n\"It was established that no harm had occurred,\" it said.\n\n\"We continue to have complete confidence in the testing process, and the laboratory staff carrying out the testing procedures,\" PHW added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance was speaking at the daily No 10 coronavirus briefing\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK \"could be moving in the right direction\", the government's chief scientific adviser has said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily Downing Street briefing, Sir Patrick Vallance said it was \"possible that we're beginning to see... the curve flattening\".\n\nHe added, however, it would be another \"week or so\" before he could be sure.\n\nThe foreign secretary, meanwhile, said the PM, who is in intensive care, is in \"good spirits\" and \"stable\".\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK rose to 6,159 - a record increase of 786 in a day, the Department of Health and Social Care said, compared with 439 on Monday.\n\nSo far, 55,242 people have tested positive in the UK - an increase of 3,634 on Monday's figures.\n\nSpeaking about the number of new cases, Sir Patrick said: \"It is possible that we're beginning to see... change in terms of the curve flattening a little bit.\n\n\"We won't know that for sure until a week or so. But what we're not seeing is an acceleration.\"\n\nSir Patrick stressed it was important to continue with the social distancing measures to ensure a reduction in the number of new cases.\n\nCommenting on the latest virus death figures, the BBC's head of statistics Robert Cuffe said that if there was any \"silver lining to these grim figures\", it was that they represent \"the fourth day in a row of below-trend growth\".\n\n\"For weeks up until Friday's figures, the number of deaths had been doubling every three and a half days,\" he said. \"Had that trend continued, we would have seen close to 1,400 deaths today.\n\n\"So 786 is better than that, although it's still too soon to know what's causing it. It could be a big bottleneck in reporting - we've seen that after previous weekends - or genuine evidence that growth is truly slowing down.\n\n\"More hopefully, for almost a week, daily new cases have been holding steady at about 4,000 a day, suggesting that, while we are still seeing new cases, the growth in this figure could be stalling.\"\n\nTo chart the likely future path of the epidemic, case numbers and hospital admissions are seen as the leading indicators.\n\nThe number of daily new cases at just over 3,600 was the lowest in a week. Hospital admissions are still increasing, though the rate of growth appears to be easing.\n\nLooking at the two together led Sir Patrick to say there was no sign of an acceleration and things could be moving \"in the right direction\".\n\nHe added, though, that the government couldn't be sure for a week or so.\n\nThe number of deaths, however, is still rising - and the latest daily reported increase of 786 is a record.\n\nExperts believe that those fatality figures are the most certain indicator of what is happening, and only when there is a sustained flattening of that line on the chart will they be convinced that social distancing has worked.\n\nAsked whether the current lockdown would be extended, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government would make a decision when \"the time is right\" but that \"we are not at that stage yet\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed that the review would now not go ahead on Monday and said it would instead take place after the three-week mark.\n\nHe added social distancing measures were \"helping\", and that people must continue to adhere to them over the Easter weekend.\n\nThe foreign secretary also issued a short statement about Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who remains in intensive care under \"close monitoring\", Downing Street said on Tuesday evening.\n\nMr Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London with \"persistent symptoms\" of Covid-19 on Sunday and was moved to intensive care on Monday evening after his symptoms worsened.\n\nMr Raab, who is deputising for Mr Johnson, said the PM was receiving \"standard oxygen treatment\" and had not been on a ventilator.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"For all of us in cabinet he's not just our boss - he's also a colleague and he's also our friend,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I'm confident he will pull through, because if there is one thing that I know about this prime minister, it is [that] he is a fighter and he will be back leading us through this crisis in short order.\"\n\nAs first secretary of state, Mr Raab is the minister designated to stand in for Mr Johnson if he is unwell and unable to work.\n\nIn a further development, Sir Patrick said he could not guarantee there would be enough intensive care unit (ICU) beds in every individual hospital throughout the epidemic.\n\nHowever, in terms of demand, he said \"there shouldn't be an overall increase above the number of beds available\" across the whole NHS.\n\n\"The NHS has done an amazing job of increasing the overall capacity of ICU and so things seem to be tracking in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nAnd asked whether the government is on track to reach its target of 100,000 tests per day, Mr Raab said the most recent data showed there were 14,000 tests in a single day - which he described as \"progress\".\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the government's chief medical advisor, said Germany - where the number of deaths appeared to be growing at a slower rate - had \"got ahead\" in its ability to test for the virus.\n\n\"There's a lot to learn from that and we've been trying to learn the lessons from that,\" he said.", "A man has run a marathon under lockdown - without leaving his own living room.\n\nPaul Holliday, who had been training for the Manchester marathon - which was postponed because of corornavirus - ran 4,500 lengths of his living room in the north-west of England to raise £2,000 for charity.\n\n\"I woke up, had a hearty breakfast and got under way at 9am,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It took me about four-and-a-half hours. I was planning on doing three hours 45 minutes but I couldn’t get much pace up in my house.\n\n\"It was quite strange. In an outdoor marathon you have the fresh air and people supporting you getting you through the difficult bits.\n\n\"My wife occasionally popped in to check on me today. I had a couple of windows open but there was no breeze.\"\n\nThere was one downside for Holliday, who is head of communications at Bolton Wanderers FC but currently on furlough.\n\n\"I was hoping the carpet would be threadbare at the end of it so I could rip it out. I’ve hated it since we moved in. Sadly it lives to fight another day.\"", "The World Trade Organization (WTO) is predicting a severe decline in international commerce this year.\n\nIn a new report the WTO forecasts a contraction of between 13% and 32% this year.\n\nThe wide range of possibilities reflects the uncertainties about the health crisis.\n\nIt says the impact on trade is likely to exceed the slump caused by the financial crisis just over a decade ago.\n\nThe more pessimistic case would amount to a decline in global trade similar to what happened in the great depression 90 years ago but in shorter period of time.\n\nThe WTO's director general Roberto Azevedo described the figures as \"ugly\".\n\n\"There is no getting round that\", he said. He said the situation was first and foremost a health crisis and he acknowledged that governments had to take steps to protect people's lives.\n\n\"The unavoidable declines in trade and output will have painful consequences for households and businesses, on top of the human suffering caused by the disease itself,\" he added.\n\nA decline of 13% in trade in goods is described in the report as a relatively optimistic scenario. It reflects a steep drop in trade followed by a recovery starting in the second half of 2020.\n\nThat of course would need to be based on substantial progress over the next few months in getting on top of the health crisis.\n\nThat is obviously not guaranteed, so the report includes a much more pessimistic case which reflects a steeper initial decline and a more prolonged and incomplete recovery.\n\nThe report also warns that \"the extent of uncertainty is very high, and it is well within the realm of possibilities that for both 2020 and 2021 the outcomes could be above or below these results\".\n\nThe report says that the growth in global trade had already stalled towards the end of last year. By the final quarter of 2019 goods trade was 1% lower than a year earlier.\n\nThe WTO says this was the result of \"persistent trade tensions\", a reference that to a large extent reflects the confrontational approach to international commerce taken by the administration of President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Azevedo said trade would be an important ingredient in the economic recovery after the crisis. He said keeping markets open and predictable would be critical.", "Marian and Ian were on a \"trip of a lifetime\" to New Zealand when they got stranded\n\nIan Presland and his wife Marian arrived back in the UK to find bunting, a bottle of milk, a lump of cheese and some eggs by their front door.\n\nTheir friends had bought them a welcome-back package after they finally arrived home from New Zealand, where they'd been stranded due to coronavirus.\n\nThe couple had already had three flights cancelled and had prepared themselves to be stuck there for weeks.\n\nBut their travel agent was able to get them last-minute seats on a flight out of the country with Qatar Airways and they got back to the UK on 1 April.\n\n\"It's weird but it's great to be back,\" says Ian, 60, from Nailsea, Somerset.\n\n\"We now just feel for all those thousands who are less fortunate than us. We feel very lucky to be back here.\n\n\"I think we got away lightly because we know people that have paid a lot of money for seats in two or three weeks' time.\n\n\"Presumably they will get home now but we're not sure.\"\n\nLuke and Chiara were six weeks into a backpacking trip when they got stuck in Peru\n\nLast week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps estimated about 300,000 UK travellers were stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn 30 March, the government announced it had struck a deal with major airlines to help get people back.\n\nIt also pledged £75m to charter special flights from countries where commercial flights are unavailable.\n\nSo far, about 2,000 British nationals from seven countries have been brought back on flights organised by the Foreign Office.\n\nIt's not free though - passengers have to pay for a seat on a government chartered flight, and that has cost people up to £1,000.\n\nLuke Wallwork and his girlfriend Chiara paid around £250 each for a place on a government flight back from Peru.\n\nThe 23-year-old, from Liverpool, believes it was down to the pressure UK tourists put on the government that finally made them take more action.\n\n\"The response we got in the first week was that you're kind of on your own and you're not going to get much support here,\" he says.\n\n\"As the momentum built and the pressure built and Peru got mentioned a lot in the media they basically had to give in a bit and see what they could do.\n\n\"It's been stressful but it's interesting to see how things work and the power people have if they come together. If we didn't come together and get our voices heard we'd still be stuck there.\"\n\nAmrik Bola has no way of getting onto one of the government charter flights in India\n\nBut how easy it is to get back can depend on where you are in the world and how much you can afford.\n\nIt's estimated about 20,000 Brits are stranded in India after the country went into a strict lockdown.\n\nThe government announced on Sunday it has arranged charter flights leaving from Goa, Mumbai and Delhi starting on Thursday.\n\nBut that doesn't help 73-year-old Amrik Bola, from Derby, who is stuck in a remote village in Punjab with his wife and sister-in-law.\n\nThey're eight hours away from Delhi and can't get on one of the government flights as they're banned from travelling between states.\n\n\"If they've arranged those flights, why don't they think about the 15,000 people struck in Punjab? That's really bad,\" says Amrik.\n\n\"Every day we end up crying. We're sitting three of us in a room. We don't know when we will get back.\n\n\"Our family is in England, our children are in England. If we are in England, we are close to our children if something was to happen.\n\n\"What we worry about is if something was to happen to us in India they wouldn't be able to come.\"\n\nBikramjit Sekha and Suriender Kaur are stuck in a remote village in Punjab\n\nMany Brits in India are relying on their loved ones in the UK to help them get home due to the lack of internet access in remote places.\n\nAman Sekha, from Walsall, has been trying to get his parents Bikramjit, 67, and Suriender, 65, back for over two weeks.\n\nHe says he's had sleepless nights over it and has questioned why the government is charging so much for seats on its chartered flights.\n\n\"The flights normally would cost £350, they're charging us £600 and that's even if you can get a flight,\" he says.\n\n\"Not only is it double, but on top of that, they've only been able to organise a few flights and apparently there's thousands of people over there.\n\n\"I'm sorry I don't agree with anything they've done at the moment and can't understand why it's the case.\n\n\"I don't understand how they can go to the US and get people off a boat, yet you've got thousands of people sitting and waiting to pay for a ticket - even though it's double the money - to get out of there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳\n\nThe British High Commission in India has said it's working on arranging flights from other locations - including Amritsar in Punjab - but there are no confirmed dates yet.\n\nBut not everyone stranded abroad is able to rely on the government to put on flights.\n\nThe Foreign Office says it's only arranging government flights from countries where commercial flights are not possible.\n\nIn New Zealand, about 10,000 Brits have registered with the High Commission for help getting home.\n\nMarie Young, 54, from Beccles, Suffolk, spoke to the BBC about being stranded in Auckland more than 10 days ago.\n\nShe says she's since been able to book onto a commercial flight home which is due to leave on Saturday.\n\nMarie's trip was top of her bucket list after being diagnosed with cancer\n\nBut Marie still hasn't received a refund for her original flight which was cancelled - so she's had to borrow £1,350 to pay for her new ticket.\n\n\"There's a duty of care with airlines to get you home if something happens. They can't just cut and run and leave you,\" she says.\n\n\"I think the government needs to put pressure on them. We're not expecting a free ride home but we are expecting a refund from a cancelled flight.\"\n\nBritish travellers are being encouraged to arrange flights with airlines that are flying from their location - then seek refunds for their original flights with the airline or through their travel insurance.\n\nSpeaking at the government daily briefing on Monday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab promised all was being done to return those still stuck abroad, with more flights from India, South Africa, Nepal and the Philippines flying in later this week.\n\nThe Foreign Office has since introduced a cap on the cost of a seat on its chartered flights based on how long the journey is.\n\nA flight under six hours will be capped at £400 per person, flights between six and ten hours capped at £600, and flights over 10 hours capped at £800.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"The government has committed up to £75m to help thousands of British people return home.\n\n\"In order to deliver value for money and put on as many flights as possible, anyone returning on a government charter flight will need to contribute towards their ticket based on the length of the journey.\n\n\"The amount charged will reflect only a proportion of the overall cost of the charter flight, which is why we have set aside the £75m fund.\"\n\nPeople who are unable to afford travel costs and are struggling to get funds might be able to apply for an emergency loan from the government.\n\nInstructions for UK travellers to return home can be found on the government's foreign travel advice website page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Local Government Minister Julie James confirms the lockdown rules will not be lifted next week\n\nThe lockdown in Wales will be extended into the next week, the first minister has confirmed.\n\nMark Drakeford said Wales must \"not throw away gains\" made against coronavirus \"by abandoning our efforts just as they begin to bear fruit\".\n\nHe expects other parts of the UK to do the same.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak declined to say whether the UK government will follow the Welsh Government in extending the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe stay-at-home regulations, which have been implemented separately in each of the UK's four nations, were due to end next week.\n\nUnder them, people can only leave home for:\n\nIn Wales, people can face fines of between £60 and £120 for breaching the rules.\n\nMr Drakeford made the comments at a virtual Welsh Assembly meeting, held by video-conference. It is not clear when the lockdown will be extended to.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"We will not throw away the gains we have made\"\n\nAddressing AMs, he said: \"We will not throw away the gains we have made, and the lives we can save, by abandoning our efforts just as they begin to bear fruit.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he had discussed the matter with ministers in Northern Ireland and Scotland, and the UK government. \"There is more work to do in reviewing the regulations,\" the first minister said.\"The precise nature of what will follow the current regime will be agreed over the coming days.\"\n\nSpeaking an hour earlier, at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus press conference, Local Government Minister Julie James urged people to follow the social distancing guidelines and stay at home over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nMs James said: \"Working together we can slow the spread of this virus. Stay at home and save lives.\"\n\nThe actions which people take this weekend, and the coming weeks ahead, \"will shape Wales for years to come\", she added.\n\nMr Drakeford said he believes the stay-at-home rules will also be continuing elsewhere in the UK into the next week.\n\nHe was asked by Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price if he thinks the UK government should announce the lockdown extension in England before the Easter weekend.\n\n\"I believe they will be continuing elsewhere in the United Kingdom,\" he said of the lockdown measures.\n\n\"And if we can get that single message in a concerted united way out across the United Kingdom that of course would give it additional force and strength.\"\n\nAsked about the Welsh Government's announcement at the UK government's daily coronavirus press conference, Mr Sunak said he did not want to \"speculate\" and he would rather focus on the message\" of \"staying at home to save lives\".\n\nHe said there was an emergency COBRA meeting tomorrow involving the devolved administrations and they would \"talk about the approach to the review\" of the lockdown period.\n\nMr Sunak said the UK government is committed to a review of restrictions put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus \"based on the evidence and the data\" provided.\n\nThe chancellor added that data from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies would \"only be available next week\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Learn how Wuhan dealt with the lockdown\n\nThe months-long lockdown in the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province - where the coronavirus pandemic started - has been lifted.\n\nAnyone who has a \"green\" code on a widely used smartphone health app is now allowed to leave, for the first time since 23 January.\n\nTrain, road and rail connections have now been re-established.\n\nIt comes after China reported no deaths on Tuesday, the first time since it began publishing figures.\n\nTo contain the spread in Wuhan, authorities imposed unprecedented restrictions on travel and ordered the closure of most businesses in the bustling metropolis, which is home to 11 million people.\n\nChinese authorities have credited these measures with a downturn in infection rates, and the vast majority of cases are now being reported outside of China.\n\nLast month, when Wuhan reported its first full week with no new infections, shopping malls were re-opened. Some people in \"epidemic-free\" residential compounds have also been allowed to leave their homes for two hours.\n\nFrom Wednesday, approved residents will be able to use public transport if they are also to provide a QR code for scanning. The code is unique for each person and links to their confirmed health status.\n\nPeople engaged in making medical supplies and other daily goods will be allowed to return to work. Other industries that impact national or global supply chains will also be able to re-open.\n\nInitially, only those with health clearance will be allowed to leave\n\nEven with a limited air service, 200 flights are scheduled to depart Wuhan on Wednesday, carrying out 10,000 passengers.\n\nChinese state media has shown aerial footage with nearly 100 high-speed trains ready to depart and highway roadblocks have been removed.\n\nSome limits on transport will remain in place, however, and schools are still closed until further notice.\n\nWuhan officials have also revoked the \"epidemic-free\" status of 45 residents' compounds because of the emergence of asymptomatic cases, and for other unspecified reasons.\n\nStringent lockdowns remain in place across other areas of China. In Beijing, where 31 new cases were reported on Monday, city authorities have announced tough new measures. Anyone entering the city must be quarantined and undergo health checks.\n\nSince the outbreak began, more than 3,300 people have died in China and 81,740 have been confirmed as infected, according to official figures.\n\nThe National Health Commission said it had 32 new confirmed cases on Tuesday, down from 39 a day earlier.\n\nBut the government is under scrutiny about its response to the outbreak, and whether it is underreporting its figures.\n\nHitting back at these claims, Chinese state media have published what they describe as a detailed timeline of its response and information sharing.\n• None Can we trust China claims of virus success?", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video-called the children of key workers at Casterton Primary Academy, in Burnley.\n\nThe royal couple also thanked the teachers for keeping the school open for children of essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic - even during the Easter school holidays.", "MPs have asked people to tell them of their experiences of trying to claim benefits during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Work and Pensions Committee wants to hear from first-time applicants as well as those already using the system.\n\nOver a million people applied for universal credit benefits between 16 March and 3 April.\n\nCommittee chairman Stephen Timms said the number of new claims was “unprecedented”.\n\nThe Labour MP added that the committee would like to hear from people to “better understand the issues faced by people who rely on the benefits system”.\n\nThe surge in claimants follow government measures to limit the spread of the virus, including closing pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops.\n\nThe latest figures on universal credit claimants were revealed in a letter to the MPs from the top civil servant at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).\n\nIn the correspondence, Peter Schofield said the department would normally receive around 55,000 claims in a “normal week”.\n\nHe added that the DWP was facing “exceptional demand” and received 5.8m calls during the last nine days of March.\n\nThis included 1.8m calls between 23-27 March, he said, alongside 2.2m on 30 March and another 1.8m on 31 March.\n\nHe said the department was redeploying staff to manage the volume of calls but warned it would “take some time” to reduce pressure on the system.\n\nUniversal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working-age, which replaced a host of previous benefits including income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit.\n\nIn October 2019, there were 2.6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of whom were in work.\n\nMr Timms said: “The DWP’s front line staff are making a herculean effort to deal with the unprecedented numbers of new claims for universal credit, and we thank them for everything they’re doing at such a difficult time.\n\n“I know they will be focused on making sure that people who need money urgently get their payments as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We are keen to hear about any specific problems claiming benefits, and also more generally about whether people are getting enough money to support themselves and their families during these immensely difficult days.”", "\"I can assure you, we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks, and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.\"\n\nThat's how, on 23 March, the prime minister presented the possible timetable for the limits the government was placing on our daily lives to protect our health during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe commitment was written into the emergency laws that were rushed through Parliament before it shut up shop.\n\nThat formalised the promise, saying that the health secretary has to \"review the need for restrictions and requirements\" every 21 days, and it has to happen the first time by 16 April.\n\nWhy, then, did the foreign secretary say on Tuesday something that sounded rather different?\n\nDominic Raab, who is standing in for the prime minister while he is in hospital, said: \"We will take any review once we've got the evidence that the measures are working and having the kind of impact taking us past the peak which means that they can be responsibly done, we're not at that stage yet.\"\n\nDoes that mean there won't be a review after all? Erm, no.\n\nThere are three things going on here.\n\nFirst off, the \"review\" might sound like a formal, grand requirement and make you think of something like the recent review of HS2, or a government spending review, which is a huge exercise that slices up massive public budgets for years to come.\n\nBut while the length of the lockdown is, of course, of massive public interest to everyone, the three week \"review\" in these circumstances is more like a check-up than a huge piece of work.\n\nThere is no requirement even on ministers to publish the way they have made the decision.\n\nAnd the government's senior scientists, and politicians including the Welsh first minister, have made it clear the chances of the restrictions being lifted altogether in the next week are slim to none.\n\nProfessor Chris Whitty, the most senior government medic, even said on Monday that it would be a \"mistake\" to consider exit strategies from lockdown right now.\n\nAt Wednesday's Downing Street briefing, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government was committed to a review of restrictions \"based on the evidence and the data\" provided.\n\nThat data, from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), would \"only be available next week,\" he added.\n\nAsked about the Welsh first minister's announcement that lockdown measures would continue beyond next week, the Chancellor said the government's emergency response committee Cobra would meet on Thursday \"to talk about the approach to the review\".\n\n\"Rather than speculate about the future we should focus on the here and now,\" Mr Sunak stressed, adding that the \"unequivocal\" advice remained for people to stay at home in order for the UK to \"get to the other side of the peak\" of cases.\n\nThe government's Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser Angela McLean said it was \"a really important week… we're all watching what happens\".\n\nThe law says the health secretary must carry out the review\n\nIn truth, even when the prime minister suggested the restrictions might be lifted at the point of three weeks that was an optimistic gloss on one element of a serious statement full of difficult news.\n\nAnd government insiders suggest that they were always looking at a looser timetable - and it's likely that the current set of restrictions will be in place for at least another fortnight and quite possibly well beyond that.\n\nSecondly, there has been more attention on what the decision around the \"review\" will be, because it is the first overt decision of this crisis that the prime minister may be absent for.\n\nThe signs from St Thomas' Hospital on Wednesday were more positive, but Boris Johnson is still in intensive care.\n\nSo however and whenever ministers are ready formally to say that the limits on our lives will stay in place for now, it may be Dominic Raab technically in charge at that stage.\n\nHe does have the power to make that call - in fact, the legislation says the review should be carried out by the health secretary.\n\nLastly though, there are the beginnings of conversations in government about how the restrictions could be lifted in the medium term.\n\nThere is a hunger to do so, amid deep anxieties about the economy.\n\nNearly a million people have signed up for universal credit in the past fortnight, and there are stories of businesses closing everywhere.\n\nSimply, the longer the lockdown goes on, the more it hurts the nation's wallet.\n\nThe limits are there to protect people's health, understandably, but that comes with a massive price.\n\nAnd there are tensions between the various parts of government about what is best, with individual departments arguing from different perspectives.\n\nThere are discussions about whether it's possible to reduce the restrictions step-by-step, to open up parts of the economy, or even some parts of the country at different stages.\n\nThere are ideas, too, about lifting limits on some parts of the population but keeping the most vulnerable protected.\n\nWe have not yet reached the peak of this disease, and in this emergency situation decisions are being made first and foremost to protect people's health.\n\nThe priority is clear - the government is responding to the immediate intense emergency.\n\nBut once, hopefully soon, the peak of the disease has passed, softening the social and economic costs of the lockdown will move up the agenda.\n\nThe next set of decisions and dilemmas for the government could be even more complex.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "President Donald Trump has said the US will have 110,000 ventilators by the end of June.\n\nHe said some of the machines could go to countries like the UK which were \"desperate\" for the machines.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves is being treated in hospital for an unspecified illness.\n\nThe World Cup winner will have tests on Wednesday, according to his friend and agent Terry Baker, who added that the illness was \"not coronavirus related\".\n\nThe ex-Chelsea and West Ham forward suffered a severe stroke in 2015.\n\nBaker also said the issue does not appear related to the 80-year-old's previous illness, adding: \"Hopefully he won't be in hospital for too long.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Spurs confirmed Greaves was having treatment in hospital.\n\n\"We are in touch with his family and will provide further updates in due course,\" the club said.\n\n\"Everybody at the club sends their best wishes to Jimmy and his family.\"\n\nGreaves scored 44 goals in 57 games for his country and a club-record 220 league goals for Spurs.\n\nHe is fourth on the list of all-time England goalscorers, behind Wayne Rooney (53), Sir Bobby Charlton (49) and Gary Lineker (48).\n\nGreaves was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad but originally missed out on a medal because he was injured during the tournament's group stage.\n\nAfter recovering, Greaves was left out of the starting XI for the final and his replacement, Sir Geoff Hurst, scored a hat-trick as England beat West Germany 4-2 after extra time.\n\nThe World Cup squad players and the families of manager Sir Alf Ramsey and other backroom staff were finally presented with medals in 2009.", "Two of the UK's leading Jewish newspapers are to go into liquidation.\n\nThe Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News said they were not able to survive the impact of the coronavirus epidemic in their current form.\n\nThe boards of the papers, which announced plans to merge in February, said they expected the liquidation to be finalised in the coming weeks.\n\nThey said \"every effort\" would be made to continue publishing over this period.\n\nThe newspapers announced their plans \"with great sadness\" in similarly worded statements on Wednesday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, said it was \"devastating news for us\".\n\nJewish News editor Richard Ferrer said it was \"a sad day for [the] 55 staff on both titles and the community they serve\".\n\nIn its statement published on their website, the Jewish Chronicle said its owner, the Kessler Foundation, was \"actively working\" to secure a future for the paper after the liquidation.\n\nThe Jewish News said it was working with the charitable foundation to secure its own post-liquidation future.\n\nStaff are set to be made redundant at both outlets.\n\n\"I've been a JC [Jewish Chronicle] columnist since 1998,\" Jonathan Freedland wrote on Twitter. \"My father [Michael] wrote for the paper for 67 years, starting in 1951.\n\n\"It's no exaggeration to say it is the beating heart of the British Jewish community. It must not be allowed to die.\"\n\nGuardian columnist Hadley Freeman said it was \"terrible, terrible news\".\n\nFounded in 1841, the Jewish Chronicle is the world's oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper.\n\nJewish News was established in 1997 and is distributed for free weekly.\n\nThe news comes as the global Jewish community prepares to celebrate the annual festival of Passover.", "The Professional Footballers' Association says proposals for a 30% pay cut for Premier League players would be \"detrimental to our NHS\".\n\nThe PFA also called on the league to increase its own £20m charity pledge.\n\nThe government has said it is \"concerned\" by what it called \"infighting\".\n\nThe league wants players to take a 30% salary cut in order to \"protect employment throughout the professional game\", amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut the union says that equates to more than £500m in wage reductions over 12 months, and a loss in tax contributions of more than £200m to the UK government.\n\nThe union also questioned Health Secretary Matt Hancock's public criticism of footballers' salaries during a news conference on Thursday.\n\n\"What effect does this loss of earning to the government mean for the NHS?\" the statement read. \"Was this considered in the Premier League proposal and did the Health Secretary factor this in when asking players to take a salary cut?\"\n\nOliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, tweeted: \"Concerned about the turn football talks have taken... people do not want to see infighting in our national sport at a time of crisis.\n\n\"Football must play its part to show that the sport understands the pressures its lower paid staff, communities and fans face.\"\n• None What is each Premier League club doing on pay?\n\nThe PFA said all Premier League players \"will play their part in making significant financial contributions in these unprecedented times\".\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate is reported to have made such a gesture by agreeing a 30% pay cut, although the Football Association declined to confirm when asked by BBC Sport.\n\nTop-flight professionals have been coming under increasing pressure to take a drop in pay, especially with five Premier League clubs - Liverpool, Newcastle, Tottenham, Bournemouth and Norwich - now placing some non-playing staff on furlough leave under the Government's coronavirus job retention scheme.\n\nHowever, clubs themselves are understood to have financial concerns, with Burnley saying on Saturday they faced a shortfall of £50m if the Premier League season was not completed.\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber, meanwhile, said the Premier League was not ignoring the plight of the general population during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe PFA statement came hours after a conference call with the Premier League and the League Managers' Association (LMA), the managers' union, to discuss the wage cut plans.\n\nSaturday's call, which featured a Premier League presentation of the wage cut plans to around 65 participants, was concluded in less than an hour with no agreement reached.\n\nThe Premier League is not mandated to make a decision on wage cuts, as it has to be agreed by the players and coaches. Clubs and players are now set to discuss the plan, with talks set to go into next week.\n\nAs part of the proposals, the Premier League would advance £125m to the English Football League (EFL) and National League, and give £20m towards the NHS.\n\nThe PFA says it is happy to continue talks with the Premier League, although it added: \"£20m is welcome, but we believe it could be far bigger.\n\n\"The EFL money is an advance. Importantly, it will aid cashflow in the immediate, but football needs to find a way to increase funding to the EFL and non-league clubs in the long-term.\n\n\"Many clubs require an increase in funding just to survive. We believe in our football pyramid and again stress the need for solidarity between all clubs.\n\n\"Going forward, we are working together to find a solution which will be continually reviewed in order to assess the circumstance of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\n\"The players are mindful that as PAYE employees, the combined tax on their salaries is a significant contribution to funding essential public services - which are especially critical at this time.\"\n\nDuring Saturday's conference call, the Premier League warned that it faces a £762m financial penalty if the season does not resume, and broadcasters demanded refunds on games they could not show.\n\nIt added that hundreds of millions of pounds could be lost in sponsorship and matchday revenue because the season has been suspended, and that the campaign will almost certainly be played behind closed doors if it resumes.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, England defender Danny Rose - on loan at Newcastle from Tottenham - said that Premier League players were keen to give up a portion of their wages to help good causes, but felt their \"backs are against the wall\" regarding the pressure they had faced to accept cuts.\n\nCaptains of Premier League clubs, led by Liverpool's Jordan Henderson, have been in talks over a plan to make charitable donations.\n\n\"We sort of feel that our backs are against the wall. Conversations were being had before people outside of football were commenting,\" Rose told the Friday Football Social.\n\n\"I've been on the phone to Jordan Henderson and he's working so hard to come up with something.\n\n\"It was just not needed for people who are not involved in football to tell footballers what they should do with their money. I found that so bizarre.\"\n\nThe Premier League declined to comment on the PFA statement.\n\nRarely has the relationship between the Premier League's stars and their employers been so fragile. In an unprecedented crisis, the country's top footballers have found their voice like never before, exacerbating an unseemly row over money, and fracturing the unity of the sport in a way not seen since the threatened players' strike of 2001.\n\nSaturday's remarkable statement represents an attempt by the players and the PFA to go on the offensive against not only their own clubs, but also their critics, including even the government.\n\nThey argue that the clubs' proposed 30% cut in wages would be counter-productive and detrimental to the NHS because of the loss in tax revenue it would result in. Privately, some Government officials accept the validity of this argument, but are dismayed that the sport is embroiled in such a squabble when Premier League players earn on average £3.5m a year.\n\nThe Premier League had hoped Saturday's conference call would convince the players of the need to accept the cut in pay that many politicians and members of the public have been calling for.\n\nIt seems that hope has proved naive however, and with clear tensions between the two sides, negotiations are now set to extend into next week.", "That's all for our rolling coverage from across England for today.\n\nWe'll be back with more live updates on Monday morning, but until then you can keep up to date with the latest news here.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"People must, at every stage, respect these guidelines\"\n\nA five-year-old child with underlying health conditions is among those with coronavirus whose deaths were reported in the past day, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe latest figures show 4,313 people with the virus have now died in the UK - up by 708 on Friday's figure.\n\nMr Gove said hundreds of ventilators were being manufactured every day and more had been sourced from abroad.\n\nPeople have been warned to stay at home despite the warm weather this weekend.\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Gove at the government's daily briefing, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said: \"The sun might be out, but that does not mean you should be out.\"\n\nHe said there was some evidence that social distancing measures were reducing transmission, and that the latest figures suggested new cases had begun to \"stabilise\".\n\nHowever, he stressed that there was \"no room for complacency\".\n\nDuring the briefing, Mr Gove paid tribute to one of the youngest victims of the outbreak.\n\n\"Our thoughts today are also with the family of the five-year-old with underlying health conditions who has tragically died,\" he said.\n\nThe recent trends in deaths (doubling roughly every 3.5 days) would have predicted about 800 deaths today.\n\nRemember that doubling every few days means that we should expect to see record new highs regularly.\n\nScientists remind us to look for evidence that the growth is slowing down - the first step on the journey to falling numbers of deaths.\n\nSo, compared to that projection, there is a potential silver lining to these figures - if the pattern continues.\n\nBut one day of below-trend growth is far too soon to know for sure.\n\nIt takes over three weeks from infection to death to being reported in these figures.\n\nSo while we can hope to see the effects of pre-lockdown social distancing soon, it will take longer for the effect of the lockdown, announced on 23 March, to become apparent.\n\nThere are now 41,903 confirmed cases in the UK, the Department of Health said.\n\nThere were 212 deaths in the Midlands, more than in London, where there were 127.\n\nMr Gove said seven healthcare professionals have now died.\n\nUrging people to stay at home, he called on the public to remember two NHS nurses who died on Friday after contracting Covid-19.\n\nHe said: \"Each had three young children. They died doing everything they could to help the sick and suffering.\"\n\nAimee O'Rourke, 39, died at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, Kent, while Areema Nasreen, 36, died after spending weeks in intensive care at Walsall Manor Hospital.\n\nCarrie Symonds said she is showing symptoms as the PM remains in isolation\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in self-isolation in Downing Street after testing positive for coronavirus while his pregnant partner Carrie Symonds tweeted that she has spent a week in bed with the main symptoms.\n\nShe said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nProf Powis said people were adhering to social distancing measures, and that public transport use remains \"extremely low\".\n\nSchool attendance was down as low as 2%, Mr Gove added.\n\nHowever, Prof Powis added that people must \"resist the temptation\" to go out in the warm weather.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council tweeted on Saturday that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront, making social distancing \"impossible\".\n\nSussex Police said that two people had been summonsed to attend court after having a barbecue on Hove beach.\n\nMr Gove said there was \"evidence to suggest\" there has been a lower level of compliance for some young people.\n\nHe said it might be that some of the messages and channels the government has used have not reached some segments of the population, adding: \"It may be that young people feel that they are less likely to be affected and less likely to be infected.\"\n\nAlso in the briefing, Mr Gove said that ventilators - in addition to those being made in the UK - had been sourced from abroad, including 300 that arrived from China on Saturday.\n\nHe said the government had also secured new non-invasive ventilation capacity with the help of UK manufacturers.\n\nThis would help to ensure patients do not need to be placed on invasive ventilators, which involve patients being intubated and supported to breathe with machinery taking oxygen directly into their lungs.\n\nMr Gove said a team from University College London working with Mercedes Benz have produced a new device which has been clinically approved.\n\n\"They produced 250 yesterday, will produce the same number today and tomorrow, rising to 1,000 a day next week,\" he said.\n\nHe branded conspiracy theories spread on social media blaming new 5G masts for the spread of Covid-19 \"dangerous nonsense\".", "This video can not be played.", "As the death toll from coronavirus continues to climb, hospitals across the UK are working flat out to create more intensive care beds for those who are critically ill. Speaking to the BBC, one intensive care doctor describes the crippling reality of a lack of support and equipment faced by some health-care workers in England.\n\nSeveral healthcare workers in England have told the BBC of a lack of equipment in their hospitals. Warned against speaking to the media, they were unwilling to talk publicly. However, one intensive care doctor from the Midlands wanted to go on record. The BBC agreed to change her name in order to protect her identity.\n\nDr Roberts describes a hospital on the brink. Intensive care is already full of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients. All operations deemed non-urgent, even the cancer clinics, have been cancelled. There is a lack of staff, a lack of critical care beds, a shortage of basic antibiotics and ventilators.\n\nAll this, combined with the looming uncertainty of what will be the expected peak, estimated to hit the UK around 14-15 April, means hospital staff are already feeling the strain.\n\nHowever, nothing Dr Roberts describes is quite as alarming as the fact that these medical professionals, who continue to care for critically ill patients for 13 hours every day, are having to resort to fashioning personal protective equipment (PPE) out of clinical waste bags, plastic aprons and borrowed skiing goggles.\n\nDr Roberts shown in the left picture, tying a bin bag covering the sides and back of her colleague's head\n\nWhile the public attempts to keep to a social distance of two metres, many NHS staff are being asked to examine patients suspected of coronavirus at a distance of 20cm - without the proper protection.\n\nWith potentially fatal implications, Dr Roberts says several departments within her hospital are now so fearful of what's coming next, they have begun to hoard PPE for themselves.\n\n\"It's about being pragmatic. The nurses on ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit) need it now. They are doing procedures which risk aerosol spread of the virus. But they've been told to wear normal theatre hats, which have holes in them and don't provide any protection.\n\n\"It's wrong. And that's why we're having to put bin bags and aprons on our heads.\"\n\nThe government has acknowledged distribution problems, but says a national supply team, supported by the armed forces, is now \"working around the clock\" to deliver equipment.\n\nNHS England also said more than one million respiratory face masks were delivered on 1 April, but with no mention of much-needed head protection and long-sleeved gowns.\n\nDr Roberts says her hospital has not received anything from the government, and what they do have is causing concern.\n\n\"The respiratory protection face masks we're using at the moment, they've all been relabelled with new best-before end dates. Yesterday I found one with three stickers on. The first said, expiry 2009. The second sticker, expiry 2013. And the third sticker on the very top said 2021.\"\n\nPublic Health England has said all stockpiled pieces of PPE [personal protective equipment] labelled with new expiry dates have \"passed stringent tests\" and are \"safe for use by NHS staff\". But Dr Roberts says she is not convinced.\n\nDr Roberts pulls expiry date stickers from the packaging on a face mask\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care also said it was \"working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army… If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place\".\n\nIt said its new guidance on PPE was in line with World Health Organization advice to \"make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing\".\n\nCurrently ventilated and under Dr Roberts' care are three of her colleagues, all of whom have tested positive for coronavirus. One is an intensive care doctor working on a Covid ward, who, like Dr Roberts, only had access to inadequate protection.\n\nThe other two were both working on non-Covid wards and therefore were wearing no PPE. However, given their symptoms, Dr Roberts believes both of them contracted the virus while at work.\n\nAlthough colleagues continue to visit, as with all other patients, no relatives are allowed anywhere within the hospital.\n\n\"The hardest thing at the moment is having to tell families you are withdrawing care, over the phone. Telling them their relatives are dying or have died but we can't let you come and see them,\" says Dr Roberts.\n\n\"Normally you can say to their relative who's at the bedside, 'We're going to do everything we can', but I haven't felt able to say that, because at the moment, I can't.\n\n\"I can't necessarily give them the best care on a ventilator, I can't guarantee the best nursing care, because the best nurses are being stretched four ways. We're running out of antibiotics, and I can't guarantee all the treatments that I know would help them.\"\n\nNHS England says it has no record of how many medical professionals have been admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus at work.\n\nHowever, the two hardest-hit countries in Europe are counting. Spain's emergency health minister announced on 27 March that more than 9,400 health-care workers had tested positive, and in Italy, as of 30 March, more than 6,414 medical professionals were reported to have been infected.\n\nIn the UK, several health workers are known to have died from coronavirus, including Areema Nasreen, a staff nurse in the West Midlands, Thomas Harvey, a health-care assistant in east London, Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha in central London, Dr Alfa Saadu in north London, Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester.\n\nBased on projections from Italy and Spain, Dr Roberts says health-care workers are bracing for the peak to hit in less than two weeks.\n\n\"If cases rise as quickly as they did in Spain and Italy, then quite frankly, we are screwed. All of our overspill areas will soon be full.\n\n\"The anaesthetic machines we have, which are designed to work for two to three hours at most, have been running for four to five days straight. We're already getting leaks and failures.\"\n\nAlso short of PPE, an intensive care nurse in Spain wears a bin bag and a protective plastic mask, donated by a local company\n\nExtra intensive care beds, set up in several operating theatres and wards, have nearly doubled the hospital's capacity to support critically ill patients, particularly those who can't breathe for themselves and need to be put on a ventilator.\n\nHowever, by expanding intensive care, Dr Roberts says it's the nursing staff who are disproportionately affected.\n\n\"Intensive care nurses are highly trained and normally deliver care one-to-one to those critically ill. Their patients may be asleep, but they have such a close relationship, they can describe every hair on a patient's head.\n\n\"But now, with these extra beds, nurses are under pressure to look after up to four patients, while delivering the same level of critical care. They are in tears and really struggling. They are the most important part of the system, but that's where it's going to fall down\".\n\nOutside in the hospital car park, Dr Roberts describes how a new temporary building has appeared in the ambulance bay with just one purpose - to vet all patients for symptoms of coronavirus before they are admitted.\n\nIt is run by a clinician, who, Dr Roberts points out, could otherwise be looking after patients. She describes the unit as a \"lie detector\".\n\n\"It's really common for people to lie about their symptoms just to get seen. People who should have stayed at home, but they come to A&E.\n\n\"So now every single patient gets vetted in the car park, to make sure those with Covid symptoms go to the right part of the hospital and don't infect everyone else, like those who've come in with a broken arm.\"\n\nBut for Dr Roberts, it's not just about those turning up at A&E, it's everyone.\n\n\"Most hospital staff, we are isolating ourselves when we are not at work, so as not to put other people at risk.\n\n\"But the most frustrating thing for us is to see the parks full, or Tescos even busier than usual. Please stay at home.\"", "Five London bus workers have died after being diagnosed with coronavirus\n\nFive London bus workers have died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nUnite said their members had been doing \"a heroic job in getting NHS and care workers to their places of work\" and described the loss as a \"tragedy\".\n\nRegional secretary Peter Kavanagh said the union would be assisting families \"in every possible way\".\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said it was \"extremely saddened\" by the deaths, while mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"absolutely devastated\".\n\nIt is understood three were drivers and two were controllers.\n\nUnite said it had contacted Mr Khan, who shared its view \"that bus drivers must be fully protected\".\n\n\"We are absolutely committed to doing everything in our power to make the driving of buses safe during this unprecedented crisis,\" said Mr Kavanagh.\n\nVehicles are being deep-cleaned and safety measures are in place\n\nCurrent safety measures include deep-cleaning vehicles, erecting screens around the driver, providing hand sanitiser and blocking off the seats closest to the driver.\n\nMr Khan said he will continue to make enhancements across public transport in London to ensure there are even higher levels of protection.\n\n\"My thoughts are with their friends and families at this awful time,\" he said.\n\n\"I have been clear that our incredible public transport staff, on the buses, tubes, trams and trains, are critical workers, making a heroic effort to allow our NHS staff to save more lives.\n\n\"But we all need to play our part too and that means fewer Londoners using the public transport network. Please follow the rules. Stay at home and do not use public transport unless it is absolutely unavoidable.\"\n\nSadiq Khan is asking people to only travel on public transport if absolutely necessary\n\nGareth Powell, TfL's managing director for surface transport, said they had been offering the bus companies for whom the drivers worked \"every support possible\".\n\n\"The safety of our staff and customers is our absolute priority and we have been working closely with the bus companies, the mayor and Unite to implement a range of changes and improvements to keep the bus network and garages safe for those operating and using it, in accordance with Public Health England advice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mobile phone mast fires are being investigated amid conspiracy theories claiming a link between 5G and coronavirus.\n\nThere have been fires at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.\n\nA video, allegedly of the blaze in Aigburth, was shared on YouTube and Facebook, claiming a link between the mobile technology and Covid-19.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said it was \"dangerous nonsense\".\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said on Twitter \"there is absolutely no credible evidence\" of a link, while trade body Mobile UK said such rumours and conspiracy theories were \"concerning\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMerseyside Police said an investigation is under way after the telecommunications box in Aigburth caught fire on Friday.\n\nA video of what appears to be the incident, which happened shortly after 22:00 BST, was shared on YouTube.\n\nVerification from the BBC's disinformation team suggests the video is authentic, however, it is unclear whether the box has anything to do with 5G technology.\n\nMerseyside Fire and Rescue Service said it is also investigating a blaze it extinguished at a 5G mast in the village of Melling, north of Liverpool, on Friday night.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said the fire in Birmingham involved a 70ft tower on a telecommunications site. However, it said the cause was yet to be identified and it could not confirm the mast was 5G.\n\nA West Midlands Police spokesman said: \"We're aware of a fire involving a phone mast, but are awaiting further details on its cause.\"\n\nAt the government's daily coronavirus briefing earlier, Mr Gove said conspiracy theories linking 5G with Covid-19 were \"just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well.\"\n\nNHS Director Stephen Powis told the press conference 5G infrastructure is critical both to the general population who are being asked to stay at home and to the healthcare response to the virus.\n\n\"I'm absolutely outraged and disgusted that people would be taking action against the infrastructure we need to tackle this emergency,\" he said.\n\nMobile UK said key workers had suffered abuse and threats from people about damaging infrastructure under the pretence of claims about 5G.\n\n\"This is not acceptable and only impacts on our ability as an industry to maintain the resilience and operational capacity of the networks to support mass home working and critical connectivity to the emergency services, vulnerable consumers and hospitals.\"\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nOne suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.", "The beginning of Holy Week is typically marked by a service in the Vatican attended by thousands.\n\nThis year only a small amount of people attended because of coronavirus.", "Aimee O'Rourke died in the hospital where she worked\n\nIt is \"inevitable\" more health workers will die from coronavirus, the UK's largest nursing union has said.\n\nTheresa Fyffe, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, was speaking after the deaths of nurses Aimee O'Rourke and Areema Nasreen, who had both tested positive for the virus.\n\nShe said the circumstances of both deaths had to be reviewed and protocols for frontline staff examined.\n\nEngland's chief nurse Ruth May has also raised fears over more deaths.\n\nIt comes amid reports that up to 30 nurses are off sick with coronavirus at Southend Hospital in Essex.\n\nMs Fyffe said there were still concerns about whether staff had the personal protective equipment (PPE) they needed \"not just in the NHS - in the communities, in the care homes, in the hospices, wherever care is being provided\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said a hotline was available for ordering PPE.\n\nDuring the government's daily briefing on Saturday, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said seven healthcare professionals have now lost their lives.\n\nEngland's chief nurse Ruth May fears more nurses will die\n\nMs Fyffe said nurses were unable to keep a safe distance from patients, adding: \"People have forgotten that when you are a nurse... you are working with patients who are actually up close and personal.\n\n\"I do believe, sadly, it is inevitable we will see more nurses and other healthcare professionals die.\"\n\nDuring Friday's government briefing, nursing chief Ms May paid tribute to Ms O'Rourke and Ms Nasreen, who were both mothers-of-three in their 30s and worked on the frontline in facilities in Margate and Walsall.\n\nShe added: \"I worry there's going to be more [deaths].\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said nurses were treating patients with coronavirus without any protection at all and putting themselves, their families and their patients at risk.\n\n\"We will not accept anything less than aprons, gloves and masks for all staff, in all settings,\" she added. \"But that is a minimum.\"\n\nShe said the RCN had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the end of March asking him to intervene.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We are working round the clock to make sure that our heroic frontline healthcare staff feel safe, and the full weight of the government is behind the effort to make sure PPE is reaching the frontline.\n\n\"We are working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army.\n\n\"If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place and Public Health England recently updated PPE guidance in line with World Health Organisation advice to make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing.\"\n\nSouthend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said no-one was available to comment until Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Bath - the 7th Marquess of Bath - died on Saturday, Longleat said\n\nLord Bath has died at the age of 87 after contracting coronavirus.\n\nLongleat, the park and home he ran, announced on Twitter the 7th Marquess of Bath died on Saturday at the Royal Bath United Hospital.\n\nHe was admitted there on 28 March where it was confirmed he had the virus.\n\nIn the statement, his family appealed for privacy and thanked the medical team which \"cared so professionally and compassionately\" for him in his final days.\n\nThe aristocrat was known for his flamboyant style of dress\n\nLongleat Safari Park confirmed the news on Facebook, expressing their \"deepest sadness\" at his death.\n\nIt added: \"The family would like to express their great appreciation for the dedicated team of nurses, doctors and other staff who cared so professionally and compassionately for Alexander in these extremely difficult times for everyone.\"\n\nLord Bath with chimp \"Teddy\" at Longleat Safari Park in 1996\n\nLord Bath in front of Longleat House in 2006\n\nAlexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, was born on 6 May in 1932 and grew up in his family's home at Longleat, near Warminster in Wiltshire.\n\nHe was known for his flamboyant style of dress and for having relationships with women he often referred to as his \"wifelets\".\n\nLord Bath pictured in 1975 with his first wife, Hungarian actress Anna Gael, who was also known as Anna Gyarmathy\n\nTributes have been paid on Twitter, including from Piers Morgan, who described him as \"one of Britain's most colourful characters\".\n\nBen Fogle, who filmed TV series Animal Park at Longleat about the lord's estate, said he was \"devastated\", while the show's present Kate Humble said she was \"very sad\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"Everyone will describe him as eccentric - and he was, gloriously so - but he was also kind and fun - and we all need a bit of kindness and fun in our lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLord Bath was involved in politics and stood in the very first European parliamentary elections in 1979, representing the Wessex Regionalist Party which he helped to found.\n\nAfter inheriting the Marquess seat in 1992, he then sat as a Liberal Democrat in the House of Lords but lost his seat when Labour reforms excluded most hereditary peers.", "People across the UK gathered to watch the Queen's address\n\nThere have been difficult royal speeches and addresses in the past - times when the wrong word or the wrong phrase could have undermined the message or let slip a critical opportunity.\n\nThe broadcast after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 for example, or the speech the Queen gave on her visit to Ireland in 2011.\n\nThe Palace could have played it safe, stressed unity and given thanks. It would have served.\n\nThis was a different and much more ambitious broadcast, designed to reassure and to inspire.\n\nBut most of all to recast the coronavirus crisis as a defining moment for a nation which will forever remember its collective effort to save the lives of its vulnerable.\n\nGiven the number of Second World War metaphors and comparisons that are around at the moment - a war the Queen remembers well - the temptation might have been to draw parallels to that conflict.\n\nBut the only direct reference was to her first ever radio broadcast, in 1940, when the Queen - then a young princess - and her sister Margaret, spoke to children who had been evacuated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again\"\n\nIt was a reminder, not just of the innocence of childhood and of the sacrifices of an earlier generation, but of her long perspective on Britain's history.\n\nEchoes of that struggle of the 1940s, which for so long defined Britain and its self-image, ran through the broadcast.\n\nWinston Churchill said, after the fall of France in 1940, that even after a thousand years it would still be said of Britons that \"this was their finest hour\".\n\nToday the Queen spoke of how history would judge the nation - that \"those that come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any\".\n\n\"The pride in who we are is not part of our past,\" she said, \"it defines our present and our future\".\n\nThe Queen did not revert to talk of Blitz spirit; instead she celebrated the communal feeling that exists today.\n\nThe applause for care and essential workers she said is \"an expression of our national spirit\" and \"its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children\".\n\nThere was no talk of fighting, of struggle, of conflict. Instead she spoke of more peaceful national traits - \"self-discipline\", \"quiet, good-humoured resolve\" and \"fellow-feeling\".\n\nThe Queen's eldest son, Prince Charles, spent seven days in isolation after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nThis was not a warrior-queen's speech; it was about collective effort.\n\n\"Together we are tackling this disease,\" she said. \"If we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.\"\n\n\"We will succeed,\" she insisted, \"and that success will belong to each and every one of us\".\n\nThere was time for some great-grandmotherly wisdom; she, who occupies an often lonely position, offered her thoughts to those who are now alone though self-isolation.\n\nHard times, she acknowledged, but also perhaps an opportunity \"to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation\".\n\nAnd at the end, one more echo of the conflict that so often this crisis has been compared to. The defining song of the Second World War was for many Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again - a longing for better times to come.\n\n\"Better days will return,\" said the Queen. \"We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.\"", "The power struggle over how Premier League footballers can financially assist in the fight against coronavirus is \"a disgrace\" and has players in a \"no-win situation\", says Wayne Rooney.\n\nPlayers have been urged to do more by health secretary Matt Hancock and the Premier League proposed a 30% pay cut.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association says that may harm the NHS.\n\nDerby striker Rooney says he is happy to offer support but asked: \"Why are footballers suddenly the scapegoats?\"\n\nIn his Sunday Times column, the 34-year-old ex-England captain added: \"For the Premier League to just announce the proposal, as it has done, increases the pressure on players and in my opinion it is now a no-win situation: if players come out and say they can't agree or are not willing to cut by 30%, even if the real reasons are that it will financially ruin some, it will be presented as 'Rich Players Refuse Pay Cut'.\n\n\"It seemed strange to me because every other decision in this process has been kept behind closed doors, but this had to be announced publicly.\n\n\"Why? It feels as if it's to shame the players - to force them into a corner where they have to pick up the bill for lost revenue.\"\n• None Furloughing staff: What have clubs done so far?\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate has reportedly taken a 30% pay cut, though the Football Association is yet to confirm the move.\n\nThe Premier League says it wants a 30% cut in players' wages in order to \"protect employment throughout the professional game\".\n\nThe PFA says the proposal would be \"detrimental to our NHS\" as it would equate to more than £500m in wage reductions over 12 months, and a loss in tax contributions of more than £200m to the UK government.\n\nDerby player-coach Rooney questioned the timing of the Premier League's proposed wage cuts when top-flight captains were already in discussions as to how they could set up a fund that would go to a charitable cause, most likely the NHS.\n\nRooney also said the Premier League's own contribution of £20m to the NHS was \"a drop in the ocean\" compared to what players are being asked to give up.\n\n\"How the past few days have played out is a disgrace,\" added England's all-time leading goalscorer.\n\n\"I get that players are well paid and could give up money. But this should be getting done on a case-by-case basis.\n\n\"Clubs should be sitting down with each player and explaining what savings it needs to survive. Players would accept that.\n\n\"One player might say, 'I can afford a 30%'; another might say, 'I can only afford 5%'.\n\n\"Personally, I'd have no problem with some of us paying more. I don't think that would cause any dressing room problems.\n\n\"Whatever way you look at it, we're easy targets. What gets lost is that half our wages get taken by the taxman. Money that goes to the government, money that is helping the NHS.\"\n\nRooney questioned why \"big stars from other sports, who are able to avoid tax by living in places like Monaco\" are not being scrutinised over the financial support they are offering in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe also criticised health secretary Hancock focusing on footballers and believes big clubs do not need players to take cuts in order to survive, adding if they did then \"football is in a far worse position than any of us imagined\".\n\nPremier League leaders Liverpool are facing criticism from former players and fans for joining Newcastle, Tottenham, Bournemouth and Norwich in furloughing non-playing staff.\n\nRooney said he expects people to \"point the finger\" at him for airing his views on the pay-cut issue but wanted to \"speak up\" for players.\n\n\"At the moment it's almost a free-for-all: it's like the government, Premier League and sections of the media have set the players up to fall,\" he added.\n\nFellow ex-England captain Gary Lineker told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show that footballers he had spoken to were \"desperately keen\" to offer help but were an \"easy\" target for criticism.\n\n\"Why not call on all the wealthy to try and help if they possibly can rather than just pick on footballers?\" the Match of the Day presenter said.\n\n\"Nobody seems to talk about the bankers, the CEOs, huge millionaires. Are they standing up? Are they being asked to stand up? We don't know.\n\n\"The problem is how you do it. It's obviously complicated and it takes time. People are always quick to jump on the judgemental high horse, certainly when it comes to footballers but lots of them do lots of really good things and I'm sure they'll continue to do so.\n\n\"Footballers do an extraordinary amount of good in the community, lots of them will already be giving in their own silent ways and I know that plans are afoot to make their contributions to society.\n\n\"I expect an announcement to come in the next few days, the next week or so.\"", "Staff at Pentonville Prison are believed to have held a tribute to their colleagues\n\nTwo staff members at Pentonville Prison in north London have died after showing symptoms of coronavirus, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) has said.\n\nThe men, Bovil Peter and Patrick Beckford, worked as support staff.\n\nBoth are thought to have been in their 60s but it is not known if they had any underlying health conditions, the POA said.\n\nChairman Mark Fairhurst said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved with these tragic deaths.\"\n\nHe added: \"Two at the same prison is very concerning.\"\n\nMr Peter was described as \"an experienced member of staff\" working at operational support grade at the prison, who \"died earlier this week due to Covid-19 symptoms\".\n\nMr Fairhurst said of Mr Peter's death: \"I just want to highlight the fact that this [coronavirus] puts us all at risk.\n\n\"We are on the front line doing a commendable job on behalf of society and he will be sadly missed by all his colleagues. We wish the best for his family and friends.\"\n\nStaff at the prison are thought to have held a minute's silence after hearing their colleagues had died within days of each other earlier this week.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said: \"Our deepest sympathies are with their loved ones and colleagues at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was always a question of when, not if, the Queen would speak.\n\nNot because there is any rule to these broadcasts. There have been four, in very different circumstances.\n\nThe beginning of the land war in Iraq in 1991; the death of Diana, Princess of Wales; the death of the Queen's mother; and a brief message of thanks after the celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.\n\nThey are not requested by the government, the Palace discreetly corrects those who suggest that. They are made after agreement between Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Royal Family has had a low profile in this period of national crisis, Palace officials are aware of that. Partly it has been of necessity - the Queen and Prince Charles are both over 70 and have had to follow government advice to self-isolate.\n\nIn a more \"normal\" crisis William and Kate might have been more visible. But the government's request that people avoid all but essential travel has meant that their appearance at hospitals or amongst other key workers would have sent very confusing signals\n\nSimilarly, a broadcast from the Queen in the earliest weeks of the pandemic might have got in the way of the government's urgent messaging.\n\nThere may be no rule for the timing of these broadcasts but there is a thread that binds them.\n\nThe Queen has been conducting her weekly Audience with the PM over the phone\n\nThe Queen and the Royal Family have many roles: constitutional, ceremonial, the fun stuff like Garden Parties, visits to towns and cities, support for charitable causes.\n\nBut over all of it hangs one idea, to unify. To provide a rallying point of some form in a nation of startling variety.\n\nWhen the nation is divided, the Queen does not speak, that is for the government and opposition to thrash out.\n\nThere was no broadcast during the Iraq War in 2003, nor during the invasion of Egypt in the Suez Crisis of 1956. Both involved the Armed Forces that serve in the Queen's name. But both saw bitter divisions in the country.\n\nNor, when power cuts came and went and industrial action roiled the country in the 1970s, did she speak.\n\nCalls for unity at such times could easily be interpreted as supporting one side or another.\n\nBut the situation today is very different.\n\nPrince Charles spent seven days in isolation after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nThe Queen does not suffer the same challenges as those cooped up in small flats and houses, those unemployed or facing unemployment. She is in Windsor where there is more than enough space to relax.\n\nBut her son, Prince Charles, has been infected with Covid-19.\n\nAnd through the state papers she receives every day, through newspapers and broadcasting, she is as aware as anyone in the land of the immense challenges that so many people face.\n\nDo not expect her to be the National Nanny. Requests for hand washing and remaining at home will be left to the government.\n\nInstead she will project the calm determination that she believes is part of Britain's national character. As she did when she spoke after her mother's death, she is likely to give thanks as well.\n\nAnd as sovereign of a nation that enjoys its history, a look back to previous challenges is to be expected.\n\nBut mainly this message will be about unity. About coming together in a time of national struggle.\n\nUnity is what these broadcasts are about, and what the Royal Family is meant to be for. And unity will be the message come Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the government still needs to be asked 'difficult questions' in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nKey workers have been \"overlooked and underpaid\" and there will have to be a \"reckoning\" after the coronavirus crisis, the new Labour leader has said.\n\nSir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"They were last and now they've got to be first.\"\n\nHe said another decade of austerity would be a mistake, saying it was \"inevitable\" that the wealthy would have to pay more.\n\nThe 57-year-old won the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday.\n\nHe defeated Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey in a ballot of party members and other supporters.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Keir has announced some members of his new shadow cabinet, including former leadership rival Lisa Nandy as shadow foreign secretary.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said: \"What we can't do is go back to business as usual we now know who the key workers are, they have very often been overlooked, underpaid and there has got to be a change.\"\n\nHe said funding of the NHS had to be looked at and \"we have to think about how we reimagine the economy going forward\".\n\n\"I think it is inevitable that we have to ask those that have more to pay more,\" he said.\n\n\"When we are through [the coronavirus crisis] there is going to have to be a reckoning, we are going to have to do things differently.\"\n\nHis comments come as Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned that exercise outside the home could be banned if people ignore the lockdown rules on staying at home and social distance.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support the government if it decides to take the step of further restrictions, including on exercising outside the home.\n\nHe was it was \"particularly difficult\" for those who do not have gardens or live in overcrowded homes, but he said: \"We have got to get through this. Every time people break the guidance from the government, they put other people at risk\".\n\nBut, he said, the government had to plan an exit strategy to end the lockdown, including a national vaccination programme, and this should be published.\n\nSir Keir said that \"as soon as\" a vaccine arrives, there had to be a plan to roll it out nationally, \"but priority obviously for those on the front line\".\n\nAsked about the deadline for a post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal and whether the government can meet it, Sir Keir said the December 2020 deadline was \"unlikely\" but, he said, the focus had to be on dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe added that the \"very, very tight\" deadline should be extended \"if necessary\".\n\nSir Keir also said he spent time after the leadership election result \"reaching out\" to members of the Jewish community, after he apologised for the \"stain\" of anti-Semitism that has tainted Labour in recent years.\n\nHe said his success will be judged on whether Jewish members return to Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir recorded a video in which he spoke of the \"honour\" of becoming leader\n\nElsewhere, writing in an article in the Sunday Times, Sir Keir said failure to provide enough protective equipment for frontline workers and delays over testing had been \"serious mistakes\" in tackling coronavirus.\n\nHe said that ministers took too long to explain why they were \"so far behind\" on testing.\n\nWith the government having promised it will dramatically increase coronavirus testing to 100,000 a day by the end of the month, Sir Keir said its \"greater clarity\" over testing \"should have come sooner\".\n\n\"Now the focus must be on making sure the promise of 100,000 tests is delivered and that these tests reach those who need them most, including our frontline NHS staff,\" he added.\n\nLabour confirmed that Sir Keir had been briefed on the coronavirus outbreak by senior government officials.\n\n\"During the call, the Labour leader reiterated his commitment to work constructively with the government in the national interest,\" a spokesman said.\n\nSir Keir, who became an MP in 2015, won the Labour leadership contest on the first round of voting, with more than 50% of ballots cast.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner was elected deputy leader, replacing Tom Watson, who stood down as an MP before the election.", "Cath Kidston, the floral fashion brand, is set to file for administration as the coronavirus shutdown pushes High Street retailers to breaking point.\n\nThe move will put nearly 950 jobs at risk at the company which is best-known for its brightly-coloured designs.\n\nDebenhams, the department store chain, is also expected to appoint administrators as early as this week.\n\nAnd reports have emerged that Topshop-owner Arcadia may walk away from the leases on some of its 550 shops.\n\nCath Kidston confirmed that it intends to appoint advisory firm Alvarez & Marsal as administrators.\n\nA spokesperson said it was part of an ongoing process to explore all options for the company which was in the middle of a turnaround plan before the global Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n\nCath Kidston employs 941 people, of which 820 have been furloughed under the government's employee payment scheme.\n\nAfter the coronavirus outbreak forced store closures, Cath Kidston has stayed open online.\n\nBut most employees were furloughed on 22 March which means the government will pay 80% of an employee's wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nAn urgent review of the business began last month and there has been interest from possible buyers.\n\nThe chain sells home furnishings, clothes and accessories in trademark floral and vintage prints. It has 60 shops in the UK and a presence in 200 globally. Founded in 1993, it was bought by Baring Private Equity Asia in 2016.\n\nIt is thought a so-called pre-pack administration is now the most likely outcome for Cath Kidston.\n\nDebenhams, which employs around 20,000 staff, is also understood to be considering a pre-pack administration.\n\nIf it goes ahead, it will be the second time in a year that the retailer has filed for administration.\n\nIt is understood Debenhams wants to protect the business against claims from creditors including suppliers who are yet to be paid.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sunday Times reported that Arcadia, which is owned by Sir Philip Green, is preparing to walk away from a number of its property leases.\n\nA spokesman for Arcadia said: \"No decision has been taken at this time.\"\n\nArcadia has furloughed 14,500 of its 16,000 employees since the coronavirus lockdown and said its board members and senior leadership are taking pay cuts of between 25% and 50%.\n\nArcadia is also facing uncertainty over the future of its concessions in Debenhams' stores which include the brands Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge and Wallis.\n\nAs the High Street remains in shutdown, some retailers such as Primark have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nFashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nWhile the coronavirus has heaped pressure on many businesses, independent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.", "The culture secretary is to order social media companies to be more aggressive in their response to conspiracy theories linking 5G networks to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOliver Dowden plans to hold virtual meetings with representatives from several tech firms next week to discuss the matter.\n\nIt follows a number of 5G masts apparently being set on fire.\n\nThe issue will test the companies' commitments to free speech.\n\nEarlier in the week, blazes were reported at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.\n\nA spokesman for Vodafone's mobile network told the BBC there had been a total of four further incidents over the past 24 hours at both its own sites and those shared with O2, but did not identify the locations.\n\n\"We have received several reports of criminal damage to phone masts and abuse of telecoms engineers apparently inspired by crackpot conspiracy theories circulating online,\" a spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC.\n\n\"Those responsible for criminal acts will face the full force of the law.\n\n\"We must also see social media companies acting responsibly and taking much swifter action to stop nonsense spreading on their platforms which encourages such acts.\"\n\nDCMS has yet to confirm which tech companies are being summoned.\n\nFalse theories are being spread on smaller platforms such as Nextdoor, Pinterest and the petitions site Change.org as well as larger ones including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.\n\nScientists have said the idea of a connection between Covid-19 and 5G is \"complete rubbish\" and biologically impossible.\n\nSeveral of the platforms have already taken steps to address the problem but have not banned discussion of the subject outright.\n\nPinterest, for example, limits its search results for coronavirus and related terms to showing pinned information from recognised health organisations but does not have a comparable restriction for 5G.\n\nFacebook said it had also removed a number of groups that were encouraging attacks on 5G masts.\n\nHowever, a post entitled \"burn baby burn - it's begun\", which accompanied videos of telecoms equipment ablaze, was only taken down about six hours after it was flagged to the company's press office.\n\nYouTube bans some types of bogus posts about Covid-19, but classes conspiracy theories linking the virus to 5G as \"borderline content\". As a result, it said it tries to reduce the frequency its algorithms recommend them, but does not delete the videos from its platform.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Google-owned service said it intended to \"evaluate the impact\" of this approach. It did, however, remove one video flagged by the BBC that featured threatening language.\n\nChange.org said its open nature allowed anyone to set up a petition about any issue they cared about, but added they must comply with its guidelines to stay online.\n\n\"We have removed a number of petitions making unsubstantiated health claims about 5G from the platform,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nVodafone has said the attacks are \"now a matter of national security\".\n\n\"It beggars belief that some people should want to harm the very networks that are providing essential connectivity to the emergency services, the NHS, and rest of the country during this difficult lockdown period,\" wrote UK chief executive Nick Jeffery.\n\n\"It also makes me angry to learn that some people have been abusing our engineers as they go about their business.\n\n\"Online stories connecting the spread of coronavirus to 5G are utterly baseless. Please don't share them on social media - fake news can have serious consequences.\"\n\nThe GSMA - a trade body that represents the wider mobile industry - also urged social media and other content-hosting providers to \"accelerate their efforts to remove fake news\" relating to the problem.\n\nThe campaign against 5G has been flourishing on social media for the last year.\n\nFacebook in particular has been full of groups claiming the technology is dangerous, with many of them also pushing anti-vaccine messages.\n\nUntil recently, apart from the odd fact-checking message alongside posts, the companies have done little to combat this trend. Neither Twitter nor YouTube, for instance, has an option in their reporting systems to flag misinformation.\n\nEven on Friday, complaints to Facebook moderators about a group that appeared to encourage arson attacks on 5G masts received replies saying the page did \"not violate our community standards\" - although after the BBC contacted Facebook's press office it was taken down.\n\nIn normal times, social media platforms are very reluctant to curb what they regard as an essential part of their mission: giving people the right to free expression, however outlandish or unscientific their views.\n\nBut these are not normal times.\n\nThe government is effectively waging a war against a deadly virus, and keyworkers looking after vital infrastructure are facing abuse, possibly inspired by these social media campaigners.\n\nThat means there is now intense pressure on the likes of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to combat what one minister has called \"dangerous nonsense\" - and they will want to be seen to be acting responsibly, even if some of their users cry censorship.\n• None No, 5G does not spread coronavirus", "More than 4,300 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus. Among them are frontline medical staff. Sirin Kale tells the story of two of them.\n\nThe two men did not know each other, probably their paths never crossed, but in death they would find a strange symmetry. Dr Amged El-Hawrani and Dr Adil El Tayar - two British-Sudanese doctors - became the first working medics to die of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nTheir families don't want them to be remembered in this way - but rather as family men, who loved medicine, helping their community, and their heritage.\n\nLike the many men and women who come from overseas to join the NHS, El-Hawrani, 55, and El Tayar, 64, left behind friends and relatives back home to dedicate their careers to the UK's health service. They married and had children - El-Hawrani settling in Burton-Upon-Trent; El Tayar in Isleworth, London. And they became pillars of their communities, while maintaining ties to the country of their birth, the Sudan that both men loved.\n\nTheir stories are illustrative of the many foreign-born medics who even now are battling Covid-19.\n\nAdil El Tayar was born in Atbara in northeast Sudan in 1956, the second of 12 children. His father was a clerk in a government office; his mother had her hands full raising her brood. Atbara was a railway town, built by the British to serve the line between Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, and Wadi Halfa in the north. It is a close-knit community, where the first Sudanese labour movement started, in 1948. Everyone knows everyone.\n\n\"He came from humble beginnings,\" says Adil's cousin, Dr Hisham El Khidir. \"Whatever came into that household had to be divided amongst 12 kids. It's the reason he was so disciplined when he grew up.\"\n\nIn Sudan in the 1950s and 1960s, bright young men became doctors or engineers - respected professions that would give their entire family a better life. And when you're one of 12 children - well, that's a lot of people to help look after. Adil knew this, which is why he was a diligent student, even from a young age. But he didn't mind, in Sudanese culture, looking after your family isn't seen as a burden. It's just what you do.\n\n\"He was always so serious, so focused,\" Hisham remembers. \"He wanted to do medicine early on, because it was a good career in a third-world country.\" He had a calm, caring disposition. \"Never in the years I knew him, did I ever hear him raise his voice.\" Hisham looked up to Adil, who was eight years older than him, and later followed in his footsteps to become a doctor.\n\nThe El-Hawrani family lived almost 350km (217 miles) away, down the single-track railroad that links Atbara to the capital Khartoum. It was there that Amged was born in 1964, the second of six boys. His father Salah was a doctor, and in 1975 the family moved to Taunton, Somerset, before settling in Bristol four years later.\n\nAmged El-Hawrani (left) as a child - with father Salah and older brother Ashraf\n\n\"Dad was one of the first waves of people coming over from Sudan in the 1970s,\" remembers Amged's younger brother, Amal. \"We didn't know any other Sudanese families growing up in the UK. It was just us and English people. It felt like an adventure. Everything was new and different.\"\n\nOnly a year apart in age, Amged and his older brother Ashraf were inseparable. \"They both could have done anything,\" says Amal. \"They were intelligent, they were all-rounders. They loved football and technology. They embraced everything - just drank it all in.\"\n\nAmged loved gadgets. \"He'd always turn up with this bit of kit he'd just bought,\" Amal laughs, \"saying, 'Look, I've just bought this projector that can fit in your pocket, let's watch a film!'\"\n\nAmged El-Hawrani's graduation photo from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1993\n\nAmged and Ashraf both studied medicine, like their father. And then in 1992, tragedy struck - Ashraf died of an asthma attack, aged 29. It was Amged who discovered his body.\n\n\"It had a huge emotional impact on him,\" Amal says. \"But he became the rock of the family.\" He even named his son Ashraf, after his brother.\n\nOver the coming decades, Adil and Amged forged careers in the NHS. Adil become an organ transplant specialist, while Amged specialised in ear, nose, and throat surgery.\n\nThe life of an NHS doctor isn't easy - it is high-stakes work, which often takes you away from your family.\n\nBut Adil's children always felt that he had time for them. \"No matter how tired he was, he would always get home from work and make sure he spent time with each of us,\" says his daughter Ula, 21. \"He cared about family life so much.\"\n\nAdil El Tayar with members of his family\n\nAdil loved to potter about in his garden, tending to his apple and pear trees, and planting flowers all around. \"It was his happy place,\" says Ula. He also loved to collect new friends. \"He'd have barbecues in summer, and there would often be some random person there you'd never met before,\" Adil's son Osman, 30, jokes. \"You'd wonder where he'd picked them up from.\"\n\nAmged was intellectually curious, and a great conversationalist. \"He was one of those people who had an encyclopedic knowledge of everything,\" says his brother Amal. He was also a Formula One fan - Ayrton Senna was his legend. \"Amged was generous, and without guile,\" remembers his friend Dr Simba Oliver Matondo. They met when they took the same class at university, and spent their student years eating Pizza Hut food - a big treat back then - and watching Kung Fu films.\n\nThe National Health is staffed by many foreign-born workers - 13.1% of NHS staff say their nationality is not British, and one-in-five come from minority backgrounds.\n\nAs of 3 April, four British doctors, and two nurses, have died after testing positive for COVID-19. Five were from BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] communities. In addition to Adil and Amged, there is Dr Alfa Sa'adu, born in Nigeria, Dr Habib Zaidi, born in Pakistan, and nurse Areema Nasreen, who had Pakistani heritage. \"We mourn the passing of our colleagues in the fight against Covid-19,\" says Dr Salman Waqar of the British Islamic Medical Association. \"They enriched our country. Without them, we would not have an NHS.\"\n\nBoth Adil and Amged considered themselves British. \"Amged was in this country for 40 years,\" says Amal. \"He was as British as tea and crumpets.\" But they kept close ties with their native Sudan. \"When someone emigrates to the UK, they don't just cut all their ties with their country,\" Adil's cousin Hisham explains. \"They make a better life for themselves, but they maintain their roots.\"\n\nAdil returned to Khartoum in 2010, to set up an organ transplant unit. \"He wanted to give something back to the less fortunate in Sudan,\" his son Osman explains. Since Adil's death, his family has received dozens of phone calls from people in Sudan, telling them about their father's charity work. They knew their dad spent a lot of time helping people back home in Sudan - they'd overhear his phone calls.\n\nBut none of Adil's children realised just how many people he'd helped, until after he died.\n\nAmged was also charitable, climbing in the Himalayas in 2010 to raise money for a CT scanner for Queen's Hospital Burton, where he worked. Like Adil, he was connected to his heritage. \"He'd always reminisce about growing up in Sudan,\" says his brother Amal. \"He was very proud to be Sudanese.\"\n\nHis friend Matondo was a frequent visitor at Amged's mum's house in Bristol, where they'd eat \"ful medames\", a traditional fava bean stew, and feta cheese with chillies. A supporter of Al Merrikh - the Manchester United of Sudan - Amged arranged for the Khartoum team's dilapidated pitch to be repainted, picking up the bill himself.\n\nBoth doctors cared deeply about the NHS, an institution they had spent their lifetimes serving. \"Adil really believed in this excellent system that provided free care at the point of delivery to everyone who needed it,\" says his cousin Dr Hisham El Khidir.\n\nHis passion rubbed off on his children - Osman and his sister Abeer, 26, both followed in Adil's footsteps to become doctors. The day Osman was accepted as a surgical registrar - a prestigious, competitive post - Adil was emotional. \"He was so happy,\" Osman remembers. \"He just kept saying, 'Mashallah, mashallah.'\"\n\nWhen both doctors got sick, they didn't think much of it, their families say. Amged was the first to fall ill. His mother had recently recovered from a nasty bout of pneumonia, and in late February, after finishing a long shift, he drove to Bristol to see her. Amged felt unwell in the car, but assumed he was probably just exhausted.\n\nBy 4 March, he was admitted to Burton's Queen's Hospital. His colleagues put him on a ventilator. He was later transferred to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, where he was put on a more sophisticated ECMO machine, to breathe for him. Amged would stay on that machine, fighting for his life, for nearly three weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Adil was working in the A&E department of Hereford County Hospital. On the 13 March, the first UK death from coronavirus was reported in Scotland. The very next day, Adil started feeling unwell. He came back to the family house in London, and self-isolated.\n\nOver the next few days, his condition deteriorated. On the 20 March, Abeer didn't like how her dad looked - he was breathless, and couldn't string a sentence together - and she called an ambulance. Doctors at West Middlesex University Hospital put Adil on a ventilator. But even then, alarm bells weren't ringing. \"We thought, this is bad,\" says Osman. \"But we had no idea it would be fatal.\"\n\nOn 25 March, Adil's family received a call from the hospital. Things were very bad, and they should come now. They raced there to be with him. Adil's children watched their father die through a glass window. They weren't allowed in the room, because of the risk of contagion.\n\n\"That was the most difficult thing,\" says Osman. \"Having to watch him. I always knew that one day my father would die. But I thought I would be there, holding his hand. I never imagined I would be looking at him through a window, on a ventilator.\"\n\nAdil spent decades serving the NHS. But his family feels that the NHS didn't do enough for him in return, by giving him the protective gear that might have prevented him contracting coronavirus. \"I think it's unbelievable in the UK in 2020 that we're battling a life-threatening disease, and our frontline staff are not being safely equipped with PPE to do their job,\" says Osman. \"Bottom line is that it's wrong and it needs to be addressed immediately.\"\n\nAmid repeated claims of shortages in some parts of the NHS, the government has offered frequent bulletins on the volume of personal protective equipment being delivered. The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he will \"stop at nothing\" to protect frontline health workers - describing the situation as \"one of the biggest logistical challenges of peacetime\".\n\nAll the time Adil had been in hospital, Amged had clung onto life. But on the 28 March, doctors decided to take Amged off the ECMO machine. Dressed in protective gear, Amged's brother Akmal was allowed into his room, to hold his hand. Amal watched from behind a window.\n\nAmged will be buried in Bristol, beside his dad, and close enough for his mum to visit.\n\nAt his own request, Adil will be buried in Sudan, besides his father and grandfather. Getting the repatriation paperwork sorted is proving difficult, given the coronavirus lockdown. \"The last wishes of someone who died are very sacred in our culture,\" explains Osman. \"We will make it happen.\"\n\nAdil's children won't be able to attend the funeral - although cargo planes are flying, there are currently no passenger flights to Sudan. But he won't be buried alone. The community of people Adil grew up with - his siblings, and their children, and the people he supported over the years, will bury him instead. In Sudanese tradition, every mourner digs their hand into the dust, and throws soil into the grave. \"There are hundreds of people waiting to bury him,\" says Osman. \"I've been on the phone with them all. They're waiting for him to arrive.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the garden Adil loved so much is overgrown. \"It's a sad view,\" says Ula. \"It's dishevelled now he's not around. He was always the one who kept it together.\" But the apple tree will be coming into blossom soon.\n\nTop image copyright: El Tayar family and University Hospitals Derby and Burton. All images subject to copyright.", "Parishioners washing their hands as a preventative measure in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe\n\nOn 12 January - less than three months ago - the coronavirus was confined to China. Not a single case had been found outside the country where it emerged.\n\nAnd then, on 13 January, the virus became a global problem. A case was recorded in Thailand before Japan, South Korea and the United States soon followed.\n\nAcross the world, a trickle of cases became a flood.\n\nThere have now been more than a million Covid-19 cases worldwide, in countries from Nepal to Nicaragua. But as the death tolls rise, and the hospitals overflow, is anywhere still coronavirus-free?\n\nThe answer, perhaps surprisingly, is yes.\n\nIn North Korea, no reported cases and more missile tests\n\nThere are 193 countries which are members of the United Nations.\n\nAs of 2 April, 18 countries had not reported a Covid-19 case, according to a BBC tally using data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSome, experts agree, are likely to have unreported cases. North Korea, for example, is officially on zero, as is war-torn Yemen.\n\nBut there are countries where the virus has not landed. Most are small islands with few visitors - in fact, seven of the world’s 10 least-visited places, as per UN data, are free of Covid-19.\n\nThat remoteness means one thing: in this age of social-distancing rules, island nations are the original self-isolators.\n\nBut the president of one such place is not complacent. In fact, he tells the BBC, Covid-19 is already a national emergency.\n\nNauru, in the Pacific Ocean, is almost 200 miles (320km) from anywhere – Banaba Island, part of Kiribati, is the nearest land. The nearest \"major\" city with direct flights is Brisbane, 2,500 miles south-west.\n\nIt is the second-smallest UN state in terms of land (after Monaco) and, with just over 10,000 people, the second-smallest in terms of population (after Tuvalu).\n\nIt is also one of the least-visited places on Earth. Although it does not appear in the most recent UN data, one tour operator says the country has just 160 tourists a year.\n\nYou may think such a distant place would not need to distance itself further. But a country with one hospital, no ventilators, and a shortage of nurses, cannot take any chances.\n\nThe policy, says President Lionel Aingimea, is called \"capture and containment\".\n\n\"We're keeping things at the border,\" he says. \"We're using our airport as the border and our transit facilities as part of our border.\"\n\nThose in quarantine are checked for symptoms every day. When some developed fever, they were isolated further and tested for Covid-19. The kits were sent to Australia, but all came back negative.\n\nDespite living through a crisis, ordinary Nauruans are \"calm and collected\", says the president. As for himself, he is grateful to other countries for their help - particularly Australia and Taiwan, which Nauru has full relations with - and to his religion.\n\n\"When we started doing this capture and containment policy, I went to God in prayer, and he gave me a scripture which I've kept to heart, which is Psalms 147, verses 13 and 14. That has kept me in good stead as we walk through - as the Bible says - this valley of death.\"\n\nAnd, while he tries to keep Nauru’s Covid-19 tally on zero, he knows the rest of the world is not as fortunate.\n\n\"Every time we look at the [Covid-19] map it looks like the world has got a measles outbreak - there's red dots all over the place,\" he says.\n\n\"So we're making sure as a nation…we believe that our prayers will be helping all the other nations going through these tough times.\"\n\nThere are fears impoverished Nauru would not be able to cope with a possible outbreak\n\nNauru is not the only small Pacific country to have declared a national emergency - Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu, and others, have done the same.\n\nDr Colin Tukuitonga, from Niue in the South Pacific, is sure it is the right policy.\n\n\"Their best bet without a doubt is to keep the bloody thing out,\" he says from New Zealand. \"Because if it gets in then you’re stuffed, really.\"\n\nDr Tukuitonga is a public health expert, a former World Health Organization commissioner, and is now an associate dean at the medical school at Auckland University.\n\n\"These places don't have robust health systems,\" he says. \"They're small, they're fragile, many don't have ventilators. If an outbreak did occur it would decimate the population.\"\n\nAnd, he says, many Pacific islanders are already in poor health.\n\n\"Many of these places have high rates of diabetes, heart disease and chest conditions - all those conditions [are linked to] a more severe form of the virus.\"\n\nIf there were a severe outbreak in any of the small Pacific nations, they would have to send their patients abroad. But that is easier said than done, when countries are locking down their borders.\n\nSo, Dr Tukuitonga says, their best bet is to stay on zero for as long as possible.\n\n\"The very isolation of small populations across a big ocean - which has always been a problem for them - has come to be a protection,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nA small number of countries with land borders have also until now been spared coronavirus cases.\n\nIt was only on Thursday that Malawi, a landlocked country of 18 million people in east Africa, reported its first cases. But it had prepared for them.\n\nThe country has declared a \"state of disaster\", closed schools, and cancelled all visas issued before 20 March. It is also \"ramping up testing\", says Dr Peter MacPherson, a public health expert from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, whose work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and who is based in Malawi.\n\nHe says the \"extra week or two we've had to prepare\" has been valuable, and he is \"quietly confident\" that Malawi will cope.\n\n\"We have been very affected by the HIV epidemic over the past 30 years and also the TB pandemic,\" he says.\n\n\"A lot of that very effective response has been basic but effective public health - well-functioning programmes at district level, doing the basics, but doing them very, very well.\"\n\nEvidence says coronavirus will come to every country, says Dr MacPherson. So if not Malawi, where might the last place in the world to catch Covid-19 be?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why staying at home is a matter of life and death\n\n\"It’s likely to be those South Pacific, very remote islands, I would put my money on that,\" says Andy Tatem, a professor in spatial demography and epidemiology at the University of Southampton.\n\n\"But in our globalised economy I’m not sure there’s anywhere that will escape such an infectious disease.\"\n\nThe lockdowns - such as those in Nauru - may work, he says, but they cannot last forever.\n\n\"Most of these countries rely on some kind of importation from outside - whether it's food or goods or tourism - or exporting their own goods. It's possible they can lock down completely, but it will be damaging – and they'll have to open up eventually.\"\n\nAnd, he warns, the number of cases is nowhere near peaking.\n\n\"We all have these lockdowns, so it's not burning through the population, and we still have a very large proportion [of people] not getting it.\n\n\"It's great for health systems, but it means we have a lot of susceptible people in the world. We are going to have to live with this virus for quite some time.\"", "Police patrol Brighton beach - normally packed with people on a sunny weekend at this time of year\n\nPeople across the UK appear to be adhering to social distancing rules despite the temptation to go out in the sunny weather, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nPolice face \"one of their biggest challenges\" of the coronavirus lockdown as the weather improves.\n\nMr Gove told the government's briefing that people must respect the lockdown.\n\nHe said there was \"evidence to suggest\" there has been a lower level of compliance among young people.\n\nBrighton and Hove City Council tweeted on Saturday that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront, making social distancing \"impossible\".\n\nAnd Sussex Police said that two people had been summonsed to attend court after having a barbecue on Hove beach.\n\nMeanwhile, Lambeth Council in south London said Brockwell Park would be closed on Sunday after more than 3,000 people spent the day there sunbathing or in large groups on Saturday.\n\nMr Gove said it might be that some of the government's messages had not reached some segments of the population.\n\n\"It may be that young people feel that they are less likely to be affected and less likely to be infected,\" he added.\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis added: \"The sun might be out, but that does not mean you should be out.\"\n\n\"It's the lives and the health of all of us, our friends, our relatives, your friends, your relatives, that depend upon us following these instructions,\" Prof Powis told the briefing.\n\n\"This is the time we need to make sure we stick to that guidance and don't deviate from it.\"\n\nPolice have been patrolling London's parks, including here, in Greenwich\n\nThe warning comes as the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has risen above 4,000, including a five-year-old with underlying health conditions.\n\nMr Gove told the briefing: \"I know that lockdown is challenging, I know it's very difficult, particularly for families with children.\n\n\"But people must at every stage respect these guidelines because that is the only way of making sure we restrict the spread of the disease.\"\n\nWhen asked about an exit strategy, he said: \"There's no fixed point, no specific date in the calendar at which we can say things will change, we are keeping them under review.\n\n\"The prime minister said that the current lockdown proposals will be reviewed in what is just over a week's time.\"\n\nPeople exercise along the seafront on Boscombe Beach, in Bournemouth, amid the lockdown\n\nA forecast of warm weather across much of the UK this weekend has led to warnings from local councils, tourism bosses and police urging people to stay away from coastal areas, national parks and other visitor destinations.\n\nRestrictions state that everybody must stay at home where possible, and only leave if they have a \"reasonable excuse\", such as exercise or shopping for basic necessities.\n\nKaty Bourne, Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Newsnight this weekend was set to be \"one of the biggest challenges for policing so far\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer told the BBC it was a \"pivotal weekend\", urging people to \"play their part\" and avoid travel.\n\nMr Sawyer told the BBC that people would have to examine their own conscience if they endangered lives by travelling to tourist hotspots this weekend.\n\n\"If a £60 ticket makes you do something and 684 people dying yesterday didn't, then I think you've got to take a good look at yourself as to whether you've realised the seriousness and significance of where we are,\" he said.\n\nHe added that officers would in the first instance \"explain\" and \"encourage\" people to follow government guidelines on essential travel, describing enforcement as \"a last resort\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures showed 4,313 people with the virus have now died in the UK, up by 708 on Friday's figure.\n\nThere are now 41,903 confirmed cases, the Department of Health said.\n\nHow have you been affected by the coronavirus? Tell us about your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A new high in UK deaths - but cases are slowing\n\nThe number of 708 deaths is a new high, but a fall in cases indicates the UK is slightly below trend. The drop in new confirmed cases from 4,450 on Friday to 3,735 cases shows a continued slowdown. New cases were growing by about 20% a day up to last weekend. In the last week, that slowed to about 10% a day. That's even after allowing for the expansion of testing to include NHS workers. Even if Saturday's fall is followed by rises, it is evidence that case growth is slowing. The figure of 708 new deaths is a record high, but it is also below scientific expectations. Deaths have been growing by just under 25% each day. That means doubling every 3.5 days. A continuation of that would have taken us from 684 deaths on Friday to more than 800. The first day of a below trend growth is too soon to call a turn, but there is hope that the slowdown we're seeing in case numbers will eventually feed through into the numbers of new deaths.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's vital we have the equipment we need to keep people safe'\n\nAlmost 400 care companies which provide home support across the UK have told the BBC they still do not have enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nWithout protection, providers say they may not be able to care for people awaiting hospital discharge.\n\nOf 481 providers, 381 - 80% - said they did not have enough PPE to be able to support older and vulnerable people.\n\nThe government said it was working \"around the clock\" to give the sector the equipment it needs.\n\nThe BBC sent questions to the nearly 3,000 members of the UK Homecare Association.\n\nAbout a quarter of respondents said they have either run out of masks or have less than a week's supply left.\n\nOthers said they were struggling to get the gloves and aprons they needed for staff who go from one client's home to the next to support them with washing, dressing and eating.\n\nJust under a third of the home care providers the BBC heard from were looking after people with Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nSuzanne Catterall, a senior care worker at Westmorland Homecare in Cumbria, speaking after visiting the first of seven clients she would see during her day, said: \"I needed to use seven pairs of gloves on one call and an apron.\n\n\"This is due to cleaning, then doing personal care for the client, including applying three different creams, and preparing food.\"\n\nDr Chris Moss, who runs Westmorland Homecare, said they have had to get supplies of PPE from local nail bars and vets' practices.\n\nThey have had some government supplies, he said, but estimated their stock would last about a week.\n\n\"Without having it you risk transmission, you risk making more of society unwell and you put more pressure on the NHS,\" he added.\n\nAnd care providers warned that without the right protective equipment, they would have to make hard decisions about who they support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRaina Summerson, chief executive of Agincare - one of the largest independent care companies, said: \"If we cannot get access to PPE and follow public health guidance safely, we will be left in no position but to say we cannot accept people who are COVID 19 positive, because we will not have the equipment to deliver their care safely.\"\n\nNearly all of the firms said they had some staff self-isolating, with a handful estimating that half their workforce was unavailable.\n\nA further 621 UK deaths were announced on Sunday, bringing the nation's total to 4,934.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it was providing more than 26,000 pieces of PPE to social care settings, including care homes, home care providers and hospices.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are working with the military and established distributors to ensure PPE is available to all staff fighting this virus on the frontline.\"\n\nThirteen residents at a Glasgow care home died in one week following a suspected outbreak of coronavirus. Two of the staff members tested positive and received hospital treatment.", "Poor conditions in the camps mean the virus could spread quickly\n\nA second migrant facility in Greece has entered quarantine after a resident tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nIt comes three days after a similar facility, where 23 asylum seekers were found to be infected, was put under quarantine.\n\nIn the latest case, a 53-year-old Afghan man staying at Malakasa camp along with hundreds of other people was confirmed to have the virus.\n\nTens of thousands of asylum seekers live in dire conditions in Greek camps.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants in a Greek camp filmed the living conditions inside and the challenges of avoiding coronavirus\n\nAid groups have warned that an outbreak of the virus there, where sanitation is poor and accommodation overcrowded, could easily spread.\n\nThe patient from Malakasa has been taken to hospital in Athens and the camp, about 40km (25 miles) north-east of the Greek capital, has been placed under \"full sanitary lockdown\" for 14 days.\n\nThe other affected facility, Ritsona, about 75km north-east of Athens, has been under quarantine since Thursday when a woman in labour tested positive.\n\nThere have been no confirmed cases of the virus in camps on five Greek islands, where roughly half of all asylum seekers live.", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nA number of British Airways cabin crew fear they may have contracted the coronavirus after operating long-haul flights over the past two weeks.\n\nUnions are calling on airlines to do more to minimise the exposure of staff.\n\nBut BA pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the virus.\n\nBA said it has taken steps to reduce contact between customers and crew, adding that personal protective gear, like masks and gloves, was available.\n\nHowever, one pilot told the BBC that equipment was not always accessible and that staff sometimes travelled \"shoulder-to-shoulder\" on buses at airports.\n\nDespite slashing its flight schedule amid travel restrictions, BA is still operating some flights to destinations such as New York, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, where more than 6,000 people have died across the country.\n\nThis week the airline also helped repatriate hundreds of British nationals from Peru. Along with other UK-based airlines, BA is now working with the Foreign Office to bring back people who are stuck abroad.\n\nPublic Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.\n\nBA said it was \"keeping vital links open\" and its teams were \"doing an amazing job\".\n\nThe in-flight service on flights operated by BA and its rivals has been greatly reduced to minimise person-to-person contact. Passengers on long-haul flights are now handed a packed lunch and a drink when they board the plane.\n\nAlthough some long-haul routes which are still operating can be relatively empty, social distancing hasn't been possible on some domestic and repatriation flights. One pilot operating a domestic flight with a UK-based airline out of Manchester this week refused to take off until he was given a bigger aircraft.\n\nAnd BBC News has learnt that Public Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.\n\nIn an email sent to the pilots' union Balpa, Public Health England said \"seating passengers separated by one seat either side would be a sensible approach.\"\n\nHowever, this suggestion would be incredibly costly for any repatriation flights organised by the Foreign Office and might not be feasible for airlines who have had their business wither in recent weeks.\n\nEasyjet, which is also expected to run some of the government's repatriation flights, said it has also been implementing practises to minimise contact like ensuring that its staff don't touch passengers' travel documents when they board.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it had put \"meticulous\" cleaning processes in place and created \"isolation areas\" on its flights for passengers showing symptoms of the virus.\n\nA BA pilot told the BBC that the airline had been \"very slow\" to put in measures to protect staff.\n\n\"I know the company is struggling but up until the last three or four days there has been a complete disregard for our health and safety.\"\n\nThe pilot, who flies long-haul routes, acknowledged that this week there were signs that issues were being addressed.\n\nHe said pilots recently received an email stating that bigger buses would be used to transport staff at airports so that they can observe social-distancing advice. At Heathrow employees have also been given access to car parks so that they can avoid getting on buses.\n\nAnother BA staff member who contracted the virus said they did have access to a \"flimsy mask\", however protective equipment was not always available. BA insisted that the welfare of its staff was paramount.\n\nBrian Strutton from the pilot's union Balpa said it was essential that staff involved in repatriation efforts were provided with protective equipment.\n\n\"We're hearing pilots saying they're worried about flying, for their own safety and their family's safety,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet there has been no discussion or consultation with us to provide assurance.\"\n\nBalpa has written to the Department for Transport to express its concerns and it has issued its own safety guidance to pilots. The department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nCrews have also been notified that they are now classified as \"critical workers\" and were told that if they were rostered they would be expected to turn-up to work.\n\nHowever, BA insisted that repatriation flights would only be operated by staff who volunteer. Easyjet also said that its rescue flights for stranded British nationals have always been operated by staff who have volunteered.\n\nThe Unite union, which represents cabin crew, said the guidance from aviation regulators and other government bodies over keeping airline crews safe was inconsistent.\n\nUnite's aviation officer Oliver Richardson called on the industry to urgently agree a set of protocols \"to minimise the risk to those working and flying\".", "\"Together we are tackling this disease… if we remain united and resolute we will overcome it\".\n\n– The aim of this address is to offer reassurance and emphasise the need for unity.\n\n“In the years to come”, she hopes everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to the challenge.\n\n– The Queen has an eye on how history will judge our actions today.\n\n\"Those who come after us will say...\"\n\n– Another reference to history and a strong parallel with Churchill’s speech after the fall of France in 1940 – that even after 1,000 years \"they will still say: 'This was their finest hour'.\" It’s an implicing war reference.\n\n– The national attributes the Queen chooses to highlight are not warlike or aggressive – she is not framing this as a struggle or a conflict.\n\n“The pride of who we are is not in our past, it defines our present and our future.”\n\n– A key line that aims to reassure and inspire.\n\nClap for carers “an expression of our national spirit” with its symbol “the rainbows drawn by children”.\n\n– Others talk about the Blitz; the Queen celebrates a new national coming-together.\n\n– The first direct reference to wartime and it is full of the innocence of childhood, and empathy with those who cannot see their parents, grandparents or their children.\n\n“We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.”\n\n– Again, a steely reassurance and a call to collective effort.\n\n“We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families; we will meet again.”\n\n– Take heart, the Queen said, this will be over one day. And she finishes with one more glancing reference to a previous conflict and the song many remember from that time – We’ll Meet Again.", "Watford General Hospital is run by the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust\n\nA nursing assistant looking after coronavirus patients has died.\n\nJohn Alagos, 24, became ill and died on Friday after working at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire.\n\nHis mother Gina Gustilo told the BBC the family were waiting to hear whether he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe hospital closed to new patients on Saturday due to problems with its oxygen equipment, but has now reopened. It said it ensured staff had the right level of protection when working.\n\nTracey Carter, chief nurse at the hospital, said: \"John was very popular and will be missed greatly by his colleagues.\"\n\nMrs Gustilo, who is an NHS mental health nurse and lived with her son, said she had shown no symptoms of the virus but was self-isolating at home.\n\nPatients had been asked not to attend Watford General Hospital's A&E Unit\n\nIn a statement issued after Mr Alagos' death, Ms Carter added: \"Our staff are fully briefed on the symptoms of Covid-19 and we would never expect anyone to remain at work if they were showing these symptoms or indeed were unwell in any way.\n\n\"We have always kept our staff updated on the latest PPE guidance to make sure they have the right level of protection for where they are working.\"\n\nThe hospital said the decision on Saturday to declare a critical incident was taken as a \"result of a technical issue with our hospital's oxygen equipment\".\n\nLater that evening the hospital said the problems had been resolved and it lifted the critical incident.\n\nA safe level of oxygen was maintained throughout the duration of the incident, said the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital.\n\nAs of 17:00 BST on Thursday, 29 people had died at the NHS trust's hospitals after being diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nThe trust is responsible for Watford General as well as Hemel Hempstead and St Albans City hospitals.\n\nCurrent NHS advice tells people with coronavirus or suspected symptoms to avoid hospitals and other medical settings like pharmacies.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of London's ExCel centre has performed a U-turn on charging the NHS to use the site as a hospital to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nExCel chief executive Jeremy Rees said an initial agreement with the NHS to house the temporary Nightingale Hospital \"included a contribution to some fixed costs\".\n\nBut he said: \"We have since decided to cover the fixed costs ourselves.\"\n\nMr Rees added that the ExCel had always been provided to the NHS rent-free.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that the centre, which is owned by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC), was charging the NHS between £2m and £3m in rent to use the east London site.\n\nHumaid Matar Al Dhaheri, managing director and group chief executive of ADNEC, said: \"To be clear, profit has always been the furthest thing from our minds.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is our firm commitment that we will not charge a penny for the use of our facilities, and we will provide the NHS with the operational and logistical support it needs for NHS Nightingale London.\"\n\nThe field hospital can hold as many as 4,000 patients and is the first of a number of similar facilities planned for the UK.\n\nThe Nightingale Hospital was built in nine days and is now open. It has 500 beds in place, with space for an additional 3,500.", "I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.\n\nA time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.\n\nI want to thank everyone on the NHS frontline, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all.\n\nI am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.\n\nI also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones.\n\nTogether we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.\n\nI hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.\n\nAnd those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.\n\nThat the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country.\n\nThe pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.\n\nThe moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.\n\nAcross the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help the relief effort.\n\nAnd though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.\n\nIt reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister.\n\nWe, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety.\n\nToday, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.\n\nWhile we have faced challenges before, this one is different.\n\nThis time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal.\n\nWe will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us.\n\nWe should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.\n\nBut for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.", "Aerial footage shows police patrolling outdoor spaces, and speaking to people not adhering to rules introduced to restrict the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned tougher government restrictions could be enforced if the public flout current measures.", "More than 4,300 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus. Among them are frontline medical staff. Sirin Kale tells the story of two of them.\n\nThe two men did not know each other, probably their paths never crossed, but in death they would find a strange symmetry. Dr Amged El-Hawrani and Dr Adil El Tayar - two British-Sudanese doctors - became the first working medics to die of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nTheir families don't want them to be remembered in this way - but rather as family men, who loved medicine, helping their community, and their heritage.\n\nLike the many men and women who come from overseas to join the NHS, El-Hawrani, 55, and El Tayar, 64, left behind friends and relatives back home to dedicate their careers to the UK's health service. They married and had children - El-Hawrani settling in Burton-Upon-Trent; El Tayar in Isleworth, London. And they became pillars of their communities, while maintaining ties to the country of their birth, the Sudan that both men loved.\n\nTheir stories are illustrative of the many foreign-born medics who even now are battling Covid-19.\n\nAdil El Tayar was born in Atbara in northeast Sudan in 1956, the second of 12 children. His father was a clerk in a government office; his mother had her hands full raising her brood. Atbara was a railway town, built by the British to serve the line between Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, and Wadi Halfa in the north. It is a close-knit community, where the first Sudanese labour movement started, in 1948. Everyone knows everyone.\n\n\"He came from humble beginnings,\" says Adil's cousin, Dr Hisham El Khidir. \"Whatever came into that household had to be divided amongst 12 kids. It's the reason he was so disciplined when he grew up.\"\n\nIn Sudan in the 1950s and 1960s, bright young men became doctors or engineers - respected professions that would give their entire family a better life. And when you're one of 12 children - well, that's a lot of people to help look after. Adil knew this, which is why he was a diligent student, even from a young age. But he didn't mind, in Sudanese culture, looking after your family isn't seen as a burden. It's just what you do.\n\n\"He was always so serious, so focused,\" Hisham remembers. \"He wanted to do medicine early on, because it was a good career in a third-world country.\" He had a calm, caring disposition. \"Never in the years I knew him, did I ever hear him raise his voice.\" Hisham looked up to Adil, who was eight years older than him, and later followed in his footsteps to become a doctor.\n\nThe El-Hawrani family lived almost 350km (217 miles) away, down the single-track railroad that links Atbara to the capital Khartoum. It was there that Amged was born in 1964, the second of six boys. His father Salah was a doctor, and in 1975 the family moved to Taunton, Somerset, before settling in Bristol four years later.\n\nAmged El-Hawrani (left) as a child - with father Salah and older brother Ashraf\n\n\"Dad was one of the first waves of people coming over from Sudan in the 1970s,\" remembers Amged's younger brother, Amal. \"We didn't know any other Sudanese families growing up in the UK. It was just us and English people. It felt like an adventure. Everything was new and different.\"\n\nOnly a year apart in age, Amged and his older brother Ashraf were inseparable. \"They both could have done anything,\" says Amal. \"They were intelligent, they were all-rounders. They loved football and technology. They embraced everything - just drank it all in.\"\n\nAmged loved gadgets. \"He'd always turn up with this bit of kit he'd just bought,\" Amal laughs, \"saying, 'Look, I've just bought this projector that can fit in your pocket, let's watch a film!'\"\n\nAmged El-Hawrani's graduation photo from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1993\n\nAmged and Ashraf both studied medicine, like their father. And then in 1992, tragedy struck - Ashraf died of an asthma attack, aged 29. It was Amged who discovered his body.\n\n\"It had a huge emotional impact on him,\" Amal says. \"But he became the rock of the family.\" He even named his son Ashraf, after his brother.\n\nOver the coming decades, Adil and Amged forged careers in the NHS. Adil become an organ transplant specialist, while Amged specialised in ear, nose, and throat surgery.\n\nThe life of an NHS doctor isn't easy - it is high-stakes work, which often takes you away from your family.\n\nBut Adil's children always felt that he had time for them. \"No matter how tired he was, he would always get home from work and make sure he spent time with each of us,\" says his daughter Ula, 21. \"He cared about family life so much.\"\n\nAdil El Tayar with members of his family\n\nAdil loved to potter about in his garden, tending to his apple and pear trees, and planting flowers all around. \"It was his happy place,\" says Ula. He also loved to collect new friends. \"He'd have barbecues in summer, and there would often be some random person there you'd never met before,\" Adil's son Osman, 30, jokes. \"You'd wonder where he'd picked them up from.\"\n\nAmged was intellectually curious, and a great conversationalist. \"He was one of those people who had an encyclopedic knowledge of everything,\" says his brother Amal. He was also a Formula One fan - Ayrton Senna was his legend. \"Amged was generous, and without guile,\" remembers his friend Dr Simba Oliver Matondo. They met when they took the same class at university, and spent their student years eating Pizza Hut food - a big treat back then - and watching Kung Fu films.\n\nThe National Health is staffed by many foreign-born workers - 13.1% of NHS staff say their nationality is not British, and one-in-five come from minority backgrounds.\n\nAs of 3 April, four British doctors, and two nurses, have died after testing positive for COVID-19. Five were from BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] communities. In addition to Adil and Amged, there is Dr Alfa Sa'adu, born in Nigeria, Dr Habib Zaidi, born in Pakistan, and nurse Areema Nasreen, who had Pakistani heritage. \"We mourn the passing of our colleagues in the fight against Covid-19,\" says Dr Salman Waqar of the British Islamic Medical Association. \"They enriched our country. Without them, we would not have an NHS.\"\n\nBoth Adil and Amged considered themselves British. \"Amged was in this country for 40 years,\" says Amal. \"He was as British as tea and crumpets.\" But they kept close ties with their native Sudan. \"When someone emigrates to the UK, they don't just cut all their ties with their country,\" Adil's cousin Hisham explains. \"They make a better life for themselves, but they maintain their roots.\"\n\nAdil returned to Khartoum in 2010, to set up an organ transplant unit. \"He wanted to give something back to the less fortunate in Sudan,\" his son Osman explains. Since Adil's death, his family has received dozens of phone calls from people in Sudan, telling them about their father's charity work. They knew their dad spent a lot of time helping people back home in Sudan - they'd overhear his phone calls.\n\nBut none of Adil's children realised just how many people he'd helped, until after he died.\n\nAmged was also charitable, climbing in the Himalayas in 2010 to raise money for a CT scanner for Queen's Hospital Burton, where he worked. Like Adil, he was connected to his heritage. \"He'd always reminisce about growing up in Sudan,\" says his brother Amal. \"He was very proud to be Sudanese.\"\n\nHis friend Matondo was a frequent visitor at Amged's mum's house in Bristol, where they'd eat \"ful medames\", a traditional fava bean stew, and feta cheese with chillies. A supporter of Al Merrikh - the Manchester United of Sudan - Amged arranged for the Khartoum team's dilapidated pitch to be repainted, picking up the bill himself.\n\nBoth doctors cared deeply about the NHS, an institution they had spent their lifetimes serving. \"Adil really believed in this excellent system that provided free care at the point of delivery to everyone who needed it,\" says his cousin Dr Hisham El Khidir.\n\nHis passion rubbed off on his children - Osman and his sister Abeer, 26, both followed in Adil's footsteps to become doctors. The day Osman was accepted as a surgical registrar - a prestigious, competitive post - Adil was emotional. \"He was so happy,\" Osman remembers. \"He just kept saying, 'Mashallah, mashallah.'\"\n\nWhen both doctors got sick, they didn't think much of it, their families say. Amged was the first to fall ill. His mother had recently recovered from a nasty bout of pneumonia, and in late February, after finishing a long shift, he drove to Bristol to see her. Amged felt unwell in the car, but assumed he was probably just exhausted.\n\nBy 4 March, he was admitted to Burton's Queen's Hospital. His colleagues put him on a ventilator. He was later transferred to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, where he was put on a more sophisticated ECMO machine, to breathe for him. Amged would stay on that machine, fighting for his life, for nearly three weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Adil was working in the A&E department of Hereford County Hospital. On the 13 March, the first UK death from coronavirus was reported in Scotland. The very next day, Adil started feeling unwell. He came back to the family house in London, and self-isolated.\n\nOver the next few days, his condition deteriorated. On the 20 March, Abeer didn't like how her dad looked - he was breathless, and couldn't string a sentence together - and she called an ambulance. Doctors at West Middlesex University Hospital put Adil on a ventilator. But even then, alarm bells weren't ringing. \"We thought, this is bad,\" says Osman. \"But we had no idea it would be fatal.\"\n\nOn 25 March, Adil's family received a call from the hospital. Things were very bad, and they should come now. They raced there to be with him. Adil's children watched their father die through a glass window. They weren't allowed in the room, because of the risk of contagion.\n\n\"That was the most difficult thing,\" says Osman. \"Having to watch him. I always knew that one day my father would die. But I thought I would be there, holding his hand. I never imagined I would be looking at him through a window, on a ventilator.\"\n\nAdil spent decades serving the NHS. But his family feels that the NHS didn't do enough for him in return, by giving him the protective gear that might have prevented him contracting coronavirus. \"I think it's unbelievable in the UK in 2020 that we're battling a life-threatening disease, and our frontline staff are not being safely equipped with PPE to do their job,\" says Osman. \"Bottom line is that it's wrong and it needs to be addressed immediately.\"\n\nAmid repeated claims of shortages in some parts of the NHS, the government has offered frequent bulletins on the volume of personal protective equipment being delivered. The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he will \"stop at nothing\" to protect frontline health workers - describing the situation as \"one of the biggest logistical challenges of peacetime\".\n\nAll the time Adil had been in hospital, Amged had clung onto life. But on the 28 March, doctors decided to take Amged off the ECMO machine. Dressed in protective gear, Amged's brother Akmal was allowed into his room, to hold his hand. Amal watched from behind a window.\n\nAmged will be buried in Bristol, beside his dad, and close enough for his mum to visit.\n\nAt his own request, Adil will be buried in Sudan, besides his father and grandfather. Getting the repatriation paperwork sorted is proving difficult, given the coronavirus lockdown. \"The last wishes of someone who died are very sacred in our culture,\" explains Osman. \"We will make it happen.\"\n\nAdil's children won't be able to attend the funeral - although cargo planes are flying, there are currently no passenger flights to Sudan. But he won't be buried alone. The community of people Adil grew up with - his siblings, and their children, and the people he supported over the years, will bury him instead. In Sudanese tradition, every mourner digs their hand into the dust, and throws soil into the grave. \"There are hundreds of people waiting to bury him,\" says Osman. \"I've been on the phone with them all. They're waiting for him to arrive.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the garden Adil loved so much is overgrown. \"It's a sad view,\" says Ula. \"It's dishevelled now he's not around. He was always the one who kept it together.\" But the apple tree will be coming into blossom soon.\n\nTop image copyright: El Tayar family and University Hospitals Derby and Burton. All images subject to copyright.", "The Queen will reflect on the \"enormous changes\" to daily life\n\nThe Queen is to stress the value of self-discipline and resolve during the coronavirus pandemic in a special address to the nation on Sunday.\n\nIn a rare speech, she will acknowledge the grief, pain and financial difficulties Britons are facing during this \"time of disruption\".\n\nShe will also thank NHS staff and key workers, and emphasise the important role individuals can play.\n\nHer address will be broadcast on TV, radio and social media at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe Queen is expected to say: \"I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.\n\n\"A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.\"\n\nShe will add: \"I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.\n\n\"And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.\n\n\"That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country.\"\n\nThe message was filmed by a single cameraman wearing protective equipment, with all the other technical staff in another room.\n\nIt will be intended to reassure and rally people, BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said.\n\nThe decision to deliver the address has been made \"in close consultation with Downing Street\", he added.\n\nThe number of deaths in the UK reached 4,313 on Saturday - up by 708 on Friday's figure.\n\nThe Queen's address will come less than a week after the Prince of Wales came out of self-isolation, following his diagnosis of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles opens the UK's first emergency field hospital to deal with coronavirus patients.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, spent seven days self-isolating in Scotland after testing positive and displaying mild symptoms.\n\nOn Friday, he opened the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London via video link.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the Queen last saw her son, the heir to the throne, on 12 March, and was \"in good health\".", "Police suspect there may have been a terrorist motive behind the attack in Romans-sur-Isère\n\nFrench police have launched a terrorism investigation after two people were killed and five wounded in a knife attack in south-east France.\n\nThe attacker entered a tobacconist shop in Romans-sur-Isère, near Grenoble, and stabbed the owners and a customer.\n\nHe then attacked more people at two other shops before being arrested.\n\nProsecutors said the suspect was a Sudanese refugee in his 30s who lived in the town. Two other people have also been arrested, police said.\n\nAt the time of his arrest on Saturday, the man was \"found on his knees on the pavement praying in Arabic\", prosecutors said.\n\nDavid Olivier Reverdy, of the National Police Alliance union, said the man had asked police to kill him.\n\nCounter-terrorism prosecutors said they had launched an investigation into \"murder linked to a terrorist enterprise\".\n\nThe suspect was not previously known to the police or intelligence services, news website France Bleu reported.\n\nOn a visit to the town, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said: \"This morning, a man embarked on a terrorist journey.\"\n\nPresident Macron described the attack as an \"odious\" incident\n\nTown mayor Marie-Helene Thoraval told AFP news agency that after leaving the tobacconist, the suspect went to a butcher's shop where he grabbed another knife before attacking people queuing outside a bakery.\n\nThe butcher's shop owner, Ludovic Breyton, said: \"He took a knife, jumped over the counter, and stabbed a customer, then ran away. My wife tried to help the victim but in vain.\"\n\nIn a statement, the prosecutor's office said initial investigations suggest the attacker had \"a determined murderous course aimed at seriously disturbing public order by intimidation or terror\".\n\nDuring a search of the suspect's home, \"handwritten documents with religious connotations were found\", it said.\n\nProsecutors said they arrested a second Sudanese man at the suspect's home and on Sunday revealed that a third person - \"a young Sudanese man from the same household\" - was also in custody.\n\nTwo of the wounded are said to be in a critical condition.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron described the attack as an \"odious\" incident that further saddened a country already going through an ordeal.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims of the Romans-sur-Isère attack - the injured, their families,\" he tweeted.\n\nMr Macron promised that \"light will be shed\" on the crime.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emmanuel Macron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrance is currently in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. People are only allowed out to buy basic necessities or for exercise.\n\nThe country has been on high alert since 2015, when Paris was hit by a series of attacks attributed to the Islamic State group.", "The Ruby Princess remains off the coast of Sydney with 200 crew members showing symptoms of the virus\n\nA criminal investigation has been launched in Australia into how cruise ship passengers were allowed to disembark in Sydney despite some exhibiting flu-like symptoms.\n\nMore than 600 people on board the Ruby Princess later tested positive for coronavirus and 10 have since died.\n\nThe ship remains off the coast with nearly 200 sick crew members on board.\n\nPolice in New South Wales said they would look into whether national biosecurity laws had been broken.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 5,548 coronavirus cases and 30 deaths.\n\nThose sickened on cruise ships account for nearly a tenth of all cases in Australia.\n\nThe country has imposed strict social distancing measures and clubs, cafes, parks and gyms have been closed in a bid to contain the outbreak\n\nAt a news conference, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said there were \"many unanswered questions\" about the incident.\n\nHe said that, by law, vessels were only allowed to dock and disembark passengers if the captain could assure the local authorities that their ship was free from contagious disease.\n\nMr Fuller said there were \"discrepancies\" involving the information provided by the ship's owners, Carnival Australia, and the requirements of the law.\n\n\"The only way I can get to the bottom of whether our national biosecurity laws and our state laws were broken is through a criminal investigation,\" he told reporters.\n\nMr Fuller said that the day before passengers disembarked in Sydney a worker made an emergency call about two people who needed medical assistance. He said police were assured by the operating company that the coronavirus was not an issue on the ship.\n\n\"From that perspective, there are many unanswered questions,\" he added.\n\nPolice Commissioner Mick Fuller said key questions needed to be answered\n\nThe New South Wales government has faced mounting criticism for allowing people off the ship but has insisted that the decision was based on expert advice.\n\nMr Fuller added that Carnival Australia had said it would fully co-operate with the inquiry. The company has not yet commented publicly on the criminal investigation.\n\nThe Ruby Princess with about 2,700 people on board arrived in Sydney last month after an 11-day cruise.\n\nAccording to NSW Health, about a dozen passengers had reported feeling unwell and had swabs taken for Covid-19. One was taken by ambulance to hospital.\n\nBut other passengers on board weren't told of this. Instead, they streamed off the boat at Circular Quay - some of them coughing and spluttering, according to witnesses. The busy area leads directly into the city centre, with transit links to the airport and outer suburbs.\n\nThousands of passengers left the ship unaware of a Covid-19 outbreak on board\n\nElisa McCafferty, an Australian woman who flew home to London with her husband immediately after disembarking, told the BBC: \"Nothing was said at any time about anyone being sick onboard. It was a distinct lack of information coming through from Princess [Princess Cruises which is owned by Carnival] the entire time.\"\n\nA day after the ship docked, officials revealed cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in three people who had been on board, prompting a scramble to track down everyone who had been on the ship.\n\nMs McCafferty said she only learned of the danger when she checked her phone at Heathrow Airport.\n\n\"I was just absolutely petrified. We had just been on two full flights - what if we had infected someone?\"", "The PM took part in the clap for carers on Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the coronavirus including having a temperature.\n\nThe prime minister tested positive for the virus last Friday and had been due to come out of self-isolation today.\n\nMr Johnson continues to work from home and chaired a coronavirus meeting on Friday morning.\n\nHe was seen on Thursday applauding the NHS and other key workers from his flat in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted on Twitter, Mr Johnson said: \"Although I am feeling better and I've done my seven days of isolation alas I still have one of the minor symptoms.\n\n\"I still have a temperature. So in accordance with government advice I must continue my self isolation until that symptom itself goes.\n\n\"But we're working clearly the whole time on our programme to beat the virus.\"\n\nHe also added with expected good weather over the weekend that people may be tempted to ignore the advice and spend more time outside.\n\n\"I just urge you not do do that,\" he said. \"Please, please stick with the guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson warns public to 'stick with the guidance'\n\nHe added: \"This country has made a huge effort, a huge sacrifice and done absolutely brilliantly well in delaying the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Let's stick with it now and remember that incredible clapping last night for our fantastic NHS. We are doing it to protect them and save lives.\"\n\nIt's been more than a week since the prime minister stood at the podium in Downing Street to deliver the daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nSince announcing he'd tested positive for the virus seven days ago his public appearances have been limited to video clips filmed on his phone from inside his flat, above 11 Downing Street.\n\nHe did venture on to the doorstep of No 11 last night to join the national clap for keyworkers and NHS staff - picked up by TV cameras notably stood some distance away.\n\nIn his latest self-shot message, he said he was still showing mild symptoms of the virus and would therefore stay in isolation until they passed.\n\nAnd in a direct plea to the public, he urged people to stick to social distancing guidelines this weekend.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday, to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson was following official guidance which states that you should continue to self-isolate if a temperature persists beyond the advised seven days.\n\nHe said he was not aware of any more cabinet members who had been infected.\n\nMr Johnson spokesman said the PM was continuing to work with Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, who has also tested positive for the virus. It is not known if Mr Whitty is still in isolation.\n\nMr Hancock has said the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target 100,000 coronavirus tests a day, announced at Thursday's news conference.\n\nHe said he was not relying on new antibody blood tests to meet the goal, which was announced after criticism of the UK's testing strategy.\n\n\"It's got to happen. I've got a plan to get us there, I've set it as a goal and it's what the nation needs,\" he said.\n\nLabour has called for more details on what kind of tests will be involved.\n\nIt came as the Prince of Wales officially opened London's new 4,000 bed NHS Nightingale Hospital via a video link from his Scottish home.", "Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood had apologised for her actions, and initially said she planned to continue in the role.\n\nShe was backed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said Dr Calderwood had made a mistake but should stay in her job.\n\nBut Dr Calderwood released a statement later on Sunday saying she had quit.\n\nShe said she had done so after speaking again to the first minister, and had agreed with her that the \"justifiable focus\" on her actions risked distracting from the pandemic response.\n\nDr Calderwood had earlier been given a police warning for breaking the lockdown rules after the Scottish Sun published photographs taken on Saturday of her and her family visiting Earlsferry in Fife - more than an hour's drive from her main family home in Edinburgh.\n\nThe chief medical officer had fronted TV and radio adverts urging the public to stay at home to save lives and protect the NHS, and took part in daily televised media briefings alongside Ms Sturgeon.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Dr Catherine Calderwood have held regular briefings\n\nDr Calderwood issued an apology on Sunday morning and said she did not want her \"mistake\" to distract from the guidance on social distancing.\n\nShe later admitted during a televised press briefing that she had also made another visit to the property in Fife last weekend with her husband, but insisted she would be remaining in her post.\n\nMs Sturgeon said repeatedly during the briefing that she wanted Dr Calderwood to remain in her role as her expertise was \"invaluable\" during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe first minister announced later on Sunday that Dr Calderwood would not be be attending any more briefings \"for the foreseeable future\" and would no longer be the face of the coronavirus public information campaign.\n\nBut she said Dr Calderwood would continue to offer scientific and medical advice to the Scottish government on the spread of the virus.\n\nDr Calderwood then released another statement at about 22:00, in which she said she was \"deeply sorry for my actions and the mistakes I have made\" and confirmed she was standing down as the country's chief medical officer.\n\nShe added: \"The first minister and I have had a further conversation this evening and we have agreed that the justifiable focus on my behaviour risks becoming a distraction from the hugely important job that government and the medical profession has to do in getting the country through this coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Having worked so hard on the government's response, that is the last thing I want.\"\n\nShe also said she would work to ensure a smooth transition to her successor.\n\nVideos of the chief medical officer urging people to stay at home formed part of the campaign\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"clear\" that Dr Calderwood's mistake \"risks distracting from and undermining confidence in the government's public health message at this crucial time.\n\n\"That is not a risk either of us is willing to take.\"\n\nThe first minister added that the \"very serious mistake\" made by Dr Calderwood should not detract from her \"highly valuable contribution to the medical profession and to health in Scotland\".\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said officers had visited Dr Calderwood and issued a warning about her conduct.\n\nMr Livingstone said \"\"The legal instructions on not leaving your home without a reasonable excuse apply to everyone.\n\n\"Social distancing is the key intervention to curtail the spread of coronavirus and it is essential that the instructions are followed to protect each other, take strain from the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"Individuals must not make personal exemptions bespoke to their own circumstances.\"\n\nDr Calderwood was appointed as Scotland's chief medical officer in March 2015.\n\nA former national director for maternity and women's health at NHS England, she was a leading medical expert in the inquiry into maternity care at Morecambe Bay.\n\nHer deputy is Dr Gregor Smith, a GP and former medical director for primary care in NHS Lanarkshire.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw described Dr Calderwood's decision to stand down as \"embarrassing and inevitable\".\n\nScottish Labour's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said Ms Sturgeon should have \"nipped this in the bud\" earlier.", "Official data suggests testing for coronavirus per head of population in England has been considerably slower so far than that in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAs of 8 April, 343 people have been tested per 100,000 of the UK population, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. These are diagnostic swab tests to establish whether an individual is infected by coronavirus.\n\nAcross the four nations, the numbers break down as follows:\n\nThat means that up to 8 April, 79% of the people tested in the UK were in England, despite England having roughly 84% of the country's population. England has also had 83% of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK so far, and 91% of deaths recorded in hospitals.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has already said the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day in the UK by the end of April.\n\nAnd the slower pace of testing in England has raised further concern because much of the procurement and allocation of tests has now been centralised for all four nations.\n\nExperts say England has far more laboratories than the other UK nations, and it is important to create a uniform testing platform so all labs are testing in exactly the same way.\n\nBut Dr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter medical school, says accreditation of labs has been too slow.\n\n\"This is nothing to do with capacity,\" he says, \"capacity can be expanded very quickly, and there are plenty of labs.\"\n\n\"This is a simple test and we just need to get on with it. We don't need this stranglehold by Public Health England [PHE].\"\n\nWhen asked to comment on the slower pace of testing in England so far, PHE pointed out that it is not directly responsible for laboratory accreditation. That's the job of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, although it is up to PHE and the Department of Health to ask for certain standards to be maintained.\n\n\"PHE has moved heaven and earth to develop an accurate test, ensuring that every hospital patient that needs one has been tested,\" said PHE's chief executive Duncan Selbie in a statement.\n\n\"We and our NHS colleagues have delivered our promise of 10,000 tests a day on time and are on track for 750,000 tests per month [25,000 per day] by the end of April,\" he said.\n\n\"We have supported NHS laboratories to get their COVID-19 testing up and running, to make sure the tests they are using provide accurate results.\"\n\nThat of course does not explain the discrepancy in testing figures between different nations within the UK so far.\n\nThe pace of testing in England has been increasing over the past week, but a rapid acceleration may only happen when private laboratories join those run by public health bodies.\n\nOne new testing facility is being developed by the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and GSK with the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"We believe we will start testing by mid-April,\" AstraZeneca's CEO Pascal Soriot told the BBC's Today programme, \"and be at scale with 30,000 tests a day by early May.\"\n\nAll four nations are also obviously trying to increase testing as much as possible in public health facilities as part of the UK-wide effort.\n\nThe Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said NHS Scotland's testing capacity in hospitals would increase to at least 3,500 a day \"by the end of this month, at the latest\".\n\nShe said that figure should be compared to the \"pillar one\" target in England of 25,000 tests a day - done in NHS and public health laboratories - by the end of April.\n\nThis piece was published on 3 April and updated on 8 April to include the latest figures.", "Two members of staff at Burlington Court care home have tested positive for Covid-19\n\nThirteen residents at a Glasgow care home have died in one week following a suspected outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nStaff at Burlington Court Care Home, Cranhill, said they were \"closely monitoring\" the health of other people in their care and that \"strict protocols\" were in place.\n\nAll of the deceased residents had underlying health conditions and their families have been made aware.\n\nTwo staff members have tested positive and are being treated in hospital.\n\nAs first reported in The Scottish Sun, the care home said tests were not carried out on residents as they were only carried out when people were admitted to hospital.\n\nA Four Seasons Health Care spokeswoman said: \"With deep sadness we can confirm that 13 residents at Burlington Care Home have passed away over the past seven days.\n\n\"Our condolences are with their families and we are providing them with our ongoing support during this difficult time.\n\n\"The passing of a loved one is always traumatic irrespective of the circumstances.\n\n\"Within the home the focus of the team continues to be the ongoing care and protection of all our residents and our colleagues, two of whom are currently being treated for coronavirus.\"\n\nShe said strict protocols on infectious diseases were in place, including social distancing, and staff were \"closely monitoring\" the health of other residents and workers.\n\n\"In these exceptional circumstances we are sincerely grateful for the dedication of our colleagues and can assure our residents and their families that we are putting all our resources and energy into supporting and protecting everyone in our homes,\" she added.\n\nHand-drawn pictures of rainbows are in the windows of the care home\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with the families and friends of those affected as well as the staff and wider community.\n\n\"These are unprecedented times and our social care sector is working under very challenging circumstances to care for people during the pandemic.\n\n\"The social care sector plays a vital role in supporting people to live well in their homes or in a homely setting and we will do everything we can to support the sector to provide people with the support they need.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Nicola Sturgeon said her thoughts were with the care home residents and the families of those who have died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRev Muriel Pearson, minister of Cranhill Parish Church, has said her congregation will be \"desperately shocked and saddened\" by the deaths.\n\nShe said members have been visiting residents of Burlington Care Home since it was built.\n\n\"We are all thinking of the staff and residents of one of the best care homes where the staff are great and treat the residents like family,\" she added.\n\n\"In days to come we will be able to mourn together and to celebrate the sacrificial caring offered by social care staff and medical staff.\"\n\nThe Care Inspectorate have been made aware of the deaths and are in contact with the care service, as well as the local health and social care partnership.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the tragic death of residents at this care home as a result of Covid-19.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the loved ones of those affected as well as the the staff and wider community of the home.\n\n\"All of Scotland's social care sector is working under very difficult circumstances to care for people during the pandemic and the Care Inspectorate is doing all it can to support them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock rebukes the \"minority\" of people \"risking the lives of others\"\n\nIt is \"mission-critical\" to follow social distancing rules to protect the NHS and slow the spread of coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\n\"The more people follow the rules then the faster we will all be through this,\" he said, after reports of packed public parks in London and elsewhere.\n\nThis morning Mr Hancock said such behaviour was \"quite unbelievable\".\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, he said it could not go on. It comes as the UK death toll reaches 4,934.\n\nThe Department of Health said on Sunday there had been 621 more coronavirus-related deaths in the UK in the past day.\n\nAs of 09:00 BST on Sunday, 47,806 people had tested positive for coronavirus, the Department of Health said.\n\nMr Hancock said the government was \"not planning any changes imminently\" to social distancing policies but he \"could not rule out further steps\".\n\n\"What we are doing is being absolutely clear that the current rules must be followed,\" he said.\n\n\"So I say this to the small minority of people who are breaking the rules or pushing the boundaries: you're risking your own life and the lives of others and you're making it harder for us all.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hancock offered his \"profound sympathies\" to the families and friends of those who have died.\n\nHe added: \"I've lost two people that I was fond of so I understand what a difficult time this is for the country.\n\n\"We need perseverance in the face of great challenges.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Dr Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer for England, said the rules in place were \"the best way to be able to bend the curve down and stop the spread of the virus\".\n\n\"It is not just what you are doing but how you are doing it,\" she added.\n\n\"If you are sitting on a park bench, people tend to accumulate - it is very difficult to prevent that.\"\n\nIt comes as Brockwell Park in Lambeth was forced to close on Sunday after more than 3,000 people visited, with many sunbathing or in large groups, on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes on Primrose Hill in Camden on Saturday, when police moved on more than 100 people.\n\nGovernment guidance says people should only exercise once a day - alone or with those they live with\n\nBut local officers tweeted to say thank you after finding far fewer crowds in the area on Sunday.\n\nAnd Brighton beach was nearly deserted on Sunday, following a warning by Brighton and Hove City Council that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront.\n\nIt prompted a tweet from Sussex police thanking the public for heeding government advice.\n\nIn Essex, local police echoed the sentiment, tweeting that \"areas that would normally be busy on a sunny Sunday are not today\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned London parks will be forced to close if Londoners do not follow the rules on social gatherings, and urged people to stay at home amid the warm weather.\n\nRestrictions state that everybody must stay at home where possible, and only leave if they have a \"reasonable excuse\", such as exercise or shopping for basic necessities.\n\nBrighton beach was nearly empty of people on Sunday despite the sunny weather\n\nNewly elected Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner told Sophy Ridge it was \"all right for people who have got big houses and huge back gardens\" to tell sunbathers observing social distancing to stop doing so.\n\n\"If you're stuck in inadequate accommodation... and you're all on top of each other, quite literally, then I think people should do social distancing and should keep their distance, but also be reasonable and proportionate about that,\" she said.\n\nHarriet Harman, MP for Camberwell and Peckham, has called for a rota for the use of public parks, writing on Twitter that families in flats with young children need green spaces during the lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns tougher measures could be brought in to stop coronavirus spread\n\nMr Hancock's warning came ahead of the Queen's address to the nation on Sunday.\n\nNew Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party would support the government it if decides to toughen lockdown measures.\n\n\"We've got to get through this and every time people break the guidance from the government they put other people at risk,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who is self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus, tweeted his thanks to \"everyone who is saving lives by staying at home this weekend\".\n\n\"I know it's tough, but if we all work together and follow the guidance we will beat coronavirus,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock said that the number of ventilators needed over the coming weeks will be 18,000, and that currently there are between 9,000 and 10,000 within the NHS.\n\nWhen asked about the number of nurses that had died of coronavirus, Mr Hancock said the latest figure was three deaths.\n\nHow are the lockdown rules on staying at home and social distancing working for you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy has been appointed shadow foreign secretary in Keir Starmer's new shadow cabinet.\n\nOther appointments include Anneliese Dodds as shadow chancellor and Nick Thomas-Symonds as shadow home secretary.\n\nSir Keir won the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday.\n\nThe 57-year-old defeated Ms Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey in a ballot of party members and other supporters.\n\nAngela Rayner was elected deputy leader, replacing Tom Watson, who stood down as an MP before the general election in December. She will become chair of the Labour Party.\n\nRachel Reeves has been appointed as the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Jonathan Ashworth stays as shadow health secretary.\n\nMs Dodds becomes the first female shadow chancellor.\n\nOn her appointment, Ms Nandy, who has been MP for Wigan since 2010, thanked Sir Keir for the \"opportunity to serve\".\n\nShe said: \"It's a real honour to be tasked with leading Labour's foreign policy response in these difficult times.\"\n\nSir Keir's top team will form a new shadow committee, which will be responsible for coordinating Labour's response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said he was \"honoured\" to be appointed Labour's shadow home secretary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNick Brown has been re-appointed chief whip and Angela Smith remains shadow leader of the Lords.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We are living through a national emergency.\n\n\"Under my leadership, the Labour Party will always act in the country's interest to save lives and protect livelihoods.\n\n\"That will be the number one priority of my shadow cabinet.\"\n\nHe said they would provide a \"responsible opposition that supports the government where we believe they are right\" and would \"challenge them when we believe mistakes are being made\".\n\nBarry Gardiner, sacked as shadow international trade secretary, said on Twitter that he wished Sir Keir and his new team well.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Ian Lavery, sacked as Labour chairman, congratulated Sir Keir on his election victory, and said: \"Our new leadership team must continue to embrace the popular common sense agenda developed in the last few years.\"\n\nMore announcements on Sir Keir's team are expected on Monday.\n\nEmily Thornberry, former shadow foreign secretary, has not yet been appointed to a role but remains in the shadow Cabinet.\n\nThe cast list of any political leader's top team offers an early insight into their grip on their party, and their political instincts.\n\nWe know a fair bit about Sir Keir's internal power - he won the leadership easily and the new look of the party's governing body gives him oomph on the inside too.\n\nWe know less about precisely where he'll take the party politically.\n\nSo what can we read from the appointments so far?\n\nThose most associated with the Corbyn project are gone: John McDonnell had already said he was off. Today we learnt Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett are trundling up to the backbenches too.\n\nThere are none of the names still in the Commons from Labour's time in government - who might have some public recognition value but also cart around political baggage.\n\nInstead: the defeated, the promoted and the retained.\n\nLisa Nandy, beaten by Sir Keir for the top job, is brought to the top table.\n\nAnneliese Dodds is promoted to lead Labour's shadowing of the Treasury - shadow chancellor is one of the most crucial jobs in opposition.\n\nAnd Jonathan Ashworth is kept on as shadow health secretary. Having done the job for three and a half years, holding onto him in the middle of a pandemic was clearly important to Sir Keir.\n\nThere will be further appointments tomorrow, which will be just as revealing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The new Labour leader recorded a video where he spoke of the \"honour\" of the post and the effect of coronavirus\n\nSir Keir Starmer has vowed to lead Labour \"into a new era with confidence and hope\" after decisively winning the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe 57-year old defeated Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey in a ballot of party members and other supporters.\n\nThe lawyer, who became an MP in 2015, won on the first round of voting, with more than 50% of ballots cast.\n\nAfter his victory, Sir Keir spoke to PM Boris Johnson and agreed to meet next week to discuss the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn a video message released by the Labour Party, Sir Keir promised to work constructively in opposition and said he hoped Labour \"when the time comes can serve our country again - in government\".\n\nAnd he apologised for the \"stain\" of anti-Semitism that has tainted Labour in recent years. He pledged to \"tear out this poison by its roots\" and said his success would be judged on whether former Jewish members return to Labour.\n\nThe full results of the leadership contest were:\n\nJust over 490,000 people voted, out of the 784,151 eligible to take part in the three-month contest triggered by Mr Corbyn's decision to step down after Labour's heavy defeat in last year's general election.\n\nSir Keir won a majority in every section of Labour's selectorate, including 78% of the 13,000 registered supporters who paid a one-off £25 fee to take part.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner has been elected deputy leader, replacing Tom Watson, who stood down as an MP before the election. She defeated four other candidates but the contest was much closer, going to a third round of voting.\n\nThe 40-year old Ms Rayner beat Rosena Allin-Khan and Richard Burgon in a third round of voting, after fellow MPs Ian Murray and Dawn Butler had earlier been eliminated.\n\nSaturday's result was announced by e-mail after plans for a public event were dropped due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir has described himself as a socialist but not a Corbynite, and vowed to keep key policies from the Corbyn era, such as nationalising rail, mail and water and repealing anti-union laws, in a 10-point plan.\n\nThe MP for Holborn and St Pancras, in London, had been the odds-on favourite to win the contest, having received the backing of more MPs and local Labour branches than his rivals as well as significant union support.\n\nHe led the Crown Prosecution Service before entering frontline politics. He served in Mr Corbyn's top team for more than three years where he was responsible for the party's Brexit policy.\n\nHis two rivals paid tribute to him, Mrs Long-Bailey saying he would be make \"brilliant prime minister\" and she \"would do all she could to make that a reality\".\n\nMs Nandy said she was proud of her campaign and offered Labour's new leader her \"full support in the challenges that lie ahead\". \"Our country is crying out for fresh leadership. We start today.\"\n\nSir Keir's first task will be to lead Labour's response to the coronavirus emergency, and he has accepted an invitation to take part in cross-party talks with the prime minister and the government's top scientific advisers next week, to \"work together\" on the crisis.\n\nHe has already spoken to England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, about the current situation.\n\nSir Keir said he had been elected \"at a moment like no other\" and promised to work \"constructively\" with the government to confront the pandemic and not engage in \"opposition for opposition's sake\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer supporter David Lammy says his election win is “good news for the country”\n\nBut he added: \"We will shine a torch on critical issues and where we see mistakes or faltering government or things not happening as quickly as they should we'll challenge that and call that out.\n\n\"Our purpose when we do that is the same as the government's, to save lives and to protect our country.\"\n\nMr Corbyn congratulated his successor and said he looked forward to working with him to \"elect the next Labour government and transform our country\".\n\nOther prominent Labour figures have welcomed Sir Keir's decisive victory, with former leader Ed Miliband saying \"his decency, values and intelligence are what our country needs at this time of crisis\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy, who backed Sir Keir's candidacy, said he was \"ecstatic\" about the outcome.\n\nOutgoing shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who backed Ms Long-Bailey, urged the party to \"unite now as a movement to achieve our socialist aim\".\n\nSir Keir received an early boost after his supporters won effective control of Labour's National Executive Committee, the party's ruling body, following a series of separate elections.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Sir Keir's team had not been expecting a clean sweep and it would make it much easier for him to run the party and make any changes he wanted.", "Mr Johnson last attended the government's daily briefing on 26 March\n\nBoris Johnson's return to work on Monday after more than three weeks out of action will be a \"boost for the country\", his deputy has said.\n\nThe PM has arrived in Downing Street to resume full-time duties after a fortnight recovering from coronavirus.\n\nHe will chair the morning meeting of the government's coronavirus \"war cabinet\" on Monday.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been standing in for him during his absence, said he was \"raring to go\".\n\nThe PM spent a week in hospital, including three nights in intensive care, after being admitted on 5 April.\n\nDuring his hospitalisation, he received regular oxygen treatment to help his breathing.\n\nAfter he was discharged on 12 April, Mr Johnson suggested his condition \"could have gone either way\" and praised the staff at St Thomas' Hospital in central London who looked after him.\n\nHe has not been doing any official government work during his convalescence at Chequers, on medical advice.\n\nBut last week he spoke to the Queen and US President Donald Trump and also met senior ministers, including Mr Raab and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, to discuss the next stage of the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nIt is unclear at this stage whether he will lead Monday's press briefing - which has not fronted for a month.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it was good to have the prime minister back and his return would be a \"boost for the government and a boost for the country\".\n\nIt has been a \"difficult time\", acknowledged Dominic Raab of the period he's spent deputising for the PM.\n\nThe government has been without its leader through much of this tumultuous time but Boris Johnson is now well enough to be back in charge as the next major decision looms - where the lockdown goes from here.\n\nRemember, by law, the measures have to be \"reviewed\" every three weeks.\n\nThe PM returns to intense debate within government, within his party and among opposition MPs about the impact of the lockdown and what combination of measures will come to replace the blunt instrument of asking us all to stay at home.\n\nEveryone is mindful of rushing to relax restrictions in case the virus starts to spread rapidly and widely again - and Boris Johnson has his own recent experience of being struck down too.\n\nBut there are growing concerns about the profound effect on the economy and all of our lives - as well as what needs to be in place before restrictions can be eased.\n\nThe government's message is clear, that things won't snap back to how they were before - but the prime minister will ultimately be the one to make the decision about where the new balance lies.\n\nThe foreign secretary, who as first secretary of state is the second most senior member of the cabinet, praised other ministers and civil servants for \"stepping up to the plate\" during the PM's absence.\n\nAsked whether he had enjoyed the experience of temporarily running the country, he said this \"did not do justice\" to the task he had been faced with and his thoughts throughout had been with Mr Johnson and his family, \"particularly when we knew it was touch and go\".\n\nOn Saturday, the number of recorded UK hospital deaths of people with the virus exceeded 20,000. These figures, the fifth highest in the world, do not include deaths in care homes and in the community.\n\nCritics say Mr Johnson was far too slow to respond once the threat to the UK became clear, with the Liberal Democrats calling for a public inquiry into the \"appalling\" fatality rate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab on PPE: \"We're doing everything we can amid an international supply shortage\"\n\nMr Raab said the figures were a \"grim milestone\" but defended the UK's handling of the crisis, saying the death toll would have been higher if ministers had not followed scientific advice and made key decisions at the right time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves: \"Businesses, schools and other organisations need time to plan if they are to reopen\"\n\nWhile the UK was \"not in the place\" it wanted to be in terms of supplies of protective kit to NHS workers, he insisted it was doing all it could and the UK was the \"international buyer of choice\" amid a global shortage.\n\nOpposition parties have wished Mr Johnson well on his return but said he urgently needs to give more detail about his approach to easing aspects of the current lockdown next month, if it is deemed safe to do so.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said the UK should \"potentially\" be following the example of countries like Belgium, Germany and Denmark which have already signalled partial re-opening of some businesses and schools.\n\n\"We want to work with the government in bringing forward a plan and getting it right,\" she told Andrew Marr.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge show, the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham suggested businesses, including shops, should only be allowed to open if they followed strict social distancing rules.\n\nThe ex-Labour minister said such a \"standards-based\" approach could be enforced by the Health and Safety Executive and would be fairer than favouring different sectors of the economy or parts of the country.", "A 98-year-old man who survived coronavirus after a week in hospital has thanked its \"excellent\" staff, saying he even had a \"jolly good time\" in their care.\n\nDoug Moore from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, was taken to Kettering General Hospital earlier this month after having a fall and suffering with Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nHe avoided intensive care and was eventually discharged in a wheelchair, with staff lining the corridors and clapping as he left.\n\nDescribing his time at the hospital, the World War Two veteran said: \"It was in fact quite enjoyable.\n\n\"I met a number of people that one wouldn't possibly meet. Staff were absolutely excellent. A jolly good time, really, if that's a strange thing to say, but it was.\"", "The Timpson repairs chain will reopen some of its outlets this week amid lockdown\n\nSome High Street shops will not survive the coronavirus lockdown, the chairman of the retail chain Timpson has warned.\n\nSir John Timpson said high streets would look \"somewhat different\" after restrictions were eased.\n\nThe key-cutting and repair firm, which also owns Snappy Snaps and Johnsons dry cleaners, will reopen 40 of its outlets this week.\n\nSir John told the BBC's Today programme: \"There are going to be some other names that don't come back.\"\n\nUK shops deemed \"non-essential\" have been shut since the government imposed strict measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus on 23 March.\n\nIt has come at a bad time for the High Street, which faced a consumer spending slowdown before the virus hit.\n\nWith other parts of the economy also shut down, a recession is now expected.\n\nTimpson, which has over 2,150 shops, says staff will return to outlets based in supermarkets, which are classified as essential retailers, along with a handful of the group's High Street dry-cleaning stores.\n\nSir John, whose family founded the 155-year-old business, said: \"The most important part of this is to get the safety right.\"\n\nThe retailer will give staff face masks and install perspex screens to separate them from customers at the checkout.\n\nHowever, he added: \"Until we get there we don't know how particularly the social distancing is going to work, bearing in mind we've got a shop inside someone else's shop.\"\n\nIt comes as the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) has urged businesses desperate to resume trading to take caution.\n\nIt is calling for \"tough new measures\" to ensure that all employers carry out a risk assessment before lockdown measures are lifted and staff return to work.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC's Today programme: \"Everybody wants people to get back to work safely so that we can get the economy back on its feet.\n\n\"But workers have to know, and be confident, that their health and safety is being put first. Otherwise, we're going to see this virus spread again and we'll be back to square one.\"\n\nBeyond the retail sector, housebuilder Redrow also announced on Monday that it would see a \"phased return\" to construction in May.\n\nSteve Morgan, the firm's founder and former chairman said: \"This is a real tricky one, and health and safety has to come first.\"\n\nHowever, he dismissed the need for government-mandated risk assessments before a return to work, as outlined by the TUC.\n\n\"Most employers are very sensible people. They know what to do and clearly, their employees are the priority. Nobody is going to take risks in this situation, we all want this virus to come to an end.\"\n\nMeanwhile, business lobby group the Institute of Directors says its members are \"clamouring\" for information on when lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nOn Monday, its director general John Geldart said: \"It's in everyone's interests to get the economy off life support when it's safe to do so.\n\n\"Business leaders know this will not happen all in one go, but that's why it's even more important to tell them what they need to prepare for.\"\n\nIn a new survey of more than 1,000 of its members, more than one-third said they felt \"very pessimistic\" about the wider UK economy in the coming 12 months.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street on Sunday amid mounting pressure from Tory MPs to begin lifting the lockdown.\n\nLabour has also urged the government to set out its \"exit strategy\" to give businesses, schools and other organisations time to prepare.\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, every three weeks. The next review is due by 7 May.", "This video can not be played.", "Imogen has pledged one keepy-uppy for each one of the UK's key workers\n\nA 10-year-old footballer has urged people to help her reach 7.1 million keepy-uppies, one for each UK key worker, to raise money for charities.\n\nImogen, from Hauxton, Cambridgeshire, has exceeded her target of £1,300 by keeping her football up in the air as many times as she can.\n\nShe is managing about 2,000 each day but has also asked for keepy-uppy donations to help her reach her target.\n\nCambridge United players have already taken on the challenge.\n\nImogen, who trains with the club's youth development academy, said she was inspired to raise money after seeing Capt Tom Moore, 99, doing laps of his garden to raise millions for the NHS.\n\nBut as well raising money for NHS charities, Imogen decided to widen the appeal to cover nine charities, which support what she describes as \"Covid heroes\".\n\nImogen can only start her keepy-uppies for the day when school work is completed\n\nHer parents, Karl and Sarah, work for the NHS, and she has now raised over £1,600 for multiple charities.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates approximately 22% of all working-age people are employed in key worker occupations in the UK, \"equating to 7.1 million adults across the UK\".\n\n\"My original target was 200 keepy-uppies a day and it was going to take me 97 years to do... but now I'm doing 2,000 a day,\" Imogen said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Imogen_PH This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer dad said when they realised the enormity of the task he told her: \"There's the garden, crack on love.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Imogen_PH This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer personal best is 63 in a row without dropping the ball, but she adds them all together to reach her daily target.\n\nShe's hoping people will donate their own keepy-uppies as well as money to charities\n\n\"We would like people to get involved and send keepy-uppies so I can add it to the total,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Imogen_PH This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the players have already sent videos of themselves joining in \"to cut down the 97 years\" - and he pledged the rest of the club would help out.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nBoris Johnson is back in charge of the country today after suffering from coronavirus. He'll chair the regular morning cabinet meeting on Covid-19 before holding talks with senior ministers and officials - although it's unclear at this stage whether he will lead Monday's afternoon news briefing. Read more on what it's like to recover from the disease.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children in Spain have been allowed outside for the first time in six weeks\n\nOne possible way of edging back to normal might be to allow everyone to choose a small group of people - their top 10 - to socialise with. Would it work and how could it be policed? Read more.\n\nFor most people the Covid-19 crisis is an unsettling, confusing time. But for hundreds of thousands of adults with autism in the UK the problems are acute. Read why. People with motor neurone disease have also told the BBC they feel forgotten because of changing government advice.\n\nSimon is one of many autistic people left isolated by coronavirus\n\nRoyal Mail will stamp all letters with a special message this week to celebrate Captain Tom Moore's 100th birthday on Thursday. The veteran has raised £29m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nHere, a professor of virology answers children's questions on the pandemic. And we speak to illustrator Axel Sheffler, of Gruffalo fame, about how he's been helping youngsters cope with the situation.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lifeboats from Exmouth and Lyme were joined by a navy ship and two coastguard helicopters\n\nTwo divers who were fined for flouting coronavirus rules in Dorset were from Edinburgh and Cornwall, police say.\n\nThe pair went diving in Lyme Bay, sparking a massive search on Saturday after one of them went missing.\n\nHe had been reported missing by his friend, who was diving off the same boat, at about 15:30 BST.\n\nTwo coastguard helicopters, RNLI lifeboats, fishing boats and a Royal Navy warship searched the area after responding to an HM Coastguard Mayday.\n\nA Dorset Police spokesman said the two men, from Edinburgh and Wadebridge, were reported for \"breaches of the regulations\".\n\nThe force said: \"We are unable to confirm the amount of the fine as this will be dealt with by a central administrative process.\"\n\nThe Royal Navy said the missing diver was spotted by an HMS Tyne sailor\n\nLyme Regis is 437 miles (703km) from Edinburgh and over 100 miles (160km) from Wadebridge.\n\nThe lone diver was spotted by a sailor on HMS Tyne after nearly two hours of searching for him.\n\nHe was three miles from where he had entered the water, having lost sight of the boat.\n\nCoastguards said he was recovered from the water safe and well shortly before 17:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former Commonwealth Games athlete is unable to access a potentially life-saving drug due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSarah Wright, 33, was in the British Shooting team when in 2018 she found out in the same week that she had breast cancer and was pregnant.\n\nAfter many unsuccessful treatments she was accepted on to a new trial in San Francisco, in the US, during lockdown.\n\nBut since March, Britons have been banned from travelling to the country.\n\nMrs Wright's husband, Adam, said: \"We have the money, but can't get into the country.\"\n\nAfter enduring chemotherapy throughout her pregnancy, in 2019 she gave birth to a health baby girl, Everleigh.\n\nSix weeks after she was born, Mrs Wright was told her surgery and treatment were unsuccessful and the cancer had spread to her liver and lungs.\n\nMr Wright said: \"It was horrendous.\n\n\"We went from thinking she'd beaten it, to feeling like she was being read her last rites.\"\n\nEight months on, she has exhausted all treatments available through the NHS, including a clinical trial at Maidstone hospital.\n\nSarah Gray (maiden name) competing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow\n\nEarly results from a new US drug indicates it is effective in fighting tumour cells in a short amount of time.\n\nMrs Wright was accepted on the trial earlier this month after a biopsy showed she has a high chance of it being effective.\n\nMr Wright, 35, said his wife has the full support of her oncologist, however President Donald Trump banned Britons from travelling to the US as part of a coronavirus lockdown in March.\n\nHe said: \"We need to get passage to USA for the clinical trial, or obtain Leronlimab in the UK. But given it is not approved yet the red tape of this makes it very unlikely.\n\nSarah with Adam Wright, before she became ill\n\n\"Going to San Francisco is the only chance Sarah has for more months or years to spend as a family and see our little girl grow up.\n\n\"She's always been so strong and independent, but she's not the mum she wants to be and it's heartbreaking.\n\n\"Rounds and rounds of horrific chemo have left her too weak to even hold Everleigh now.\n\n\"Sarah is not getting better, and we don't know how long she has left.\"\n\nThe treatment is manufactured by Cytodyn, which have been contacted for a comment.\n\nThe trial involves blood tests taken in San Francisco, before eight-weeks worth of injections are given to participants to administer themselves.\n\nThe Wrights would only need to be in the US for a couple of days before returning home.\n\nSarah and Adam Wright shortly after Everleigh was born\n\nAshford MP Damian Green is involved in their case, and has made contact with the American Embassy to see if any exceptions can be made to allow Sarah to travel.\n\nHe said: \"If there's any situation where you might offer a relaxation, it would be this.\"\n\nA spokesman for British Shooting said the news was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHe added: \"At any other time, this would be something the Wright family could arrange without an issue, but 2020 is not like any other year.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem rejects criticism of its request for aid.\n\nThe owner of P&O ferries has said the government has been \"slow\" to react to the crisis facing vital supply routes.\n\nThe ferry company, which transports 15% of all goods in and out of the UK, has applied for financial support to see it through the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe head of Dubai-based DP World told the BBC that P&O needs £257m in aid to avoid collapse and has applied to the UK government for £150m of that.\n\nBut Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem said he has yet to get a response from the UK.\n\nThe DP World chairman and chief executive said: \"P&O plays a vital role in the UK and thousands of jobs depend on this company. We have to be sure that when this is over we can bounce back and save these jobs.\n\n\"We have applied to the UK government to support the company to save the jobs of these people. The government has been slow. We need to safeguard these jobs - a lot of people's lives depends on this company.\"\n\nAs leisure passenger numbers have collapsed, moving freight only between the EU and the UK has become economically unviable. P&O has taken seven ships out of service.\n\nP&O has also furloughed 1,400 workers, which will see the UK government paying 80% of their wages.\n\nAs well as P&O, DP World owns the ports of Southampton and the London Gateway, as well as dozens of terminals around the world. Last year it made profits of more than £1bn on revenues of more than £6bn.\n\nA dividend of £270m is due to be paid out to DP World shareholders this week. However, Mr bin Sulayem defended P&O's plea for financial assistance.\n\n\"DP World has never taken a penny out of P&O. Any profits we have made we have reinvested in new vessels,\" he said. \"DP World owns many businesses around the world. You cannot just take money out of them to put into a company in another place - it doesn't make sense.\"\n\nThe UK Treasury may disagree. It is has taken a hard line with airline Virgin Atlantic, which says it may not survive without a £500m government support package. The Treasury has insisted it must ask its own shareholders (Delta Airlines and Sir Richard Branson) and exhaust every other private sector fund raising avenue possible.\n\nMr bin Sulayem also said that Covid-19 would change global trade forever. He said that the economic shock of China's manufacturing shutdown has made companies around the world reconsider their supply chains' reliance on it.\n\n\"You cannot have everything being made in one place. Supply chains will need to be shorter,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Transport said that £27m in subsidies have already been announced for critical ferry delivery routes, some of which were operated by P&O.", "Greggs is to become the latest food retailer to reopen some of its outlets despite the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe bakery chain, which has more than 2,050 shops, said it would open 20 of them in the Newcastle area from Monday 4 May as part of a \"controlled trial\", with more to follow.\n\nGreggs closed all its stores more than a month ago when the lockdown began.\n\nEarlier this month, Burger King, KFC and Pret A Manger reopened certain restaurants, mainly for delivery only.\n\nGreggs chief executive Roger Whiteside said the trial, set to last at least two weeks, would involve a limited product range and shorter trading hours.\n\nIn a letter to staff, he said that from 8 June, he hoped to open about 700 stores, including 150 franchise shops.\n\nHe intends to have all stores open again by 1 July, when the government's job retention scheme is due to end.\n\nHowever, Mr Whiteside said that timing could change, depending on future government announcements.\n\n\"We expect it will only be possible to open this many shops if the government has taken a first step in relaxing the lockdown, which could be to open the schools,\" he added.\n\nThe company expects sales to be \"significantly lower than normal\" while social distancing measures are in place.\n\nA Greggs spokeswoman said: \"We want to play our part in getting the nation back up and running again, so we are planning to conduct a limited trial with volunteers to explore how we can reopen our shops with new measures in place that keep our colleagues and customers as safe as we can when we reopen at scale.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Holly King-Mand says she wants children to \"love English\"\n\nAn English teacher says she feels \"excited, overwhelmed and energised\" after followers of her online lessons grew to more than 40,000.\n\nHolly King-Mand, 36, provides daily English Live lessons and had 74 Facebook followers at the start of the UK's lockdown.\n\nIt now stands at 44,000 across three social media platforms.\n\n\"Without teaching, I'd be finding [lockdown] a lot more stressful,\" said Mrs King-Mand, from Leighton Buzzard.\n\nMrs King-Mand, who lives with two daughters aged two and nine months, hosts a free 30-minute lesson every weekday, aimed at Key Stage Two and Three levels (ages 7-14).\n\nShe launched lessons and resources on Facebook, having just finished maternity leave, to support parents home-schooling their children under lockdown restrictions.\n\nWithin days, the former secondary school teacher gained 18,000 followers which has risen to 38,000 in five weeks and includes support from four continents.\n\nThe teacher receives fan mail from around the world\n\nMrs King-Mand is moving the live lessons to YouTube this week, where she already has 4,000 subscribers.\n\nShe has a further 2,000 on Instagram and has been recommended by CBBC's Newsround site.\n\n\"I just have a rainbow of emotions all the time, I'm excited, overwhelmed and energised,\" she said.\n\n\"This gets me up in the morning and the teaching, the planning, and messages from all over the world have been a massive lift to me and my family.\n\n\"There would be a good chance that I'd still be in my pyjamas if I didn't have to teach live to thousands of children every morning.\"\n\nMrs King-Mand covers topics from synonyms and spellings to fronted adverbials and story structure\n\nMrs King-Mand said said her fan mail had been \"really sweet\" and it was \"endearing to see the positive impact the lessons are having on people\".\n\n\"A family from Madrid told me that it made a big difference to their lockdown experience to have a vibrant and lively lesson rather than being trapped in a room with worksheets,\" she said.\n\n\"As a teacher you are lucky if you can reach one child in that way, let alone thousands.\"\n\nPost lockdown, she is looking to bring \"more challenging\" topics to children in an \"accessible\" way.\n\n\"I'd love to inspire young learners' passion for English, steering away from a focus on test and exam preparation. I want them to love English,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thank you for joining us for our page celebrating all those people who are making a difference.\n\nI think you'll agree it's a lovely reminder of the many things we have to smile about.\n\nDo keep sending in your stories and photographs. You can email them to us here.", "In these times, the sight of a public gathering of hundreds of people mostly without face masks is alarming.\n\nBut that is what happened at a demonstration against the shutdown measures in Washington State.\n\n\"We believe that the state governor has gone beyond his constitutional authority in shutting down businesses and ordering people to stay at home,\" organiser Tyler Miller says from the grounds of the state capitol.\n\nIn mid-March, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced an emergency proclamation mirroring many issued around the world; closing restaurants and bars and banning large gatherings.\n\nBut protesters say that was unconstitutional.\n\n\"The state constitution says that the right of the people to peaceably assemble shall never be abridged. We believe that the (emergency coronavirus) proclamations that the governor here ordered violate that,\" Mr Miller says.\n\nMr Miller said he was not protesting against the recommendations from the public health bodies and respected the need to 'flatten the curve'.\n\n\"I even self-quarantined for 14 days back at the very beginning of this myself, when I had an illness that mirrored some of the symptoms,\" he says.\n\n\"The fact I am protesting does not mean I think it is a good idea to have gatherings, I just believe that the government has no authority to prohibit them.\"\n\nThroughout the crisis, Mr Miller has also been able to continue his work as an engineering technician with the US Navy.\n\nHe says the thing that has angered him is what he feels is an un-American overreach of power by the Democratic governor.\n\nThe restrictions differ from state to state, and about 20 states have had protests against the measures. These demonstrations vary in size from a few dozen people to thousands.\n\nThey come as the US finds itself still very much in the grip of this crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We want our lives back now,' say protesters\n\nThere has not yet been a sustained drop in the numbers of US deaths linked to Covid-19 and yet the clamour to lift restrictions is coming not just from those taking to the streets but from politicians too.\n\n\"The hysteria that surrounded the coronavirus from the beginning was disproportionate,\" says Rick Becker, of North Dakota.\n\n\"There was an overreaction by state governments with regard to mandatory shut downs, shelter in place, and so forth,\" he says.\n\nWhen it is put to the state representative that tens of thousands of people have died across the country and that it could have been many more if restrictions were not in place, he dismisses the notion.\n\n\"That is something that you're going to be able to say no matter what; that there may have been more deaths,\" says Mr Becker, who is also a qualified doctor.\n\n\"You're taking the 'if it saves just one life' argument, and I would say that if I would drive 20mph instead of 50mph, it's possible that I might not kill somebody, and you can look at all aspects of our lives that way. But our whole way of life in this country would collapse and we can't live life that way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn neighbouring South Dakota, one of those who died with the coronavirus was Bob Glanzer, a state representative.\n\n\"He was a very caring, giving, listening type of individual and certainly faith was a big part of his life. He's going to be sorely missed in the legislature,\" says party colleague Jean Hunhoff.\n\nRepresentative Hunhoff describes how she and other legislative members lined the route of Mr Glanzer's funeral procession waving American and South Dakota flags.\n\nThere were social distancing measures in place for the commemorations, even though South Dakota is one of a handful of states where a state-wide stay at home order has never been imposed.\n\n\"I support the decisions of our governor. She laid out guidelines and then really left the decisions up to local communities,\" says Jean Hunhoff, who also has a public health background.\n\n\"I am a registered nurse and I believe it is data that should drive decision making and I think we have done that here. It is easy to stand on the outside and post judgment.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of states like South Dakota that have refused to issue state-wide shut down directives in spite of coronavirus outbreaks there.\n\nPolls show the majority of Americans are still in favour of measures imposed to try to curb the spread of the virus. And some are vehemently opposed to the protests.\n\nMary Turner, a nurse leader in an intensive care unit in Minnesota, describes them as a \"kick in the teeth\" because of the risks she and her colleagues are taking.\n\n\"These protests here are so discouraging. With no one doing social distancing or wearing masks, and they all say they are outraged. I don't know if this is a problem anywhere else in the world.\"\n\nBut the placards at the demonstrations decrying government interference suggest those involved feel there are bigger issues at stake than public health.\n\n\"Scepticism of the government is a deep strain in America. It waxes and wanes - though we're in a period where it's been waxing for quite a while,\" says Theda Skocpol, author and professor of government and sociology at Harvard University.\n\nWith regard to the anti-shutdown protests, Professor Skocpol says it is political beliefs and not economics that have definitely been the driving force.\n\nShe cautions against the notion that they are an organic reaction to the crisis, feeling instead that there is a level of national organisation.\n\n\"You don't see the US Chamber of Commerce in the vanguard here. These are ideological forces at play, with some professionally run conservative advocacy groups behind the protests,\" Professor Skocpol says.\n\n\"Their cause is to make sure Americans don't become too trusting of government. They don't worry whether the motives of the people on the ground are exactly the same as theirs. They're probably not. I think most of the people at the protests are just passionate Donald Trump supporters.\"\n\nWhile some at the protests say they are there because they are losing money during the shutdown, Trump 2020 flags, hats and shirts have been very evident, particularly at the large demonstrations in states run by Democratic governors. They have taken on the look of small Trump rallies.\n\nThe politicians most vocally calling for the shutdown to be lifted now, like Dr Rick Becker of North Dakota, are mainly Republicans. All of the governors who did not impose stay at home orders, like the governor of South Dakota, also belong to the president's party.\n\nWhile the GOP does have its libertarian streak, Professor Skocpol feels that there is more to it than that, and that many of the people and politicians protesting are taking their cues from the president.\n\nProtesters outside the Minnesota governor's mansion show their opposition to the lockdowns\n\n\"Donald Trump is really not all that secretive about what he's thinking, he sort of says it. I think that there's a lot of evidence that he's worried that this terrible pandemic and his handling of the early stages, combined with the economic impact, could sink his presidency,\" she says.\n\n\"You can't expect him, his party and those who support him to sit back and take that lightly, so what is plan B or C? It is to go from blaming Obama, the Chinese, the WHO, to now blaming those who are leaving restrictions in place.\"\n\nIndeed, over recent weeks, Donald Trump has openly supported the protesters.\n\nBut mixed messages from the White House have been a feature of this crisis. After signalling that he wanted some Democratic-run states \"liberated\" and opened up, the president then said he was \"unhappy\" when the Republican governor of Georgia made the decision to reopen the economy.\n\nWith many hundreds still dying of the virus here each day, state governors are in the tough position of trying to make the right decisions to keep people safe.\n\nBut it is the face of a deadly virus on the one hand and massive economic and political pressure on the other.", "Jin Russell works in a children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand Image caption: Jin Russell works in a children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand\n\nNew Zealand has said it has stopped community transmission of Covid-19, effectively eliminating the virus, while some non-essential business, healthcare and education activities will resume on Tuesday.\n\nJin Russell, a doctor in Auckland, spoke to BBC OS on World Service radio and said: “I’m at the end of a five-week lockdown staying at home with my two little boys and my husband. I’m really proud of my country. We’ve taken such strong collective action to keep each other safe.\n\n“When our prime minister, Jacinda Arden, announced five weeks ago the lockdown was going to start I remember crying with relief because my whole family are doctors. My mum is a GP in her 70s, my dad is a full-time pathologist at the hospital, and my brother is a rheumatologist.\n\n\"I work at the children’s hospital here and when I saw what was happening with healthcare workers overseas catching coronavirus and being at risk, I was so relieved we locked down, went hard and went early. I feel very confident that New Zealand is going to show the world how to do this.”\n\nNew Zealand has reported fewer than 1,500 confirmed or probable cases of coronavirus and 19 deaths.", "Chile has confirmed more than 13,000 cases of Covid-19\n\nChile's government has said it will go ahead with a controversial plan to issue certificates to people who have recovered from Covid-19.\n\nThe documents would be given to people to allow them to return to work, Deputy Health Minister Paula Daza said.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is \"no evidence\" that people who contract coronavirus are immune from being infected again.\n\nIt said certificates could inspire false confidence and help it spread.\n\nChile has reported 189 virus-related deaths and more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\n\"There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection,\" the WHO said in a briefing note on Friday.\n\nThe body argued that so-called \"immunity certificates\" could even be harmful, because they could lead people to ignore public health advice and therefore increase the risk of transmitting the disease.\n\nBut Ms Daza told reporters on Sunday: \"One of the things that we know is that a person who has had the illness has a lower probability of becoming ill again.\"\n\nShe added that the certificates would not confirm that people had immunity to Covid-19, but rather state that they had recovered from the disease and had completed a period of isolation.\n\nAt least 200,000 people have died with the coronavirus across the world, and many governments are now trying to find ways to ease their lockdown restrictions.", "The political could hardly be more personal.\n\nBut the prime minister's return to work and return to health is far from a metaphor for the country making a quick recovery from the crisis.\n\nIn contrast, Boris Johnson's statement at the lectern this morning was a request to the public to be patient, to keep going, to hold firm through the frustrations of living life mainly behind closed doors for a while longer.\n\nDespite some restlessness among the public, increasing volume in his own party, and from the opposition for a clearer route out of this, for the prime minister it's not yet the time to give more detail, and certainly not yet the time to change any of the restrictions.\n\nAnd when that time is reached, when the infection rate is deemed low enough, he was clear, that there will be no sudden nirvana - life in the 'next phase' will be a slow return of a more familiar rhythm, acknowledging, but not being swayed by demands to open up the economy much more swiftly.\n\nMr Johnson wanted, as ministers have in recent days, to emphasise what the government believes it has achieved in recent weeks - slowing the spread of the disease with distancing measures, and stopping the NHS from being overwhelmed.\n\nThere was barely a mention of the difficulties we've heard from around the country over medics and care staff being short of the kit they need to protect themselves, what's going on behind closed doors in care homes, or the bumpy progress in testing.\n\nNot much acknowledgment either that other leaders, like the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and others in Europe, have been much more candid with the public already about how the next phase might actually look.\n\nHe promised he would be transparent in the coming days, but would not follow them today.\n\nBut with only a few slips into his more familiar pre-pandemic tone, branding the virus \"an invisible mugger\" the country was trying to wrestle to the ground, this was a serious statement from the prime minister, in exceptional times, to explain to the public Downing Street's thinking, but a speech largely designed to hold the line.", "Emon and Jamiul reached the finish - on a mountain summit - just 20 seconds ahead\n\nThe winners of the BBC's Race Across the World have pledged £10,000 to help the street children they came across as they travelled through South America.\n\nOn Sunday, viewers saw uncle and nephew Emon and Jamiul Choudhury win the 54-day race by just 20 seconds.\n\nThey pipped husband and wife Rob and Jen in a nailbiting finish.\n\nEmon and Jamiul immediately promised half of the £20,000 prize to charities after seeing children sleeping rough in Sao Paulo, Brazil.\n\nThey have since also reportedly decided to give £5,000 to Emon's family orphanage in Bangladesh.\n\n\"We decided at Sao Paulo that if we were to win, we'd donate at least half of the money to help the kids of Sao Paulo and of Brazil,\" Emon told BBC Breakfast on Monday.\n\nThe five pairs of contestants set off from Mexico City on a 15,000-mile quest\n\n\"It just feels like the right thing to do. The trip itself was an amazing experience. You can't put a figure on the experience that we had, and we believe the money will go such a long way to help so many people in the areas that we visited.\"\n\nArchitecture graduate Jamiul added: \"It was a life-changing experience. I don't think there's a price that could be put on everything that we experienced. I guess it shows you that there's a bigger world out there and it puts into perspective how minuscule we are in a wider world.\"\n\nEmon, 35, from Bradford and Jamiul, 25, from Oldham, took part after reuniting 10 years after Emon left the family following his refusal to settle into an arranged marriage.\n\nThe 15,000-mile race took the contestants from Mexico City to the most southerly city in the world, Ushuaia in Argentina, with a budget of £1,400.\n\nIt came down to a frantic finale as the leading two pairs dumped their backpacks and scrambled to be first to reach the summit of a hill.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Two This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by BBC Two\n\nSunday's episode was watched by an average of 3.3 million viewers on BBC Two.\n\nThe second series of the show was a hit with viewers and critics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Scott Bryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Toby Earle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC has been forced to halt production of a celebrity edition of the contest due to the coronavirus pandemic, but has opened applications for the next regular series, saying it will return \"as soon as it is safe to do so\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Secrets of Race Across the World", "NHS bosses say it is a \"good thing\" that the Nightingale hospital has received no patients\n\nBirmingham's Nightingale hospital is \"not being used at all\" 10 days after it was opened by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nSet up inside the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the site is intended to take up to 500 coronavirus patients at a time from 23 Midlands hospitals.\n\nThe chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said it was a \"good thing\" the hospital had not received patients.\n\nIt showed the NHS had \"absorbed\" the extra pressure Dr David Rosser said.\n\nPrince William officially opened the NHS Nightingale hospital in Birmingham on 16 April\n\n\"It was never going to be a great thing to have to open this extra capacity because it didn't come with new staff,\" he said. \"And of course the more beds you open the more you need to stretch.\"\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham, which runs the temporary hospital, is the biggest NHS trust in England and last week had recorded more deaths than any other in the country.\n\nThere are now more than 148,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK and more than 20,000 people with the virus have now died in hospitals.\n\nAlong with London, the Midlands has seen the highest number of deaths linked to coronavirus.\n\nThe temporary field hospital has an initial capacity of 500 which can be scaled up to 1,500\n\nUnlike the ExCel in London, Birmingham's Nightingale hospital was always devised as a step-down facility, so it would accept patients who had recovered sufficiently from coronavirus or who were not suitable for ventilation.\n\nFortunately, although the number of coronavirus cases have been significant, social isolating is working and the NEC has not been required for this purpose.\n\nTrusts who have also had up to 20% of their staff off self-isolating or sick have not wanted to second employees to the new facility because their rotas are already stressed.\n\nThe Birmingham Nightingale is expected to be in use for 12-18 months and may be called upon if there is a second greater surge.\n\nMore than 400 civilian contractors, along with military personnel and about 500 clinical staff, were involved in building the temporary field hospital, which took eight days to build.\n\nDr Rosser said the trust was \"hugely proud of getting it up and running but we're also paradoxically proud of the fact that we didn't need to use it\".\n\nHowever, he added that he felt trepidation about about lockdown restrictions being relaxed in case it \"bounced back on the NHS quite quickly\".\n\nDr Rosser said he was \"hugely proud\" at how quickly the hospital was made operational\n\nThe trust noticed an increase in cases a week after reports of people flouting the rules over the Easter weekend, he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab rejected calls for an early easing of the coronavirus lockdown, stressing that the outbreak was still at a \"delicate and dangerous\" stage.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "There will be a minute's silence across the UK at 11:00 BST on Tuesday to remember key workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\n\nGovernment workers will take part, and No 10 said it hoped others will too.\n\nBoris Johnson has backed the plan, following a campaign by the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing, and Unison, the union.\n\nAt least 90 NHS staff have died since 25 March, as have many care and transport workers.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government supported the idea.\n\n\"We will be asking everybody who works in the government to take part and we would hope that others will take part nationwide as well,\" the spokesman said.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Government's daily coronavirus briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon encouraged everyone \"at home\" to join the silence.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the tribute will be \"particularly, but not exclusively\" for health and care workers.\n\n\"The silence will provide an opportunity to pay tribute to those who have died as a result of their work to serve, care for and save others and it will be a further reminder that of all the duties Government bares during a situation like this, the most vital is our obligation to keep care and health workers safe,\" she said.\n\nThe minute's silence is timed to coincide with International Workers' Memorial Day.\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said the\"moment \"will bring together a sombre but grateful nation.\"\n\nDame Donna said, \"Whether in nursing or driving buses, our heroes kept going to work when many had the luxury of staying at home. Nobody should go out to work and risk their life. This must not be the last time that sacrifice is recognised. The country and its leaders owe a tremendous debt to these key workers and the many more who are on shift again today.\"\n\nEarlier, the prime minster spoke in Downing Street as he returned to work after recovering from coronavirus.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson is \"back full-time\" and \"ready to get back to work\".", "It is in children's interests to return to school \"as soon as possible\", says the head of England's schools watchdog, Ofsted.\n\nAmanda Spielman told a panel of MPs home and online learning were \"imperfect substitutes\" for school.\n\nBut she acknowledged adult health and infection risk needed to be considered.\n\nMs Spielman also said she expected to see a rise in the number of children needing some form of social care in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLast week, England's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said no date had been set for schools to reopen to pupils other than key workers' children and those considered vulnerable - and certain thresholds in fighting coronavirus would have to be met.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing on Monday evening, the UK's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the reinfection rate, known as the R, was near to three when schools were closed to the majority of pupils in March and is now below one.\n\nProf Whitty said experts were currently trying to establish what the impact of children returning to school would be on the R.\n\n\"Whilst it remains the case we think that the contribution of children at school is probably less than, for example, for flu, we do think it certainly contributes.\n\n\"And what we're trying to work out is what proportion of the R it [schools being open] contributes and therefore if children went back to school, how much closer to one - and that's in a bad way - would we be and could it even tip us above one, and what we can do, if so, to try and minimise that.\"\n\nOn Monday morning, Ms Spielman told the Education Select Committee: \"We have to accept that what can be done while schools are substantially closed is a very poor substitute for full normal education.\n\n\"Children are losing education and it's not just the children who are disadvantaged or academically behind, it's children without motivations.\n\n\"And it would be unrealistic for anyone, including me, to expect the vast majority of children to have made the same progress they would have made if they'd been in school, which is why I truly believe that it's in children's interests to be back in school as early as possible.\"\n\n\"There are decisions around adults, adult health and infection, there are decisions around medical provision - clearly, this is a balance that is not mine nor the Department for Education's to make,\" she said.\n\nBut she urged schools to plan for how they could best return to normal education and \"making sure children feel that normality\".\n\nThe Ofsted boss said she did not expect inspections to resume before the end of the summer term and schools would not be judged on how they had educated children during the current crisis.\n\nThere were \"clear expectations\" around safeguarding, she said, but \"no expectations from government on learning\".\n\n\"We need to recognise that education has been substantially disrupted and will continue to be disrupted for some period after schools reopen, given what we know about likely expectations around social distancing and shielding,\" Ms Spielman said.\n\nBut, she added: \"We need to make sure that parents get the assurance they need that schools are looking after their children properly and educating them well.\"\n\nThe social-care area of Ofsted's work was \"the very busiest at the moment\", Ms Spielman said.\n\n\"We have every reason to think this [pandemic] is putting more pressure on a lot of families - we've all seen the reports around increased domestic violence,\" she said.\n\n\"We know some families will be under significant financial pressure - and financial strain does not help families' situations.\n\n\"So, yes, it seems very likely that there will be more children needing social care.\n\n\"But at the moment referrals to local authorities are down, not up - many referrals come from schools.\n\n\"So my expectation, yes, it's that there will be even more pressure on children's homes [and] home placements [of children needing to be looked after by their local authority], as we come out of this.\"\n\nThe chief inspector also took questions from MPs about unregistered schools, the sex and relationships curriculum and whether schools could study GCSE content over three years rather than the traditional two.\n\nMr Williamson is due to appear before the committee on Wednesday.", "Coronavirus has led to a \"global slowdown\" in the removal of internet child abuse images, say campaigners.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation says tech firms have fewer staff to delete illegal material, making it easier for sexual predators to view and share.\n\nAlmost 90% fewer suspicious web addresses, or URLs, have been deleted during the pandemic, says the charity.\n\nThe warning comes as the IWF's annual report reveals Europe is the \"hub\" for child sexual abuse photos and videos.\n\nIn 2019, 89% of URLs containing abuse material were found on computer servers based in Europe, compared with 79% in 2018.\n\nServers in the Netherlands, which has a strong technological infrastructure and low costs, hosted the most illegal content discovered by IWF staff - 93,962 URLs, or 71% of the total.\n\n\"We have seen a real and frightening jump in the amount of child sexual abuse material that is being hosted right on our doorstep here in Europe,\" IWF chief executive Susie Hargreaves said.\n\nCountries must adopt a \"zero tolerance\" strategy to the problem by tackling supply and demand, Ms Hargreaves added.\n\n\"While the UK doesn't have this 'hosting' issue, our problem is that many consumers of child sexual abuse live here,\" she pointed out.\n\nShe praised staff at the charity who last year removed 132,676 web pages and newsgroups showing child sexual abuse material, after assessing reports from people across the globe.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how often the team sees this content, they never lose their humanity or fail to be shocked by the level of depravity and cruelty that some, a minority, engage in,\" she said.\n\nThe immediate problem identified by the IWF is that social-distancing and self-isolation rules have cut the number of staff able to flag and respond to reports of illegal content in technology companies, call centres and law enforcement.\n\nAs a result, it is taking longer for child abuse images to be removed.\n\nBetween 16 March and 15 April, 1,498 URLs were deleted compared with 14,947 in the previous four weeks.\n\n\"Hotlines and abuse teams across the globe need to be aware there is a slowdown of this content being removed and to be mindful of doing what they can, within their ability, to get this content taken down,\" the charity said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak: The microloan scheme will be \"100% guaranteed by the government\"\n\nSmall firms are to get access to 100% taxpayer-backed loans after they raised concerns about slow access to existing coronavirus rescue schemes.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the House of Commons the scheme would start next week, offering firms loans up to £50,000 within days of applying.\n\nIt aims to unlock a backlog of credit checks by banks amid fears many small firms could fold before getting loans.\n\nThe loan terms mean that no capital or interest repayments will be due for one year. Instead, the government will pay the interest for the first 12 months.\n\nBanks have come under fire for delays in handing out loans, but have blamed the heavy workload, need to complete the necessary credit checks, and a shortage of staff.\n\nUnderwriting the loans removes the risk that banks will not get their money back, which Mr Sunak hopes will speed up the application process. The new \"microloan scheme\" would provide a \"simple, quick, easy\" solution, he told the Commons.\n\nIn a statement issued on behalf of the major lenders to small firms, including Barclays and Lloyds, trade body UK Finance said the \"welcome changes should enable banks to provide finance to businesses more quickly\".\n\nThe chancellor said: \"Never before have we been able to do something of this magnitude in such a short space of time.\"\n\nIt's not the end of the economic rescue schemes. They are needed in this \"new normal\" for the economy - which looks set to last for months.\n\nFor now, the priority is public health, and controlling the pandemic.\n\nWithout public confidence in that, consumers will not go to shops, workers will not return to offices.\n\nIn another significant change, firms applying for the new loans will now only have to prove that they were viable in the past before the crisis, not that they will viable after the crisis. Companies have complained they struggled to prove their future potential with some much uncertainty over the economic environment.\n\nThe chancellor had come under pressure to underwrite all loans, not just those up to £50,000. But he said he was not prepared to do this as he needed to balance the risk to the taxpayer with the needs of small businesses.\n\nHe said: \"I've heard some calls for the government to underwrite all our loan schemes with 100% guarantees. I remain unconvinced by the case for doing that universally.\n\n\"We should not ask the ordinary taxpayers of today and tomorrow to bear the entire risk of lending almost unlimited sums to businesses who may, in some cases, have very little prospect of paying those loans back and not necessarily because of the impact of the coronavirus.\"\n\nEarlier this month the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said that slow bank emergency lending \"had to be sorted out\" and that taking on all the risk from banks could \"unblock\" the schemes for small business especially.\n\nUnlike the existing loan scheme, banks will not retain any of the risk for these loans, which could stretch into the billions or tens of billions depending on how long the crisis lasts.\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the move, with Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI director-general Dame Carolyn Fairbairn calling it transformational for small firms.\n\n\"Sole traders, micro-firms and entrepreneurs will now have a simple route to fast finance to stay afloat, without red tape or time-consuming checks,\" she said. \"Thousands of businesses could be saved by this lifeline. Banks now need to continue their work in overdrive to get the loans flowing faster.\"\n\nAnd the chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry, said it would \"give hope to thousands\" of firms.\n\n\"To date, the existing interruption loan scheme has not been working for the small firms that make-up 99% of our business community.\n\n\"The decision by the chancellor to listen to our recommendation for a 100% guarantee on smaller loans, alongside the creation of a new fast-track system for those applying for them, will give hope to thousands.\"", "The rate of increase of helpline calls has been growing (Picture posed by model)\n\nCalls to a national domestic abuse helpline rose by 49% and killings doubled weeks after lockdown, a report by MPs has revealed.\n\nFollowing the \"surge\" in violence, the report called for a government strategy on domestic abuse during the pandemic.\n\nMPs also said \"safe spaces\", where victims can seek help, should be rolled out to supermarkets and other shops.\n\nThe Home Office said it was increasing funding to support helplines and online services.\n\nResearchers at the Counting Dead Women Project told MPs 14 women and two children had been killed in the first three weeks of lockdown.\n\nThe figure is the largest number of killings in a three-week period for 11 years and more than double the average rate, they said.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline run by Refuge was 25% above average in the second week of lockdown and 49% higher than normal after three weeks.\n• None 16people killed in first three weeks - highest is 11 years\n• None 49%rise in calls to abuse helpline, compared with average\n• None 35%rise in calls to Men's Advice Line, in first week\n\nMale victims of abuse have also been calling for help in greater numbers, with the Men's Advice Line seeing calls rise 35% in the first week of lockdown.\n\nWithout a comprehensive government strategy to cope with the consequences of this violence, the home affairs select committee said \"we will be dealing with serious consequences for a generation\".\n\nIt said the strategy should include raising awareness, prevention, victim support, housing and a criminal justice response, supported with dedicated funding and ministerial leadership.\n\nMPs have also called for more help to allow victims access support at times when they may be unable to use the phone or ask friends for help.\n\nThat could include expanding the Safe Spaces scheme piloted in pharmacies, where victims can indicate to staff they need help, to other shops such as supermarkets.\n\nStaying home was essential to prevent coronavirus spreading, said Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the committee. But \"for some people home isn't safe\" and \"urgent action\" was needed to protect them.\n\nWhile the government's national public information campaign is welcome, she said it \"needs to go much further\".\n\n\"Things are particularly hard for vulnerable children. We can't abandon them in the middle of this crisis,\" Ms Cooper said.\n\nThe committee said there will also be an \"acute\" need for support when restrictions are eased, as victims may face escalating violence if they try to leave.\n\n\"The emotional, physical and social scars from domestic abuse can last a lifetime,\" said Ms Cooper.\n\nThe report also highlighted a lack of space in refuges, with 64% of requests for a space for victims declined in 2018-19.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said the need for funding had \"never been greater\", with cuts since 2010 having \"decimated\" services while the pandemic has sent demand soaring.\n\n\"All women who need to escape during lockdown and beyond must be assured of a safe place to stay with specialist support,\" she said. This should also apply, she added, to those with people with insecure immigration status who are not allowed to access most government benefits.\n\nSafeguarding Minister Victoria Atkins said that as well as a national awareness-raising campaign, the government was providing additional funding for helplines and online support, and was helping charities access some of the £750m aid announced by the chancellor earlier this month.\n\n\"The government has prioritised those at risk of domestic abuse in this national health emergency,\" she said.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for issues about domestic abuse, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The government failed to buy crucial protective equipment to cope with a pandemic, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThere were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government's pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK.\n\nNHS staff say they are being put at risk because of the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nThe government said it has taken the right steps and is doing everything it can to increase stocks.\n\nThe investigation by BBC Panorama found that vital items were left out of the stockpile when it was set up in 2009 and that the government subsequently ignored a warning from its own advisers to buy missing equipment.\n\nThe expert committee that advises the government on pandemics, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), recommended the purchase of gowns last June.\n\nGowns are currently one of the items in shortest supply in the UK and they are now difficult to source because of the global shortage of PPE.\n\nDoctors and nurses have complained that there are also shortages of the life-saving FFP3 respirator masks.\n\nPanorama has discovered that millions of FFP3 respirator masks are unaccounted for.\n\nThere were 33 million on the original 2009 procurement list for the stockpile, but only 12 million have been handed out.\n\nThe government refuses to explain where the other masks have gone.\n\nA government spokesperson said there was \"limited demand\" for the masks coming through the Supply Disruption Line, \"which is one reason why they haven't all been distributed\".\n\nThey added that gowns were a recent recommendation from the advisory group and would be procured for the \"future stockpile build up alongside all other necessary equipment\".\n\nNHS staff have been washing and reusing PPE\n\nPanorama has spoken to a number of NHS insiders about PPE who wish to remain anonymous.\n\n\"There is a complete lack of transparency from the government. They are creating panic, as we don't know if they can supply us so we are scrambling to get it elsewhere,\" a head of procurement told the programme.\n\nThe government also failed to stockpile visors, the swabs needed for testing and the body bags needed for the dead.\n\nProfessor John Ashton, a public health expert and long-standing critic of the government, told the programme the lack of preparation was breathtaking.\n\n\"The consequence of not planning; not ordering kit; not having stockpiles is that we are sending into the front line doctors, nurses, other health workers and social care workers without the equipment to keep them safe,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said the stockpile was designed for a flu pandemic and that Covid-19 is a different disease with a higher hospitalisation rate.\n\nThey said swabs and body bags were not recommended by Nervtag historically, but eye protection was, so the stockpile contains safety glasses.\n\nGovernment minister Victoria Atkins told BBC Breakfast she was \"very, very sorry to hear\" of the Panorama report.\n\n\"Like every other country in the world, [the virus] is unprecedented and the requirements for PPE have risen exponentially and we are doing our absolute best to address those needs and will continue to do so throughout this crisis,\" she said.\n\nPanorama also investigated changes to the government guidance on what PPE NHS staff should wear.\n\nIn January this year, Covid-19 was officially designated a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID). The decision was made in consultation with a group of British experts.\n\nA Health and Safety Executive evaluation of PPE published in 2019 had already recommended that all healthcare workers should wear a gown, FFP3 respirator mask and visor when dealing with HCIDs.\n\nThose recommendations were in line with existing UK guidance.\n\nAn NHS worker is pictured wearing a plastic bag as a hair cover\n\nBut on 13 March this year, the government downgraded its guidance on PPE and told NHS staff they were safe to wear less protective aprons and basic surgical masks in all but the most high risk circumstances.\n\nPanorama understands that on the same day, the government took steps to remove Covid-19 from the list of HCIDs.\n\nBut the experts who had recommended the coronavirus be put on the list in the first place were not consulted. Instead, the government asked its Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP).\n\nPanorama has discovered that the ACDP was only asked to consider the matter on the morning of its 13 March meeting. It was added to the committee's agenda under \"any other business\".\n\nThe committee backed the decision to remove Covid-19 from the HCID list, but sources on that committee have told Panorama that it had to be, in part, a pragmatic decision based on the availability of PPE.\n\nIt was another six days before Public Health England announced that the coronavirus was no longer considered an HCID.\n\nA government spokesperson said Covid-19 was taken off the list because it has a low overall mortality rate and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific laboratory test for the virus.\n\nThey added the committee's advice that Covid-19 no longer be considered an HCID was based entirely on scientific considerations.\n\n\"The HCID classification is used for serious infections where there are limited numbers of cases requiring specialist input and facilities,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented global pandemic and we have taken the right steps at the right time to combat it, guided at all times by the best scientific advice.\n\n\"The government has been working day and night to battle against coronavirus, delivering a strategy designed at all times to protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nYou can watch the full Panorama programme, Has the Government Failed the NHS? on iPlayer here.", "Families of front line NHS and social care staff in England who die from coronavirus will be entitled to a £60,000 payment, the government says.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed 82 NHS and 16 social care workers had died so far during the outbreak.\n\nHe said he felt a \"deep personal sense of duty that we must care for their loved ones\".\n\nUnions have welcomed the announcement, but called for the scheme to be applied to more sectors.\n\nThe Welsh government has promised the same payment to its NHS and social care staff while Scotland is finalising its own arrangements - although all devolved schemes will be paid for by the UK government.\n\nThe announcement comes ahead of a one minute's silence at 11:00 BST (10:00 GMT) on Tuesday to remember health workers who have died from the virus.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will take part, along with others from across government.\n\nAnnouncing the scheme at the daily government press briefing, Mr Hancock paid tribute to the \"essential work\" of NHS and social care staff.\n\nHe said: \"Of course, nothing replaces the loss of a loved one.\n\n\"But we want to do everything we can to support families who are dealing with this grief.\"\n\nThe general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Donna Kinnair, said the new scheme would \"bring reassurance to families in difficult situations\".\n\nShe added: \"No amount of cash can make up for a family member who passes away but financial security should never add to the worries of those in grief.\"\n\nGeneral secretary of Unison, Dave Prentis, also welcomed the move, saying: \"Providing financial security for the families of all those who've paid the ultimate price for their professionalism and dedication is the very least we can do.\"\n\nBut the unions called for the scheme to be simple and quick, and to be open to more professionals, such as those working in primary care.\n\nLabour welcomed the move but urged ministers to now \"get a grip\" on the supply of personal protective equipment to people on the frontline.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, who has been campaigning for such a scheme, said it was what NHS heroes \"need and deserve\".\n\nBut, she added: \"Now, the government needs to go further. The scheme should include the families of all key workers - carers, teachers and bus drivers to name a few - who die on the frontline.\n\n\"The scheme should also match that given to the Armed Forces, covering pension benefits and funeral costs.\"\n\nMr Hancock said the government was looking into other groups of key workers and what schemes are already available to them.", "The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.\n\nThe NHS says it has a way to make the software work \"sufficiently well\" on iPhones without users having to keep it active and on-screen.\n\nThat limitation has posed problems for similar apps in other countries.\n\nExperts from GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre have aided the effort.\n\nNCSC indicated that its involvement has been limited to an advisory role.\n\n\"Engineers have met several core challenges for the app to meet public health needs and support detection of contact events sufficiently well, including when the app is in the background, without excessively affecting battery life,\" said a spokeswoman for NHSX, the health service's digital innovation unit.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to automatically alert people to whether they are at high risk of having the virus, based on whether someone else they were recently near to has been diagnosed with it.\n\nThey work by logging each time two people are within a certain distance of each other for longer than a specified amount of time.\n\nWhen one user registers themselves as being infected, a cascade of alerts is automatically sent out to everyone else they could have passed it on to - possibly advising them to go into quarantine and/or get tested themselves.\n\nLike the authorities in many other countries, NHSX has opted to use wireless Bluetooth transmissions to keep track of each qualifying meeting, and has said that the alerts will be sent anonymously, so that users do not know who triggered them.\n\nIt has opted for a \"centralised model\" to achieve this - meaning that the matching process, which works out which phones to send alerts to - happens on a computer server.\n\nThis contrasts with Apple and Google's \"decentralised\" approach - where the matches take place on users' handsets.\n\nThe tech giants believe their effort provides more privacy, as it limits the ability of either the authorities or a hacker to use the computer server logs to track specific individuals and identify their social interactions.\n\nBut NHSX believes a centralised system will give it more insight into Covid-19's spread, and therefore how to evolve the app accordingly.\n\n\"One of the advantages is that it's easier to audit the system and adapt it more quickly as scientific evidence accumulates,\" Prof Christophe Fraser, one of the epidemiologists advising NHSX, told the BBC.\n\n\"The principal aim is to give notifications to people who are most at risk of having got infected, and not to people who are much lower risk.\n\n\"It's probably easier to do that with a centralised system.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThis approach puts the UK at odds with Switzerland, Estonia and Austria's Red Cross, as well as a pan-European group called DP3T, which are pursuing decentralised designs.\n\nGermany had been in line with NHSX, but its government announced on Sunday it had switched tack to a \"strongly decentralised approach\".\n\nThat leaves France as one of the more vocal advocates of a centralised model.\n\nBut hundreds of the country's cryptography and computer security experts have just signed an open letter calling on it to reconsider. Dozens of those opponents work for Inria, the institution tasked with building the app.\n\nFor its part, the European Commission has indicated that either model is acceptable.\n\n\"All countries deploying an app must put adoption at the front of their mind, and if it doesn't work well or significantly depletes battery life then that may act as a deterrent, particularly for those with older phones,\" commented DP3T's Dr Michael Veale.\n\nApple and Google intend to release an API software building block this week to support apps that follow their model.\n\nAs an incentive, Apple will let compliant products carry out Bluetooth-based \"handshakes\" in the background without hindrance.\n\nThe US company does not oppose the NHSX's own effort - and has supported the British team - but still believes its own solution is much more power-efficient.\n\nThe UK's solution involves waking up the app in the background every time the phone detects another device running the same software.\n\nIt then executes some code before returning to a dormant state. This all happens at speed, but there is still an energy impact.\n\nBy contrast, Apple's own solution allows the matching to be done without the app having to wake up at all.\n\nAnd because the handshakes take even less time to execute, there should be much less toll on battery life.\n\nAustralia is the latest country to release a contact-tracing app. It too had indicated it had found a way to work around Apple's restrictions, but has since acknowledged power consumption problems as well as \"interference\" if users have other Bluetooth and location-tracking apps open.", "Families to get compensation for NHS staff deaths\n\nFamilies of Welsh NHS and social care workers who die in service as a result of Covid-19 will be entitled to financial support of £60,000. Health minister Vaughan Gething's announcement was made at the same time as a similar scheme was announced for England. The minister said he hoped the payments will provide \"peace of mind\". Eligible beneficiaries will receive a payment of £60,000 under the scheme, which will last for the duration of the Covid-19. Mr Gething said: \"Our frontline workers in the NHS and social care sector are going above and beyond to deliver care and services for patients and to the most vulnerable in our communities across Wales. \"Their bravery on the frontline of this pandemic is something the whole nation is thankful and proud of.\" Plaid Cymru AM Rhun ap Iorwerth said it was an \"overdue yet welcome announcement\".He added: \"The priority must be ensuring our front line workers are kept safe in the workplace by having access to enough of the correct protective equipment they need.\"", "Trade figures have issued new social distancing guidelines for shops to prepare for any easing of the lockdown.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium and Usdaw's advice includes providing hand sanitiser for customers.\n\nHelen Dickinson, the BRC's boss, said: \"The safety and wellbeing of retail colleagues and customers remains the highest priority.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday that \"careful steps\" will be needed when easing the lockdown.\n\nThe industry body and the union issued the advice to non-food retailers, closely based on what is already happening in many food stores. Some suggestions include:\n\nShops that were deemed \"non-essential\" have been shut since the government set out strict new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus on 23 March.\n\nThose allowed to trade under lockdown include supermarkets, pharmacies, newsagents and post offices.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said that \"Non-food retail should only start trading again when expert public health advice agrees.\n\n\"However, we need to be ready and we need to make sure that the proper preparations and measures are put in place.\"\n\nCompanies that had temporarily shut stores are starting to reopen amid lockdown measures, after introducing new social distancing controls.\n\nDIY chain Homebase reopened 20 of its UK stores for a trial period on Saturday, following the lead of its competitor B&Q.\n\nHardware shops were included on the government's list of essential retailers that were allowed to trade under the restrictions and Homebase customers could continue to shop online.\n\nThe boss of UK shoe repair firm Timpson, James Timpson, said on social media that it will reopen 40 of its outlets based in supermarkets, which are classified as essential retailers, next week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Timpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeyond the retail sector, low cost airline Wizz Air has also announced plans to restart some flights from Luton Airport from 1 May, although the Foreign Office is still advising against all but essential journeys.\n\nThe company is introducing what it calls \"enhanced\" health and safety measures. Cabin crew will wear masks and gloves, while passengers will be given sanitising wipes.\n\nWizz Air managing director Owain Jones said that the flights will provide an \"essential service\"\n\nThe airline also said it would introduce distancing measures, but did not give any further details.\n\nSeveral housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey and Vistry have also announced they will return to work in May.\n\nTaylor Wimpey plans to restart work on most of its building sites across England and Wales next month. Its staff will follow new safety guidelines, while subcontractor work will resume afterwards.\n\nVistry - formerly Bovis Homes - announced construction would resume on most of its \"partnership sites\", which are typically affordable housing projects, from Monday.\n\nThe firm added that a \"significant\" number of private housing construction sites would also reopen.", "Plentiful chips at street stalls would be a sign of normality for Belgians\n\nBelgians are well known for loving chips (frites), often with a big dollop of mayonnaise, but hard-up farmers now want them to eat chips twice a week.\n\nRomain Cools of the potato growers' union Belgapom presented it as a matter of survival, as a major export sector fears ruin in the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAbout 750,000 tonnes of potatoes are piled up in Belgian warehouses, as the lockdown has sent orders plummeting.\n\n\"Let's all eat chips twice a week, instead of just once,\" Mr Cools urged.\n\nSince mid-March, restaurants in Belgium and many other markets for potato growers have closed. The cancellation of Belgium's many spring and summer festivals has added to their woes.\n\nMoreover, the international trade in potatoes has been hit. Belgium is one of the world's top exporters of potato products, including frozen chips. It sends more than 1.5m tonnes annually to more than 100 countries.\n\nOne small bright spot in this story is that Belgapom will now deliver 25 tonnes of potatoes a week to food banks in Flanders - produce that will otherwise simply rot, Belgian media report.\n\n\"In this way, part of the potato stock will still be used and we can avoid seeing excellent food, for which our farmers have worked so hard, being lost,\" Flemish Agriculture Minister Hilde Crevits told the Brussels Times.\n\nThe potato crisis has also hit Hauts-de-France, the neighbouring French region that includes Calais. There, almost 500,000 tonnes of potatoes are still waiting for customers, and will most likely be lost.\n\nA Belgian grower quoted by broadcaster RTBF, John Van Merhaeghe, doubted that he would get any decent offers from potato processing plants for his surplus.\n\n\"At best, if they buy any extra it'll be for €15 (£13; $16) a tonne - 10 times less than the price marked in the contracts. Fifteen euros is the rate they give for turning potatoes into animal feed!\"\n\nAnother grower, who declined to be named, called on Belgium's federal government to provide aid, saying the Netherlands was providing €50 per tonne for Dutch growers, \"and so far we have nothing like that\".\n\nMeanwhile, RTBF reports that some surplus stocks might end up as biofuel to generate electricity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fern used to live independently with the help of a care package\n\nFern Adams is one of thousands of Scots who have lost their home-care support during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe 26-year-old used to have a team of carers who came into help her four times a day but since lockdown she has had to move back in with her mum, a two-hour drive away.\n\nFern says she has lost her independence and she now spends 23 hours a day in bed. She is worried about her future once the pandemic subsides.\n\nA BBC Disclosure investigation found that many of Scotland's health and social care partnerships have made large reductions in the number of clients who have home care packages, as they concentrate resources on those who they say are in most \"critical need\".\n\nFern has a number of complex medical conditions that affect her autonomic nervous system. These cause her a lot of pain and fatigue, and affect her ability to stand or even sit up.\n\nFern used to live on her own with the help of a care package\n\nShe can't stand long enough to make meals or a hot drink, but her carers used to help her with that - getting her washed and dressed, preparing her meals, even opening and closing the curtains.\n\nBefore lockdown she lived in her flat in Clydebank. She had an electric wheelchair to get around and carers who would come in to help as part of a 36-hour-a-week package of home-care support.\n\nFern says that a week before lockdown her care provider sent a text to her mum, Jenni Foote, to ask if she could take over and when she could start.\n\nHer mum lives near Oban, almost 90 miles away, and her house isn't suitable for Fern's wheelchair or other needs.\n\nFern could not bring her electric wheelchair to her mother's house\n\n\"Nobody's actually been in direct contact with me at all about it yet, other than through my mum,\" says Fern. \"That's four weeks in now. It was all very quick and sudden. So much so I completely got my packing priorities wrong, and have turned up with loads of books and no clothes.\"\n\nThey couldn't arrange for Fern's electric wheelchair to move with her, so she is back to trying to use a manual one, which is very tiring for her.\n\nIn her new remote location Fern has found it difficult to get the specific drugs she needs and without her specialised mattress has developed pressure ulcers.\n\nShe says the change has made her feel vulnerable.\n\n\"I think what's frustrating with this, is the system, and the fact that it can just collapse,\" she says.\n\n\"Other people can control what my life looks like, so if care stops, that will affect how my life looks. If I have a fantastic care package and really good carers, I could have a really quite a good life. But I'm not in control of how that happens, or if that happens.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I don't really feel I'm living at all. It's kind of just getting through the basics of being alive from day-to-day, and that's it.\"\n\nA BBC Disclosure investigation has found many thousands of people across Scotland have lost their home-care support during the coronavirus crisis. Many others have had the level of their support dramatically reduced.\n\nHome care support for elderly, disabled and other vulnerable people across Scotland is managed by 31 Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCP), which are run jointly by local authorities and health boards.\n\nDisclosure contacted all the HSCPs to ask about the number of home care packages they had in January and how many in April.\n\nThe picture across the country is stark. Of the 23 who responded, the largest reductions in clients and home-care visits are in Glasgow (34% - 1,884 clients) and Inverclyde (27% - 4,589 visits).\n\nWest Dunbartonshire HSCP, which managed Fern's care, has reduced the number of people receiving home-care by 284, almost 20% of its usual numbers.\n\nIt told the BBC: \"Any temporary changes in care as a result of this challenging and unprecedented situation are optional and are only made after consultation with, and agreement from, residents and their families, and only where the alternative was considered to be in the resident's best interests.\"\n\nGlasgow, the largest health and social care provider in the country, has sent letters to 1,600 clients saying it could no longer support them as it was concentrating resources on \"critical care\" for the most vulnerable service users.\n\nA third of the elderly and disabled people in the city who were receiving home-care visits no longer are.\n\nGlasgow HSCP says it is running at a reduced capacity of almost 40% in its care staff due to illness and others being in self-isolation.\n\nIt said that the families of those whose care has been suspended were contacted to ensure they were supported in other ways.\n\nOther HSCPs said they had reduced their services to meet critical need only and because more families were able to assist with the care of their relatives.\n\nTressa Burke, from the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the virus has made disabled people's lives significantly harder\n\nThe Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) is concerned for its members. Chief Executive Tressa Burke says the virus has made disabled people's lives significantly harder.\n\n\"The impact of the virus, of Covid-19, on the lives of disabled people is absolutely devastating and what it has done has supercharge the already existing inequality that disabled people are experiencing in their lives across a range of areas,\" she says.\n\nShe said that asking families to step in was not a proper solution for many people receiving care and that help with personal care, meals and medication was in some cases \"a tall order\".\n\nMs Burke said: \"Social care is usually something that people have training and experience in. Some people's families and neighbours may themselves be socially isolating, they may be people who should be shielding, they may be people who are themselves vulnerable to the worst impacts of the virus.\"\n\nA survey of thousands of its members in Glasgow found the virus was having an impact on the levels of social isolation that disabled people feel as well as negative impacts on their mental and physical well-being.\n\nDisclosure: Pandemic Frontline is on BBC One Scotland at 20:30 BST on Monday 27 April and on the iPlayer.\n\nFigures supplied by Health and Social Care Partnerships. Numbers can fluctuate from month to month because of changes in circumstances and personal choices.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 99-year-old war veteran who has raised £29m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden has been honoured with a special postmark.\n\nRoyal Mail will stamp all letters with the message to celebrate Captain Tom Moore's 100th birthday on Thursday.\n\nAll stamped post up until Friday will be marked with: \"Happy 100th Birthday Captain Thomas Moore NHS fundraising hero 30th April 2020.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said it was \"honoured\" to issue the postmark.\n\nWorld War Two veteran Capt Tom, from Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, has extended his challenge to 200 laps after he completed the first 100 laps 14 days ahead of schedule.\n\nHis initial £1,000 fundraising target was broken in about 24 hours and he has now raised more than £29m for the NHS.\n\nAll mail sent until Friday will be stamped with the commemorative postmark\n\nDavid Gold, director of public affairs and policy at Royal Mail, said: \"What Captain Thomas Moore has achieved is truly phenomenal, and this is reflected in the affection shown for him across the world.\n\n\"As Royal Mail works to keep the country connected during these challenging times, we are honoured to issue a special postmark in celebration of his 100th birthday.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said it had to adapt its sorting machines in the South Midlands Mail Centre to re-route all post to Capt Tom into a dedicated collection box.\n\nA spokesman said staff had already processed more than 100,000 cards using this new process and were expecting thousands more in the run-up to his birthday.\n\nVolunteers have also been brought in to open and display the thousands of cards, which are being put on show at Bedford School where Capt Tom's grandson attends.\n\nCapt Tom Moore and Michael Ball's cover of You'll Never Walk Alone sold 82,000 copies\n\nOn Friday it was revealed Capt Tom would be the first ever centenarian to top the charts, after his duet with Michael Ball went straight to number one.\n\nTheir cover of You'll Never Walk Alone sold 82,000 copies, with proceeds going to the NHS Charities Together fund.\n\nCapt Tom also opened a new Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate on Tuesday.\n\nHe received a standing ovation from NHS staff and military personnel during the virtual ceremony.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Italy’s coronavirus death toll is the second highest in the world, and its lockdown is the strictest and longest in Europe.\n\nDoctors say both things are creating a mental health emergency.\n\nThe BBC has been given access to a psychological support centre run by the Red Cross, where staff say they’re overwhelmed by calls from people struggling.\n\nPsychologists are warning that Italy is not equipped to deal with the crisis, and that the rest of Europe must prepare.\n\nIf you've been affected by a mental health issue, help and support is available. Visit Befrienders International for more information about support services in your country, or visit BBC Action Line\n\nFilm by the BBC’s Europe Correspondent Jean Mackenzie, produced by Sara Monetta, filmed and edited by Andy Smythe.", "The report was commissioned by GCHQ and had access to much of the intelligence community\n\nUK spies will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter a range of threats, an intelligence report says.\n\nAdversaries are likely to use the technology for attacks in cyberspace and on the political system, and AI will be needed to detect and stop them.\n\nBut AI is unlikely to predict who might be about to be involved in serious crimes, such as terrorism - and will not replace human judgement, it says.\n\nThe report is based on unprecedented access to British intelligence.\n\nThe Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think tank also argues that the use of AI could give rise to new privacy and human-rights considerations, which will require new guidance.\n\nThe UK's adversaries \"will undoubtedly seek to use AI to attack the UK\", Rusi says in the report - and this may include not just states, but also criminals.\n\nThe future threats could include using AI to develop deep fakes - where a computer can learn to generate convincing faked video of a real person - in order to manipulate public opinion and elections.\n\nIt might also be used to mutate malware for cyber-attacks, making it harder for normal systems to detect - or even to repurpose and control drones to carry out attacks.\n\nIn these cases, AI will be needed to counter AI, the report argues.\n\n\"Adoption of AI is not just important to help intelligence agencies manage the technical challenge of information overload. It is highly likely that malicious actors will use AI to attack the UK in numerous ways, and the intelligence community will need to develop new AI-based defence measures,\" argues Alexander Babuta, one of the authors.\n\nThe independent report was commissioned by the UK's GCHQ security service, and had access to much of the country's intelligence community.\n\nAll three of the UK's intelligence agencies have made the use of technology and data a priority for the future - and the new head of MI5, Ken McCallum, who takes over this week, has said one of his priorities will be to make greater use of technology, including machine learning.\n\nHowever, the authors believe that AI will be of only \"limited value\" in \"predictive intelligence\" in fields such as counter-terrorism.\n\nThe 2002 Tom Cruise film predicts a world in which crime can be predicted\n\nThe often-cited fictional reference is the film Minority Report where technology is used to predict those on the path to commit a crime before they have carried it out.\n\nBut the report argues this is less likely to be viable in real-life national security situations.\n\nActs such as terrorism are too infrequent to provide sufficiently large historical datasets to look for patterns - they happen far less often than other criminal acts, such as burglary.\n\nEven within that data set, the background and ideologies of the perpetrators vary so much that it is hard to build a model of a terrorist profile. There are too many variables to make prediction straightforward, with new events potentially being radically different from previous ones, the report argues.\n\nAny kind of profiling could also be discriminatory and lead to new human-rights concerns.\n\nIn practice, in fields like counter-terrorism, the report argues that \"augmented\" - rather than artificial - intelligence will be the norm - where technology helps human analysts sift through and prioritise increasingly large amounts of data, allowing humans to make their own judgements.\n\nIt will be essential to ensure human operators remain accountable for decisions and that AI does not act as a \"black box\", from which people do not understand the basis on which decisions are made, the report says.\n\nThe authors are also wary of some of the hype around AI, and of talk that it will soon be transformative.\n\nInstead, they believe we will see the incremental augmentation of existing processes rather than the arrival of novel futuristic capabilities.\n\nThey believe the UK is in a strong position globally to take a lead, with a concentration of capability in GCHQ - and more widely in the private sector, and in bodies like the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.\n\nThis has the potential to allow the UK to position itself at the leading edge of AI use but within a clear framework of ethics, they say.\n\nThe deployment of AI by intelligence agencies may require new guidance to ensure safeguards are in place and that any intrusion into privacy is necessary and proportionate, the report says.\n\nOne of the thorny legal and ethical questions for spy agencies, especially since the Edward Snowden revelations, is how justifiable it is to collect large amounts of data from ordinary people in order to sift it and analyse it to look for those who might be involved in terrorism or other criminal activity.\n\nAnd there's the related question of how far privacy is violated when data is collected and analysed by a machine versus when a human sees it.\n\nPrivacy advocates fear that artificial intelligence will require collecting and analysing far larger amounts of data from ordinary people, in order to understand and search for patterns, that create a new level of intrusion. The authors of the report believe new rules will be needed.\n\nBut overall, they say it will be important not to become over-occupied with the potential downsides of the use of technology.\n\n\"There is a risk of stifling innovation if we become overly-focused on hypothetical worst-case outcomes and speculations over some dystopian future AI-driven surveillance network,\" argues Mr Babuta.\n\n\"Legitimate ethical concerns will be overshadowed unless we focus on likely and realistic uses of AI in the short-to-medium term.\"", "Malham Cove is a popular beauty spot in the Yorkshire Dales National Park\n\nPeople are \"blatantly ignoring\" lockdown rules by visiting beauty spots and no longer staying at home, police have said.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police issued 61 fines over the weekend to people travelling to the area from West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and Kent.\n\nDay-trippers to the Yorkshire Dales accounted for the majority of fines.\n\nThe force said people should not be trying to find \"loopholes\" to justify having a day out.\n\nSeventeen fines were issued in Malham, with 13 written in an hour, police said.\n\nOne officer posted on Facebook about her experience at Malham Cove over the weekend.\n\n\"Politely engaging with folk to go back to where they came from (Kent, Barnsley, Bradford, Dewsbury, Accrington) their sense of entitlement kicked in, and I endured more abuse than I ever have dealing with drunken idiots outside nightclubs,\" she wrote.\n\nShe said one group had spat on the ground in front of her, another man had hurled abuse at her in front of his children, and she had to break-up one group who decided to have a barbecue on parched ground at the top of Malham Cove.\n\nThe national park has closed its car parks in a bid to persuade day-trippers not to come\n\nChris Wildman, chair of Kirkby Malham Parish Council, said the good weather had brought more visitors to the area and it was quite disturbing for residents.\n\n\"It's our home and so people are genuinely frightened if they start seeing an increase in visitors.\n\n\"Everybody here is trying really hard to social distance and are staying away from towns and cities.\"\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said 31 fines were issued on Saturday and 30 on Sunday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mike Walker said up to now the majority of residents and visitors had acted responsibly and abided by the rules.\n\n\"However, we are definitely starting to see a turning of the tide in some areas, with some blatantly ignoring the reason why we have been in a lockdown situation for the past five weeks and making a decision to no longer stay home and save lives,\" he said.\n\n\"As I have previously mentioned, this is not about finding loopholes in the guidance to justify having a day out.\n\n\"This is about keeping your elderly, vulnerable grandmother safe, your asthmatic child safe or your diabetic father safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Formula 1 boss Chase Carey says he plans to start the season in Austria in July, after France became the latest country to postpone its race.\n\nFrench Grand Prix organisers said on Monday the race at Paul Ricard on 28 June was off because of the country's ban on major events until mid-July.\n\nBut Carey said he was \"increasingly confident with the progress of plans to begin the season this summer\".\n\nHe said the first race was expected to take place in Austria on 3-5 July.\n• None How F1 plans to put the show back on the road\n\nCarey added: \"September, October and November, would see us race in Eurasia, Asia and the Americas, finishing the season in the Gulf in December, with Bahrain before the traditional finale in Abu Dhabi, having completed between 15 and 18 races. We will publish our finalised calendar as soon as we possibly can.\n\n\"We expect the early races to be without fans but hope fans will be part of our events as we move further into the schedule.\n\n\"We still have to work out many issues, like the procedures for the teams and our other partners to enter and operate in each country.\n\n\"The health and safety of all involved will continue to be priority one and we will only go forward if we are confident we have reliable procedures to address both risks and possible issues.\"\n\nWhy is France off? And what about Silverstone?\n\nThe cancellation of the French event had been considered inevitable since President Emmanuel Macron expanded the country's ban on mass gatherings until mid-July earlier this month.\n\nMeanwhile, Silverstone has said the British Grand Prix cannot be held with spectators but the track is in talks with government \"on the viability of an event behind closed doors\".\n\nUnder current plans, the old British Grand Prix date of 19 July would be the first of two races at Silverstone, with the second a week later on 26 July.\n\nThe season would start with two races in Austria, the original date of 5 July followed by a second race at the Red Bull Ring on 12 July.\n\nFrench Grand Prix managing director Eric Boullier said in a statement that eyes \"were turning towards the summer of 2021\".\n\nBut a race at the event's home, the Paul Ricard track in the south of France, could yet be revived at a later point this summer - the statement calling off the race said only that organisers \"take note of the impossibility to maintain the Formula 1 Grand Prix de France on 28 June\".\n\nAustria is one of the first European countries to have begun to gradually ease its lockdown, and F1 bosses have been in talks with authorities in the country as to how a race might safely be held.\n\nThe first four races at least would be behind closed doors - and it could be that many more will follow.\n\nProfessor Devi Sridhar, professor and chair of global public health at Edinburgh University and director of the global health governance programme, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Hate to be bearer of bad news don't see any international sporting events with spectators going ahead in 2020 or early 2021.\n\n\"Goal is to establish some sort of economic/social activity while keeping Covid cases low and big events could upset this fragile balance going forward.\"\n\nSilverstone said in a statement on Monday: \"We are unable to stage this year's British Grand Prix in front of the fans at Silverstone.\n\n\"We have left this difficult decision for as long as possible, but it is abundantly clear given the current conditions in the country and the Government requirements in place now and for the foreseeable future, that a Grand Prix under normal conditions is just not going to be possible.\n\n\"We have consistently said that should we find ourselves in this position we will support Formula 1 as they seek to find alternative ways to enable F1 racing to take place this year.\n\n\"Following this weekend's news from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, we are now working with them on the viability of an event behind closed doors.\"\n\nF1 bosses have taken a series of measures to try to insulate the sport from the worst effects of the global health emergency.\n\nThese include postponing a major rule change by a year from 2021 to 2022 and forcing teams to race the same cars next year as this.\n\nBosses are also in the midst of talks on lowering the sport's planned budget cap when it comes into force in 2021.", "Police were called to a property in Aldborough Road North\n\nA one-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy have been stabbed to death in east London.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man and two children injured in Aldborough Road North in Ilford at about 17:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe girl died at the scene while the boy died in hospital, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA 40-year-old man was taken to hospital in a critical condition, where he remains.\n\nPolice said all three were known to each other.\n\nDetectives have launched a murder investigation, although the Met said it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThomas Dodds, 78, who lives about 20 yards from the scene, described hearing a woman scream before police cars and ambulances arrived.\n\nHe said: \"It sickens me, a young baby and a three-year-old. Someone who did that doesn't have a heart, to put a knife into a baby.\"\n\nA nurse who lives on the road, who asked not to be named, said she \"knew something nasty and serious\" had happened when an air ambulance arrived.\n\n\"I knew something terrible had happened but when it came out that two children had died, I was shaken.\"\n\nThe three-year-old boy died in hospital from stab injuries, police said\n\nJas Athwal, leader of Redbridge Council, tweeted: to say his thoughts were with the family and wider community \"who are grieving this unspeakable tragedy\".\n\nThere have been 21 fatal stabbings in London so far this year - six of them in the borough of Redbridge.\n\nOn 20 January three men - aged 29, 30 and 37 - were stabbed to death on Elmstead Road in Seven Kings and 24-year-old Ricardo Fuller was also fatally stabbed outside a nightclub near Ilford High Road on 7 March.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wings for all the Airbus commercial planes are made in Wales\n\nAerospace giant Airbus is to furlough 3,200 staff at its north Wales site, the company has announced.\n\nIt comes hours after Chief Executive Guillaume Faury warned the company was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\".\n\nAirbus said about half of the staff at its Broughton site would be placed on the UK government's job retention scheme, which pays 80% of wages.\n\nThe company is expected to top up salaries by a further 5-10%.\n\nThe furlough periods of production and support staff will be staggered over the next three weeks.\n\nThe remaining staff will stay on site, including 500 who are currently working at the AMRC Cymru facility, building parts for ventilators as part of the Ventilator Challenge UK consortium.\n\nThis month the firm announced it was cutting aircraft production by a third.\n\nIt comes as the aviation industry is expected to shrink significantly in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nMr Faury also told Airbus' 135,000 staff to brace for potentially deep job cuts and warned that its survival was at stake without immediate action.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working with the company and to support its highly-skilled workers, while the UK government said its furlough scheme would help firms \"to bounce back and get the economy up and running once the coronavirus emergency is over\".\n\nAirbus is this week due to deliver financial results for the first quarter of the year. Those figures will be overshadowed by the pandemic that has left global airlines struggling to survive and almost completely halted plane deliveries since lockdowns started in March.\n\nGreg Waldron, from the aviation industry news website Flight Global, highlighted the huge impact of coronavirus on Airbus and the sector as a whole, saying: \"Every assumption we had about the industry has been totally upended.\n\n\"The outlook for Airbus has gone from very positive to very negative. There's simply no demand for new aircraft at the moment.\"\n\nIn response to the pandemic Airbus had already begun implementing government-assisted furlough schemes starting with 3,000 workers in France and said it would lower output of its narrow-body jets to 40 a month.\n\nAirbus has around 13,500 workers in the UK, with most of them making wings at its two major sites in Broughton, in Flintshire, and Filton, Bristol.\n\nDespite the major blow the coronavirus has dealt to Airbus, Mr Waldron thinks it will survive this crisis but not without significant layoffs.\n\n\"Airbus is a crucially important industrial programme for Europe, I think Europe will be committed to keeping Airbus going,\" he said.\n\n\"However, there's going to be a great deal of pain to go through. If they cut production rates quite significantly you're going to see large numbers of layoffs. I would expect in a few years you'll see a smaller leaner Airbus than what we have now.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Airbus' main rival Boeing is battling another major crisis due to the year-long grounding of its 737 Max passenger jet, which had been its best-selling plane.\n\nOn Saturday, the US aviation giant scrapped a $4.2bn (£3.4bn) tie-up with Brazil's Embraer. Some industry analysts saw the move as being triggered by the crises, although the company cited contractual reasons for the decision.", "US President Donald Trump's plans to deliver a graduation speech at the West Point military academy in New York are being questioned.\n\nMr Trump is due to speak on 13 June at the academy, located about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City.\n\nNew York state is the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe academy has said \"the size and scope of the graduation ceremony will be determined by safety considerations\" for all attendees.\n\nCadets have been attending classes virtually since they left campus for spring break on 6 March.\n\nThe president announced on 17 April he would be giving the West Point commencement address this year.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, that came as a surprise to West Point event organisers, who had yet to finalise graduation ceremony plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn a weekend editorial, the New York Daily News cautioned \"there's no reason to believe that New York State, nor the academy itself, is prepared to host a graduation ceremony amidst a pandemic\".\n\nIn a statement, the academy said approximately 1,000 cadets would have to return to campus to pack their dorm rooms, graduate and \"eventually move to Army Officer Basic Training\".\n\nCadets would be coming back to campus starting in late May and would be subject to a \"detailed Covid screening, testing, quarantine, and integration plan\", it added.\n\nThe statement noted that this \"graduation ceremony will look different from recent graduation ceremonies because of current social health force protection measures\" and this would be likely to limit family participation.\n\nRecently, the US Naval Academy in Maryland called off its own commencement and instead held a virtual graduation.\n\nHowever, the Air Force Academy in Colorado allowed seniors to graduate last week, but required them to maintain strict social distancing. Vice-President Mike Pence spoke at that event.\n\nThe president has previously spoken at Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force academy graduations.\n\nAs of Sunday morning, there are 941,628 confirmed cases of the virus in the US and there have been 54,024 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Masks are on sale at markets such as here in Berlin\n\nGermans have started wearing facemasks outside the home as new rules come into force to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe use of cloth masks is now mandatory on public transport and, in most regions, within shops.\n\nThe rules vary among the 16 German states - Bavaria being the strictest, while in Berlin shoppers do not have to wear masks.\n\nBut the authorities are moving very cautiously in easing the lockdown.\n\nAcross the world countries are coming up with their own guidance on mask-wearing. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) advice suggests people should wear protective masks only if they are sick and showing symptoms, or if they are caring for people suspected to have Covid-19.\n\nIt says masks are not recommended for the general public because they can be contaminated by coughs and sneezes, and might offer a false sense of security.\n\nGerman media report that mask-wearing is now required in school corridors and when children go on breaks, but not in the classroom. Students sit in class spaced apart and there is more frequent cleaning with disinfectant.\n\nStudents preparing for their school leaving exams are also back in class. Most German schoolchildren are still at home under lockdown.\n\nThe German authorities require mask-wearing at stations and on buses and trains, but not yet on long-distance trains.\n\nHome-made cloth masks are acceptable; people are not expected to wear hospital-style intensive care masks. These are now on sale in station vending machines and at markets.\n\nMonday also saw some further easing of the lockdowns in the Czech Republic and Switzerland, while Italy has set out a detailed plan for easing its lockdown which remains one of the strictest in Europe.\n\nFace-masks have become the new toilet paper, quipped one German newspaper commentator, as people across Germany scramble to buy nose-and-mouth coverings.\n\nTo plug the gap, signs are popping up in shop windows advertising self-made, brightly coloured cloth masks, typically costing around 10 euros.\n\nIn the hipper parts of town, patterned face-masks are a style accessory. Faces may be covered but Berliners are still keen to show their individuality.\n\n\"If I talk to the shop assistant — and if I have the virus without knowing — then it means that I don't pass it on to her,\" said Florian, a graphic designer, who was wearing a simple cloth mask while coming out of a shop. \"It's about being aware and protecting other people.\"\n\nBut Christine, a special needs teacher, who wasn't wearing a mask and uses a scarf around her mouth and nose in shops, worried that mask-wearing is more about virtue-signalling than safety. \"The situation is really confused,\" she said. \"Some people wear masks, some people don't. It makes the whole thing absurd. I think it's a bit of a placebo.\"\n\nEither way the new rules are having a visible impact. Until recently face-masks were a rarity in Germany, and would attract stares. Now they are suddenly a normal part of daily life.\n\nGermany has reported 5,750 deaths from Covid-19 - a much lower toll than in Italy, Spain, France or the UK.\n\nIts large-scale testing and strict, early lockdown are believed to have kept the rate of infection down.\n\nA Berlin classroom on Monday: The teacher wears a mask but pupils do not\n\nLast week the eastern state of Saxony became the first to make mask-wearing compulsory. It is also compulsory in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, for shoppers and public transport users.\n\nAnd in the Nigerian capital, Lagos, face masks must be worn in public from Monday. The state's governor said it was firmly in the community transmission phase of the pandemic and there was a need for more precautions.\n\nIn the United States people are advised to wear \"cloth face coverings\" in supermarkets and pharmacies, while in Canada, air passengers must wear a non-medical mask or a face covering.\n\nBut internationally expert opinion is divided on the effectiveness of home-made masks in curbing Covid-19. Many argue that masks help prevent the wearer spreading infection, but frequent hand-washing and social distancing are deemed essential too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn most German states children under six years old do not have to wear masks. And Schleswig-Holstein will not require mask-wearing until Wednesday.\n\nThe new rules have created huge demand for masks, so faced with a growing shortage the government is planning to manufacture millions of them in Germany.\n\nIn Bavaria, people still going mask-free can be fined €150 (£131; $163), but the fine for any shopkeeper who breaks the rules can be €5,000, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel has accepted that regional variations in the lockdown rules are acceptable because some places are virus hotspots, and others not.\n\nSpain - the European country with the highest number of deaths after Italy - reported its lowest daily death toll in more than five weeks on Sunday, with 288 new fatalities. On Sunday, children could go outside for the first time in six weeks.\n\nIn Switzerland, garden centres and hairdressers are opening their doors, followed by schools and shops selling items other than food in two weeks' time.\n\nBut gatherings of more than five people remain banned until 8 June, and it is unclear when bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen.\n\nThe Czech capital Prague has deployed ticket inspectors on public transport for the first time since its lockdown was imposed in mid-March. Bus and train services were increased over the weekend. And on Monday, the country opened its borders to business visitors and students, but not tourists.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has returned to work, after recovering from the virus. Mr Johnson spent a week in hospital, including three nights in intensive care, after being admitted on 5 April.", "Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019, compared to 149 in 2018, according to Amnesty\n\nSaudi Arabia will no longer impose the death penalty on people who committed crimes while still minors, the country's Human Rights Commission says.\n\nThe announcement, citing a royal decree by King Salman, comes two days after the country said it would ban flogging.\n\nThe UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - which Riyadh has signed - says capital punishment should not be used for offences carried out by minors.\n\nActivists say Saudi Arabia has one of the world's worst human rights records.\n\nThey say freedom of expression is severely curtailed and critics of the government are subject to what they say is arbitrary arrest.\n\nA record 184 people were executed in the kingdom in 2019, according to human rights group Amnesty International. At least one case involved a man convicted of a crime committed when he was a minor, the rights group reported.\n\nIn a statement published on Sunday, Awwad Alawwad, president of the state-backed commission, said a royal decree had replaced executions in cases where crimes were committed by minors with a maximum penalty of 10 years in a juvenile detention centre.\n\n\"The decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code,\" Mr Alawwad said.\n\nIt was unclear when the decision - which was not immediately carried on state media - would come into effect.\n\nThe kingdom's human rights record has remained under intense scrutiny, despite recent changes, following the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, while many civil rights and women's rights activists remain in prison.\n\nEarlier this week, the most prominent Saudi human rights campaigner died in jail after a stroke which fellow activists say was due to medical neglect by the authorities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I would want to make sure that Scotland did what I judged was best to protect the population.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Scotland could have a different exit from the Covid-19 lockdown if she felt the UK government had taken \"premature\" decisions.\n\nThe first minster told the BBC she would do what she judged best to protect Scotland's population.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon added she would not take a different path \"for the sake of it\".\n\n\"It's not political in any way, shape or form,\" she told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nA total of 1,249 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Scotland, according to the latest Scottish government data.\n\nStatistics published on Sunday showed that another 18 people had died with virus, though the actual number of deaths is much higher.\n\nThe UK's total hospital death toll of those infected with Covid-19 passed 20,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe first minister said lifting lockdown measures that have been in place since 23 March and renewed for a further three weeks on 16 April would not be the \"flick of a switch\".\n\n\"As we do start to ease them, there will be a real need for caution and a slow, gradual process,\" she said.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if she would like to close the border between England and Scotland so she could pursue a different strategy, Ms Sturgeon said she had no power to do that.\n\n\"I don't have the power to close borders but these are discussions of course we want to continue to have with the UK government,\" she said.\n\n\"On this question of will Scotland do things differently - not for the sake of it we won't. Only if the evidence and our judgement tells us that that is necessary.\n\n\"If the UK government took decisions that I thought were premature in terms of coming out of the lockdown, than clearly I would want to make sure that Scotland did what I judged was best to protect the population.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC it was important to have simple and consistent social distancing measures across the UK as the virus \"doesn't respect borders or boundaries\".\n\nShe added: \"I think that's still the starting point but I think we all have to take decisions that we judge to be right.\"\n\nSpeaking later on the same programme, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Andrew Marr there would not be a \"binary easing up of measures\", but careful steps to find a \"new normal\".\n\n\"We need to take a sure-footed way forward that protects life but also ensures our way of life,\" he said.\n\nMr Raab, who has been deputising for Boris Johnson while he recovers from coronavirus, said social distancing measures would be \"with us for some time\".\n\nBut he told the BBC it was possible to see how non-essential businesses could adopt measures taken by essential businesses during the lockdown, like spaced queuing.\n\nHe added that the virus should not be allowed to come back for a \"second spike\" which could result in a second \"protracted lockdown\" and be bad for public health and the economy.", "The prime minister spoke in Downing Street as he returned to work after recovering from the coronavirus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM warned the country was at the 'moment of maximum risk'\n\nThe UK is at the moment of maximum risk in the coronavirus outbreak, Boris Johnson has said, as he urged people not to lose patience with the lockdown.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10 for the first time since recovering from the virus, Mr Johnson said \"we are now beginning to turn the tide\" on the disease.\n\nHe said lockdown would not be relaxed too soon and details on any changes will be set out over the \"coming days\".\n\nBut some paused NHS England services, such as cancer care, are to resume\n\nAnd the families of front-line NHS and social care staff who die with coronavirus will receive a £60,000 compensation payment, the government has announced.\n\nIt comes as the latest daily figures show a further 360 people died with the virus in hospitals, taking the total number of deaths to 21,092.\n\nThis number includes 82 NHS staff and 16 care workers who have died in hospital in England.\n\nThe UK deaths figure do not include people who died in the community, for example in care homes, or people who have died in their own homes.\n\nThe prime minister returned to Downing Street on Sunday after more than three weeks off sick.\n\nMr Johnson said he understood concerns from business owners who were impatient to end the lockdown.\n\nBut ending it too soon could lead to a second spike in cases and cause more deaths, \"economic disaster\" and restrictions being reintroduced, he said.\n\nHe said there were \"real signs now that we are passing through the peak\" - including with fewer hospital admissions and fewer Covid-19 patients in intensive care.\n\nAnd comparing the outbreak to someone being attacked, Mr Johnson said: \"If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger - which I can tell you from personal experience, it is - then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor... the moment when we can press home our advantage\".\n\nMr Johnson said once the UK is meeting the five tests for easing restrictions - including a consistent fall in the death rate and making sure the NHS can cope - \"then that will be the time to move on to the second phase\" in the fight against the outbreak.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said there could be more on how the government will judge the country's ability to \"move forward\" by the end of the week.\n\nAs people are told to stay at home, triathlete Lloyd Bebbington trains in a pool in his garden in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nLabour's environment spokesman Luke Pollard welcomed signs the government would be more transparent about exiting lockdown, saying the party had called for the government to publish its strategy.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish government's daily briefing, it was \"not the time to throw caution to the wind\" and lift lockdown measures - although there had been \"real signs of progress\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing later, the UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said scientists were trying to asses how \"opening up of different bits of society\" would affect the spread of he virus.\n\nHe said there was \"no perfect solution\" and ministers would face \"very difficult choices\" about what measures could be lifted.\n\nThe political could hardly be more personal.\n\nBut the prime minister's return to work and return to health is far from a metaphor for the country making a quick recovery from the crisis.\n\nIn contrast, Boris Johnson's statement at the lectern this morning was a request to the public to be patient, to keep going, to hold firm through the frustrations of living life mainly behind closed doors for a while longer.\n\nDespite some restlessness among the public, increasing volume in his own party, and from the opposition for a clearer route out of this, for the prime minister it's not yet the time to give more detail - and certainly not yet the time to change any of the restrictions.\n\nAnd when that time is reached, when the infection rate is deemed low enough, he was clear, that there will be no sudden nirvana - life in the 'next phase' will be a slow return of a more familiar rhythm, acknowledging, but not being swayed by demands to open up the economy much more swiftly.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced plans at the briefing to restart some NHS services in England, which had been paused to help the health service cope during the outbreak.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"most urgent\" services - such as cancer care and mental health support - would be restored first, starting on Tuesday.\n\n\"The exact pace of the restoration will be determined by local circumstances on the ground, according to local need and according to the amount of coronavirus cases that that hospital is having to deal with,\" he said.\n\nThe health secretary also announced details of a life assurance scheme for NHS and social care workers who die on the front line with Covid 19.\n\nHe said the government wanted to do \"everything we can to support families\" dealing with their grief and was \"looking at other professions\" the scheme could be expanded to include.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hancock: \"We want to do everything we can to support families dealing with this grief\"\n\nMr Hancock has set a target of carrying out 100,000 tests a day for coronavirus across the UK by 30 April.\n\nThe latest Department of Health figures show 37,024 tests were carried out on Sunday - still far short of the target.\n\nMr Hancock said he was still confident of reaching the target, which he said would be \"big enough\" to support the next phase of the government's strategy to \"test, track and trace\".\n\nDowning Street said it could take a \"couple of days or more\" before it was clear if the 100,000 target has been met as there was a \"time lag\" in collating some of the figures, such as on home testing kits.\n\nMr Hancock said the government is still aiming to eventually conduct 250,000 tests a day. This would include antibody tests, but he said these are yet to be \"clinically valid\".\n\nMonday's daily briefing was the first to feature a question from a member of the public.\n\nLynne from Skipton, North Yorkshire, said she missed her grandchildren and wanted to know whether allowing family to hug would be one of the first steps when restrictions are eventually eased.\n\nMr Hancock said the question \"brought home the emotional impact of lockdown\" and that he hoped it would be allowed \"as soon as possible\".\n\nAnyone over the age of 18 can now submit a question for those at the daily briefing which will be chosen by an independent polling organisation.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was certainly bullish about the government's testing strategy at the daily briefing.\n\nThe numbers being tested are going up and there is certainly capacity to process more - three mega labs are now open in Glasgow, Cheshire and Milton Keynes.\n\nBut the problem in the UK though is more to do with giving people easy access to tests.\n\nTo date, the UK has relied on hospitals and drive-thru centres to carry out the swab tests.\n\nBut to make it more convenient home testing kits are now being offered and mobile units staffed by the army are in operation.\n\nThe smooth rollout of these will be essential if numbers are to continue climbing and ministers then succeed in moving to the \"test, track and trace\" strategy once lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nIn terms of testing, this means providing access to tests to the general public - at the moment only hospital patients, care home residents and essential workers are entitled to them.\n\nBut even these restricted groups have been enough to overwhelm the system - the online booking system has had to be closed at points because demand has been too high. There is, it is fair to say, plenty of work still to do.\n\nElsewhere, the Treasury has announced extra loans for small businesses, after they raised concerns about slow access to existing coronavirus rescue schemes.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the Commons the scheme would start next week, offering loans to small firms for 25% of turnover, up to £50,000, within days of applying. The loans would be interest free for the first 12 months, he added.\n\nLoans to larger businesses under the coronavirus business interruption loans scheme will continue to get 80% government-backing.\n\nIn Capel in Surrey, villagers have made scarecrows of key workers\n\nMr Johnson was diagnosed with the virus a month ago. He was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London on 5 April and spent a week there, including three nights in intensive care.\n\nHe has not been doing any official government work during his convalescence at his country residence, Chequers, although last week he did speak to the Queen and US President Donald Trump, as well as meeting senior ministers.\n\nStrict limits on daily life - such as requiring people to stay at home, shutting many businesses and preventing gatherings of more than two people - were introduced on 23 March, as the government tried to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, every three weeks. The next review is due by next Thursday 7 May.", "Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest broadband providers, has gone offline for thousands of users.\n\nIntermittent outages began just after 17:00 BST on Monday, coinciding with the government daily coronavirus press briefing.\n\nThe Downdetector service recorded more than 30,000 reports - some said service resumed quickly but others reported ongoing issues hours later.\n\nVirgin said the problem was fixed as of Tuesday morning.\n\nA Virgin Media spokesman told the BBC on Tuesday the issue \"saw broadband drop for a minute or so every hour or two and then restore\".\n\n\"We identified the problem and it's now fixed as of earlier this morning. This wasn't a constant loss of service, it was intermittent,\" he added. The firm believes the problem was caused \"by a technical fault in our core network\".\n\nSome users had reported brief outages continuing into the early hours, causing problems for services - such as customer service chats and online video games - which require a persistent connection.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hazza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Media's website had estimated problems would not be fixed until Tuesday morning for some UK postcodes.\n\nDowndetector indicates that other UK broadband providers - including Sky, BT, TalkTalk and Vodafone - experienced problems for a brief time shortly after midnight, but it is not known whether this was related to Virgin's problem.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam Siddiqi recalls the murder of her 17-year-old brother Aamir\n\n\"It was a sunny day. I was in this incredibly great mood. Then my mum phoned me and that call changed my whole world.\"\n\nMiriam Siddiqi recalls the horror of 11 April 2010, the day her 17-year-old little brother Aamir was murdered at home in front of their parents.\n\nHis killers were two hit men who went to the wrong address in Roath, Cardiff.\n\nA decade on, police have appealed for information about \"Wales' most-wanted man\" in connection with the murder.\n\nJason Richards and Ben Hope were jailed in 2013.\n\nA third man, Mohammed Ali Ege, 42, from Cardiff, was arrested in India in 2011 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder but escaped custody before he could be extradited.\n\nThe hunt for him continues.\n\nPolice in Wales are still waiting to question Mohammed Ali Ege about Aamir Siddiqi's murder\n\nSouth Wales Police said Mr Ege has become one of \"Europe's most wanted fugitives\" and his face appears on the Europol website as law enforcement agencies from around the world try to return him to the UK.\n\n\"You relive the day it happened and, honestly, it doesn't feel like 10 years ago to us,\" said Miriam, 37.\n\nAamir Siddiqi was studying law and was also interested in politics\n\nIt was a sunny Sunday when she last spoke to Aamir, while she was on her way out to buy him lunch as a reward for his studying.\n\nShe said: \"It was just a really normal Siddiqi family morning. Everyone was happy, laughing and joking.\"\n\nBut the day turned for Miriam when she later got a phone call from her mother who was screaming - Aamir had been attacked. He was gone.\n\n\"It flips you upside down. There's nothing else I can say to describe how that makes you feel,\" Miriam said. \"This wasn't even my worst nightmare. I couldn't even imagine something like this happening.\"\n\nBen Hope and Jason Richards were convicted of murder at Swansea Crown Court\n\nIt later emerged Richards and Hope, who were high on heroin at the time, had gone to the wrong house for the fatal attack.\n\nThey had burst into Aamir's home in balaclavas, screeching and stabbing him in the hallway, with his parents trying in vain to fight them off.\n\nAlongside the grief for Aamir, Miriam said her parents were left with the trauma of the attack, adding: \"I think that's going to take a lifetime for us to try to heal.\"\n\nBut Miriam, who is a life coach, said her family focused on the positives of Aamir's life and constantly talked about the teenager, who had hoped to work in law and eventually politics.\n\nAamir with his mother and father, Parveen and Sheikh Iqbal Ahmed\n\n\"He gave us a lifetime-supply of happy memories,\" Miriam said.\n\n\"Obviously, there is immense sadness - we've lost him and he was the heart and soul of our family - but his memory is still very firmly in our everyday lives.\"\n\nHowever, the search for Mohammed Ali Ege, who escaped from custody at a New Delhi railway station toilet in April 2017, still hurts.\n\n\"Because it is still an open case it is an open wound and it does make it difficult for my parents to find closure,\" Miriam said.\n\n11 April 2010: Aamir Siddiqi is brutally stabbed to death at his house\n\nSeptember 2010: Police offer a reward of up to £10,000 in their search for Mohammed Ali Ege\n\nOctober 2011: Mr Ege is arrested in India on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, the extradition process begins\n\n1 February 2013: Jason Richards and Ben Hope are found guilty of murder\n\n12 February 2013: Both men are sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 40 years\n\nJanuary 2014: The men appeal against their sentences\n\nJune 2014: The Court of Appeal rejects their claim\n\nApril 2017: Police in India say Mr Ege, who is also accused of passport and identity forgery, was awaiting extradition but escaped after being taken to a court hearing\n\nDet Insp Stuart Wales of South Wales Police attended the scene on the day Aamir died and is now the senior investigating officer in the international effort to find Mr Ege.\n\n\"If the events of that day don't drive you forward, you're possibly in the wrong job,\" he said.\n\n\"Being there on the day and experiencing the immediate aftermath has given me a certain insight that maybe others may not have.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mohammed Ali Ege is wanted by police in connection to Aamir Siddiqi's murder\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information, anywhere in the world, to get in contact with the authorities.\n\n\"Allow us to do our job in locating Mr Ege and help Aamir's family to draw a line under this madness,\" he added.\n\nDI Wales remains \"confident\" police would catch Mr Ege, with an international arrest notification and a European arrest warrant still in effect.\n\n\"South Wales Police is not going to stop looking,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of Aamir's family - including his two other sisters, Nishat, 43, and Umbareen, 41 - Miriam appealed directly to the wanted man.\n\n\"You must be tired. You must be exhausted. And if you are feeling an ounce of exhaustion, can you imagine the turmoil my parents are going through?\n\n\"Please stop running so that my parents can get closure,\" she said.", "Christians around the world are experimenting with new ways to spend Easter, as many countries remain under lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMany congregations have been attending remote services online, while their clergy preach to cameras in empty churches.\n\nIn some places, traditions go on in defiance of the restrictions.\n\nIn Burwood, a suburb of the Australian city of Sydney, an Anglican clergyman prepares for Easter services\n\nA Catholic priest bows before a cross at an empty cathedral in Los Angeles in the US\n\nTwo men carry a statue of Jesus Christ after it was used at a church service in the Italian city of Taranto\n\nA woman holds a cloth with an image of Jesus Christ in Brasilia Cathedral, Brazil\n\nThe Catholic archbishop of Brisbane, Australia, delivers a Good Friday service in a deserted St Stephen's cathedral...\n\n... while a couple in Adelaide, South Australia, watches an Anglican service from home\n\nElsewhere, long-held traditions continue. Here onlookers gather as a flagellant in the Philippines capital Manila whips his back as a penance, despite government orders for people to stay at home\n\nMeanwhile a pilgrim finds only locked doors at the Holy Sepulchre church in Jerusalem\n\nA woman looks out from her window in Cambados, north-western Spain, where religious processions have been cancelled\n\nOne German church came up with a way round the restrictions - a service at a drive-in cinema in Düsseldorf\n\nOthers listened to services from the outside of churches, like this one in the Albanian capital Tirana\n\nVirtual and real together - screens at a church in Tyniec, Poland, during a Maundy Thursday service", "Two British health workers stuck in South Africa are appealing for help getting back to the UK so they can join the NHS battle against coronavirus.\n\nCatriona Walker, from Manchester, and Holly Watts, from Nottingham, travelled to the country in mid-January, but are now desperately trying to get home so they can join the front-line effort.\n\nMs Walker, 31, said: \"We're trying to get back as soon as possible. We both feel like we need to start working, we feel bad that we're not there working through the pandemic.\n\n\"Our jobs are a vocation rather than just a job. We feel really helpless being here.\"\n\nThe pair, who were not due to return until 14 April, booked an earlier flight once it became clear South Africa was heading for a lockdown, but that was cancelled.\n\nThey are now on a waiting list for three flights from Johannesburg over the next few days, having spent almost £1,800 each to get home.\n\nA Foreign & Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"We know it's a difficult time for many British travellers abroad... Our consular teams are doing everything they can to keep Brits informed on the latest developments and help them return.\"", "As the death toll from coronavirus continues to climb, hospitals across the UK are working flat out to create more intensive care beds for those who are critically ill. Speaking to the BBC, one intensive care doctor describes the crippling reality of a lack of support and equipment faced by some health-care workers in England.\n\nSeveral healthcare workers in England have told the BBC of a lack of equipment in their hospitals. Warned against speaking to the media, they were unwilling to talk publicly. However, one intensive care doctor from the Midlands wanted to go on record. The BBC agreed to change her name in order to protect her identity.\n\nDr Roberts describes a hospital on the brink. Intensive care is already full of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients. All operations deemed non-urgent, even the cancer clinics, have been cancelled. There is a lack of staff, a lack of critical care beds, a shortage of basic antibiotics and ventilators.\n\nAll this, combined with the looming uncertainty of what will be the expected peak, estimated to hit the UK around 14-15 April, means hospital staff are already feeling the strain.\n\nHowever, nothing Dr Roberts describes is quite as alarming as the fact that these medical professionals, who continue to care for critically ill patients for 13 hours every day, are having to resort to fashioning personal protective equipment (PPE) out of clinical waste bags, plastic aprons and borrowed skiing goggles.\n\nDr Roberts shown in the left picture, tying a bin bag covering the sides and back of her colleague's head\n\nWhile the public attempts to keep to a social distance of two metres, many NHS staff are being asked to examine patients suspected of coronavirus at a distance of 20cm - without the proper protection.\n\nWith potentially fatal implications, Dr Roberts says several departments within her hospital are now so fearful of what's coming next, they have begun to hoard PPE for themselves.\n\n\"It's about being pragmatic. The nurses on ITU (Intensive Treatment Unit) need it now. They are doing procedures which risk aerosol spread of the virus. But they've been told to wear normal theatre hats, which have holes in them and don't provide any protection.\n\n\"It's wrong. And that's why we're having to put bin bags and aprons on our heads.\"\n\nThe government has acknowledged distribution problems, but says a national supply team, supported by the armed forces, is now \"working around the clock\" to deliver equipment.\n\nNHS England also said more than one million respiratory face masks were delivered on 1 April, but with no mention of much-needed head protection and long-sleeved gowns.\n\nDr Roberts says her hospital has not received anything from the government, and what they do have is causing concern.\n\n\"The respiratory protection face masks we're using at the moment, they've all been relabelled with new best-before end dates. Yesterday I found one with three stickers on. The first said, expiry 2009. The second sticker, expiry 2013. And the third sticker on the very top said 2021.\"\n\nPublic Health England has said all stockpiled pieces of PPE [personal protective equipment] labelled with new expiry dates have \"passed stringent tests\" and are \"safe for use by NHS staff\". But Dr Roberts says she is not convinced.\n\nDr Roberts pulls expiry date stickers from the packaging on a face mask\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care also said it was \"working closely with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army… If staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place\".\n\nIt said its new guidance on PPE was in line with World Health Organization advice to \"make sure all clinicians are aware of what they should be wearing\".\n\nCurrently ventilated and under Dr Roberts' care are three of her colleagues, all of whom have tested positive for coronavirus. One is an intensive care doctor working on a Covid ward, who, like Dr Roberts, only had access to inadequate protection.\n\nThe other two were both working on non-Covid wards and therefore were wearing no PPE. However, given their symptoms, Dr Roberts believes both of them contracted the virus while at work.\n\nAlthough colleagues continue to visit, as with all other patients, no relatives are allowed anywhere within the hospital.\n\n\"The hardest thing at the moment is having to tell families you are withdrawing care, over the phone. Telling them their relatives are dying or have died but we can't let you come and see them,\" says Dr Roberts.\n\n\"Normally you can say to their relative who's at the bedside, 'We're going to do everything we can', but I haven't felt able to say that, because at the moment, I can't.\n\n\"I can't necessarily give them the best care on a ventilator, I can't guarantee the best nursing care, because the best nurses are being stretched four ways. We're running out of antibiotics, and I can't guarantee all the treatments that I know would help them.\"\n\nNHS England says it has no record of how many medical professionals have been admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus at work.\n\nHowever, the two hardest-hit countries in Europe are counting. Spain's emergency health minister announced on 27 March that more than 9,400 health-care workers had tested positive, and in Italy, as of 30 March, more than 6,414 medical professionals were reported to have been infected.\n\nIn the UK, several health workers are known to have died from coronavirus, including Areema Nasreen, a staff nurse in the West Midlands, Thomas Harvey, a health-care assistant in east London, Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha in central London, Dr Alfa Saadu in north London, Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester.\n\nBased on projections from Italy and Spain, Dr Roberts says health-care workers are bracing for the peak to hit in less than two weeks.\n\n\"If cases rise as quickly as they did in Spain and Italy, then quite frankly, we are screwed. All of our overspill areas will soon be full.\n\n\"The anaesthetic machines we have, which are designed to work for two to three hours at most, have been running for four to five days straight. We're already getting leaks and failures.\"\n\nAlso short of PPE, an intensive care nurse in Spain wears a bin bag and a protective plastic mask, donated by a local company\n\nExtra intensive care beds, set up in several operating theatres and wards, have nearly doubled the hospital's capacity to support critically ill patients, particularly those who can't breathe for themselves and need to be put on a ventilator.\n\nHowever, by expanding intensive care, Dr Roberts says it's the nursing staff who are disproportionately affected.\n\n\"Intensive care nurses are highly trained and normally deliver care one-to-one to those critically ill. Their patients may be asleep, but they have such a close relationship, they can describe every hair on a patient's head.\n\n\"But now, with these extra beds, nurses are under pressure to look after up to four patients, while delivering the same level of critical care. They are in tears and really struggling. They are the most important part of the system, but that's where it's going to fall down\".\n\nOutside in the hospital car park, Dr Roberts describes how a new temporary building has appeared in the ambulance bay with just one purpose - to vet all patients for symptoms of coronavirus before they are admitted.\n\nIt is run by a clinician, who, Dr Roberts points out, could otherwise be looking after patients. She describes the unit as a \"lie detector\".\n\n\"It's really common for people to lie about their symptoms just to get seen. People who should have stayed at home, but they come to A&E.\n\n\"So now every single patient gets vetted in the car park, to make sure those with Covid symptoms go to the right part of the hospital and don't infect everyone else, like those who've come in with a broken arm.\"\n\nBut for Dr Roberts, it's not just about those turning up at A&E, it's everyone.\n\n\"Most hospital staff, we are isolating ourselves when we are not at work, so as not to put other people at risk.\n\n\"But the most frustrating thing for us is to see the parks full, or Tescos even busier than usual. Please stay at home.\"", "Bettina Biazzo’s sons Rocco and Marco safeguard Easter eggs to be delivered to a hospital in Crawley\n\nPeople across England have been donating chocolate Easter eggs to key workers such as NHS staff to say 'thank you\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFrom local football clubs to multi-million pound companies, many have said they wanted to show support over the Easter holidays.\n\nChris Collins, who donated eggs on behalf of the sports team he coaches, said it was “our little way of saying thank you very much”.\n\nMr Collins, 50, and his wife, Suzy, 40, originally bought 40 eggs to give to the players of the Bootham Futsal Club.\n\nChris and Suzy Collins said they had \"nothing but praise\" for NHS staff after she was treated following a motorcycle crash\n\nAfter the outbreak, with all club fixtures and training suspended, the couple - from York - said it was “only right” to donate the eggs to the nearby York District Hospital.\n\n“We thought, it’s the least we can do for the NHS,” Mr Collins said.\n\n“There’s not a lot of good news around at the moment, people are struggling, but when things go wrong it brings out the good in people,” he added.\n\n“It’s such a minor thing we’re doing, but hopefully it will make staff smile while doing what is a horrible job at the moment.”\n\nBettina Biazzo said she couldn't wait to see the faces of NHS staff when she delivered the eggs\n\nBettina Biazzo, 39, started raising money to get 75 Easter eggs to staff at Crawley Hospital.\n\n“One of my friends works at the hospital and said ‘I’m trying to get eggs for my nurses’, they’re working such long hours, they haven’t got time to queue up at the shops to get Easter eggs.”\n\nBetween her and a colleague, Ms Biazzo said they had raised enough to buy 100 eggs each and planned to deliver them as a surprise.\n\n“I think we all feel helpless in the lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"I’m stuck indoors and wanted to do something. I think people, especially those who are self-isolating and haven’t got friends or family nearby, want to feel like a part of something.”\n\nAdam Everett said delivery of eggs went down well at his local hospital\n\nFootball coaches Adam Everett, 17, and Jake Garner, 18, from Ely, Cambridgeshire, also donated chocolate eggs meant for players in their girls squads.\n\nMr Everett, whose mother is an NHS nurse, said: “They've been doing selfless acts for other people's wellbeing, they should be rewarded for that.\n\n“I know I don’t want to go out and risk myself getting the virus, but they’ve got to.”\n\nSurprising staff with the gift at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Mr Everett said: “They didn’t have a clue, I went in and said ‘I’ve got 27 Easter eggs for you’, they were shocked and really grateful for the act of kindness.\n\n“I think everyone’s starting to realise week to week how severe this virus is, and they’re starting to look at what they can do for others.\n\n\"The issues we have as a country have been put to one side and everyone is having to get along, it feels like a very united country,” he added.\n\nLouisa Hobson said NHS staff acted quickly to save her life during a hospital stay in 2017\n\nLouisa Hobson, who lives near Winchester, said she wanted to do something for NHS staff, but rather than give them something “essential” like personal protective equipment (PPE), she wanted to “put a smile on their faces”.\n\nThe 41-year-old started a crowdfunding page, raising enough to purchase 300 Easter eggs, to be distributed to Winchester Royal County Hospital, Alton Community Hospital and a local GP surgery.\n\n“I thought about staff not being able to see their families over Easter and wanted to do something to let them know we were thinking of them,” she said.\n\n“It’s something nice to do and it’s also achievable for a lot of people, a lot of us don’t know where to get things like PPE, but this is more a morale booster than anything else.”\n\nLarge retailers and manufacturers have also been stepping up to get Easter treats to NHS and other front line workers.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of facebook post by The Countess Charity\n\nA spokeswoman for confectionery company Mars Wrigley said more than one million eggs had been donated to hospitals and councils either directly or through charities.\n\nKerry Cavanaugh, the company’s marketing director said: “This is a small gesture to say thank you to our NHS and carers for their amazing work at this extraordinary time.”\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS East of England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by NHS East of England\n\nRetailer Marks and Spencer has said it will be giving all emergency services, health and social care and NHS workers a free Percy Pig Easter egg.\n\nA spokesman said the company wanted to “do our bit” to support families celebrate Easter during “this difficult time”.\n\nChocolate makers Cadbury said more than 250,000 Easter eggs had been delivered to NHS and care home staff, as well as those at risk of food poverty.\n\nBrand manager Claudia Miceli said: \"We’re pulling out all the stops to support those making such incredible self-sacrifice\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The construction of the hospital took just under two weeks\n\nThe NHS Nightingale Hospital set up inside Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is now operational, it has been confirmed.\n\nInitially built with a 500-bed capacity, it can be increased to 1,500 or more if needed.\n\nIt is designed to take coronavirus patients from 23 Midlands hospitals, if units cannot cope with demand.\n\nTwo further Nightingale Hospitals are also being planned for Sunderland and Exeter.\n\nDespite being ready to take patients if needed, only staff training and cleaning was taking place at the site in the West Midlands on Friday, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust (UHB) confirmed.\n\nDr David Rosser, chief executive of the trust which is leading the hospital, said: \"We would all prefer that these beds - just like the extra beds the NHS has freed up across the region - are needed as little as possible, and so we would continue to urge members of the public to stay at home to help NHS staff save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Conservative mayor Andy Street said putting together the Birmingham facility in under two weeks had been a \"Herculean effort\".\n\n\"However despite the accomplishment, my hope is actually that it is hardly ever used,\" he added.\n\n\"Patients will only be admitted when our existing hospitals start to reach capacity, and currently, they are coping very well with demand and have sufficient critical care space available.\"\n\nA 460-bed Nightingale Hospital is being built in an industrial unit in Washington, Tyne and Wear.\n\nThe site, owned by Sunderland City Council, close to the A19, will be divided into 16 wards.\n\nWhile chief nursing officer Ruth May announced another was to be opened in Exeter.\n\nWork has been carried out to convert an industrial site in Sunderland into a Nightingale Hospital\n\nSharon Hodgson. MP for Washington and Sunderland West, said the dedicated facility would \"help save lives and will take some of the pressure off local hospitals, such as Sunderland Royal, South Tyneside District Hospital, the QE in Gateshead and Newcastle hospitals, and ensure that local people are cared for locally\".\n\nOther temporary hospitals have already been set up in London, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate.", "Paul McCartney holds a young Julian Lennon, with John Lennon in the background\n\nPaul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song Hey Jude have sold at auction for £731,000 ($910,000).\n\nThe anonymous buyer purchased the item for almost six times more than the £128,000 estimate.\n\nSir Paul wrote the 1968 hit to console the young Julian Lennon after the divorce of the boy's parents John and Cynthia.\n\nThe lyrics sheet was among more than 250 items auctioned to mark 50 years since the Liverpool band broke up.\n\nSir Paul often finishes concerts with an audience sing-along to Hey Jude\n\nSir Paul previously said: \"I was quite mates with Julian. I was going out in my car just vaguely singing this song, 'Hey Jules, don't make it bad…'.\n\n\"Then I thought a better name was Jude - a bit more country and western for me.\"\n\nA bass drumhead used in the opening concert of the band's first North American tour fetched £161,000 ($200,000) - four times its estimate.\n\nJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono's \"BAGISM\" drawing, featured in the couple's 1969 Bed In Peace documentary as part of their protest against the Vietnam War, sold for £75,000 ($93,750).\n\nWhile a script page for The Beatles' Hello, Goodbye music video, complete with drawings and ideas from Lennon, George Harrison and the Beatles' roadie Mal Evans, fetched £67,000 ($83,200).", "Police were attending reports of a house party in Edgeland Terrace\n\nThree women have been charged with assault after police were threatened with being spat at and exposure to Covid-19.\n\nPolice were responding to reports of a house party in Edgeland Terrace, Eastbourne, on Wednesday evening.\n\nOne officer also suffered a head injury and required hospital treatment.\n\nBayleigh Meadows and Millie Robinson, both 21, are due to appear before magistrates later. Nicole Stonestreet, 20, has been released on bail.\n\nMs Meadows, of Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne, was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.\n\nMs Robinson, of Edgeland Terrace, Eastbourne, was charged with two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and affray.\n\nMs Stonestreet, of Seaside, Eastbourne, was charged with assaulting an emergency worker and affray.\n\nUpdate on 14 April 2020: Ms Meadows and Ms Robinson appeared before Brighton magistrates on Saturday 11 April and were conditionally bailed to appear at Lewes Crown Court on 11 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the coronavirus crisis deepens, many charities have had to cease operations, reducing support for large numbers of vulnerable people.\n\nAccording to the British Red Cross, there are thousands of refugees and asylum seekers living in poverty in the UK, although the government says it provides support for those who need it.\n\nAnd in Calais in France, many migrants are living in makeshift camps hoping to cross to the UK.\n\nThe BBC’s Fergal Keane reports on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting those who have fled persecution or poverty.\n\nFilmed by Tony Fallshaw, produced by Alice Doyard and Cara Swift, edited by Olivia Lace-Evans and Greg Brosnan.", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "Ralph Baxter was awarded an MBE for his dedication and commitment to the Civil Service\n\nA man who died following an altercation between two dog walkers had been appointed an MBE and could often be found \"pounding the pavement\" for the Labour Party.\n\nRetired civil servant Ralph Baxter, 74, died while walking his dog in Roade, Northamptonshire, on Wednesday.\n\nA 27-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail.\n\nIn a tribute, Mr Baxter's family said he was a \"loving husband, step-father, step-grandfather, brother, and uncle\".\n\nA post-mortem examination into his death carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary came back as \"unascertained\".\n\nMr Baxter had been walking his dog, Bertie, in Hyde Road at about 16:20 BST when he was assaulted.\n\nResidents said there had been a clash between his pet and a larger, husky-type dog.\n\nMr Baxter was treated by paramedics but died a short time later\n\nThe family tribute said: \"Ralph was a loving husband, step-father, step-grandfather, brother, and uncle.\"\n\nHe had lived in Roade for 35 years and was an avid Northampton Saints supporter.\n\nHe was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his dedication and commitment to the Civil Service.\n\n\"Ralph was also a keen member of the Labour Party and could always be relied on to 'pound the pavement' at canvassing time,\" the tribute added.\n\n\"He will be greatly missed by his family, colleagues, neighbours and friends.\"\n\nDet Insp Pete Long said his team are \"working around the clock\" on what is a \"very difficult and complex investigation\".\n\nHe added that police believe it was \"an isolated incident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Air industry bodies have called on the UK government to expand support for the sector, which is reeling due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey say providing more help for aviation, and extending the duration of that help, will stave off job losses.\n\nThe Department for Transport said aviation firms could already draw on an \"unprecedented\" government aid package.\n\nAnd Greenpeace said the UK shouldn't \"open the cheque book\" for \"polluting\" sectors.\n\nBodies representing the UK's aerospace industry, airlines and airports claim that if action isn't taken now, the aviation sector in Britain could be left behind when an economic recovery comes.\n\nAt present, hundreds of aircraft are grounded, airports are operating at minimal capacity, and aerospace production has slowed.\n\nBut industry groups ADS Group, Airlines UK and the Airport Operators Association warned this could just be the beginning.\n\nThe groups, whose members include Airbus, BAE Systems, British Airways, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, said they didn't expect demand for flights to recover quickly, meaning that much of the aviation workforce may not be needed for months to come.\n\nThe aviation industry is fighting for survival - and not just in the immediate future.\n\nAs far as the present crisis is concerned, the government has made it clear there won't be a special deal for the sector. Companies will have to make use of the measures already set out by the chancellor.\n\nBut many of them can't do that because they don't fit the government's criteria - so the plea now is at least to make those measures more flexible, so that more businesses can benefit.\n\nThen there's the recognition that although the industry's grounding appeared to happen almost overnight, its recovery is likely to be very slow. What we're seeing now is just the beginning.\n\nBut if we're going to see fewer flights - then there won't be a need for as many people working in the industry for quite a while. There's a risk of significant layoffs.\n\nAnd then there's the question of what happens when flights do restart. If different countries all have different restrictions and procedures in place, it could become a nightmare for the humble traveller.\n\nSignificant challenges - which aviation groups say the government needs to help solve.\n\nThe groups have asked the government to extend its Job Retention Scheme - under which it will pay for staff to be laid off for short periods - beyond its current end date in May.\n\nAnd they want relief from business tax rates that have already been given to the retail and hospitality sectors to be extended to all UK aviation firms - as has happened in Scotland.\n\nThey are also calling for the government to work with other countries to ensure that when travel restrictions are removed, it is done in a coordinated manner so that customers aren't left confused and put off from travelling.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport said that the aviation sector is \"important to the UK economy\" and that firms can draw upon an \"unprecedented package of measures\" announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, \"including schemes to raise capital, flexibilities with tax bills, and financial support for employees.\"\n\n\"We are continuing to work closely with the sector and are willing to consider the situation of individual firms, so long as all other government schemes have been explored and all commercial options exhausted, including raising capital from existing investors,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHowever, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that any support the UK government extends to the sector should be conditional on aviation cleaning up its act.\n\n\"The government cannot simply open the cheque book for polluting industries with no questions asked,\" said Greenpeace executive director John Sauven.\n\n\"Any public money going to airlines must come with strict and clear conditions attached.\n\n\"Government support must be used to help employees and plan for a transition to a cleaner more resilient economy. It should not be spent on bonuses, dividends, and lobbying against environmental standards.\"\n\n\"If airlines want the public to bail them out, they need to provide public good in return.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has tested positive for coronavirus and is in hospital but is showing no symptoms, his family have announced.\n\nDalglish was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for treatment of an infection which required intravenous antibiotics.\n\nThe 69-year-old former Celtic and Scotland forward was routinely tested for coronavirus after being admitted.\n\n\"Unexpectedly, the test result was positive but he remains asymptomatic,\" the Dalglish family said.\n\nDalglish won the Scottish league title four times at Celtic before moving to Liverpool in 1977. At Liverpool his honours included eight league Championships as a player and manager and three European Cups.\n\nHe also won the Premier League as Blackburn Rovers manager in 1995.\n\nThe statement added: \"He would like to take this opportunity to thank the brilliant NHS staff, whose dedication, bravery and sacrifice should be the focus of the nation's attention at this extraordinary time.\n\n\"Prior to his admission to hospital, Sir Kenny had chosen to voluntarily self-isolate for longer than the advised period together with his family. He would urge everyone to follow the relevant government and expert guidance in the days and weeks ahead.\n\n\"He looks forward to being home soon. We will provide further updates as and when it is appropriate.\"", "People are being told to stay at home as much as possible - despite the good weather\n\nThe UK has recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths, taking the total number of people who have died in hospital with the virus to 9,875.\n\nFor the second day in a row, more than 900 deaths were recorded in hospitals.\n\nThe latest figures come as the prime minister has told friends he owes his life to the NHS staff who treated him in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to spend the coming weeks resting and recovering and will not rush his return to work.\n\nMeanwhile the home secretary said she was \"sorry if people feel there have been failings\" in NHS protective kit.\n\nHer comments came after some NHS workers said they still did not have the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nSaturday's death toll, accurate as of 17:00 BST on Friday, are slightly down on the previous day's 980 deaths.\n\nHowever, spikes or dips may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend and these figures do not include those who died in care homes or the community.\n\nThe growth in the total number of new deaths has stalled in the last four days.\n\nIn some other countries that implemented lockdown, the numbers of reported deaths stopped growing about three weeks into lockdown.\n\nBut it is too soon to know for sure whether we have reached that point.\n\nThere have been reporting lags at weekends and it is possible that a bank holiday weekend will include deaths that go unreported until next week.\n\nThe government is urging people to stay at home over Easter to curb the spread of the virus, despite warm and sunny weather across parts of the UK.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said: \"It is a bank holiday weekend, it is a time of year when typically we would be celebrating or getting together with relatives and close friends.\n\n\"But I'm afraid this year it has to be, for all of us, a stay-at-home Easter.\"\n\nPolice have issued more than 1,000 fines to people not following social distancing measures, according to early figures released at the government briefing.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs Council, said most people spoken to by officers had understood the rules but a \"small minority\" had refused to comply.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: Total crime in the UK has dropped but criminality \"continues to adapt\"\n\nAlso at the briefing, Ms Patel announced £2m to support domestic abuse services as she said anyone suffering during the lockdown would still be able to get support from the police.\n\nFor those people, Ms Patel said: \"Home is not the safe haven that it should be.\"\n\nAnyone in immediate danger should call 999 and press 55 on a mobile if they are unable to talk, she said.\n\nAbdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, was a married father-of-two and a consultant urologist. He died with coronavirus on Wednesday.\n\nThe home secretary also warned that while total crime had fallen during the lockdown, criminals were adapting.\n\nFraudsters had already exploited coronavirus with losses to victims exceeding £1.8 million and perpetrators of \"sickening online child abuse\" were seeking to exploit young people and children being indoors and online.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen has told the nation \"coronavirus will not overcome us\" and said \"we need Easter as much as ever\" in her traditional message marking the celebration.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock defended his warning that some NHS workers were using more PPE than needed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer had said it was \"insulting to imply frontline staff are wasting PPE\".\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC he was not \"impugning anyone who works for the NHS\", saying, \"They do an amazing job.\"\n\n\"But what I am reiterating, stressing, is the importance to use the right amount of PPE,\" he added.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said health workers treating coronavirus patients still did not have access to enough protective equipment.\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson is continuing to make \"very good progress\" as he is treated for coronavirus in hospital, Downing Street said.\n\nMr Johnson, 55, had three nights in intensive care before returning to a ward on Thursday.\n\nNo 10 said he was receiving daily updates and pregnancy scans from his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, and had been passing the time with films and sudoku.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're getting the PPE out there but there's clearly a huge task ahead to keep it flowing\"\n\nThe UK will now ensure daily deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline workers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told the daily coronavirus briefing it had been a \"Herculean effort\", after criticism the government was not doing enough to protect critical NHS staff.\n\nOfficials told the briefing the lockdown was \"beginning to pay off\" but it was still a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 980 hospital deaths, bringing the total to 8,958.\n\nThat death toll, which does not include those who died in care homes or the community, has now exceeded the worst daily figures seen in Italy and Spain.\n\nBut England's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was \"impossible to say we have peaked\", adding that the measures the country was taking with social distancing needed to continue.\n\nThe total number of deaths worldwide has now passed 100,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in the US.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said that some NHS and care workers were saying they were still struggling to get protective equipment and they felt unsafe, despite earlier pledges by the government. He asked if Mr Hancock was acknowledging the previous plans were insufficient.\n\nThe health secretary responded that it had been an \"enormous challenge\", but that 742 million pieces of protective gear had been delivered so far.\n\n\"But there's clearly a huge task ahead to keep it flowing and to make sure that those who need it get it,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock also told the briefing that the protective equipment - such as masks, gloves and aprons - must be used only where it was most needed.\n\n\"There's enough PPE to go around, but only if it's used in line with our guidance. We need everyone to treat PPE like the precious resource that it is,\" he said.\n\nHe also cautioned against using protective gear outside of health and social care settings, saying handwashing, social distancing and staying at home were the best ways for people to stay safe.\n\n\"A front door is better than any face mask,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThose looking after Covid-19 patients are themselves most at risk of catching the virus.\n\nProtective gear and testing are vital not only for protecting staff, but also for minimising the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThere have been constant stories of doctors, nurses or care home staff not getting the protection they need.\n\nThe government says it has been, in part, a logistical problem. Instead of supplying just over 200 hospital organisations with PPE they are now delivering to 58,000 separate organisations including pharmacies, care homes and GP surgeries.\n\nWe are still not at the peak of the outbreak, despite some positive signs in the data.\n\nHowever, even if we pass the peak and cases start to fall it won't mean all restrictions can be lifted.\n\nThe best estimate of the proportion of people infected (and potentially immune in the UK) is 4%. Or to put that another way - more than 63 million are still vulnerable to the infection. So lifting the lockdown could lead to another surge in cases.\n\nInstead the government will have to decide which restrictions to lift, which to keep and what new strategies to introduce in order to suppress the virus.\n\nMr Hancock said that because of \"huge international demand\" the UK was having to create a domestic manufacturing industry for protective equipment from scratch, as well as buying from abroad.\n\nHe said Burberry had offered to make protective gowns, Rolls-Royce and McLaren were making visors and hand sanitiser was being made by drinks company Diageo and chemicals producer Ineos.\n\nSusan Masters, national director of nursing policy and practice at the Royal College of Nursing, said the amount of PPE being delivered would only be impressive \"when nursing staff stop contacting me to say what they need to use wasn't available\".\n\n\"The calls are still coming through - people are petrified. They have seen colleagues die already.\"\n\nAt the government's briefing, chief nursing officer Ruth May paid tribute to frontline staff who had died after contracting coronavirus.\n\n\"The NHS is a family and we feel their loss deeply,\" she said.\n\nAppealing to the public to continue observing the lockdown rules, she said it was \"frustrating\" for NHS staff to see people failing to observe the social distancing.\n\n\"It is enormously frustrating... there's also still occasions where my colleagues are getting abuse from their neighbours for driving off to work,\" she said.\n\n\"Our nurses, our healthcare staff, need to be able to get to work, it's right and proper they do, but my ask of everybody, please stay at home, save lives and protect my staff.\"\n\nThere is no hiding from the fact that today's announcement of 980 new UK deaths has surpassed Italy and Spain's worst days during this pandemic.\n\nWhile these two countries are now seeing daily death figures coming down, the UK's have been closing in on 1,000 for several days - and the true death toll is likely to be higher once deaths not yet reported have been added in.\n\nYet the NHS has not been overwhelmed in the way that Italy's hospitals appeared to be, particularly in the north.\n\nThe message is that the NHS has spare capacity and intensive care beds not yet used, thanks to planning and everyone's efforts to stay at home.\n\nThere was even a plea from health officials that anyone with serious and worrying health problems of any kind should contact the NHS as usual.\n\nThe hope is now that the UK's social distancing measures will have the same effect as Italy and Spain's lockdowns, and deaths will start to fall - not just slow down - in the weeks to come.\n\nMr Hancock was challenged on a report in Health Service Journal that he had been failing to observe social distancing rules himself, holding regular video calls in his office surrounded by between 10 and 20 colleagues.\n\nSenior NHS leaders expressed alarm that the health secretary was providing a bad example, the report said.\n\nMr Hancock insisted that he followed social distancing rules on the occasions when he had to come into the office.\n\nIt comes after Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended his travel moves following reports he flouted the government's lockdown rules.\n\nMr Hancock also told the briefing 15 drive-through testing centres had been opened across the UK to enable all frontline NHS and social care staff to be screened for the virus.\n\nThe 19,100 tests carried out in the last day still fall well short of the health secretary's target of 100,000 a day by the end of April.\n\nBut he said new \"Lighthouse mega-labs\" were on track in Cheshire and Glasgow, and another has opened in Milton Keynes. Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and GSK were opening an additional testing facility in Cambridge, he added.\n\nThe government also announced new Nightingale temporary hospitals to be opened, with 460 beds in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and a smaller facility in Exeter.\n\nIt brings the total number to seven, with units in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate as well.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nApple and Google are jointly developing technology to alert people if they have recently come into contact with others found to be infected with coronavirus.\n\nThey hope to initially help third-party contact-tracing apps run efficiently.\n\nBut ultimately, they aim to do away with the need to download dedicated apps, to encourage the practice.\n\nThe two companies believe their approach - designed to keep users, whose participation would be voluntary, anonymous - addresses privacy concerns.\n\nTheir contact-tracing method would work by using a smartphone's Bluetooth signals to determine to whom the owner had recently been in proximity for long enough to have established contagion a risk.\n\nIf one of those people later tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, a warning would be sent to the original handset owner.\n\nNo GPS location data or personal information would be recorded.\n\n\"Privacy, transparency and consent are of utmost importance in this effort and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with interested stakeholders,\" Apple and Google said in a joint statement.\n\n\"We will openly publish information about our work for others to analyse.\"\n\nPresident Trump said his administration needed time to consider the development.\n\n\"It's very interesting, but a lot of people worry about it in terms of a person's freedom,\" he said during a White House press conference.\n\n\"We're going to take... a very strong look at it, and we'll let you know pretty soon.\"\n\nThe European Union's Data Protection Supervisor sounded more positive, saying: \"The initiative will require further assessment, however, after a quick look it seems to tick the right boxes as regards user choice, data protection by design and pan-European interoperability.\"\n\nBut others have noted that the success of the venture may depend on getting enough people tested.\n\nApple is the developer of iOS. Google is the company behind Android. The two operating systems power the vast majority of smartphones in use.\n\nSome countries - including Singapore, Israel, South Korea and Poland - are already using people's handsets to issue coronavirus contagion alerts.\n\nOther health authorities - including the UK, France and Germany - are working on initiatives of their own. And some municipal governments in the US are reportedly about to adopt a third-party app.\n\nThe two technology giants aim to bring coherence to all this by allowing existing third-party apps to be retrofitted to include their solution.\n\nThis would make the apps interoperable, so contact tracing would continue to work as people travelled overseas and came into contact with people using a different tool.\n\nApple and Google have been working on the effort for about two weeks but have not externally revealed their plans until Friday.\n\nIf successful, the scheme could help countries relax lockdowns and border restrictions.\n\nThe companies aim to release a software building-block - known as an API (application programming interface) - by mid-May.\n\nThis would allow others' apps to run on the same basis.\n\nRecords of the digital IDs involved would be stored on remote computer servers but the companies say these could not be used to unmask a specific individual's true identity.\n\nFurthermore, the contact-matching process would take place on the phones rather than centrally.\n\nThis would make it possible for someone to be told they should go into quarantine, without anyone else being notified.\n\nThe two companies have released details of the cryptography specifications they plan to use to safeguard privacy, and details of the role Bluetooth will play.\n\nThey hope this will convince activists their approach can be trusted.\n\nApple and Google say another benefit of their solution is developers would not risk the iOS and Android versions of their apps becoming incompatible because of a buggy update.\n\nIn addition, they believe it would be less taxing on battery life than current contact-tracing systems.\n\nPhase two of the initiative involves building contact-tracing capabilities into the iOS and Android operating systems. Users could then switch the capability on and off again without having to download an app at all.\n\nApproved third-party apps would still be able to interact with the facility if desired.\n\nThe facility would be delivered via a future system software update. But the companies have yet to say when this would occur.\n\n\"This is a more robust solution,\" they say, suggesting there would be wider adoption if users did not have to download additional software for themselves.\n\nIt also provides the companies with the ability to easily disable tracing on a regional basis when the pandemic ends.\n\nWhile Apple and Google hope others will see benefits of adopting their approach, this is not guaranteed.\n\nAn independent effort - the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) initiative - revealed its own attempt to deliver a privacy-centric solution on 1 April.\n\nAbout 130 technologists and scientists are involved and the group has already made contact with several European governments.", "Residents have used home made vessels to carry their moos further from their windows\n\nA \"crazy\" town has come up with a unique way to fight lockdown boredom - by mooing in unison.\n\nEvery evening at 18:30 locals in Belper, Derbyshire, gather on doorsteps and lean out of bedroom windows for a two-minute cattle chorus.\n\nJasper Ward said the bovine bellow was a way to make staying in \"a little bit more bearable\".\n\n\"The crazy people of this town have taken to it like cows to grass,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC 5 Live, Mr Ward said he expected the project to last for a few days and end with him being \"ridiculed on social media\".\n\n\"But we're three weeks in and at six thirty there's a chorus of moos,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Ward believes hundreds of people join in on busy evenings.\n\nHis hometown, which also boasts a Mr Potato Head statue, has a quirky reputation, but he thinks matters may run a little deeper.\n\n\"I seem to have unearthed a madness that has only been complemented by this lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a pretty grim time, so if we can cast a little bit of silliness into the day, that's great.\"\n\nBecki Farrell said people in the town would talk about this for years: \"I'm really pleased he's done something anyone of any age can get involved with for a silly giggle.\n\n\"We love the community spirit in Belper.\"\n\nIsabel Kennedy has mooed since day one, and said: \"It's a great way to get the community together be part of something in these crazy and weird times. It's the highlight of my day.\"\n\nSome residents have used bagpipes, a saxophone and a didgeridoo to make their moo noises heard\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The PM outside Downing Street before he was admitted to hospital\n\nBoris Johnson is taking short walks between periods of rest as part of the care he is receiving for coronavirus.\n\nThe prime minister has also thanked the team looking after him for the \"incredible care\" he has received, a Downing Street spokesman said.\n\nMr Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive.\n\nEarlier on Friday, his father said Mr Johnson \"must rest up\" after he was moved from intensive care.\n\nStanley Johnson spoke of his \"relief\" that his son had begun his recovery, adding that he thought his illness had \"got the whole country to realise this is a serious event\".\n\nThe No 10 spokesman said: \"[Mr Johnson] has spoken to his doctors and thanks the whole clinical team for the incredible care he has received.\n\n\"His thoughts are with those affected by this terrible disease.\"\n\nEarlier, the spokesman said the prime minister was back on a ward and \"in very good spirits\", emphasising that Mr Johnson was at an \"early stage\" of his recovery from coronavirus.\n\nNHS England has announced 866 more people have died in England after testing positive for coronavirus, and separate figures show there have been 48 more in Scotland, 29 more in Wales and 10 more in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, scientific adviser Prof Neil Ferguson, who was asked about coming out of lockdown, said it would likely \"be targeted by age, by geography\".\n\nProf Ferguson, of Imperial College London, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that work to end the coronavirus lockdown in the UK was the \"number one topic and priority\" both in the scientific community and in government. \"Every waking minute, as it were,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking about what measures might be needed to end the lockdown, Prof Ferguson said the UK would have to introduce larger levels of testing at community level \"to isolate cases more effectively\".\n\nHowever, he suggested the lockdown would have to remain in place for \"several more weeks\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for clarity about how long the prime minister will be \"out of action\".\n\n\"We need robust replacement arrangements in place and we need to know what they are, as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has launched a campaign urging people to stay at home over the Easter Bank Holiday.\n\nIt comes as Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended his travel moves amid reports he flouted lockdown rules.\n\nThe MP for Newark in Nottinghamshire is said to have travelled from London to a second home in Herefordshire, and separately visited his parents in neighbouring Shropshire, according to the Daily Mail and the Guardian.\n\nThe government has advised against travel to second homes - and urged people to distance themselves from elderly relatives.\n\nMr Jenrick said he had been in London on ministerial duties and left for what he said was a family home in Herefordshire to join his wife and children.\n\nHe added that he visited his parents to deliver essentials, including medicines - allowed by the rules.\n\nDowning Street has defended Mr Jenrick, saying it was \"not an unnecessary journey\" for cabinet ministers commuting to and from London to rejoin their family.\n\n\"We're confident that he complied with the social distancing rules,\" a spokesman said.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"important for public confidence\" that Mr Jenrick explained the purpose of the journey.\n\nBut he added that if the housing secretary had delivered medicine to his parents, \"clearly... it fits within the four exceptions\".\n\nProf Paul Cosford, medical director for Public Health England, said government guidelines were \"quite clear\" that people must stay at home except in one of four circumstances, including exercise, essential shopping for food and medicines, healthcare and essential work.\n\n\"I can't comment on Mr Jenrick, it sounds as if what he did was within one of the four guidelines to me, but others will obviously have to think about that more,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nAsked about the government's lockdown exit strategy, Prof Cosford said he \"could conceive of circumstances in which some of the restrictions are lifted sooner and some are lifted later\", but cautioned that there was still an \"awfully long way to go\".\n\nMeanwhile, the German army is donating 60 mobile ventilators to the NHS. There are currently 10,000 available in the UK and the government says 18,000 are needed.\n\nThousands of masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) suits for the UK are also scheduled to arrive at RAF Brize Norton later on Friday from Nato ally Turkey.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab - who is standing in for Mr Johnson - acknowledged it was hard for people hoping to go out and be with their families over Easter, but urged restraint.\n\nMr Raab was speaking ahead of a bank holiday weekend forecasted to see temperatures as high as 26C in London on Saturday, though cooler weather is expected on Sunday.\n\nHe said lockdown restrictions will stay in place until evidence showed the UK had moved beyond the peak of the virus.\n\nThe new campaign aims to reinforce the importance of staying at home over Easter\n\nPolice forces across the UK have urged people to stay at home over the Easter weekend, with police in North Ireland warning of increased patrols, and forces in Wales vowing a crackdown on unnecessary travel.\n\nPolice Scotland officers will also be on patrol to explain the risks to public health of flouting guidance.\n\nSome forces and local authorities said they had already turned away would-be holidaymakers making journeys to popular destinations on Thursday.\n\nDowning Street has given its \"full backing\" to officers enforcing the lockdown rules.\n\nHowever, some forces have been criticised for their handling of the new measures.\n\nOn Friday morning, the Cambridge Police Twitter account posted a statement to \"clarify\" officers were \"not monitoring\" what people are buying from supermarkets.\n\nAn earlier post suggested officers were patrolling \"non-essential\" aisles at Tesco supermarket in Barhill.\n\nThe force said the initial post, since deleted, was made by an \"over-exuberant\" officer.\n\n\"The force position, in line with national guidance, is that we are not monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets,\" Cambridge Police tweeted.\n\nOn Thursday, Northamptonshire's chief constable was criticised for saying he would not rule out road blocks or checking supermarket trolleys - later confirming that the force would not be judging people on what they are buying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch people around the UK clap for NHS workers on 9 April\n\nA number of Easter-themed government adverts will be running in newspapers and on social media urging people to stay at home during the holiday.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We understand that people will want to spend time with their friends and families this Easter, and we recognise that we are asking the public to make sacrifices in the fight against this disease.\n\n\"We are at a crucial moment in preventing further transmission of coronavirus, and so it is vital that we continue following the government's guidance.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "There is \"emerging evidence\" to suggest coronavirus is having a disproportionate impact on people who are black, Asian and minority ethnic.\n\nResearch suggests that more than a third of patients who are critically ill in hospital with the virus are from these backgrounds.\n\nIt comes after Labour called for an urgent investigation into why these communities are more vulnerable.\n\nThe government said it was committed to reducing health inequalities.\n\nOnly 14% of people in England and Wales are from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.\n\nHowever, the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that 34% of more than 3,000 critically ill coronavirus patients identified as black, Asian or minority ethnic.\n\n\"My father died on my ward\"\n\nDr John Chinegwundoh, 50, works as a consultant respiratory physician at Kingston Hospital in south-west London and has recently lost colleagues, and his 93-year-old father, to coronavirus.\n\nHis older brother has also recently tested positive for the disease.\n\n\"My dad was being looked after in my hospital, on my ward,\" he said. \"It was good that I could be there and hold his hand, explain things to him.\n\n\"But bad that I have to go back and carry on caring for people going through the same things.\"\n\nHe described his father Lawrence as a \"special, loving and gentle man who will be deeply missed by the Nigerian community\", and had been looking forward to his 60th wedding anniversary this year.\n\nDr Chinegwundoh said it was important the government tracked data about coronavirus cases by ethnicity so that \"lessons could be learnt for the future to support communities\".\n\nLabour said the disproportionate number of doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds who had died from coronavirus was \"deeply disturbing\".\n\nAmer Awan, 44, from Birmingham, recently lost his father Nazir to the virus after days in intensive care.\n\nThe grandfather-of-six, who was a leading businessman and philanthropist, was described by his family as a \"legend, the backbone of his community, a man who loved his city and gave so much back to it\".\n\nHe has implored the public to stay home and said his father had strictly followed social distancing advice.\n\n\"When you can't even hug your mother two hours after your father passes away, that pain really does affect you,\" he said. \"It hurts you so much.\n\n\"If you love your parents, your families, your friends, then please stay home.\n\n\"Appreciate the time you have with them because you never know when it'll be gone,\" he said.\n\nDr Chidera Ota, 25, is a junior doctor working in intensive care at Ealing Hospital in London - the capital is one of the worst affected and most diverse areas in England.\n\nAs a whole, 40% of people living in London are from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nDr Ota said some of her colleagues had bought their own goggles and visors because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and that most of her patients were from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\n\"Working on the front line is a worry, you're exposed to a lot of risk and you're concerned about masks running out,\" she said.\n\nCultural factors such as multi-generational households and reliance on places of worship and community centres could be contributing to the data, she suggested.\n\n\"Language barriers for people who can't speak English, especially when you can't say if you're in pain or short of breath, can have a huge impact,\" she said.\n\n\"Particularly when you can't bring a family member with you to hospital now to help translate because of the virus.\"\n\nShe added that underlying health conditions liked diabetes and high-blood pressure could also be a factor.\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, deputy director of the race equality think tank Runnymede Trust, said ethnic minority communities were over-represented among families living in poverty and over-crowded housing.\n\n\"They're also more likely to be in low-paid jobs or key workers - crucial transport and delivery staff, health care assistants, hospital cleaners, adult social care workers as well as in the NHS,\" she said.\n\n\"All of which bring them into more contact with coronavirus and so increase their risk to serious-illness and death.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Any death from this disease is a tragedy and there is emerging evidence to suggest that Covid-19 may be having a disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups.\n\n\"As part of a continuous effort to reduce health inequalities, the government will be working with Public Health England to look further into this and we will be releasing further details shortly.\"", "The home secretary has said she is sorry if NHS staff feel there has been a failure to provide protective kit for those treating coronavirus patients.\n\nBut Priti Patel said there were going to be problems during what she called an \"unprecedented global pandemic\".\n\nThe British Medical Association earlier said that NHS staff were putting their lives at risk when treating patients.\n\nThe health secretary said earlier that 19 NHS workers had died with coronavirus since the outbreak began.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, the home secretary said: \"I'm sorry if people feel that there have been failings. I will be very, very clear about that.\n\n\"But at the same time, we are in an unprecedented global health pandemic right now. It is inevitable that the demand and the pressures on PPE and demand for PPE are going to be exponential.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"The central challenge is one of distribution\"\n\nOn Friday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there was enough kit for everyone and unveiled a plan to address shortages.\n\nHe said the government was looking into how NHS staff who had died with the virus had been infected - adding that some may have caught it outside of work.\n\n\"But that doesn't take away from the bravery of every single NHS worker,\" he said, adding that his \"heart goes out\" to those who have died and their families.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"particularly struck at the high proportion of people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people who have come to this country to work in the NHS who have died of coranavirus\".\n\n\"We should recognise their enormous contribution,\" he added.\n\nSupplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) in London and Yorkshire are at \"dangerously low levels\", according to the BMA.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair, said doctors were being forced into a corner and faced \"heart-breaking decisions\" over whether to carry on without proper protection.\n\nHe said: \"This is an immensely difficult position to be in, but is ultimately down to the government's chronic failure to supply us with the proper equipment.\"\n\nA nurse at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC he felt unsafe with the level of PPE he had been given.\n\nHe said shortages meant those working on wards with coronavirus patients were only being given a surgical mask and plastic apron, rather than a gown covering the whole body.\n\nLast week a nursing assistant who had been looking after coronavirus patients at the hospital died.\n\n\"We are scared because we are spreading the virus,\" he said. \"We don't deserve it and our patients even more.\"\n\nThe health secretary said 742 million pieces of protective gear had been delivered so far, saying: \"There's enough PPE to go around, but only if it's used in line with our guidance. We need everyone to treat PPE like the precious resource that it is.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was not \"impugning anyone who works for the NHS\" and \"they do an amazing job\".\n\n\"But what I am reiterating, stressing, is the importance to use the right amount of PPE,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"insulting to imply frontline staff are wasting PPE\" and the government \"must act\" to ensure sufficient supplies are delivered.\n\nFor several weeks, the government and NHS leaders have insisted there are enough stocks of personal protective equipment (PPE) and that the problem lay in the distribution from warehouses to the front line.\n\nSome hospitals have reported receiving higher consignments of gloves, masks, gowns and aprons. But doctors and nurses have continued to report shortages.\n\nCare homes, pharmacies, GP practices and community health teams feel they are at the back of the queue for equipment to protect staff who may come into contact with patients who have Covid-19.\n\nThere has also been confusion over how safety guidelines should apply.\n\nNow Matt Hancock has admitted there are global supply problems and says it is a \"herculean effort\" to get deliveries to health workers and a \"huge task\" to keep it going. He set out a series of measures to step up provision of equipment.\n\nHe may be given credit for acknowledging the scale of the problem. But NHS and care staff won't take much notice of plans until they are reflected in reality on the ground.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dismissed any suggestion that healthcare staff have been overusing PPE.\n\nRCN chief executive Dame Donna Kinnair told the BBC no PPE was \"more precious a resource than a healthcare worker's life, a nurse's life, a doctor's life\".\n\n\"I take offence, actually, that we are saying that healthcare workers are abusing or overusing PPE,\" she told BBC Breakfast, adding that nurses were still telling her they did not have adequate supply of protective equipment.\n\nMeanwhile, the business organisation Make It British said the government had not yet taken up offers from some firms to help manufacture PPE.\n\nThe group said at least 100 companies had responded to an appeal for help four weeks ago but had heard nothing since.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A Paisley man who is recovering from coronavirus has called on young people not to underestimate the impact the virus can have.\n\nCalum Wishart said when news of the pandemic first broke his \"naive arrogance\" led him to believe he would be OK because he is only 25 years old.\n\nBut within days of the lockdown Mr Wishart started displaying symptoms of the virus and was taken to hospital.\n\nHe described it as \"the most horrendous experience\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, he said: \"I had the completely wrong attitude.\n\n\"I would not say I was hugging strangers or anything like that, I think I just underestimated the real impact of it.\n\n\"I had the perspective that because I was young it would not affect me, that it would be like a kind of flu.\"\n\nMr Wishart was taken to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties and other symptoms of coronavirus\n\nMr Wishart said he had a \"massive dose of reality\" when the gravity of his situation became clear after being rushed to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and put on oxygen.\n\nHe continued: \"It started off as a slight fever and from there it escalated.\n\n\"The next few days was just on and off oxygen and not being able to do anything.\"\n\nThe loss of his freedom of movement was the biggest impact and now, out of hospital and into self-isolation, he is using his time to try and make younger people aware that coronavirus can strike anyone.\n\nNow out of hospital, Mr Wishart is recovering from his experience in self isolation", "Anthony Almojera: \"You can have a busy day sometimes, but never this\"\n\nAs a senior paramedic in New York City, Anthony Almojera is used to being close to death. But nothing in his 17-year career could have prepared him for the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nThe state has now had more diagnosed cases of the virus than any single country. It has the grim distinction of being at the forefront of a global health crisis.\n\nAnthony is now working 16-hour days to try to save people across the city, while supporting colleagues who fear for their lives and their families.\n\nAnthony, a lieutenant paramedic and vice president of the Fire Department of New York's Emergency Medical Services officers' union, talked the BBC's Alice Cuddy through what happened last Sunday - what he calls the toughest day of his career.\n\nI got a pretty good night's sleep considering all the calls going on the day before. A solid five hours. I get up and listen to the news in the shower. More Covid-19 but the world still seems intact. I have to get ready to be at work in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, at 06:00 for a 16-hour shift.\n\nI put on my uniform, grab my radio and start the process of decontaminating my equipment. We have to wipe down all the radios, keys, trucks, bags and the rest of the gear. This virus can stay alive on everything. Nothing is safe - even your co-workers.\n\nIn wars you see the bullet, you know who your enemy is. This is a war with an invisible bullet - everyone you come into contact with is a bullet who could get you.\n\nI log on that morning at 06:02. I'm able to go get a bite to eat at the bagel shop. I start to hear the radio get busy around 07:00. We have already had more than 1,500 calls since midnight. I get called for the assignment - a cardiac arrest.\n\nAs a lieutenant I go with the medic and emergency medical technician crews to help treat patients and provide resources as needed. These days there aren't many resources as most days there are well over 6,500 calls.\n\nNew York City has the busiest emergency medical services (EMS) system in the world - with about 4,000 calls a day on average. Sometimes you get a spike like with a heatwave or a hurricane, but the busiest day before this was 9/11. That day, we had 6,400 calls but that wasn't 6,400 patients - either you made it out or you didn't. This is 9/11 call volume with patients every day.\n\nWe noticed the spike in cases around March 20. By the 22nd it was like a bomb.\n\nWhen we saw this spike, the system wasn't set up for it. We were like: 'How are we going to do this with the resources we have?' It was just a case of 'let's get going'.\n\nRight now, about 20% of the EMS workforce is out sick. We have a lot of members who've contracted Covid-19, we have members who are in the ICU - I have two of them who are on ventilators - and we have over 700 people who are being monitored with the symptoms.\n\nWe arrive at the house and I put on my mask, gown and gloves.\n\nWe find a man. His family says he has had a fever and cough for five days. We start CPR and I watch the medics pass a tube down his throat to breathe for him and the IV gets started.\n\nWe work on him for about 30 minutes before we pronounce him dead. I make sure the crews are OK and get back in my truck - decontaminating everything first. I hit the button to go available.\n\nTwenty minutes later, I get another cardiac arrest. Same symptoms, same procedures, same results. This virus attacks the lungs: you can't get enough oxygen into your system, then other systems start to shut down and then organ failure.\n\nWe hit the button, get another one.\n\nHit the button after that, get another one.\n\nThere's only one patient we've seen so far who I feel wasn't Covid-19 and that's because it was a suicide. Imagine: I was there and my brain felt relief. This person's dead and it's a suicide. I felt relief that it was a regular job.\n\nIt is now around 11:00 and I've done about six cardiac arrests.\n\nIn normal times, a medic gets two or three in a week, maybe. You can have a busy day sometimes, but never this. Never this.\n\nThe seventh call gets to me.\n\nWe walk in and there's a woman on the floor. I see this woman doing CPR on her mother. She tells me she stopped breathing and had \"the symptoms\".\n\nWe go to work to try and save her. As the medics are doing their thing I walk over to the daughter and she tells me how it all went down. She says her mum has been sick for the last few days. They couldn't get a test but think she had \"it\".\n\nI ask \"are you the only family here?\" She says yes but you guys were here on Thursday and worked on my dad. He had the symptoms as well. He passed away.\n\nI go back into the other room and hope that the medic will tell me there are signs of life. She looks up and I know the look after 17 years. The medic's eyes say no.\n\nSo now I have to tell the daughter that both her parents are dead in a matter of three days.\n\nHer dad's not even buried yet. So this woman is going to have a double funeral, if she's lucky enough to get a funeral, because funerals aren't happening right now.\n\nAfter that call I go outside and the cool air is what I need. We sit for a minute to try and recoup but we all feel it. Funny, we don't discuss it much. Medics tend to do that.\n\nWe have to get ready for the next one. We hit the button.\n\nWe get another one and so on and so on. It's about 18:00 and I just finished my tenth one.\n\nIt's an Asian family who cannot believe their uncle has died. I see in their eyes they can't believe it. They keep imploring me to do something, to take him to the hospital, and I tell them we couldn't, even if we wanted to. The hospitals are not working on anyone who has no signs of life.\n\nThey keep saying \"you have to save him, you have to save him\". The son asks why we can't just start his heart again.\n\nThe hard thing about wearing the mask is it covers half my face. All he's hearing are the words. If I'm able to show my face it lets the patient's family see the emotion behind it.\n\nNow all they see is my eyes and my eyes are in terror because I don't know if I can convince this kid that there's nothing more we can do.\n\nAnthony and his team: \"The things we see are sometimes difficult to shake\"\n\nI'm on this call with the medics who were with me at the house with the daughter who lost both parents. They come outside and see me sitting on the stoop.\n\nI've had to tell 10 families we couldn't do any more.\n\nI am beside myself with feelings of bewilderment. I've never had to do a day like this in my career. I'm emotionally drained.\n\nThe things we see are sometimes difficult to shake. And with this, people are going to be different afterwards. There's no way that the majority of EMS workers are going to come out of this happy-go-lucky. Maybe some of them will have these moments of clarity and appreciate the flowers and the sunrise, but for a lot of us, when we close our eyes, we're going to see this.\n\nThe medics see me and come over and sit next to me. They both put their arms around me and we support each other.\n\nIt was their fifth arrest that day. All of us know what we are feeling. We just feel it together for a bit. We sit and then hit the button.\n\nIt's 21:30 - half an hour to the end of my tour. Another arrest. Same symptoms - fever and cough for days.\n\nWe work on him until I have to go and tell my twelfth family that I'm sorry we can't do any more. I've never been so drained and I go back to get ready to go home.\n\nI'm single and have no kids. This is the only time in my life that I've ever been happy that I'm single because I don't bring it home. But so many people are worried about this.\n\nI signed up for a job where I can get sick and die. Members' families signed up knowing that their loved one could get sick and die on this job, but they did not sign up for the loved one to bring it home to them. Right now I have guys who sleep in their car because they do not want to bring it home to their families.\n\nThe stress that members have that weighs heavily on me is their worry that if they die on the job their families won't be taken care of.\n\nI'm 16 years in therapy, I'm a practising Buddhist and I meditate, but even I'm having trouble disconnecting now. The emotional drain that happens on days like this stays with you because you know you're going to have to go to work tomorrow for another 16 hours and you're going to get it again.\n\nMedics survive a career in this because we always have hope that OK, we didn't save this one but the next one we will save. We are pretty good at saving people's lives. But with this virus the odds are against us. Hope fades fighting it. We are fighting an invisible enemy that is taking out our co-workers - and right now, hope is fleeting.\n\nThis is happening all over the city.\n\nNot one of the 12 people suspected to have died of Covid-19 on Anthony's shift had been tested for coronavirus. As a result, their deaths were not included in the official coronavirus death toll in New York last Sunday, which stood at 594.\n• None 24 hours in New York's fight against coronavirus", "Smoke rises from a fire that broke out at the prison after a riot\n\nA fire has engulfed large parts of a prison in Russia's Siberia region following a riot by inmates who accused guards of mistreating them.\n\nAuthorities say inmates at the high-security Penal Colony No 15 attacked a guard who had tried to help a prisoner bleeding from a self-inflicted wound.\n\nSeveral prisoners slashed their own arms in protest at being beaten by a guard as punishment, activists said.\n\nSome Russian human rights websites were down on Saturday.\n\nActivists say the lack of scrutiny by outsiders gives guards a free rein to use violence.\n\nOfficials said the unrest in the city of Angarsk, which broke out on Thursday, was now under control and an investigation had been launched.\n\nRussian jails have been in lockdown since the end of last month to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nRussia's penal service said in a statement: \"One of the inmates did not comply with the orders of the guards and started swearing. At the same time several other inmates caused themselves bodily harm.\"\n\nIt added that a guard had been injured and taken to hospital.\n\nHowever, human rights groups said rioting had broken out after an inmate was beaten by a prison officer.\n\nSvyatoslav Khromenkov, an activist at the Society Verdict human rights group, said it had received information that one inmate had been beaten by a top guard.\n\n\"Following this, several other inmates cut their veins in protest, around 13-17 people, including the man who was originally beaten. He was beaten again. This caused the riot to start,\" he told BBC News Russian.\n\nA video released by the Investigative Committee of Russia shows inmates standing by guards\n\nOne group published a link to a video of an inmate with bloody bandages around his arm who said he had been choked and beaten by guards and had then cut his wrists in protest.\n\nA spokesperson for the group Siberia Without Torture told AFP news agency that riot police had surrounded the prison.\n\nA fire was reportedly raging on the grounds. Three buildings razed by the blaze included a woodwork factory, state-owned news agency Tass says.\n\nThe prison, 2,500 miles (4,000km) east of Moscow, holds about 1,200 inmates.\n• None Russia ex-prison official kills himself in court", "Holiday accommodation which was being offered to key workers who cannot go home to their families has been vandalised according to North Wales Police.\n\nWe reported earlier how local people have cleaned and painted over the \"go home\" messages scrawled on homes in Pwllheli, Gwynedd.\n\nA police statement said: \"The owners of the properties and the key workers are making a significant sacrifice to contribute to the collective response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"From our patrols we can say that the vast majority of seasonal properties are not occupied by tourists and have been given up to local people.\n\n\"Now more than ever we cannot afford to divert our stretched emergency services away from the work of collectively tackling this pandemic.\n\n\"Ask yourself how you would feel returning to this after a long shift keeping the community safe.\"", "A teacher has died at the age of 35 after it is believed she contracted Covid-19, the school's principal has said in a letter to parents.\n\nEmma Clarke, who taught at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn, Cheshire, died on Thursday after becoming unwell, the school has said.\n\nIn a letter to parents, principal Tony Rawdin described Ms Clarke as \"one of those people who everyone liked\".\n\nShe was \"a much-loved and gifted member of staff\", he added.\n\n\"She was a brilliant science teacher and very popular with her pupils, not least her Year 11 tutor group, and her colleagues,\" said Mr Rawdin.\n\nHe said staff and students would be able to remember Ms Clarke together when the academy reopens.\n\nMr Rawdin added: \"For now, I speak for everyone connected with the school in saying that we will always remember Emma extremely fondly.\"\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Day in the life of a New York paramedic\n\nAnthony Almojera, a senior paramedic in New York City, has written a diary for the BBC of one day in his working life. He says that day - last Sunday - was the worst in his 17-year career. Here are his words: \"We arrive at a house and I put on my mask, gown and gloves. We find a man. His family says he has had a fever and cough for five days. We start CPR and I watch the medics pass a tube down his throat to breathe for him. We work on him for about 30 minutes before we pronounce him dead. I make sure the crews are OK and get back in my truck - decontaminating everything first. I hit the button to go available. Twenty minutes later, I get another cardiac arrest. Same symptoms, same procedures, same results. We hit the button, get another one. It is now around 11:00 and I've done about six cardiac arrests. In normal times, a medic gets two or three in a week, maybe. You can have a busy day sometimes, but never this. Never this.\" Read more of Anthony's account here", "A doctor who warned the prime minister about a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS workers has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nConsultant urologist Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, died at Queen's Hospital in Romford, east London, on Wednesday.\n\nFive days before he was admitted to hospital, Dr Chowdhury had appealed for \"appropriate PPE and remedies\" to \"protect ourselves and our families\".\n\nMatt Hancock said the UK has made a \"Herculean effort\" to deliver PPE.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, he said the \"plan to protect the people who protect us\" included creating a new domestic manufacturing industry.\n\nDr Chowdhury's son Intisar described the consultant urologist as a \"kind and compassionate hero\" who had been in \"such pain\" when he wrote the appeal to the government on Facebook.\n\n\"He wrote that post while he was in that state, just because of how much he cared about his co-workers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added he was \"so proud\" that his father had had the \"courage... to point out something wrong that the government was doing\".\n\n\"I'm glad it is getting the attention now that it needs to protect NHS workers on the front line because it pains me to say that my father is not the first and he is unfortunately not going to be the last NHS front-line worker to die.\"\n\nDr Chowdhury, who worked at Homerton University Hospital in east London, was admitted to hospital on 23 March.\n\nThe hospital's chief executive Tracey Fletcher said he would be \"greatly missed by every member of the urology department, as well as by all those who knew him in outpatients, wards, theatres and management\".\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said it was \"so tragic\" that the 53-year-old had died after issuing a warning about a lack of PPE.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to him and all the other healthcare workers who are providing frontline care,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care previously said it was \"working closely\" with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the Army and \"if staff need to order more PPE there is a hotline in place\".", "Christians around the world have continued with Easter celebrations, experimenting with new forms of worship as many countries stay under lockdown.\n\nSome clergy have been preaching to cameras in empty churches as their congregation watch services online this Easter Saturday.\n\nBut in other countries traditions continued as normal, ignoring calls for tougher restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWorshippers gathered at a graveyard in Herasti, Romania, as part of traditional Orthodox celebrations on Saturday.\n\nLike many around the globe, this church in Quezon City, the Philippines, streamed its Easter Sunday service online.\n\nWith lockdown measures in place, many Christians watched services from their homes - including this family in Melbourne, Australia.\n\nPastors wore masks during Sunday worship at a church in the South Korean capital Seoul.\n\nBut in Belarus the government has ignored calls to impose stricter measures, prompting worshippers to attend a ceremony as normal at this Catholic church in Dvorets.\n\nMeanwhile social distancing rules are in place across areas of Germany. Clergy at a church in Oberhausen held their service in front of portraits of those unable to attend.\n\nA drive-through Easter event was also organised by a church in the US state of Massachusetts, where children dressed as chicks and rabbits.\n\nIn the Polish town of Zakopane, a priest sprinkled holy water on worshippers while driving by on a horse-drawn cart.\n\nThis priest gave blessings from the back of a van in the Chilean capital, Santiago.", "Holby City's executive producer said the show wanted to help \"the courageous and selfless real-life medics\"\n\nThe BBC medical drama Holby City has donated two fully working ventilators from its set at Elstree to be used in London's new NHS Nightingale Hospital.\n\nThe corporation shared the news in a tweet, with a photo of workers unloading equipment from a van.\n\nHolby City executive producer Simon Harper said they wanted to help \"the courageous and selfless real-life medics\".\n\nThe drama, set in a fictional West Country city, has paused production.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC confirmed that two new ventilators has been ordered for the production, but in a statement said they had asked their supplier to divert them to the NHS once the need for the equipment became clear.\n\nA ventilator takes over the body's breathing when disease has resulted in the lungs failing.\n\nThe first of the government's emergency field hospitals to help fight the pandemic was created in just nine days, opening at east London's ExCel centre last Friday.\n\nThe BBC donated the ventilators to the London Nightingale as the drama is filmed at Elstree studios, in Hertfordshire.\n\nLast month, Holby City and another BBC medical drama, Casualty, announced plans to donate protective equipment and other kit from their sets to the NHS.\n\nLondon's temporary Nightingale Hospital is able to hold as many as 4,000 patients and is the first of several such facilities planned across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse captures the transformation of London's ExCeL centre into the Nightingale Hospital\n\nThere are also Nightingale hospitals in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate, with two more announced on Friday on Wearside and in Exeter.\n\nThe BBC's move follows a government drive to source thousands more ventilators to help ease the pressure on hospitals caused by the pandemic.\n\nBritish manufacturers have answered the government's appeal by turning their operations to making novel ventilators.\n\nAn order has been placed by the government for 10,000 newly-designed machines from technology firm Dyson.\n\nIt came as the UK recorded its highest daily death toll since the outbreak began, with another 980 recorded hospital deaths, bringing the total to 8,958.\n\nThat death toll, which does not include those who died in care homes or the community, has now exceeded the worst daily figures seen in Italy and Spain.", "Domestic abuse services are set to receive an extra £2m as the Home Office launches a new support campaign during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe additional money will \"immediately\" bolster helplines and online support, the home secretary announced.\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse helpline has seen a 25% increase in calls and online requests since the lockdown.\n\nPriti Patel also launched an initiative called 'You Are Not Alone' to help those experiencing domestic abuse.\n\nIt comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £750m package for charities during the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the extra funds will allow those most vulnerable to abuse to access support during periods when it might be difficult to communicate on the phone.\n\nPeople are also being encouraged to take part in the government's campaign by sharing a photo of a heart on their palm in their windows and on social media using #YouAreNotAlone.\n\nMartin Hewitt, National Police Chiefs' Council chairman, said 400 domestic abuse suspects were arrested in two weeks in the West Midlands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tara: \"I didn't care if I didn't wake up from the night before\"\n\nFrom next week, social media adverts will highlight where people can find help.\n\nMs Patel said: \"Coronavirus has opened Britain's enormous heart and shown our love and compassion for one another as we come together to help those who are most in need.\n\n\"I am now asking this nation to use that amazing compassion and community spirit to embrace those who are trapped in the horrific cycle of abuse.\n\n\"To help us all look out for those who need help, we have created a new campaign and we have created a symbol of hope - a handprint embossed with a heart - so that people can easily show that we will not tolerate abuse as a society.\"\n\nMr Hewitt added: \"To abusers, do not think that this is a time where you can get away with this. We will still arrest, we will still bring people into custody and we will still prosecute.\"\n\nMs Patel added that while perpetrators should be the ones to leave homes, the government will work to ensure there is refuge for victims and their children if this is not possible.\n\nMs Patel said anyone in immediate danger should call 999 and press 55 on a mobile if they are unable to talk. \"Our outstanding police will still be there for you,\" she added.\n\nThe campaign will also publicise the support available on the 24-hour freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline number - 0808 2000 247.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of national domestic abuse charity Refuge, welcomed the government's announcement \"at this critical time\".\n\nThe Home Office has launched a new domestic abuse awareness campaign.\n\n\"We have worked around the clock to ensure our national helpline and frontline specialist services remain open and accessible to women experiencing domestic abuse,\" Ms Horley said.\n\n\"What is needed now, more than ever, is to ensure every woman experiencing domestic abuse is aware of the confidential support available.\"\n\nMs Horley added that she hopes the campaign will reach \"the tens of thousands of people experiencing domestic abuse\".\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse helpline has seen a spike in calls, with campaigners warning the restrictions in movements as the UK tries to stem the spread of coronavirus could have heightened domestic tensions and limited escape routes.\n\nPressure on other services could also have contributed to the increase, campaigners said.", "On Mal Martin's seventh day in hospital, his family were told to prepare for the worst\n\nA man who was given \"almost zero\" hope of recovery after contracting Covid-19 \"is still with us\", his wife has said.\n\nMal Martin, 58, was taken to Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital a week after \"feeling unwell\" and placed on a ventilator.\n\nHis wife Sue has previously described the agony of having to say goodbye following her husband's prognosis.\n\nBut after 17 days on the ventilator, doctors will start weaning him off it.\n\n\"Incredibly, Mal is still with us,\" 49-year-old Mrs Martin said.\n\n\"Weaning from the ventilator and rehabilitation is going to be an extremely long, slow and painful process, and there are no guarantees that it will be successful, but we are prepared for whatever it brings.\n\n\"We are so, so grateful to the ICU [intensive care unit] team who are continuing to care for Mal. They, and everyone else on the front line, are wonderful human beings.\"\n\nThe family, from South Wales, said they were overwhelmed after getting thousands of hopeful messages of support from people \"rooting for Mal\".\n\n\"Our friends and neighbours have been just incredible, constantly checking in, providing meals, bread, cakes and plants,\" said Mrs Martin.\n\n\"Whilst we are trying to keep our feet on the ground we continue to hope. It doesn't matter how long it takes, we just want him home with us.\"\n\nSue and the children were able to Facetime Mal when he first got admitted to hospital\n\nTheir daughter Hana spoke to BBC Newsbeat about the heartbreak of speaking to her dad on Facetime before he went into intensive care.\n\n\"He said he'd make it through as it wasn't his time. It was at that point calling him and then realising this could be the last time we speak to him,\" she said.\n\n\"The state that he was in, it was just horrible to see my dad like this. He was swollen, his hands swollen, you could see his arteries, his veins.\"\n\nBut now she said they are \"talking about recovery\".\n\n\"It is the first time I've believed he can make it through,\" she added.\n\n\"I don't think we could have asked for any better news considering the situation. Maybe we can even Facetime. At this point I will take anything to just hear his voice or see him again.\"\n\nShe is now helping to emphasise the importance of following government guidelines.\n\n\"The virus doesn't care who you are, how old you are, how healthy you are,\" she said.\n\n\"You have no idea how badly this virus can ruin your life. The only way this can be over is if everyone pulls together and follows the rules.\"", "Epic Games has delayed the release of its new season of Fortnite until June.\n\nChapter 2, Season 3 of Fortnite was scheduled to be released in just two weeks, but the company said it would extend the current season instead.\n\nFortnite is one of the world's most popular video games, attracting millions of players and viewers.\n\nEpic Games would not say why the delay had occurred or if it was related to coronavirus restrictions that have forced developers to work from home.\n\nThis is not the first time though that Fortnite has pushed back the release of a season.\n\nEach season brings updates and changes to the games to keep the players engaged. The goal of Fortnite, like all battle royal games, is to be the last player standing, although players do work in teams throughout most of the game.\n\nIn a blog post announcing the delay to Season 3, the Fortnite team said it would extend and add new features to the current season.\n\n\"We have multiple game updates on the way that will deliver fresh gameplay, new challenges, bonus XP [experience points], and a couple more surprises up our sleeve,\" the company wrote.\n\nThe first season of Chapter 2, launched in October 2019, lasted months longer than predicted as developers hit multiple delays.\n\nA new island was introduced in Season 2 Chapter 1 after Epic pulled the original game offline for several days\n\nBut despite the sometimes slow release of updates Fortnite has remained popular. Like other e-sports and online gaming, it has seen player numbers grow during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"A delay might impact [Fortnite's] viewership in the same way other popular games tend to plateau between updates, but it will ultimately persevere,\" said Doron Nir, co-founder of live streaming services provider StreamElements.\n\nThis is not the first delay the industry has seen during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nGame developers can work from home but there are limitations. Most developers don't have the same processing and graphics power on their home computers that they would have at work. Many companies also require developers to follow strict guidelines to keep new games secret, which can prevent certain updates from taking place outside a company's office.\n\nEpic Games would not comment for the BBC on the reason behind this delay.", "The UK's mobile networks have reported a further 20 cases of phone masts being targeted in suspected arson attacks over the Easter weekend.\n\nTrade group Mobile UK said it had been notified of incidents in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nOne of the targeted sites provides mobile connectivity to a hospital in Birmingham.\n\nThe figure represents a lower incidence rate than had been the case the previous weekend.\n\nMobile UK added it had received no reports of staff being targeted over the period.\n\nAttacks on 5G masts pre-date the coronavirus pandemic. But there are concerns a surge in the amount of vandalism has been caused by conspiracy theories, which falsely claim the deployment of 5G networks has caused or helped accelerate the spread of Covid-19.\n\n\"Theories being spread about 5G are baseless and are not grounded in credible scientific theory,\" said a spokesman for Mobile UK.\n\n\"Mobile operators are dedicated to keeping the UK connected, and careless talk could cause untold damage.\n\n\"Continuing attacks on mobile infrastructure risk lives and, at this challenging time, the UK's critical sectors must be able to focus all their efforts on fighting this pandemic.\"\n\nVodafone said one of the masts attacked was used by patients and staff at a hospital in Birmingham\n\nThe chief executive of Vodafone UK added that one of the targeted sites serves Birmingham's Nightingale hospital.\n\n\"It's heart-rending enough that families cannot be there at the bedside of loved ones who are critically ill,\" wrote Nick Jeffrey on LinkedIn.\n\n\"It's even more upsetting that even the small solace of a phone or video call may now be denied them because of the selfish actions of a few deluded conspiracy theorists.\n\n\"Imagine if it were your mum or dad, your gran or grandad in hospital. Imagine not being able to see or hear them one last time. All because you've swallowed a dangerous lie.\"\n\nThe minister for digital infrastructure had earlier described such attacks as being \"irresponsible and idiotic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Warman MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMobile UK's announcement came hours after media regulator Ofcom said it was assessing comments made by ITV presenter Eamonn Holmes about 5G technology and coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday, he had cast doubt on media reports which had explicitly refuted the myth that the two are linked.\n\nBut this morning, he clarified his position saying: \"There is no connection between the present national health emergency and 5G, and to suggest otherwise would be wrong and indeed it could be dangerous.\"\n\nThere have also been reports of potential cases since the Easter break.\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a phone mast was on fire in Dagenham, Essex.\n\nThe Met police told the Barking and Dagenham Post: \"Some evacuations were carried out as a precaution, but residents have since been allowed to return to their homes. There are no reports of any injuries.\"\n\nPolice in Huddersfield have also said they are trying to determine exactly how a phone mast came to be on fire in the early hours of this morning.\n\nThe fire destroyed communications equipment used by the emergency services as well as three mobile phone network providers, the local fire service said.\n\nRecent attacks on telecoms infrastructure have not been limited to the UK.\n\nOn Saturday, the newspaper De Telegraaf reported there had been four incidents in the Netherlands over the previous week. It said in one case, arsonists had left an anti-5G slogan painted on the damaged equipment.\n\nThere have also been reports of a suspected case in Ireland, where two masts caught fire on Sunday. Network provider Eir said the affected infrastructure was not being used for 5G, but was being upgraded to boost 4G coverage for a nearby hospital and the surrounding area.\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nThere have dozens of reported attacks on telecoms equipment over the past weeks\n\nOne falsely suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other falsely claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nEarlier this year, scientists at the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection completed a major study of related research into the topic.\n\nWhile it recommended slightly tighter limits on the transmitting capabilities of handsets themselves to minimise any chance of damage caused by human tissue being heated, its key finding was that there was no evidence that either 5G networks or earlier systems could cause cancer or other kinds of illness.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought. In any case, Covid-19 is a virus rather than a bacteria.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.", "Sailors have been brought ashore and placed in quarantine Image caption: Sailors have been brought ashore and placed in quarantine\n\nLast week the French defence ministry announced 50 sailors aboard its flagship, the Charles de Gaulle aicraft carrier, had come down with coronavirus symptoms. Authorities sent a medical team to test them and to prevent a major outbreak on the ship.\n\nNow, the ministry has announced that at least 668 sailors have tested positive from the carrier and an escorting frigate, the Chevalier Paul - with only two-thirds of test results in. The ministry said 31 sailors are in hospital.\n\nCharles de Gaulle was on deployment in the Atlantic as part of a Nato exercise. But once the first sailors showed signs of the virus the vessel was ordered back to its base at Toulon.\n\nNearly all the confirmed cases so far are sailors serving on the nuclear-powered carrier. All the ships are now being disinfected, the ministry said.", "Northern Ireland's coronavirus lockdown is to be extended until 9 May, Arlene Foster has said.\n\nThe first minister said the executive had taken its decision after a lengthy meeting on Wednesday.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said now was the time to \"dig in, to stay strong and save lives\".\n\nThe announcement came as six more people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Northern Ireland died in hospital in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt brings the number of hospital deaths in NI to 140.\n\nSince Tuesday, there have been 121 new confirmed cases - the total number of confirmed cases in Northern Ireland is 2,088, with 13,672 individuals tested.\n\nThe first minister said as Northern Ireland remained in the first wave of the virus, it was important to do \"everything we can to reduce the peak\".\n\nIt is understood the executive's decision on whether to continue the lockdown beyond the next three weeks will be reviewed by 9 May, based on the data.\n\nAccording to the government's coronavirus legislation, the need for restrictions must be reviewed at least once every 21 days, with the first review to be carried out by 16 April.\n\nArlene Foster thanked those who had obeyed the restrictions so far\n\nMs O'Neill said she understood the measures were \"severe\" but that the public was only being asked to comply with them to save lives.\n\n\"Our biggest danger in this period is complacency. The measures are showing positive results but if we relax our behaviour, we will be in danger,\" said the deputy first minister.\n\nShe added that as soon as the first wave of the virus is deemed to have passed, the executive would review its decision around restrictions.\n\nMs O'Neill said Northern Ireland was \"still in the surge period\".\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has already extended its lockdown until 5 May.\n\nNew figures released on Wednesday evening showed another 38 people have died there, bringing the total to 444.\n\nAnother 1,068 cases have been confirmed.\n\nFrom Friday, figures for the number of deaths in non-hospital settings are to be released.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) said that, where possible, its weekly report would also state if the deaths took place in care homes.\n\nEarlier, Health Minister Robin Swann said the Covid-19 modelling group's work indicated the impact of the virus may now be \"less severe in the first wave than we had feared\",\n\nHe told the Northern Ireland Assembly that while the majority of people in Northern Ireland were continuing to follow social distancing measures, modelling was by no means a certainty of what would happen next with the virus and he warned against complacency.\n\nModelling had suggested there could be 3,000 deaths in the first wave in Northern Ireland.", "The postponed 2020 Tour de France will now start on 29 August, following the French government's extension of a ban on mass gatherings to mid-July because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCycling's biggest event, won by Team Ineos' Egan Bernal last year, was originally scheduled to run from 27 June to 19 July.\n\n\"Holding this event in the best conditions possible is judged essential given its central place in cycling's economy,\" said the UCI, the sport's governing body.\n\nMany large-scale sporting events scheduled to take place this summer have either been called off, such as Wimbledon, or pushed back by a year, such as football's European Championship and the summer Olympics.\n\nFour-time winner Chris Froome is set to return at this year's Tour, which is set to start in Nice, after he missed the 2019 race following a high-speed accident in which he broke his neck, femur, elbow, hip and ribs.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The news many of us have been waiting for. Some light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nGeraint Thomas, the Briton who won the Tour de France in 2018, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Hopefully those dates can go ahead. I'm super excited about that.\n\n\"The Tour is the pinnacle of the sport. If you ask anyone in the UK for three words to do with cycling, they would be: Tour de France. It would be great for the riders and the teams if it can go ahead. This is why teams exist and that's why sponsorship comes into the sport.\"\n\nHe added: \"The calendar needs to be ironed out. Once we know that we can get back racing again then talks can get under way between everyone. The Tour has to take priority. That's the main event in cycling and then hopefully we can fit other races in around it.\"\n\nCycling's two other three-week Grand Tour races have also been rescheduled for later this year, as part of a plan by the UCI to stage all major cycling races this season.\n\nThe Giro d'Italia - which was scheduled to take place in May - and the Vuelta a Espana, originally set for September, will now be raced after September's World Championships.\n\nThe championships, which will be held in Switzerland, remain in their 20-27 September slot, which means the Tour de France will finish on the same day the week-long championships begin.\n\nThat means the men's World Championship road race will take place one week after the final day of the Tour.\n\nThe postponed 'monument' one-day races - Milan-San Remo, Liege-Bastonge-Liege, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix - \"will all take place this season, at dates still to be defined\", added the statement.\n\nThe UCI cautioned that the calendar will remain dependant on the \"world health situation\", with the body's president David Lappartient saying \"we still have work to do to finalise the establishment of an entirely revised calendar\".\n\nOn 10 April, the UCI furloughed staff and cut the salaries of senior employees as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe women's version of the Tour, La Course by le Tour de France, was initially scheduled to take place over one day on 19 July on the Champs Elysees in Paris.\n\nBut Tour organiser ASO said it will also be postponed and instead take place \"during the Tour de France 2020\".\n\nAs determined as the UCI is, it is hard to see how cycling's governing body is going to fit all these races into this season.\n\nIt appears officials believe the financial implications for cancelling races in 2020 could be so detrimental - to teams and organisers - that they will instead try to push all major events back as far as they can.\n\nBut what is realistic in such an unpredictable situation as the coronavirus crisis evolves? Cycling could yet benefit commercially from being one of the few major sports not to call off much of its 2020 schedule until next year. However, if those events - having been moved - are then cancelled at a later date, there must be further financial implications.\n\nAnd there is already much to sort out on the calendar, so when does the UCI think it can fit in a further six weeks of Grand Tour competition and five 'monument' one-day races around October and November, when most of Europe gets seriously cold and wet?", "Linnette Cruz trained in the Phlippines before moving to Swansea several years ago Image caption: Linnette Cruz trained in the Phlippines before moving to Swansea several years ago\n\nTributes have been paid to a \"highly committed and caring\" dental nurse who has died after being treated for Covid-19.\n\nLinnette Cruz, 51, of Swansea, died on Tuesday after being admitted to the city's Morriston Hospital last month.\n\nThe mother-of-one was a senior head nurse at the Brynteg dental practice in Sketty.\n\nHer death was \"deeply upsetting\" to her family - including her husband Jeonardy and son Jeonard - as well as her friends and colleagues, said Karl Bishop, dental director for Swansea Bay University Health Board.\n\n\"She was a highly committed and caring dental nurse, respected by her colleagues, patients and the communities in which she worked,\" he added.\n\nBrynteg practice owner Nik Patel, said her friends and colleagues were devastated: “She brought love, light and joy to everyone around her and will be sadly missed by all.”", "NHS coronavirus testing (pictured) is not available to most people - and scammers are taking advantage by advertising home testing kits, which are illegal to sell\n\nPeople and businesses should be wary of scammers trying to turn the coronavirus pandemic to their advantage, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned.\n\nScammers have been targeting vulnerable people including those self-isolating at home, the NCA said.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the agency's National Economic Crime Centre, said the virus was increasingly being used as \"a hook to commit fraud\".\n\nIt comes as two people were arrested on suspicion of selling illegal tests.\n\nA 46-year-old pharmacist from Croydon, south London, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of making false and misleading claims about the capability of coronavirus testing kits he had allegedly tried to sell, the NCA said.\n\nOfficers seized £20,000 in cash and searched two properties and a car. The suspect was released on bail.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, investigators arrested a 39-year-old surveyor from Uxbridge, west London, who had allegedly planned to sell 250 testing kits to construction workers.\n\nHe was also held under the Fraud Act, investigators said.\n\nNo home tests have yet been certified under European safety standards - and it is illegal to sell them.\n\nThe use of home testing kits is also not advised by Public Health England.\n\nNikki Holland, NCA director of investigations, said: \"Criminals capitalise on fear and anxiety and they will exploit any opportunity, no matter how awful, to line their pockets.\n\n\"Illegally selling testing kits completely undermines the nation's collective response to the pandemic and actually endangers lives.\"\n\nScammers are targeting people trying to buy medical supplies online and have been sending emails offering fake medical support, the NCA said.\n\nFraudsters have also tried to lure potential victims with pleas to support fake charities, the crime agency added.\n\n\"Covid-19 is increasingly being used as a hook to commit fraud - and we think these offences are likely to increase during the pandemic,\" Mr Biggar said.\n\n\"Individuals and businesses need to be fully prepared for criminals trying to turn the pandemic to their advantage by scamming them out of money.\"\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said it was working with police to protect public health.\n\nTariq Sarwar, head of operations for enforcement at the MHRA, urged the public and healthcare professionals to report any online posts advertising testing products.\n\n\"Always make sure you are buying your medicines from a registered pharmacy or website and your medical devices from reputable retailers,\" he added.\n\nDetails of the two London arrests emerged after a separate international investigation into a multi-million-pound coronavirus mask scam.\n\nThe alleged scam began after a German company tried to buy 10m masks, valued at about €15m (£13m), from online suppliers. An Irish citizen has been questioned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists are trying to work out why coronavirus can affect people in such different ways\n\nA vast store of DNA is being used to study why the severity of symptoms for coronavirus varies so much.\n\nUK Biobank - which contains samples from 500,000 volunteers, as well as detailed information about their health - is now adding Covid-19 data.\n\nIt is hoped genetic differences could explain why some people with no underlying health conditions can develop severe illness.\n\nMore than 15,000 scientists from around the world have access to UK Biobank.\n\nProf Rory Collins, principal investigator of the project, said it would be “a goldmine for researchers”.\n\n“We could go very quickly into getting some very, very important discoveries,” he said.\n\nSome people with coronavirus have no symptoms - and scientists are trying to establish what proportion this is.\n\nOthers have a mild to moderate disease.\n\nBut about one in five people has a much more severe illness and an estimated 0.5-1% die.\n\nUK Biobank has blood, urine and saliva samples from 500,000 volunteers whose health has been tracked over the past decade\n\nAnd it has already helped to answer questions about how diseases such as cancer, stroke and dementia develop.\n\nNow, information about positive coronavirus tests, as well as hospital and GP data, will be added.\n\nProf Collins said: “We’re looking at the data in UK Biobank to understand the differences between those individuals.\n\n“What are the differences in their genetics? Are there differences in the genes related to their immune response? Are there differences in their underlying health?\n\n“So it is a uniquely rich set of data - and I think we will transform our understanding of the disease.”\n\nSmall genetic differences could explain why some people become very ill\n\nFor what will scientists be looking?\n\nResearchers will be scouring the entire genome, searching for tiny variations in DNA.\n\nOne area of particular interest is the ACE2 gene, which helps make a receptor that allows the virus to enter and infect cells in airways.\n\nWhat about healthy people who become very ill?\n\nIn addition to the UK Biobank study, a team led by Prof Jean-Laurent Casanova, from the Rockefeller University, in New York, is planning to study people under 50 with no underlying medical conditions who are taken into intensive care units.\n\nHe told BBC News: “We are recruiting these patients worldwide, almost in every country.\n\n“We have sequencing hubs distributed all over the world.\n\n\"They collect samples, they sequence the genomes of these patients,and then together we analyse them.”\n\nPast research has shown some diseases, including flu and herpes, can make people with genetic variations - or inborn errors of immunity, as Prof Casanova calls them - especially ill.\n\n“There are surprising inborn errors of immunity that render human beings specifically vulnerable to one microbe,\" he said.\n\n“And this inborn error of immunity can be silent, latent, for decades, until infection by that particular microbe.\n\n“What our programme does is to essentially test whether this idea also applies to Covid.”\n\nScientists from all over the world are hoping to understand more from patients' sequenced genomes\n\nWho else is looking at coronavirus genetics?\n\nProf Andrea Ganna, from the University of Helsinki, in Finland, is leading a major effort to pull together genetic information on coronavirus patients from around the world.\n\n“There are long-standing studies, involving hundreds of thousands of people, and other smaller ones collecting data on patients who test positive,\" he said.\n\n\"It’s such a huge diversity and there are a lot of countries involved and we will try to centralise it.”\n\nIn Iceland, for example, Decode Genetics has sequenced the genomes of about half the population.\n\nIt is now carrying out mass testing for coronavirus.\n\nAnd every time someone tests positive, it then sequences the DNA genetic code of the virus to see how it changes as it spreads.\n\nChief executive Dr Kari Stefansson said: “There is the possibility that the diversity in people’s response to the virus is rooted in the sequence diversity of the virus itself - that we may have many strains of the virus in our community and some of them are more aggressive than others.\n\n“The other possibility is that this may be rooted in genetic diversity in a patient. Or it may be a combination of both.”", "Apple has announced a new iPhone SE, reviving a mid-market brand it had discontinued in 2018.\n\nIt resembles the form of 2017's iPhone 8 with a 4.7in screen, and a fingerprint ID sensor but not a depth camera for facial recognition.\n\nIt is powered by the same processor as the flagship iPhone 11 Pro, but lacks multiple rear cameras.\n\nThe handset costs the same as the original SE in the US, but is more expensive in other markets.\n\nThe iPhone SE is priced at $399 in the US and £419 in the UK.\n\nOne analyst said that having a mid-range phone again could help Apple compete for new customers against rivals such as Samsung and Google, which have a strong presence in that market sector.\n\n\"Once you buy an iPhone you are more likely to buy another one,\" said Dan Iver from Wedbush Securities.\n\nDespite Covid-19 causing lower demand, smartphone makers continue to release models. Earlier this week, OnePlus unveiled new models, and last month Huawei launched its flagship P40 range.\n\nIn February, Apple warned that the coronavirus lockdown in China would impact iPhone production and lower sales.\n\nBut Mr Iver expects the phone to sell between 20 million and 25 million units in the first six to nine months.\n\n\"Apple's hands are almost being forced to bring this out because from a supply chain perspective it was ready,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that while competitors might be similarly priced, \"Apple is this golden brand\".\n\nThe device supports wireless charging. Its rear-facing camera's resolution is 12 megapixels and can still create background blur in portrait photos, despite lacking a second lens. The selfie camera is 7MP.\n\nMobile analyst Carolina Milanesi also said Apple's brand appeal would help it in this price range.\n\n\"The second-hand market is pretty vibrant for Apple so are there users who have never have a new iPhone that will want one, and can afford it at this price,\" said the Creative Strategies consultant.\n\nBut she also warned: \"I think the phone has to have some compromises. It can't be too close to the iPhone 11 or a iPhone XR - or what is the point?\"\n\nThe iPhone SE goes on sale on 24 April.", "The Financial Conduct Authority has ordered insurance companies to pay out claims to firms \"as soon as possible\" or explain themselves to the watchdog.\n\nThe FCA has told insurers if there are reasonable grounds to pay part of a claim but not the full claim, they must make an interim payment.\n\nIf not, insurers must tell the FCA how they reached the decision and how it is \"a fair outcome for customers\".\n\nThe move is aimed at relieving pressure on firms during the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\n\"A key objective of the FCA is to ensure that financial pressures on policyholders are not exacerbated by slow payment, rather, such claims should be paid as soon as is possible,\" the FCA's interim chief executive, Christopher Woolard, told insurers in a letter.\n\n\"This is consistent with the wider objective of the authorities to support business and consumers during the current crisis.\"\n\nThe letter is targeted at insurers in relation to claims from small and medium firms for business interruption cover and does not address individuals' policies.\n\nA spokesperson for the Association of British Insurers said: \"Insurers recognise this is a worrying time for all businesses and ABI members are committed to swift payment of valid claims and interim payments to their customers.\"\n\nMr Woolard admitted that following conversations with insurers, it was clear that most business interruption policies held by small and medium-sized businesses only had basic cover which did not include pandemics and therefore insurers had no obligation to pay out in relation to Covid-19.\n\n\"While this may be disappointing for the policyholder, we see no reasonable grounds to intervene in such circumstances,\" he said.\n\nSome firms have warned they are at risk of collapse due to insurers failing to cover losses as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBusinessman Simon Ager who runs the Pinnacle Climbing Centre in Northampton, is one of a number of business owners who have said they might take legal action against insurers Hiscox, which has said it will not pay business interruption claims resulting from the outbreak.\n\nMr Ager's policy covers the climbing centre for losses of up to £100,000 if it is forced to close in certain circumstances, although he says the lockdown is likely to cost him more than that.\n\nHiscox's policy documents says it will cover financial losses for businesses which are unable to use their premises following \"an occurrence of any human infectious or human contagious disease, an outbreak of which must be notified to the local authority\".\n\nBut Hiscox says the insurance industry does not have enough money to cover all the losses that will emerge as a result of the lockdown.\n\n\"Business interruption policies across the industry were never intended to cover pandemic risks,\" a spokeswoman said, noting that the insurer's lawyers do not think the pandemic is covered by its business interruption policies.\n\nInstead, the insurer argues that the policy was intended to cover incidents that occur only within a mile of a business - not across the whole country - or outbreaks such as Legionnaires' disease on the premises.\n\nThe FCA said that smaller companies, classed as firms with turnover of less than £6.5m and fewer than 50 employees, could take complaints to the Financial Ombudsman.\n\nMr Woolard added that the City watchdog had set up a small business unit, responsible for \"gathering intelligence about the treatment of small businesses by financial services firms during the crisis and ensuring a co-ordinated response by the FCA to any issues identified\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be Britain's oldest patient to recover from coronavirus, has been discharged from hospital.\n\nConnie Titchen was applauded by staff as she left Birmingham's City Hospital on Tuesday, after three weeks.\n\nRetired shop worker Ms Titchen, from the city, was admitted in mid-March with suspected pneumonia, the hospital said.\n\nShe said: \"I feel very lucky that I've fought off this virus.\"\n\nIn a statement released by Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Ms Titchen said she could not \"wait to see\" her family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SWBH NHS Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe trust said it believed Ms Titchen was Britain's oldest patient to overcome coronavirus.\n\nAlex Jones described her grandmother as someone who bounced back from anything, adding: \"She has had a really active life. She loved to dance, cycle and play golf.\n\n\"She has always cooked for herself too, although she likes a cheeky McDonald's every now and then. I haven't told her they are closed.\n\nConnie Titchen said she felt \"very lucky that I've fought off this virus\"\n\n\"I think the secret of her old age is that she is physically active and very independent.\n\n\"She had a hip operation back in December and within 30 days she was walking again.\"\n\nMs Jones added: \"The care she has received at the hospital has been brilliant and I can't fault it.\n\n\"I want to thank the staff for all they have done for her during her stay.\"\n\nSister Kelly Smith, who looked after the great-grandmother of eight, said: \"It's been fantastic to see Connie recover.\n\n\"She is amazing and we've been doing our best to nurse her back to health. It's nice to see patients leave our ward after having beaten this virus.\"", "The global economy will contract by 3% this year as countries around the world shrink at the fastest pace in decades, the International Monetary Fund says.\n\nThe IMF described the global decline as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nIt said the pandemic had plunged the world into a \"crisis like no other\".\n\nThe Fund added that a prolonged outbreak would test the ability of governments and central banks to control the crisis.\n\nGita Gopinath, the IMF's chief economist, said the crisis could knock $9 trillion (£7.2 trillion) off global GDP over the next two years.\n\nWhile the Fund's latest World Economic Outlook praised the \"swift and sizeable\" response in countries like the UK, Germany, Japan and the US, it said no country would escape the downturn.\n\nIt expects global growth to rebound to 5.8% next year if the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020.\n\nMs Gopinath said today's \"Great Lockdown\" presented a \"grim reality\" for policymakers, who faced \"severe uncertainty about the duration and intensity of the shock\".\n\n\"A partial recovery is projected for 2021,\" said Ms Gopinath. \"But the level of GDP will remain below the pre-virus trend, with considerable uncertainty about the strength of the rebound.\n\n\"Much worse growth outcomes are possible and maybe even likely.\"\n\nThe IMF predicts the UK economy will shrink by 6.5% in 2020, compared with the IMF's January forecast for 1.4% GDP growth.\n\nA decline of this magnitude would be bigger than the 4.2% drop in output seen in the wake of the financial crisis.\n\nIt would also represent the biggest annual fall since 1921, according to reconstructed Bank of England data dating back to the 18th century.\n\nHowever, this is half the annual rate expected by the OBR, which expects GDP to drop by 35% in the three months to June.\n\nThe UK's furlough scheme, which is designed to keep workers in a job amid the government lockdown, is expected to limit the rise in unemployment to 4.8% in 2020, from 3.8% last year.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged billions of pounds in wage subsidies and loan guarantees to help workers and businesses through the shutdown.\n\nThe Bank of England has also slashed interest rates to a new low and freed up billions of pounds for commercial banks to lend.\n\nMs Gopinath said that for the first time since the Great Depression, both advanced and developing economies were expected to fall into recession.\n\nThe IMF warned that growth in advanced economies would not get back to its pre-virus peak until at least 2022.\n\nThe US economy is expected to contract by 5.9% this year, representing the biggest annual decline since 1946. Unemployment in the US is also expected to jump to 10.4% this year.\n\nA partial recovery is expected in 2021, with expected US growth of 4.7%.\n\nThe Chinese economy is expected to expand by just 1.2% this year, which would be the slowest growth since 1976. Australia is expected to suffer its first recession since 1991.\n\nThe IMF warned that there were \"severe risks of a worse outcome\".\n\nIt said that if the pandemic took longer to control and there was a second wave in 2021, this would knock an additional 8 percentage points off global GDP.\n\nThe Fund said this scenario could trigger a downward spiral in heavily-indebted economies.\n\nIt said investors might be unwilling to lend to some of these nations, which would push up borrowing costs.\n\nThe IMF added: \"This increase in sovereign borrowing costs or simply fear of it materialising, could prevent many countries from providing the income support assumed here.\"\n\nWhile longer lockdowns will constrain economic activity, the IMF said quarantines and social distancing measures were vital.\n\nIt said: \"Upfront containment measures are essential to slow the spread of the virus and allow health care systems to cope and to help pave the way for an earlier and more robust resumption of economic activity.\n\n\"Uncertainty and reduced demand for services could be even worse in a scenario of greater spread without social distancing\"\n\nThe IMF set out four priorities for dealing with the pandemic.\n\nIt called for more money for health care systems, financial support for workers and businesses, continued central bank support and a clear exit plan for the recovery.\n\nIt urged the world to work together to find and distribute treatments and a vaccine.\n\nThe Fund added that many developing nations would need debt relief in the coming months and years.\n• None Four out of five jobs affected by virus globally", "High Street fashion chains Oasis and Warehouse have fallen into administration, leading to more than 200 immediate job losses.\n\nSome 1,800 staff across the shops, concessions and head office will be furloughed and receive 80% of pay.\n\nThe brands will continue to be sold online \"short-term\" while the administrators try to sell the brand.\n\nAdministrator Deloitte said the coronavirus had had a \"devastating effect on the entire retail industry\".\n\nThe owner of the High Street brands, Icelandic bank Kaupthing, had been in talks to sell the businesses before the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHowever, the crisis, which has seen many shops temporarily close, made the sale untenable.\n\nRob Harding, joint administrator at Deloitte, said it had seen \"significant interest from potential buyers\", but that it had not been possible to save the business \"in its current form\".\n\n\"As administrators, we appreciate the cooperation and support from the management, employees, customers, landlords and suppliers, whilst we investigate options for the business. This is clearly an unprecedented and difficult time,\" he added.\n\nHash Ladha, the chief executive of Oasis Warehouse, said: \"This is a situation that none of us could have predicted a month ago, and comes as shocking and difficult news for all of us.\n\n\"We as a management team have done everything we can to try and save the iconic brands that we love.\"\n\nThere is expected to be interest from bidders to buy the business, a source said on Tuesday, but with the current economic uncertainty, it is not clear how many jobs ultimately could be saved.\n\nDeloitte has furloughed 1,800 of the employees under the government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, while 41 head office roles will be kept on to help the administrators.\n\nThe chains were forced to shut their 92 UK stores because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe group also has 437 concessions in department stores including Debenhams and Selfridges.\n\nOasis and Warehouse, along with fellow group members The Idle Man and Bastyan Fashions, have gone into administration.\n\nOperations in Ireland, Sweden and worldwide franchise partners are not in administration.\n\nHigh Street retailers in the UK were facing a tough environment before the crisis, because of rising costs and changes in people's shopping habits.\n\nBut the temporary closure of many shops during the coronavirus pandemic has heaped more pressure on retailers.\n\nIndependent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.\n\nSome retailers, such as Primark, have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nMeanwhile, fashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nLast week, department store chain Debenhams, which employs about 22,000 staff, confirmed it had entered administration for the second time in a year.\n\nIts 142 UK stores remain closed in line with government guidance and the firm said it would work to \"reopen and trade as many stores as possible\" when restrictions end.\n\nAt the same time, floral fashion firm Cath Kidston filed for administration, putting 950 jobs at risk.\n\nKathleen Brooks, founder and director of consultancy Minerva Analysis, said that while a number of retailers had been struggling for some time, \"the difference now is there aren't necessarily buyers to buy them, so in this environment, they may go under.\n\n\"They may cease to exist because no one is willing to take a punt on the retail sector, which really seems to be at the epicentre of this coronavirus crisis from an economic point of view.\"", "The government has given formal approval for construction work on the HS2 rail project to begin despite lockdown measures.\n\nConstruction firms involved in phase one of the high-speed rail project will need to follow social distancing rules.\n\nHS2 minister Andrew Stephenson said: \"We cannot delay work on our long-term plan to level up the country.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson approved the decision to build the rail link in February after a review into its cost.\n\nMatthew Kilcoyne, deputy director of the free-market Adam Smith Institute, called the government's announcement \"tone-deaf\" in the light of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Kilcoyne said: \"We've got an economic crisis that's going to cost taxpayers billions. We can't afford vanity projects like HS2.\n\n\"We need to get back on to a sustainable financial footing.\"\n\nThe government's official report previously warned that the project could cost more than £100bn and be up to five years behind schedule.\n\nOn Tuesday Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the coronavirus pandemic \"will have serious implications for the UK economy\".\n\nHe spoke after the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimated that a three-month lockdown would hit GDP and push up the UK's borrowing bill to an estimated £273bn this financial year.\n\nOnce built, London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport\n\nHS2 minister Andrew Stephenson said: \"This next step provides thousands of construction workers and businesses across the country with certainty at a time when they need it.\"\n\nA notice to proceed has been given to four joint ventures, which will start work immediately, according to a statement by the Department for Transport (DfT).\n\nThe announcement was welcomed by the boss of the Construction Industry Council, Graham Watts. \"The notice to proceed with HS2 is welcome at this time, particularly for the benefit of the economy,\" he said.\n\n\"When the current crisis is over, planned recovery is vital and major infrastructural work such as HS2 and from Highways England, together with a recovery in housebuilding, is a key instrument for kickstarting the wider economy.\"\n\nMark Thurston, chief executive of HS2 Ltd, said: \"The issuing of notice to proceed today ensures that our contractors and their supply chains have the confidence that they can commit to building HS2, generating thousands of skilled jobs across the country as we recover from the pandemic.\"\n\nConstruction workers on-site will need to observe Public Health England's advice on social distancing during the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe GMB union, which represents HS2 construction workers, said that the safety of the workforce \"must be the overriding priority\".\n\nEamon O'Hearn, its national officer, said that construction should be \"conditional on rigorous observation of social distancing, provision of personal protective equipment where required\", as well as individual risk assessments for vulnerable workers.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the project will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy through investment in transport links outside London.\n\nHS2 minister Mr Stephenson added: \"HS2 will be the spine of the country's transport network, boosting capacity and connectivity, while also rebalancing opportunity fairly across our towns and cities.\"", "Protective gowns and masks could be reused by health workers under \"last resort\" coronavirus plans revealed in a leaked Public Health England document.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC also showed that some hospitals have begun laundering single-use gowns to preserve stocks.\n\nThe British Medical Association said this \"underlines the urgency\" of protective equipment shortages.\n\nPublic Health England said the safe reuse of items was being considered.\n\nHowever, it said no decisions had been made.\n\nA document seen by the BBC has revealed new details of plans to tackle shortages of personal protective equipment, known as PPE.\n\nIt is understood that the chief medical officers and chief nurses of the four UK nations recently discussed the issue.\n\nFollowing the meeting, a draft document written by Public Health England and dated 13 April suggested solutions for \"acute supply shortages\" of PPE.\n\n\"These are last-resort alternatives, but given the current in-country stock and the reduced ability to re-supply, we are suggesting that these are implemented until confirmation of adequate re-supply is in place\", it said.\n\nThe document said some of the last-resort measures would need to be reviewed and approved by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIn the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of vaporised hydrogen peroxide to decontaminate certain masks.\n\nIt is understood that the infection and prevention and control team at NHS England believe the Health and Safety Executive should be responsible for reviewing the guidance in this area.\n\nNHS staff use an app to request crucial PPE and managers also have access to a government hotline.\n\nEmails seen by the BBC also showed some hospitals have trialled and begun reusing single-use, fluid repellent gowns that they have laundered.\n\nDiscussions are understood to be taking place about whether to ask local launderettes to re-open to process the cleaning of gowns.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, council chair of the British Medical Association, said: \"This underlines the urgency with which we need this situation sorted.\n\n\"The government must be honest about PPE supplies.\n\n\"If [Public Heath England] is proposing the reuse of equipment, it needs to be demonstrably driven by science and the best evidence in keeping with international standards, rather than by availability, and with absolutely no compromise to the protection of healthcare workers.\"\n\nIn a statement, Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England, said: \"PPE is a precious resource and it is crucial that everyone in health and social care has access to the right protective equipment.\n\n\"All options are being considered to ensure this, including the safe reuse of items, but no decisions have been made.\"\n\nThe HSE said it was right that, where possible, \"strategies for optimising the supply of PPE should be explored\".\n\n\"We are discussing with Public Health England ways in which pressure can be eased on the supply chain. This includes potentially reusing certain equipment where it is safe to do so,\" it said.", "The US, like other countries, is grappling with shortages of medical supplies, but shies away from central directives\n\nIn a normal year Michael Rubin's athletic apparel factory in Pennsylvania would be ramping up for the start of baseball season, churning out team uniforms and clothing to sell to fans. Instead his company, Fanatics, has remade itself into a gown and mask manufacturer for hospitals facing shortages of protective gear as they fight the coronavirus.\n\nFanatics isn't alone. Thousands of companies across the US have responded to pleas for help from hospitals facing shortages of critical health supplies.\n\nClothing companies like Gap and Hanes are making gowns and scrubs. Ford and General Motors are repurposing fans and batteries, typically used in cars, to make ventilators. Boeing and Apple are making face shields. Luxury brands, distilleries - even state prisoners - are producing hand sanitiser.\n\n\"We felt it was our responsibility to help pitch in,\" says Mr Rubin. Firms responding in what he calls this \"dire time of need\" aren't necessarily going to profit from the enterprise but they are proving a point: The private sector is famously good at responding nimbly and quickly to changing demands.\n\nThe shortages in the US are are not unique, nor is the response from the private sector.\n\nIn the UK, engineering firm Dyson has designed a new ventilator; in France, Chanel is contributing masks; in Germany, Volkswagen and other firms are manufacturing protective equipment.\n\nBut the White House has been notably hands-off when it comes to establishing any co-ordinated, centralised response, says Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. This has led to a free-for-all, as local governments and hospitals competed to buy products or find donations, scam artists emerged, and prices skyrocketed.\n\nThe US has allowed \"pure capitalism to serve as an incentive\" says Dr Sanders.\n\n\"Companies want to step up to the plate and so many are. I really applaud them, but I also find it even more frustrating because I see the chaos.\"\n\nIn the European Union, the shortages were caused by inadequate reserves of equipment, as coronavirus cases surged and shipments from overseas were delayed. But in the US, which has a national stockpile of supplies, including badly-needed ventilators, a slow federal response has added to the problem, says Prashant Yadav, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a professor at INSEAD.\n\n\"Outcomes are pretty bad in both [Europe and America], but in one place they don't have large resources in a stockpile. They didn't have a large manufacturing base,\" he says. \"Our decision-making wasn't working right or our coordinating mechanisms weren't working right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConverting factories to make basic products like sanitiser or masks isn't necessarily that difficult or expensive. Mr Rubin's factory shipped its first masks within three days and now produces about 10,000 daily.\n\nBut getting companies to start making machines like ventilators - which have dozens of parts sourced globally - is far more complex and requires government intervention, says Dr Sanders.\n\nWhile some states, including California, have voluntarily sent existing ventilators to virus hotspots like New York, Dr Sanders says a national response is needed, to ensure there is a clear inventory of what's on hand and the ability to shift resources to the places that need it most.\n\n\"This is supply chain 101 ... it's not like it's really that hard,\" she says. \"The lack of coordinated national response is really infuriating.\"\n\nUnder pressure to act, President Donald Trump has targeted some companies with orders to produce items in high demand and banned exports of medical supplies. Federal health officials also announced a $50m deal with General Motors to produce 30,000 ventilators.\n\nBut for weeks Mr Trump resisted using the full extent of his authority to compel firms to produce equipment and prioritise deliveries.\n\nMr Trump has suggested a government report about shortages was politically motivated\n\n\"We're a country not based on nationalising our business,\" he said last month. \"Call a person over in Venezuela. Ask them, how did nationalisation of their businesses work out? Not too well. The concept of nationalising our business is not a good concept.\"\n\nNew York Senator Chuck Schumer, a leading Democrat, last week called on the president to appoint a national 'czar' to oversee distribution and production. \"The hunting and pecking isn't working,\" he told reporters.\n\nIt is not clear that the president will change tack.\n\nLuckily in some places the private sector efforts are coming through. St Luke's University Health Network, which worked with Fanatics to design its masks, now has about 30 days worth of protective gear on hand, says vice president Chad Brisendine. Contributions from non-traditional suppliers account for \"a quarter or more\" of that.\n\n\"Between the external, local, non-traditional suppliers, plus the donations, that really helped us,\" Mr Brisendine says.\n\nBut the Pennsylvania hospital system has still been forced to introduce new cleaning procedures so it can reuse masks and other equipment more intensively, he adds.\n\nMr Brisendine says he's worried the wider needs are so great, even a stronger federal response wouldn't resolve the problems his health network now faces.\n\n\"I just wonder how fast they can move,\" he says. \"When you need it, you needed it yesterday.\"", "All care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms will be tested for coronavirus as laboratory capacity increases, the government has promised.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"determined\" to ensure everyone who needed a test had access to one.\n\nProf Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, welcomed the pledge but predicted \"logistical challenges\".\n\nIt comes as a further 761 hospital deaths were announced in the UK, bringing the total to 12,868.\n\nCare providers been calling for more testing for weeks, amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.\n\nAt the moment only the first five residents who show symptoms in a care home are tested, to determine whether there is an outbreak of the virus.\n\nProviders have also complained that deaths among residents were being \"airbrushed\" out of official figures and demanded greater support for the industry.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is urging the government to publish an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nSir Keir said his party would support the government if, as expected, it extends lockdown measures later this week. But he called for more transparency about how and when the rules will be relaxed.\n\nOn Wednesday, 651 new deaths were announced in England, 84 in Scotland, 60 in Wales and six in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe totals can differ from the number reported by the Department of Health and Social Care for the whole of the UK, as they are based on different reporting periods.\n\nBBC head of statistics Robert Cuffe said only Scotland and Wales had seen a post-weekend spike in deaths due to delays in reporting caused by the Easter weekend, giving hope that the daily death toll had stopped rising.\n\n\"The overall picture for the UK is almost a week with no growth in the number of deaths announced every day. This adds to the evidence that the lockdown has stopped the growth of the coronavirus,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that more data was needed to know for sure, and the high number of deaths remained a shocking and sad feature of daily life.\n\nIn theory, increasing the amount of testing in care homes will be certainly possible as capacity increases.\n\nOver the next 10 days, extra facilities from commercial partners are expected to become available.\n\nThe most tests carried out in one day is 18,000. Doing around 50,000 a day certainly looks possible in the coming weeks, but the 100,000 a day pledged by the government will be a stretch.\n\nLogistically, delivering the testing will remain challenging. More than 400,000 frail and vulnerable people are spread across more than 15,000 locations in England alone.\n\nCompare that to around 200 hospitals and it is easy to see how difficult it will be to get out to homes to carry out the tests and then process them quickly enough.\n\nGovernment officials have always recognised care homes will be the weakest link in the chain of protection they have tried to wrap around the British public.\n\nThe nature of care home residents, many of whom struggle with dementia, means it can be difficult for them to follow social distancing and good hand hygiene guidance.\n\nThey rely on care home staff for intimate personal care, putting both staff and residents at risk as soon as the virus gets into a home.\n\nNow the virus is circulating in care homes, slowing the spread and saving lives is going to be incredibly difficult.\n\nEvery year around 150,000 care home residents die - the fear now is that the number could increase dramatically.\n\nAll these sets of figures are only for deaths in hospital. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, which includes every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed 406 such deaths registered up to 3 April had occurred outside of hospitals - 217 of them in care homes.\n\nThe number is expected to have increased since then.\n\nIn Scotland, there have been 237 deaths in care homes with coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate, according to figures released on Wednesday.\n\nBritain's largest care home operator, HC-One, said the virus represented about one-third of all deaths at HC-One's care homes over the last three weeks. And MHA, a charity which operates 131 homes, said it had recorded 210 coronavirus-related deaths to date.\n\nClaire Rencher, manager of Veronica House Nursing Home in Tipton, in the West Midlands, told the BBC that some residents had gone to A&E and come back without being tested.\n\nShe said she did not feel the home was getting the support it needed from government, while staff said they felt \"vulnerable\", especially due to the lack of PPE.\n\nMr Hancock said he would ensure anyone in a care home with symptoms of the virus, as well as any new care home residents being discharged from hospital into care, would be tested.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) is co-ordinating the effort and will offer tests to the UK's 30,000 care providers by the end of the week, the Department for Health and Social Care said.\n\nGail Grant is worried about the virus reaching Ian's care home\n\nGail Grant, from Swindon in Wiltshire, has not been able to visit her husband Ian for three weeks.\n\nIan, a former dentist, has dementia and lives in a care home in Marlborough, some 12 miles away. He turned 70 this month.\n\n\"Because of his cognitive level, we can't Skype or talk on the phone. He doesn't have any understanding of the situation and doesn't really know us anymore. But it's more me - I'm aware I'm not going to see him,\" Dr Grant says.\n\n\"They say they don't have any cases at the moment at his home. But I think it's a matter of time. And when any carers go down with it, it will be a difficult situation.\"\n\nShe says of the official figures currently just including hospital deaths: \"What right do they have to withhold information that should be in the public domain?\"\n\nProf Green said the roll-out poses a \"major challenge\" and stressed the need to make sure there are enough tests, and to work out how to carry out tests in care homes while keeping residents safe.\n\nHe said the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) has \"started to improve\" but that there has been \"conflicting guidance\" about how it is used.\n\nSocial care minister Helen Whately told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government had delivered more than 7 million facemasks to care providers, set up an emergency supply line to contact for PPE, and distributed stocks to local resilience forums.\n\nShe said they have done a \"a huge amount to help get PPE to the front line\" but acknowledged it was still \"worrying\" for places where stocks were running low.\n\nMr Hancock is set to give further details of the testing scheme when the government's coronavirus social care action plan is outlined on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peterborough care home boss moves in as third of residents die\n\nThe government said its increased tests in care homes will bring it closer to the target of completing 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nThe latest figures show a total of 302,599 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the UK.\n\nDr Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics, told BBC Newsnight the government was \"nowhere near\" hitting its target.\n\nDo you work in a care home? Or do you or your relative live in a care home? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A cleaning company has started sanitising public spaces free of charge in a bid to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nJake Anthony, 27, and his friends have volunteered to clean areas of Southampton city centre still used by the public, like bus stops and post boxes.\n\nHe has also sanitised public areas at Southampton General Hospital.\n\nAt the moment, Public Health England advises decontamination only where there has been a possible or confirmed case of the virus.", "The first case was reported at the home, which has 140 residents, on 23 March\n\nTwenty-four residents have died at a care home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEight people who died at Bradwell Hall Nursing Home in Newcastle-under-Lyme - the largest care home in Staffordshire - tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nOthers died after suffering \"pneumonia-like symptoms\" but were not tested.\n\nThere are a further 10 elderly residents and one member of staff who are self-isolating after testing positive for the disease.\n\nEdward Twigge, owner of the home, said the past three weeks have been \"truly heart-breaking for everyone involved\".\n\nThe first case was reported at the home, which has 140 residents, on 23 March.\n\nIt has since been working with Staffordshire County Council, Public Health England (PHE) and the NHS during and has been closed to new admissions for more than three weeks.\n\nThe home implemented cleansing, self-shielding and self-isolation measures on PHE's advice once symptoms developed in residents and care workers, said Dr Nic Coetzee from PHE West Midlands.\n\nOf the 414 members of staff, 100 were self-isolating once the first cases were discovered. The remaining staff are having their temperature taken every day when they come to work.\n\nOver the same time period last year, there were five deaths at the home.\n\nDr Richard Harling, the council's director of health and care, said: \"Our thoughts are of course with all those who have lost a loved one, but I would also thank the home, the families and staff for doing everything they can to support and care for these residents in these very difficult times.\"\n\nMr Twigge said: \"We look after some of the most frail and elderly people and it is always upsetting when someone passes away.\n\n\"However, the last three weeks have been truly heart-breaking for everyone involved with the home. Our thoughts are still very much with the families of the lovely residents we have sadly lost.\n\n\"I would also like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful staff for their hard work and dedication during these difficult times.\"\n\nThanking people for their support, Mr Twigge added there were clearly still \"a difficult few days and weeks to get through\".\n\nThe government has said all care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms will be tested for coronavirus as laboratory capacity increases.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DJ Fatboy Slim has said he will host a free concert for NHS workers and \"blue light\" staff after the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nThe gig will take place on 28 October at The Brighton Centre.\n\nThe DJ, real name Norman Cook, said: \"By the time life returns to normal we will all want to celebrate together and I would like to do my bit to reward and thank everyone who has been holding our lives together in these most difficult of times.\"\n\nTickets are available from Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGSK and Sanofi, two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical giants, are joining forces to try and create a vaccine to stop the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe bad news is that the vaccine - even if it is successful - will not be ready till the second half of next year.\n\nGSK's chief executive Emma Walmsley told the BBC that vaccines usually take a decade to develop and test.\n\nA plan to make a vaccine available in just 18 months was a huge acceleration of the normal process, she said.\n\nGSK is also involved in a tie-up with the UK's other pharma giant AstraZeneca to help the government hit its target of conducting 100,000 tests by the end of April.\n\nEmma Walmsley said she hoped that the UK's two biggest pharmaceutical companies could help provide 30,000 daily tests by the beginning of May.\n\nA substantial contribution but leaving some way to go to hit the target.\n\nGSK also said it would channel any profits made from its vaccine programme into increased research and development into future virus threats.\n\nWhen asked whether it was appropriate for any company to profit from a global emergency Emma Walmsley promised that the company would not show any net profit from vaccine sales and along with future research investment, GSK would use any profits to subsidise vaccine deliveries to developing countries.\n\nOther groups have promised faster vaccine results. Sarah Gilbert, an Oxford University professor engaged in a separate search for a vaccine, said she was \"80 per cent confident\" her team's development would work by autumn.\n\nThere are more than 20 vaccines currently in development. Among those under way at the moment are:\n\nGSK boss Walmsley said she wished other companies and partnerships good luck in developing their own solutions.\n\nBut she also said that they were uniquely placed to bring expertise, complementary science and - perhaps most importantly - manufacturing muscle to produce a desperately needed vaccine in the quantities needed.\n• None The vaccines that work - and the others on the way", "More than 200,000 more employees could now be furloughed following changes to the government scheme to help pay people's wages.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which covers 80% of workers' pay, will take applications from Monday from companies which have laid off workers.\n\nInitially, it only supported those already employed on February 28. The cut-off date is now to 19 March.\n\nHowever, many recently employed workers will still miss out.\n\nWorkers need to have been on the payroll by 19 March - the day before the scheme was first announced. This will not cover people who were not put on the PAYE system until later in the month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrian Buzer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmployers would need to have notified HM Revenue and Customs that a new employee was on the payroll. This is done through the Real Time Information (RTI) system which updates the tax authority when someone is paid.\n\nSo somebody paid late in March is unlikely to be covered by their current employer.\n\nHowever, the Treasury wants to guard against businesses hiring \"ghost\" employees to fraudulently claim furlough payments.\n\nThe plight of new starters has prompted a campaign for them to be included in the furlough scheme by unions, opposition parties, and the workers themselves.\n\nHMRC has promised to release wages for furloughed workers by the end of April. The scheme currently runs until 1 June.\n\nBut there are fears firms could start to cut staff unless the government soon clarifies whether the scheme will be extended.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said it is worried companies will be forced to start redundancy procedures this Saturday to comply with the minimum 45-day consultation period.\n\nCBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn, said: \"We are very concerned that businesses will be forced into a position potentially of having to make people permanently redundant.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the scheme, which pays wages for March, April and May, could run for longer.\n\n\"The scheme is open for an initial three months and we hope conditions will improve sufficiently during this period. However, the Chancellor has been clear he will review extending it for longer if necessary,\" said a Treasury spokesperson.\n\nBut Ms Fairbairn said businesses need clarity from the government before 18 April: \"What we are saying to government is that firms need to be able to plan.\n\n\"These are massive decisions being taken on a day-to-day basis that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and having that clarity of a 45-day notice period for business is absolutely vital.\"\n\nHMRC chief executive Jim Harra told the BBC's Today programme that the chancellor Rishi Sunak \"has been clear that if it needs to be extended then he will look to do that\".\n\nMr Harra added that the system through which companies can claim funding to pay their furloughed workers will be accessible from Monday.\n\nHe said he was \"confident\" employers will get the money in time to pay people by the end of the month.\n\n\"Most employers run their payroll on the last banking day of the month which would be 30 April and there is time to get your claims in in time and to get money before then,\" he said.\n\nSome people who changed jobs around this time have found themselves without any income.\n\nFelicity Williams, age 30, handed in her notice at the Richmond-on-Thames estate agency where she worked on 27 February, with her last day set for 28 March.\n\n\"Obviously between those two dates it became apparent that the coronavirus was going to shut things down and there would be some difficulties with me starting my new job on 1 April,\" she said.\n\nFelicity Williams has unsuccessfully asked her former employer four times to furlough her\n\nAlthough government guidelines state that Ms Williams can go back to her previous employer and ask them to furlough her, she said the company is unwilling to help.\n\n\"I've been to them four times now and pleaded with them to re-employ me and put me on furlough, just so I've got some sort of income coming in, and every time it has been a no,\" she said.\n\nMs Williams said she is also unable to claim universal credit because she lives with her boyfriend, who has savings and an income.\n\nShe said: \"I have my own bills, I have my own credit cards, my own loans that I need to pay off, and obviously I've frozen them for the short term. But it is not going to help me out in terms of paying rent and bills and food.\"\n\nMr Harra said: \"I think in all of these schemes designed to help the economy, we've had to design them so they can be implemented very quickly and time, in some senses, has been the enemy of perfection.\n\n\"But there are a whole range of schemes available to help businesses and people and I'm confident that the vast majority of employees who have been furloughed will get help.\"", "Fans of the Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows have staged a DIY \"airshow\" in their back garden while in lockdown.\n\nMartin Bridge said his family normally visited as many airshows as possible, and took a holiday every year in the Red Arrows' home county, where there are numerous RAF stations and lots of military aircraft to see.\n\nHe hopes his family's tribute display will mean other fans still manage to see a show.", "A 99-year-old army veteran who has raised millions of pounds for the NHS says the response from the public has been \"completely out of this world\".\n\nTom Moore – who had aimed to raise £1,000 by completing 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday – found out he'd hit a new fundraising milestone live on BBC News alongside his daughter, Hannah.\n\nRead more: Army veteran's £6m for NHS 'out of this world'", "Eastern European farm workers are being flown to the UK on charter flights to pick fruit and vegetable crops.\n\nAir Charter Service has told the BBC that the first flight will land on Thursday in Stansted carrying 150 Romanian farm workers.\n\nThe firm told the BBC that the plane is the first of up to six set to operate between mid-April and the end of June.\n\nGovernment department Defra said it was encouraging people across the UK \"to help bring the harvest in\".\n\nBritish farmers recently warned that crops could be left to rot in the field because of a shortage of seasonal workers from Eastern Europe. Travel restrictions due to the coronavirus lockdown have meant most workers have stayed at home.\n\nSeveral UK growers have launched a recruitment drive, calling for local workers to join the harvest to prevent millions of tonnes of fruit and vegetables going to waste. However, concerns remain that they won't be able to fulfil the demand on farms.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest fresh food producers, G's Fresh, based in Cambridgeshire, confirmed it chartered two out of the six flights carrying Eastern European farm workers from Romania.\n\nDerek Wilkinson, managing director of G's Fresh's Sandfield Farms division, told the BBC that the 150 workers arriving at Stansted from eastern Romania on Thursday will be taken by bus to farms in East Anglia to pick lettuce.\n\nThe firm said the group will be screened on arrival in the UK, will be socially distanced, and anyone found to have a temperature will be quarantined.\n\nMr Wilkinson said his business needed 3,000 seasonal workers, with the greatest need in May at the start of the spring onion harvest, followed by the pea and bean crop in June.\n\nHe added that the company had had a good response to a recruitment campaign aimed at local workers. So far, 500 British people have registered their interest.\n\nMany UK growers depend on seasonal migrant workers from Eastern Europe\n\nThe Air Charter Service, a private firm, has already arranged flights for seasonal workers in other countries. It flew 1,000 farm workers to Germany from Bulgaria and Romania in recent weeks.\n\nThe workers will board in Iasi, eastern Romania, after having their temperatures taken and filling out a health questionnaire. The BBC understands that they will be taken from the airport by minibuses to farms in the South East and the Midlands.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) said up to 70,000 fruit and vegetable pickers were needed. It is calling for a modern-day \"land army\" of UK workers.\n\nNFU vice president Tom Bradshaw told the BBC: \"Growers that rely on seasonal workers to grow, pick and pack our fresh fruit, veg and flowers are extremely concerned about the impact coronavirus restrictions may have on their ability to recruit this critical workforce this season.\"\n\n\"In the meantime, I would encourage anyone who is interested in helping pick for Britain this summer to contact one of the approved agricultural recruiters.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA national campaign is appealing to students and those who have lost their jobs in bars, cafes and shops to help with the harvest.\n\nSeveral schemes have been set up to recruit new workers. They include one by the charity Concordia, which typically helps young people arrange experiences abroad, and another by the industry bodies British Summer Fruit and British Apples and Pears.\n\nData released to the BBC last week by job search engines suggested that those recruitment efforts might be paying off.\n\nTotaljobs said it had seen 50,000 searches for farming jobs in one week alone. It added that searches for terms such as \"fruit picker\" or \"farm worker\" had surged by 338% and 107% respectively.\n\nIndeed.co.uk said that there had been a huge spike in interest for fruit picker jobs in particular. Between 18 March and 1 April, there was an increase of more than 6,000% in searches for these roles on its website.\n\nMeanwhile, Monster said the number of UK users searching for \"farm\" or \"farm worker\" jobs had nearly tripled.\n\nThe charity Concordia said the response had been \"phenomenal\", but that a labour shortage was still expected.\n\nStephanie Maurel, its chief executive, told the BBC's Today programme that 36,000 people had registered interest and more than 6,000 had conducted a video interview.\n\nBut in the last 10 days, while almost 900 people had been offered jobs, just 112 have agreed contracts to accept employment.\n\n\"We've got brilliant people who are ready to work, but the reality of a job when it comes to it hasn't really matched their circumstances, so we're just working through that at the moment,\" Ms Maurel said.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it was \"working hard with industry to ensure farmers and growers have the support they need\" for harvesting produce.\n\n\"We are encouraging as many people as possible to take part in seasonal working opportunities across the country to help bring the harvest in, and recruitment efforts by industry are well under way,\" a Defra spokesperson said.\n\nThe government is not involved in chartering flights of European workers to the UK.", "Sir Keir Starmer is calling for more transparency\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is urging the government to publish an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown this week.\n\nThe government is expected to announce on Thursday that social distancing measures will continue.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would back such a move but to maintain public trust \"there needs to be transparency\".\n\nThe government said talking about an exit before the virus had reached its peak risks confusing the public.\n\nThe Labour leader has written to Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he continues his recovery from coronavirus, to say Labour would support a continuation of the measures.\n\nBut, he said, the government needed to set out an exit strategy to maintain trust and to ensure that arrangements are in place for it.\n\n\"We've got to have the trust of the public,\" Sir Keir told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that it was \"inevitable that the lockdown will have to continue\".\n\n\"For that trust there needs to be transparency and openness - they need to know what the thinking is on when lockdown will end.\"\n\nHe said that government planning was previously not quick enough, and said, \"let's not repeat that\".\n\n\"Mass testing and then tracing is likely to be amongst the options for ending the lockdown,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"If that is right we need the government to say so because decisions need to be taken now to make sure that the number of tests that are needed and that the arrangements are in place so they can be implemented at the relevant time.\"\n\nHe said that he believed \"in principle\" schools should be amongst the first institutions to restart following easing of lockdown measures.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Breakfast, however, Sir Keir said it would be \"wrong\" to put a time on when schools should reopen.\n\n\"Until we know the curve is flattening, then I'm afraid we have to stay in the conditions we're in,\" he said.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab, Sir Keir said millions of people had \"played their part\" and made sacrifices and \"in return, the government needs to be open and transparent with the public about how it believes the lockdown will ease and eventually end\".\n\nSir Keir warned the \"silent pressures\" on communities across the UK \"cannot be underestimated\", and said that to maintain morale and hope \"people need a sense of what comes next\".\n\nThe government said that \"extensive work\" is being done on an exit strategy from lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said that, for now, the focus needs to be on getting the public to stay at home while the government builds the capacity of the NHS.\n\nHe added that the government would be \"led by medical and scientific advice on when we are past the peak and when it is the appropriate stage to talk about next steps.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told ITV's This Morning: \"We'd all love to be able to spread a great deal of optimism and say: 'This is going to end on X date', but the fact of the matter is, we don't have the answers to all of this right now.\"\n\nShe said the country was yet to reach the peak of the virus and the restrictions were there \"rightly so\" to stop the spread.\n\nConservative MP Laura Trott, who is a member of the Commons' health and social care select committee, told the BBC it was \"not possible\" for a \"really conclusive plan to be drawn up unless you've reached the peak of the epidemic\".\n\n\"Until we've reach the peak, until we understand the impact the measures we are currently taking - how that's affecting hospital admissions, the number of deaths and how the NHS is coping with those - we can't really formulate a proper plan for how we are going to then exit.\"\n\nThe government has previously indicated that work is under way on a plan to lift restrictions, but no details have been published.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday at the Downing Street daily press conference, Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted the government's priority would remain saving lives.\n\nAnd he warned that the government will not be able to protect every UK business and every household during the pandemic but if ministers had not taken the actions they had, \"the situation would be much worse\".\n\nNHS England's Medical Director, Prof Stephen Powis, told the news conference lockdown compliance levels among the public were \"very high\" and this was beginning to have an impact on hospital admissions,\n\n\"We need to keep it that way. We absolutely need to make sure that we keep the benefits of this going forward and we don't take a foot off the pedal, we don't become complacent,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted the UK economy could shrink 35% between April and June, while unemployment surges by more than two million.\n\nBut it predicted a sharp bounce back, with GDP likely to jump 25% in the third quarter and a further 20% in the final three months of 2020.\n\nThe watchdog based its calculations on a three-month lockdown followed by a partial lifting for three months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor: Coronavirus will have \"very significant impact\" on economy\n\nA forecast by the UK's tax and spending watchdog suggests the coronavirus crisis will have \"serious implications\" for the UK economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned the pandemic could see the economy shrink by a record 35% by June.\n\nMr Sunak stressed that the forecast was only one possible scenario.\n\nBut he said it was important that the government was \"honest with people about what may be happening\".\n\nHe said the OBR figures suggest that the scale of what the UK is facing \"will have serious implications for our economy\", in common with other countries.\n\n\"These are tough times, and there will be more to come,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nHowever, he said that while the government could not protect every business and household, \"we came into this crisis with a fundamentally sound economy, powered by the hard work and ingenuity of the British people and British businesses.\"\n\nThe OBR also expects the economic impact of the crisis to be temporary, he said.\n\nHe added that the government is \"not just going to stand by\" and not act to support the economy.\n\n\"Our planned economic response is protecting millions of jobs, businesses, self-employed people, charities, and households,\" he said.\n\n\"Our plan is the right plan.\"\n\nMr Sunak added that at the moment \"the single most important thing we can do to protect the economy is to protect the health of our people.\"\n\nThe OBR said a three-month lockdown followed by three months of partial restrictions would trigger an economic decline of 35.1% in the quarter to June alone, following growth of 0.2% in the first three months of this year.\n\nRobert Chote, the chairman of the OBR, said a drop of this magnitude would be the largest \"in living memory\".\n\nWhile the UK economy would contract by 12.8% this year under this scenario, it is expected to get back to its pre-crisis growth trend by the end of 2020.\n\nThe OBR stressed the actual amount of growth would depend on how long the lockdown lasted, as well as how quickly activity bounced back once restrictions were relaxed.\n\nIn any case, it expects half of any sharp drop in growth in the second quarter to be reversed in the three months to September as the economy starts to recover.\n\nSeparately, the International Monetary Fund warned the virus would push the UK into its deepest slump for a century.\n\nIn its report, the IMF said it expects the UK economy to shrink by 6.5% in 2020, while the global economy will contract by 3%.\n\nCoronavirus-related deaths in UK hospitals have risen to 12,107, an increase of 778 on Monday's total.\n\nAnd more than one in five deaths in England and Wales is linked to coronavirus, figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics data showed the virus was mentioned on 3,475 death certificates in the week ending 3 April.\n\nIt helped push the total number of deaths in that week to more than 16,000 - a record high and 6,000 more than expected at this time of year.\n\nThe OBR's estimates said a three month lockdown would push up the UK's borrowing bill to an estimated £273bn this financial year, or 14% of gross domestic product (GDP).\n\nThis would represent the largest deficit as a share of GDP since World War Two.\n\nWhile borrowing is expected to jump, the OBR said the government's unprecedented financial help for workers and businesses would help to limit any long-term damage.\n\nThe OBR expects a more lasting impact on unemployment, which is estimated to rise by 2.1 million to 3.4 million by the end of June.\n\nUnder this scenario, unemployment would hit 10%, from its current 3.9% rate, before easing to around 7.3% at the end of the year.\n\nThe jobless rate is expected to remain elevated until 2023, when it is expected to drop back to 4%, in line with the OBR's March forecast.\n\nThese are incredible numbers indicated by the government's official, though independent, forecasters at the OBR.\n\nThey illustrate what is at stake, and why the government has to get its economic rescue plans spot on. They will feature at the COBR discussions. Indeed some senior public health experts believe that the government needs an economic counterpart to the influential SAGE committee of scientists.\n\nBut this isn't quite about a direct trade off. That existed clearly on the way in - the economy was shut down to protect public health. On the way out of these measures, the balance is not straightforward.\n\nIf the lockdown is lifted prematurely, the health system could fall over, workers might just refuse to go to work anyway, and none of that would be positive for the economy.\n\nIndeed when it is lifted, the absence of a vaccine means that these trade offs are likely to be considered week by week and sector by sector, for months to come.\n\nThe OBR expects UK debt to be higher for years to come, with extra borrowing expected to push Britain's debt share to above 100% of GDP this financial year if the lockdown lasts for three months.\n\nWhile this will drop sharply as the UK economy recovers, public debt is expected to remain at 84.9% of GDP in four years time, much higher than the 75.3% forecast in the March Budget.\n\nMr Chote said a longer lockdown could have more serious consequences for the economy.\n\nHe said: \"The longer the lockdown goes on, the more likely it is that the future potential of the economy is scarred by business failures, by less business investment and by the unemployed finding it harder to get back into the labour market.\"\n\nHowever, the OBR stressed that the restrictions were necessary to protect the economy from a more prolonged slowdown.\n\nIt said extra spending by the Treasury to support the economy would also limit the economic damage.\n\n\"The government's policy response will have substantial direct budgetary costs, but the measures should help limit the long-term damage to the economy and public finances - the costs of inaction would certainly have been higher,\" the OBR said.\n\nIt added that while the lockdown was the main constraint on economic activity, relaxing these measures too soon would cause greater damage.\n\n\"The reason why most of the short-term economic impact comes from these measures is that they are successful in limiting the spread of the disease.\n\n\"If the measures were not stringent enough to control the disease, then the economic impact from illness would be that much greater.\"", "Supermarket workers should be trained to identify and help domestic abuse victims during the pandemic through a code word system, MPs have been told.\n\nDame Vera Baird, Victims Commissioner for England and Wales, said a scheme based on the Ask for Angela campaign to combat sexual violence was badly needed to help people during the lockdown.\n\nGoing shopping was one of few \"channels of escape\" for victims, she said.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse help lines have increased in the past three weeks.\n\nThe government has set aside an extra £2m to support domestic abuse services while the Home Office has launched an initiative called 'You Are Not Alone' to help those experiencing domestic abuse.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said those at risk would get the \"right support\", adding \"there are so many costs to this awful epidemic and this is sadly one of them\".\n\nEarlier, Dame Vera told MPs on the Home Affairs Committee that the pandemic posed a unique challenge in terms of identifying and protecting vulnerable women and men.\n\nShe said there was evidence of a marked increase in killings of women by men, including by current or previous partners, since strict restrictions on people's movements were imposed on 23 March.\n\nShe said there had been, on average, five such deaths a week since then, much higher than the average of two a week over the equivalent period in previous years.\n\nShe said the figures - which were based on research by the Counting Dead Women project - showed the \"scale of the crisis\".\n\nThe police have said they have not, as yet, seen a spike in domestic violence crimes since the virus struck, while overall crime reported to police in England and Wales has dropped by around 20% in recent weeks.\n\nCharities believe that perpetrators will use the lockdown to further isolate their victims and stop them getting help.\n\nBut Dame Vera said supermarkets and pharmacies could be asked to play a role in helping those \"locked\" in their homes and only making occasional forays.\n\n\"You may be a very controlled person but the likelihood is that you are still being sent out to buy the food,\" she said.\n\nShe said if a victim was able to visit a supermarket she or he could use an agreed code word to discreetly ask for help, enabling a member of staff to alert either the police or a woman's refuge.\n\nA similar system was introduced in bars and other venues in England in 2016, with anyone who feared they were in danger of being a victim of a sexual assault being encouraged to ask for 'Angela' as a sign they needed help.\n\nDame Vera urged ministers to talk to retailers about such a system, which she said was recently introduced in France.\n\nWhile many victims would not feel able to speak directly to a stranger, she said checkout staff and other workers would be able to respond quickly if they were prompted with a code word.\n\n\"We need to be flexible as people are locked in their homes and this is one channel of escape,\" she added.\n\nDame Vera also warned that women's refuges were largely full up and she appealed to ministers to do more to persuade hotel chains and universities to offer accommodation where available.\n\nAlso appearing before MPs, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs said domestic violence and Covid-19 were a \"deadly combination\" and victims should be given more time to report abuse to the police.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the committee, said while it supported the government's effort to save lives by restricting movement, she said the reality was that many women were \"not safe\" in their homes.\n\nCampaigners welcomed last week's promise by government of £750m in emergency financial support for charities but said they were worried about how it would be \"fairly\" allocated.\n\nBaljit Banga, executive director of Imkaan, said many BAME organisations were not part of the current system of support administered by local authorities or police and crime commissioners.\n\n\"If it is mainly through existing frameworks then it will not get to BAME organisations. There are real concerns.\"\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "Gary Crosbie runs a previously successful business, but is struggling to get a loan\n\nGary Crosbie wants to keep his staff on, but like other small firms, his profitable business now faces running out of cash owing to the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nHe says he can demonstrate three years of profits, with £50,000 cash in the bank.\n\nYet because his bank decided it didn't wish to support the construction industry, he failed the test that required banks only to lend according to their pre-shutdown criteria. He was rejected for a government-backed loan last week.\n\n\"My accountant said, 'You can put off paying your VAT.' But that's up to date. They said, 'Well, you can put off paying national insurance' - but I'd kept that up to date too. So for doing the right thing - I can't get any help,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSo far, banks and financial institutions have lent more than £1.1bn to small and medium-sized enterprises under the government's coronavirus loan scheme, according to figures released by UK Finance on Wednesday.\n\nMore than 6,000 loans have now been provided, with an average value of about £185,000.\n\nBut the message from small firms and politicians is that loans are being approved too slowly - and that the government must bring in urgent reforms to the scheme to stop businesses going bust.\n\nAmong the scheme's critics is shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, who says it is \"simply not working well enough\".\n\nHe added: \"The chancellor must move to a 100% guarantee of loans for smaller businesses as other countries have done. In this economic emergency, it is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said that only 2% of UK firms had so far secured the loans.\n\nBusinesses are clamouring for help and will be exasperated at the tally of crisis loans that banks have succeeded in giving out.\n\nSix thousand is way short of the number of applications and is a tiny fraction of those who face a cash flow crunch.\n\nMany bosses have just days. They have to find a way to pay wages at the end of the month.\n\nIt is true that the rate of lending has accelerated. And the word from within the banking world that four out of five of the loans are being approved.\n\nBut everyone wants this scheme to work faster and for the money to support wages for furloughed workers to be made available as soon as possible.\n\nThe Treasury said it was taking \"unprecedented action to support business\".\n\nIt said that action included £330bn in business loans and guarantees, paying 80% of furloughed workers' wages and giving £3bn cash grants to a quarter of million small businesses, as well as tax deferrals.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has also previously ruled out the taxpayer giving 100% backing for the loan scheme.\n\n\"When people say I should take 100% of the risk, it's not really me, it's actually all of us, it's the taxpayer taking 100% of the risk of the loans defaulting,\" he said.\n\nMinisters brought in the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme with promises that they would do whatever it took to support firms hit by the shutdown.\n\nGovernment-backed loans were to be available to all firms that were solvent and trading when the shutdown began.\n\nThe Treasury revamped the loans scheme two weeks ago, while banks said they worked through the Easter weekend to boost lending.\n\nBut some business owners have told the BBC that they have not been able to access loans or grants.\n\nDave Moran's firm had a full order book before the coronavirus lockdown\n\nDave Moran, who previously worked as a senior executive in the pharmaceutical industry, owns UK Challenge, which runs corporate team-building events.\n\nFor the past two years, it has run at a loss as a start-up company, but was moving into profit this year, with a full order book before the lockdown was imposed.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak said, 'Whatever it takes,' and for me, those were good words,\" he said.\n\n\"If you'd spoken to me three to four months ago, our 2020 was on course to be a bumper year. Essentially we lost everything overnight.\n\n\"We are keeping going. I've not laid off staff - we're still paying full pay. We're in a position where our money will run out.\"\n\nHe was told by his council that the business couldn't get grants because it is a sub-tenant in a building and his bank has not signed up to the scheme.\n\n\"You've got the Business Minister, Alok Sharma, and the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, saying, 'We won't let bureaucracy get in the way,' but that's exactly what's happening,\" he said.\n\nThe National Association of Corporate Finance Brokers (NACFB), whose members arrange finance for thousands of small business clients, said that even after a government overhaul announced two weeks ago, it was still taking far too long to apply.\n\nEach application took more than five hours to get through the necessary paperwork, it said.\n\nPaul Goodman, chair of the NACFB, said that was far too slow to allow the country's five million small businesses to access cash in time.\n\n\"The way it's set up, banks are still having to work out whether or not they would lend to the business if it were normal times,\" he said.\n\n\"That means there's nothing for customers who have a perfectly viable business, but can't show all the banks require to get a government-backed loan.\"\n\nAccording to the BCC's figures, 17% of businesses had only enough cash to last a month, while 36% had less than three months' cash reserves.\n\nMPs on the all-party group for Fair Business Banking say the scheme must be made much simpler and faster to prevent small and medium-sized enterprises from going under.\n\nConservative MP Kevin Hollinrake warns that without speedier loans, businesses will go bust\n\nKevin Hollinrake, who chairs the group, said: \"We've seen many more loans being approved, which is clearly great news.\n\n\"But we need the process to be simpler and faster in terms of getting this money into bank accounts.\n\n\"We also need better data on a daily basis to see the numbers of applications being made, the numbers being refused and the numbers being approved. We only have days to get this right.\"\n\nHe said that next week, many small businesses will have to make payroll and supplier payments.\n\n\"We need to get this money into business bank accounts this week or we'll see lots of small and medium-sized enterprises start to go bust from next week,\" Mr Hollinrake warned.\n\nHM Treasury said: \"The loan scheme is designed to give banks and businesses confidence, and ensure that viable businesses get the support they need.\n\n\"We're working closely with banks to ensure we get finance to those who need it as soon as possible and continually look to review our support to see what improvements can be made,\" the spokesperson added.", "The negotiators met face-to-face before the virus outbreak halted meetings\n\nThe UK and and EU negotiators have agreed to stage three further rounds of talks on a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nDavid Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, and the European Commission's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, discussed progress via video conference.\n\nThe new timetable was confirmed in a joint statement, which described the talks as \"constructive\".\n\nDowning Street has consistently said it is committed to agreeing a deal by December 2020.\n\nThe dates have been set for three full weeks of talks commencing on 20 April, 11 May and 1 June.\n\nFace to face talks were cancelled last month because of the coronavirus outbreak - and Mr Frost and Mr Barnier both spent a period in self-isolation due to the virus.\n\nDuring Wednesday's meeting, the negotiating teams evaluated work that has taken place since both sides exchanged legal text in March.\n\nThe joint statement said that, while the work had helped to \"identify all major areas of divergence and convergence\", there was agreement that further negotiating rounds were needed \"in order to make real, tangible progress in the negotiations by June\".\n\nMr Frost and Mr Barnier also discussed the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nUnder the terms of the agreement with the EU, the UK has until the end of the year - during which it will continue to follow most Brussels rules - to reach a deal.\n\nIt was also agreed that specialised committees on Northern Ireland and on citizens' rights would also meet soon.\n\nOn Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government wanted to see future relationship talks with the EU concluded by the end of this year.\n\nHe said: \"I'm confident that that work can continue and hopefully reach a satisfactory conclusion, but we remain committed to the timeline that we set out.\"", "Burger King has been banned from showing adverts suggesting its Rebel Whopper, which is cooked alongside meat and contains egg, is vegan-friendly.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the chain's claim that the burger is \"100% Whopper, no beef\" could be understood to mean it did not contain animal products.\n\nBurger King said it had been \"clear and transparent\" in its marketing.\n\nThe Vegan Society said it was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"We communicated from the outset that the Rebel Whopper is aimed at a flexitarian audience,\" the fast food chain said in a statement.\n\nBut the ASA found that Burger King's social media posts about the Rebel Whopper gave the impression it could be eaten by vegans and vegetarians.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The green colour palette and the timing of the ad and product release to coincide with 'Veganuary' contributed further to the impression that the product was suitable for vegans and vegetarians,\" the ASA said.\n\nSome of the adverts included small print saying \"cooked alongside meat products\".\n\nBut the ASA said: \"We considered it was not sufficiently prominent to override the overall impression that the burger was suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\"\n\nWhen the burger was launched, the fast food chain said it was aimed at those who want to reduce their meat consumption.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the Vegan Society called the launch a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nBurger King told the ASA that it had been \"clearly communicated\" on social media and to journalists that the burger may not be suitable for vegetarians or vegans.\n\nIt also said that it had not included the \"Vegetarian Butcher\" logo in TV adverts because it was considered \"potentially misleading\".\n\n\"Burger King explained that the product itself consisted of a 100% plant-based patty supplied by the Vegetarian Butcher and had no beef,\" the ASA said.\n\n\"They added that a customer who did not want mayonnaise could have excluded that from their order.\"", "The baby of a \"highly valued and loved\" nurse who died after contracting Covid-19 has been delivered successfully.\n\nMary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, 28, had worked for five years at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, where she died on Sunday.\n\nA hospital trust spokeswoman said the nurse's \"child was doing very well\" but could give no further information.\n\nMs Agyapong was admitted to hospital on 7 April, having tested positive for Covid-19 two days previously.\n\nDavid Carter, chief executive of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said she was a \"fantastic nurse and a great example of what we stand for in this trust\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Mary's family and friends at this sad time,\" he said.\n\nMary Agyeiwaa Agyapong had worked at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for five years\n\nMs Agyapong's husband is currently self-isolating and has been tested for Covid-19.\n\nColleagues have paid tribute to Ms Agyapong, who also went by her married name Mary Boateng, on a fundraising page set up to support her family.\n\nThe page raised thousands of pounds within hours of being set up on Wednesday morning.\n\nOne former colleague said Ms Agyapong had \"devoted her life to the NHS as a nurse\".\n\nRenai Mcinerney wrote: \"Sister Mary was my colleague, I worked alongside her for a few years.\n\n\"She deserves her family to be looked after, after she devoted her life to the NHS as a nurse.\n\n\"It's time to look out/after our own and return the selflessness persona Mary carried and give something so small, but so big to her family in this time of need. RIP sister Mary!\"\n\nCaitlin Green posted: \"So sorry to Mary's family and friends for her loss.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moment army veteran Tom Moore, 99, finds out he's raised £5m for the NHS on BBC News\n\nA 99-year-old army veteran who has raised more than £9m for the NHS said the fundraising has been \"completely out of this world\".\n\nTom Moore aimed to raise £1,000 by completing 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday.\n\n\"Every penny that we get, they [the NHS] deserve every one of it,\" he said, as the total exceeded the £5m mark.\n\nMeanwhile, a school girl has started a campaign for children to make cards for his 100th birthday on 30 April.\n\nReegan Davies, eight, from Port Talbot, Wales, has set a goal of making 1,500 virtual cards.\n\n\"You can post them on any social media with the hashtag #makeacardfortom.\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Moore began raising funds to thank the \"magnificent\" NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nWith the aid of a walking frame, he hoped to walk 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, in 10-lap chunks, before his 100th birthday.\n\nMr Moore uses a walking frame to help him on his laps of the garden\n\nMore than 450,000 people from around the world have donated money to his fundraising page since it was set up last week.\n\nAt the government's daily press conference earlier Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I want to pay a special tribute today to Captain Tom Moore.\n\n\"Captain Tom, you're an inspiration to us all, and we thank you.\"\n\nAs the amount exceeded £4m earlier, Mr Moore's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said they had thought raising £1,000 was a \"real stretch\" and the latest total was \"just amazing\".\n\n\"It [has been] beyond our wildest expectations, no words can express our gratitude to the British public for getting behind Tom,\" she said.\n\n\"We are humbled, floored and proud.\n\n\"What the British public has done is given him his next purpose... I think he'll do this until everyone says 'stop, don't do this any more'.\"\n\nHe has said he will not stop and hopes to do another 100 laps.\n\nMr Moore served in India and Burma during World War Two\n\nEllie Orton, chief executive of the charity NHS Charities Together, which will benefit from the funds, had said reaching £5m was \"absolutely incredible\".\n\nShe also wanted to \"express our gratitude and our huge admiration for Captain Tom, for the NHS and for everybody who is donating\".\n\nMr Moore's efforts have \"humbled\" the NHS charity for which he is raising money\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Angela was 34 weeks pregnant when she was put into a coma Image caption: Angela was 34 weeks pregnant when she was put into a coma\n\nA US mother who was pregnant when she tested positive for Covid-19, has delivered her baby daughter while in a medically induced coma.\n\nAngela Primachenko, a 27-year-old respiratory therapist from Vancouver, Washington, was on a ventilator when doctors chose to induce labour in order to increase her odds of beating the illness and for the child's own safety.\n\n\"I feel like I'm a miracle walking,\" she told NBC News after tests showed that she was now Covid-negative.\n\nPrimachenko was 33 weeks pregnant when she became ill on 24 March. Eight days later she was fighting for her life.\n\nAfter being removed from the ventilator on 6 April, she looked down and immediately knew that she must have given birth.\n\n\"After all the medication and everything I just woke up and all of a sudden I didn't have my belly any more,\" she said.\n\n\"It was just extremely mind-blowing.\"\n\nShe has yet to hold her daughter Ava, who remains in hospital, but has FaceTimed with the newborn.\n\nPrimachenko will be allowed to visit after she has twice tested negative, NBC reports. Ava's test came back negative.\n\nWashington is one of the hardest hit US states, with 10,500 coronavirus cases and 516 deaths.", "Vaughan Gething said data was processed at \"remarkable speed\"\n\nWales' health minister Vaughan Gething has said he is sorry that 13,000 letters for people most vulnerable to coronavirus were mistakenly sent to the wrong addresses.\n\nMore than 80,000 people are meant to get a \"shielding letter\".\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says it is looking into the data breach, after the Welsh NHS referred itself to the regulator.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was a \"potentially disastrous mistake\".\n\nMr Gething said the letters had now been re-sent \"so people should receive them within the next day or two\".\n\nThe ICO, which can fine organisations for not protecting private information, said it would bear in mind the current crisis in its response.\n\nBBC Wales has been told local government minister Julie James briefed council leaders about the error on Friday.\n\nThe letters from the chief medical officer, which should have been delivered by 3 April, are for those with serious underlying health conditions and advise people to stay at home for 12 weeks.\n\nThey contain information and advice, including how those who have no-one else to support them can get medication and other essential items like food.\n\nThose eligible for the letter qualify for priority delivery slots from supermarkets, although there have been delays introducing that system here.\n\nThe Welsh Government said local authorities and supermarkets had been provided with the correct addresses from the outset, with the latter using these for delivery slots.\n\nDelyth Jewell: \"There is still time to step back from the brink\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Oliver Hides the data had been processed at \"remarkable speed\".\n\n\"In one copy of that data the previous address was used rather than the current one,\" he said.\n\n\"I am sorry the error happened, and I know that there were people who will be worried about it.\n\n\"But all those letters have now gone out so people should receive them within the next day or two.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's local government spokeswoman Delyth Jewell said: \"This is a potentially disastrous mistake which could needlessly endanger lives.\"\n\nShe called for details of \"what went wrong for this to happen in the first place\".\n\nPaul Davies, who leads the Conservative group in Cardiff Bay, said the error was \"just unacceptable\".\n\n\"How on earth did 13,000 letters out of a total of 80,000 go to the wrong addresses?\" he tweeted.\n\n\"We should not see a mistake like this on such a massive scale.\"\n\nEarlier, a Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"Due to a processing error within the NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS), some shielding letters were posted to a previous address, where the intended recipient had recently moved.\n\n\"All letters have since been reissued to the correct addresses.\n\n\"We provided all local authorities with the correct details from the start of this process, and they have been directly contacting each person involved over the past two weeks.\"\n\nShe added: \"We fully understand the concern this would have caused people and sincerely apologise for the mistake.\"\n\nAn ICO spokesperson said: \"NHS Wales Informatics Services has reported a data breach to us and we will be making enquiries.\n\n\"People have a right to expect their personal information be protected.\n\n\"We'll bear in mind the current crisis when assessing breach reports such as this, taking an appropriately proportionate approach.\"", "Rose Mitchell was diagnosed with coronavirus in a care home and died 24 hours later.\n\nHer daughter, Karin Pointon, has thanked carers for getting to know \"the little things\" about her mother in a difficult time.\n\nShe spoke to the BBC's Alex Forsyth about the hard decision not to go and say goodbye.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "Women's fashion retailers Oasis and Warehouse are expected to appoint administrators soon, putting about 2,300 jobs at risk.\n\nThe owner of the High Street brands, Icelandic bank Kaupthing, had been in talks to sell the businesses before the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHowever, the crisis, which has seen many shops temporarily close, has knocked the legs from under the sale.\n\nThe fashion retailers are expected to appoint Deloitte as administrators.\n\nThere is expected to be interest from bidders to buy the business, a source said, but with the current economic uncertainty, it is not clear how many jobs ultimately could be saved.\n\nAs first reported by Sky News, after the administration begins, Deloitte is expected to furlough many of the employees who keep their jobs under the government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\nThe chains were forced to shut their 90 UK stores because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe group also has 437 concessions in department stores including Debenhams and Selfridges.\n\nHigh Street retailers in the UK were facing a tough environment before the crisis, due to rising costs and changes in people's shopping habits.\n\nBut the temporary closure of many shops due to the coronavirus pandemic has heaped more pressure on retailers.\n\nIndependent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.\n\nSome retailers such as Primark have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nMeanwhile fashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nLast week department store chain Debenhams, which employs about 22,000 staff, confirmed it had entered administration for the second time in a year.\n\nIts 142 UK stores remain closed in line with Government guidance and the firm said it will work to 're-open and trade as many stores as possible' when restrictions end.\n\nAt the same time floral fashion firm Cath Kidston filed for administration, putting 950 jobs at risk.", "By last Tuesday, the death toll from coronavirus in New York City had passed that of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.\n\nThe figure was reached only three weeks after the first coronavirus death in the city.\n\nThe outbreak has placed New York at the centre of the global pandemic and put an unprecedented strain on the city's emergency workers and frontline staff.\n\nOver the course of Tuesday, six of those people - two doctors, an undertaker, two senior care home staff and a food delivery worker - kept diaries of their day and shared them with the BBC.\n\nKathleen Flanagan returns from a late shift at a nursing home. The TV is on in the living room, playing the sitcom That '70s Show. As has become the custom in her household she shouts \"Hello\" to let her family know that she is home and to make sure they avoid contact with her.\n\nShe heads downstairs into the laundry room, takes off her clothes and showers.\n\nEverything she has worn at work must go into the washing machine before she sees her husband and children.\n\nWhen she heads back up the stairs, she is greeted by a bouquet of sunflowers in the kitchen. A card from her eight-year-old son reads: \"Keep kicking butt Mom!\"\n\nTwo of her three sons are asleep on the couch waiting for her. She cooks eggs and spinach for dinner and shares details of her day with her husband - the good news is that coronavirus patients in one of the centres she oversees are starting to look better, but in another the situation is getting worse.\n\nShe opens her laptop to do some work and falls asleep somewhere between 01:00 and 02:00.\n\nDoctor Jennifer Haythe is woken by a call from the intensive care unit at her hospital, letting her know about a Covid-19 patient whose condition is deteriorating.\n\nThe 46-year-old hangs up the phone and tosses and turns in bed, worrying about the patient. She rethinks the plan for them and then is met by the increasingly familiar feeling of loneliness.\n\nLike many healthcare professionals working with coronavirus patients, Jennifer is living separately from her family. She is staying in an apartment in Greenwich Village, while her husband and children are in their house upstate.\n\nFaced with an eerie silence outside and missing her loved ones, she does a deep breathing exercise: \"In for four, hold for seven, out for eight.\" It must work because she falls asleep.\n\nOutside the city, in the New York state town of Corinth, Faith Willett, a director of nursing at a care home, is woken by a member of staff reporting a high fever. She advises her to self-isolate and contact a doctor as soon as possible.\n\nFaith feels sick and struggles to fall back to sleep. She scrolls through her phone to see the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak, paying close attention to local updates that might be worrying residents and their families.\n\nThe news feels so surreal that the 46-year-old nurse wonders if she's asleep. She wakes her husband to ask if she's dreaming. \"No, babes, you're awake,\" he replies. He tells her to get some rest.\n\nAfter a few hours of disturbed sleep, she wakes to her alarm. She grabs her computer and scans the latest updates from her colleagues. She can breathe a sigh of relief. There are no confirmed cases - for now.\n\nFuneral director Steven Baxter is already out of the house. His hours have completely changed since the virus struck, as he and funeral workers across New York struggle to keep up with the rising number of fatalities.\n\nThe days of wearing a suit to work are gone. He now dons \"scrubs\" that he can throw out afterwards, without risking cross-contamination. The trainers he wears to work are always kept outside.\n\nHe sets off to a nursing home, where he has to collect the body of yet another coronavirus victim. It is the first of several such visits he will have to make that day.\n\nBack in Greenwich Village, doctor Jennifer Hayth wakes up to her alarm. She opens her eyes with the fleeting hope that the past few weeks have been a bad dream.\n\nShe has a shower and gets ready for work. There are no dogs for her to walk, no husband to kiss goodbye and no children to prepare breakfast for.\n\nShe heads to a coffee shop where a woman walking her dog notices her doctor's uniform and thanks her. In the cafe, the only other customer - a retired police officer - pays for her coffee.\n\nThe Cat Stevens song Peace Train comes on the radio as she drives to work at Columbia University Medical Center. She hasn't heard it for a while and it makes her feel energised. She looks over the highway at the USNS Comfort - a Navy hospital ship docked in New York City where coronavirus patients are being treated - and thinks to herself that it seems almost majestic.\n\nArriving at work, she puts on her mask, gown, gloves and other equipment required for working with coronavirus patients and heads over for another day in the ICU.\n\nNurse Kathleen Flanagan wakes to a hug from her eight-year-old son. Before she leaves the house, he performs a dance to the song High Hopes by the band Panic! At the Disco.\n\nShe listens to it again in the car, applying the lyrics to her own life.\n\nMama said don't give up, it's a little complicated...\n\nHad to have high, high hopes for a living\n\nAs she listens to the song, she passes the traffic light where last month she received a phone call that changed everything. A colleague at a nursing and rehabilitation centre in New York City told her that two residents had fevers and respiratory symptoms - the first signs of coronavirus in any of the six Centers Health Care facilities she oversees.\n\nShe was heading to a different centre at the time and was faced with the decision of whether to help remotely or change her plans and put herself on the frontlines of the outbreak. She turned her car around.\n\nHer normal job does not include direct patient care. But three weeks later, she continues to take a hands-on role at the centres with coronavirus patients in spite of the risks.\n\nAt the Glens Falls Center nursing home, Faith Willett has been at work for about an hour and there is already cause for concern.\n\nBefore leaving the house this morning, she said her personal mantra aloud to herself in the shower: \"We've got this.\" Like every day in recent weeks, she hoped there would be no signs of coronavirus in the centre.\n\nBut as a nurse walked out of a resident's room during the routine morning checks, Faith could tell from her eyes it was bad news - the resident had a high temperature and was getting short of breath while reading her Bible.\n\nCoronavirus has forced carers like Faith Willett to go against all their natural instincts\n\nAll the staff at the home know this might end up being the day the virus made its way in. Masks need to be issued and the door to the resident's room must be closed, with only designated caregivers in full protective equipment allowed in.\n\nYou should never close a door to a resident's room unless they ask you to - it's a violation of their rights; it's forced isolation; it's mistreatment, she thinks. But she reminds herself that they must go against all their instincts as caregivers to save lives.\n\nA nurse in full protective equipment goes into the room to perform the test. There are tears in the nurse's eyes but they soften as she walks in. She completes the test, packages it and takes it to the lab. Faith admires the woman's bravery for being able to do it.\n\nSteven Baxter is sorting through death certificates and other documentation at Gannon Funeral Home in Manhattan. The phone line has just opened so he is preparing for another day of calls from families who have lost loved ones to the virus.\n\nThe 53-year-old recently converted the chapel in the funeral home into a morgue. He has a rule: the dead need to be treated with respect and given adequate space. But the number of bodies coming in is hard to keep up with.\n\nLater today he will need to take the bodies of eight Covid-19 patients to be cremated, and to chase a supplier about cremation boxes, which are increasingly in short supply.\n\nIt will be about three weeks before the person he collected this morning can be cremated - the pandemic has put a strain on the system, creating major backlogs.\n\nAll his days are merging into one at the moment. The \"removal\" this morning was like any other in the time of coronavirus - he put on a respirator and other protective equipment, and used disinfectant spray as he worked to ensure he was safely transferring the body.\n\nPeople not directly on the frontline are also performing critical jobs to prevent the virus spreading.\n\nSince the pandemic began, doctor Michael Morgenstern has swapped his subway commute for a walk upstairs. This morning, he logs on to video conferencing platform Zoom for his first appointment of the day.\n\nMany of his patients are elderly and part of his role now is explaining the risks of coronavirus to them, and the precautions they should take.\n\nThe first patient wants to go out and visit two other doctors. Michael asks the son, who is also on the call, to try to see if the appointments can be conducted over the phone or through a video platform.\n\nHe is concerned about people exposing themselves to the virus and has spent much of his morning up to now working on a petition calling for the public to wear non-medical face masks, in line with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control.\n\nHe repeats the mantra \"an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure\" to himself as he works.\n\nHis legs shake as he begins his second appointment of the day. He's nervous about what's happening in the world.\n\nFaith Willett gets a call from the nurse who fell ill - she can't get tested and has instead been labelled \"presumed positive\".\n\nFaith is angry about the lack of testing for a frontline worker. She worries that the residents may have been exposed and then finds herself wondering - selfishly, she thinks - if she too might have been.\n\nFive other people working at the home have been tested for Covid-19 because of symptoms - four were negative and the fifth is pending.\n\nFaith and her colleagues all worry about the same thing: they don't want to be the person who brings the virus into the facility.\n\nAt another nursing and rehabilitation home, Kathleen Flanagan has spent much of the morning checking on residents with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe hospital calls to discuss returning one long-term resident, assuring her that he is alert and responsive.\n\nTwo others are at the hospital. One is not doing well. When asked who his next of kin are, she replies: \"We are his family.\"\n\nShe urges the doctor to fight for him.\n\nAt the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, a hospital worker takes a moment to pause\n\nMichael Morgenstern sees his next patient via video call. An elderly person with cancer.\n\nThe cancer appears to be spreading but while the patient is continuing with chemotherapy, they are holding off on adding radiation treatment for now because of the Covid-19 risk.\n\nMichael is worried. He advises relatives who are still going outside to consider wearing face masks when they are around the patient.\n\nHe continues to see patients and work with volunteers for his coronavirus campaign throughout the morning. One of the patients was born only shortly after the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, he thinks to himself.\n\nDoctor Jennifer Haythe is carrying out rounds in the ICU. Everyone she sees is a Covid-19 patient. They are all on ventilators.\n\nShe passes colleagues but can only see their eyes. In them she sees stress, but also hope and courage.\n\nA patient is transported through Jennifer's hospital in Manhattan\n\nAs she attends to sick and dying patients she thinks about what it must be like for them and their families.\n\n\"A hospital without visitors. What is that?\" she asks herself.\n\nSarujen Sivakumar, a 22-year-old Lebanese-born delivery team manager for Eat Offbeat - a catering company led by immigrants and refugees - heads out to work.\n\nLike many businesses across New York, his company has had to re-model amid the pandemic and now sells coronavirus \"care packages\" of a week's worth of meals and snacks.\n\nAs he begins his journey, he is struck again by how quiet the city is. In the six years since he arrived here as a refugee, he has never seen it like this. There are no groups talking to each other, no performers at the subway station. He feels almost as if he is in a video game.\n\nBefore the outbreak, he would greet his colleagues with special handshakes and hugs. But as he walks into the kitchen today, he knows he has to keep his distance.\n\nAt the Glens Falls nursing home, it is visiting time.\n\nFaith and her colleagues bring residents into the dining room where there are big windows through which they can see their relatives.\n\nFamilies wait outside in their cars and take turns coming to the windows. They have agreed to limit their visits to 10 minutes each.\n\nAs emotional reunions take place through the glass, Faith observes the range of tears being shed - joy, laughter, sadness and, of course, fear.\n\nThe chefs at Sarujen's company say they are too scared to take the train to work any more, but also worry about how they would survive financially if the company stops running.\n\nSarujen knows how hard he and others at the company worked to get where they are today. He worries that if it closes, it won't be the same again in the future.\n\nThere is little time to talk about it in depth as they have deliveries to get on with.\n\nSteven Baxter heads to a funeral home to collect the body of another coronavirus victim.\n\nHe received a call the previous day from a man whose father had died. He couldn't afford what the company was charging for a cremation and needed someone else to take over.\n\nAs he collects the body, Steven is angry about what he sees as exploitation of victims of a health crisis. He believes the price that was being charged is four times the average in the city.\n\nIt's the news everyone had been dreading. The result for the fifth employee tested at Faith Willett's home comes back positive.\n\nShe tells herself there's no time to feel - she needs to act.\n\nShe begins the difficult process of alerting residents and their families.\n\nMessages in support of medical staff have appeared outside Mount Sinai West Medical Center\n\nWhile speaking to a patient earlier in the day who was unable to get a mask, doctor Michael Morgenstern shows him how to fashion one out of a T-shirt.\n\nHe decides others may also need to see how to do this so shoots a video and shares it online.\n\nAs Sarujen drops off his last package, he gets a call asking him to join a team meeting about the future of the company.\n\nAt the meeting, they agree that the delivery drivers will take the chefs to and from work so they can avoid trains.\n\nHe is happy that he can continue working but exhausted from stress over the virus and the day's concerns over his job.\n\nSteven Baxter returns home from the funeral home but his day isn't over.\n\nHis twin sons are playing basketball in the backyard. They ask him if he has to shower. When he says yes, they know what sort of day he must have had.\n\nFor the next few hours, he deals with calls from more bereaved families. He doesn't have time to speak with his wife, who is also a funeral director.\n\nHe falls asleep before his children. He has to be at another nursing home to collect another body at 04:00.\n\nJennifer has a hot bath and is ready to crawl into bed. Even though her hours haven't changed, she feels much more exhausted than before.\n\nAs she responds to more texts about patient care, she reviews how she feels. Achy, tired, sore throat. She wonders if she should get tested.\n\nFaith Willett gets a call from a nurse who says she can't do an upcoming shift. She isn't unwell but news has got around about today's positive result at the nursing home.\n\nThe nurse's skills and training are invaluable. Faith can't understand the woman's decision, which she sees as jumping ship at a time of crisis.\n\nJennifer watches an episode of TV sitcom Friends. It is all she can manage to watch these days - she struggles to focus on anything too heavy.\n\nShe has a goodnight FaceTime with her children before turning out the lights. She hasn't seen them in person for eight days.\n\nAs she closes her eyes, she makes a mental note: \"Thank the cast of Friends when this is over.\"\n\nKathleen Flanagan has been home for about an hour. It was the usual routine - a shout of \"hello\" to the family again, clothes in the washing machine again, a shower again.\n\nShe has time for only one meal a day at the moment. Today it was eggs and spinach, again.\n\nShe goes to sleep with The Office playing on Netflix. It is her winding-down time before she has to start again. But her phone stays close in case anyone needs her.\n\nThere are only a few hours before Faith has to start work again. She has been trying to get some rest but is woken by an email reminder from the department of health about an upcoming call about the virus.\n\nThere has been no news from her nursing home of new or worsening symptoms. But that doesn't mean she can relax.\n\nThroughout this day, Tuesday 7 April, another 779 people died of coronavirus in New York state - a new high.\n\nThis grim record is surpassed again the next day.\n\nAll images were taken on Tuesday, 7 April\n• None 'Like 9/11 every day': A New York paramedic's diary", "Tributes have been paid to healthcare worker Leilani Medel from Bridgend who has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nMrs Medel, 41, who was originally from the Philippines, died on Thursday at the Princess of Wales Hospital.\n\nHer husband Johnny remains in a critical condition in hospital having also developed symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from the Philippines, Mrs Medel's aunt Shiela Ancheta said: “It doesn't seem real that she is gone from us. She was full of life.\n\n“We just want her to know how much we will miss her, and how much her family is hurting.\n\n“She will always be remembered as a modern hero during this pandemic.\"\n\nFlowers have been left on the doorstep of the family’s home in Coychurch, Bridgend.\n\n“We’ve known them since they moved in,\" said one neighbour.\n\n\"They were always very friendly. They were lovely. Very generous, very kind.”\n\nIt’s understood Mrs Mendel worked as an agency nurse in several care homes across south Wales.\n\nHelen Whyley, director of the Royal College of Nursing Wales, said: \"I am devastated to learn that another nurse has passed away.\n\n“This is the third reported death of a nursing professional in Wales due to Covid-19.\n\n“Nurses have been at the forefront of the battle. For those who have sadly passed away, we will always remember their sacrifice and dedication to caring for their patients.”", "Police have been patrolling parks, where playgrounds have been closed during the lockdown\n\nReports of anti-social behaviour have increased substantially during the coronavirus outbreak, police have said.\n\nIn the last four weeks, there were 178,000 incidents across England and Wales - a rise of 59% on last year.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council, which published the figures, said the rise was likely linked to breaches of lockdown measures - with more than 3,200 fines issued in England.\n\nOverall, crime fell 28% - with rape and burglary allegations down 37%.\n\nThe figures covered the four weeks to 12 April.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the NPCC, said it was not surprising that crime had dropped significantly given that pubs, bars and most shops were closed and people were staying at home.\n\nOther figures showed that shoplifting plummeted by 54%, with serious assaults, robbery and car crime all down by 27%.\n\nThere were also reductions in 999 and 101 calls, as more people reported offences online.\n\nHowever, the figures do not include fraud. Lynne Owens, director-general of the National Crime Agency, warned that criminals were exploiting the crisis by trying to sell Covid-19 testing kits and protection equipment.\n\n\"Fraudsters are playing on people's fear,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Owens also said drug dealers were adapting their methods by wearing high-visibility jackets and posing as key workers and doing deals in supermarket car parks.\n\nShe said the NCA was \"very alive\" to the potential for rivalry between drug gangs because the wholesale and retail price of cocaine had risen.\n\nMeanwhile, Border Force said they had discovered about 14 kilos of cocaine hidden in a consignment of protective face masks which were being transported through the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe driver, a 34-year-old man, was arrested. Border Force regional director Ian Hanson said it was a \"despicable\" attempt to exploit the pandemic.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sara Glenn, who is head of enforcement for the NPCC during the lockdown, said in the past week there had been an increase in serious violence, which could be linked to addicts finding it harder to get drugs.\n\nThe NPCC said between 27 March and 13 April, police in England issued 3,203 fines, with a further 290 given to people in Wales over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nMore than 80% of the penalty notices were imposed on men, while 39 were mistakenly issued to children - aged 16 and 17 - who by law cannot be fined. The fines were rescinded.\n\nMr Hewitt said there was no evidence that the fines were being issued disproportionately to black and ethnic minority groups.\n\nIn total, 26 fines were imposed on people aged 65 to 100.", "The social distancing rules and stay at home messages which aim to stop the spread of coronavirus have changed the way people are living their lives.\n\nThose who ignore the regulations have faced condemnation or even police action, but even those who have been abiding by the rules can find themselves experiencing social distancing shaming.\n\nThe government guidance is clear - people should only leave home for a very limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include shopping for basic necessities and to take daily exercise, either alone or with members of your household.\n\nHowever, a number of people say they have found themselves the subject of criticism or abuse while taking part in that daily exercise routine.\n\nGeorge, 68, from Edinburgh, told how he had stopped to speak to a friend - making sure they kept a \"large\" distance between them - after they happened to meet during his daily walk in The Meadows in Edinburgh.\n\nHe said: \"Suddenly this woman came up to us shouting that we were too close and produced a measuring tape from her pocket.\n\n\"She then began measuring the distance between us.\"\n\nHe said his 6ft tall friend had even lain down on the ground to help demonstrate that they were even further apart than the recommended distance of two metres (almost 6.6ft).\n\n\"I was shocked by her behaviour and reaction,\" he said.\n\nJane Hurst said she was shocked when a couple shouted at her child during a walk in Edinburgh.\n\n\"My seven-year-old was running one tree ahead of us in Inverleith Park, then jumping out at us and shouting 'boo'.\n\n\"A couple walking the other direction called him a 'stupid child' and said he should have been at my side.\"\n\nSusan Bell, 42, from Morningside, said she had heard people sighing and tutting at her while walking down the road.\n\n\"I've also seen others making a big show of disapproval to me by doing an exaggerated jump or body swerve onto the road into oncoming traffic.\n\n\"It's too much from some people,\" she said.\n\nLauren Ford said people were jumping to the wrong conclusions when judging other people.\n\nShe said she saw two young men receiving a \"barrel load of abuse\" from an older man when they ran past him on Cramond Beach.\n\n\"They calmly explained that they were flatmates and had been together for the past three weeks and hadn't seen anyone else, but the man still carried on shouting.\n\n\"He didn't apologise and carried on saying they were still in the wrong. It wasn't fair at all.\n\n\"People are judging so fast, its unreal.\"\n\nSome people said they had been photographed while out with their families or talking to neighbours from a safe distance.\n\nSupermarkets can be another flashpoint. Some have introduced one-way systems in their aisles, as well as markings to indicate where shoppers can queue a safe distance apart.\n\nTara Rankine said her husband was \"tutted and grumbled at\" while shopping in a Tesco in Bathgate.\n\nShe said: \"I can only assume the man thought my husband was browsing and taking too long and they couldn't get past.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we are not in a position where we can grab the first thing on the shelf. We need to check the ingredients on everything because our son has severe food allergies.\n\n\"While it's great they were observing social distancing by not pushing past him, it unnecessarily made the shopping trip even more stressful than it needed to be.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Captain Tom Moore told the BBC that the nurses and doctors \"deserve every penny\"\n\nA 99-year-old army veteran who has raised more than £4m to help the NHS in the fight against Covid-19 has vowed to keep going even though he has smashed his original £1,000 target.\n\nTom Moore aimed to complete 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday, walking with the aid of a frame.\n\nHowever he has now said he will not stop and hopes to do another 100.\n\nNHS Charities Together, which will benefit from the funds, said it was \"truly inspired and humbled\".\n\nNearly 170,000 people from around the world have donated money to his fundraising page since it was set up last week.\n\nMr Moore began raising funds to thank the \"magnificent\" NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nHe hoped to walk 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, in 10-lap chunks, before his 100th birthday at the end of the month.\n\nMr Moore served in India and Burma during World War Two\n\nAs funds topped the £1m mark earlier, \"Captain Tom\", as he is known, described it as \"almost unbelievable\".\n\n\"When you think of who it is all for - all those brave and super doctors and nurses we have got - I think they deserve every penny, and I hope we get some more for them too.\"\n\nMr Moore's efforts have \"humbled\" the NHS charity for which he is raising money\n\nEllie Orton, chief executive of the charity on the receiving end of Mr Moore's fundraising, said: \"I think I absolutely join the rest of the country in being truly inspired and profoundly humbled by Captain Tom and what he has achieved.\n\n\"Thank you for being an inspiration and a role model.\"\n\nMr Moore uses a walking frame to help him on his laps of the garden\n\nMoney raised by him and others for the charity is being spent on well-being packs for NHS staff, rest and recuperation rooms, electronic devices to enable hospital patients to keep in contact with loved ones, and working with community groups to support patients once they have been discharged from hospitals.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Captain Tom Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Moore was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire and trained as a civil engineer before enlisting in the army for World War Two. He rose to captain and served in India and Burma.\n\n\"I do [laps] each day, so that eventually I'll get to 100, then after that I shall continue and do some more,\" he said.\n\nThe support so far had been \"absolutely fabulous\", he added.\n\n\"Let's all carry on and remember that things will get better,\" Mr Moore said.\n\n\"We have had problems before - we have overcome them - and we shall all overcome the same thing again.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Hancock said wanting to be with a loved one at the end of their life is \"one of the deepest human instincts\"\n\nClose family members will be able to see dying relatives to say goodbye under new coronavirus guidelines, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe said the UK would introduce new steps to \"limit the risk of infection\" and allow goodbyes \"wherever possible\".\n\nMr Hancock also launched a new network to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to care home staff.\n\nIt comes as the number of hospital deaths in the UK rose by 761 to 12,868.\n\nMany loved ones have been unable to say goodbye to family and friends since stringent restrictions were introduced on life in the UK on 23 March.\n\nMr Hancock highlighted the death of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, from Brixton, south London. Ismail died alone in hospital last month and his close family were then unable to attend his funeral because they were self-isolating.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's briefing, Mr Hancock said the reports made him \"weep\".\n\n\"Wanting to be with someone at the end of their life is one of the deepest human instincts,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a moment that will be with you forever. Done right it can help those left behind cope and it brings comfort to those who are dying.\"\n\nNew government guidelines for social care providers, published shortly after the briefing, say that care homes should still \"limit unnecessary visits\" but advises that \"visits at the end of life... should continue\".\n\nIt also outlines how ministers hope to get PPE to care providers most in need - including an emergency 24/7 helpline.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has made big play of the fact relatives are to be allowed to visit dying family in care homes.\n\nThis was already allowed under guidance issued on 2 April, but many care homes have blocked visiting because of concern about spread of the virus, partly fuelled by a lack of protective equipment.\n\nThe same applies to hospitals. It has meant many people with Covid-19 have died with no family or friends around them.\n\nJust because a minister says it is allowed, it does not mean it will happen.\n\nOn the frontline, staff are under huge pressure and are reluctant to take risks.\n\nCare providers have been calling for more testing and PPE for weeks, amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.\n\nIn Scotland, new figures suggest a quarter of deaths linked to coronavirus have occurred in care homes.\n\nIn England and Wales there were 217 deaths in care homes by 3 April. That number is known to now be much higher. Twenty-four residents have died after an outbreak at one care home in Staffordshire.\n\nEarlier, the government promised to test care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms as laboratory capacity increases.\n\nAt the news conference, Mr Hancock extended the promise on testing to include anyone moving from hospital into social care.\n\nPrevious guidance said only the first five residents with Covid-19 symptoms in each care home needed to be tested to confirm that an outbreak was taking place.\n\nEngland's care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, says it has started contacting care providers to book tests for staff who are self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIn response to Mr Hancock's announcements, Labour's shadow minister for social care Liz Kendall said that workers \"really need to see action and not just words\".\n\nShe told BBC News there were sill questions over the government's strategy - such as how those who test positive while in care can be isolated effectively.\n\nAnd she called for \"rapid action\" to increase testing and to get more PPE to the front line.\n\nMr Hancock also announced a \"badge of honour\" to allow care workers to \"proudly and publicly identify themselves\" during the pandemic - in a bid to boost public recognition of all those in caring roles.\n\nAnd he said supermarkets have been asked to ensure social care workers are given the same priority access as NHS staff.\n\nThe badge Mr Hancock displayed was in fact launched by Care England, which represents care home providers, in 2019.\n\nRehana Azam, national officer of the GMB union, said care workers \"need more than a badge and a pat on their head to define their precious role in society\".\n\n\"They need the protective equipment and testing on the front line now to protect their lives,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the restrictions on movement were \"starting to work\" but warned \"we will not lift these measures until it is safe to do so\".\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, every three weeks - with the first assessment carried out by Thursday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock displays the \"badge of honour\" devised for care workers\n\nDeputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Angela McLean, said there was continuing evidence that the social distancing measures were having an impact on the rate of people testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe numbers of coronavirus patients in hospital beds have also fallen, she said. On Tuesday, the number fell by 1% across the UK, and by 5% in London.\n\n\"We expected everywhere to be the same. That is not exactly what we are seeing,\" she said.\n\nShe said the number of people in hospital in London with coronavirus was falling faster than elsewhere perhaps because cases rose faster in the capital and then people responded to advice more quickly.\n\nNHS bosses have told the BBC that hospitals should be able to cope with an expected peak in coronavirus cases.", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "HMS Trenchant had been on patrol before having to return to Devonport to undergo repairs\n\nA submarine crew were filmed having a party during the coronavirus lockdown, prompting a Royal Navy investigation.\n\nThe captain of HMS Trenchant, a nuclear-powered attack submarine based at Devonport in Plymouth, has been sent home on leave.\n\nVideo of the crew enjoying a party and barbecue while the submarine was tied up have been shared on social media.\n\nIt shows sailors dancing and laughing, and a source confirmed some were drinking alcohol.\n\nHMS Trenchant had been on patrol before having to return to Devonport to undergo repairs.\n\nThe crew were required to stay with the submarine in isolation while the repairs were completed.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said it was understood the captain had gone ahead with the entertainment despite being advised it might be inappropriate.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way. It would be inappropriate to comment further.\"", "Our rolling updates are coming to an end for the day.\n\nWe'll be back from 07:30 BST tomorrow with the latest coronavirus news across England.\n\nThank you for joining us.", "This video can not be played.", "Knife crime in England and Wales increased last year to a new record high, figures released by the Office for National Statistics have shown.\n\nThe ONS said police recorded 45,627 offences in the year to December 2019.\n\nThat is 7% more than in 2018, and the highest since knife crime statistics were first collected in 2010-11.\n\nThe figures - which do not include Greater Manchester Police because of IT issues - showed a 13% rise in the West Midlands.\n\nDowning Street acknowledged there was \"more to be done to crack down on thugs carrying knives and ensuring they are properly punished\".\n\nAnd Diana Fawcett, chief executive of the charity Victim Support, stressed that while the UK's streets were currently \"quieter\" due to coronavirus, victims of historic knife crime were still coming to terms with their experience.\n\n\"Many victims will still be dealing with the emotional consequences of threats or attacks which took place long ago,\" she said.\n\nRobbery offences were also up - for the fourth year running - with an annual increase of 12%, to 83,930 offences.\n\nThere were 670 cases of murder and manslaughter in 2019, excluding Greater Manchester Police, which is up 15 on the year before.\n\nThe total includes 39 people whose bodies were found in a lorry in Grays, Essex, in October.\n\nThese figures are a reminder that, until the coronavirus outbreak, urban areas were facing an epidemic of a different sort - knife crime.\n\nThe number of offences has increased by more than 20,000 in five years, with London now accounting for a third of them.\n\nThe rise appears to have been driven by a recent acceleration in the number of knifepoint robberies - the number has doubled in four years - as well as a surge in stabbings: together, there were 40,000 offences last year.\n\nThe figures do not include the period immediately before and during the lockdown, but statistics released by the National Police Chiefs' Council last week showed that serious assaults had fallen by 27% and robberies by 37%; it's thought knife crime will have followed a similar pattern.\n\nThe challenge for police and communities when people return to the streets will be to ensure the numbers don't return to the record levels seen last year.\n\nOverall trends in crime remain broadly stable, according to the ONS, with the Crime Survey for England and Wales - which includes offences that are not reported to police - suggesting there was a fall of 5% compared with 2018.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the fall as \"encouraging\" and a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nHowever, Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called for a \"comprehensive national strategy\" to deal with knife crime.\n\n\"As the committee has warned, the police have been too heavily overstretched for some years and we need more police officers,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nThe proportion of suspects charged with a crime in England and Wales, meanwhile, has fallen to a new record low.\n\nHome Office figures show that only one in every 14 offences led to court proceedings - less than half the rate five years ago.\n\nThe charging rate has been in decline almost continuously since 2014-15, when changes were made to the collection of the data.\n\nLast year, 7.1% of crimes resulted in a suspect being charged or ordered to appear in court.\n\nThe previous year it was 8.2% - and in 2014-15 it was 15.5%.\n\nThe percentage of crimes in which suspects were cautioned has also fallen, to 1.3% from 4.6% in 2014-15.\n\nThe main reason for the decline appears to be an decrease in the number of victims who are co-operating with police investigations and prosecutions.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the slight fall in overall crime as \"encouraging\"\n\nIn 2014-15, there were 8.7% of cases where the victims did \"not support action\".\n\nLast year, that figure had risen to 22.9%.\n\nThe lowest charging rate was for rape, with just one in every 66 offences recorded by police leading to a prosecution, or 1.5%.\n\nIn more than 40.6% of rape cases the victim did not support action being taken.", "How practical will it be for schools to adapt to social distancing?\n\nThe earliest \"realistic\" point at which schools in England could start re-opening would be 1 June, head teachers' leader Geoff Barton has said.\n\n\"We cannot see any realistic way that schools could be re-opened to more pupils before the second half of the summer term,\" said the ASCL leader.\n\nAnd \"planning would need to begin very soon\" in order to meet a 1 June target.\n\nSchools closed their doors to all except vulnerable children and those of key workers over a month ago.\n\nIt is over a month since schools were closed\n\nAt the weekend, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said no date was set for returning to school, quashing speculation about an imminent return.\n\nThe education secretary said if and when five thresholds in the fight against coronavirus were reached, a date could be set for schools to reopen:\n\nIt's a safety-first approach, with school leaders backing the reliance on medical advice.\n\nOnce those requirements have been met, a date could be set for schools to re-open.\n\nBut it would not be immediate, with schools expecting a further \"lead in\" time, possibly of weeks, to prepare for a complicated, staged return that allows them to maintain social distancing.\n\nParents would also have to be persuaded it was safe.\n\nWith such a time frame, starting this half term becomes very unlikely. If opening after half term, it would mean somewhere in the seven weeks between 1 June and the term ending in mid-July.\n\nBut doubt has been cast on whether social distancing can really be feasible in schools.\n\nKatharine Birbalsingh, head of Michaela Community School, in Brent, north London, criticised the \"pretence\" social distancing might work in schools, with narrow corridors, small classrooms and lots of interactions, particularly between younger children.\n\n\"Social distancing in schools is simply impossible,\" she said.\n\n\"We're considered to be the strictest school in Britain and even we would find it impossible.\"\n\nAnd there are other questions around safety:\n\nEarlier this week, a petition from NHS nurse Iain Wilson warned against any early push to re-open schools.\n\n\"Do not make us the global guinea pigs,\" he said. \"It is self-evidently unwise to force hundreds of people into small rooms in small buildings during a pandemic.\"\n\nThere are concerns about how much lesson time pupils will have lost\n\nIf schools are to maintain social distancing, they could not run at full capacity, meaning a phased return, such as starting with a few year groups or pupils rotating between studying at home and school.\n\nMr Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it could mean staggering break times and putting a limit on class sizes.\n\nRobert Halfon, who chairs the Education Select Committee, said primary schools should be the first back. This would help parents and stop disadvantaged youngsters falling behind at an early stage, the MP said.\n\nBut Mr Barton said the priority should be Years 10 and 12, who are part-way through GCSEs and A-levels, and Year 6, where children are about to move to secondary school.\n\nAnd Jules White, head of Tanbridge House School, in West Sussex, asked what plans there would be for next summer's exams when so much study time has been lost.\n\nWill the oldest or youngest pupils be seen as a priority for going back?\n\nStar academy trust chief executive Hamid Patel, meanwhile, said it should be up to each school to decide the order in which its pupils return.\n\nThere is also a possibility that some pupils will not go back at all this term - or at least for anything like a regular timetable.\n\n\"We want to be back as soon as it's safe,\" said National Education Union joint head Kevin Courtney.\n\n\"But there's a chance that there will be no full re-opening before the end of term.\n\n\"There's a responsibility to think about what that will mean for children's education.\"\n\nBut school leaders have repeatedly talked about the importance of getting pupils back before the school year finishes.\n\nAnd in the meantime, other countries might provide evidence of how a return might work.\n\nIn France, primary-school pupils will start to go back, in classes of no more than 15, from 11 May.\n\nAnd in the Netherlands, they will go back, on a part-time basis, on the same date, with secondary pupils returning from 1 June.\n\n\"What is crucial is that schools are able to re-open in a manner which inspires confidence among staff, pupils and parents - and that it is as safe as possible,\" said Mr Barton.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son Prince Louis has been photographed making a colourful rainbow poster - a symbol of hope during the coronavirus lockdown - to mark his second birthday.\n\nHis handprint artwork is one of several photographs released by the family to celebrate the occasion on Thursday.\n\nSimilar pictures by children have appeared in windows across the country.\n\nPrince Louis was photographed by his mother the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this month.\n\nIn a series of images, Kate has captured her son - wearing a smart blue gingham-style shirt - grinning up at the camera while displaying his brightly painted palms and fingers.\n\nIn one portrait, his coloured digits are raised to his cheeks with apparent excitement.\n\nIn another photo, Louis has smeared colourful paint all over his face, with Kensington Palace posting a light-hearted tweet saying \"Instagram Vs Reality\".\n\nThe duchess - a keen amateur photographer and patron of the Royal Photographic Society - has regularly released pictures she has taken of her other children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, to mark their birthdays.\n\nLouis' artwork is likely to be part of William and Kate's home-schooling lessons, with the duchess recently admitting she kept the make-shift classroom up and running during the Easter holidays.\n\n\"It's just having that bit of structure, actually. It's great, there are so many great tips online and fun activities that you can do with the children so it hasn't been all hardcore,\" she said.\n\nKate also revealed her surprise at her children's awareness about the coronavirus outbreak and how she has tackled the subject with them in \"age appropriate\" ways.\n\nPrince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge, fifth in line to the throne, was born on St George's Day, 23 April 2018, at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, weighing 8lb 7oz.\n\nHe was christened at 11 weeks old, by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace in front of friends and family.\n\nPrince Louis has featured in a number of images released by the Cambridges and recently appeared in a video with his older brother and sister applauding the nation's health workers and carers.\n\nPrince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall wished their grandson a \"very happy birthday\" from their Clarence House twitter account.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAre you celebrating your birthday in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We've saved so hard for so long for it, it's beyond belief almost'\n\nBrides and grooms say they are being charged thousands of pounds in cancellation and postponement fees for weddings that can't go ahead because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nWhile the majority of wedding companies across the UK have been flexible, a growing number of couples across the UK are locked in a battle with venues to get their money back.\n\nAdam Gibbs, 36, and Sarah Summerskill, 33, from Woking, were told their dream day in May was off because of social distancing restrictions, but they would still have to pay the venue an 80% cancellation charge.\n\nThey had been planning their wedding for the last 18 months and were supposed to get married at Cain Manor in Surrey on 9 May - one of five venues part of the Bijou Weddings group. Their wedding package costs total £17,000, and the couple has so far paid £13,000.\n\nHowever, the venue has now cancelled the event and told them to pay a cancellation fee amounting to 80% of the total cost of the wedding, as listed in their wedding contract. They were advised to claim the money back on insurance and then re-book the wedding.\n\nBut the couple has had their insurance claim declined on the basis that cancellation of the wedding and closure of the venue arose from a government order, and they feel \"lost and hopeless\".\n\nAdam Gibbs and Sarah Summerskill were meant to get married in May\n\n\"The venue has still got £13,000 of our money and are still demanding additional payments [to fulfil the cancellation charge] in the next week. It's not the kind of money you find down the back of the sofa,\" Mr Gibbs told the BBC.\n\n\"It's seems nonsensical to us that a venue can cancel on us and then charge us 80% [of the cost] without delivering a service.\"\n\nInitially, Bijou Weddings told the couple that they needed to pay the full cancellation charge for the wedding package, which amounts to £13,600. Since the couple had paid £13,000, this would mean they still owed the wedding company another £600.\n\nBut Bijou Weddings then said it would be willing to rebook their wedding date on another date in 2020 free of charge.\n\nBijou Weddings says that if customers are able to make insurance claims and get the cancellation fees refunded, then it will offer alternative dates later on this year or in 2021 or 2022 for rebooked weddings, and the new wedding would be charged at 2019 package prices. The company said it would also throw in a free bar float of £1,000.\n\nAnd for customers who do not have insurance or could not claim on insurance, Bijou Weddings said it will rebook weddings free of charge and on available dates left in 2020, or a Sunday-to-Thursday wedding in 2021 in the same month as their original booking.\n\nSome couples are still unhappy with the options given to them by Bijou Weddings though.\n\nJack Trowsdale, 27, and Claudia Dickens, 25, from West Sussex had already paid £21,000 for their wedding on 12 June at Botleys Mansion - another Bijou venue - when it was cancelled.\n\n\"We'd saved for so long and hard for it and then not only to find the wedding is cancelled, but to be told they think you owe them money for a wedding that didn't even happen. It's beyond belief almost,\" said Mr Trowsdale.\n\nThe couple have both had their wages and hours reduced at work because of the virus. They told the BBC the excitement of planning their big day has been replaced by the stress of a full legal dispute.\n\nThey have since been offered an alternative wedding date on a weekday at no extra cost, but are seeking a full refund as \"the ordeal has shattered\" their hopes of a special day.\n\nSam Cutmore-Scott, managing director of Bijou Weddings said: \"In our 25 years delivering weddings, this is the first time our venues have been forced to close. I should point out that Bijou has not voluntarily or arbitrarily cancelled any weddings - it has been forced to close its venues and halt weddings caught in the government's social distancing restrictions.\n\n\"We have thus tried to accommodate the needs of couples who are immediately impacted, while still respecting our commitments to clients who have weddings booked in 2021 and beyond.\"\n\nCouples that have splashed out on dream wedding venues say they are struggling to get new dates booked\n\nHe added that a majority of couples had successfully re-booked for a later date.\n\nBut Bijou Weddings defended its decision to keep the cancellation charges: \"Cancellation charges protect us from cancellations in an industry where the average engagement and advance booking period is around 23 months.\n\n\"Couples protect themselves from unforeseen circumstances by taking out wedding insurance which, in the normal course of events, covers cancellations that are caused by circumstances beyond the couple's control.\n\n\"We sent cancellation charge information to all our impacted couples so that any with insurance could make a claim and make themselves whole again.\n\n\"We have not followed up or chased cancellation charges during this crisis period and, for those couples who do not have insurance or whose insurance is shirking their responsibilities, we have offered a broad variety of postponement options with no charge or rearrangement fee.\"\n\nDue to existing bookings for next year, other wedding venues are finding it increasingly difficult to reschedule cancelled weddings for equivalent weekends in 2021.\n\nJenny Maybury, 39, and Michael Bromwich, 36, both from the Midlands, had their wedding moved from a Sunday in May, to a Wednesday in September.\n\nOnly 12 of the 75 guests could make the new date in September, so Jenny decided to ask the hotel for a refund of £5,355.\n\nThe venue, Abel's Harp in Shropshire, told the couple no weekends were available, but has refused to compensate them for the difference in price, or for a reduction in the number of guests.\n\nUnfortunately the couple do not have insurance for their wedding.\n\n\"They've backed us into a corner and taken it out of our control. We feel angry and heartbroken,\" said Ms Maybury.\n\nAnother couple, Debra Bingham and her fiancé Jamie, who had booked the same venue, told the BBC they were told they'd have to pay £1,500 to move the date they had chosen this year to 2021, on top of what they had already paid.\n\nAbel's Harp did not respond when approached by the BBC for comment.\n\nJenny Maybury and Michael Bromwich feel they have been forced to hold their wedding on a day most of their guests cannot attend\n\nLorraine Carroll has been in the wedding industry for over 30 years and is currently advising 250 brides and grooms who are in dispute with 15 different venues across the UK.\n\nShe accuses a small minority of venues acting \"appallingly\", trying to profit through the coronavirus disruption and \"making rules and fees up as they go along\".\n\n\"Clients are being treated disgraceful by venues and insurers are finding ways of avoiding paying out. Couples face losing thousands of pounds,\" she said.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority has previously warned the wedding sector that excessive cancellation charges, even when contracts had been signed, are not legally binding.\n\nIn 2016, the authority, which ensures businesses treat customers fairly, wrote to more than 100 wedding and event venues reminding them of consumer protection laws.\n\nThe CMA says it is prepared to \"use the tools at its disposal to intervene\".\n\nConsumer rights group Which? says it has received complaints from other couples about wedding venue cancellations.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that some venues are refusing to provide any refund of couples' significant upfront deposits or charging customers extortionate fees, particularly when it is not the couples' decision to cancel,\" said Adam French, Consumer Rights Editor at Which?.\n\n\"While many businesses will be struggling during this difficult time, it does not seem fair for customers to be charged fees or left thousands of pounds out of pocket for a service the venue can't deliver.\"\n\nHe added that businesses should take a \"compassionate and flexible approach\".", "Perhaps it is the miasma of partisan politics. Perhaps it is scrutiny from the wicked media. Perhaps it is instinctive.\n\nWhatever the cause, political leaders generally like to exude certainty. They will say: \"I believe I have been completely clear about this\" Or: \"Let me assure the House……\"\n\nBy contrast, many ministers of my acquaintance have been in an honourable lather of uncertainty much of the time. That is because the decisions confronting them are tough, really tough.\n\nBut they pretend otherwise. They fear to let it seem that they are havering or dovering, to use two fine Scots words.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has, to a large extent, abandoned the pretence. In all her remarkable pronouncements during this quite remarkable period, she has constantly stressed that she may have to change tack, that she is open to other ideas.\n\nThat she is, in short, uncertain. Indeed, she used the word \"uncertainty\" repeatedly today as she set out her framework for a possible exit strategy.\n\nRead more of Brian's blog here:", "The UK's budget deficit is set to see \"an absolutely colossal increase to a level not seen in peacetime\", the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.\n\nThe economic impact of coronavirus was likely to push the deficit to as high as £260bn, Paul Johnson told the BBC.\n\nHe was speaking after latest figures showed that the deficit hit £48.7bn in the 2019-20 financial year.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said those figures were \"the numbers before the storm\".\n\nAnd, separately, one of the Bank of England's top policymakers has warned that the UK faces its worst economic shock in several hundred years.\n\nJan Vlieghe, a member of the BoE's interest-rate setting committee, said that \"early indicators\" suggest the UK was \"experiencing an economic contraction that is faster and deeper than anything we have seen in the past century, or possibly several centuries\".\n\nHe did, though, say there was \"in principle\" a good chance that the UK would return to its \"pre-virus trajectory once the pandemic is over\".\n\nThe UK's deficit last year - the gap between the government's income and its expenditure - was £9.3bn higher than in the 2018-19 financial year and equivalent to 2.2% of GDP.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics, which released those figures, said they did not capture the big spending announced by the government to cope with the virus.\n\n\"The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is expected to have a significant impact on the UK public sector finances,\" it added.\n\n\"These effects will arise from both the introduction of public health measures and from new government policies to support businesses and individuals.\"\n\nThe ONS said the full effects of coronavirus on the public finances would become clearer in the coming months.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC's Today programme that there was still \"a huge amount of uncertainty\" surrounding the economic impact of the virus.\n\nHowever, the government had announced tax cuts and spending increases worth £100bn, so the effect was \"likely to dwarf the record that we saw during the financial crisis\".\n\nMr Johnson said the economy was unlikely to recover quickly afterwards and would remain \"smaller than it otherwise would have been\". He added that tax rises and a growing deficit were the likely outcome.\n\n\"I would be astonished if in a couple of years the economy was back where it would have been if it [the virus] had never happened,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, a closely watched survey of UK businesses has indicated that the economic impact has been even worse than feared.\n\nThe IHS Markit/CIPS flash UK composite purchasing managers' index (PMI), which measures activity in the services and manufacturing sectors, fell to a new record low of 12.9 in April, down from 36 in March.\n\nAny reading below 50 indicates contraction. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a figure of 31.4.\n\n\"The dire survey readings will inevitably raise questions about the cost of the lockdown and how long current containment measures will last,\" said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, adding that the figures pointed to a quarter-on-quarter economic contraction of at least 7%.\n\nIn another development, the Treasury has announced that it is speeding up its plans to raise money in order to cover the cost of its coronavirus measures.\n\nIt will now be issuing £180bn worth of government bonds, known as gilts, in the May-to-July period, more than originally intended in those months.\n\nWe already knew the government was likely to have to borrow huge sums of money to support the economy. But now it's not a \"scenario\" from the Office of Budget Responsibility, but concrete reality.\n\nThis morning, the Debt Management Office, the arm of the Treasury that borrows on international money markets on behalf of the government, announced how much the government is actually planning to borrow. That's £45bn in April alone and a further £180bn from the start of May to the end of July - a total of £225bn in just four months.\n\nOne reason is the huge cost of programmes such as furloughing, now expected to cost well north of £50bn. The other reason is that the government's revenues - the tax it collects through income tax, VAT and national insurance - are collapsing. If you shut down much of the economy, you also turn off the tap on much of the government's tax income.\n\nThe OBR's scenario was that the government might need to borrow £382bn for the year - about seven times what was expected pre-Covid. That depends, though, on the shutdown being lifted sooner rather than later.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation estimates that if the shutdown continues for six months, borrowing will be even higher for the year - a truly mind-boggling £500bn. That's about a quarter of the size of the entire economy.\n\n\"The temporary and immediate nature of the unprecedented support announced for people and businesses means the government expects that a significantly higher proportion of total gilt sales in 2020-21 will take place in the first four months of the financial year, in order to meet the immediate financing needs resulting from Covid-19,\" the Treasury said.\n\n\"This higher volume of issuance is not expected to be required across the remainder of the financial year.\"", "Birmingham City Council has imposed a limit of six people per funeral\n\nBereavement staff have been spat at and assaulted by mourners who are angry at the six-person restriction for funerals, a city council has said.\n\nCouncillors condemned the incidents, which they said put staff at greater risk during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBirmingham City Council has imposed a limit of six people per funeral, although other councils are allowing up to 10 visitors.\n\nThe council said its bereavement staff had been under increased pressure.\n\nPaul Lankester, assistant director of regulation and enforcement - which includes bereavement services - said: \"Emotions always run high when someone has lost a loved one and unfortunately there have been incidents where some of my staff have been verbally abused and that sort of thing.\n\n\"We try and work with people but I would just encourage people to remember they're just doing their job, they don't set the policy.\n\n\"I think the biggest difficulty has been the volume of emails we're getting, we're getting thousands a week more than we would've done and I can only apologise for that.\"\n\nThe council statement said staff had also suffered verbal and physical abuse.\n\n\"There have been a small number of instances in recent weeks where bereavement staff have been verbally abused for assisting the council in implementing the six-mourner restriction at funerals.\n\n\"Occasionally this has turned physical, with staff being spat at or physically assaulted.\n\n\"These incidents have been followed up and investigations are ongoing - therefore we cannot provide further details at this time.\"\n\nCouncil leader Ian Ward, said it was \"so important that key workers are treated with kindness and respect at this time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement released by a cross-party group of councillors thanked bereavement staff for their work and asked people to treat staff with courtesy and respect, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nIt said: \"The difficult decision to maintain the restriction of the number of mourners attending funerals to six - which has the support of all the political groups on Birmingham City Council - was not made by our staff.\n\n\"The decision was taken by councillors and senior management to protect both staff and mourners from unnecessary exposure to the risk of contracting the virus, something we would hope everyone should have sympathy with.\n\n\"We firmly believe that the current limit is correct for Birmingham and must remain in place while the national lockdown continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sharon Bamford died just days after her husband Malcolm\n\nA health care assistant, who was a mother-of-two, has died with coronavirus just days after the virus killed her husband.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said their son Christian had survived Covid-19 and had left hospital.\n\n\"Warm, caring and dedicated\" Sharon Bamford, 63, who worked at Swansea's Singleton Hospital, was the eighth Welsh NHS worker to die with the virus.\n\nShe died at Morriston Hospital on Tuesday.\n\nHer death came just days after her 73-year-old husband Malcolm died in the same intensive care unit.\n\nThe health board offered sympathies to the couple's sons Craig and Christian, 34.\n\n\"Sharon was highly thought of by all the patients,\" said Singleton Hospital director Jan Worthing.\n\nShe added Mrs Bamford was also \"loved by her colleagues and friends within the team\".\n\nMrs Bamford had worked at the hospital for \"many years\", and in the haematology and oncology ward since 2005.\n\n\"Sharon's sad death will leave a massive void within the team and within the Singleton family,\" said Ms Worthing.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are obviously with their sons Craig and Chris at this devastating time, with the loss of both Sharon and Malcolm.\"", "Dr Gail Allsopp was unable to get scrubs so wears overalls instead.\n\nThe GP from Derbyshire kept a video diary while attending to patients and juggling family life.\n\nSee more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: bbc.in/YourCoronavirusStories", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says some coronavirus testing centres stand \"half empty\" as they are not easily accessible to care workers\n\nCoronavirus testing will increase more than five-fold over the next week, the government has promised.\n\nMinisters insist they will meet their target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April - an increase of 82,000 on Monday's levels.\n\nThe government has also revealed that 15 social care workers have died of coronavirus.\n\nAnd new figures suggest coronavirus deaths in care homes in England could have doubled in five days.\n\nIt comes as the latest figures show 759 additional deaths in hospital across the UK, bringing the total to 18,100.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab clashed with new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over testing figures, at the first \"virtual\" Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Raab and Sir Keir were both present in the sparsely populated Commons chamber, with most MPs asking questions from home through video conferencing technology.\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson, who is recovering from Covid-19, watched the proceedings from Chequers, the prime minister's country estate.\n\nSir Keir, who was making his debut at the despatch box as Labour leader, said the UK has been \"very slow and way behind other European countries\" when it comes to coronavirus testing.\n\nHe asked how it was possible to go from 18,000 tests a day to 100,000 in just eight days.\n\n\"All week we have heard from the front line, from care workers who are frankly desperate for tests,\" he told Mr Raab, and asked why the government was not using all the tests that are available.\n\nMr Raab, who was standing in for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the government had testing capacity of 40,000 a day.\n\nBased on that, and the fact that new laboratories were coming on stream, the government would meet its testing target, although it would need a \"big increase\" in the next week, he told MPs.\n\n\"I've set the goal of 100,000 tests a day by the end of this month and I'm delighted to say that the expansion of capacity is ahead of plans, even though demand has, thus far, been lower than expected.\n\n\"We are therefore ramping up the availability of this testing and expanding who is eligible for testing, and making it easier to access the tests.\"\n\nSir Keir said the government had been \"slow\" at responding to companies that had offered to supply Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the health service.\n\nAnd he said many care workers were not able to get to testing centres because they were miles away and unable to use public transport because of social distancing.\n\n\"It is little wonder we are seeing these pictures of half-empty testing centres,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nMr Raab acknowledged there were challenges, but added: \"The key point is, it is important to have a target and drive towards a target.\"\n\nOn PPE, Mr Raab said the NHS had \"high standards\" and other countries, with weaker standards, had in some cases had to recall equipment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Care home staff have found it \"emotionally difficult\" coping with deaths from coronavirus\n\nIn a statement following PMQs, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs \"we are at the peak\" of the outbreak but added there could be no relaxation of the lockdown until the government could be sure of avoiding a second wave of cases.\n\nHe added: \"We are ramping up our testing capacity and our capacity for contact-tracing in a matter of weeks, and we'll have it ready to make sure that we can use that as and when the incidence of transmission comes down.\"\n\nHe said the goal was to reach a point where \"we can test, track and trace everybody who needs it\", adding that testing capacity was currently ahead of the government's plans.\n\nAn NHS app to help trace the contacts of people who have been infected is now in beta testing, the health secretary said. Along with greater testing and a fall in the rate of transmission, he said it would allow them to \"control this virus\" with fewer social distancing measures.\n\nMr Hancock praised MPs for being \"united in our purpose and resolve\". \"This may be akin to a war but it's one where the whole of humanity is on the same side,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as new figures showed the number of people recorded as having died of Covid-19 in care homes in England could have doubled in five days.\n\nFigures published by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday went up to 10 April. They showed the deaths of 1,043 people recorded as being linked to Covid 19 in England and Wales - nearly 1,000 of those deaths were in English care homes.\n\nThe care regulator for England, the Care Quality Commission, working with the ONS, is analysing data from care home providers about coronavirus-related deaths and have looked at deaths between April 10 to 15.\n\nIn a statement, they say they anticipate the number of deaths recorded in care homes in England to be double the number reported on Tuesday.\n\nThey have not published the numbers yet, but this preliminary finding would suggest in a five-day period the deaths of nearly 1,000 people in care homes in England could have been linked to Covid-19, which if confirmed would bring the overall total to about 2,000.\n\nThey also say there may be a significant increase in non-Covid-19 related deaths - in line with what the ONS official statistics suggest.\n\nThe figures will be published on 28 April, once verified.\n\nCare providers have always had to notify the CQC when a resident dies, but the forms have now been adjusted to collect information on whether a death is linked to coronavirus.\n\nCriticising the government for heading towards \"one of the worst death rates in Europe\", shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for care home deaths to be reported daily.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"All deaths in care homes are of course recorded.\" But he warned against comparing the different figures to make conclusions about the overall death toll, saying they were compiled on different time frames and needed \"rigorous analysis\" to ensure the comparison was accurate.", "The DIY store has reopened some outlets amid UK lockdown measures\n\nDIY chain B&Q has confirmed it has now reopened 155 of its UK stores as lockdown measures remain in place.\n\nAfter a trial at 14 stores at the weekend, 61 outlets reopened on Wednesday and another 80 on Thursday.\n\nB&Q has introduced \"social distancing controls\", such as capping the number of customers in-store.\n\nOn Thursday, other firms including Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin and Taylor Wimpey said they would return to work in May.\n\nB&Q had closed its shops since the end of March after the government introduced lockdown measures to try to contain the spread of Covid-19.\n\nHowever, hardware shops were included on the government's list of essential retailers that were allowed to trade under the restrictions and B&Q customers could continue to shop online.\n\nThe DIY chain said on Saturday that 14 of its stores would reopen, followed by a further 61 sites announced on Wednesday.\n\nIn the newly re-opened stores, perspex screens will be fitted to checkouts and two-metre floor markers will indicate the distance shoppers should maintain from each other.\n\nThe announcement also saw complaints that the retailer would be allowed to sell plants at its sites which have garden centres.\n\nThe Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) recently told the BBC that millions of plants and shrubs might have to be binned as, unlike hardware firms, garden centres were deemed non-essential.\n\nUK manufacturers and housebuilders announced plans on Thursday to kickstart production during the lockdown.\n\nCarmaker Jaguar Land Rover said it would resume production gradually at its factory at Solihull and at its engine manufacturing plant in Wolverhampton from 18 May. It will also reopen its facilities in Slovakia and Austria.\n\nThe company said the restart of other factories, which include Castle Bromwich and Halewood, will be confirmed in due course.\n\nLuxury carmaker Aston Martin said it would reopen its St Athan plant on 5 May after it had temporarily suspended all manufacturing operations in the UK at the end of March.\n\nHousebuilder Taylor Wimpey also plans to restart work on most of its building sites across England and Wales in May.\n\nIts staff will follow new safety guidelines, while subcontractor work will resume the following week.\n\nPeter Redfern, Taylor Wimpey's chief executive said: \"In the period while our sites have been closed, trading has inevitably been impacted. However, we are still seeing continued demand for our homes and our sales teams have been selling homes remotely, and digitally, week to week.\"\n\nHe added that the firm's show homes and sales centres would remain closed, most likely until social distancing measures are relaxed.\n\nDavid O'Brien, an equity analyst at Goodbody, added that Taylor Wimpey is \"in a strong position to ramp up activity\".\n\nAs Spanish authorities have relaxed some lockdown measures, he added, those operations could provide \"helpful lessons\" and highlight \"potential issues ahead of UK site openings which will also stand it in good stead\".\n\nMeanwhile, housebuilder Vistry - formerly Bovis Homes - announced construction would resume on most of its \"partnership sites\", which are typically affordable housing projects, from 27 April.\n\nThe firm added that a \"significant\" number of private housing construction sites would also reopen.\n\nWilliam Ryder, equities analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that \"any return to activity will be welcome\".\n\n\"Demand for new houses definitely seems to been reduced by the current uncertainty, but it doesn't seem to be as bad as some had feared. However, it's possible that things will get worse from here if we enter a prolonged recession,\" he said.", "An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.\n\nThe first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March.\n\nNew information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline.\n\nAutopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19.\n\nSamples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe death of a third Santa Clara individual on 6 March has also been confirmed to be coronavirus-related.\n\n\"These three individuals died at home during a time when very limited testing was available only through the CDC,\" the coroner statement said.\n\nAt the time, the CDC's criteria restricted testing only to people with a known travel history and who were showing specific symptoms.\n\nThe coroner statement said \"we anticipate additional deaths from Covid-19 will be identified\" as more deaths are investigated in Santa Clara county.\n\nThe number of confirmed virus cases in the US has reached more than 825,000. At least 45,000 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nElsewhere in California, health officials from Los Angeles confirmed an additional 1,400 cases of coronavirus in that county, an increase of almost 10% of the total number.\n\nThere are now a total of 15,153 cases in Los Angeles.\n\nThe sudden spike is a result of a \"backlog\" of almost 1,200 cases from a single laboratory, according to Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.\n\n“Over the weekend we received a large backlog of test results from one lab,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a tremendous lag in data reporting to the Department of Public Health and we are working hard to make sure we don’t have backlogs moving forward.\"\n• None Second US coronavirus wave 'could be even worse'", "The UK will have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year, the government's chief medical adviser has said.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said it was \"wholly unrealistic\" to expect life would suddenly return to normal soon.\n\nHe said \"in the long run\" the ideal way out would be via a \"highly effective vaccine\" or drugs to treat the disease.\n\nBut he warned that the chance of having those within the next calendar year was \"incredibly small\".\n\n\"This disease is not going to be eradicated, it is not going to disappear,\" he said, at the government's daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"So we have to accept that we are working with a disease that we are going to be with globally... for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nThe latest figures show a further 759 people have died with the virus in UK hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 18,100.\n\nProf Whitty said the public should not expect the number of coronavirus-related deaths to \"fall away\" suddenly after the peak.\n\n\"In the long run, the exit from this is going to be one of two things, ideally,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine, and there are a variety of ways they can be deployed... or highly effective drugs so that people stop dying of this disease even if they catch it, or which can prevent this disease in vulnerable people.\"\n\nProf Whitty warned there were multiple different ways in which the coronavirus epidemic would result in deaths or ill health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty on easing restrictions: \"It's going to take a long time\"\n\nAs well as those dying from Covid-19, he said others may die indirectly because the NHS has had to be \"reoriented towards Covid\", leading to fewer elective procedures and screening.\n\nHe also said if the interventions in place \"extend deprivation among people\" that would increase the risk to their long-term health.\n\n\"So what we have to do is think very seriously about this: what is the best balance of measures that gives us the best public health outcome?\"\n\nHe said there was a \"proper trade-off\" which ministers would have to consider.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser and other experts have often said the only secure long term route out of the coronavirus epidemic is the discovery of either a vaccine or effective drugs.\n\nSo Prof Whitty's latest comments are not a total surprise, however they throw cold water on any idea that lockdown restrictions will be fully lifted in the summer or even the autumn.\n\nA vaccine and drugs are unlikely to materialise until next year and until then some form of social distancing will be required, according to Prof Whitty.\n\nBut that certainly doesn't mean all the current restrictions remain in place until then.\n\nSchools, some businesses and public transport might well be reopened in the not too distant future. Pubs and restaurants, under this scenario, will probably be nearer the bottom of the list.\n\nProf Whitty of course is an adviser and it's up to the politicians to decide. They will have to weigh up the impact on the economy and society but also, as they often say, be guided by the science.\n\nAlso speaking at the briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said easing social distancing measures too soon would risk a second spike of coronavirus cases.\n\nHe said this could trigger a second lockdown that would \"prolong the economic pain\" across the country.\n\nMr Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, acknowledged the mental, physical and economic strain social distancing measures were having on people throughout the UK, but said they \"must remain in place for the time being\".\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the defence staff, also joined Wednesday's press conference and described the military response to coronavirus as the \"single greatest logistical feat\" of his 40 years of service.\n\nGen Carter said the military has worked in support of healthcare workers on the front line, and has been involved with planning and testing - along with helping the Foreign Office with repatriation efforts.\n\nHe added that the military was also preparing mobile pop-up testing centres in a bid to roll-out more Covid-19 testing.\n\nEarlier, the government insisted it would meet its target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April - an increase of 82,000 on Monday's levels.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, who was making his debut in Prime Minister's Questions as Labour leader, said the UK had been \"very slow and way behind other European countries\" on testing.\n\nHe asked how it was possible to go from 18,000 tests a day to 100,000 in just eight days.\n\nMr Raab said the UK currently had testing capacity of 40,000 a day and, with new laboratories coming on stream, the government would reach its target.", "B&Q in Cardiff reopened its doors to the public on Tuesday\n\nThe government is facing pressure to give businesses \"hope\" after a warning that social distancing could last for the rest of the year.\n\nSenior Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said it must discuss a return to normality or risk businesses folding.\n\nThe hospitality industry has warned that maintaining social distancing until next year would be catastrophic.\n\nCabinet minister Brandon Lewis said there was a difficult balance to strike between health and economic concerns.\n\nLatest figures showed a further 616 patients with coronavirus have died in the UK, taking the total number of deaths in UK hospitals to 18,738.\n\nThe Department of Health said that a further 4,583 people had tested positive for Covid-19 since Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said the UK would have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year.\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has outlined ideas for the initial easing of the lockdown.\n\nSir Geoffrey, treasurer of the influential 1922 Committee of backbench Conservatives, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that some companies are \"likely to cease trading\" unless they receive \"some form of indication\" of when they can resume business as usual.\n\n\"We have to, on behalf of the businesses of this country, begin to give them a little bit of hope as to when we might be able to get back to normality,\" he said.\n\nHe stressed that the next steps must be carried out \"gradually\".\n\nIn response, Northern Ireland Secretary Mr Lewis said certain businesses are \"starting to reopen more stores\" with social distancing measures in place.\n\nDIY retailer B&Q said it would reopen stores with precautions, while housebuilder Taylor Wimpey and carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said they would also restart operations.\n\nHowever, Mr Lewis said \"we don't want to get ahead of ourselves\" and the best way to protect the public and the NHS was to stay at home.\n\n\"One of the most damaging things for our economy would be if we came out of lockdown too early,\" he said, adding that this would risk a second peak.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish government's daily news conference that it was not possible to return immediately to how life was before the virus and that Covid-19 would be a \"fact of life for some time to come\".\n\nShe unveiled an initial set of proposals for the eventual easing of restrictions in the country, which suggested:\n\nThe plan also suggested that testing, contact tracing and isolation of cases will be vital to keeping the virus under control and it might be necessary to re-impose a lockdown with little notice if there is a danger of another spike in infections.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was \"more likely than not\" that the UK government at Westminster would spell out \"possible flexing and bending\" of the restrictions around the time of its next review of the lockdown on 7 May.\n\nShe said ideas were being considered that could allow for \"a semblance of normal life\" while maintaining social distancing.\n\nNo firm decisions have been taken yet, she added, but considerations included staggering rush hours, employers introducing shift patterns, and different year groups attending school on different days.\n\nMeanwhile, leisure industry body Hospitality UK said reopening restaurants, bars and hotels without a plan \"would be catastrophic\", adding that many businesses in the sector would not be able to open with distancing measures in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty on easing restrictions: \"It's going to take a long time\"\n\nHow are you coping with life under the current social restrictions? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The UK will have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year, the government's chief medical adviser has said.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Prof Chris Whitty described the chances of an available vaccine or drugs to treat coronavirus in the next calendar year as \"incredibly small\".", "Online retailer Amazon, long accused of killing off bricks-and-mortar book sales, has stunned the industry by donating £250,000 to a fund in aid of bookshops hit by coronavirus.\n\nThe tech giant initially made the donation on a \"low-key\" basis, said the Book Trade Charity.\n\nBut as speculation grew, the charity revealed that Amazon was the donor.\n\nChief executive David Hicks said he realised some booksellers would find that difficult.\n\nHe told the BBC that the Book Trade Charity existed to help the entire book industry, from publishers to bookshops.\n\nAs part of its efforts, it is running a fund to help booksellers facing financial hardship after being forced to close by the pandemic.\n\nMr Hicks said: \"Amazon came to us and said they would like to put some money into our fund, particularly to help at this time and that they would prefer it to be low-key.\"\n\nAs a result, the charity tried to avoid naming Amazon, although the firm had not insisted on anonymity, he said.\n\nHowever, that policy simply led to more questions, especially after trade publication, the Bookseller, ran a story saying a mystery donor had contributed £250,000 of the £380,000 raised so far.\n\nMr Hicks said he had been \"very pleased\" to accept the donation in the interests of the charity.\n\nHowever, he added that he was \"conscious that that does give a little bit of difficulty to some booksellers\".\n\n\"A large part of the trade, particularly on the publishing side, works very closely with Amazon,\" he said.\n\n\"But the bookselling side does have rather a more strained relationship.\"\n\nThe news has already aroused some reactions in the book trade, including from the editor of the Bookseller, Philip Jones, who tweeted that it was \"extraordinary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is the moment a top police officer sheds a tear over nurses' support during his battle with Covid-19.\n\nMedical staff stood to applaud Ch Supt Phil Dolby's departure from hospital after a 24-day stay.\n\nThe West Midlands Police officer spent two weeks in intensive care and needed the support of a ventilator.", "Not all families have laptops and broadband to help their children keep learning at home\n\n\"In our schools, 60% to 70% of children wouldn't have laptops,\" says Wayne Norrie, head of an academy trust with schools in disadvantaged areas.\n\nWith schools closed and pupils studying online at home, he says, it is important to recognise the social gap in access to technology.\n\n\"Coronavirus has revealed the scale of the digital divide,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education in England has promised laptops will be lent to some poorer teenagers.\n\nThese will be available to disadvantaged Year 10 pupils without access to a computer, and those with social workers.\n\nThe scheme, announced last Sunday, for un unspecified number of laptops, is expected to soon start taking bids from local authorities and academy trusts.\n\nMr Norrie, chief executive of Greenwood Academies Trust, with 37 schools in the Midlands and east of England, says many families rely on a single mobile phone for an internet connection, which is \"not realistic\" for online learning and streaming video lessons.\n\n\"Many don't have broadband contracts,\" he says.\n\nFor instance, he describes a family in Skegness who have a mobile phone shared between parents and three children.\n\nThe schools have been providing laptops and some families have their own tablet computers - but there are still barriers in terms of parents' IT skills and children having space to study.\n\nThe Department for Education is promising to lend laptops to some teenagers\n\n\"Digital poverty\" is a significant problem, says Matt Morden, co-head teacher of Surrey Square primary school, in south London.\n\nIn his school, 24% of pupils are effectively offline, in terms of being able to study from home.\n\nTheir families might have mobile phones with internet connections - but for those in low-paid, insecure jobs, data is expensive.\n\n\"If families are struggling, the priority is going to be food, not data,\" he says.\n\nAs well as missing out on learning, those without online connections miss \"the sense of belonging\" from staying in touch with their friends and teachers, Mr Morden says.\n\nThe lockdown and the closure of schools has \"brought the digital divide to the forefront\", he says.\n\nThere are digital haves and have-nots in the coronavirus lockdown\n\nThere has been a new virtual academy launched and the BBC has provided educational resources - but those without internet access or usable computer devices are being left behind.\n\nMr Morden's school has been lending laptops - but for families with several school-age children, one might not be enough.\n\nSeb Chapleau, director of the Big Education Conversation charity, says it is \"important to understand that this is a deep problem across many schools\".\n\nThe Co-op Academies Trust is providing 1,000 computer devices across its 24 schools.\n\nChris Tomlinson, who chairs the trust, says online lessons are \"no good if the children don't have the necessary hardware to access the internet\".\n\nThe AET academy trust is providing 9,000 laptops for its 58 schools, one for all pupils on free school meals.\n\nThe current lockdown has turned technology into an educational necessity rather than a luxury, said the trust's chief executive, Julian Drinkall\n\nRobert Halfon, chair of the education select committee, says too often there are assumptions about access to broadband and up-to-date computers.\n\nAs an MP, he says he deals with constituents who have to weigh up the cost of data before sending emails or getting information online.\n\nHe suggests educational programmes could be put on free-to-air television to reach those not online.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man was seen on the balcony of a flat in Dock Head Road, Chatham\n\nArmed police swooped on a block of flats after a man was apparently seen firing weapons from a balcony.\n\nThe alleged shooter was seen outside a flat in Dock Head Road, Chatham, at about 08:35 BST, Kent Police said.\n\nA video posted on Twitter suggested he was seen firing shots and loud bangs could be heard.\n\nOfficers arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of firearms offences and found four suspected imitation firearms at the scene, the force said.\n\nWitness Sandra Pratt, who works at the nearby Dockside Retail Outlet, told BBC Radio Kent she had heard the sound of gunshots.\n\n\"I heard a lot of shouting and what seemed like gunshot. I looked to my left and there was a guy up on the balcony with a rifle and a pistol.\n\n\"So I quickly ran into the shop and we called in any customers wandering by [who had] not realised what was going on and rung the police.\"\n\nArmed officers are at the scene\n\nMs Pratt said the man was on a balcony of a flat on the top floor of the tower block, which she said had about 30 floors.\n\n\"He was carrying on for a good half-an-hour,\" she said.\n\n\"We were all in the front of the shop and you could see the pistol and a rifle and you could see the sparks coming off of it. He was just randomly shooting.\"\n\nIt is not known if anyone was injured.\n\nMs Pratt said people in other flats were looking out to see what was happening and then officers went up \"in all their gear\".\n\nAsked if she felt the public had been in danger, Ms Pratt said: \"Yes, exactly, that's why I ran into the shop terrified.\"\n\nKent Police said they were called to \"a disturbance at a flat\" and armed officers were sent to the scene after members of the public reported seeing a man with weapons.\n\nThe police helicopter was also deployed and patrols remain at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff at a care home have moved into tents to shield vulnerable residents from the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Victoria House Care Home in Ryde on the Isle of Wight has taken steps to protect its 20 residents, aged between 82 and 103.\n\nNine of the 31 staff have left their partners, families and children to isolate at the home, which now has a policy of \"no one in and no one out\".\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "Investigations are under way after at least three Zoom meetings were infiltrated by people sharing footage of children being sexually abused.\n\nThe latest incident occurred on Tuesday during a legal education seminar on the video conferencing platform.\n\nA law lecturer, who was a guest speaker at the online event, said his computer screen was \"overtaken\" by \"incredibly distressing\" footage.\n\nZoom said it was \"looking into\" what had happened.\n\nThe case has been referred to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, which is part of the National Crime Agency (NCA).\n\nJames Lee, reader in English law at King's College London, told BBC News around 40 people were logged into the meeting, which had been publicised on social media.\n\nAbout 20 minutes in, as he delivered his presentation, the session was interrupted.\n\n\"All the screens were overtaken by someone sharing abuse images,\" said Mr Lee.\n\n\"I tried to pull all the plugs out of my computer.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like it - it was incredibly distressing.\"\n\nThe event was suspended but when it resumed more child abuse footage appeared, so it was abandoned.\n\nIt is thought three pre-recorded video clips had been played. They were described by those present as containing images of the most extreme abuse of very young children.\n\nProf Michael Doherty, from Lancaster University, who organised the virtual meeting, said on Twitter: \"Just had an absolutely awful experience of Zoombombing... huge apologies to everyone in the meeting.\n\n\"We will need to move to a different system with passwords and invitation. Absolutely sickened,\" he wrote.\n\nLast week, a Zoom meeting organised by the 40,000-strong Federation of Young European Greens was infiltrated by someone streaming child sexual abuse material.\n\nIt was reported to police in Belgium, where the organisation is based.\n\nA similar incident is also believed to have happened last Friday during an online discussion about Covid-19 contact tracing apps, hosted by the Open Rights Group, which aims to \"preserve and promote\" people's rights in the digital age.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation, which works to remove child abuse content from the web, said it had been alerted.\n\nZoom said it was \"looking into\" what had happened.\n\nA company spokesperson said: \"These incidents are truly devastating and appalling, and our user policies explicitly prohibit any obscene, indecent, illegal or violent activity or content on the platform.\n\n\"Zoom strongly condemns such behaviour and recently updated several features to help our users more easily protect their meetings.\"\n\nThe firm said it had made the Zoom Meeting ID less visible and had added a new security icon to its meeting controls.\n\n\"We encourage users to report any incidents of this kind either to Zoom so we can take appropriate action or directly to law enforcement authorities,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nEarlier this month, Zoom's chief executive, Eric Yuan, apologised for \"falling short\" on security issues and promised to enhance safety and privacy features.\n\nThe NCA said it was aware of a \"number\" of reports.\n\nNCA deputy director Charles Yates said: \"The NCA is working with partners in the UK and abroad, law enforcement and private sector, to respond to these cases.\n\n\"Operators of these platforms need to do all they can to ensure their services aren't exploited or compromised in this way, particularly at a time when live streaming applications have reported significant increases in their use.\"", "A study of NHS staff tested for coronavirus offers some reassurance to front-line workers, say researchers.\n\nA Newcastle University team analysed the results of 1,000 tests carried out on workers at local hospitals in March.\n\nThey found the number of front-line workers testing positive was no different to that of staff working in non-clinical roles.\n\nThis is \"reassuring for front-line healthcare workers and suggests that PPE is effective\", they say.\n\nIn the study, published in a letter to The Lancet, staff at two hospitals in Newcastle were offered tests, with results returned in two days. Local GPs and paramedics were also eligible.\n\nThe staff fell into three groups:\n\nStaff at two Newcastle hospitals were offered tests\n\nResearchers at Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals found no evidence of a significant difference between the three groups, with rates of infection of 15% in the first group, 16% in the second, and 18% in the third.\n\nThe data also gives an insight into the growth of the epidemic in England, with signs of \"flattening\" after the introduction of social distancing measures.\n\n\"We got a glimpse into the epidemiology of the Covid pandemic in England,\" said Dr Duncan.\n\n\"And we got evidence, although it's not direct proof, that the social distancing measures introduced by the government are having an impact on the spread of coronavirus in England.\"", "A police officer hands out unemployment benefit applications in a car park in Florida\n\nA further 4.4 million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to mount.\n\nThe new applications brought the total number of jobless claims since mid-March to 26.4 million.\n\nThat amounts to more than 15% of the US workforce.\n\nHowever, the most recent data marked the third week that the number of new claims has declined, raising hopes that the worst of the shock may be over.\n\n\"While this week's 4.4 million jobless claims are staggering, there are signs that the pace of layoffs has reached its peak,\" said Richard Flynn, UK managing director at financial service firm Charles Schwab.\n\n\"The key questions at this point are when can the economy reopen and what happens when it does?\"\n\nEconomists have warned that the world is facing the sharpest slowdown since the Great Depression in the 1930s.\n\nIn the US, the economy is expected to contract 5.9% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. In just five weeks, the surge in unemployment claims has exceeded the number of jobs created in the near-decade of expansion that ended in February.\n\nA Pew Research Center survey estimates that 43% of households have been hit by a coronavirus-related job loss or pay cut, a share that rises to more than half among adults with lower-incomes.\n\nThe US government has responded to the crisis with more than $2 trillion in relief, expanding eligibility for unemployment benefits and increased the payments, among other measures.\n\nA record 16 million Americans received the benefits in the week ended 11 April, the Labor Department said.But many people have had trouble getting through to state offices processing the applications.\n\n\"The phones lines are often busy,\" said John Dignan, a 52-year-old real estate agent in Nevada.\n\n\"It's very frustrating because you have no control and no information. You already have so much anxiety about Covid-19, you know the economy's falling apart and I don't have much left in savings - maybe about a month left.\"\n\nA $349bn relief programme for small businesses, part of the $2tn rescue legislation, ran out of funds within two weeks.\n\nWhile Congress is expected to approve an additional $310bn this week, the programme, which offers low-cost loans that do not need to be repaid if the recipient meets certain conditions, has been attacked for not reaching the smallest firms.\n\n\"We're just waiting,\" said New York restaurant-owner Larry Hyland, who applied the first day that banks started accepting applications on behalf of his Brooklyn-based beer garden, Greenwood Park.\n\nReviews have found that roughly two-thirds of the money so far has gone to large publicly listed companies rather than mom-and-pop shops. Firms with pre-existing relationships with banks - typically larger businesses - were at an advantage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Thursday, the administration responded to the criticism with new guidelines for the loan programme aimed at screening out big firms. But Mr Hyland said that even if he does get the money it may not help, since it is supposed to be spent primarily on wages within eight weeks - and he remains closed.\n\n\"The timeline is the biggest issue,\" he said. \"Not knowing when you can actually reopen and to what capacity you can reopen, how can we take on the burden of that loan?\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump, who is up for re-election in November, has pushed to loosen restrictions on activity, despite fears that testing and other safety measures remain insufficient.\n\nSome states have already started to relax rules, while protests against lockdown orders have arisen elsewhere.\n\nEven if jobless claims continue to subside as reopening gets underway, analysts say the scars on America's consumer-driven economy will linger.\n\n\"The damage\" said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics, \"has already been done.\"", "A group of 25 doctors have written to the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, because they are concerned about the UK's current advice on self-isolation for coronavirus.\n\nThe guidance says people should stay at home and avoid contact with others for seven days if they develop symptoms.\n\nAfter that, self-isolation can end - if they feel well and do not have a fever.\n\nBut World Health Organization advice says people should self-isolate for 14 days after symptoms have cleared.\n\nAnd now, Newcastle University public health expert Prof Allyson Pollock and 24 similarly concerned colleagues are asking to see evidence in support of the UK's stance.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says the recommendations are based on science and expert advice suggesting:\n\nThe UK guidance says a cough may persist for several weeks despite the coronavirus infection having cleared and does not mean self-isolation should be prolonged.\n\nAlthough, if symptoms worsen and especially if a person develops shortness of breath or a new fever, they should contact NHS 111.\n\nThe WHO recommendations provide a framework countries then adapt to suit their national circumstances, it adds.\n\nAn official said: \"The government's response to this virus and all clinical guidance is led by science and a world renowned team of clinicians, public health experts and scientists - including epidemiologists - working round the clock to keep us safe.\"\n\nBut Prof Pollock and her colleagues say there have been reports of a risk of infection beyond seven days - ranging from 10 to 24 days after symptoms begin.\n\n\"We are also concerned about the narrow spectrum of symptoms the UK is using as an indication for self-isolation,\" they write in their letter to Mr Hancock.\n\nThe UK says cough and fever are the key ones but other common ones may include:\n\n\"We are aware that other countries are using a broader range of symptoms for self-isolation,\" they add.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurse Jenny McGee said she wasn't expecting to be singled out for praise\n\nBoris Johnson was just \"another patient we were trying to do our best for,\" the New Zealand nurse credited with helping to save his life has said.\n\nJenny McGee was praised by the PM for standing by his bedside \"when things could have gone either way\" while he was in intensive care with coronavirus.\n\nShe said she hadn't expected him to mention her, saying it was a \"shock\".\n\nShe insisted Mr Johnson received no special treatment and \"absolutely needed\" to be in intensive care.\n\nMeanwhile, Luis Pitarma, the other nurse specifically thanked by the PM, said it felt \"quite strange\" looking after Mr Johnson, as he had never cared for someone so high profile before.\n\nSpeaking to Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Ms McGee said she was not \"fazed\" by treating the prime minister, adding it was \"just another day at the office\".\n\n\"As a unit he was just another patient we were trying to do our best for,\" she said.\n\n\"We take it very seriously who comes into intensive care, these patients who come into us, it's a very scary thing for them so we don't take it lightly.\"\n\nShe said the pair \"chatted away\" and that Mr Johnson was \"interested in where I came from and what my story was\".\n\nLuis Pitarma told Mr Johnson that he had been inspired by Florence Nightingale\n\nMs McGee, who has worked in intensive care for 10 years, said it is \"heartbreaking\" to watch some patients pass away without their families, calling it the \"saddest part\" of her job.\n\nShe said nurses are glad to offer some comfort to these patients by \"holding their hand\", when the virus makes it \"unsafe\" for some loved ones to visit.\n\nNurses also have to keep a \"cool head\" in stressful situations and prioritise getting patients \"through the night\", she added.\n\nAfter being singled out by Mr Johnson in a video thanking NHS staff, Ms McGee, from Invercargill on the South Island, became known globally as \"Jenny from New Zealand\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video message posted on Twitter, the PM thanked the NHS staff that cared for him\n\nShe said the PM's praise came \"totally out of the blue\", adding her first reaction was that her friends were playing a \"joke\" on her.\n\n\"I couldn't believe what he said on TV,\" she added.\n\nShe later received a message of thanks from her \"hero\" New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.\n\nMs McGee said: \"I think she's amazing, she just said how proud she was of me and the country was so proud and it was so heart-warming and that's something I will never forget.\"\n\nAsked why she chose not to return home to New Zealand in the wake of the pandemic, despite being on holiday there as the virus began to strike around the world, she said she felt a \"real sense of duty\" to help fight it in the UK.\n\nShe said: \"I have lived here for 10 years and I have worked in NHS for that amount of time and I'm one of the sisters on the unit, a leader on the unit.\n\n\"It wasn't an option not to come back and I think by being over here and helping over here I'm hoping one day to get back to New Zealand.\"\n\nMr Johnson was discharged from St Thomas' Hospital in London on 12 April, one week after being admitted to be treated for coronavirus.\n\nHe spent several nights in the intensive care unit where he was given oxygen.\n\nIn a video message after he was discharged, he said the NHS had \"saved my life, no question\" and specifically thanked Ms McGee and another nurse, Luis Pitarma from Portugal.\n\nHe said the reason he was able to get enough oxygen was due to the pair keeping watch by his bedside for 48 hours \"thinking... caring and making the interventions I needed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike and Caroline McGee said they are proud of their daughter, Jenny, one of the team to nurse Boris Johnson\n\nMr Pitarma, 29, who has worked at St Thomas's for nearly four years, revealed he was nervous after being told he would be caring for the prime minister, but said his first conversation with Mr Johnson put him at ease.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I asked how he would like to be addressed and he said to call him Boris.\"\n\nHe said this made him \"less nervous\" because \"he took away any formality\".\n\n\"He just wanted to be looked after like anyone else.\n\n\"It was a big responsibility and I gave it the same respect as I would with any other patient\", he added.\n\nMr Pitarma, who is originally from Aveiro in Portugal but lives in west London, said he told Mr Johnson he had been inspired by Florence Nightingale, who established the first professional nursing school in the world at St Thomas' Hospital in 1860.\n\n\"I told him how I'd dreamed about working at St Thomas' since my first day of training in Portugal in 2009, when I learned about Florence Nightingale and her connection to the hospital.\n\n\"He said it was amazing that I wanted to work here for so long and was glad I was there when he needed our care. It was a pleasure to look after him.\"\n\nMr Pitarma said he was \"extremely proud\" when Mr Johnson thanked him in person for \"saving his life\", adding he felt \"so happy\" when the prime minister mentioned him in his video.\n\nHours later, he received a message of thanks from Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, calling it \"surreal\".\n\n\"I couldn't really believe what was happening. Apparently I'm a celebrity in Portugal now! It's great to get more recognition for nurses there.\"\n\nThe prime minister continues to recover at his country residence, Chequers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Easier, faster and simpler\" for essential workers to get coronavirus tests\n\nAll essential workers in England - and members of their household - are now eligible for coronavirus tests, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nAbout 10 million key workers who need to book a test to see whether they have the virus will be able to do so on the government's website from Friday.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock said the move was \"part of getting Britain back on her feet\".\n\nHe added 18,000 people will be hired to trace contacts of those infected.\n\nThe Welsh government previously outlined plans to expand testing to key workers, such as teachers and food delivery drivers, and Northern Ireland's health minister has announced the nation's testing programme is being expanded to include front-line workers in the private sector.\n\nScotland is prioritising tests for NHS staff and has yet to announce any expansion of testing to key workers.\n\nAddressing the UK government's \"challenging\" target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month, Mr Hancock said capacity for carrying out tests had accelerated \"ahead of our plans\" to more than 50,000 a day.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is that everyone who could benefit from a test gets a test,\" he said.\n\nThe government is also introducing home test kits as well as mobile testing sites, which will be operated with the support of the armed forces, Mr Hancock said.\n\nKey workers who are unable to access the government's website will still be able to apply for a test, as employers are able to book on behalf of their staff from Thursday.\n\nMr Hancock said those who qualify for testing would be based on an updated list of essential workers and, according to the prime minister's official spokesman, would apply to about 10 million people.\n\nThe whole process will be free for those being tested.\n\nOnce people have entered their details online they will then be sent a text or email inviting them to book an appointment - with the test results issued by text, and a help desk available to help with any queries, Mr Hancock explained.\n\nThe test involves taking a swab from the nose or throat.\n\nHospitals have been carrying out tests, along with a network of about 30 drive-through centres in car parks, at airports and sports grounds.\n\nBut the drive-through centres have not always been in convenient locations, which may have discouraged people from getting tested.\n\nPeople will receive a text or email with an appointment at a drive-through centre\n\nMr Hancock also detailed plans for a network of contact tracers that will be used when lockdown is lifted, insisting a process of \"test, track and trace\" would be \"vital\" to stop a second peak of the virus.\n\nThe hope is that regional outbreaks of the virus can be kept under control by isolating people with the virus, and then tracing their contacts and isolating them.\n\nMr Hancock said infrastructure would be put in place so that contact tracing can be rolled out on a \"large scale\".\n\nHe added that the 18,000 people being recruited to help with contact tracing included 3,000 clinicians and public health experts.\n\nOn testing, Mr Hancock said that capacity had reached 51,000 per day, although Thursday's figures showed only 23,560 tests were carried out - which is still far short of the 100,000 daily target.\n\nFigures released by the Department for Health and Social Care on Thursday showed a further 616 people have died with the virus in UK hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 18,738.\n\nAn analysis of the published figures by the BBC has confirmed that at least 103 health workers have now died with coronavirus, 65 of whom were black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background.\n\nThese are big announcements on testing, which will be important in terms of getting out of lockdown.\n\nThe 18,000-strong army of contact tracers will be significant.\n\nWhen contact tracing was done at the start of the outbreak to try to contain coronavirus, it relied on a few hundred staff working for Public Health England's nine regional teams.\n\nWhen restrictions are eased, infections will rise. The government will need a system of containing any local outbreaks.\n\nThese contact tracers will help by identifying close contacts of those infected to keep ahead of the virus by finding cases early.\n\nBut the missing piece of the jigsaw is widespread testing for the general public so that the people who are identified can be tested.\n\nBy the end of next week the government is aiming to get to 100,000 tests a day.\n\nAchieving that, and perhaps more, will be essential to ensuring there is a robust system in place to allow for a gradual, phased return to some degree of normality.\n\nAlso at the briefing, Prof John Newton, co-ordinator of the UK's coronavirus testing programme, said the government was \"on track\" to reach 100,000 tests a day by the end of April and that new types of test - including ones that do not rely on reagents in short supply - would help to reach the target.\n\nHe added that there would soon be 48 \"pop-up facilities\" that can travel around the country to where they were needed most, while a UK rapid testing consortium was working on antibody tests that people could use at home to tell them whether they have had the virus in the past.\n\nAddressing the coronavirus lockdown, the health secretary said the \"message remains the same\" and the government's tests for lifting restrictions had not yet been met.\n\nHe added that the plan set out by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said the lifting of the coronavirus lockdown is likely to be phased in Scotland, was \"very similar\" to the government's approach.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We set out the five tests that are needed for us to make changes to the lockdown measures and the Scottish government's proposals are based on those tests.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK-wide approach is the best way to go.\"\n\nSpeaking at the same Downing Street briefing, UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said he thought London was ahead of the rest of the country in suppressing the disease, and that in two or three weeks \"you might expect to see some differences across the country\".\n\nHe added that social distancing measures had reduced the rate of infection \"dramatically\".", "The harsh political reality for the president is he faces a re-election contest in just over six months, and the longer the lockdown drags on, the less time the economy will have to recover before voters head to the ballot box.\n\nCurrent polling suggests he is trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden nationally and in key battleground states, and while the race is likely to tighten and the president has abundant resources to run a robust campaign, Trump appears destined for an uphill fight.\n\nThe president also faces a flip-side risk of being seen as supporting re-opening too quickly and shouldering the blame if there is a subsequent spike in cases. That could explain why, just days after calling for states to begin reopening process, he criticised the Republican governor of Georgia for lifting restrictions on places like hair salons, bars and tattoo parlours, where social distancing guidelines would be difficult to follow.\n\nIt's a difficult line for any politician to walk, and in the days ahead the stakes will be at their highest.", "Trump says recent comments from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr Robert Redfield that a second Covid-19 wave could be even worse were \"inaccurate\".\n\n\"He was totally misquoted,\" Trump says. \"His whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot.\"\n\nHe says he noted that next autumn \"could be more difficult, more complicated\" if influenza and Covid-19 were circulating at the same time.\n\n\"I think it's really important to emphasise what I didn't say,\" Redfield says.\n\n\"I didn't say this was going to be worse, I said it was going to be more difficult and potentially complicated.\n\n\"The issue that I was talking about being more difficult is we're going to have two viruses circulating at the same time.\"\n\nRedfield says he was accurately quoted in the Washington Post, but takes issue with the headline, “CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating”.\n\nHere's what Redfield is quoted as saying by the Post: “There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through.\n\n\"We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.”", "A test version of the app told users deemed to be at risk to go home by the most direct route\n\nThe NHS is testing its forthcoming Covid-19 contact-tracing app at a Royal Air Force base in North Yorkshire.\n\nIt works by using Bluetooth signals to log when smartphone owners are close to each other - so if someone develops Covid-19 symptoms, an alert can be sent to other users they may have infected.\n\nIn its current state, it tells users either: \"You're OK now,\" or: \"You need to isolate yourself and stay at home.\"\n\nThe health secretary for England said the trials \"are going well\".\n\n\"The more people who sign up for this new app when it goes live, the better informed our response will be and the better we can therefore protect the NHS,\" Matt Hancock told the House of Commons.\n\nHe added the software would be used in conjunction with medical tests and manual contact tracing by humans.\n\nBut some experts say the government may be putting too much faith in technology.\n\n\"We don't need fancy expensive apps where people are going to be exposed to issues of data privacy,\" Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science director Prof Allyson Pollock told BBC News.\n\n\"We should be following... a low-tech model, using people and telephone [interviews].\n\n\"Clinical observation, we found in China and Singapore and Korea, is actually more efficient and gives many more positives.\"\n\nThe NHS hopes to release the app by mid-May, although a final decision on timing will be taken by the government.\n\nRAF Leeming was chosen to host the trial of an early \"alpha\" version of the software because it has past experience of testing apps and other new processes on behalf of the military.\n\nIt set up a scenario designed to simulate people's experience of going shopping, using Bluetooth LE (low energy) signals to log when two phones were near to each other.\n\nNHSX tested the app at an RAF base in the north of England\n\nOne of these phones would then be used to record the fact the user had become \"infected\", in the experiment, causing a cascade of warnings to be sent to other handsets that had earlier been in range.\n\n\"We still have to apply the rules [on] social distancing as we carry it out,\" said Gp Capt Blythe Crawford.\n\n\"So therefore we've set up a scenario whereby people will leave their phones on a table simulating that it's in a shopping arcade, for example, whilst other people might walk past looking in the shop window and their phone happens to pick up it's in proximity to another one.\"\n\nThe on-screen warning for those deemed to be at risk says: \"If you're on public transport, go home by the most direct route [and] stay at least 2m [6.6ft] away from people if you can... find a room where you can close the door [and] avoid touching people, surfaces and objects.\"\n\nThere are plans for a more realistic follow-up \"beta test\" at a later date - possibly in a remote community, where its use would be voluntary - by which time the text will have been changed.\n\nThe tool has been developed by the health service's digital innovation unit, NHSX.\n\nThe prototype app tells users their identity has been anonymised\n\nIt has said the alerts will be sent \"anonymously\", so users will not be told who triggered a warning.\n\nNHSX has also promised to publish its key security and privacy designs as well as the app's source code, so experts in the field can help ensure it is \"world class\".\n\nThe division is working with Apple and Google on the project but has yet to confirm whether it will adopt their protocols.\n\nThe two companies are pressing developers to adopt a \"decentralised approach\", whereby it would be impossible for either specific users or those they had come into contact with to be identified by the authorities or any other external party.\n\nIn any case, NHSX believes its system already prevents it from being able to identify users until they request a swab test.\n\nNHSX also believes it has found a way to ensure its software continues to work in the background on iOS devices.\n\nIf true, this would avoid a problem that has limited take-up of a similar app in Singapore.\n\nEpidemiologists have said 80% of smartphone owners need to use the app if it is to suppress, rather than just slow, the spread of the virus after lockdown measures are relaxed.\n\nBut as about 12% of smartphones in active use in the UK do not support the Bluetooth LE standard required, the target figure will actually be higher.\n\nAnd the government is examining ways to increase involvement.\n\nThe Comarch LifeWristband is currently being trialled in Sofia as a means to track people placed into home quarantine\n\nOne option under consideration is to provide low-cost wearable Bluetooth devices to those without a compatible handset.\n\nA similar scheme is already being trialled in Bulgaria to keep track of people quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Coronavirus is likely to result in a high mortality rate in care homes, England's chief medical officer has said.\n\nChris Whitty said it was hard to prevent deaths in care homes \"sadly because this is a very vulnerable group\".\n\nCurrent statistics were likely to be an \"underestimate\", he added.\n\nIt came as new figures suggested deaths have increased significantly in recent days.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday 1,000 people died in care homes in the week to 10 April.\n\nBut now the health regulator said the five days after that could have seen another 1,000 deaths.\n\nAsked about the figures at the daily Downing Street press conference, Mr Whitty said: \"In care homes, what we have is a large number of people of the most vulnerable age for this virus.\"\n\nWhen it was possible to \"look back over this epidemic\", he added, \"I'm sure we will see a high mortality rate in care homes sadly because this is a very vulnerable group and people are coming in and out of care homes and that cannot, to some extent, be prevented.\"\n\nThe Department of Health has said it also feared a \"significant rise\" in deaths not related to coronavirus among residents.\n\nThe ONS data released on Tuesday showed there had been 1,043 people linked to Covid 19 in England and Wales - with nearly 1,000 of those in English care homes.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates care homes in England, has now produced preliminary data for April 11-15, they suggest there were 1,000 further deaths linked to Covid-19.\n\nThey also say there may be a significant increase in non-Covid deaths - in line with what the ONS official statistics suggest.\n\nThose figures are expected to be published on April 28, once they have been verified.\n\nChristine Mullin's family are asking whether she was well enough protected\n\nChristine Mullin contracted coronavirus in a care home but was subsequently moved to hospital, where she died.\n\nThe 78-year old's death will therefore be reflected in NHS figures.\n\nHer daughter Charlotte said she had \"the start of dementia,\" but was not \"severely disabled\".\n\nShe told the BBC the elderly were identified \"from the beginning\" as a vulnerable group and should have been an \"immediate\" priority in efforts to stop the virus spreading.\n\nFor her family - like many others - the central question is whether vulnerable residents have been well enough protected.\n\nThe notifications from care providers may include some people who died in hospital. As these deaths are already reflected in NHS figures, the numbers collected by the CQC have to be adjusted and checked.\n\nCare providers have always had to notify the CQC when a resident dies.\n\nBut the forms have now been adjusted to collect information on whether a death is linked to coronavirus.\n\nThe reporting mechanism is different from that used by hospitals and the data can take longer to pull together, because there are far more care homes than hospitals.\n\nThe death toll in UK hospitals has now risen in the last 24 hours by 759 to 18,100.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced that 15 social care workers had died in the pandemic.\n\nHe told MPs earlier: \"In the same way that we pay tribute to and we remember all of those NHS staff who have died, so too we do for those who serve our country and look after people in social care.\"\n\nThe daily death figures from UK hospitals have been one of the main statistics used by the government to track the progress of the pandemic.\n\nThe government has always been clear that it does not include people who die in care homes or in their own homes.\n\nBut Mr Hancock warned against comparing the different figures to make conclusions about the overall death toll, saying they were compiled on different time frames and needed \"rigorous analysis\" to ensure the comparison was accurate.\n\nDoubling in five days sounds terrifying, but that is the story of the epidemic.\n\nThe number of deaths announced for the UK as a whole was doubling every three days up to the week before Easter.\n\nAfter that, it slowed down to doubling every week before growth eventually stalled.\n\nSo this trend for care homes from a week ago is not very different to ones we have seen elsewhere.\n\nTheir new data is preliminary and we should be careful about comparing the first week of their data to ONS figures from the preceding week.\n\nBut the big issue has been about knowing what's happening in care homes now: has growth in deaths stalled there too or are they continuing to climb?\n\nThe other data sources we use don't have the answer. Those daily figures from DHSC mainly cover deaths in hospitals, so miss most care home deaths.\n\nThe complete figures based on death certificates that capture care homes take over a week to be collated and analysed.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission are notified of every death of a care home resident, so can give a fuller picture.\n\nBut when they are included in official figures, it will give us critical information about a group of people who are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as the government faces increasing pressure to address a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for care home workers, amid reports of staff, or their employers, having to pay inflated prices for masks and gowns.\n\nLabour former cabinet minister Lord Hain said: \"The government needs urgently to give billions more to care homes instead of leaving them so badly in the lurch during this crisis.\"\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told the BBC the CQC figures were \"alarming\" and accused the government of being \"very slow in responding\".\n\n\"We are now seeing what appears to be a huge number of deaths,\" he added, and he called on the government to \"get it's act together\".\n• None How big is the epidemic in care homes?", "Parents facing violence from their children say they need social support and more leeway from authorities\n\nFor some parents, being at home with their children means facing threats, abuse and violent outbursts. How can they cope in the isolation of lockdown?\n\nJulie found out you could buy large knives on the internet when she witnessed her son brandishing one and slashing the furniture at home.\n\nIn the past couple of months, she says she has had to call the police twice to their home, most recently as she was barricaded in the bathroom while her son - a young adult - tried to break down the door with a knife. Now the family are living in lockdown together, struggling with isolation, a loss of their support network and a claustrophobic atmosphere that Julie describes as a \"tinderbox\".\n\nShe says she believes her son when he told police that he never meant to hurt her, that he just wanted her to know how angry he was. But incidents of intimidation happen two or three times a week, she says.\n\nLiam suffered trauma as a child and has learning difficulties which affect memory, emotional regulation and social skills. The family manage his aggressive outbursts with the help of a list of friends and supporters who come round at a moment's notice to help defuse tensions. But these coping techniques are threatened by the social distancing rules.\n\nHer husband has to work outside the home, so Julie says if she cannot call on these supporters, \"I am very much on my own\".\n\nIt's not known precisely how many parents live with violence from their children. Figures compiled by the BBC last year suggest the number of incidents recorded by police doubled to 14,133 between 2015 and 2018 - but many may go unreported.\n\nHelen Bonnick, a former social worker and campaigner on the issue, says that international evidence suggests about one in 10 parents may experience some violence from their children, although severe incidents are more rare. Some aggressive children have problems dealing with their emotions, she says, but others are \"much more manipulative and controlling, in a way that feels more like adult violence\".\n\nLockdown raises the stakes for these families, reinforcing their isolation and underlining the message to parents from violent children \"that they can't go out, that they're stuck in here with them, that they can do what they want and no one will know,\" says Ms Bonnick.\n\n\"Parents who have experienced intimate partner violence and then child-to-parent violence will often say this feels worse - because it's your own flesh and blood,\" she says.\n\nNeil, who lives in the east of England, says the aggression from his son, Ben, was just \"cute\" aged four and became worrying when he was eight. Now he is living with a teenager and \"suddenly it's quite dangerous\" - with Ben increasingly reaching for knives or bottles. Ben is autistic and has moderate learning difficulties as well as ADHD. The disruption to his routine caused by the coronavirus outbreak has sent his stress levels soaring and made angry outbursts more likely, his father says.\n\n\"He's that much closer to boiling over constantly. It really doesn't take much for him to turn around and explode. It's like living with a bucket of nitroglycerine sometimes,\" says Neil.\n\nA key coping strategy before the lockdown was taking Ben for long drives, which he found calming. Now even that has become loaded with anxiety, as they fear being stopped by the police for making an unnecessary journey.\n\n\"Life was hard already and Covid is making it harder,\" Neil says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Helen' has been threatened with knives and scissors by her 11-year-old daughter\n\nPeter Jakob, a clinical psychologist who helps people facing this issue, says the isolation and shame that parents already feel is a major challenge in tackling violence from their children. But he says it can still be addressed, even in lockdown. Dr Jakob encourages parents to have a network of supporters who can launch what he calls a \"campaign of concern\" - where after an incident, a number of people contact the child using messaging or video-chatting apps like WhatsApp or FaceTime.\n\n\"Most children don't want others in the community to know that they act in violent, aggressive or otherwise destructive ways,\" he says.\n\nIf they can no longer \"silence their parents\" from telling others about their behaviour, they often feel forced to change, he says.\n\nBut Suzanne Jacob, chief executive of domestic abuse charity Safelives, says that parents in these circumstances need understanding from the authorities as well as from their communities. She says in some cases children have used police enforcement of the lockdown against their parents, knowing the adults will be blamed if they flout the law.\n\n\"So while parents are already feeling blamed and inadequate and guilty, this situation is reiterating how little support is available to them and how much people will misunderstand the situation they're in,\" she says.\n\nMs Jacob says she wants to see more acknowledgement from government that home isn't a safe place for some people, whether that's victims of abusive partners or parents with violent children.\n\n\"Just acknowledging it is helpful to people. Survivors often say being acknowledged, being visible is really important - it validates that fact that this is a thing that goes on,\" she says. \"Those messages would help people feel like they're not going mad.\"\n\n* Names of family members and some identifying details have been changed to protect their identities. For more information on organisations that can help if you are experiencing domestic abuse, visit BBC Action Line. Helen Bonnick's own website is holesinthewall.co.uk", "Ryan Hoyle said he was \"shaking\" when he got an email informing him he had become a multi-millionaire\n\nA man who scooped a £58m lottery win celebrated by having a beer with his brothers - at a 2m (6ft 6in) distance.\n\nRyan Hoyle, 38, said he was \"shaking\" when he got an email informing him he had become a multi-millionaire in Friday's EuroMillions draw.\n\nHe drove to his parents' house, passing his phone through the window for them to \"double-check\" his numbers.\n\nAfter confirming the eight-figure bonanza, he enjoyed a drink in the sunshine with his siblings.\n\nMr Hoyle, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, said he first thought he had won £2.30 when he saw an email from the National Lottery on Saturday.\n\nWhen he read the message, he said it \"looked like a lot of numbers... I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing\".\n\nHe said he was \"shaking and really needed a second opinion so... drove round to mum and dad's house\".\n\n\"I kept a safe distance outside and passed the phone through the window for them to double-check for me.\"\n\n\"It was real - I had won £58m.\"\n\nMr Hoyle then celebrated while socially distancing with his brothers.\n\n\"We kept more than two metres apart. I needed to talk to them... and it really helped with the shock,\" he said.\n\nMr Hoyle, who works as a joiner, said he will finish off renovations on his brother's house despite the windfall.\n\nHe plans to buy himself a new car, swap his rented one-bedroom flat for a new home, treat himself to a Manchester United season ticket and take his daughter, aged 11, to Florida.\n\nBut he said his priority was to help his mother, father and brother \"retire this week\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The carrier had been due to sail from Portsmouth on Tuesday\n\nA planned sailing of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has been postponed while crew members are tested for coronavirus.\n\nThe carrier had been due to sail from Portsmouth on Tuesday for a period of sea training with 800 crew onboard.\n\nThe navy had initially planned for it to sail without any of the crew being tested beforehand.\n\nHowever, in the last 24 hours it reversed the decision saying there was extra capacity in testing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was asked by MPs about the plans to allow the carrier to go to sea given recent Covid-19 outbreaks on a number of US carriers and the French navy's Charles de Gaulle.\n\nMr Wallace told MPs that he had given the captain of HMS Queen Elizabeth full authority to return to port if there was an outbreak and it was deemed necessary.\n\nThe 65,000-tonne carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest warship ever to be built in Britain\n\nHowever, the navy has since announced there would be a \"short but manageable delay in sailing\" until at least Thursday.\n\nA navy spokesman said: \"In addition to an isolation period at sea, the Royal Navy is now making use of spare NHS testing capacity to test the crew of HMS Queen Elizabeth prior to sailing.\n\n\"This is the right and sensible thing to do to ensure the Navy can continue to deliver on operations now and in the future.\n\n\"She will be operating in waters close to the UK coast and the commanding officer has the discretion to cease the training, if deemed necessary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville is to leave his role as England women's manager next summer.\n\nThe 43-year-old former Manchester United and Everton defender was appointed in January 2018 on a contract until the summer of 2021.\n\nHe led the Lionesses to a first SheBelieves Cup success and a fourth-place finish at the World Cup in 2019.\n\nBut since last year's quarter-final win over Norway, they have lost seven of 11 games and failed to retain their SheBelieves Cup title in March.\n\nNeville, a former England international, had been set to lead Team GB into this summer's Olympic Games, before taking control of the Lionesses at the Women's Euros on home soil in 2021.\n\nBut that tournament is moving to July 2022.\n\nDespite recent results, Neville has retained the support of the Football Association. The decision about his future has come about because of coronavirus and its impact on the women's football calendar.\n\nIdeally, the FA wants the continuity of the same person taking both the GB side through the Tokyo Olympics and England to the Euros and the 2023 World Cup.\n\nThe postponements of the Olympics and Euros give the FA time to appoint a new manager and refresh the playing squad before that run of major tournaments.\n\nAfter the SheBelieves Cup, at which England lost to World Cup winners the United States and also Spain, Neville said he would walk away if he felt he was not \"motivated enough\" to continue.\n\nHe also said: \"I think we need to take a step back now and start building the foundations again - getting back to the brilliant basics.\"\n\nNeville held a number of coaching roles in the men's game before his first managerial appointment to the England job.\n\nHe is understood to have enjoyed his time in women's football and could look to remain in the game. The Manchester City job is vacant following the departure of Nick Cushing to New York City.\n\nNeville's brother Gary told Sky Sports that \"Phil was a little surprised\" the news on his future had emerged but expects the FA to make a statement soon to \"put some clarity around it\".\n\n\"He's got 14 months left on his contract and obviously the Olympics and European Championship were within that period,\" he said.\n\n\"The problem is now obviously with coronavirus, those tournaments have been taken out of the period and international managers' contracts run to tournament ends.\n\n\"If the tournaments have gone, then you've got a real problem in the sense that you're just coaching friendlies. I think that's the situation that's developed.\"\n\nHow Neville compares to former England manager Mark Sampson\n\nIt might sound harsh, but in purely footballing terms, Neville's reign feels like a failed experiment.\n\nHe was largely untested as a manager when he was appointed in 2018, but the FA spoke of how his \"winning mentality\" would take England to the next level, having reached semi-finals in their past two major tournaments.\n\nInstead, it could be argued England have gone backwards. The SheBelieves Cup win in 2019 was a high point, and the Lionesses came close to making the World Cup final later that summer, but things have unravelled since.\n\nHe still had the backing of the FA, but there is a feeling of unfulfilled promise as he leaves - and that will surely hurt a dedicated and meticulous professional who never quite brought the best out of his team.\n• 24 Jan 2018 : Apologises for historical controversial tweets about women. Is not charged by FA.\n• 1 Mar 2018: Makes managerial debut at SheBelievesCup, with England beating France 4-1 in opening match. They go on to finish runners-up.\n• 23 Mar 2018 : Lionesses move up to second in Fifa world rankings, their best position and highest of an England team.\n• Aug-Sep 2018: England qualify for 2019 World Cup with a 3-0 win over Wales, before thrashing Kazakhstan 6-0 to conclude unbeaten qualifying campaign.\n• Feb-Mar 2019: Wins over Brazil and Japan and draw with the USA mean England win SheBelievesCup for first time.\n• Jun-Jul 2019: England reach semi-final of World Cup for second time in a row before losing to eventual winners USA. They then lose to Sweden in what Neville describes as \"a nonsense game\" to finish fourth.\n• Mar 2020: England fail to retain SheBelieves Cup with defeat by Spain in their final match a seventh loss in 11 games. Neville says questions about his future are \"totally\" acceptable.\n\nWho might succeed him?\n\nHaving won consecutive world titles with the United States, Hampshire-born Jill Ellis will be a frontrunner, along with Manchester United boss and former England captain Casey Stoney.\n\nHowever, it is not yet clear whether Ellis would move across the Atlantic, and while Stoney has impressed in her first two seasons of coaching, some might question whether she has enough managerial experience.\n\nChelsea's Emma Hayes and former Manchester City manager Nick Cushing have enjoyed the greatest club success in England in recent seasons, but Hayes is determined to win the Champions League, while Cushing joined New York City in February.\n\nNevertheless, the chance to lead England at a home tournament might be an offer none of them could turn down.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister says careful balances will need to struck for some work and schools to reopen\n\nThe lifting of the coronavirus lockdown is likely to be phased in Scotland - with some measures remaining in place into next year, \"or beyond\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said gatherings in pubs and at public events were likely to be banned or restricted for some time to come.\n\nAnd she said all pupils might not be able to attend school at the same time because of social distancing rules.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said Scotland was not yet able to begin to ease its lockdown.\n\nAnd she warned that the country will have to \"adapt to a new reality\" in the future - and that lockdown could have to be reinstated \"with very little notice\" if the transmission of the virus could not be controlled.\n\nShe was speaking as the Scottish government published a new document outlining the basis of an exit strategy from the UK-wide lockdown that has been in place since 23 March.\n\nThe paper did not set any dates for when the restrictions could begin to be lifted, and that even when it does start to be relaxed \"strong measures to sustain low levels of transmission will be required until either a vaccine or cure is developed.\"\n\nAnd it said Scotland will not be able to \"immediately return to how things were\", and would instead target a \"managed transition away from current restrictions\" while still suppressing the virus.\n\nIt said: \"We will need people in Scotland to continue to live their lives in ways that minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"So even as we lift some of the more restrictive measures, better hand hygiene and appropriate physical distancing will need to remain in place at home, on the streets and in the workplace.\"\n\nCountries worldwide have been taking measures to tackle the novel virus which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. There are now more than 2.6 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in 185 countries and at least 184,000 people have died.\n\nThe eventual lifting of lockdown in Scotland will be phased, with mass gatherings and the re-opening of pubs not likely until later in the process.\n\nThe Scottish government paper said: \"We are likely to require that gathering in groups, for example in pubs or at public events, is banned or restricted for some time to come.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon warned that the lockdown currently remained \"absolutely necessary to suppress the virus, protect our health service and save lives\".\n\nShe said it \"could take some time\" but \"ultimately we will come through this challenge\", and the publication of the paper was the start of a process that would evolve into a detailed plan in the coming weeks.\n\nMs Sturgeon said any talk of lifting the lockdown \"like the flick of a switch\" was \"misguided\", saying: \"A return to normal as we knew it is not on the cards in the near future.\"\n\nShe said Scotland would have to find a \"new normal\", which involved \"living alongside the virus in a form which keeps it under control\".\n\nAnd the first minister said it was impossible to know with certainty what the long-term impact of decisions would be, meaning a flexible approach will be needed.\n\nAt Wednesday's government briefing, Ms Sturgeon said a further 58 deaths of people who had tested positive for the virus had been recorded, bringing the total under that measure to 1,120.\n\nThe total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Scotland stands at more than 1,600 once those who died with suspected cases of the virus are included, with a third of the deaths happening in care homes.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said there were \"very encouraging\" falls in the number of patients in hospital and intensive care.\n\nThe Scottish government said work is to be carried out to study how \"physical distancing\" can be continued in schools, transport, businesses and recreation.\n\nThis could involve workplaces and classrooms being redesigned to make social distancing possible - which could mean that not all pupils are able to attend at the same time when schools begin to reopen.\n\nA return to normality is not within reach. That was Nicola Sturgeon's key message today - even when lockdown restrictions are being lifted, it will only happen gradually.\n\nSocial distancing is here to stay, perhaps until the end of this year, perhaps into 2021. We will need to adjust to a \"new normal\".\n\nMight that be different in Scotland compared to other parts of the UK? The first minister certainly reserves the right to take a distinctive approach if that's what the science suggests would work best.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon has previously told me she would \"ideally\" like to lift lockdown in line with other nations of the UK - not least to avoid confusing the public about what they can and can't do.\n\nThe Scottish government is not convinced the UK as a whole has found the right approach to international travel.\n\nIf restrictions on movement are to be lifted at home, they want the UK government to consider what restrictions might be required for those arriving from abroad.\n\nMany countries have already imposed quarantine or closed borders. Expect Scottish ministers to keep questioning what's being done at the UK border to stop new Covid-19 cases arriving through our ports.\n\nConsideration will also be given to having different measures in place for different geographical areas, sectors of the economy and groups of the population, although Ms Sturgeon said this may complicate messaging.\n\nThe paper said \"active surveillance\" of cases and work to trace and isolate people who have symptoms could be a key part of a post-lockdown approach to containing the virus.\n\nIt backs \"early and rapid testing to confirm cases\" and \"tracing of everyone a confirmed case has been in contact with\" - noting that \"increasing our testing capacity is a critical part of this challenge\".\n\nThe paper also said the Scottish government will continue to participate in a \"collective decision making process\" across the UK, but says \"on occasion, expert advice may point to different approaches reflecting the specific circumstances in each country\".", "Timelapse footage has captured the transformation of London's ExCeL centre into a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients.\n\nThe Nightingale Hospital is expected to be operational by the end of the week.\n\nFive hundred beds are already in place and there is space for another 3,500.", "The family of a boy, 13, who died after testing positive for coronavirus have pleaded with the public to follow social distancing rules to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\nIsmail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, south London, died in hospital on Monday.\n\nIsmail, who had no underlying health conditions, was described as a \"gentle and kind\" boy.\n\nHe tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, his family said.\n\n\"We are all praying at this difficult time for all the people affected by this Covid-19 virus and we wish everybody speedy recovery,\" Ismail's family said in a statement.\n\n\"We also wanted to reiterate the need for people to listen to government guidance.\n\n\"So please, do everything you can to ensure that we adhere to social distancing; that people stay at home as much as they possibly can, to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nIsmail's death was confirmed by the NHS, which stated he was among patients with no known underlying health condition who had died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood he died after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nFamily friend Mark Stephenson, who was speaking on behalf of the boy's mother and six siblings, said there would not be a post-mortem examination.\n\nOn Tuesday Dr Nathalie MacDermott, clinical lecturer at King's College London, said Ismail's death \"highlights the importance of us all taking the precautions we can to reduce the spread of infection in the UK and worldwide\".\n\n\"While chronic underlying medical conditions are known to result in worse outcomes in Covid-19 infection, we have heard of cases of younger individuals with no known medical problems succumbing to the disease,\" she said.\n\n\"It is essential that we undertake research to determine why a proportion of deaths occur outside of the groups expected to succumb to infection, as it may indicate an underlying genetic susceptibility of how the immune system interacts with the virus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rising temperatures may be having a profound physical impact on one of the world's favourite songbirds.\n\nResearchers in Spain found that over a 20-year period, nightingales had evolved smaller wingspans.\n\nThe scientists say this is linked to a changing climate in the region which has seen the early onset of spring and increased drought.\n\nThey are concerned that this could affect the bird's ability to migrate in winter.\n\nFamed for its ability to sing, the nightingale has a very rich repertoire as it is able to produce over 1,000 different sounds, compared to just 340 by skylarks.\n\nAlthough common in many parts of Europe and Asia, the bird is mainly seen and heard in southern England.\n\nNumbers here have declined markedly over the last half century, down 90%, with multiple factors to blame including deer eating their preferred nesting sites, but also because of a changing climate.\n\nThe nightingale spends the winter in sub-Saharan Africa, with the small, brown creature clocking up huge distances during migration.\n\nWing size is critical to this endeavour.\n\nNow,, researchers say that ability to migrate may be impeded by climate change.\n\nScientists in Spain have studied 20 years of data on wing shape in two populations of the birds.\n\nThey found that the average wing length of the nightingales relative to their body size has decreased.\n\nRising temperatures may be favouring smaller broods with smaller wings\n\nThey believe this is related to changes in temperatures seen in the Mediterranean region.\n\n\"Our results show that spring is delayed and the intensity of the summer drought is higher, which means a shorter optimal breeding period for the birds,\" said Dr Carolina Remacha, from Madrid's Complutense University, who led the study.\n\n\"We find the unique possibility that shorter wings are being favoured.\"\n\nThe researchers believe that birds like the nightingale normally adapt to the demands of migration by having longer wings, having a larger clutch size but a shorter lifespan.\n\nHowever, the changing temperatures are interfering with this and provoking a response from the birds.\n\nFaced with a shorter breeding season, the researchers believe the most successful birds are having smaller families with smaller wings.\n\nThey argue that these adaptations are likely to come at a price.\n\n\"If these changes are the response to the new environment, then obviously the ones that have been selected, the ones with shorter wings, are the optimal nightingales for the new situation,\" said co-author Prof Javier Perez-Tris also from Complutense University.\n\n\"These are not the best wings for migration, but the shorter wings come in the same package.\"\n\nThe researchers say that the birds are continuing with the same migration patterns and destinations and therefore their survival is likely to be reduced.\n\nWhile the scientists say this \"maladaptation\" is evident in the birds they have studied in Spain where there have been droughts in the summer, it may also be impacting other members of the species in different regions.\n\n\"If the climate is changing in a similar way, and the pressures are similar than you'd expect similar responses,\" said Dr Perez-Tris.\n\nThe research has been published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances.", "3D-printed equipment is being transported to health workers around the country\n\nSome 1,400 3D-printer owners have pledged to use their machines to help make face shields for the NHS.\n\nStarted by palliative-medicine doctor James Coxon, the 3DCrowd UK group is now looking to recruit more volunteers.\n\nIt says thousands of its 3D-printed masks have already been made and donated to hospitals, GPs, pharmacies, paramedics and social-care practices.\n\nHealthcare workers say they are having to put themselves at risk because of a lack of personal protective equipment.\n\n“We are basically asking all the people around the country with 3D printers to join our project to create face shields for hospitals and other health workers,” said Gen Ashley from 3DCrowd UK.\n\n“We also need volunteers to help distribute the masks and donations from companies and the public to pay for materials and distribution costs.”\n\nOnce volunteers have registered on the 3DCrowd UK website, they are sent instructions on how to produce headbands for the masks.\n\nThese are then bagged up and sent to a hub to be assembled. A clear plastic film is also added at this stage.\n\n3DCrowd UK has launched a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign to raise £40,000 to help cover the cost of the materials and postage. Donations currently stand at £20,000.\n\nHealthcare workers can order the face shields via the 3DCrowd UK website.\n\nSome 365 orders have been placed so far, for 110,000 masks.\n\nThe face shields have not been formally approved by the UK government or the NHS, which have yet to respond to a BBC News request for comment.\n\nBut Ms Ashley told BBC News 3DCrowd UK they had been approved in the Czech Republic.", "Trials have begun globally of a handful of potential treatments\n\nA drug that could help treat coronavirus is to be trialled on a small number of patients in England and Scotland.\n\nThe studies, which have been fast-tracked by the government, will initially involve 15 NHS centres.\n\nIn the absence of a known treatment for the virus, a handful of experimental drugs are being tested globally.\n\nThe drug, known as remdesivir, is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Gilead.\n\nTwo studies are to be carried out in the UK - one on patients with moderate symptoms, and one on those who are in a serious condition.\n\nTrials are already underway in China and the US, with the first results expected in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK trials will be based in England and Scotland and overseen by Dr Andrew Ustianowski, a consultant in infectious diseases.\n\nHe's spent the past couple of weeks working full time helping treat COVID-19 patients and has seen first-hand how sick patients can become.\n\n\"What we really need, and what we really want, is a specific treatment against Coronavirus that delays the infection, treats the infection, and hopefully makes people better.\n\n\"I think this drug is promising in the laboratory, and we're hopeful it will be as promising in humans.\n\n\"In my heart I'm hopeful, but we do need studies such as this to work out how well it works and how best to use it.\"\n\nHilary Hutton-Squire, the company's General Manager in the UK and Ireland, says the work behind this drug stretches back over ten years.\n\n\"For about a decade we've been looking at what we call emerging viruses, looking at viruses that aren't a problem yet but could be in the future.\n\n\"Coronaviruses are an important category of virus because when we've seen them jump from animals to humans previously they've caused a lot of problems as with SARS and MERS,.\n\n\"So remdesivir was a product we had looked at against SARS and MERS and seen that it had some activity, and that's why we thought it was really important to see if it has a role to play in treating patients with COVID-19 as quickly as we can.\"\n\nThe UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said it was ready to prioritise and provide any assistance in response to Covid-19, in line with government priorities.\n\n\"We have procedures for rapid scientific advice, reviews and approvals and are ready to support manufacturers, researchers and other regulators,\" said Dr Siu Ping Lam.\n\nRemdesivir has been considered as a potential treatment for Ebola.\n\nThe drug is designed to interfere with the way a virus reproduces, thereby stopping it from multiplying inside the body.\n\nWith no approved therapies for coronavirus infection, hopes rest on speeding up the approval process for drugs that show promise in fighting the disease.\n\nUS researchers have begun a trial trial to see if the malaria drug, chloroquine, will help treat coronavirus.", "A woman surprised her fiancé by organising a mass sing-along for his birthday in their apartment building.\n\nHannah Chung and Jason Shields moved into the block in Los Angeles just weeks before social distancing came into effect.\n\nThey have been together for five years but say they stay still like to \"keep the excitement alive\" while being stuck in their home as coronavirus measures are in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business Secretary Alok Sharma: It's time for banks to \"repay the favour\" of the 2008 financial bailout\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma has issued a stark warning to banks, after concerns that up to a million companies could fold because they could be denied emergency loans.\n\n\"It would be completely unacceptable if any banks were unfairly refusing funds to good businesses in financial difficulty,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\nThe government-backed loan scheme aims to ensure companies can access cash as the UK lockdown slows the economy.\n\nBut some say loans have been denied.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street on Wednesday, Mr Sharma referenced the financial crisis - when the government bailed out a number of the UK's largest banks.\n\n\"Just as the taxpayer stepped in to help the banks back in 2008, we will work with the banks to do everything they can to repay that favour and support the businesses and people of the United Kingdom in their time of need,\" he said.\n\nBanks have been criticised by companies and MPs for insisting directors put their own property or savings up as collateral before they are approved for the emergency loans.\n\nBusinesses have also complained of banks charging interest rates of up to 30%.\n\nThe head of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry, said banks were either trying to push firms towards \"standard, expensive products\" or they were \"simply not responsive\".\n\n\"We can't have a situation where banks are approached by successful small firms and lenders offer up business as usual products,\" he said. \"This is not business as usual.\"\n\n\"They were promised interest-free, fee-free, government-backed support from banks,\" he said.\n\nHe said millions of firms were at risk of collapsing because they were in need of urgent help that has not been made available.\n\nThe Treasury is preparing to change the rules that govern its emergency loans scheme for businesses facing a cash-flow crisis because of the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nMany companies have told the BBC that the scheme isn't working for them, with some turned down for a government-backed loan and others told they may have to wait weeks.\n\nThe planned rule change follows a furious behind-the-scenes row between the banks and the government over whose fault it is that too few emergency loans have been offered to businesses in need.\n\nPrivately, the banks say it's the government's rules that are in the way. They are required to lend to firms on normal commercial terms if they can - and only businesses that can't get a traditional loan qualify for the scheme.\n\nBut the Treasury is now reportedly planning to scrap that rule so that banks can lend faster.\n\nAnother obstacle has been the demand from banks that company directors put their own assets at risk by signing personal guarantees when borrowing £250,000 or more. That is also expected to be addressed.\n\nResearch from a network of accountants suggested that nearly a fifth of Britain's small and medium-sized businesses were unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next month, under the existing scheme.\n\nThe study said that between 800,000 and a million firms nationwide may soon have to close.\n\nActing leader of the Liberal Democrat's Sir Ed Davey said: \"At a time when the whole country is coming together to fight Covid-19 it is becoming increasingly clear that the government cannot just leave the big banks to deliver the coronavirus business interruption loans. The big banks are simply not rising to the challenge.\n\n\"Too many small businesses report long delays, high interest terms and being asked for personal guarantees.\"\n\nBanking trade body UK Finance said lenders were \"working hard\" to get money to businesses as quickly as possible both under the government-backed scheme or by offering normal loans.\n\nBut the group stressed that banks could only offer loans on the government's terms if they were unable to lend \"under their normal criteria\".\n\n\"As the business secretary said today, this is a new scheme delivered at pace and there will be issues that need to be addressed,\" Stephen Jones, who runs the trade body, said.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief economist at the CBI business lobby group, told the BBC's Today programme: \"I think everybody is trying their best to get the system up and running, but the system itself is too complicated.\n\n\"What we really need to see is the Treasury listening to what businesses and banks are saying to make it easier for these loans to be dispersed.\"\n\nShe added that the other challenge for business was that \"there's a whole range, what we call the 'stranded middle', who are too big for the government's short-term business interruption loans, but too small for the Bank of England's commercial paper\".\n\n\"These are big regional employers, from Cumbria to Coventry, and we just cannot afford to lose them just because they have a turnover of more than £45m.\"", "This video can not be played.", "Some of the UK's biggest banks have agreed to scrap dividend payments and hold onto the cash, which may be needed during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Bank of England welcomed the decision to suspend the payments to shareholders and urged the banks not to pay bonuses to senior staff either.\n\nThe banks, which include NatWest, Santander and Barclays, were due to pay out billions to shareholders.\n\nBut in recent days they have come under pressure to hold onto the money.\n\nThe deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sam Woods, wrote to some banking bosses asking them to suspend dividend payments. He asked them to confirm their decision by Tuesday evening.\n\nIn a statement, the Prudential Regulation Authority, which is part of the Bank of England, said: \"Although the decisions taken today will result in shareholders not receiving dividends, they are a sensible precautionary step given the unique role that banks need to play in supporting the wider economy through a period of economic disruption.\"\n\nBetween them, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered were expected to pay a total of £15.6bn to shareholders, according to analysis from investment firm AJ Bell.\n\nBut they will now retain those funds and not pay out any money to shareholders until at least the end of the year, which the Bank of England said \"should help the banks support the economy through 2020\".\n\nMany economists are predicting that the UK, in common with other large economies, will enter a recession this year, with output set to plummet.\n\nLast week, a closely-watched early indicator of economic activity fell to its lowest ever reading. That led economists at Capital Economics to predict a 15% contraction in the UK's economy during the second quarter of the year.\n\nStephen Jones, chief executive for UK finance, the trade body for banks and finance companies, told the Today programme that banks were considering scrapping dividends before the Bank of England mandated it.\n\n\"It's very prudent for banks to be retaining capital rather than distributing it in the current environment,\" he said.\n\nLosses will increase on existing loans, he said, meaning lenders need a bigger buffer to protect deposits and keep the bank running.\n\n\"It's important that the banks are given as much firepower as they can to support the economy,\" he added.\n\nHowever, the Bank said it did not expect the cash to be needed, noting that the banks had more than enough money in reserve to deal with both a global recession and a shock in the financial markets.\n\nShareholders in Barclays had been due to share £1bn in dividends on Friday\n\nBanks were criticised during the financial crisis 12 years ago when they paid dividends months before needing the biggest bailouts in history.\n\nSince then, banks have been forced to hold more capital to prevent the need for more public money to be spent on them, although not all banks have fully recovered. The government still owns 62% of Royal Bank of Scotland, for example.\n\nBarclays' investors will be the first to be affected by the halting of dividends. Its shareholders had been due to share a payment of more than £1bn on Friday.\n\nBarclays chairman Nigel Higgins said suspending the payment was a \"difficult decision\".\n\n\"The bank has a strong capital base, but we think it is right and prudent, for the many businesses and people that we support, to take these steps now, and ensure that Barclays is well placed to continue doing what we can to help through this crisis,\" he added.\n\nUK consumers are protected up to £85,000 per bank under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. In other words, if a bank collapses, savers will get any money in these accounts up to £85,000 paid back in compensation.\n\nThis is a significant move from the commercial banks.\n\nThey decided not to pay shareholders several billion pounds worth of dividends after receiving a firmly-worded letter from the Bank of England, which wants the banks to hold on to the money to support lending in the economy. And, with some of the payments due to be made in just days, the impact will be felt almost immediately by some shareholders.\n\nThe Bank of England's watchdog, the Prudential Regulation Authority, also made clear that it does not expect any of the UK commercial banks to pay cash bonuses either, although that is yet to be agreed.\n\nThe logic here is to preserve cash for where it is needed, but the regulator has also been making the point that this crisis is a moment of potential redemption for the sector. The banks have the opportunity to distance themselves from the financial crisis, which they created, to become the economic saviours of the coronavirus crisis. But that depends on them preserving cashflow, overdrafts and funding lines to businesses that will become viable again once the pandemic passes.\n\nFor example, the chancellor's freelance worker scheme will result in substantial cash sums being deposited in bank accounts, but not until June, and much depends on banks keeping workers financially afloat until then.\n\nThe cancellation of dividends also piles on the pressure for other sectors that have received money for furloughing workers - or even more direct government backing - to also consider scrapping their dividend payouts.\n\n\"These are difficult decisions, not least in terms of the immediate impact they will have on shareholders,\" said Barclays chairman Nigel Higgins.\n\n\"The bank has a strong capital base, but we think it is right and prudent, for the many businesses and people that we support, to take these steps now, and ensure that Barclays is well placed to continue doing what we can to help through this crisis.\"", "A EuroMillions lottery jackpot prize of almost £58m has yet to be claimed from a ticket bought in South Ayrshire, it has been announced.\n\nThe winning ticket matched all five main numbers and the two Lucky Star numbers in the draw on 17 March.\n\nThe winning numbers for the draw were 05, 07, 08, 16 and 20, with the Lucky Stars 2 and 12.\n\nThe ticket-holder has until Sunday 13 September to make their claim on the £57,869,670 prize.\n\nAndy Carter, from The National Lottery, said: \"We're desperate to find this mystery ticket-holder and unite them with this massive prize which could really make a huge difference to somebody's life.\n\n\"We're urging everyone who might have bought a EuroMillions ticket in this area to check their old tickets or look for any missing tickets at home.\"", "The videoconferencing app Zoom has come under fresh high-level scrutiny as its popularity soars during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNew York's attorney general has written to the firm raising concerns over its ability to cope with the rise in users.\n\nZoom is now being used by millions of people for work and leisure, as lockdowns are imposed in many countries.\n\nBut its data security and privacy measures have been questioned.\n\nThe letter from the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James asked Zoom whether it had reviewed its security measures since its popularity surged. It also pointed out that in the past the app had been slow to address issues.\n\nIn response to a request from the BBC for comment, a company spokesperson said: \"Zoom takes its users' privacy, security, and trust extremely seriously.\n\n\"During the Covid-19 pandemic, we are working around-the-clock to ensure that hospitals, universities, schools, and other businesses across the world can stay connected and operational. We appreciate the New York Attorney General's engagement on these issues and are happy to provide her with the requested information,\" it added.\n\nUsers have flocked to Zoom as governments around the world ordered large parts of their populations to stay at home to slow the spread of the virus. It is now ranked as the number two and number one app in the UK and US, respectively.\n\nZoom has had security flaws in the past, including a vulnerability which allowed an attacker to remove attendees from meetings, spoof messages from users and hijack shared screens. Another saw Mac users forced into calls without their knowledge.\n\nIt also doesn't offer end-to-end encryption, according to online news publication The Intercept. This is encryption that should mean no-one other than participants can see a meeting.\n\nZoom told it: \"Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption for Zoom video meetings.\" This means Zoom can access the video and audio of meetings, it reported.\n\nBecause Zoom uses email domains to identify users who may be in the same company, the service will sometimes allow small internet service providers' customers to see each others' private data, reported Vice's tech website Motherboard.\n\nThe company told Motherboard that it regularly updates a list of private email providers to avoid this.\n\nZoom has also been criticised for its \"attendee tracking\" feature, which, when enabled, lets the host of the Zoom call check if participants are clicking away from the main Zoom window during a call.\n\nMore recently, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week tweeted a picture of himself chairing a Cabinet meeting using Zoom, leading to questions about how secure it was.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe company has pushed back at those concerns, telling the BBC: \"Globally, 2,000 institutions ranging from the world's largest financial services companies to leading telecommunications providers, government agencies, universities, healthcare and telemedicine practices have done exhaustive security reviews of our user, network and data centre layers confidently selecting Zoom for complete deployment.\"\n\n\"We are in close communication with the UK Ministry of Defence and National Cyber Security Centre and are focused on providing the documentation they need.\"", "Staff at a Bristol GP surgery have started daily lunchtime dances for residents of a nearby care home.\n\nInitially the car park routines by Green Valleys Health were just to boost staff morale.\n\nNow the surgery staff, and workers from the care home next door are out every day bringing a smile to the residents.", "Four members of a family found dead at a house in West Sussex have been named by police.\n\nThe bodies of Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40, and Robert Needham, 42, were found alongside their children Ava Needham, four, and two-year-old Lexi Needham.\n\nA murder investigation began after police were called to Duffield Lane in Woodmancote near Chichester on Sunday.\n\nDetectives are \"not seeking anyone else in connection with the matter\" and described it as an \"isolated incident\".\n\nA post-mortem examination has not yet taken place and police have not commented on the nature of their deaths.\n\nThe body of a pet dog was also found at the house, police said.\n\nRobert Needham was found dead at the property in Woodmancote\n\nLocal resident and district councillor Roy Briscoe said he lived in the same lane.\n\n\"They were a young couple, with two young children. We can't believe what happened,\" he told BBC Radio Sussex.\n\n\"It really is saddening. The whole lane is in shock really.\"\n\nCh Supt Westerman said it was a \"a very, very difficult situation to have to deal with, particularly when children are involved\".\n\nPolice family liaison officers had been deployed to support the family, while detectives carry out house-to-house enquiries, speak to witnesses and carry out forensic investigations, he said.\n\n\"Importantly, we will be speaking to the family to understand what has gone on and get to the bottom of what has happened,\" he added.\n\nForensics officers have been carrying out investigations at the scene\n• None Two adults and two children found dead at house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways is among many airlines that have seen passenger numbers shrink and bookings collapse\n\nBritish Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be \"short term, perhaps long term\".\n\nThe airline industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nAn internal memo to Ryanair staff, seen by the BBC, said crew may be allocated to take unpaid leave due to cancelled flights and schedule changes.\n\nBA boss Mr Cruz said: \"We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term.\"\n\nThe airline is in talks with unions but gave no further details about the scale of the likely job losses in the video message transcript seen by the BBC.\n\nThe airline boss said that British Airways, which is owned by FTSE 100 company IAG, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way they had \"never had to do before\".\n\nBritish Airways would \"continue to do our best for customers and offer them as much flexibility as we can\", Mr Cruz said in the video.\n\nAlthough Mr Cruz said the British flag carrier airline had a strong balance sheet and was financially resilient, he told staff \"not to underestimate the seriousness of this for our company\".\n\nBA and other carriers' revenues have been hit by the coronavirus response as governments close borders, companies ban lucrative business travel, conferences and events are cancelled and demand for leisure travel slumps.\n\nBritish Airways boss Alex Cruz said the effect of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will be worse than 9/11\n\nIAG shares bounced on Friday after the global share market rout on Thursday. They closed up 4.8% to 350p per share, but were trading higher before news of the mass groundings broke.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association warned on Friday that global airline revenue losses would be \"probably above\" the figure of $113bn (£90bn) that it estimated a week ago, before the Trump administration's announcement of US travel curbs on passengers from much of continental Europe.\n\nEarlier this month, IAG said flight suspensions to China and cancellations on Italian routes would affect how many passengers it carried this year.\n\nMajor US airlines are in talks with the government there over economic relief, as traveller demand plummets.\n\n\"The speed of the demand fall-off is unlike anything we've seen,\" Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said on Friday in a note to staff, which also said the firm would cut flights by 40% over the next few months, ground 300 aircraft and reduce spending by $2bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe increase in flight cancellations comes after the European Union said it would suspend until the end of June a \"use it or lose it\" law that requires airlines to use their allocated runway slots or risk losing the lucrative asset.\n\nThe law had led to so-called \"ghost flights\" where airlines were flying near-empty planes in order to keep their slots at airports.\n\nThe pilot's union Balpa on Friday called for greater government support for the aviation industry and complained that this week's Budget had not included a cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the industry had lobbied for.\n\nBALPA general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Removing APD is just one step that could help airlines make it through their financial woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The reality is, with such a loss in forward bookings for the summer - the time when airlines make all their profit - the airlines have had to look at ways to save money to keep the companies afloat\".\n\nDo you work for British Airways? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "NHS workers have been tested at a drive-through site at an Ikea store in Wembley, north London\n\nThe government is facing growing pressure to ramp up coronavirus testing, as the UK saw its biggest daily increase in deaths.\n\nSome 2,352 virus patients had died in hospital as of 17:00 on Tuesday - up 563 in a day, the latest figures show.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said testing was \"massively increasing\" and it was \"the way through\" the pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile a major international climate meeting, COP26, is the latest event to be postponed as a result of the virus.\n\nThe climate talks were due to take place at Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus in November - which is being turned into a temporary field hospital to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nThe UN's climate body, the UNFCCC, and the UK government said the summit would be pushed back to 2021.\n\nIn a video message posted on Twitter, the prime minister said Wednesday had been a \"sad, sad day\" due to the high number of deaths in the UK.\n\nMr Johnson, who is self-isolating in Downing Street after contracting the virus, also reiterated the government's commitment to \"ramp up\" testing.\n\nHe said: \"This is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle. This is how we will defeat it in the end.\"\n\nThe government has been under pressure to increase the screening of medics, so that those who are self-isolating unnecessarily can return to work.\n\nMore than 3,500 NHS frontline staff in England and Wales have been tested for the virus since the outbreak began.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said a shortage of chemicals needed for the tests meant the NHS - which employs 1.2m in England - could not screen all workers.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government was working with NHS England, Public Health England and other organisations to boost test capacity with an additional network of labs and testing sites.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England medical director, told a daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street that there was currently capacity for about 3,000 tests a day for frontline NHS staff.\n\nShe said the \"intention\" was for testing for frontline staff to increase from \"thousands to hundreds of thousands within the coming weeks\".\n\nThe World Health Organization has said the world is set to reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths worldwide in the next few days.\n\nDr Doyle said the UK was not in \"as severe\" a position as Spain, the US or Italy, but added there was \"no reason to be complacent\".\n\nShe said while the spread of the virus was most advanced in London, the Midlands was \"obviously a concern\" too.\n\nAs of 9:00 on Wednesday, 152,979 people in the UK had been tested for the virus with 29,474 confirmed positive.\n\nThis includes 4,139 cases in the Midlands and 8,341 in London.\n\nDr Doyle added while use of public transport had gone down since the government enforced social distancing measures, an \"up-tick\" in motor vehicle use in the last 24 hours was \"slightly concerning\". She urged members of the public to stay home to \"protect the NHS\".\n\nThe number of questions about the lack of testing at the daily press conference came as no surprise. The government has been heavily criticised for not increasing testing capacity more quickly.\n\nDr Doyle said she was confident the UK would achieve the target of 25,000 tests a day by the end of the month.\n\nThere is some way to go - over the past 24 hours just shy of 10,000 tests have been done.\n\nThe lack of tests means NHS staff have had to self-isolate at home when members of their household show symptoms.\n\nNews that there are going to be five drive-through centres for staff will also help.\n\nBut it was interesting Dr Doyle was also asked by how much more testing can be increased by in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of cases does come down, testing will play a crucial role in allowing the lockdown to be eased.\n\nThe plan would be to contain the virus by testing lots of people quickly. That will require the UK to be able to tests hundreds of thousands of people a day.\n\nA doctor who came out of retirement to volunteer for the NHS has become the fourth UK medic to die with the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nDr Alfa Sa'adu, 68, had been volunteering at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Welwyn when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHis son Dani Saadu posted online that his dad had died after \"fighting the virus for two weeks\".\n\n\"My dad was a living legend, worked for the NHS for nearly 40 years saving people's lives here and in Africa,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's head of statistics Robert Cuffe said the latest increases in the number of patients dying with coronavirus balance out with the below-average rises on Sunday and Monday.\n\nHe said the number of new deaths has been increasing at a slightly slower rate than earlier in the epidemic, \"but if that keeps up, we'd expect to see in the region of a thousand deaths a day by the weekend\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business Secretary Alok Sharma: It's time for banks to \"repay the favour\" of the 2008 financial bailout\n\nDowning Street said 390 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) including masks, alcohol wipes and aprons, have been delivered to NHS staff over the last two weeks.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said the government was working with a number of suppliers which had come forward with offers of PPE, or proposals to manufacture more.\n\nIt follows criticism from some frontline workers over the lack of protective equipment, with staff at one hospital in Essex warning they could \"limit services\" to patients with coronavirus \"to a bare minimum\" over fears for their own safety.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles speaks for the first time since contracting the coronavirus, in a recorded video message in support for the charity Age UK\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson also said the NHS will be sent 30 new ventilators next week and promised \"hundreds\" more would follow.\n\nThe NHS is reported to have 8,175 ventilators and the government believes up to 30,000 ventilators could be needed at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nDo you work in the NHS? Have you been tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "TSB customers complained on Wednesday they were unable to access their online banking\n\nA number of TSB customers were left unable to access online banking and mobile app services for both Android and iOS on Wednesday.\n\nIndependent website DownDetector, which tracks social-media posts on how sites are performing, showed hundreds of customers complaining of an outage.\n\nUsers were met with an \"unexpected error\" and some said they had been left with no way to access their accounts.\n\nTSB said that the issue had now be solved.\n\nIn a statement it told the BBC: \"We experienced intermittent issues with our mobile and internet banking services earlier today. All our services are now working, however if customers experience an error message they should try logging on again.\"\n\nMany of the customers said the Covid-19 outbreak had left them more reliant than normal on being able to use their banking apps and online services.\n\nOne user tweeted: \"Been down since around 06:00, just coming up unexpected errors. Be joining a new bank. Seems a weekly thing TSB being down.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by THOMSON94 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother added: \"This is not the time for you guys’ app to be down @TSB\".\n\nA spokesman for TSB told BBC News the bank hoped to resolve the issue \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"We're aware a number of customers are currently experiencing problems across our mobile app and internet banking,\" it said.\n\n\"We're working to solve this as soon as possible and apologise for any inconvenience caused.”\n\nIt is unclear how many customers were affected by the problem.\n\nThe latest outage follows an IT failure in November that meant wages and other payments were not paid into some TSB customers' accounts.\n\nThe bank said at the time the incident had been due to a \"processing error\".\n\nIn April 2018, a similar IT failure left up to 1.9 million TSB customers unable to bank online for several weeks.\n\nCustomers were moved on to a new system but an investigation found it had not been tested properly before going live.\n\nIt cost TSB a total of £330m for customer compensation, fraud losses and other expenses.", "BBC 1xtra's DJ Ace says he's fully recovered after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe presenter is on the waiting list for a new kidney - meaning he's at a higher risk of getting severe symptoms from the virus.\n\nHe's posted on Instagram reassuring people with underlying health problems that getting Covid-19 doesn't always mean \"the worst case scenario\".\n\nBut he stresses it's important to \"do everything [experts] tell you to do\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChronic kidney disease is on the list of conditions considered \"higher risk\" by the government.\n\nHigher risk people are being \"strongly advised\" to follow social distancing rules.\n\nAce has been waiting for a new kidney for two years.\n\nThis means going to hospital for regular dialysis sessions - where he's hooked up to a machine that filters his blood.\n\n\"You might have noticed I haven't been on the radio for the past two weeks,\" he says in this latest post.\n\n\"It's because my condition puts me in a high risk and vulnerable category, so I've been advised not to go back to work for now.\n\n\"But I have had to continue having my dialysis sessions three times a week and about 10 days ago I had fever and I had some real body aches.\"\n\nHe explains that he was sent to a dialysis session in isolation and was tested for the coronavirus.\n\nTen days later, he says, that test came back positive.\n\n\"I'm just putting this video out there for people who are like me who have underlying health issues to say you can get the virus and you can still be fine,\" he adds.\n\n\"I had symptoms for like two days, I had fever and I had body aches, I didn't have the cough and I've come out of it very well.\"\n\nFollowing official advice, he's now gone back into self-isolation.\n\nFaizan says staying inside is \"for the greater good\"\n\nLike Ace, 34-year-old Faizan Awan from Blackburn is waiting for a new kidney.\n\nBut he does his dialysis treatments himself, at home, and this means he hasn't left his house - at all - in nearly a month.\n\n\"It's been a month, but it's felt like a year,\" he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"It can get tiresome, it can start to play with your head a bit. Days drift into each other after a while but it's for the greater good.\"\n\nHe says he's \"not scared\" of coronavirus - and agrees with Ace that the most important thing is to follow official advice.\n\n\"I live with my family and my mother is getting older and my brother has asthma so although they're healthier than I am I wouldn't want to put them or myself at risk by not listening to guidelines.\"\n\nFaizan does his dialysis treatment overnight in his bedroom\n\nA spokesperson for kidney support charity The National Kidney Federation has told Newsbeat: \"We know the current Covid-19 pandemic is a worrying time for patients.\n\n\"Government guidelines are to be followed by everyone, but kidney patients have extra concerns about keeping themselves safe.\n\n\"The National Kidney Federation operates the only UK helpline dedicated to kidney patients and their families, for help and advice in this worrying time, call free of charge on 0800 169 09 36.\"\n\nIf you're worried about what the UK government advice on coronavirus is for you, visit here.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Both President Trump (left) and Dr Fauci acknowledged the seriousness of the situation\n\nThere was no sugar-coating it this time. No optimistic talk of miracle cures or Easter-time business re-openings.\n\nThere was just the cold, hard reality of the facts on the ground.\n\n\"I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead,\" a grave-faced Donald Trump said in his Tuesday afternoon press conference.\n\n\"This is going to be a very, very painful two weeks.\"\n\nHow painful? When the president was asked how many Americans are currently projected to die from the virus given even the current mitigation efforts, he said it was better if his medical experts responded.\n\nThe number of deaths, based on current projections, is between 100,000 and 200,000. On 15 April, for instance, 2,214 Americans are expected to die.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When asked about the scarcity of masks, Donald Trump suggests scarves as protection against Covid-19\n\n\"No-one is denying that we're going through a very, very difficult time,\" said Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. \"That's what it is.\"\n\nThe president tried to frame this news as best he could, noting that the projections for US casualties if the government had done nothing were in the millions.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying think of it as the flu, but it's not the flu,\" he said. \"It's vicious.\"\n\nRefrigeration units are being used as makeshift morgues in New York City - the worst hit place in the US\n\nOf course, it was just a week ago the president himself was making exactly such comparisons, noting that the early fatality numbers were much less than those from the flu or even automobile accidents.\n\n\"We lose thousands of people a year to the flu,\" he said then. \"We never turn the country off.\"\n\nNow, however, the seriousness of the situation has hit home.\n\nHe spoke of checking in on a friend who was in the hospital with the virus - \"a little older, and he's heavy, but he's tough person\" - only to find out he was now in a coma.\n\n\"I spoke to some of my friends, and they can't believe what they're seeing,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump's change of attitude also extended to some of his recent political feuds.\n\nJust days after attacking Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, mocking her name and calling her incompetent on Twitter, the president said he had a \"really great conversation\" with her and detailed the support the federal government was providing her state.\n\nLast Friday, he had suggested that if state leaders were not \"appreciative\" of him, he wouldn't talk to them.\n\nOn Tuesday, he recounted conversations with Democratic governors in California and Louisiana.\n\nThere was still a veiled shot at New York and its Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, however, as the president suggested that both his state and New Jersey - the two hardest hit in the US - \"got off to a very late start\" with their pandemic response.\n\nTrump also pushed back against Cuomo's complaint earlier on Tuesday that states were being forced to bid against each other, and the federal government, on the ventilator market.\n\n\"They shouldn't be doing that,\" the president said. \"If that happens, they should be calling us. If they need them that badly, we know.\"\n\n\"Some people frankly think they need them but they don't need them,\" he added.\n\nThe new call from the White House was to continue the current mitigation efforts for an additional 30 days; that even if things go from bad to worse in the weeks to come, the efforts will pay off.\n\nIt will, however, be a long, slow grind.\n\n\"There's no magic bullet,\" said Dr Deborah Birx, one of the experts on the US taskforce.\n\n\"There's no magic vaccine or therapy. Just behaviours,\" she said.", "A New Yorker waits outside a Brooklyn hospital to be tested Image caption: A New Yorker waits outside a Brooklyn hospital to be tested\n\nThere was no sugar-coating it this time. No optimistic talk of miracle cures or Easter-time business re-openings. There was just the cold, hard reality of the facts on the ground.\n\n“I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead,” a grave-faced Donald Trump told the nation on Tuesday afternoon. \"This is going to be a very, very painful two weeks.\"\n\nHow painful? The number of deaths, based on current projections, is between 100,000 and 200,000.\n\nMr Trump tried to frame this news as best he could, noting that the projections for US casualties if the government had done nothing were in the millions.\n\n“A lot of people were saying 'think of it as the flu', but it’s not the flu,” he said. “It’s vicious.”\n\nOf course, it was just a week ago the president himself was making exactly such comparisons, noting that the early fatality numbers were much less than those from the flu or even automobile accidents.\n\nNow, however, the seriousness of the situation has hit home. He spoke of checking in on a friend who was in the hospital with the virus - \"a little older, and he’s heavy, but he’s tough person\" - only to find out he was now in a coma.\n\n“I spoke to some of my friends, and they can’t believe what they’re seeing,” he said.\n\nTrump’s change of attitude also extended to some of his recent political feuds. Just days after attacking Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, mocking her name and calling her incompetent on Twitter, the president said he had a “really great conversation” with her and detailed the support the federal government was providing her state.\n\nOn Friday, he had suggested that if state leaders were not “appreciative” of him, he wouldn’t talk to them. On Tuesday, he recounted conversations with Democratic governors in California and Louisiana.\n\nThe new call from the White House was to continue the current mitigation efforts for an additional 30 days; that even if things go from bad to worse in the weeks to come, the efforts will pay off. It will, however, be a long, slow grind.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Why Oxford University experts are urging the rollout of a coronavirus app\n\nA coronavirus app that alerts people if they have recently been in contact with someone testing positive for the virus \"could play a critical role\" in limiting lockdowns, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nThe location-tracking tech would enable a week's worth of manual detective work to be done in an instant, they say.\n\nBut the academics say no-one should be forced to enrol - at least initially.\n\nUK health chiefs have confirmed they are exploring the idea.\n\n\"NHSX is looking at whether app-based solutions might be helpful in tracking and managing coronavirus, and we have assembled expertise from inside and outside the organisation to do this as rapidly as possible,\" said the tech-focused division's chief Matthew Gould.\n\nThe study by the team at the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute and Nuffield Department of Medicine was published in the journal Science.\n\nIt proposes that an app would record people's GPS location data as they move about their daily lives. This would be supplemented by users scanning QR (quick response) codes posted to public amenities in places where a GPS signal is inadequate, as well as Bluetooth signals.\n\nIf a person starts feeling ill, it is suggested they use the app to request a home test. And if it comes back positive for Covid-19, then an instant signal would be sent to everyone they had been in close contact with over recent days.\n\nThose people would be advised to self-isolate for a fortnight, but would not be told who had triggered the warning.\n\nIn addition, the test subject's workplace and their transport providers could be told to carry out a decontamination clean-up.\n\n\"The constrictions that we're currently under place [many people] under severe strain,\" said the paper's co-lead Prof Christophe Fraser.\n\n\"Therefore if you have the ability with a bit more information and the use of an app to relax a lockdown, that could provide very substantial and direct benefits.\n\n\"Also I think a substantial number of lives can be saved.\"\n\nTo encourage take-up, it is suggested the app also acts as a hub for coronavirus-related health services and serves as a means to request food and medicine deliveries.\n\nThe academics note that similar smartphone software has already been deployed in China. It was also voluntary there, but users were allowed to go into public spaces or on public transport only if they had installed it.\n\nOne of the ethics specialists involved in the Oxford study said he did not think similar arrangements would be appropriate in the UK, but added that private enterprises might still impose restrictions.\n\n\"My favourite restaurant might ask me to show that I was low-risk before allowing me into a crowded place, and I think that would be a perfectly reasonable price to pay for this step towards returning to normal life,\" Prof Michael Parker told the BBC.\n\nHe added that employers might also be justified in requiring staff to use the app if they worked \"in an old people's home, with vulnerable groups or [were based] in very crowded places\".\n\nAnd while he said that the general public should not be compelled to use the app to begin with, he did not rule this out if the majority failed to do so.\n\n\"The key question is - does it require everyone to do it for it to be effective?\" Prof Parker explained.\n\n\"It's not essential that everyone does... but perhaps a high proportion of the population needs to.\n\n\"This is a really unusual situation where lives are at risk, so there is a case to be made to make at least some actions compulsory - but there would need to be a really clear case for that and careful oversight.\"\n\nThe paper adds that the app could be updated to tackle the pandemic more aggressively if required.\n\nFor example, it says, the stay-at-home alerts could be expanded to second or even third-degree contacts.\n\nAnd while the paper advocates the app being used in conjunction with home tests, Prof Fraser said his team was currently exploring whether it would still be effective if it relied on people using a questionnaire or 111 helpline advisers to diagnose the condition.\n\nHe acknowledged some people might be wary of using the service, but hoped they would do so to \"save a lot of lives\".\n\n\"We already have tracking apps on our phones for more trivial tasks - the reason we have live traffic information is because we allow the people that provide the mapping service to track us,\" he said.\n\n\"What we're suggesting here is essentially sharing anonymised information [to] put to good use.\"\n\nWe know that the UK is preparing to roll out its own contact-tracing app and this paper by scientists who are close to the government reinforces what a vital role it could play.\n\nBut it also shows why it may be a while before any app is rolled out. A key part of making the process by which people are informed that they have been in contact with someone infected with Covid-19 is the availability of testing. With only 11,000 tests a day available right now, most people who installed an app might find it of little use if they developed mild symptoms of the virus. Without a confirmed diagnosis, nothing would happen.\n\nThe other concern is privacy. With the government wary of being seen as Big Brother, the app would need to convince users it wouldn't allow them to be spied on for ever more.\n\nSingapore's TraceTogether, which has been praised by privacy experts for collecting a bare minimum of data, could provide a template for the NHS app. Rather than constantly tracking people, it uses Bluetooth to record your proximity to other app users so that they can be alerted if you later test positive for the virus.\n\nBut while the government will almost certainly make use of the app optional, the concern is that it could become essential for anyone wanting to return to normal life. What, for instance, is to stop pubs and restaurants demanding to see evidence of your Covid status before allowing you in?\n\nWhen the app does emerge, there will be a major marketing exercise behind it to convince as many people as possible to install it. It will only be effective if a good proportion of the population are persuaded that it will help the UK beat the virus - and let them leave home and get back to work.", "People working for Monmouthshire council have been told there will be “no opt-outs” for re-deployment to critical areas.\n\nThe council has redeployed grounds maintenance teams to support bin collection services.\n\nCouncil chief executive Paul Matthews says the “vast majority” of staff “can’t wait to be involved” but there have been a few who have been “reluctant” to temporarily change roles.\n\nIn an email to all staff and councillors, seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Matthews says the next week “will see us through the most radical deconstruction and re-assembly of a public service organisation in 80 years.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: The first of thousands of new ventilators will be delivered to the NHS next week\n\nThe UK must go \"further, faster\" to ramp up its testing capacity for coronavirus, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe government has set a target of carrying out 25,000 tests a day - but that will not be met until the end of April.\n\nMr Gove said there was a global shortage of the chemicals needed to test patients.\n\nMore than 8,000 patients were tested on Monday.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Gove said: \"More NHS staff are returning to the front line, and more testing is taking place to help those self-isolating come back, and to protect those working so hard in our hospitals and in social care.\n\n\"But while the rate of testing is increasing, we must go further, faster.\"\n\nHe added that a \"critical constraint\" on the ability to increase testing capacity was the availability of the chemicals needed to test patients.\n\n\"We are working with companies worldwide to ensure that we get the material we need to increase tests of all kinds,\" he said.\n\nHis comments come amid mounting criticism about the inability of some health staff to get tests.\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians has said as many as a quarter of doctors are off work because they are having to self-isolate - either because they are showing symptoms or a member of their household is.\n\nA fifth of nurses have been affected, the Royal College of Nursing said, while the British Medical Association said staff began being tested over the weekend, but only in low numbers.\n\nBMA chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"It's been well over two weeks since the government said it was going to roll out priority testing for healthcare staff.\n\n\"But many doctors still have no idea about where or how they can get tested.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an A&E nurse who did not want to be named told the BBC: \"Staff are not being tested, and protective clothing is limited.\n\n\"It does feel unnerving. Our team is very strong at work and our matron has said no staff are to go near patients if we don't have the protective clothing.\n\n\"The protective clothing comes in daily but we are going through it so fast that it becomes limited by the end of the day.\"\n\nLater in the briefing, Mr Gove said the UK was working to secure more ventilators, including buying them from EU nations and placing orders at home.\n\nThe first \"of thousands\" of new ventilator devices would roll off the production line this weekend and be delivered to the NHS next week, he said.\n\nIt comes as the biggest daily increase in the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK - 381 - was reported.\n\nAs of 17:00 BST on Monday, the total number of UK deaths linked to the virus was 1,789.\n\nBut NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said there were still some \"green shoots\".\n\nHe said there was a \"bit of a plateau\" in the number of new cases, despite the total rising to more than 25,000 cases overall.\n\nEarlier in the epidemic the number of cases was doubling every three days, but the rate of increase is lower than that now.\n\nThese are largely just the cases diagnosed in hospital as people with mild illnesses in the community are not being tested.\n\nBut Prof Powis added: \"It's really important not to read too much into this.\n\n\"It's early days, we're not out of the woods, we're very much in the woods.\n\n\"The number of infections is not rising as rapidly as it once was.\n\n\"So green shoots, but only green shoots and we must not be complacent and we must not take our foot off the pedal.\"\n\nHe also said there was still \"headroom\" in the NHS to treat patients despite the rising number of cases.\n\nA drive-in coronavirus test centre for NHS workers has opened at Ikea's Wembley store, in north-west London\n\nSome 10,767 people are currently in hospital in England, but Prof Powis said even in London, which has seen the most cases at 3,915, there were still beds free thanks to the increase in intensive care capacity.\n\nThe number of beds have been doubled to 1,400 with more due to open later this week when NHS Nightingale - the field hospital at the Excel Centre in east London - starts accepting patients.\n\nElsewhere in England, the Midlands is also starting to see a rising number of admissions with 1,918 currently in hospital, Prof Powis said.\n\nMr Gove described the sharp rise in the latest reported UK deaths linked to coronavirus as \"deeply shocking\" but he could not say exactly when the peak of the epidemic would come.\n\n\"There's not a fixed date like Easter when you know that the peak will come, it depends on the actions of all of us,\" he said.\n\nHe added that \"now is absolutely not the time for people to imagine there can be any relaxation or slackening\" of lockdown measures.", "The licensee was serving drinks at The Blue Bell in Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire without the bar owners knowing\n\nA pub that was holding a \"lock-in\" for regular drinkers has been shut down under new coronavirus legislation.\n\nThe licensee was serving drinks at The Blue Bell, in Nottinghamshire, unbeknownst to its owners, police said.\n\nNottinghamshire Police officers were called to weekend reports that drinks were being served and, along with Ashfield District Council, shut it.\n\nAll stock and alcohol has also now been removed from the premises, in Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield.\n\nFollowing the government's social distancing measure announcement on 20 March, all pubs were told to close.\n\nCh Supt Rob Griffin said this \"sends a very clear message\" that \"police and our partners will not tolerate those people who deliberately break the rules and put other people's lives in danger\".\n\nCouncillor Helen-Ann Smith, from Ashfield District Council, said the bar manager was \"irresponsible\" and \"drinking with even one friend goes against the government's guidelines\".\n\n\"It beggars belief why this group of people thought it was acceptable to have a private party when the majority of residents were staying home to help save lives,\" she said.\n\nLee Anderson, MP for Ashfield, reported the lock-in to the police after it was brought to his attention.\n\nHe said: \"At a time when the vast majority of residents are obeying government advice we have a small majority who think the rules do not apply to them.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince Charles has spoken of the \"strange, frustrating and often distressing experience\" of being without family and friends during self-isolation. He was diagnosed with the virus in March.\n\nIn a recorded a video message in support for the charity, Age UK, the Prince of Wales called for \"faith in ourselves and in each other\" as the world battles the pandemic.", "The Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, which is due to host COP26, includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro buildings\n\nA key climate summit in Glasgow will be delayed until next year due to disruption caused by the coronavirus.\n\nThe announcement was made in a joint statement from the UK and UN after a \"virtual\" meeting of officials.\n\nDozens of world leaders were due to attend the COP26 gathering that was set to run in Glasgow from November 9 this year.\n\nIt is expected that the conference will now take place by the middle of next year.\n\nAs the virus has spread around the world, there has been a growing expectation in recent weeks that the COP26 talks would be delayed.\n\nAround 30,000 delegates, journalists and environmental campaigners were due in Scotland for the meeting.\n\nHowever the changing priorities that coronavirus has forced on governments can be clearly seen in Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus (SEC) which was due to host the talks.\n\nIt is now set to become a temporary hospital to house patients affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe decision to move COP26 was taken by UN officials, including UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and UK Business Secretary Alok Sharma, who is president-designate of the meeting.\n\n\"The world is currently facing an unprecedented global challenge and countries are rightly focusing their efforts on saving lives and fighting Covid-19,\" Mr Sharma said in a statement.\n\n\"That is why we have decided to reschedule COP26.\"\n\n\"We will continue working tirelessly with our partners to deliver the ambition needed to tackle the climate crisis and I look forward to agreeing a new date for the conference.\"\n\nAlok Sharma is president-designate of the meeting\n\nFive years on from the landmark Paris agreement, all nations were due to put new improved climate action plans on the table at the Glasgow meeting.\n\nEnvironmental groups said the decision was understandable.\n\n\"Postponing COP26 is the right thing to do - public health and safety must come first now,\" said Laurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the Paris agreement and CEO of European Climate Foundation.\n\n\"This crisis has shown that international cooperation and solidarity are essential to protect global well-being and peace. COP26 next year should become a centre piece of revitalized global cooperation.\"\n\nThe summit has had its fair share of controversy with rows between the UK and Scottish governments, and with Claire O'Neill, the minister originally appointed to run the talks, sacked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nWhile the delay was almost inevitable in the light of coronavirus, some officials believe there may be a silver lining.\n\nGovernments are set to spend huge amounts to boost their economies once the pandemic is over. There's a view that when the summit is eventually held, it could be an important forum for ensuring that money is spent on sustainable and renewable projects.\n\n\"The pandemic will also reorder to an extent the priorities for COP26, as alongside the UN climate process countries will be devising stimulus packages for economies hard-hit by the crisis,\" said Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.\n\n\"With low-carbon stimulus as a new priority for COP26, it should be seen as an opportunity to rebuild economies hit by coronavirus in ways that are healthier, more resilient to future shocks and fairer to a wider range of people.\"", "As the coronavirus outbreak barrels throughout the US, states have scrambled to get ahead of its spread, often after weeks of inaction. But one governor imposed sweeping measures days before a single case had been reported in his state.\n\nAt the podium for Tuesday's daily coronavirus press briefing, Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine provides the latest on the virus's march through his state - 2,199 cases, 55 deaths, 585 hospitalisations.\n\nHis announcements are peppered with \"thank yous\" and mild \"just-a-reminders\", encouraging continued social distancing. He holds printed notes, shuffling the papers occasionally, staring down at them frequently. He doesn't speak in platitudes, but in detail, taking time to dictate every letter and character in the state's coronavirus web address.\n\nIt's a stark contrast from his New York counterpart Andrew Cuomo, whose own daily briefings have become a staple of the US coronavirus news cycle.\n\nBut while the lesser known Mr DeWine, 73, may lack the media attention of Mr Cuomo, he is drawing praise for his early moves against the virus, at a time when much of the US was still playing catch-up.\n\nOn 5 March, after resistance from organisers, Mr DeWine got a court order to shut down much of the Arnold Sports Festival - an annual event featuring 20,000 athletes from 80 countries, around 60,000 spectators each day, and an expected $53m for Columbus, the state's largest city.\n\nThe state had yet to report a single case.\n\nMr DeWine was criticised for his decision to postpone the state's primary\n\n\"This is a balancing test,\" the first-term governor said at the time, in response to criticism.\n\nOver the next three weeks, Mr DeWine moved to bar spectators from major sporting events - days before US professional leagues decided to cancel their seasons. He was first in the nation to declare a state-wide school shutdown. He invoked an emergency public health order to postpone Ohio's presidential primary the night before it was scheduled on 17 March.\n\nAt the time, critics dismissed Mr DeWine's strict regulations as overblown, largely out of step with Ohio's neighbouring states. And in terms of policy, the governor's approach put him at odds with fellow Republican Donald Trump, who until later in March downplayed the threat of the virus, saying it would \"go away\".\n\nGovernor DeWine's early decisions put him at odds with fellow Republican Donald Trump\n\n\"On the front end of a pandemic you look a little bit alarmist, you look a little bit like a Chicken Little, the sky is falling,\" said Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton at a briefing this month. \"At the end of a pandemic, you didn't do enough.\"\n\nTo plot his approach Mr DeWine has, by all accounts, relied heavily on Dr Acton - the last cabinet member selected by the governor when he took office last year. The selection of Dr Acton marked a change for the department - neither of her two predecessors were medical doctors.\n\n\"Mistakes that I have made throughout my career have generally been because I didn't have enough facts, I didn't dig deep enough,\" Mr DeWine said. \"So, I made up my mind I was going to have the best information, the best data available.\"\n\nIn his daily briefings, Mr DeWine is quick to defer to Dr Acton for specific questions on the virus and its spread, reminding Ohioans that the state's decisions are driven by science.\n\nThese policies are \"keeping us safer\" he said on Tuesday. \"We've got to stay at it.\"\n\nFor his job today, Mr DeWine has the benefit of experience. In his nearly 30-year political career, he has held almost every public office on the way to governor, serving as county prosecutor, state attorney general, and in both the US House and Senate.\n\nHe will need all that experience to confront a dire economic picture. Last week, Ohio reported 187,780 jobless claims - the second highest nationwide and almost half the total claims from all of last year.\n\nThe state has rushed to prepare for the virus spread\n\n\"We've made difficult decisions but we have to get through this,\" he said of the job losses on Tuesday. \"We can't let this monster come up, we need to keep pushing it down.\"\n\nStill, while Ohio's infection numbers are rising, it has so far managed to avoid the surges seen in states like New York, Washington, and Louisiana, ranking 15th nationwide in terms of reported cases.\n\n\"It has to be the type of response you take in war time because we have been invaded, literally.\n\n\"We've got to stay at it.\"", "Wimbledon has been cancelled for the first time since World War Two because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe tournament was due to be played between 29 June and 12 July.\n\nThe entire grass-court season has been abandoned, and there will be no professional tennis anywhere in the world until at least 13 July.\n\nWimbledon is the latest major summer sporting event to be called off, with Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics postponed for 12 months.\n\nIt follows the postponement of the French Open, which was due to begin in May but has been rescheduled to 20 September-4 October.\n\n\"This is a decision that we have not taken lightly, and we have done so with the highest regard for public health and the wellbeing of all those who come together to make Wimbledon happen,\" said Ian Hewitt, All England Lawn Tennis Club chairman.\n\n\"It has weighed heavily on our minds that the staging of the Championships has only been interrupted previously by World Wars but, following thorough and extensive consideration of all scenarios, we believe it is ultimately the right decision to cancel this year's Championships, and instead concentrate on how we can use the breadth of Wimbledon's resources to help those in our local communities and beyond.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all those who have been and continue to be affected by these unprecedented times.\"\n\nThe All England Club did not need to make a decision before the end of April, but the writing has been on the wall for some time.\n\nThat is when on-site preparations would have had to begin in earnest: a forlorn hope given the current restrictions in place in the UK.\n\nAs was the thought that by the end of June, 40,000 people would be able to take their seats in packed stands, and jostle for the best vantage point in the narrow walkways bordering the outside courts.\n\nThe government's advice that large gatherings should not take place is aimed, in no small part, at relieving the pressure on the emergency services, which would otherwise be in attendance. It is undeniably optimistic to assume the demands on the health service will have returned to normal levels by mid-summer.\n\nSwift cancellation should help reduce any losses that Wimbledon, and the LTA's series of grass-court events, might incur - but there is also the issue of perception.\n\nThe All England Club would not want to be seen to be pushing ahead with a sporting event as the death toll continues to rise and the country remains in the grip of the pandemic.\n\nSticking resolutely to a place on the calendar, only to cancel abruptly, or postponing by a few weeks before having to concede defeat, is messy. It is not the way Wimbledon does things. Better, instead, to face facts and plan to return with a flourish in 2021.\n\nWhat about refunds and impact on finances?\n\nThe All England Club had the foresight to take out insurance policies which will shield them from eye-watering losses. They will therefore be able to refund ticket holders, broadcast partners and sponsors - a bill which, even according to conservative estimates, will top £200m.\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association will also receive its 'annual surplus' of profits. The payment, which effectively funds British tennis' governing body for the year ahead, was more than £40m in 2018.\n\nIt is likely to fall, but should not leave an irreparable hole at the heart of the LTA's finances, especially as they have tens of millions of pounds in reserve.\n\nBut the LTA has lost over £12m in the past two years, and will also be hit by the loss of all of the summer grass-court events. Of those, only the Fever Tree Championships at Queen's Club actually returns a profit, but as they are not insured against cancellation, this year's losses will inevitably be greater.\n\nBut the biggest blow for British tennis is the loss of the best shop window of the year. No Queen's, Eastbourne or Wimbledon means no BBC TV exposure for the sport, and even if we are allowed to return to the courts, there is very unlikely to be the dramatic spike in participation usually seen in the months of June and July.\n\nWill there be any tennis at all in 2020?\n\nNo-one is holding their breath for a resumption of the tour in Hamburg, Bastad, Bucharest and Lausanne on 13 July.\n\nThe Olympic tournament is already on hold; the prestigious events in Toronto and Montreal in the middle of August are said to be under threat; and the USTA has publicly floated the possibility of pushing back the US Open start date of 31 August.\n\nThere has even been talk behind the scenes of staging the US Open in Indian Wells, California, in December. But if you take the US Open out of New York and push it back three months, it won't be the US Open.\n\nIf professional tennis is able to resume, then the WTA in particular seems keen to make up for lost time and continue beyond the WTA Championships scheduled for the first week in November.\n\nBut the global nature of the sport, which requires players to cross continents with so much regularity, may yet make this debate an academic one as far as 2020 is concerned.\n\nAs the 2006 Wimbledon champion Amelie Mauresmo said on Twitter earlier this week: \"I think we are going to have to draw a line under the 2020 tennis season.\n\n\"An international circuit = players of all nationalities, as well as coaches, spectators and those coming from all four corners of the world to bring these events to life.", "Marie Dinou was arrested at Newcastle Central Station on Saturday morning\n\nA woman has been fined for breaching coronavirus restrictions after she refused to tell police who she was and why she was at a railway station.\n\nMarie Dinou, 41, from York, was arrested at Newcastle Central Station at 08:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nNorth Tyneside Magistrates' Court imposed a £660 fine under the Coronavirus Act 2020 on Monday.\n\nDinou, who did not enter a plea, was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £66 and costs of £85.\n\nBritish Transport Police assistant chief constable Sean O'Callaghan said enforcement of the new legislation was a last resort.\n\n\"In this case, officers tried their utmost best to engage with Dinou.\n\n\"I can assure you we would much rather not have to take such action.\"\n\nPeople risk committing an offence if they appear to be breaching restrictions laid out in the emergency legislation and fail to give a reasonable excuse when challenged.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "The pandemic has led to the closure of Job Centres\n\nNearly a million people have applied for universal credit benefits in the past fortnight as the coronavirus pandemic has worsened.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said 950,000 successful applications for the payment were made between 16 March, when people were advised to work from home, and the end of the month.\n\nThe department would normally expect 100,000 claims in a two week period.\n\nOfficials said they were working \"flat out\" to help people get support.\n\nBut Labour said the figures were \"truly shocking\" and the government \"must wake up and take action\" to help the millions of those at risk of losing their jobs and the self-employed not covered by government hardship schemes.\n\nThe figures show the massive increase in demand on the benefit system since the government urged people to avoid non-essential travel and contact with others to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nThere was a warning on Wednesday that 20% of small businesses could fold in the next month due to the collapse in consumer demand, despite unprecedented government intervention to support jobs.\n\nUniversal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working-age, which replaced a host of previous benefits including income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit.\n\nIn October 2019, there were 2.6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of whom were in work.\n\nThe government said the benefit system was still \"delivering\" despite the massive increase in demand.\n\n\"With such a huge increase in claims there are pressures on our services, but the system is standing up well to these and our dedicated staff are working flat out to get people the support they need,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're taking urgent action to boost capacity - we've moved 10,000 existing staff to the help on the front line and we're recruiting more.\"\n\nThe sudden and vast increase in those signing up is powerful evidence that the coronavirus crisis is an economic emergency for a very significant portion of the public, losing work and losing income in ways they could never have anticipated a few short weeks ago.\n\nThe numbers of people losing out on work could therefore be higher even than this significant level. But given the numbers who have managed to register, there are obviously very significant efforts going on at the DWP to expand the service to try to meet the scale of the need.\n\nThe government has already stepped in with support for the economy and for workers in ways that have no modern parallel.\n\nIn time, there may be questions about whether the country can really afford to support new legions of workers through hard times for more than a short emergency period.\n\nBut right now, these figures provide urgent evidence that only a fortnight after the country was told to shut up shop, there are many, many thousands, already in economic need.\n\nSince the virus struck, the government has made a series of changes designed to make it easier for the self-employed to claim the benefit and to ensure they will not lose out as their earnings dry up.\n\nLabour has urged ministers to go much further, saying the verification process for new claimants should be speeded up and upfront cash advances - available for those in urgent need - should not have to be repaid.\n\n\"People need help now,\" said shadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood.\n\n\"The government should turn advances into non-repayable grants to end the five week wait and make sure people get the support they need quickly at a level that genuinely protects them from poverty.\"\n\nHave you lost your job or been furloughed due to the coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "British Airways has reached a deal to temporarily suspend more than 30,000 of its cabin crew and ground staff.\n\nThe airline, which has grounded most of its fleet due to the coronavirus, has been locked in talks with unions for more than a week.\n\nBut on Thursday, BA boss Alex Cruz told staff that a large majority of employees would be suspended for the next two months.\n\nHe said the government's job retention scheme would fund 80% of their wages.\n\nExplaining the decision, Mr Cruz said: \"We need to act now to protect jobs and ensure that BA comes out the other side of this crisis in the best possible shape.\"\n\nThe decision will affect all staff at Gatwick and London City Airport after the airline suspended its operations at both locations until the crisis is over.\n\n\"The number of colleagues who will be furloughed reflects the significant drop in flying,\" Mr Cruz said.\n\nUnder the jobs retention scheme, the government funds 80% of someone's salary capped at a maximum of £2,500 a month. But union Unite said there would be no cap on earnings under its agreement with BA.\n\nThe union also said no BA staff would be made redundant during the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"Given the incredibly difficult circumstances that the entire aviation sector is facing this is as good a deal as possible for our members,\" the union's national officer for aviation, Oliver Richardson, said in a statement.\n\nNo one who works at British Airways will be surprised at today's announcement. When the planes are sitting on the ground - and nearly all of BA's fleet is doing just that, dispersed to regional airports around the country - there is no need for the army of workers who fly the aircraft, maintain them, load and unload the bags, and serve the passengers.\n\nStaff typically make up about 40% of an airline's costs, and BA should be able to reclaim 80% of wages from the government employment support scheme set up to help companies affected by the virus.\n\nBA has not, so far, asked the government for any other specific financial assistance. Nor has EasyJet, where senior sources say the general assistance programmes - wage assistance and loan guarantees - should be sufficient.\n\nVirgin Atlantic, however, continues to press, and has written to MPs pointing out that it provides the only British-flagged competition to British Airways on many key routes from Heathrow.\n\nSo far the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has taken a hard line, saying airlines should exhaust all financial revenues before turning to the taxpayer. If Virgin does make a formal application for more aid, it will have to be able to show it has met the chancellor's test.\n\nBA had already reached a separate deal with its 4,000 pilots who will take a 50% pay cut over two months.\n\nJohn Strickland, independent aviation analyst, said \"tough negotiations\" between BA and the Unite union meant it had taken a while to reach an agreement.\n\n\"The pilots' deal for half pay was concluded rather earlier - I guess there was a recognition as to just how serious that issue was,\" he said.\n\nBA's parent company, International Airlines Group (IAG), is in a better financial position than some of its competitors. The group has made healthy profits in recent years.\n\nBut the airline's expected decision to suspend such a large number of workers gives a sense of how hard UK aviation has been hit by travel restrictions designed to stem the spread of the pandemic.\n\nWith future bookings cancelled for the foreseeable future, airlines have been haemorrhaging cash.\n\nOver the next three months, the International Air Transport Association expects airlines to rack up losses of almost $40bn (£32.3bn). It said carriers were burning through their cash reserves fast, mainly because of the multi-billion-pound cost of refunding tickets for cancelled flights.\n\nMany staff at Virgin Atlantic have had their jobs suspended for two months and crews at Easyjet are out of work for three months.\n\nThis week, British Airways has run government repatriation flights to get hundreds of British nationals home from Peru, after the country went into lockdown.\n\nIt is one of several UK-based airlines that has agreed to run further repatriation flights in the coming weeks as hundreds of thousands of people are still stuck in other parts of the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elizabeth John said the letter was like a \"death warrant from the Grim Reaper\"\n\nA GP surgery has apologised after sending a letter asking patients with life-limiting illnesses to complete a \"do not resuscitate\" form.\n\nA letter, from Llynfi Surgery, Maesteg, asks people to sign to ensure emergency services would not be called if their condition worsened due to coronavirus.\n\n\"We will not abandon you.. but we have to be frank and realistic,\" it said.\n\nOne patient said it left her feeling \"worthless\". Cwm Taf health board has issued an apology from the surgery.\n\nA copy of the letter was tweeted\n\nThe letter says in an \"ideal situation\" doctors would have had this conversation in person but had written to them due to fears they were carrying the virus and were asymptomatic.\n\n\"Completing a DNACPR will have several benefits,\" the letter said.\n\n\"1/ your GP and more importantly your friends and family will know not to call 999. 2/ scarce ambulance resources can be targeted to the young and fit who have a greater chance.\"\n\nAccording to the Guardian newspaper, the letter was sent to a small number of patients and the staff at the surgery were apologising directly to those who had received it.\n\nPatient Elizabeth John, who has vaginal cancer which spread to her lungs and is incurable, said the letter has caused her family \"great distress\".\n\nElizabeth John was one of the patients to receive a letter\n\n\"With treatment, my cancer can be kept at bay, so I am not ready to dig my grave even though I am a burden on society,\" she said.\n\n\"This letter made me feel worthless and I felt as if I had been sent a death warrant by the grim reaper.\"\n\nBut the 61-year-old, who has had the condition for eight years, added: \"If there is a choice of a 20-year-old having a ventilator and myself having a ventilator, of course I would give that ventilator to that 20-year-old.\"\n\nCwm Taf said the advice was not a health board recommendation.\n\n\"The surgery have been made aware that the letter has caused upset to some of the patients who received it,\" a statement said.\n\n\"This was not their intent and they apologise for any distress caused. Staff at the surgery are speaking to those patients who received the letter to apologise directly and answer any concerns they may have.\"\n\nOgmore MP Chris Elmore, whose constituency covers Maesteg, said: \"There is no getting around it, it is deeply concerning, the contents of this letter.\"\n\n\"The Welsh Assembly Member for Ogmore, Huw Irranca-Davies, and myself were made aware of it on Monday evening. We were straight on to the health board to find out what had gone on.\n\n\"The board then investigated and it wasn't a standard letter, so the health board spoke directly to the surgery.\n\n\"They have now asked the surgery to contact patients who received the letter to apologise and more importantly offer appropriate advice of what actually could happen in the circumstances of their particular health conditions.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the stress it has caused.\"\n\nHelena Herklots, the Older People's Commissioner for Wales, said she was \"shocked\" the letter was even written.\n\n\"This is shameful and unacceptable,\" she added.\n\n\"Whilst difficult and painful decisions will need to be made in the weeks ahead, these must be taken on a case-by-case basis, through honest discussions between patients, doctors and their families that consider risks and benefits, as well as people's own wishes.\"", "The UK government has defended using Zoom to hold cabinet video conferences.\n\nQuestions had been raised about potential security risks after the prime minister tweeted a picture in which a meeting ID was visible.\n\n\"In the current unprecedented circumstances, the need for effective channels of communication is vital,\" a government spokeswoman told BBC News\n\nA source added the app was quick to set up between the varying systems used by different government departments.\n\nOver time, a more coherent system was expected to be introduced, the person said.\n\nZoom has become widely used by individuals, companies and schools.\n\nBut questions have been raised about its use by governments, amid fears others could spy on conversations.\n\n\"Covid-19 has created - and continues to create - awe-inspiring intelligence-collection opportunities,\" says Thomas Rid, at Johns Hopkins University.\n\n\"Zoom would be a big part of that intelligence bonanza.\"\n\nThe UK government does have highly secure video teleconferencing at key sites, including the intelligence agencies.\n\nThis can be used for \"top secret\" conversations.\n\nIt has also been rolling out a system called Rosa for secret-level working more broadly across government.\n\nBut a number of members of the Cabinet have been self-isolating at their houses, which are not equipped with these systems.\n\nThese ministers have needed to communicate with their staff and attend cabinet meetings.\n\nAnd that has left little option but to use commercial systems, of which Zoom has become the most popular.\n\n\"NCSC [National Cyber Security Centre] guidance shows there is no security reason for Zoom not to be used for meetings of this kind,\" the government spokeswoman said.\n\nSecurity researchers have been examining Zoom for flaws.\n\nAmong their discoveries are:\n\nOn Tuesday, details of a issue that could expose Windows passwords was reported.\n\nAnd this Wednesday, a former US government hacker published details of two newly disclosed vulnerabilities that he said could be exploited on Mac computers.\n\n\"Though Zoom is incredibly popular, it has a rather dismal security and privacy track record,\" blogged former US National Security Agency employee Patrick Wardle.\n\nIn response, Zoom told BBC News it \"takes its users' privacy, security, and trust extremely seriously\".\n\nIn a crisis, communication at speed is the priority.\n\nAnd UK officials say the risks of not communicating in the middle of fast-moving events far outweigh the possible security risks of using such a system.\n\nThey add most government work to do with the coronavirus is unclassified and anything highly classified is communicated over secure systems\n\nGovernment meetings use the paid-for version of the system and are password protected to prevent \"Zoom-bombing\", when uninvited individuals intrude on calls.\n\nThe UK Ministry of Defence also said Zoom should not be used for classified conversations.\n\nAnd it is understood Nato's policy not to use Zoom for any meetings, briefings or conversations between member state ambassadors if classified or sensitive information is shared.\n\nNato staff are understood to be using \"more stable and secure\" means of communication.", "That’s it for our live text coverage today. Thanks for joining us.\n\nRemember there is plenty of information on the BBC website about the coronavirus - including information on how to protect yourself.\n\nDon't forget to check out the BBC Make A Difference podcast with stories of people across England who are helping others during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nI'll leave you with a picture of a zookeeper at Paradise Park in Cornwall who's chosen to self isolate with the animals.\n\nWe’ll be back with more updates on the outbreak in England tomorrow.", "ASOS \"totally refutes\" claims from a workers union it is risking employees' safety by not enforcing social distancing measures during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nASOS told Radio 1 Newsbeat this has \"created panic and hysteria in an already uncertain time\" about working conditions in its Barnsley warehouse.\n\nThe site employs up to 3,500 people, of which 500 can be on-site at any time.\n\nThe union had carried out a survey which suggested the majority of staff felt unsafe at work as they were working too close to one another.\n\nThe site is a distribution centre for the online clothing store and is on the list of government exemptions that can stay open during the current shop closures.\n\nOne ASOS employee told Newsbeat they were \"frightened for their families as well as themselves\" because workers in the warehouse aren't able to keep two metres apart, as instructed by the government's social-distancing measures.\n\n'Mike', who didn't want to give his real name, worries that people are at risk.\n\n\"They don't want to be taking the virus home and passing it on,\" he says.\n\nBut in statement an ASOS spokesperson rejected claims that staff are unsafe.\n\n\"Since the lockdown, we have introduced a range of additional health and safety measures and the Environmental Health Officer, who visited the site on Friday, confirmed he was happy with the protocols we have in place,\" it says in a statement.\n\nASOS is one of the UK's biggest online clothes retailers\n\nThe government says that businesses and workplaces should encourage their employees to work at home, wherever possible, and has advised people to stay two metres away from other people at all times during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"Trying to stay two metres, it's really hard, because working patterns haven't been changed to protect workers,\" Mike says.\n\n\"When workers are packing items it's only about three feet, if that, away from each other, and they're full everyday.\n\n\"So it's 150 packers all working on stations next to each other.\"\n\nMike's also concerned that the virus could spread easily among his colleagues because of how they clock-in at the beginning of a shift.\n\n\"You might have 50 people all queuing up at turnstiles trying to get into the warehouse to start work,\" he adds.\n\nAsos has denied this. It's told Newsbeat it has 90 packers, 3.8 metres away from each other - and that every other packing line has been removed.\n\nIt adds: \"Marshals (team leaders, health & safety staff and union reps) are there to manage safe flow and implement social distancing as best they can. Shifts are finishing up early to allow staggering of people as they leave the site.\n\n\"We've also made changes to the turnstiles. Our indoor turnstiles are permanently open to avoid bottle-necking.\n\n\"Employees have to take personal responsibility for following all available guidance, however.\"\n\nThe GMB union has been encouraging people to sign an open letter to ASOS CEO Nick Beighton to improve the situation.\n\nBarnsley Council has also visited the site and said that ASOS is complying with social distancing measures.\n\nOn a site visit last Friday the council said \"at no point did our officer see any member of staff not in compliance with this\".\n\nIt is not known when ASOS introduced its new safety measures.\n\nThe new social distancing measures came into practice on Monday 24 March.\n\nDipo Osikoya, an employment lawyer at Harcus Parker says there is help for people who are worried about their health and safety in the workplace.\n\n\"If you are worried about being forced to go to work, or you're worried that your employer is not doing enough to protect your health remember that there is relevant legislation in place,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"The Health and Safety at Work Act says that employers must ensure the safety, health and wellbeing of employees, casual workers and temps whilst at work. If you are a member of a union speak to a union rep or seek legal advice.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAll Champions League and Europa League matches have been suspended \"until further notice\" by Uefa because of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAll national team games in June have also been postponed, including play-off matches for Euro 2020 - already postponed to 2021 - and qualifying matches for the Women's Euro 2021.\n\nThe Premier League is suspended until at least 30 April.\n\nThe Euro 2020 play-offs are set to feature Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.\n\nPremier League clubs Manchester City and Chelsea are both still in the Champions League, while Manchester United, Wolves and Scottish Premiership side Rangers are all in the Europa League.\n\nThe finals of the Champions League, Europa League and Women's Champions League, all of which were scheduled for May, had already been postponed.\n\nWhile most leagues in Europe hope to finish their domestic seasons once restrictions on movement and social contact are lifted, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said last week the season could be lost if play does not start by the end of June.\n\n\"If we don't succeed in restarting, the season will probably be lost,\" the Slovenian said.\n\nHe told Italian newspaper La Repubblica: \"There is a plan A, B and C.\n\n\"The three options are to start again in mid-May, in June or at the end of June.\n\n\"There is also the possibility of starting again at the beginning of the next [season], starting the following one later. We will see the best solution for leagues and clubs.\"\n\nCeferin says that playing remaining games behind closed doors would have to be an option across Europe.\n\n\"It's hard for me to imagine all the matches behind closed doors, but we still don't know whether we'll resume, with or without spectators,\" he said.\n\n\"If there was no alternative, it would be better to finish the championships.\"\n\nA mini-tournament to decide the Champions League and Europa League is expected to be one option put forward to ease fixture congestion caused by the coronavirus crisis.", "Artwork: The presumed black hole revealed itself by tearing apart a star that ventured too close\n\nA team of astronomers has found what it says is the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.\n\nThey say the presumed \"intermediate-mass\" black hole betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that ventured too close.\n\nThese medium-sized objects are a long-sought \"missing link\" in the evolution of the cosmos.\n\nResearchers used two X-ray observatories, along with the Hubble telescope, to identify the object.\n\n\"Intermediate-mass black holes are very elusive objects, and so it is critical to carefully consider and rule out alternative explanations for each candidate, said Dr Dacheng Lin, from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, US, who led the study.\n\n\"That is what Hubble has allowed us to do for our candidate.\"\n\nIn 2006, Nasa's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite spotted a powerful X-ray flare named 3XMM J215022.4−055108.\n\nThe nature of the X-ray flare meant that it could be explained by just two scenarios, according to Dr Lin. It was \"either a distant (outside our galaxy) intermediate-mass black hole disrupting and swallowing a star or a cooling neutron star in our own galaxy\", he told BBC News.\n\nNeutron stars are the crushed remnants of an exploded star.\n\nArtwork: Black holes come in different sizes, but mid-sized ones have proved elusive\n\nIn order to distinguish between the two scenarios, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at the X-ray source to resolve its precise location. The telescope provided strong evidence that the X-rays emanated not from an isolated source in the Milky Way, but a distant, dense star cluster on the outskirts of a different galaxy.\n\nThis was just the type of place astronomers expected to find a mid-sized black hole. Dr Lin said the Hubble data made this the \"most likely\" explanation.\n\nSo-called supermassive black holes are commonly found at the centres of galaxies; for example, our own Milky Way hosts a massive central black hole called Sagittarius A*.\n\nThe black hole (circled) lies on the outskirts of a large galaxy\n\nArtwork: The X-ray flare was found among thousands of observations taken by the XMM-Newton orbiting observatory\n\nBut intermediate-mass black holes have been particularly difficult to find because they are smaller and less active than the massive types. In addition, they don't have as much nearby cosmic material to act as fuel, and lack the strong gravitational pull required to draw stars inwards to produce X-ray flares.\n\nAstronomers effectively had to catch a mid-sized black hole red-handed - in the act of gobbling up a star.\n\nDr Lin and his colleagues had to comb through thousands of XMM-Newton observations to find one candidate.\n\nThe Hubble Space Telescope was used for resolve the location of the X-ray source\n\nThe X-ray glow from the shredded star allowed astronomers to estimate the black hole's mass at 50,000 times the mass of the Sun.\n\nThis isn't the first candidate for a mid-sized black hole. But seeing the object tearing a star apart makes this detection the most persuasive yet, according to Dr Lin's team. A Nasa video has visualised how the black hole might have consumed the star:\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by NASA Goddard This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIntermediate-mass black holes are key to many questions about black hole evolution. For example, does a super-massive black hole grow from a mid-sized one?\n\nAstronomers also want to understand how mid-sized black holes form and whether they tend to reside in dense star clusters, such as this one.\n\n\"Studying the origin and evolution of the intermediate-mass black holes will finally give an answer as to how the supermassive black holes that we find in the centres of massive galaxies came to exist,\" said team member Dr Natalie Webb, from the University of Toulouse, France.\n\nThe results are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.", "MSPs have been meeting in a near-empty chamber on increasingly infrequent occasions\n\nMSPs have voted to give the Scottish government emergency powers to deal with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMinisters agreed to drop controversial plans to hold more trials without juries during the virus lockdown.\n\nBut other measures to keep the judicial system running and to protect tenants from being evicted have been passed as part of the emergency legislation.\n\nThe government said the new powers would be used \"exceptionally carefully\" and would expire after six months.\n\nMore emergency legislation is to be considered at Holyrood later in the month, but MSPs are not expected to meet again for two weeks as the parliament has gone into recess.\n\nThe Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill sets out new rules to prevent tenants from being evicted and to keep the judicial system running during the lockdown.\n\nThe bill passed through the full legislative process at Holyrood in a single day, with fewer MSPs than usual present during the debate in order to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe legislation is designed to work alongside the emergency bill passed at Westminster last week, which MSPs gave their consent to and which underpins new police powers to enforce the lockdown.\n\nIt introduces new rules in specific devolved areas, focused mainly on housing and justice.\n\nMr Russell said that \"we are in an emergency and these are emergency powers that are necessary to allow us to concentrate on the absolute priority of dealing with the pandemic\".\n\nThere is to be a strict time limit on the new powers, which will initially be in force for six months.\n\nMSPs will have the opportunity to extend this by a further six months on two occasions, to a maximum period of 18 months overall. Ministers have also pledged to report back to Holyrood on the use of the powers every two months,\n\nConstitution Secretary Mike Russell said there were \"many safeguards\" on the new powers\n\nThe bill originally included measures to allow more trials of serious crimes to be heard entirely by judges, with jury trials having been suspended for the duration of the lockdown.\n\nThis provision is not mirrored in England and Wales, where such trials are simply on hold, and prompted opposition from lawyers and other political parties.\n\nMinisters said this might be needed to prevent a backlog of \"the most serious cases\" building up, and that this would only happen subject to further parliamentary scrutiny - but the Tories said trial by jury was \"an important safeguard of human rights which we would be most reluctant to see removed\".\n\nThe Scottish Criminal Bar Association hit out the \"draconian\" move, saying it would be \"at best a knee-jerk reaction to an as-yet unquantified problem, instigated by panic, and at worst something far more sinister\".\n\nHowever Scotland's most senior judge, Lord Carloway, said delays to serious cases were \"likely to stretch into years rather than months\" if no action was taken, with a backlog of more than 1,000 trials building up even if restrictions were lifted by the start of summer.\n\nAnd Victim Support Scotland backed the move \"to prevent victims of serious crime waiting even longer for their cases to be heard\".\n\nLord Carloway warned that a backlog of more than 1,000 trials could build up by early summer\n\nAt the beginning of Wednesday's debate, Mr Russell confirmed that the part of the bill relating to trials would be deleted \"in order to allow a wide-ranging discussion by all interested parties\".\n\nHe said the government would bring back another emergency bill, on 21 April, to re-examine the issue to make sure that courts can continue to function.\n\nMr Yousaf said he would immediately begin discussions with the judiciary, legal profession, victims of crime and opposition parties to find a \"practical, achievable\" solution.\n\nMinisters also agreed to strip back an extension on the time public bodies have to respond to Freedom of Information requests, saying this should be used in a \"targeted way\" and will not apply to the government itself.\n\nOpposition parties all wanted to go further than this, but saw many votes come back tied - meaning the amendments fell on the presiding officer's casting vote.\n\nAttempts by the Greens to strengthen protections for tenants were also rejected, with Housing Minister Kevin Stewart warning against making complex changes to the legislation which could potentially delay it becoming law.", "Southend Hospital is closed to visitors, apart from in exceptional circumstances\n\nStaff at a hospital have warned they could \"limit services\" to patients with coronavirus \"to a bare minimum\", over fears for their own safety.\n\nIn a letter to management, medics at Southend Hospital in Essex say they are not receiving the correct personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nBBC Essex has been told that a quarter of Southend's medical staff are off sick with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nHospital bosses say they are \"absolutely committed\" to staff safety.\n\nIn the letter, clinicians at Southend A&E note:\n\nThey warn chief executive Clare Panniker that if the standard and availability of PPE is not improved by \"close of play\" on 1 April, they will introduce \"restricted services\" in high-risk areas of the hospital.\n\nStaff are said to be \"petrified\" at the lack of protective equipment during the coronavirus crisis\n\nIn a statement, Southend Hospital said: \"We are fully complying with the Public Health England guidance on the use of personal protective equipment which has been developed by expert clinicians and is being followed by the whole of the NHS.\n\n\"There are no issues whatsoever with the cost of equipment. It has been made clear that cost is not an issue in keeping our staff protected. What is important is that the supplies of PPE equipment across the NHS are used responsibly so there is enough to go round.\"\n\nA source at Basildon Hospital - which along with Chelmsford's Broomfield Hospital shares Southend's senior management team and CEO - says that there is a good supply of PPE there, but that they have heard of supply issues at Southend Hospital.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A day after the White House coronavirus task force presented a dire outlook for the coming weeks that included more than 100,000 projected US deaths, Donald Trump shifted focus.\n\nInstead of leading with the latest efforts to control the spread of the disease, the president had his military officials talk about drug interdiction in Latin America.\n\nEventually the subject did turn to the virus, with Trump once again warning that the days ahead would be “horrific”.\n\nHe said he would not issue a nationwide stay-at-home order, however, because “states are different”. Nor would he restrict airline flights out of “hotspot” cities like New York, Detroit and New Orleans at this time.\n\nHe also once again declined a chance to criticise the Chinese government for the spread of the virus – a marked change from past weeks.\n\nTrump had previously made a point to call the coronavirus the “Chinese virus” at every opportunity – even writing it in by hand in his briefing notes.\n\nNow he downplayed China’s role as the source of the disease and suggested he had no opinion on allegations that China was underreporting its coronavirus deaths.\n\n“I’m not an accountant from China,” he said.\n\nInstead, he emphasised the recent Chinese trade deal and described his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping as “very good”.\n\nWhile many of the president’s conservative supporters hold China responsible for the global pandemic, assigning blame no longer seems to be part of the president’s strategy.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is accompanied by members of his national security team Image caption: US President Donald Trump is accompanied by members of his national security team", "In the past 15 days, NHS 111 has responded to more than 1.7 million inquiries from people concerned they might have symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nAbout 1.5 million were web-based assessments, while the rest were calls to the 111 phone number or 999.\n\nPeople who think they have symptoms - a fever or a new, continuous cough - should use the online service and call only if they cannot get help online.\n\nThe NHS Digital data is not based on outcomes of tests for coronavirus.\n\nAnd the numbers do not represent individual people - it is possible some have sought help more than once or via various channels.\n\nMeanwhile, the government faces growing criticism over a lack of testing for front-line staff who could return to work if found clear of the virus.\n\nOn Tuesday, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove admitted the UK had to go \"further, faster\" to increase testing.\n\nIt came as a 13-year-old boy from south London with coronavirus died.\n\nIsmail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, is thought to be the youngest reported victim of the disease in the UK.\n\nThe total recorded number of UK deaths with coronavirus in hospitals now stands at 2,352, 563 more than yesterday.\n\nThe Department of Health says 29,474 people have tested positive for the virus, up 4,324 since Tuesday.\n\nMore than 2,000 NHS front-line staff in England had been tested for coronavirus since the outbreak began, says No 10.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Some bears were easier to find than others - this was the scene outside one house in Wellington, New Zealand\n\nA mass teddy bear hunt is under way around the world to help distract the millions of children locked down because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nStuffed toys are being placed in windows to give children a fun and safe activity while walking around their neighbourhood with parents.\n\nThe hunt is inspired by the children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, written by UK author Michael Rosen.\n\nTeddies have been spotted around the world, including in the UK and US.\n\nNew Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also joined in, putting two bears in the window of her family house in Wellington.\n\nTanya Ha, a resident of Melbourne in Australia, told the BBC she had been inspired to put cuddly toys in her window after hearing about other hunts around the world.\n\nHer displays change every day and feature humorous and educational notes aimed at adults, not just kids.\n\n“I’ve always felt a sense of my local community, and being part of it,” Ms Ha said.\n\nHer two children help with ideas for the displays and Ms Ha says working on them has helped to keep her mind occupied amid the angst of the pandemic.\n\n“It’s just fun,” said Ms Ha, who works in science communications. \"There's a real buzz in sharing [science] and the delight in how things work around you.\"\n\nTwo of Ms Ha's toys, here seen self-isolating\n\nBears have been seen in Indonesia...", "Dr Alfa Saadu (second from left) has been praised for his leadership\n\nA doctor who dedicated nearly 40 years to saving others has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nDr Alfa Saadu, 68, died on Tuesday afternoon at the Whittington Hospital in north London.\n\nThe doctor had been a medical director at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex and Ealing NHS Trust and worked at many hospitals in the capital.\n\nTributes have been paid to Dr Saadu, including from the former president of the Nigerian Senate.\n\nTwo weeks ago Dr Saadu started to show symptoms of coronavirus and immediately self-isolated.\n\nHis son Dani Saadu said the family suggested he should go to hospital, but his father insisted he \"did not want to take up a hospital bed because others would need it\".\n\nMr Saadu added: \"He was a very passionate man, who cared about saving people.\n\n\"As soon as you spoke to him about medicine or what was happening with the NHS his eyes would light up - he was very passionate.\n\n\"He was working part-time as a locum as he just could not fully retire. He just loved medicine so much.\n\n\"He worked for the NHS for nearly 40 years in different hospitals across London and he loved to lecture people in the world of medicine, he did so in the UK and Africa.\"\n\nDespite retiring in 2017, Dr Saadu continued to work part-time at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Welwyn, Hertfordshire.\n\nDuring his career he also worked as medical director of the Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and was appointed interim medical director when the trust merged to become the London North West University NHS Trust in 2014.\n\nThe Princess Alexandra Hospital, where Dr Saadu worked as a medical director until he left in December 2017, also paid tribute: \"Our condolences to you and your family. Our thoughts are with you all.\"\n\nMr Saadu warned people to take the government's advice seriously as the numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths continued to rise across the UK.\n\n\"I remember a few weeks ago when Boris Johnson said 'be prepared to lose loved ones',\" he said.\n\n\"I got really angry and remember thinking, 'why is he saying this? It is not the kind of thing you say on TV'.\n\n\"Now I understand what he means. People need to take this virus seriously. I have seen it first-hand - this virus kills people.\"\n\nDr Charles Cayley who worked with Dr Saadu at London North West University NHS Trust, described his colleague as a \"pleasure to work with\".\n\n\"His appointment as medical director at Ealing was a landmark moment in improving the number of ethnic minority staff appointed to senior positions in the NHS. We will miss him greatly.\"\n\nDr Alfa Saadu retired from his medical career in 2017 but carried on working part-time\n\nDr Saadu is the fourth NHS professional to die from coronavirus in a week after the deaths of Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester.\n\nFormer Nigerian Senate president Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki posted his condolences on Twitter.\n\nDr Saraki said Dr Saadu had been a chairman of the Kwara State Association, a community leader and traditional office holder as Galadima of Pategi.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Police may be sent to funerals with too many mourners'\n\nPolice could be called if too many mourners turn up to funerals, a funeral director has said. Current coronavirus restrictions have meant the number of mourners allowed to attend funerals and cremations is capped in certain areas. Dean Thomas, a funeral director in Caerphilly, said he is being asked to restrict numbers to five family members only. \"The biggest issue we face is families can’t attend,\" he said. \"There are guidelines in place which state who can attend. This includes close family, carers, parents and children. \"If more people turn up, the funeral won’t be allowed to continue, and the police could be called. \"The local authority are citing safety. Families are being asked to choose. It’s not right.\" Previously, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said individual funerals may not be possible if the number of coronavirus deaths is at the \"top end of the reasonable worst case scenario\".", "Some of Owen's friends believe he may have tried to walk to Yorkshire to see girlfriend Meg, his mother said\n\nA teenager missing for six days may have tried to walk 280 miles to see his girlfriend, his mother has said.\n\nOwen Harding, 16, was last seen leaving his home in Saltdean, Sussex, last Thursday.\n\nHis mum Stella said he had been upset at being unable to get a train to visit girlfriend Meg in Pocklington, near York, amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said relatives were desperately worried and urged the public to be on the lookout for Owen.\n\nIn an earlier appeal over her son's disappearance - shared by family friend Nadia Sawalha - Ms Harding said he had left home to watch the sunset.\n\nSome of Owen's friends have since said they believe he has attempted to walk from Saltdean to the North, Ms Harding said.\n\n\"While it is extremely out of character for Owen to leave and not be in contact, Covid-19 has put everyone under lots of strain and we don't want to rule anything out,\" she said.\n\n\"Because search activity and resources are limited right now, I'm begging the UK public to look out for him whilst out on their daily walks.\n\n\"But please make sure that, in doing so, you adhere to social distancing and government guidance and do not put yourself or anyone else at risk.\"\n\nSussex Police said searches have taken place in the Saltdean and Telscombe cliffs area near Brighton.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alasdair Henry asked anyone who was driving near the cliffs last Thursday after 18:00 GMT to check if they had dashcam footage of Owen.\n\nHe said police were keen to hear from anyone who could help, but echoed Ms Harding's request to abide by government guidance at all times.\n\nThe force would link up with colleagues across the country if there was anything to suggest Owen had travelled out of Sussex, he added.\n\nOwen is described as white, between 5ft 11ins and 6ft, and of athletic build with short brown hair.\n\nStella Harding said she was begging the UK public to look for him\n\nThe teenager had been upset he couldn't get on a train to Yorkshire\n\nThe appeal to find Owen has been shared by TV presenter and family friend Nadia Sawalha.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice have searched nearby cliffs and urged drivers to check dashcam footage taken in that area\n• None Missing teenager's mum in plea to find him\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is more data for London than some of the other UK cities\n\nAir pollution has started to fall in many UK cities in response to the lockdown measures introduced as a result of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe trend mirrors that seen across continental Europe as people have spent less time in vehicles, offices and factories and more time at home.\n\nData collected by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science shows marked reductions in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and in particulate matter (PM2.5).\n\nAnd the falls look set to continue.\n\n\"If you look at traffic volumes, they're still going down. And so we probably haven't reached the bottom yet,\" said Prof Ally Lewis, director of science at the NCAS.\n\n\"A few days ago, we were talking about journeys by car going down by about a third, and now it's nearly a 50-60% reduction. So, it's possible if transport keeps declining, the signal we detect could get even larger,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAcross the board in the 10 cities, small particulate matter is down\n\nNCAS has produced a set of graphics that compare air pollution levels for 15 February to 24 March with an average over the last five years.\n\nFor PM2.5, which comes from a range of sources but which includes tailpipes, every city has experienced a dip.\n\nFor NO2, another key vehicle emission, it's the same picture - apart from Belfast and York. But Prof Lewis cautions that this may simply be the result of more limited monitoring stations at these locations.\n\n\"In London, we have a lot of data we can aggregate together,\" he explained.\n\n\"In some of the smaller cities and towns, there may be only one monitor and the data can get a little noisy. But when you see a consistent picture across multiple cities at multiple monitoring sites then you do know that something real is happening.\"\n\nLast week, the Dutch Met Office (KNMI) released an analysis of satellite data collected over Europe to illustrate the suppression in pollution. The agency, however, omitted the UK from this assessment, in part because the UK lockdown began after many other countries began theirs, but also because it didn't think there was sufficient quality data. If the skies are cloudy, it frustrates the observations of spacecraft. A persistent problem in the UK.\n\nThe NCAS information, on the other hand, comes solely from ground stations.\n\nNO2: Belfast and York appear to show an increase, but this may be just an issue of data density\n\nWhat will be interesting to see now is whether other pollutants follow the lead of NO2 and PM2.5.\n\nVolatile Organic Compounds, or VOCs, are an irritant, too. These come from solvents. They're in everything from inkjet printers and paints to glues and household cleaning products. It's unclear if their levels might change over the course of the lockdown.\n\nOzone, another respiratory irritant, has climbed in many places - the highest levels seen in five years for this time of year.\n\nOzone formation at ground level is dependent on some very complex chemical reactions which, in the absence of certain exhaust gases, will give a boost to the three-atom oxygen molecule in the air.\n\nA plot of ozone on London's Marylebone Road, clearly showing a sudden jump\n\nWhat will happen to ammonia emissions coming from agriculture? Farming could well proceed as normal, or as near to normal, through the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nScientists will be watching the behaviour of all these different pollutants very closely.\n\nIn an unexpected way, the coronavirus situation offers something of a policy experiment to test realistic targets for clean air in the coming decade.\n\n\"What we're doing is essentially looking into the future when we don't have diesel cars because we plan to take them off the roads. This summer may tell us what level of PM2.5, for example, is likely to be achievable in the big cities such as central London or central Birmingham,\" Prof Lewis said.\n\nAnd Edinburgh University's Prof Paul Palmer, whose group has an interactive tool to follow the behaviour of the various polluting species, told BBC News: \"What we are unintentionally witnessing is an analogue of what we might expect in future cities when we rely more on cleaner electric cars.\"\n\nEnvironmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne MP, commented: \"Coronavirus is not only having an unprecedented impact on how we live our lives, but also how pollution levels around the world are falling as a result of the global shutdown.\n\n\"The government has committed to a low-carbon future, and the Environmental Audit Committee will look to explore how we can avoid going straight back to dangerous levels of pollution once this is all over.\"\n\nThe European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), based at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading, has also launched a microsite to track air quality through the Covid-19 shutdown. The CAMS analyses have a spatial resolution of 10km x 10km and combine over 1,000 surface observations across Europe.\n\nA detailed look at NCAS's NO2 and PM2.5 data for Leeds\n\nPage updated on 1 April to include reaction and more information on ozone.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The normally-busy Times Square is almost deserted as New Yorkers stay in their homes\n\nStock markets around the world suffered historic losses in the first three months of the year amid a massive sell-off tied to the coronavirus.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average and London's FTSE 100 saw their biggest quarterly drops since 1987, plunging 23% and 25% respectively.\n\nThe S&P 500 lost 20% during the quarter, its worst since 2008.\n\nThe drops come as authorities order a halt to most activity in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nEconomists have warned the hit to the global economy is likely to be worse than the financial crisis, with forecasters for IHS Markit, for example, predicting growth will shrink 2.8% this year, compared to a 1.7% drop in 2009.\n\nNo country has been left untouched. The data firm expects China's growth to sputter to 2%, while the UK could see growth drop 4.5%. The outlook for countries such as Italy and less developed economies is even worse.\n\n\"We remain very concerned about the negative outlook for global growth in 2020 and in particular about the strain a downturn would have on emerging markets and low income countries,\" the president of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, said on Tuesday.\n\nIn the US, one central bank analysis suggested the unemployment rate could rise to more than 32% over the next three months, as more than 47 million people lose their jobs.\n\nGlobally, many indexes remain more than 20% lower than they were at the start of the year. A steep slide in oil prices, due to a drop in demand and a price war between producers, has compounded the problems on financial markets.\n\nGovernments have pledged massive rescue funds, which has helped to lift share prices in recent days.\n\nOn Tuesday, the FTSE gained almost 2%, while Germany's Dax and France's CAC 40 saw more modest gains.\n\nBut the main US indexes stumbled, with the Dow dropping 1.8%, the S&P 500 down 1.6%, and the Nasdaq off almost 1%.\n\nEnergy and financial firms were among the worst performers in the quarter. Retailers, which have seen sales evaporate as stores closed, suffered some of the biggest losses on Tuesday, with Macy's down almost 9% a day after it said it would put the majority of its staff on unpaid leave.\n\n\"Despite monetary and financial stimulus, we expect volatility of equities to remain elevated as long as the duration and impact of Covid-19 remain unknown, oil prices stay depressed and earnings visibility is murky,\" analysts for US Bank Wealth Management wrote.\n• None How the pandemic has changed the world economy", "Nearly a fifth of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four weeks, in spite of unprecedented government support.\n\nThat's according to research from a network of accountants which suggests between 800,000 and a million firms nationwide may soon have to close.\n\nMany firms have told the BBC that banks have refused them emergency loans.\n\nThe banks say they are following the rules set out by the government.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said two weeks ago that businesses would be able to walk into bank branches and discuss Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans (CBILs) of up to £5m to help them survive the shutdown.\n\nThe promise from the chancellor was that \"any good business in financial difficulty who needs access to cash to pay their rent, the salaries of their employees, pay suppliers, or purchase stock, will be able to access a government-backed loan, on attractive terms\".\n\nHowever, thousands of struggling firms can't get through to their banks by phone or, when they do, are being told by the banks they're not eligible.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan told BBC Radio 5 live that \"banks have got to step up\" to help small and medium-sized businesses survive during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSteve Lord runs Belgrave & Powell, a Nottingham-based engineering group employing 120 people and supplying services to customers such as BAE's Samlesbury site, where the F-35 and Typhoon fighter jets are made.\n\nSince Salmesbury halted production, his business - like millions of others - is facing the prospect of cash drying up, threatening its ability to pay wages and stay afloat.\n\n\"I was heartened and astonished to see the unprecedented help that was announced by the government two weeks ago,\" he said. \"But we put one of our most senior people on it and as each day passed it was disappointment after disappointment.\"\n\nHe said some of the approved lenders were demanding interest rates of up to 30%, which Mr Lord believes is \"taking advantage of the situation\". Meanwhile, he said, High Street banks were charging around 7%, however he was told it could be as long as a month before his firm got the money.\n\nMr Lord thinks too much control has been handed to the banks and approved lenders: \"The government needs to make it so everyone's offering the same terms.\"\n\n\"It seems to be that if you are lucky you are banking with the right party, if you're not lucky you'll end up having to close your business.\"\n\nAnother business owner, Peter Jackson - who runs jewellery shops employing 40 people across the north-west of England - said his bank decided he was ineligible because the firm made a small loss in 2019. But Mr Jackson said his business was viable before the shutdown and expected to make a profit this year. It also owns valuable stock.\n\n\"I thought the whole point of the loans was to help business like mine stay afloat,\" he said. \"But they're not going to help.\"\n\nThe figures identifying how many businesses would not be able to access cash come from a network of accountants serving more than 12,000 small and medium-sized businesses across the country called the Corporate Finance Network.\n\nAfter analysing the government help on offer, those accountants say that 18% of their clients were unlikely to get access to the cash they will need to survive a four-week lockdown.\n\nThe findings echo similar reports from other business groups, estimating that up to a fifth of businesses could close if the lockdown lasts a month or more.\n\nBank say they're following rules set by the government, which mean firms can only get the emergency loans if they can't borrow in a normal commercial way, like borrowing against the value of a property.\n\nBusinesses wanting to borrow more than £250,000 are being told by banks that directors must sign personal guarantees. That means if the loan goes bad owing to a prolonged shutdown, their personal property is on the line.\n\nUnder CBILs, a business owner's primary residence is protected but other personal assets could be recovered if the company cannot keep up repayments. Under normal commercial lending, personal guarantees may also put the owner's home at risk if the loan goes bad.\n\nJoshua Wade runs a fast-growing ethical cosmetics business, Skin and Tonic, founded by his partner Sarah Hancock in 2015. He said lenders were insisting on early repayment penalties as well as personal guarantees.\n\nSkin & Tonic was founded in 2015 by Sarah Hancock, Joshua's partner\n\n\"The Business Interruption Loan Scheme is, in principle, very welcome support right now,\" he said.\n\n\"But the huge barrier for us is the requirement for all directors to give personal guarantees. As founders and executive directors, we already are risking everything but we simply can't ask our non-executive directors to take that risk on in such challenging and uncertain times.\"\n\nA spokesperson for UK Finance, the bank trade body, said: \"Lenders are working hard to get financing to all businesses who need it as quickly as possible and are using the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) where appropriate, with some funding having already been provided under the scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says \"banks have got to step up\" to help businesses survive.\n\n\"All lenders will take into account a business's individual circumstances when considering applications and many business loans can be provided either unsecured or secured on business assets.\"\n\nKirsty McGregor, founder of the Corporate Finance Network, told the BBC: \"Small and medium-sized businesses employing less than 250 people employ most of the workforce - 23 million people.\n\n\"We could lose up to a million of them in the next month or so. And it will be irreversible which will be catastrophic for the UK economy.\"\n\nMs McGregor suggested the government needs to encourage small businesses to take over companies going bust in their area so employees can still be paid.\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said: \"The chancellor has been clear that banks should support small and medium-sized businesses during these difficult times.\n\n\"That is why we're taking unprecedented action to support firms, jobs and our economy through £330bn in business loans and guarantees, paying 80% of the wages of furloughed workers for three months, VAT and tax deferrals, introducing cash grants of up to £25,000 for small companies and covering the cost of statutory sick pay.\n\n\"We're working with the financial services sector to ensure that companies feel the full benefits from this support.\"", "This video can not be played.", "Ms Tripp (right) made recordings of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky which became central to the impeachment trial\n\nAn American civil servant whose disclosure of an affair between Bill Clinton and a White House intern nearly brought down his presidency has died.\n\nLinda Tripp, 70, passed away after suffering from pancreatic cancer, her family told US media on Wednesday.\n\nRecordings Ms Tripp made of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky became central to the 1998 impeachment trial of then President Clinton.\n\nShe was variously praised as a whistle-blower and denounced as a partisan.\n\nThe former civil servant, who worked at the Pentagon and had a friendship with Ms Lewinsky despite their 24-year age difference, learnt that the younger woman had had a sexual relationship with the president and began secretly recording their conversations in 1997.\n\nMs Tripp turned the tapes over to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor leading a broad investigation into the Clinton administration.\n\nMs Tripp also disclosed that Ms Lewinsky owned a blue dress that had been allegedly soiled by the president's semen - an infamously prurient detail which stuck in the public imagination.\n\nThe sex scandal precipitated Mr Clinton's impeachment by the Republican-led House of Representatives in 1998, when he was found to have committed perjury for lying about the relationship.\n\nBill Clinton was impeached in 1998 for lying to investigators about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky\n\nHe was acquitted by the Senate, but the ugly political battle was seen as a harbinger of further division in American politics, which became more bitter and partisan in subsequent years.\n\nMs Tripp has insisted that she provided the information to the Starr investigation out of patriotism, but critics accused her of betraying Ms Lewinsky's friendship and seeking to undermine the presidency.\n\nShe was fired from her job at the Pentagon on the last day of the Clinton administration in 2001, and later opened a shop with her husband in Virginia.\n\nOn the news of Ms Tripp's illness before her death, Ms Lewinsky tweeted: \"No matter the past, upon hearing that Linda Tripp is very seriously ill, I hope for her recovery. I can't imagine how difficult this is for her family.\"\n\nTestifying at the Clinton trial in 1998, Ms Lewinsky's concluding remarks had been: \"I'm really sorry for everything that's happened, and I hate Linda Tripp.\"", "Flour has been in short supply in supermarkets\n\nWith the nation confined to their homes amid the coronavirus lockdown, a rise in home baking appears to be contributing to shortages of flour on supermarket shelves.\n\nGrocery sales of flour were up 92% in the four weeks to 22 March compared to the same period last year, according to consumer analysts Kantar.\n\nThe National Association of British and Irish Millers (Nabim) says the industry is \"working round the clock\", milling flour 24 hours a day, seven days a week to double production - but is still struggling to meet demand.\n\nAt Wessex Mill in Oxfordshire, the family business is running at 24-hour operation for the first time in its 125-year history.\n\nRecord traffic to their online shop has also forced them to close it down and only open for 10 minutes a day.\n\n\"It's unprecedented,\" says Emily Munsey, who runs the mill with her father. \"We've increased production about four-fold but we're nowhere close to meeting the demand we've seen.\"\n\nAfter losing about 15% of their staff because they are self-isolating the business has even recruited local people who are out of work because of the lockdown, including builders and chefs, to replenish its workforce.\n\nEmily Munsey has been working 12 hour shifts to try and keep up with demand\n\nAlex Waugh, director general of Nabim, says the issue isn't being able to mill enough flour - but the lack of capacity to pack it into small bags for retailers.\n\nOnly around 4% of UK flour is sold through shops and supermarkets, according to the association. The majority is produced in bulk and delivered in tankers or bags of more than 16kg to bakeries or other food manufacturers.\n\nHowever, since the coronavirus outbreak, Nabim says ordinary shoppers have been purchasing much more flour than normal - with existing stocks quickly used up.\n\nMr Waugh says packing lines are now running at maximum capacity but this is only enough for 15% of households to buy a bag of flour per week - and existing packing lines can't easily be adapted to produce smaller retail bags.\n\nOne option the industry is considering is the possibility of shops selling larger bags - as it is better equipped to produce in bulk.\n\nHowever, Mr Waugh says that could be some way off and for now it's just a question of waiting for demand to reduce enough for stock levels to be rebuilt.\n\nSo why the sudden increase in demand?\n\nAs well as the public generally stocking up on non-perishable goods amid the lockdown, a rise in home baking also appears to be a factor.\n\nAt Wessex Mill, Ms Munsey says they have been overwhelmed by members of the public ringing up trying to source flour for recipes.\n\n\"We've had to get an extra person in the office and take down the phone number from our website because we were getting so many people who normally buy flour in the supermarkets ringing round flour mills,\" she says.\n\nOnline searches for bread and cake recipes have surged since mid-March, when restrictions on life in the UK first began to be introduced, according to Google Trends.\n\nAnd BBC Food has seen record traffic since the start of the lockdown, including a 540% increase to its banana bread recipe - the site's most popular recipe at the moment.\n\nTraffic to its basic bread recipe is also up 875% and as stocks have depleted a page on how to make bread without yeast or bread flour has seen a surge in popularity.\n\nKatherine has been baking with her daughter Beatrix\n\nKatherine Rhodes, 36, is one of those who has turned to baking to keep her two young children occupied at home.\n\nLiving in a rural part of Essex, there is no shop nearby so making her own supplies was also a way to avoid leaving the house as much as possible.\n\nLike others, she's had trouble getting hold of flour - but managed to source some from her local bakery.\n\n\"They put out a message on social media two days ago saying they were going to source flour direct from the mill and divvy it out to local residents,\" says Katherine. \"The response was astounding,\" she adds, with the bakery overwhelmed with interest.\n\nZoe and her son have been enjoying freshly baked bread every couple of days\n\nZoe Lacey has also taken up baking to fill her time during the lockdown.\n\nThe 36-year-old had never made bread in her life - but when she couldn't find any in her local shop last week she decided to try making her own.\n\n\"It was the most delicious bread I've ever had so we're hooked,\" says Zoe, who is now on her fifth loaf.\n\n\"I managed to find the last bag of flour on the shelf last week so I'm hoping I'll be able to find more on my next shop - otherwise my bread journey might be over!\"", "\"A worryingly low number\" of vulnerable children allocated a school place to keep them safe during the coronavirus crisis are actually turning up, officials have told BBC Newsnight.\n\nIn some areas just a quarter of the \"at-risk\" children who are meant to be in school are believed to be attending.\n\nThe figure is thought to be below 10% in some parts of the UK.\n\nThese low attendance rates are concerning professionals working to protect these children.\n\nNorfolk's Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead on child protection, told Newsnight: \"Is it possible that we will see a coronavirus impact upon child sexual abuse?\n\n\"Yes I think it's possible, in exactly the same way as I've got to work on the premise that we will also see more children groomed and abused online.\"\n\nThe school attendance figures for Norfolk's vulnerable children are 13%, Chief Constable Bailey said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Constable Simon Bailey tells Newsnight it is \"possible\" coronavirus will lead to more children being abused\n\n\"It is a worryingly low statistic at the moment. When a child is in school, in the vast majority of cases they are safe, they are protected,\" he said.\n\n\"Of course there will be any number of reasons why those children are not there. Some might have underlying health issues and their parents are being completely responsible by not putting them into school.\n\n\"But I think there are a number of risks and I fear that children are being exposed to the potential for familial abuse within the household, being exposed to domestic abuse again in the household and we have seen a significant increase in reports of domestic abuse nationally.\"\n\nNewsnight spoke to a school social worker, on condition of anonymity, who said: \"In one school I work with, not a single child attended who was supposed to be there last week.\n\n\"A good turnout in the schools I work with is under 10%. It's quite frightening.\n\n\"The people who deliberately hurt children… for those people, this works very much in their advantage because they do have quite literally a captive audience, they have people there who can't get away.\"\n\nSchools are submitting their figures to the government on the numbers of vulnerable children still attending school.\n\nNewsnight asked the education departments for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales how many education places they had allocated for vulnerable children and how many were actually turning up.\n\nEngland's Department for Education said it was not publishing the figures, while the others could not supply them.\n\nEngland's Department for Education told Newsnight: \"Being in school can keep vulnerable children safe and ease pressure on families, which is why we have enabled these children to continue attending despite schools being closed for other pupils.\n\n\"We thank schools and social workers for the work they are doing to keep vulnerable children safe at this challenging time.\n\n\"We have provided guidance to help ensure that removing risks to children remain at the forefront of all efforts during this pandemic and we are supporting social workers - including those returning to the profession, to help on the frontline - to focus on those in the most urgent need.\"\n\nWatch the episode of Newsnight on BBC iPlayer here.", "Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1bn (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to Mr Dorsey, the donation represented approximately 28% of his wealth.\n\nHe made the announcement on Twitter, writing that the \"needs are increasingly urgent\".\n\nMr Dorsey did not lay out exactly where the funds would be sent to help in the battle against Covid-19.\n\nIn the US there is a shortage of ventilators and personal protective equipment, and business and individuals are also struggling economically.\n\nMr Dorsey will use shares he owns in Square to fund the donations which will be distributed through the Start Small Foundation.\n\nThe 43-year-old is the chief executive of both Twitter and Square.\n\nHe said he was using shares of Square and not Twitter because he owned \"a lot more\" of them. The shares will be sold over time, which could impact on their value and the overall size of the donation.\n\nOnce the Covid-19 pandemic has been \"disarmed\", the funds will go toward girls health and education and research into universal basic income.\n\nIn a six-part Twitter thread, Mr Dorsey said he wanted to donate to causes where he could see an impact in his lifetime.\n\nThe donations will be made through a limited liability company. It is a tool many wealth individuals use for donations, but is often criticized for a lack of transparency.\n\nMr Dorsey sought to get ahead of this charge by posting a link to a google doc which will publicly track the funds donations.\n\nThe Twitter boss is not the only tech billionaire to pledge part of their wealth towards coronavirus-related efforts.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has committed $30m, the bulk of which is focused on efforts to create a treatment.\n\nAmazon's Jeff Bezos has donated $100m to food banks in the US to help those struggling with hunger during this period.\n\nApple's chief executive Tim Cook announced in March the company would donate medical supplies to Italy which has been hit hard by the virus.", "Police have been enforcing restrictions on non-essential travel\n\nAfter almost three weeks of life in lockdown, a survey suggests a significant minority of people in the UK are finding it \"extremely difficult\" to cope.\n\nThe research, conducted by King's College London and pollsters Ipsos Mori, finds 15% of the population already say they are finding the restrictions very challenging and another 14% expect they will be unable to cope within the next month.\n\nHowever, nine out of 10 people support the lockdown and have been attempting to follow the government's guidelines on social distancing and handwashing.\n\nThe survey of 2,250 adults was conducted a week ago and reveals the hardship and suffering already being experienced by some households.\n\nHalf of those surveyed (49%) said they had felt more anxious and depressed than normal. Over a third (38%) said they were having trouble sleeping and more than a fifth of people (22%) said they were already facing significant money problems or were almost certain to do so in the near future.\n\nAmong workers, 16% said they had either already lost their job or were very likely to do so in the near future.\n\nYounger people appear to be struggling to cope with the restrictions more than older people. Among 16-24-year-olds, a quarter (24%) said they were finding it extremely difficult to cope with the lockdown. Only 11% of those aged 45 to 75 said they were struggling.\n\nThe emotional challenges of being cooped up behind closed doors are revealed in the survey. A fifth of people (19%) said they had argued more with people in their home and a similar proportion said they were drinking more alcohol that normal. A third said they were eating more food or less healthily than previously.\n\nWhatever the challenges, the lockdown appears to have inspired a wave of community spirit. A majority of people (60%) said they had offered to help a neighbour and 47% had received assistance from the local community.\n\nBritain seems prepared for the restrictions to last some time with 41% of adults surveyed expecting the lockdown to last for at least another six months. Half the population (51%) thought it would be more than a year before life returns to normal.\n\nThe public, though, seems supportive of the restrictions to protect the health service and prevent the virus spreading. Only 5% of people said they opposed the lockdown with two-thirds of the population (68%) strongly supporting the \"stay at home\" instruction.\n\nA majority of people (60%) say they have \"completely followed\" the government guidelines on leaving the house as little as possible with another 27% saying they have complied nearly all the time. Only 1% admit to ignoring the advice.\n\nMessages on staying 2m (6ft) apart from people outside the home, avoiding places where people gather and washing hands for at least 20 seconds appear to have been effective. Nine in 10 people say they have followed the official guidance.\n\nThe almost total support for and compliance with the restrictions suggested in the survey will be a relief to government ministers. With the expectation that the lockdown will continue for some time yet, it is important for public order that people generally believe the measures are being followed by others.\n\nIt also appears the key messages are being understood by the public, although the survey does find a few misconceptions persist. One in seven people (15%) thought seasonal flu was deadlier than coronavirus and almost a third (31%) believed \"most people\" in the UK had already had the virus without realising it.\n\nA quarter (25%) believed the conspiracy theory that coronavirus was \"probably created in a lab\" - one of several conspiracy theories currently circulating on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.\n\nSurveys like this also help the government identify areas where their messaging is not as clear as it needs to be. One finding that may give officials cause for concern is that two in five (39%) think they should be shopping \"little and often to avoid long queues\", when the advice is only to go out to shop for basic necessities and as infrequently as possible.\n\nOnly 12% of people agreed that \"too much fuss\" was being made about Covid-19. During the swine flu epidemic in 2009, 55% of people thought the response to that virus was over the top.\n\nThe survey also asked people about the government's handling of the crisis. While 58% of people thought ministers had adapted well to changing scientific and other information, 42% thought the response had been confused and inconsistent.", "A plant charity is predicting a boost for wild flowers because some councils have stopped mowing verges and parks during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nPlantlife has been urging councils for years to cut grass less often.\n\nIt also wants them to delay cutting until flowers have had chance to seed.\n\nThe charity says it has seen a shift in attitudes in recent years, but some councillors still say their citizens prefer neatly-manicured lawns and verges.\n\nNow Plantlife’s preliminary research suggests that municipal mowing has been among the first activities to be cut under the crisis.\n\nThat’s partly because staff are sick or self-isolating, and partly to save money as budgets are squeezed.\n\nPlantlife’s Trevor Dines told BBC News that an upsurge in public support for wild flower verges had already persuaded some authorities to restrict cutting.\n\nSupport for wild flower verges had already persuaded some authorities to restrict cutting\n\nHe said that a search of local authority websites and social media suggested that more councils are now being jolted into a policy change so they can re-deploy ground staff to services such as emptying bins.\n\nHe said: “We have seen an upsurge in members of the public complaining that their councils are cutting the daisies. These sort of comments used to be outweighed by people complaining about untidy grass verges, but it seems as though the balance has shifted.\n\n“Obviously we’re extremely worried about the Covid crisis and want it to end as quickly as possible. But if councils do change their methods because of the crisis, they might find it wins public support, which would be good for the future.”\n\nAmong the councils registering changes due to the Covid crisis are:\n\nPlantlife wants councils to delay cutting until the end of August or the start of September until after plants have seeded.\n\nMeanwhile, the reduction of traffic during the Covid-19 crisis will produce another benefit for wild flowers.\n\nTypically, roadside verges are drenched with nitrogen emissions from vehicle exhausts. This fertilises the hardier species in the plant world, which can harness the nitrogen to grow and out-compete more delicate wild flowers.\n\nMr Dines said: “There has been a phenomenal change in the quality of air – we can see so much more clearly into the distance. The lack of pollutants is going to help wildflowers on verges.”", "The UK economy is forecast to fall an incredible amount in the current pandemic-afflicted quarter ending in June.\n\nThe forecast comes from the projections of more than a dozen top economists, who are surveyed every month by the Treasury, and were contacted by the BBC.\n\nWhile the same economists predict a similarly large positive rebound after that, this year, annual UK GDP is still anticipated to fall significantly.\n\nWhile there is no precedent for shutdowns of large swathes of the economy, 14 of the top economists from the City and business have calculated how much economic activity is being lost.\n\nThe estimates have an average of -14%. However they range from JP Morgan's calculation that UK GDP in the April-June quarter will come in at -7.5% - a sharp contraction - to Capital Economics' forecast of -24% - suggesting nearly a quarter of entire economic activity will be lost.\n\nHalf the forecasts seen by the BBC are between -13% and -15%. Quarterly figures normally move by fractions of a percent.\n\nFor reference, just a few weeks ago, before the pandemic hit the UK, the average forecast for this quarter was a fall of just 0.2%. The official Budget forecast a month ago, before the Coronavirus effects, pencilled in growth of 0.4%.\n\nThe BBC understands that analyses circulating in the Treasury are in line with the larger end of such declines. But the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) has not yet been asked to update projections from the time of the Budget a month ago.\n\nOne OBR member, Sir Charles Bean, has referred to it being \"not implausible\" that for as long as the lockdowns are in force, economic activity will be reduced \"by somewhere between a quarter and a third\", and that a three-month lockdown \"would knock something like 6-8 percentage points off annual GDP\".\n\nLast week, the OECD group of leading economies said that the immediate hit to the UK economy would be worth 26% of the economy. But it did not put a timeframe on that.\n\nThe Bank of England is currently preparing new forecasts for its Monetary Policy Report, to be published early next month. Last month, Bank governor Andrew Bailey said he could not put a precise number on the likely GDP fall, as it depends on how Covid-19 evolves. But \"every picture we look on at has a very sharp V on it\", he said.\n\nBosses of businesses offering services, like barbers and hairdressers, say they have no idea when cash will start rolling in again\n\nSuch movements have no precedent within a single quarter. The closest comparison would be the sharp fall in the economy during the early 1920s depression, although that occurred over three economic quarters. A prolonged fall such as seen a century ago is not what forecasters are predicting right now.\n\nThese sorts of numbers are anticipated across the developed world, as most nations pursue forms of shutdown to control the spread of the virus and protect health systems from being overwhelmed.\n\nThe forecast declines illustrate the difficult balancing act for the government in deciding when and how to lift lockdowns, now not expected until May at the earliest.\n\nThey also illustrate the fundamental economic policy challenge that the Treasury and Bank of England are trying to manage - to try to help ensure that there is a sharp rebound from these huge hits, avoiding prolonged damage to the economy.", "Home rental firm Airbnb is to temporarily restrict UK bookings to key workers and “essential stays” because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe firm said that the measure would last until at least 18 April.\n\nKey workers - such as NHS and social care staff, and transport and food retail employees - can still book through a programme called Frontline Stays.\n\nThe decision comes after the government criticised opportunistic hosts.\n\nThe BBC had reported on Monday that some listings were letting customers use the “instant book” function without requiring them to be vetted.\n\nAt the time, some owners were describing their properties as being \"Covid-19 retreats\" and \"perfect for isolating with family\" on the site.\n\nTourism Minister Nigel Huddleston described this as being \"irresponsible and dangerous\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC London investigation subsequently found hundreds of properties - some within shared accommodation - were being marketed in the capital to tourists for the coming Easter bank holiday weekend.\n\nUsing a regular account, the BBC questioned some of the landlords to check the bookings were still available.\n\n\"Yes, it's a shared accommodation with me and my two daughters, you can have the room,\" one replied.\n\nAnother said: \"You will have your private room but with shared bathroom. Toilet and shower is shared with seven other rooms on the same floor.\"\n\nNeither property owner asked if the booking was for a key worker.\n\nAirbnb said it would take action in response to the findings.\n\nThe Frontline Stays programme is designed to provide up to 100,000 healthcare staff and first-responders with accommodation close to their patients and a safe distance away from their own families.\n\nGovernment rules state that tourism-related accommodation should only be provided to key workers needing to self-isolate during the pandemic.\n\nAirbnb has now disabled its instant-booking function for whole properties. It blocked private room bookings last week.\n\nLast week, the tech firm pledged to give out $250m (£201m) to hosts that had lost income as a result of the pandemic.\n\nIn a message to hosts on 31 March, chief executive Brian Chesky said: \"When your business suffers, our business suffers.\"\n\nA few days later, it announced that it had raised $1bn from investors to help it through the crisis.\n\nThe news site Techcrunch has reported that Airbnb is rejigging its business model to focus on longer-term stays.\n\nIt said the company had changed its front page to promote such listings and had contacted hosts about the benefits of longer bookings.\n\nThe BBC has asked Airbnb for comment.", "Three-quarters of the world's workers have seen their place of work close at least partially during the pandemic, the UN says\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth \"sharply negative\" this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.\n\nKristalina Georgieva said the world faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nShe forecast that 2021 would only see a partial recovery.\n\nLockdowns imposed by governments have forced many companies to close and lay off staff.\n\nEarlier this week, a UN study said 81% of the world's workforce of 3.3 billion people had had their place of work fully or partly closed because of the outbreak.\n\nMs Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, made her bleak assessment in remarks ahead of next week's IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.\n\nEmerging markets and developing countries would be the hardest hit, she said, requiring hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid.\n\n\"Just three months ago, we expected positive per capita income growth in over 160 of our member countries in 2020,\" she said.\n\n\"Today, that number has been turned on its head: we now project that over 170 countries will experience negative per capita income growth this year.\"\n\nShe added: \"In fact, we anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.\"\n\nMs Georgieva said that if the pandemic eased in the second half of 2020, the IMF expected to see a partial recovery next year. But she cautioned that the situation could also worsen.\n\n\"I stress there is tremendous uncertainty about the outlook. It could get worse depending on many variable factors, including the duration of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer comments came as the US reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits had surged for the third week by 6.6 million, bringing the total over that period to more than 16 million Americans.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve said it would unleash an additional $2.3tn in lending as restrictions on activity to help contain the coronavirus had forced many businesses to close and put about 95% of Americans on some form of lockdown.\n\nSeparately, UK-based charity organisation Oxfam warned that the economic fallout from the spread of Covid-19 could force more than half a billion more people into poverty.\n\nBy the time the pandemic is over, the charity said, half of the world's population of 7.8 billion people could be living in poverty.\n\n2021 would only see a partial recovery, Ms Georgieva said\n\nOn Thursday, following marathon talks, EU leaders agreed a €500bn (£440bn; $546bn) economic support package for members of the bloc hit hardest by the lockdown measures.\n\nThe European Commission earlier said it aimed to co-ordinate a possible \"roadmap\" to move away from the restrictive measures.\n\nEarlier this week, the International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency, warned that the pandemic posed \"the most severe crisis\" since World War Two.\n\nIt said the outbreak was expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours across the world during the second quarter of 2020 - the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers losing their jobs.\n\nLast month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned that the global economy would take years to recover.\n\nSecretary general Angel Gurría said that economies were suffering a bigger shock than after the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001 or the 2008 financial crisis.", "People around the UK did a round of applause for all of the people working in the fight against coronavirus.", "Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in London on Monday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is \"improving\" after two nights in intensive care with coronavirus, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nMr Johnson was now sitting up in bed and \"engaging positively\" with the clinical team at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the chancellor added.\n\nMr Sunak also said a Cobra meeting on Thursday would discuss \"the approach\" to take in reviewing lockdown measures.\n\nIt comes as a record 938 daily deaths were reported in UK hospitals.\n\nThe total number of UK deaths now stands at 7,097, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nThe PM was taken to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive for the virus - and was then moved to intensive care on Monday.\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Sunak said Mr Johnson was \"receiving excellent care from the NHS team at St Thomas'\".\n\n\"The prime minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts are with him and his family,\" he said.\n\nLater, Downing Street said the prime minister \"continues to make steady progress\" but remained in intensive care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson \"sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team.\" - Sunak\n\nThough the daily rise in deaths was larger than the previous highest toll of 786 - on Tuesday - the deputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Dame Angela McLean, said new cases were not \"accelerating out of control\".\n\nBut NHS England medical director Stephen Powis warned now was not the time to become \"complacent\".\n\nHe said: \"We are beginning to see the benefits, I believe (of the government's lockdown measures), but the really critical thing, I believe, is that we have to continue following instructions, we have to continue following social distancing, because if we don't, the virus will start to spread again.\"\n\nThe number of deaths reported today (938) is a new high for the coronavirus epidemic in the UK, but it is still lower than expected if deaths had been following their long-term trend of doubling every three to four days.\n\nThe daily figure is, however, closing in on Italy's worst day of deaths on 27 March.\n\nThere are cautious hopes that Italy - which has reached 17,127 total deaths - has turned a corner, and in Spain too - with a total of 14,555 deaths - figures show the death toll is on a downward trend.\n\nSo what about the UK? Numbers of new daily cases of coronavirus may give us a clue. In the past week, they have stayed relatively constant at around 4-5,000.\n\nWith more people being tested every day as part of the government's plans to ramp up testing to NHS staff, as well as hospital patients, steady numbers of cases suggest there could be the light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 and being taken to intensive care are also showing signs of levelling off.\n\nSo it is now hoped, that with nearly three weeks of social distancing behind us, the number of people dying will soon start to show the same pattern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sunak said Thursday's Cobra meeting would discuss the approach the government would be taking towards reviewing lockdown measures.\n\nAccording to the government's coronavirus legislation, the health secretary must review the need for restrictions - announced by Mr Johnson on 23 March - at least once every 21 days, with the first review to be carried out by 16 April.\n\nMr Sunak said the review would happen \"around\" the three-weeks point, which would be based on evidence that will \"only be available next week\".\n\n\"I think rather than speculate about the future, I think we should focus very seriously on the here and now and the present,\" he added.\n\nThe chancellor also unveiled a £750m funding package to keep struggling charities afloat during the pandemic.\n\nThe measures, which involve cash grants direct to charities providing key services during the crisis, follow concern that some charities are facing collapse because of enforced shop closures.\n\nMr Sunak added, however, it was \"simply not possible\" to \"save every single job, protect every single business or indeed every single charity\".\n\nKarl Wilding, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, said the move was an important first step but warned \"it will not be enough to prevent good charities around the country from closing their doors\".\n\nHe estimated charities were set to lose out on £4bn in fundraising between March and June, in addition to facing rising costs.\n\nAnd shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds, who was appointed to the role after Sir Keir Starmer became Labour's new leader, said the announcement was welcome but fell \"far short\" of filling the financial \"black hole\" many organisations were facing.\n\nAsked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the crisis would lead to a recession, Mr Sunak said: \"I have been very honest that this will have a significant impact on our economy.\"\n\nHe added that the government had put in place \"an enormous amount of support to help as many people as possible to get through this\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Doctors said they were \"uplifted\" to have a message of support from JK Rowling when they named areas of their hospital after Harry Potter school houses.\n\nMeeting rooms at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital were named Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.\n\nThe hospital said the idea was \"a bit of fun amongst all the significant issues\".\n\nThe author tweeted to say she had \"never been prouder\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italian PM Giuseppe Conte told the BBC in April how the lockdown could be eased\n\nItaly's prime minister has told the BBC that the European Union risks failing as a project in the coronavirus crisis.\n\nGiuseppe Conte says the EU must act in an adequate and co-ordinated way to help countries worst hit by the virus.\n\nMr Conte says the European Union needs to rise to the challenge of what he calls \"the biggest test since the Second World War\".\n\nThis was his first interview with the UK broadcast media since the pandemic exploded in Italy seven weeks ago.\n\nHe was speaking as Italy and some other EU countries try to push more frugal members of the bloc to issue so-called \"corona bonds\" - sharing debt that all EU nations would help to pay off. The Netherlands in particular has opposed the idea, leading to a clash between finance ministers of the eurozone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A month into Italy's strict lockdown, some people can no longer afford to buy food\n\nThe Italian prime minister told the BBC that Europe's leaders were \"facing an appointment with history\" that they could not miss.\n\n\"If we do not seize the opportunity to put new life into the European project, the risk of failure is real.\"\n\nThe infection rate in Italy is slowing - the latest figures show positive cases increasing from the previous day by a little over 1%. Two weeks ago, the rise was 7%.\n\nThe death toll too shows signs of falling, from 919 a fortnight ago to 542 fatalities in the past 24 hours. But Giuseppe Conte warned Italy not to lower its guard and said that the national lockdown, imposed on 9 March, could only be eased gradually.\n\n\"We need to pick sectors that can restart their activity. If scientists confirm it, we might begin to relax some measures already by the end of this month.\"\n\nMore than 17,000 people have died in Italy from Covid-19\n\nMr Conte has won plaudits for his government's handling of the crisis - a recent poll by Demos showed his approval rating surging from 46% to 71%. But critics contend that the restrictions announced in the first few days were slow and piecemeal.\n\nHe initially resisted a push by some politicians in Lombardy, the northern region worst hit by the outbreak, to impose tighter measures more quickly. When a delegation from the Chinese Red Cross came to Milan in mid-March, they lambasted what they saw as Italy's lax lockdown.\n\nBut the prime minister defended his government's action.\n\n\"Going back, I would do the same\", he said. \"We have a completely different system to China. For us to severely limit constitutional freedoms was a critical decision that we had to consider very carefully. If I had suggested a lockdown or limits on constitutional rights at the start, when there were the first clusters, people would have taken me for a madman.\"\n\nItaly maintains that one of the reasons behind the large number of cases here is that it has performed more tests than many other western countries.\n\nWhile Britain is now averaging around 14,000 tests per day, Italy's testing level is around double that figure. In the past day, it has carried out more than 50,000 tests.\n\nMr Conte refused to criticise directly any other country for testing too lightly - but he compared it to \"coping with the situation in the dark\".\n\nThe slowing of the infection rate is gradually easing pressure in intensive care units, though in Lombardy and some other areas, they remain close to capacity.\n\nAnd the toll on Italy's medics has been immense - nearly 100 doctors have died.\n\nIn the past day, Italy performed more than 50,000 coronavirus tests\n\nProviding some backup have been countries including China, Cuba and Russia, which have sent medical teams and supplies.\n\nMoscow has capitalised on the initiative for its public relations, adding a message \"from Russia with love\" to the plane of equipment. Russian state television broadcast footage of an Italian man replacing an EU flag with a Russian one.\n\nAsked whether Russia's aid to Italy had conditions attached, possibly including the Italian government supporting lifting EU sanctions on Moscow, Mr Conte hit back.\n\n\"The mere insinuation offends me deeply\", he said. \"It's an offence to the Italian government… and also to Vladimir Putin, who would never dream of using this as leverage.\"\n\nPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte told the BBC that coronavirus was the biggest test since the Second World War\n\nThe fact is that Italy needs all the friends it can get at the moment, with latest forecasts suggesting the outbreak will lead its economy to contract by more than 11% and national debt to rise to unsustainable levels.\n\nThe prime minister called it an \"economic and social emergency\" that was testing the financial structure of every country. In southern Italy, there have been isolated cases of supermarkets being raided. Four weeks into the nationwide lockdown, patience is being tested.\n\nAnd as this crisis grinds on, Italians are growing exhausted with the daily loss of hundreds of lives. There may be hope that the worst of the outbreak is behind them - but it will take a generation to recover.\n\n\"I feel the pain of the gaping wound that this nation is experiencing\", Mr Conte said. \"Behind the numbers are names and surnames, life stories and broken families. The Italian nation is suffering.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "There were 1,132 coronavirus-related breaches reported between 25 March and 7 April\n\nGreater Manchester Police has warned people not to breach lockdown rules over Easter after it had to break up 660 parties during the pandemic.\n\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins said \"each and every one of us need take this seriously\".\n\nThere were 1,132 coronavirus-related breaches reported between 25 March and 7 April, the force said.\n\nThat included 494 house parties - some with DJs, fireworks and bouncy castles - and 166 street parties.\n\nOne woman in Bury became the first person in Greater Manchester to be charged under the Coronavirus Act 2020 after police had to repeatedly shut down one of the gatherings.\n\nThe force, which has released updated figures, also had to deal with 122 different groups gathering to play sports, 173 more gatherings in parks and 112 incidents of anti-social behaviour and public disorder.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said such behaviour was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"They are putting everybody at risk,\" he said.\n\n\"The vast majority of people in Greater Manchester are observing the guidelines, but we cannot have a situation where we've got people flouting the rules.\n\n\"If you are going out and about you are putting at risk the most vulnerable members of our community and you need to have a good hard look at yourself.\"\n\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins warned against breaching the rules over the Easter weekend\n\nThe region's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Beverley Hughes, said the number coronavirus-related incidents had risen considerably.\n\nOfficers responded to about 500 callouts a day last weekend, she said.\n\nHowever, she said calls for enforcement for businesses not complying with the rules had fallen.\n\nMr Hopkins said: \"We understand the desire people will have to spend time with family and friends over the Easter period, however it is vital that we follow the government guidelines.\n\n\"The single most important action we can take in fighting coronavirus is to stay at home in order to save lives.\"", "The government's £750m package to support charities through the coronavirus pandemic will not be enough to prevent some being forced to close, organisations have warned.\n\nWhile many charities welcomed the funding, some said more was needed.\n\nCharities have seen their income shrink because of enforced shop closures and cancelled fundraising events.\n\nGovernment measures involve cash grants direct to charities providing key services during the crisis.\n\nAs part of the scheme, announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, £360m will be directly allocated by government departments to those charities.\n\nAnother £370m will go to small local charities, including those delivering food and essential medicines and providing financial advice.\n\nTens of thousands of charities are expected to benefit, including hospices, St John's Ambulance and services for vulnerable children and domestic abuse victims.\n\nKarl Wilding, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, said charities were estimated to lose around £4bn in 12 weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe said the government funding was \"an important first step\" but \"it will not be enough to prevent good charities around the country from closing their doors\".\n\n\"Even many that survive will look very different in a few months' time, with a severely reduced capacity to provide the support that people rely on,\" he added.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support chief executive Lynda Thomas also said the support did not go far enough.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned this commitment fails to recognise the scale of the challenge,\" she said.\n\n\"It won't prevent many of the nation's charities cutting the support they provide when it is needed most, or even being forced to close.\"\n\nAnd children's charity Barnardo's said the package was \"little more than a sticking plaster\".\n\nChief executive Javed Khan said demand for the charity's services was \"skyrocketing\" and urged the government to keep the measures under review.\n\nHowever, Tracey Bleakley, chief executive of Hospice UK, said her organisation was \"delighted\" with the \"unprecedented funding\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said, while the funding announcement was welcome, \"it falls far short of filling the financial black hole many organisations are facing\".\n\nEvents such as the London Marathon, which has been postponed, are big earners for charities\n\nThe government has also promised to match all donations to the BBC's Big Night In fundraising event on 23 April, pledging a minimum of £20m.\n\nAnnouncing the measures, Mr Sunak said the government could not match every pound of spending that the UK's 170,000 charities would have received this year.\n\nHe said charities were also eligible for help through the government's job retention scheme, which allows employees to be put on furlough - a leave of absence - with 80% of their wages reimbursed by a grant from the government.\n\nBut he did acknowledge that this was not an option open to those charities that need to play a particular role in supporting people through the lockdown.\n\nBigger charities such as Oxfam and Age UK have already furloughed two-thirds of staff.", "Lorry driver Maurice Robinson has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to 39 counts of manslaughter after the deaths of a group of Vietnamese migrants.\n\nThe 31 males and eight females were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October in Grays, Essex.\n\nAt the same Old Bailey hearing, co-defendant Gheorghe Nica, 43, denied 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nBoth men appeared via video-link at the hearing, which was conducted virtually with most lawyers and court reporters attending by Skype.\n\nThe bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered at an industrial estate soon after the lorry arrived in the UK on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nAmong the men, women and children were 10 teenagers, two of them 15-year-old boys.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nIn March, it was revealed they all died from asphyxia and hyperthermia.\n\nAnother three men charged with other offences in connection with the deaths also appeared at the Old Bailey via video-link.\n\nRomanian national Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 27, of Hobart Road in Tilbury, Essex, denied a charge of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 23, of Corkley Road in Darkley, County Armagh, has previously denied conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nValentin Calota, 37, of Cossington Road in Birmingham, was not asked to enter a plea to the charge of conspiring to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nMr Nica, a British Romanian citizen of Mimosa Close in Langdon Hills, Essex, also denied one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nRobinson also admitted one charge of transferring criminal property, but denied a charge of transferring criminal property.\n\nProsecutor William Emlyn Jones QC asked for three weeks to decide whether to proceed with a trial against Robinson on that charge.\n\nThe other defendants face a trial at the Old Bailey lasting up to eight weeks. It is scheduled to begin on 5 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keith Watson spent two weeks in hospital at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch\n\nA 101-year-old man has been discharged from hospital after recovering from coronavirus.\n\nKeith Watson, from Worcestershire, was admitted for surgery after a fall but developed a high temperature and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis daughter-in-law Jo Watson, said he is \"amazing for his age\" but \"bemused\" by the reaction to his recovery.\n\nShe said following a Facebook post from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, \"it's all gone a bit mad\".\n\nThe post has in excess of 500 comments and has been shared more than 3,000 times.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Hereford and Worcester, Mrs Watson said: \"He's doing OK, he was discharged yesterday [Wednesday].\n\n\"We didn't know anything about this Facebook page until a member of the family had it pop up and it's gone a bit mad.\n\n\"He was in hospital having taken a tumble at his care home and needed surgery and that was a big enough ordeal at 101, but he got through that.\n\n\"He was showing signs of a temperature and so the hospital took all the precautions, tested him and he came back positive.\n\nMrs Watson said her father-in-law had gone back to his care home and is \"complaining about the pain in his leg\", but \"not anything else\".\n\n\"Having gone in for the operation is one thing and then when we learnt he was tested positive we were thinking the worst... but he's amazing for his age\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "IT consultant Alex Hilton with wife Jenny and sons Joe and James\n\nBritish consumers say they are struggling to get refunds on cancelled holidays due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIT consultant Alex Hilton and his wife Jenny had planned a skiing holiday in France with university friends they had stayed in touch with over many years.\n\nLast July, they made a booking for 20 people to stay at the Chalet Amelia in Val D'Isere this April.\n\nThe total cost of the chalet alone came to £17,000.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown means they cannot go. But they have been told that they are not entitled to a refund or rebooking on the chalet.\n\n\"The chalet company says they are open for business but the ski resort is shut, and British Airways have cancelled the flights to France, so I can't even get there,\" says Mr Hilton.\n\n\"I find it really unethical and unfair that the chalet company is washing their hands of it and are choosing to keep that money completely.\"\n\nMr Hilton said he is now pursuing a refund with his insurance company.\n\nThe accommodation provider in question is Hampshire-based firm Chardons Ltd, which operates the Chalet Chardons brand (not to be confused with Edinburgh-based Le Chardon Mountain Lodges, which also operates in Val d'Isere).\n\nThe company says it is deeply apologetic but is resolute that it will not be providing refunds or rebookings.\n\nAlthough non-essential travel was banned both by France and the UK on 24 March the French government decreed that hotels and other lodgings can remain open.\n\n\"We [asked] our commune to issue an order forcing us to close our doors so that we could then cancel on our clients,\" says Chardons Ltd's director Mark Hayman. \"The representatives of our commune expressly refused to oblige us.\"\n\nAs a result, Chalet Chardons has had to ask its guests to cancel their holidays because the company was advised that it would be in breach of its agreements with customers if it cancelled the holidays itself.\n\nChalets at the Val D'Isere ski resort in France are not required to close during the coronavirus lockdown\n\nMr Hayman stressed that anyone who books accommodation with Chalet Chardons has to have adequate travel insurance.\n\nThe firm has therefore asked its guests to claim on their insurance and to follow the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's (FCO) guidelines advising against non-essential travel, to avoid insurance claims being invalidated.\n\n\"We understand that these are difficult times for everyone, but as a small family-owned business we simply don't have the financial resources to allow us to refund all of our guests and remain solvent.\n\n\"In the event of non-payment by the insurers we would attempt to find an equitable solution with the guests, but we would still not be able to refund, as we lack the funds to do so. At this point in the season, the bulk of our costs have already been incurred and we are unlikely to be able to recover them,\" says Mr Hayman.\n\nBut Mr Hilton disagrees: \"Our holiday was the penultimate week of the ski season. They say they'd be out of pocket but actually they're considerably in pocket in this situation.\n\n\"To not even offer a portion of a refund is extremely poor.\"\n\nMany consumers who booked package holidays that have been cancelled are also struggling to get refunds if the holidays started just before the FCO issued its advice on non-essential travel on 17 March.\n\nNewlyweds David and Natalie Rogers, from Dudley, saved for two years for their dream honeymoon safari trip in Kenya.\n\nTheir flight was on 15 March and although Kenya's president announced quarantine measures and suspension of travel into the country on that day, neither the FCO nor Kenyan Airlines issued any advice.\n\nThe couple felt they had to get on the flight, or face being told by Virgin Holidays that they were not entitled to the holiday or compensation because they had failed to show up.\n\nThey did make it to Kenya, but after only a few hours their flights were changed and they flew back to the UK the next morning.\n\nDavid and Natalie Rogers had their honeymoon cut short after just a few hours\n\nMr Rogers says the couple had a \"really stressful\" experience when they tried to contact Virgin Holidays for a refund or rebooking of their honeymoon.\n\n\"We were quite angry about having to wait on hold for over eight hours, and a message on the line saying that travellers should have already received a voucher for their missed holidays. It just felt like we'd been forgotten about.\"\n\nOn top of this, Virgin Holidays told the couple it would not be issuing any refunds or rebookings, and that they had to claim from their insurer.\n\nThe couple then spent hours on hold to their insurer, only to be told that the package holiday operator was legally liable.\n\nVirgin Holidays initially said that it wouldn't be offering the couple a full refund because they had managed to leave the UK for a short time.\n\nHowever, after intervention by the BBC, the firm decided to issue a full refund \"as a gesture of goodwill\".\n\nA Virgin Holidays spokesman said: \"We fully understand the disappointment for any customer whose holiday was cut short due to UK government advice changing and will be happy to help customers affected receive a refund for any unused elements of their holiday, such as accommodation costs.\n\n\"Because confirmation from suppliers, such as hotels, may not always be possible, we may refer customers to engage with their travel insurer at the same time to ensure as swift an outcome as possible.\"\n\nConsumer rights group Which? says it has received hundreds of complaints from out-of-pocket holidaymakers.\n\n\"At a time when they may desperately need the money, package holiday providers must not only do right by their customers but fulfil their legal obligations and ensure they are processing refunds should their customers ask for one,\" said Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel.\n\nAbta is warning that the travel industry could collapse if forced to refund all cancelled holidays within 14 days\n\nBut the holiday industry is facing its own financial pressures - the travel agents' group, ABTA is urgently appealing to the government to extend the 14-day period for cash refunds.\n\nIt says travel agents and tour operators are being asked to provide refunds on a \"mass scale\" within 14 days while they themselves are waiting for money back from airlines and hotels that have closed because of the pandemic.\n\n\"It's in nobody's interests for normally healthy, viable businesses to go bust,\" says ABTA's chief executive Mark Tanzer. \"Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk and the UK taxpayer will have to foot the bill for customer refunds if there is an industry-wide collapse of travel businesses.\"\n\nBut Which? says package holiday operators still need to follow travel regulations and cannot use customer money to bail out the industry.\n\n\"We would encourage holidaymakers to consider the option of rebooking or accepting a voucher but package holiday providers must inform customers of their right to a refund and process one when it is the preferred option,\" says Mr Boland.\n\n\"Airlines and hotels must also return customer money for cancelled holidays to agents and package providers to facilitate this process.\"\n\nUpdate 15 April 2020: This story has been updated to make clear that the couple planning to visit Chalet Amelia are pursuing a refund with their insurance company and to include more detail from Chardons Ltd in response.", "Here are five things to bring you up to speed with the coronavirus outbreak this Thursday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nAs the initial three-week restriction on daily life nears an end, ministers are considering an extension. In Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has already said the lockdown will continue.\n\nWith a warm bank holiday forecast, the British public are being urged to stay at home\n\nAmid suggestions the virus is having a disproportionate impact on people from ethnic minority backgrounds, our Reality Check team examines the data.\n\nItaly's prime minister says the EU must act together to help its worst-hit countries, or risk falling apart. And the World Health Organization's boss calls for \"unity\" in the face of criticism from US President Donald Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italian PM Giuseppe Conte told the BBC in April how the lockdown could be eased\n\nSome university students are being told to pay full rent for rooms they will not be using next term because of the lockdown. Student leaders say they should be released from their contracts.\n\nSee how children reacted to the surprise royal call in which the couple also thanked the teachers for keeping the school open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how children reacted to their royal call\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd remember the warnings about trying not to touch your face. Tap here for tips on how to avoid doing it.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Disney's new video streaming service has reached more than 50 million subscribers since its launch five months ago.\n\nWhen Disney Plus last announced viewing figures in February it had reached 26.5 million subscribers.\n\nSince then, this has almost doubled as more people are online and stuck at home due to virus clampdowns.\n\nDisney Plus, which rivals Netflix and Amazon Prime, rolled out to the UK and other parts of Europe last month.\n\nAll three streaming platforms are enjoying a huge boost in viewing figures as cinemas remain closed and people are forced to stay indoors.\n\nDisney Plus originally set a target of 60 million to 90 million subscribers by the end of fiscal 2024, when it was first launched in the US in November.\n\n\"We're truly humbled that Disney Plus is resonating with millions around the globe,\" said Kevin Mayer, a Disney spokesman. When asked what effect lockdowns and stay-at-home restrictions were having on subscription numbers, Disney refused to comment.\n\n\"With movie theatres closed across many key international markets, streaming has instantly become a go-to source for quality in-home entertainment and these services will continue to benefit with a boost in subscribers for a significant time to come as many consumers alter their habits,\" predicts Gitesh Pandya, editor of BoxOfficeGuru.com.\n\nDisney Plus subscription figures were given a boost by its audience in India, where the streaming service was launched last week. Disney reported eight million new subscribers in India.\n\nAfter the announcement on Wednesday evening, shares in Disney jumped 7% on Wall Street. The entertainment group has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, having to close its theme parks across the globe.\n\nIt has also had to stop production on new content and delay releases for potential blockbusters like Mulan and Black Widow.\n\nDisney Plus is still behind both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in terms of global subscriptions. Netflix added almost nine million net global subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2019. At the end of last year, it had over 167 million paying subscribers globally. Amazon now has more than 150 million viewers.\n\nBut Disney Plus, which includes films and TV shows from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and National Geographic, has grown much faster than its rivals.\n\n\"What Disney Plus has achieved in five months took Netflix seven years,\" said Chris Fenton, a movie industry analyst. \"Disney Plus possesses all the ammunition needed to surpass Netflix, and it also has the potential bazooka of China. If any American streaming service can gain access to the 1.4 billion people of China, it's Disney Plus.\"", "Tesco has said that most food will still need to be purchased in-store amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket giant said it wasn't able to meet demand as more shoppers stay at home, despite the fact it has increased its online grocery shopping capacity by more than 20%.\n\nIt said in the first weeks of the virus, there was \"significant panic buying\", with sales up almost a third.\n\nTesco said that had now subsided with food stocks \"returning to normal\".\n\n\"Between 85% and 90% of all food bought will require a visit to a store and here significant changes to the store environment have been implemented to maximise safety for colleagues and customers,\" chief executive Dave Lewis said.\n\nMr Lewis said that during its peak week of stockpiling, Tesco sold:\n\nIn contrast, he said sales of clothing and fuel both fell by 70%.\n\nThe chain said it would continue trying to \"prioritise home delivery for the most vulnerable in society\".\n\nMr Lewis said that Tesco normally operates 660,000 home delivery slots but it is now running around 805,000.\n\nHe said that last Friday night, the government gave Tesco a list of 110,000 names of people it classed as vulnerable. The supermarket has contacted these people and offered them slots.\n\nThe statement came as the chain reported a sharp fall in pre-tax profit for the year to the end of February, down almost 19% to £1.3bn, largely due to restructuring costs in Europe.\n\nThe chain also said it was impossible to forecast sales for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTesco said the virus could add almost £1bn in extra costs due to extra staff and store expenses. It said it had already experienced a \"significant absence\" of staff amid the virus and had recruited more than 45,000 new staff over the past two weeks to cope with the heightened demand.\n\nMr Lewis said some 50,000 colleagues have been absent out of about 320,000 employees.\n\nThe supermarket has also agreed to pay a dividend of 6.5p to shareholders, based on its last financial year.\n\nTesco is asking those who can come into store to do so\n\nThis has attracted some criticism as the grocer has benefitted from a business rates holiday to the tune of £585m while seeing record sales during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nTesco also intends to pay a dividend on the current financial year, though at a lower level.\n\nThe supermarket giant reported group sales up 1.3% to £64.8bn.\n\nLike-for-like sales, which strips out revenue from new shops opened during the year to February, fell 0.6%. Same store sales in the UK fell by 0.6%.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, told the BBC's Today programme: \"Some people will ask if [paying dividends] is appropriate\" at the moment.\n\n\"If you're seen to be benefitting from emergency measures such as state aid or the furloughing scheme, companies need to be very careful in terms of perception right now.\"\n\n\"But it's not an entirely straightforward question, there might be some staff who are investors who are looking forward to those dividends,\" he added.\n\nAll the major supermarkets had restricted customers to buying fixed numbers of individual items to keep shelves full amid stockpiling.\n\nSupermarkets have been super busy these last few weeks. Stockpiling and the knock-on effects of pubs, restaurants and cafes in lockdown have seen an unprecedented increase in sales.\n\nBut the sales bonanza in feeding the nation is coming at a significant cost.\n\nTesco says the full financial impact is impossible to predict but reckons that it could mean nearly £1bn in extra costs. Much of that is through staffing, including the bill for the hiring of 45,000 workers to cope with the surge in demand and cover staff who get sick.\n\nTesco thinks if customer behaviour is returned to normal by the end of the summer, these additional expenses could be offset by higher food sales and the £585m it will save from not having to pay business rates thanks to the tax relief introduced by the Government last month.\n\nHowever, Tesco and other retailers such as Aldi, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsbury's have since removed some limits and changed others.\n\nTesco now operates a three-item limit on its most sought-after items including pasta, toilet paper and hand sanitiser.", "Staff working for Her Majesty's Passport Office believe their lives are being put at risk because of demands that they return to work.\n\nMany have been asked to go back next week, despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the BBC has learned.\n\nOn Tuesday, staff were told by a Home Office scientific adviser 80% of people would get Covid-19 in the end and \"we can't hide away from it forever\".\n\nThe Home Office said it was maintaining social distancing at passport offices.\n\nWhen and how to get staff back into the workplace are questions employers will increasingly have to grapple with across the UK.\n\nHer Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO) has centres in Belfast, Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newport and Peterborough.\n\nThe Tuesday conference call was addressed by Myrtle Lloyd, the HMPO chief operating officer.\n\nAccording to a transcript seen by the BBC, she said government health guidance did not mean that staff \"should stay at home instead of delivering critical services\".\n\n\"What is also critical for us as a business is to have a manageable level of work in the system, so that when we start our recovery we are not overwhelmed by our demands,\" she said.\n\nSources at the Public and Commercial Services Union said up to 2,000 staff would be asked to go back in, with 500 in offices at any one time.\n\nHowever, dozens of staff sent messages that they were deeply concerned about returning to work.\n\nOne wrote: \"Your actions are going to kill people.\"\n\nAnother said: \"If my family die because you insist I need to come to work before the surge passes (having isolated until now), I will pursue a claim against HMPO / Home Office for negligence.\"\n\nOthers questioned how they would get to work without using public transport.\n\nThere are also claims among staff and their trade union that advice from a government official at the meeting was out of step with government policy.\n\nAccording to the transcript, the Home Office deputy scientific adviser, Rupert Shute, told those listening that staying at home was important but \"we also have to keep functioning our lives\".\n\n\"You are no more at risk at the workplace as you would be in your home or at the supermarket. It is about minimising it,\" he said.\n\n\"We are working on the assessment that 80% of us, if we haven't already, will get the virus.\"\n\nHe added: \"We cannot hide away from it forever.\"\n\nThis echoed previous government briefings that up to 80% of people would eventually contract Covid-19 and that this would help the population develop \"herd immunity\".\n\nHowever, that position was sidelined when computer modelling suggested a lockdown would be needed to reduce the infection rate.\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services Union said his comments were \"extremely irresponsible and totally contradicted current government guidance\".\n\nPCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is absolutely scandalous that HMPO are suggesting our members can go back into work during a pandemic to process routine passports.\n\n\"The cavalier approach to our members' health and safety is shameful and ultimately puts them in greater danger of contracting Covid-19.\n\n\"We have already had members die as a result of contracting coronavirus and pressured Civil Service managers in other departments to shut offices so staff can work from home.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson dismissed suggestions the health of staff was being put at risk.\n\nIn a statement they said: \"Her Majesty's Passport Office is fully adhering to public health advice across all of its offices and adopting social distancing measures to keep both its staff and customers safe.\n\n\"It continues to operate at substantially restricted staffing levels with a significant number of people working from home where possible, and staff are prioritising emergency cases.\n\n\"Guidance is also available for people who are travelling into work.\n\n\"It was made clear in the meeting that the government's priority is slowing the spread of coronavirus and we all have a part to play in order to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nPassport Office staff have to handle documents and passports sent in from all over the world.\n\nOne source said they and their colleagues were happy for a skeleton staff to process applications needed for ID purposes, especially when the applicants were doctors or nurses.\n\nHowever, they are now dealing with requests for passports before holidays over Easter, but the shutdown of most air travel meant they were no longer urgent, the source said.\n\nA key computer system they use cannot be installed on laptops and security measures make it difficult for operation staff to work from home.\n\nThe Passport Office is looking for new ways to help them to do so.\n\nHave you been asked to return to work? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has repeatedly refused to appear in front of a select committee to discuss the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMs Patel has turned down four invitations to appear before the Home Affairs Committee since January, offering private briefings instead.\n\nIn a letter, Ms Patel she would attend “towards the end of the month”.\n\nIn an interview with TalkRadio on Thursday, the home secretary said there was \"politicking going on\".\n\nShe said: \"It's a bit disappointing at the time of the crisis when I've already offered a date as well that there is a bit of politicking going on...I just think it's just politics basically.\"\n\nBBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw described the letters between Ms Patel and Labour's Yvette Cooper as “acrimonious”.\n\nMs Patel was appointed by Boris Johnson as home secretary in July 2019, but has only appeared in front of the committee once - in October.\n\nOn Wednesday, a Home Office spokesperson said the home secretary \"has already offered to appear before the committee at the first mutually convenient date to update them on her work to keep the country safe during this unprecedented time.\"\n\nMs Patel \"is currently leading the Home Office response during this national crisis, working tirelessly to keep the British public safe,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nMs Cooper wrote to the home secretary on 3 April.\n\nShe told Ms Patel the committee had set a date of 15 April to hear evidence from her, saying “there is no reason for further delay”.\n\nBut four days later, the home secretary responded, writing: “I am disappointed at the increasingly adversarial tone of our exchanges.”\n\nMs Patel instead said she would only appear “towards the end of the month”.\n\nMs Cooper has now written again, saying other secretaries of state have appeared regularly before other committees - but she has yet to receive a reply.", "The UK's media watchdog has launched a formal investigation into a TV network's broadcast of an interview with conspiracy theorist David Icke about coronavirus.\n\nOfcom acted after London Live screened the programme on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe regulator received more than 40 complaints following the broadcast.\n\nIt follows YouTube's introduction of stricter misinformation rules after a later interview with Mr Icke by the same team was streamed on its platform.\n\n\"We have assessed this programme, and we are concerned that it raises potential issues under our rules,\" said a spokesman for Ofcom.\n\n\"We are now investigating as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nIt intends to speak to London Live as part of the probe, and said it was making the investigation \"a priority\".\n\nOfcom is unable to intervene before a programme has been broadcast.\n\nBut afterwards, it has the power to demand on-air corrections and issue fines. It can even withdraw a TV station's licence to broadcast, but seldom does so.\n\nEarlier, the culture secretary had expressed concern about the matter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme\n\n\"Clearly that station is regulated by Ofcom. And I would be expecting Ofcom to take appropriate action,\" said Oliver Dowden.\n\n\"Clearly they are independent but I will be in touch with them to understand what action they are taking in respect to that.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for London Live: \"We are aware of the culture secretary's comments, and have proactively contacted Ofcom to offer our co-operation and support as part of their assessment.\"\n\nLast week, the watchdog sanctioned a community radio station for having broadcast a discussion that \"contained potentially harmful views about coronavirus\".\n\n\"During the current pandemic, it's important that potentially misleading information about the coronavirus is not broadcast on radio or TV,\" Ofcom said at the time.\n\n\"This includes inaccurate claims about potential causes, symptoms, and treatments for the virus.\"\n\nLondon Live's programme was produced by a London-based independent company that also offers training services.\n\nLondon Live screened a warning notice several times during the programme\n\nOn Tuesday, YouTube deleted copies of a later interview with Mr Icke by the same host - which was embedded into the production company's site and hosted on YouTube's platform - and announced it would wipe any other videos that also falsely linked Covid-19 to 5G mobile networks.\n\nThe production company then reuploaded this interview to another US-based service - Vimeo - but it too deleted it.\n\n\"Vimeo is committed to eliminating content from our platform that spreads harmful health misinformation,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"Our policies explicitly reflect these values. After careful review from our Trust & Safety team, we can confirm that the video in question has been removed.\"\n\nIt has since been uploaded again to Bitchute, a smaller UK-based platform.\n\nMr Icke does not mention 5G by name in the interview broadcast by London Live, although at one point he does refer to an \"electro-magnetic technologically generated soup of radiation toxicity\", which he claims has damaged old people's immune systems. Scientists have previously rubbished suggestions mobile networks cause such harm.\n\nLondon Live is owned by the Russian businessman Evgeny Lebedev, who also owns the Evening Standard and Independent newspapers.\n\nIt screened a notice during advert breaks, saying the views expressed in the programme were \"not necessarily those\" of the network and displayed the address of the government's Covid-19 website.", "Universities face uncertainty over student numbers during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nUniversities across the UK are calling for emergency funding of at least £2bn, warning some institutions will go bust without it.\n\nUniversities UK says the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to sharply cut overseas student numbers and put universities in financial danger.\n\nThey are asking for controls on student numbers in each university, to keep fee income at similar levels to last year.\n\nUniversities are promising to honour any offers already made to students.\n\n\"Without government support, some universities would face financial failure, others would come close to financial failure and be forced to reduce provision,\" says a letter from higher education leaders to ministers across the UK.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, says the proposals would help universities to \"weather the very serious financial challenges posed by Covid-19\".\n\nHe says academic researchers have made a \"huge contribution\" to tackling the coronavirus pandemic - and their expertise will be needed in the \"recovery of the economy and communities following the crisis\".\n\nThey are calling for an extra £2bn in research funding and on top of that to provide emergency loans for universities that faced \"significant income losses\".\n\n\"Targeted support\" should be available to protect strategically important subjects such as science and medicine, say the industry leaders.\n\nThis would be in response to cash pressures from the pandemic:\n\nThere have been warnings of unprecedented \"volatility\" in this year's admissions - which, if left unchecked, could see some universities expanding but others left with too few students to be financially viable.\n\nThis is a particular risk for universities in England and Wales, which are highly dependent on tuition fee income.\n\nUniversities are calling for controls on the number of students each institution can recruit this year\n\nIn response, Universities UK is asking for controls on the number of students each university in England and Wales can recruit this year, keeping them to levels expected before the coronavirus outbreak, to stop financially unsustainable swings in numbers.\n\nThe scale of concern was suggested in an internal email from a Russell Group university seen by the BBC this week, which warned the university could lose a quarter of its income next year.\n\nThe letter from Universities UK to ministers says that to provide \"stability\" for students currently applying, all offers already made would have to be honoured if students made the required grade.\n\nThere is also a call to push back by a year the point at which European Union students are categorised as overseas students, when they will face higher fees and visa restrictions.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU lecturers' union said the plan was a \"piecemeal approach that fails to recognise the size of the problem, or the damage we risk doing to our academic capacity\".\n\nEva Crossan Jory, vice president of the National Union of Students, said any extra funding must support students, \"especially considering the mounting discontent that courses are not being delivered as promised and demands for refunds\".\n\nShe backed calls for the government to \"step in\" to protect higher education, but said it should include \"refunding or all or part of the fees\".\n\n\"The scale of the financial challenges facing higher education institutions are clearly very serious\", said Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney.\n\nHe promised to work closely with universities to help them \"emerge from this crisis\".\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said universities had been \"at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus\" and ministers would work to ensure they had the \"necessary investment\".\n\nIn England, a Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The outbreak poses significant challenges to the sector and the government is working closely with universities to understand the financial risks and implications they might face at this uncertain time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long-lost sisters Margaret and Sue are enjoying the chance to get to know each other\n\n\"The lockdown has been an absolutely fantastic silver lining for us. It's given us an opportunity to make up for lost time.\"\n\nSue Bremner and her husband David, from Shropshire, are stranded in New Zealand due to the coronoavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it's given Sue the chance to get to know her long-lost sister Margaret Hannay - who she didn't know existed for more than 40 years.\n\nMargaret, 71, was given up for adoption at two weeks old by her mum, who had a short relationship with Sue's dad in 1948. It was only last year that the sisters met for the first time after Margaret - who lives in Auckland - got in touch with Sue in the UK.\n\nSue, 65, and her husband went out to see her sister again as part of a two-month trip across New Zealand and Australia on 5 March.\n\nBut two weeks later, the country went into lockdown and they couldn't get back to the UK. So Sue has been able to spend some extra time with Margaret and her husband, John.\n\n\"We've been having a wonderful time here,\" says Sue, who lives in Ludlow. \"We've been spending lots of time together drinking wine and cooking and having fun.\"\n\nMargaret says she now calls her sister the \"Sue-chef\"\n\n\"We haven't killed each other yet,\" Margaret laughs. \"It's been great. It's really hard, as you probably know, to share a kitchen with someone. But we seem to manage, everything works.\"\n\nSue found out she had an older sister in 2000 when her dad told her that he'd had a child with another woman before he'd met her mum.\n\n\"My dad asked me would I try to find Margaret because he wanted her to know there's never been a day gone past when he hadn't thought about the child that had been adopted.\n\n\"He was very regretful that somebody had been brought into the world and he didn't know them and he wanted to apologise for that.\"\n\nSue gave her details to the General Register Office - which holds records of births and deaths - and searched on social media and ancestry websites.\n\nShe was told she wouldn't be able to find out any information about her sister unless Margaret got in touch saying she wanted to be found.\n\nMargaret (second left) met up with her siblings John (far left), Sue and Lawrence (far right) for the first time last year\n\nMargaret, who moved to New Zealand 45 years ago, always knew she was adopted but didn't really have any desire to track down her birth parents. But last year, she told her daughter she had started to wonder whether she had any siblings.\n\nShe then got in touch with the General Register Office and within two weeks they got back to her to say she had a sister - giving her Sue's contact details.\n\n\"I was sitting there in bed with my first morning cup of tea with John snoring next to me and I opened this email and I was like, 'Oh I've got a sister',\" says Margaret.\n\n\"So when he woke up he found me sitting in bed with my cup of tea sobbing. When I told him he was delighted as he has two older brothers. I always wanted to have brothers and sisters but I never did.\"\n\nSue says it was \"amazing\" when she got an email from Margaret introducing herself - but unfortunately their dad had died before they were reunited.\n\n\"Receiving that email was like winning the pools. I would've loved to have told my dad but I just kind of feel he's inside me and he knew it was happening.\"\n\nMargaret and Sue spoke to the BBC on FaceTime from Auckland\n\nMargaret and Sue also have two brothers - Lawrence and John Connell - and all four siblings met up for the first time in the UK last year.\n\n\"It was a great opportunity for all of a sudden meet the rest of family to see how we all got on,\" says Margaret. \"Since we've known each other we've found so many similarities it's uncanny.\"\n\nSue and Margaret say they both like weak coffee and they suffer from \"wobbly knees\".\n\nSue and her husband have already had two flights back to the UK cancelled - but are booked on a flight to return home on Saturday.\n\nCurrently, there's only been one coronavirus related death in New Zealand and their daughter - who is a doctor - even advised them to stay on there.\n\n\"She says stay where you are, it's very safe in New Zealand. But we've got children back in the UK and grandchildren. It's a hard decision. Your heart is pulled to come back. We need to get back really but we're having a wonderful time.\"\n\nThe sisters had planned to meet up again in the UK later this year - but they've put the trip on hold until 2021 now.\n\n\"I'm already starting to plan as I've got to match this stay,\" says Sue. \"I'm thinking of booking Ludlow Castle and getting all the family together.\"", "Social networks need a dedicated button to flag up bogus coronavirus-related posts, an advocacy group has said.\n\nThe Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said the apps had \"missed a trick\" in combating the problem.\n\nThe call coincides with a study that indicates 46% of internet-using adults in the UK saw false or misleading information about the virus in the first week of the country's lockdown.\n\nOfcom said the figure rose to 58% among 18-to-24-year-olds.\n\nThe communications watchdog said the most common piece of false advice seen during the week beginning 23 March was the claim that drinking more water could flush out an infection.\n\nIncorrect claims that Covid-19 could be alleviated by gargling salt water or avoiding cold food and drink were also widely seen.\n\nThe watchdog intends to survey 2,000 people each week to help track the issue.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Digital Secretary, Oliver Dowden, had a virtual meeting with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube's owner, Google.\n\nDuring the call the firms committed themselves to:\n\nTech firms have stepped up their efforts to tackle fake reports in recent days.\n\nThis includes WhatsApp limiting the number of chats users can send popular messages to at one time and YouTube banning videos that make false claims about 5G being linked to Covid-19.\n\nBut CCDH says the public needs an easier way to flag misinformation about the disease than at present.\n\nThe lack of such a dedicated button creates a \"barrier to action\", the group's chief executive, Imran Ahmed, told the BBC, discouraging users from hunting through the options to report offending posts.\n\nThe CCDH chief is also concerned that users are often encouraged to block or mute the reported accounts.\n\nThat means \"you don't see the reality, which is that they might delete a post, but very rarely delete accounts,\" he said.\n\nMP Damian Collins recently set up fact-checking service Infotagion to combat misinformation about the pandemic.\n\nHe has called for the deliberate spreading of misinformation to be made an offence - and says Facebook and other social networks should take action against the administrators of groups containing the posts.\n\n\"[Tech firms] act on it if it poses imminent physical harm, but if it's other information - like conspiracy theories - then that doesn't meet their test as to if an item should be removed,\" Mr Collins said, before YouTube toughened its policy relating to 5G.\n\n\"There's not necessarily a blanket ban on misinformation about Covid-19.\"\n\nOxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published its own research into the spread of online misinformation about coronavirus, earlier in the week.\n\nIt analysed 225 posts, which had been classed as false or misleading by professional fact-checkers over the first three months of the year.\n\nIt said the most common kind of false claims were about how public authorities were responding to the crisis.\n\nThe second-most frequent kind concerned the spread of the disease among communities, including posts that blamed certain ethnic groups.\n\nThe study added that the three core social networks - Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - had all removed, labelled or taken other action against most of the posts flagged to them by independent fact-checkers.\n\nBut it said there was \"significant variation\" among them in their treatment of the ones left online.\n\nNone of the social networks contacted by the BBC disclosed plans to introduce a specific coronavirus reporting tool.\n\nBut they did claim to have taken substantial steps to combat problematic coronavirus posts.\n\nTwitter says it catches half the tweets that break its rules before anyone ever reports them - but has asked people to continue doing so.\n\nTikTok said it was focusing on providing information from authoritative sources, and that its guidelines explicitly banned misinformation that could harm people.\n\nFacebook said it was removing content about the virus that had clearly been debunked by an authoritative source but was prioritising posts that could cause direct harm to people.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League players have launched a \"collective initiative\" to help generate funds for the National Health Service and distribute them \"where they are needed most\".\n\nThe initiative - named #PlayersTogether - has been set up to \"help those fighting for us on the NHS frontline\" amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt has partnered with NHS Charities Together (NHSCT).\n\nHancock had previously said players should \"take a pay cut and play their part\".\n\nFormer England captain and Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker tweeted he was \"proud of our players\".\n\n\"Footballers are doing their bit as I was confident they would,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Let's hope that others that are in a position to help, those that weren't unfairly targeted, do likewise.\"\n\nMore than 7,000 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nWhat have the players said?\n\nIn a statement - posted by more than 150 top-flight players on social media - they said they were \"collaborating together to create a voluntary initiative, separate to any other league and club conversation\".\n\nThe intention, they said, was to \"try and help, along with so many others in the country, to make a real difference\".\n\nThe level of contributions has not been announced but the players said the initiative would help \"quickly grant funds to the NHS frontline\".\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nPremier League clubs previously said they would ask players to take a 30% pay cut in order to protect jobs.\n\nHowever, the Professional Footballers' Association said such a cut could harm the NHS, adding players were \"mindful of their social responsibilities\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport earlier on Wednesday, former England striker and Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer said it should be up to the players to decide the best way to help.\n\nPremier League football has been postponed indefinitely because of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nClubs have announced a number of measures to support fans and the local communities.\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nThe chief executive of NHS Charities Together thanked the players for their \"fantastic\" initiative.\n\n\"It sends an amazing message of support to the NHS staff and volunteers working so tirelessly to save lives,\" Ellie Orton said.\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford said it had been tough to get to this stage.\n\n\"I think there has been plenty of occasions, for me personally, where we've tried to help but we've not helped in the best way possible,\" Rashford told BT Sport.\n\n\"You can get some backlash from that. We wanted to take our time with the decision.\n\n\"We want to help in the best way possible and getting money to the right places is a massive thing.\"", "The people were residents at Castletroy Residential Home\n\nFifteen residents at a care home have died during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFive of those who have died at Castletroy Residential Home in Luton have been confirmed as having Covid-19.\n\nThe home has 69 beds for elderly people with nursing or personal care needs.\n\nDr Sultan Salimee, from Public Health England (PHE) East, said it was \"continuing to work closely with the care home, providing public health advice to stop the virus spreading\".\n\nThe other 10 residents who died were not tested for coronavirus, a PHE spokeswoman said.\n\nA statement from the care home said Castletroy staff \"worked very hard to shield our residents, themselves and their families whilst continuing to provide care and support.\"\n\nIt added: \"We send our condolences to the families and friends at this sad time.\n\n\"It's very sad, they are our family too.\"\n\nA PHE statement said: \"In occasions where some cases have already been tested positive in a care home, we do not advise testing of new cases as it will not change the public health management.\"\n\nThe local council leader said it was a \"tragic situation\"\n\nHazel Simmons, leader of Luton Council, said she was \"desperately sad to hear about the tragic situation\".\n\nShe said: \"To lose so many residents in one care home is heartbreaking, and our love, thoughts and prayers are with the friends and families of those who have died, as well as the staff at the home.\"\n\nSarah Owen, Labour MP for Luton North, said in a statement that the \"devastating\" news showed that \"workers in care homes are at the sharp end of this crisis.\"\n\nShe said: \"They [care workers] must be given the right protective equipment, testing and guidance to ensure they can carry out their jobs as safely as possible.\"\n\nThe news comes as it was confirmed that seven residents have died at a care home in east London; eight at one in Dumbarton; and 12 at another in Cranhill, Glasgow.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former BBC journalist described as a central character at Westminster and master of interviewing politicians on the street has died aged 61.\n\nPaul Lambert, affectionately known as \"Gobby\", was often heard on TV shouting questions at ministers.\n\nHe left the BBC in 2014 to become communications director of UKIP.\n\nHis daughter Danni said on Facebook the family were \"devastated\". BBC Head of Westminster Katy Searle called him an \"institution at Westminster\".\n\n\"His fearless approach to political doorsteps made politicians cower and journalist colleagues cheer,\" she added.\n\n\"We are all deeply saddened by the news and send our very best wishes to his family.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described Mr Lambert as a \"fixture of politics\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, she added he was a \"friend of everyone for so long - such sad, sad news\".\n\nFormer BBC colleagues and journalists from rival broadcasters, as well as some of the politicians he pursued, have taken to social media to pay tribute to his tenacity, kindness and unerring nose for a story.\n\nBBC journalist James Landale, who worked with Mr Lambert for many years at Westminster, called him \"a BBC legend, a one man institution, the best fixer in the business\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Landale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBased on Downing Street, Mr Lambert's voice was heard on countless news reports putting ministers on the spot as they went about their business.\n\nThe nickname \"Gobby\" was a reference to his booming voice, which he used to project awkward questions towards politicians as they entered cars or walked down the street, known in broadcasting as a \"doorstep\".\n\n\"The point really is to fill in the pieces of the TV bulletin piece that you haven't got pictures to fill in. You know someone isn't going to say anything, you just need something to happen,\" Mr Lambert explained in 2013.\n\nOthers paying tribute on Twitter included journalist, and fellow exponent of the snatched street interview, Michael Crick, who said Mr Lambert was a \"master of the political doorstep\".\n\nFormer chancellor George Osborne said Mr Lambert was \"one of the best\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by George Osborne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTrade Minister Conor Burns said: \"I remember the first time he shouted questions at me as I walked into Parliament. Went inside with a feeling I'd properly arrived.\"\n\nFormer leader of UKIP Nigel Farage said Mr Lambert was a \"unique man and great fun to work with\".\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper said Mr Lambert was \"ever persistent, ever the mischievous grin, ever friendly even when pursuing you with the toughest of questions\".\n\nCraig Oliver, a former editor of flagship BBC News bulletins and ex-director of communications at No 10, said: \"The start of a thousand TV news reports was Gobby shouting, 'Are you going to resign?'\"\n\nRobert Peston, ITV's political editor, said Mr Lambert was a \"gent of the old school\" who had \"the best nose for a story\", while Sky News presenter Sophy Ridge described him as a \"legend\".\n\nBBC presenter Jeremy Vine said Mr Lambert was \"an amazing guy, wonderful to work with at Westminster\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As \"Gobby\" gets ready to start his new role, Newsnight looked back on some of the moments which earned him his nickname.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said Mr Lambert \"always went the extra mile and asked the right question\", and BBC news presenter Reeta Chakrabarti said he was \"such a central character in our Westminster newsroom for years... and a thoroughly nice man\".\n\nMr Lambert - who started his career as an electrician before working his way up through the ranks at the BBC - left the BBC ahead of the 2015 general election to lead communications for the UK Independence Party.\n• None Gobby: The man who shouted at ministers", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary urges people not to give coronavirus a second chance to \"hurt our country\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has urged the public to stay indoors over this Easter weekend, telling people: \"Let's not ruin it now.\"\n\nHe said after almost three weeks of lockdown \"we are starting to see the impact of the sacrifices we've all made\".\n\nMr Raab said it was still \"too early\" to lift the restrictions.\n\nA total of 7,978 people have now died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, up by 881 on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily briefing, Mr Raab said a decision on whether to ease the lockdown measures would not come until \"the end of next week\".\n\nHe was deputising for the prime minister, who has been in hospital since Sunday after contracting coronavirus.\n\nBoris Johnson was moved out of intensive care on Thursday evening, with a No 10 spokesman saying: \"He is in extremely good spirits.\"\n\nMr Raab stressed that the lockdown restrictions would have to stay in place until evidence showed the UK had moved beyond the peak of the virus.\n\nHe said: \"After all the efforts everybody has made, after all the sacrifices so many people have made let's not ruin it now.\n\n\"Let's not undo the gains we've made, let's not waste the sacrifices so many people have made.\n\n\"We mustn't give the coronavirus a second chance to kill more people and to hurt our country.\"\n\nThe first secretary of state was speaking ahead of a bank holiday weekend which has been forecast to be warm, and Downing Street earlier said it gave its \"full backing\" to police forces to enforce the lockdown rules.\n\nThe announcement of another 881 deaths of people with coronavirus is yet another tragic piece of news.\n\nAnd we know that the true death toll to date is higher: this figure doesn't include people who have died with coronavirus but whose death has not yet been reported to the Department for Health and Social Care.\n\nHowever this is a fall in the daily total compared to Wednesday's announcement of 938.\n\nAny fall in the daily figure is to be welcomed, but the scientists advising the government have warned that we shouldn't be surprised if tomorrow's figures once again set a record.\n\nThey have suggested that the peak of the epidemic may not arrive before next week.\n\nThe trends over the last week do suggest that the measures that everyone are taking are having an effect on the epidemic.\n\nUntil last Saturday, the number of deaths was doubling every three-and-a-half days, growing by just over 20% every day.\n\nSince then, the growth in the number of deaths has halved, down to about 10% a day.\n\nEven once we pass the peak, we will see more people fall victim to this virus - but there are growing suggestions in the data that the lockdown is having the expected effect.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, said social distancing measures were curbing the number of new cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHe explained that the death toll would continue to rise for about two weeks after intensive care admissions stabilise, as deaths lag behind admissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Rosser, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham, warned people must not become \"falsely reassured\" by the flattening of the curve.\n\nDr Rosser said he did not want hospitals \"to start reaping the consequences\" next week if people broke the rules.\n\nAccording to new coronavirus laws, the health secretary must review the restrictions at least once every 21 days, with the first review due by 16 April.\n\nThere are now 65,077 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK, an increase of 4,344 on Wednesday.\n\nAmid all the speculation about when and how the UK's lockdown may be relaxed, it's worth looking back at the original scientific advice that led to the measures in the first place.\n\nIt makes clear that nothing is likely to change soon.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory committee, Sage, has always suggested that a 13-week programme of interventions will be needed.\n\nAnd although that sounds like very precise timing, it all depends on how the British public responds.\n\nThe scientists made a fairly pessimistic assumption: that only 50% of households would observe the requirements.\n\nSo what might a timetable look like?\n\nOnce the peak in daily deaths has been reached - possibly in the next week or so - even the best-case scenario suggests that it will take a month or two for the numbers dying to fall to low levels.\n\nThat gets us well into May and maybe to early June, and it'll be a brave political decision to ease the restrictions any earlier if there's a risk of a 'second peak', with a resurgence of the virus.\n\nMr Raab earlier chaired a virtual meeting of the emergency Cobra committee to discuss the lockdown measures.\n\nAnd on Thursday evening he held a conference call with all opposition leaders to update them on the government response to the pandemic.", "The men walked into the Sainsbury's store in Lancaster Road, Morecambe, on Saturday afternoon\n\nPolice have made two arrests after two men were seen on CCTV licking their hands and wiping them over vegetables, meat and fridge handles in a supermarket.\n\nThe men walked into the Sainsbury's store in Lancaster Road, Morecambe, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nStaff were forced to thoroughly disinfect the store and destroy products, Lancashire Police said.\n\nInsp James Martin described the incident as \"flabbergasting\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £750m package to keep struggling charities afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move follows concern that some charities are facing collapse, with income shrinking because of enforced shop closures.\n\nBigger charities such as Oxfam and Age UK have furloughed two-thirds of staff.\n\nThe measures involve cash grants direct to charities providing key services during the crisis.\n\nAs part of the scheme, £360m will be directly allocated by government departments to those charities.\n\nAnother £370m will go to small local charities, including those delivering food and essential medicines and providing financial advice.\n\nAnnouncing the move, Mr Sunak said the government could not match every pound of spending that the UK's 170,000 charities would have received this year.\n\nHe also said charities were eligible for help through the government's job retention scheme.\n\nHowever, he said the government wanted to help the charities that were \"on the front line of fighting the coronavirus\".\n\n\"Shutting up shop at this moment would contravene their very purpose,\" he added.\n\nMr Sunak also said the government would match all donations to the BBC's Big Night In fundraising event on 23 April, pledging a minimum of £20m.\n\n\"We need the gentleness of charity in our lives,\" he said.\n\nJeff Kennedy has been using his own money to sustain the charity he runs\n\nCharity organiser Jeff Kennedy, who runs the Community First Aid Corps in Morecambe, says he has yet to study the details of the Treasury's plan, but that his organisation urgently needs help.\n\nIn normal times, his six-person team provides first aid cover at public events in exchange for donations, but a string of cancellations has left the charity on the brink of going bust.\n\nMr Kennedy said his team had found a new role in the community by collecting shopping for vulnerable people and walking their dogs, but income had dried up, while accommodation and utility bills still needed to be paid.\n\n\"We don't know whether we'll be able to come through this,\" Mr Kennedy told the BBC. \"I've been using my life savings, putting money in out of my own pocket, for a few weeks now, just to keep us afloat.\"\n\nIn the run-up to Mr Sunak's announcement, charities including the St John Ambulance Association had warned that they could go bust unless they received state aid.\n\nThe ambulance association will now receive assistance as part of the package, as will hospices, Citizens Advice and charities dealing with vulnerable children and victims of domestic abuse.\n\nSir John Low, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, said the set of measures from the Treasury would \"offer important and welcome support for civil society at this very difficult time for us all\".\n\nBut there was still \"a long way to go\", he added.\n\n\"Recognising the humbling generosity of the British public right now is so vital as we rally together in the face of such a national challenge,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: \"While this announcement is welcome, it falls far short of filling the financial black hole many organisations are facing.\n\n\"Ministers should continue to look at what additional measures can be made available.\n\n\"We must also see concerted action to guarantee this support can get to charities swiftly, to prevent further damage being done.\"\n• None Coronavirus: Six sectors still crying out for help", "Thank you for joining us today for our live updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales, we will be back shortly after 06:00 tomorrow. Tonight many of you took to the streets to clap, hoot and play instruments to show support for key workers.\n• Another 41 people in Wales have died after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number to 286, Public Health Wales has said\n• Incident director Dr Robin Howe said another 16 confirmed new cases brought the total in Wales to 4,089\n• Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved from intensive care, but remains in hospital for close monitoring\n• The lockdown in Wales will remain in place for \"several more weeks at the very least\"\n• Four inmates at Cardiff Prison have tested positive for coronavirus\n• With warm weather forecast, police are warning people not to be tempted to break restrictions", "A man has run a marathon under lockdown - without leaving his own living room.\n\nPaul Holliday, who had been training for the Manchester marathon - which was postponed because of corornavirus - ran 4,500 lengths of his living room in the north-west of England to raise £2,000 for charity.\n\n\"I woke up, had a hearty breakfast and got under way at 9am,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It took me about four-and-a-half hours. I was planning on doing three hours 45 minutes but I couldn’t get much pace up in my house.\n\n\"It was quite strange. In an outdoor marathon you have the fresh air and people supporting you getting you through the difficult bits.\n\n\"My wife occasionally popped in to check on me today. I had a couple of windows open but there was no breeze.\"\n\nThere was one downside for Holliday, who is head of communications at Bolton Wanderers FC but currently on furlough.\n\n\"I was hoping the carpet would be threadbare at the end of it so I could rip it out. I’ve hated it since we moved in. Sadly it lives to fight another day.\"", "Some dairy farmers are having to throw away thousands of litres of fresh milk due to disruption to the supply chain caused by coronavirus.\n\nThere is concern that some dairy farms may go out of a business, which could result in a milk shortage when demand returns after the pandemic.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union has called for a crisis meeting with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs \"to take immediate steps to ensure the sustainability of the dairy sector\".\n\nThe Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs says it has already put some measures in place to support the sector and would continue to work closely with farmers and the NFU.\n\nThe BBC spoke to one farmer based in the West Midlands.", "Student union president Helena Schofield wants housing firms to be flexible over rent for absent students\n\nStudent leaders in England say full rent should not be charged next term on university rooms left empty by the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nBut in privately run accommodation in Portsmouth, students are being told they must keep paying.\n\nWhat has angered them further is that the block had not been finished in time for the autumn term and students had to be put up in temporary accommodation.\n\nProperty firm Prime Student Living says students are still obliged to pay.\n\nIt points out they are still receiving their loans.\n\n\"Where the situation is so unprecedented there should be some more understanding,\" says Helena Schofield, president of the National Union of Students at the University of Portsmouth.\n\nThe student block in Portsmouth was not ready when the academic year began\n\nManisha Singh, who is taking a masters degree in criminal psychology at the university, says she feels like students are being \"walked all over\".\n\nShe is a resident in Stanhope House, a student housing block managed by Prime Student Living.\n\nBecause of delays in completing the building she spent most of the first term in temporary accommodation - and now faces a term with the campus closed because of coronavirus.\n\nThis has been \"upsetting and pressurising\", she says. And she is angry that she has to keep paying rent for a room that will have cost almost £10,000 for the year.\n\nYusuf Ahmed, who is studying petroleum engineering, says: \"They asked me to be more flexible when they were delayed.\"\n\nAnd now he thinks the property firm should reciprocate and be able to release students from contracts rather than their having to pay until the end of the annual contract in September.\n\nManisha says students should be be able to end their contracts during the coronavirus crisis\n\nEva Crossan Jory, NUS vice-president, says in the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic there is a \"moral duty\" on housing firms to give the \"option of a no-penalty early release from their contracts\".\n\nThe University of Portsmouth has switched to teaching online and has allowed students in university-owned accommodation to end contracts as many will be studying from home.\n\nBut it has no control over private student buildings.\n\nThe university, students' union and local MP Stephen Morgan wrote to private student accommodation firms calling on them to \"do the right thing\" and allow students to end their rental contracts early.\n\nBut Prime Student Living rejected this and replied: \"Tenancy agreements are to remain in force and students are obligated to continue to pay remaining rent.\"\n\nThe property firm has highlighted that students will be receiving their maintenance loans and so should be able to continue with the contracts they signed.\n\nRobert Milne says the student housing sector needs to be more regulated\n\nAnother student in Stanhope House, Robert Milne, says it is \"very annoying\" to pay rent \"knowing I will never go back to that room\".\n\nThe building delay that affected Stanhope House was part of a wave of dozens of unfinished building schemes that left students in the lurch last year.\n\nMr Milne, who is studying property development, says the experience makes him think that student accommodation is in need of tighter regulation, because at present \"it's students who are losing out\".\n\n\"It's grown so quickly and regulation hasn't kept pace with the expansion,\" he says.\n\nThe University of Portsmouth is waiving rents next term in its own accommodation\n\nProfessor Graham Galbraith, vice chancellor of the University of Portsmouth, called on housing providers to let students end contracts and have the \"certainty that they want and need\" at a time of distress and hardship.\n\nAcross the country it is a mixed picture, with some students able to cancel rent on unoccupied rooms, while others have to keep paying.\n\nAccording to student housing charity, Unipol, about 60 universities in England have agreed to waive rent in university-owned accommodation next term.\n\nOthers have yet to decide or could make students continue to pay.\n\nMuch of student accommodation is privately run - and some of these firms are allowing students to stop paying.\n\nUnite, one of the biggest private providers, says: \"We will not be collecting any further payments from students who decide they don't want to return for the summer term.\"\n\nBut this depends on students notifying Unite by 17:00 on Monday 13 April.\n\nPrivate housing providers iQ and Scape are also allowing students to end contracts, with a deadline of 17:00 on Thursday 9 April.\n\nMartin Blakey, of Unipol, said it was fair for both landlords and tenants to reach a compromise and \"share the pain\".\n\n\"No one party [including small landlords as well as the big student property firms] should bear all the loss,\" he said.\n\nUniversities UK said emergency legislation during the coronavirus outbreak meant all students were \"protected from eviction\", whether renting privately or from a university.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video-called the children of key workers at Casterton Primary Academy, in Burnley.\n\nThe royal couple also thanked the teachers for keeping the school open for children of essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic - even during the Easter school holidays.", "MPs have asked people to tell them of their experiences of trying to claim benefits during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Work and Pensions Committee wants to hear from first-time applicants as well as those already using the system.\n\nOver a million people applied for universal credit benefits between 16 March and 3 April.\n\nCommittee chairman Stephen Timms said the number of new claims was “unprecedented”.\n\nThe Labour MP added that the committee would like to hear from people to “better understand the issues faced by people who rely on the benefits system”.\n\nThe surge in claimants follow government measures to limit the spread of the virus, including closing pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops.\n\nThe latest figures on universal credit claimants were revealed in a letter to the MPs from the top civil servant at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).\n\nIn the correspondence, Peter Schofield said the department would normally receive around 55,000 claims in a “normal week”.\n\nHe added that the DWP was facing “exceptional demand” and received 5.8m calls during the last nine days of March.\n\nThis included 1.8m calls between 23-27 March, he said, alongside 2.2m on 30 March and another 1.8m on 31 March.\n\nHe said the department was redeploying staff to manage the volume of calls but warned it would “take some time” to reduce pressure on the system.\n\nUniversal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working-age, which replaced a host of previous benefits including income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit.\n\nIn October 2019, there were 2.6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of whom were in work.\n\nMr Timms said: “The DWP’s front line staff are making a herculean effort to deal with the unprecedented numbers of new claims for universal credit, and we thank them for everything they’re doing at such a difficult time.\n\n“I know they will be focused on making sure that people who need money urgently get their payments as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We are keen to hear about any specific problems claiming benefits, and also more generally about whether people are getting enough money to support themselves and their families during these immensely difficult days.”", "The PM was last seen in public a week ago\n\nBoris Johnson’s health continues to improve in hospital, Downing Street has said after the PM spent his third night in intensive care.\n\nA No 10 spokesman described the prime minister as being in “good spirits” as he continues to receive care in St Thomas’ Hospital, London.\n\nMr Johnson is being given oxygen, having contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe was taken to hospital on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive - and was moved to intensive care on Monday.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson was continuing with \"standard oxygen treatment\". His spokesman has previously confirmed the prime minister has not been on a ventilator.\n\nThe spokesman said No 10 was “hugely grateful” for the messages of support and that the prime minister “thanks NHS staff for the brilliant care which he has been receiving”.\n\nDominic Raab is deputising for the PM while he in hospital\n\nAt Thursday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab gave a brief update on Mr Johnson's condition, saying: \"He is still in intensive care but continues to make positive steps and is in good spirits.\"\n\nMr Raab, who is deputising for the PM while he remains in hospital, said he had chaired an emergency Cobra meeting, with senior ministers and officials from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments, and the London mayor, to \"take stock and assess where we are right across the United Kingdom\" on social distancing measures.\n\nHe said the \"early signs\" were that the measures were having the desired effect, but it was \"too early to say that conclusively\", and they would be kept under review.\n\nHe also revealed that he had not been in contact with Mr Johnson since the PM went into hospital, adding: \"I think it is important to let him focus on the recovery - we in the government have got this covered.\"\n\nAsked if he had the authority to make decisions on the lockdown while Mr Johnson is in intensive care, he said: \"I've got all the authority I need to make the relevant decisions.\"\n\nHe said it was a \"team effort\" but he had been deputised by the prime minister to make calls such as this.\n\nMr Raab has said he is \"confident\" the prime minister will recover from the virus.\n\nIn an interview with TalkRadio, Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"rooting\" for Mr Johnson, and revealed that she had not spoken to the PM since last week.\n\n\"I've been involved in every single key government zoom meeting. I spoke to him last week, around the time of the last cabinet meeting, the last formal meeting I was involved with him.\n\n\"It was clear he was unwell, he needed to get rest and recuperation.\"\n\nMr Johnson was most recently seen in public last Thursday when he joined the country in clapping for NHS workers on the steps of Downing Street.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings has been self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said Mr Cummings was not back in Number 10, but he was in contact.", "\"I can assure you, we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks, and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.\"\n\nThat's how, on 23 March, the prime minister presented the possible timetable for the limits the government was placing on our daily lives to protect our health during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe commitment was written into the emergency laws that were rushed through Parliament before it shut up shop.\n\nThat formalised the promise, saying that the health secretary has to \"review the need for restrictions and requirements\" every 21 days, and it has to happen the first time by 16 April.\n\nWhy, then, did the foreign secretary say on Tuesday something that sounded rather different?\n\nDominic Raab, who is standing in for the prime minister while he is in hospital, said: \"We will take any review once we've got the evidence that the measures are working and having the kind of impact taking us past the peak which means that they can be responsibly done, we're not at that stage yet.\"\n\nDoes that mean there won't be a review after all? Erm, no.\n\nThere are three things going on here.\n\nFirst off, the \"review\" might sound like a formal, grand requirement and make you think of something like the recent review of HS2, or a government spending review, which is a huge exercise that slices up massive public budgets for years to come.\n\nBut while the length of the lockdown is, of course, of massive public interest to everyone, the three week \"review\" in these circumstances is more like a check-up than a huge piece of work.\n\nThere is no requirement even on ministers to publish the way they have made the decision.\n\nAnd the government's senior scientists, and politicians including the Welsh first minister, have made it clear the chances of the restrictions being lifted altogether in the next week are slim to none.\n\nProfessor Chris Whitty, the most senior government medic, even said on Monday that it would be a \"mistake\" to consider exit strategies from lockdown right now.\n\nAt Wednesday's Downing Street briefing, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government was committed to a review of restrictions \"based on the evidence and the data\" provided.\n\nThat data, from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), would \"only be available next week,\" he added.\n\nAsked about the Welsh first minister's announcement that lockdown measures would continue beyond next week, the Chancellor said the government's emergency response committee Cobra would meet on Thursday \"to talk about the approach to the review\".\n\n\"Rather than speculate about the future we should focus on the here and now,\" Mr Sunak stressed, adding that the \"unequivocal\" advice remained for people to stay at home in order for the UK to \"get to the other side of the peak\" of cases.\n\nThe government's Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser Angela McLean said it was \"a really important week… we're all watching what happens\".\n\nThe law says the health secretary must carry out the review\n\nIn truth, even when the prime minister suggested the restrictions might be lifted at the point of three weeks that was an optimistic gloss on one element of a serious statement full of difficult news.\n\nAnd government insiders suggest that they were always looking at a looser timetable - and it's likely that the current set of restrictions will be in place for at least another fortnight and quite possibly well beyond that.\n\nSecondly, there has been more attention on what the decision around the \"review\" will be, because it is the first overt decision of this crisis that the prime minister may be absent for.\n\nThe signs from St Thomas' Hospital on Wednesday were more positive, but Boris Johnson is still in intensive care.\n\nSo however and whenever ministers are ready formally to say that the limits on our lives will stay in place for now, it may be Dominic Raab technically in charge at that stage.\n\nHe does have the power to make that call - in fact, the legislation says the review should be carried out by the health secretary.\n\nLastly though, there are the beginnings of conversations in government about how the restrictions could be lifted in the medium term.\n\nThere is a hunger to do so, amid deep anxieties about the economy.\n\nNearly a million people have signed up for universal credit in the past fortnight, and there are stories of businesses closing everywhere.\n\nSimply, the longer the lockdown goes on, the more it hurts the nation's wallet.\n\nThe limits are there to protect people's health, understandably, but that comes with a massive price.\n\nAnd there are tensions between the various parts of government about what is best, with individual departments arguing from different perspectives.\n\nThere are discussions about whether it's possible to reduce the restrictions step-by-step, to open up parts of the economy, or even some parts of the country at different stages.\n\nThere are ideas, too, about lifting limits on some parts of the population but keeping the most vulnerable protected.\n\nWe have not yet reached the peak of this disease, and in this emergency situation decisions are being made first and foremost to protect people's health.\n\nThe priority is clear - the government is responding to the immediate intense emergency.\n\nBut once, hopefully soon, the peak of the disease has passed, softening the social and economic costs of the lockdown will move up the agenda.\n\nThe next set of decisions and dilemmas for the government could be even more complex.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "Anneliese Dodds is the new shadow chancellor\n\nThe last thing UK business needs in the current economic climate is a \"chaotic exit\" from EU trading rules, Labour's new shadow chancellor has warned.\n\nAnneliese Dodds urged ministers not to put \"ideology over national interest\".\n\nThe UK has left the EU but has given itself until 31 December to negotiate a trade deal, until which time most EU rules will still apply.\n\nNew Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said it was \"a mistake\" to put that date into legislation.\n\nMs Dodds, who served in her predecessor John McDonnell's shadow Treasury team, warned against the \"kind of chaotic exit that has always been a threat under this Conservative government\".\n\nShe called for \"desperately needed\" co-operation with the EU and other international bodies on the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMs Dodds, who represents the Oxford East constituency, was an MEP before entering the Westminster Parliament in 2017.\n\nIn an interview with the PA news agency, she said: \"Very sadly we've seen in areas like provision of protective equipment, testing capacity, ventilators and so forth, what happens when there isn't that co-ordination and when international systems aren't necessarily working in the way that they should be working.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think we've seen that ideological approach from government towards the EU in particular, so I really hope that that changes because we don't really have the luxury currently I think to be indulging in a partisan approach to these matters.\"\n\nShe backed Sir Keir Starmer's stance on Brexit, which saw the Labour Party fight the 2019 election on a promise to renegotiate a Brexit deal with Brussels and then put it to a referendum.\n\n\"Now clearly we didn't win the last general election, we have left the EU,\" she told PA.\n\nBut the \"key questions\" were now about how jobs can be protected \"in a very difficult economic climate\", she added.\n\nThe last thing UK business would want was \"a kind of chaotic approach to trade coming at the end of the year after this very, very difficult period that we're going through economically now,\" said Ms Dodds.\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, has said he wanted to \"reassure everyone\" contacts were continuing between the UK and EU during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe added: \"We have remained in touch throughout, both sides have exchanged legal texts, and last week we had a series of conference calls to explore and clarify technicalities.\"", "President Donald Trump has said the US will have 110,000 ventilators by the end of June.\n\nHe said some of the machines could go to countries like the UK which were \"desperate\" for the machines.", "There is no lockdown in place in Sweden Image caption: There is no lockdown in place in Sweden\n\nSweden is one of the few European countries to avoid a full lockdown. While social distancing is in place, schools remain open across the country, as do bars and restaurants. You can read more about it here.\n\nThat approach has come in for some criticism, at home and abroad. On Thursday the assistant director of Norway’s Directorate of Health, Espen Rostrup Nakstad, said the Swedish plan was “completely wrong”.\n\nHe told newspaper VG that countries that initially adopted a “braking strategy” would have to quickly switch to stronger measures to contain any spread.\n\nBut Anders Tegnell, the chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health Agency, has defended his country’s efforts.\n\n“Norway chose the general strategy of closing as much as possible… to gain some respite,” he told Norway’s public broadcaster NRK.\n\n“We are trying to do the same, but have accepted that closing the community is not the solution.”\n\nAs of Thursday, Sweden has reported 793 dead in total – rising from 687 on Wednesday – with over 9,000 confirmed cases in all. Norway has reported 88 deaths and 6,160 confirmed cases.", "On 19 April 1995, a US army veteran parked a rental truck packed full of explosives outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City and fled the scene, detonating his bomb just as the work day was starting.\n\nThe attack, motivated by anti-government extremist beliefs, killed 168 people and left hundreds more injured. At the time, it was the deadliest terror attack the US had ever seen. It remains the worst committed by an American on US soil.\n\nThis is the story of the bombing, told through five people whose lives it forever changed.\n\nYou may find some of the details in this story upsetting\n\nIt was a beautiful spring morning in America's heartland.\n\nKevin McCullough, an Oklahoma police officer and medical technician, was on his way to spend his day off speaking to a group of children at a local church. Robin Marsh, a local television reporter, was in a planning meeting for the day ahead.\n\nFirefighter Chris Fields and his colleagues were going to spend their Wednesday catching up on maintenance jobs around the station. They'd just relieved another group from a 24-hour shift and were about to get themselves some breakfast.\n\nAren Almon didn't work in the Alfred P Murrah building herself, but lived nearby. The office block, made up of nine floors of reinforced concrete, was a hub of government offices. On any given day more than 500 workers would be inside.\n\nThe building also had a day-care centre, America's Kids, on its second floor. On the morning of 19 April 1995 Aren dropped off her daughter there before heading to her new job six miles away. Baylee had celebrated her first birthday the day before.\n\nAren dropped her daughter Baylee at the Murrah building at about 07:30 that morning\n\nFor Ruth Schwab, the school run had gone smoother than normal. The mother of five got to her job at the Department for Housing and Urban Development earlier than normal that day, just before 09:00. She had just sat down at her desk and was reaching to turn on her computer when the bomb exploded.\n\nIt was the loudest noise she had heard in her life. Thousands of pounds of fertiliser and fuel had ignited, causing a massive explosion to rip through the building's nine levels.\n\nThe blast was so strong that it completely tore away the building's north side. Floors within the crater became a tangled concrete heap. Cars parked nearby were engulfed in flames, sending thick black smoke into the city's air.\n\nThe last thing Ruth remembers is feeling like she was tumbling down and down into a black hole.\n\nFor miles around, Oklahomans felt their floors tremble. The fire station's windows rattled. Kevin McCullough's ambulance shook.\n\nIt was 09:02 on a Wednesday morning and Oklahoma City would never be the same again.\n\nChris Fields and the rest of Station 5 ran outside when they heard the blast. Seeing the smoke so close, they knew they'd be asked to help. They jumped in their engines and sped downtown, stopping along the way to help people injured by flying glass and debris.\n\n\"I probably didn't stand there long, but I felt like I was watching everything in slow motion,\" Chris says of his memories of arriving at the scene. \"The debris was still falling down from the sky and seeing that building in the shape it was - even to this day - it's a daunting image.\"\n\nUrgent calls went in to all first responders. Kevin McCullough turned his ambulance around and raced the few miles to the Murrah building. After parking up, he was confronted with the overwhelming and unmistakable smell of nitrates in the air. The bomb had made downtown Oklahoma City smell like a gun range.\n\nThe giant truck bomb threw dust and debris across the local area\n\nThe attack was carried out on the second anniversary of a deadly FBI raid on the Branch Davidians sect in Waco, Texas\n\n\"It was a chaotic site. People were panicked,\" Kevin says. Some were standing dumbstruck - unable to comprehend what had just happened. Others had made their own way out of the destruction, covered in blood and dust.\n\nWhen Ruth Schwab woke up, she was on her office floor. She'd been facing the direction where the bomb went off and her face had taken the brunt of her injuries. \"I could smell smoke and I was hearing faint cries and moans,\" she remembers. \"When you're blinded and can't see anything, you don't know how to help anybody.\"\n\nShe called out to ask if anyone was there. A friend answered back and warned her not to move. Ruth couldn't see but she was surrounded by debris and was only feet from where the eighth floor had collapsed beneath them.\n\nHer friend helped her up, sat her down and in a kind gesture, gave her a handkerchief. \"It was so sweet because that's the kind of gentleman he was,\" she says. \"But I had to have 200 stitches in my face so the handkerchief really, really didn't do any good.\"\n\nIt took just minutes for local news to start covering the attack.\n\nKWTV News 9, the CBS affiliate where Robin Marsh worked, was the first.\n\nThe network's staff had felt their building shake 10 miles away so they quickly re-routed a news helicopter that had been on the way to another story. The footage it captured, as it slowly circled the building, sent shockwaves. A giant horse-shoe shaped hole had been gouged out of the Murrah building.\n\nThe network immediately dispatched all available reporters to the scene.\n\nThe blast ripped away the building's north side, exposing the floors of offices left inside\n\nLike others around the city, Aren had felt the blast miles away. It seemed like thunder, but the Oklahoma City sky was bright blue. Could it have been a demolition? There was always building work going on downtown.\n\nWhen colleagues said it was an explosion, Aren went to find a television in the break room and saw the helicopter footage. The building where she'd left her daughter was in ruins.\n\nAren called her parents and a colleague drove her as close as they could get. When they reached the building, Aren and her family found a scene of chaos.\n\nDowntown Oklahoma City looked like a war zone. Scores of buildings had been damaged by the blast.\n\n\"I remember walking to the front of the building and seeing everybody walk around with blood everywhere,\" Aren says. \"I was surprised anybody came out of there alive.\"\n\nNo-one had the answers they needed. So they headed to local hospitals to try and find Baylee there.\n\nHundreds of people were injured in the bomb attack, with some taking years and multiple surgeries to recover\n\nAbout an hour and a half after the explosion, a message came over Chris Fields's radio to evacuate. They thought they'd found another bomb.\n\n\"I think that's when everyone looked at each other like: 'What do you mean another explosive device?'\" he recalls. \"We didn't know it was an explosive device to begin with.\"\n\nMost had assumed this was a natural gas leak or an accident. No one dared to imagine this could have been done intentionally. This wasn't New York or Washington DC - this was Oklahoma City, a Bible-belt city of only 450,000 people.\n\nThe news of the bomb scare sent people running from the scene. Among them was reporter Robin Marsh, who was broadcasting live when an official ran toward her telling her to evacuate. \"You're trying to stay composed but I'm thinking, 'I need to pitch back to my anchors and get out of here. We've got to move further away',\" she remembers.\n\nAs the chaos unfolded, local news stations became a vital source of information. They told people who to call and where to go for help. But in a place like Oklahoma City, the tragedy hit close to home. Some of those reporting, including Robin, knew and lost people inside that day.\n\nBy 10:30, Ruth Schwab had arrived at the hospital. She had tried walking out the building at first, but with the stairs thick with debris she was eventually passed to a rescuer and carried out. Ruth was still blinded and doctors knew they were in a race to save her eyes.\n\nIt wasn't until the second scare that Kevin McCullouch moved around the building and saw where all the injured people had been pouring from. He'd been on murder calls and traffic accidents before but had never seen devastation like this.\n\nPeople across the local area, then the country, rushed to help at the scene\n\nMore than 250 buildings had some form of damage from the massive explosion\n\nThe main job for firefighters was search and rescue. \"You try and be prepared for everything but at that point we weren't prepared for something of this magnitude,\" Chris Fields says. At one point, as he walked around the building, a police officer appeared in front of him with a critical infant in his arms.\n\nTrained in first aid, Chris offered to take her. He cleared her throat, which was blocked with concrete or insulation dust debris, to try and open her airway. But with what appeared to be a skull fracture too, there was no sign of life.\n\nChris carried the baby's tiny frame to an ambulance. The paramedic looked at Chris: his vehicle was already full. There were already people on its floor and lying on the ground outside waiting to be transported. \"And I remember him telling me: 'Let me get a blanket because we're not going to put that baby on the ground',\" Chris recalls.\n\nThe firefighter held and looked down at her as he waited. Chris had a son close to her age and his thoughts immediately went to her family: \"I was just looking at her thinking: 'Somebody's world is getting ready to be turned upside down today'.\"\n\nHe would not realise it for hours, but two photographers had captured that exact moment. The image of an Oklahoma City firefighter cradling a lifeless baby, covered in dust and blood, became the most famous of the day. The image, which we have chosen not to reprint, conveyed both the cruelty of the day and the city's loss of innocence.\n\nBut for Aren Almon, the loss was more than symbolic. Chris had been holding her daughter.\n\nThroughout the morning, she and her parents had bounced between hospitals trying to get information. It was only when Baylee's paediatrician came around the corner with a priest that Aren's worst fears were realised. As a single mother, her life had revolved around her daughter. \"I was 22, I still had my grandparents. Nobody in my family had ever died,\" she says.\n\nNineteen of those who died were children, most of whom had been in the building's daycare centre\n\nReports spread throughout Wednesday that the bomb could have been linked to international terrorism. But for Aren, details on who was responsible didn't matter at that point. \"I was just consumed with the fact that I woke up in the morning with a child and was going to bed without one,\" she says.\n\nAs the day wore on, journalist Robin Marsh had ended up in a church with families still searching for loved ones. She got home at about 02:00 after a gruelling 18-hour day covering events. \"I remember I just got into that shower and I just cried my eyes out,\" she recalls.\n\nWhile Kevin McCullough continued to work at the bomb site throughout the day, trying to help victims, he had no idea that his wife had been taken to hospital in labour. His fourth and youngest child, Jordan, was born early in the afternoon.\n\n\"Typically when a new parent is spending time with their baby, you know all the joys that come with that. But I was down at the bombing site helping others deal with the loss,\" he says, his voice breaking. \"That made it, I think, even more difficult in interaction with the people, with the parents, that has lost children down there that day.\"\n\nKevin (pictured) says his son's birth ultimately \"really has helped\" him cope with the pain of what happened\n\nBy Wednesday evening the death toll had climbed into the dozens, with hundreds more injured and missing. The last person to survive was a 15-year-old girl pulled from the rubble that night. In the days after, the number confirmed dead only grew.\n\nAs news of the attack spread, the images of Baylee and Chris spread around the world. \"I remember going home that day, thinking that the worst thing that could ever happen has happened,\" Aren says. \"But then I woke up the next day and looked for a newspaper.\"\n\nThe image of her dead daughter became inescapable. \"Every time I went to the store, it was on the front of magazines,\" she recalls. \"I would go to the doctor's office and there it was. On every television show, every news station, on the front of T-shirts, on coffee mugs. It was everywhere and it was devastating.\"\n\nOne of the photographers, whose version was distributed by the Associated Press news agency, received a Pulitzer prize for the shot. Aren says she continues to feel ostracised from other families, who she says felt their loved ones were forgotten amid the notoriety around Baylee. \"It broke my heart that she had to be seen that way,\" Aren says. \"I have no rights to that picture at all. I can't say how it's used… when you die your rights are abolished.\"\n\nSince 2010, it has been compulsory for children in the state of Oklahoma to be taught about the bombing in school\n\nAren (pictured in 2001) has made sure Baylee remained a part of her other children's lives growing up\n\nEvery year Aren marks what would have been Baylee's birthday with a big family dinner.\n\nOver the years, the firefighter who tried to save her daughter has become a close friend. \"Guilt isn't always rational,\" Chris Fields says. \"I felt a lot of guilt for Aren - she wasn't really allowed to grieve privately because of the photo. I took on a little responsibility for that.\"\n\nChris and other fire officials spent the first day searching for survivors. But after a couple of days, it was clear the operation had turned to recovery in order to help families get closure. It took years for him to process what he went through.\n\nEight or nine years after the bombing, everything came to a head. He had been helping someone build a pool, when it started raining. The smell of wet concrete took him back to 19 April 1995.\n\nAs evening fell on Oklahoma City that day, the bright spring morning turned to rain. \"I remember someone remarking that God is crying right now about what has happened to our city,\" reporter Robin Marsh says.\n\nSome emergency responders spent weeks at the site, combing the wreckage for remains\n\nSome responders came from other states to help with the rescue and recovery effort\n\nOver the next few months, after the pool incident, Chris felt like he was losing control.\n\nEventually he sought help and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He retired from the Oklahoma Fire Department in 2017, after 31 years of service, and now travels around the US speaking to first responders about mental health.\n\nIn the weeks after the bombing, the community counted its loss. On top of those who died, many had life-altering or critical injuries. A doctor had to amputate one woman's leg with a pocket knife to free her from the rubble.\n\nRuth was among those whose recovery took years. About a week after the bombing doctors had to remove her right eye. She had dozens of stitches in her face and her jaw had to be wired shut. \"Because of my own condition, I wasn't able to go to the funerals,\" Ruth recalls. \"I had one friend tell me it's not normal to go to four or five funerals in one day.\"\n\nHer family kept the television on mute at first and tip-toed around her questions over who had been found. \"My very best friend was one of the last bodies to be recovered,\" Ruth says.\n\nIt took more than a month for the final victims to be recovered. Some bodies were discovered only after the unstable remains of the Murrah building were demolished on 23 May.\n\nSome 2,000 spectators were said to have gathered to see the building's implosion\n\nThose who watched the demolition, just over a month on from the blast, including family members of victims\n\nThose who lost loved ones then had to wait years before justice was finalised. Suspicion had initially fallen on Middle Eastern terrorists, given the World Trade Centre bombing two years before. But after finding part of a van, investigators were eventually able to trace its rental back to Timothy McVeigh.\n\nThey were then surprised to find out he had been in custody all along, having been pulled over for unrelated charges while fleeing the city. He and Terry Nichols, a former army colleague who shared his anti-government views, were indicted in August 1995 on murder and conspiracy charges. A third man worked with federal authorities for a lesser charge. But even today, conspiracy theories about a wider plot by the right-wing persist.\n\nMcVeigh was executed three months to the day before the attacks of 11 September 2001, which eclipsed the Oklahoma bombing as the deadliest terror attack on US soil.\n\nA lot of what we know about McVeigh's actions came from the government investigation, but also from a book released shortly before he was put to death. Two Buffalo News reporters, local to where McVeigh grew up, had secretly spent more than 75 hours interviewing him about his actions.\n\nThe book faced criticism from some families and supermarket giant Walmart refused to stock it\n\n\"There was a lot of backlash,\" Lou Michel says about its reception. \"But we understood as journalists that we were doing a public service. This was history.\"\n\nDan Herbeck agrees. \"I would say that if I had an opportunity to interview Adolf Hitler and get inside his mind and find out what drove him to murder millions of innocent people, I would have done that story as well.\n\n\"I think people should know as much as possible what makes these monsters tick. The only way we can prevent future acts like this is to understand as much as possible.\"\n\nThere is now a large memorial and museum where the Murrah building once stood.\n\nLocal children, like Ruth's grandkids, grow up learning about the bombing and visit the site on school trips. It has become a place for Oklahomans to gather and pledge to never forget.\n\nRuth (far left) has a big family and shares with them her experience and memories of those she lost\n\nA memorial ceremony is held on every anniversary - this year, given the pandemic, it was streamed online\n\nIt includes a field of empty chairs for each victim and two gateways, labelled 09:01 and 09:03, to reflect the city's loss of innocence and the moment when its healing began.\n\nThe memorial also features a giant American elm known as the Survivor Tree. Even before the bombing the tree was well-known, having stood curiously alone in the middle of a downtown concrete car park for decades.\n\nStanding just across the street from the Murrah building, it was damaged in the blast. Investigators at one point apparently wanted to cut it down to harvest evidence.\n\nBut today, it thrives. Every year officials harvest and distribute its seeds, hoping the tree and its message can live on throughout the world. \"We always say it witnessed and withstood what happened in our community,\" Robin, who is still a local news reporter, says.\n\nFor Oklahomans the tree has come to symbolise the city's resilience and strength: it is a reminder to keep going, even when all seems lost.\n\nAn inscription around it reads: 'The spirit of this city and this nation will not be defeated; our deeply rooted faith sustains us'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and the Rolling Stones Together At Home\n\nSir Tom Jones and Little Mix have paid tribute to NHS workers during a British version of the star-studded One World: Together At Home virtual concert.\n\nA host of big names performed from home on the US broadcast earlier, before more British stars were added to the line-up for a UK edition on BBC One.\n\nThe event aimed to celebrate healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLittle Mix singer Perrie Edwards said NHS staff and other key workers \"all deserve such a huge thank you\".\n\nThe girl group were among the UK acts who took part in the British version of the concert on Sunday, along with Rag 'N' Bone Man, George the Poet and The Kingdom Choir.\n\nIt was presented by Dermot O'Leary, Clara Amfo and Claudia Winkleman - who, unlike their home-based US counterparts, hosted together in a studio.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John and the Rolling Stones all filmed themselves singing in their own lavish homes, and all appeared in the main concert on US TV on Saturday and the UK version.\n\nLady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift were among the US stars in both. Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne, Michael Buble, Jennifer Lopez, Sam Smith and John Legend also appeared.\n\nSir Tom performed The Glory of Love and told viewers he was isolated for two years when he had tuberculosis as a child.\n\n\"I thought that was bad then,\" the 79-year-old said. \"But the National Health Service helped me then like they're helping all of us right now.\n\n\"So I would like to say thank you so much to the National Health for doing what they did for me then and what they're doing right now for everybody else and we have to do our best to stay home to help the National Health.\n\n\"We should stay home and follow orders and go along with what we're being told to do.\n\n\"Stick with it, be together and we'll survive.\"\n\nThe four members of Little Mix performed from their homes\n\nLittle Mix performed their hit Touch with all four members in different locations. Edwards said she hoped fans were \"being positive during this weird, weird time\".\n\nShe said: \"I think we can all agree that the love that we feel for the NHS staff at this time and the key workers, doctors, nurses, carers, retail workers, postmen, waste collectors, the list goes on and on.\n\n\"You all deserve such a huge thank you and we appreciate you so, so, so much. Everybody please take care of yourselves, take care of your loved ones, stay home, save lives, protect the NHS.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Global Citizen This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAlthough the show was dubbed the \"lockdown Live Aid\", the stars weren't asking viewers to donate to charity.\n\nInstead, Global Citizen, the organisation that put the show together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Lady Gaga, said \"world leaders, corporate partners and philanthropists\" had pledged $127m (£100m) during Saturday's event to support health workers.\n\nAs well as raising funds and celebrating front-line staff, the broadcast gave viewers a glimpse into the homes of pop and rock superstars - from Taylor Swift's floral wallpaper to Sir Elton John's basketball hoop and US singer Charlie Puth's unmade bed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlie Puth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Rolling Stones managed to play together from four separate locations - although drummer Charlie Watts did not appear to have a drum kit in his house.\n\nInstead, he banged on flight cases and the arm of a sofa for their rendition of You Can't Always Get What You Want.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Brian Mfula and Jenelyn Carter had both worked in the Swansea area\n\nTributes have been paid to two workers serving the health care sector in Swansea who have died with Covid-19.\n\nSwansea University said Brian Mfula, was an \"inspiring, warm and generous\" mental health nursing lecturer.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said Jenelyn Carter, was a \"lovely, caring\" healthcare assistant who worked on admissions at Morriston Hospital.\n\nNurse director Mark Madams said she had a \"heart of gold\" and \"would go the extra mile for anyone\".\n\n\"We are devastated by her death and offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends,\" he said in a Facebook message.\n\nProf Ceri Phillips, Swansea University head of the College of Human and Health Sciences, said it had been \"inundated\" with condolence messages following Mr Mfula's death.\n\nHe said the father-of-four was known for his \"generous spirit\", \"warm personality\" and his \"highly infectious laugh\".\n\nProf Phillips said students had described him as an \"inspiring teacher\" and a role model.\n\n\"Brian was also recognised as a dedicated family man and our thoughts and prayers are extended to his wife Mercy and children, Kato, Nkweto, Thabo and Thandiwe for their tragic loss,\" Prof Phillips added.\n\nKato Mfula, 23, said he was \"broken\" by his father's death.\n\n\"I never even got to say goodbye to my hero, my dad,\" he said in a tweet.\n\n\"I'm so broken right now I don't know what we're gonna do without you.\"\n\nA family statement added: \"We just want to say that he was our hero who only ever wanted to help whoever he could.\n\n\"He did it all with a smile and that's how we're going to remember him. We miss him so much.\"", "As we bring our live coverage to an end for the day, here's a reminder of today's developments:\n\nPublic Health Wales announced that 28 more people have died after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nA shortage of personal protective equipment is creating \"immense distress and heightened anxiety\" for Welsh nurses, according to the Royal College of Nursing.\n\nA new drug for recovering heroin addicts is being rolled out across Wales to prevent them having to make daily trips to over-stretched pharmacies.\n\nWe'll be back with the latest on the outbreak in the morning.", "Sir Tom Jones and Little Mix are among the UK artists featuring in a British version of the star-studded One World: Together At Home concert.\n\nThe event, which has already been shown online and on US TV, celebrates the dedication of front-line healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay's Chris Martin, who appeared in the main concert on US TV, are also in the UK version - which is being shown on BBC One on Sunday evening.\n\nFronted by Dermot O'Leary, Clara Amfo and Claudia Winkleman, the BBC concert also includes performances from Rag 'N' Bone Man, George the Poet and The Kingdom Choir.\n\nSir Paul called healthcare workers \"the true heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\n\"Let's tell our leaders that we need them to strengthen the healthcare systems all round the world so that a crisis like this never happens again,\" he said.\n\nAlthough not a charity concert, Global Citizen, the organisation that put the show together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Lady Gaga, said \"world leaders, corporate partners and philanthropists\" had pledged $127m (£100m) during the event to support health workers.\n\nRolling Stones performed together - from their separate homes - for the concert Image caption: Rolling Stones performed together - from their separate homes - for the concert", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"There are currently no plans to have schools open over the summer period\"\n\nThe education secretary has said he cannot give a date for when English schools will reopen, four weeks after they were shut to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Gavin Williamson said there were \"no plans\" to open schools over summer.\n\nHe said five \"tests\" must be met before schools could reopen, including a fall in infections and the daily death rate.\n\nIt follows a Sunday Times report that said schools could reopen on 11 May.\n\nUK schools were closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers on 20 March.\n\nMr Williamson said: \"People are anxious to know when we're going to relax restrictions, when schools are likely to be fully back and open again.\n\n\"Of course, I want nothing more than to see schools back, get them back to normal, make sure the children are sat around, learning, and experiencing the joy of being at school. But I can't give you a date.\"\n\nDecisions on education are devolved in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said five \"tests\" must be met before education establishments could reopen including a fall in the daily death rate from coronavirus, reliable data showing the rate of infection was decreasing to \"manageable levels\", and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak.\n\nAddressing children directly, Mr Williamson said: \"I wanted to say to you how sorry I am that you've had your education disrupted in this way.\n\n\"I want you to know that you are such an important part of this fight too, and I cannot thank you enough for all that you are doing.\"\n\nThe education secretary also said he recognised how care leavers, and those about to leave care, were \"really vulnerable\", adding that he had asked local authorities \"to ensure no-one has to leave care during this difficult time\".\n\nMr Williamson said a further £1.6m had been given to the NSPCC charity to help it provide advice to children and adults.\n\nFrom Monday, he said, a series of 180 online lessons per week will be made available for pupils from reception through to Year 10.\n\nThe online lessons, which have been prepared by teachers and education organisations, will be available under the label of Oak National Academy.\n\nLaptops will be provided for some disadvantaged children in England, including pupils taking GCSEs next year, children with a social worker, or those leaving care.\n\nThere is no specified number of laptops available, or set budget, and it will be up to schools or local authorities to decide who needs help with access to a computer.\n\nMr Williamson also promised free 4G routers to help families connect to the internet.\n\nNo decision is imminent on re-opening schools in England.\n\nThat was the clearest message from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBefore even setting a date he said five tests would need to be met. Once that had happened, parents and teachers would need \"proper notice\" before re-opening schools.\n\nNone of that sounded like any change in the next few weeks.\n\nTeachers' unions have described social distancing in school as \"impossible\" - and head teachers have described pressure for an early return as \"irresponsible\".\n\nMr Williamson's strong notes of caution suggest any return this half-term is unlikely - which would mean attention might shift to the second half of the term - so not before 1 June at the earliest.\n\nThe focus instead will be on helping pupils to learn online at home, because that is where they will be for the foreseeable future.\n\nAnother 596 people in the UK have died in UK hospitals with coronavirus, taking the total number of hospital deaths to 16,060.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 briefing, England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said the lower number of deaths recorded on Sunday was \"very good news\" but cautioned against jumping to conclusions.\n\nShe declined to say whether the UK had \"passed the peak\" of the virus, adding: \"If we don't keep doing the social distancing, we will create a second peak and we definitely won't be past it.\n\n\"But I do think things look to be heading in the right direction.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said while Sunday's figure was the lowest for nearly two weeks, figures often dropped at weekends because of delays reporting and recording deaths.\n\nAddressing ongoing criticism and concern over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care workers, the education secretary said an \"enormous strain\" had been put on the system.\n\nMr Williamson said 400,000 gowns from Turkey which had been expected to arrive on Sunday had been delayed but were due to be flown in to the UK on Monday.\n\nThere have been warnings that some hospitals' intensive care units could run out of gowns this weekend.\n\nAsked by the BBC why UK suppliers offering to make PPE had not been contacted, Mr Williamson said the government hoped to speak to them within \"the next 24 hours\".\n\nHe added that \"every resource of government\" had been deployed to expand supplies of PPE and ventilators.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Kris has been put up in a hotel in west London during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nGiving rough sleepers rooms in hotels should lead to a significant long-term reduction in rough sleeping after the coronavirus outbreak, says a charity for homeless people.\n\nAround 2,000 people have been brought in off the streets in England and put into Travelodges and budget hotels.\n\nSt Mungo's charity says it is an unprecedented opportunity to stop people returning to the street.\n\n\"It's a silver lining in a very grey sky,\" said charity CEO Howard Sinclair.\n\n\"Out of something awful, something positive has come,\" said Mr Sinclair, whose charity has helped to house rough sleepers in hotels, protecting them and preventing the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nHe says it unexpectedly created a huge opportunity to assess the needs of people suddenly taken off the streets, allowing charity workers to look for accommodation and provide support for mental health problems or addictions.\n\nMr Sinclair says this could \"change the landscape\" in terms of reducing the long-term numbers of rough sleepers.\n\nHe says there are still rough sleepers who have avoided being brought under a roof.\n\nBut he is confident that this mass-scale intervention will make a \"significant dent\" in how many will return to the streets.\n\nRough sleepers have been brought inside during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government says 90% of rough sleepers in England have been invited to come indoors during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe opportunity followed the collapse in the tourist industry during the lockdown measures, which left many hotels empty.\n\nThe government and local authorities paid for hotel rooms to house rough sleepers, who could not be left on the streets during the pandemic, either as a risk to themselves or the wider community.\n\nMr Sinclair says the average life expectancy for someone living on the streets is 45 - and that the ill-health of rough sleepers made them highly vulnerable to the coronavirus.\n\nThe biggest number of people being put up in hotels or other temporary accommodation is in London - but there are also people in Bristol, Brighton, Reading, Oxford and Bournemouth.\n\nCharities such as St Mungo's are providing staff in hotels - in which drug use is banned and alcohol discouraged, with the temporary residents getting their own room, meals and laundry.\n\n\"I'm grateful, more than anything,\" says Kris, who is staying in a hotel near Paddington, west London.\n\nHe says it can be lonely being stuck in a hotel room for 23 hours a day for weeks at a time, but he is being well-treated and he hopes it will be \"a great opportunity to get something permanent\".\n\n\"What's going round in my mind is the uncertainty of what happens next,\" he says. But for the moment he has the security of being indoors.\n\nHe usually sells the Big Issue and says he misses his customers and the social life outside, as the magazine has had to stop sales on the streets.\n\nLord Bird, founder of the Big Issue, says putting homeless people into empty hotels has become a chance to get to grips with rough sleeping.\n\n\"We believe very strongly it's an opportunity to move people indoors - and that it's something that should become permanent.\"\n\nHe says there is an irony that attitudes towards rough sleepers have \"gone from utter neglect from the authorities to saying you matter because of fear of spreading the virus\".\n\nBut he warns \"not to expect a happy-ever-after\" outcome - as people living on the streets will have many complex problems from \"decades of neglect\" and might not find it easy to be kept alone indoors.\n\n\"The streets have been turned into a theatre of social collapse,\" says Lord Bird, whose magazine is now being sold in supermarkets and online.\n\nDave, who has been homeless for 15 years, has been put up in a flat in Devon.\n\nHe misses the outdoors and the sounds of sleeping by the sea, but says he has adapted to the indoor life.\n\nWith a roof over his head, he is thinking of volunteering for the NHS.\n\n\"The extra security is nice,\" Dave says, and he thinks it will help homeless people who were at risk from \"undesirables\" who might prey on them.\n\n\"A lot of vulnerable people on the streets will be away from that now. It's great.\n\n\"It raises a few questions about why they couldn't do it before,\" he says.\n\nNickie Aiken, MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, said there had to be \"plans in place to avoid a cliff edge situation once the lockdown is lifted\".\n\nShe said funding specialist workers to go into the hotels to help rough sleepers \"kick their drink and drugs habits\" would \"pay for itself\" in the long run.\n\n\"We have a golden opportunity to help more people to turn their lives around and seek the support they so desperately need. It would be unforgivable to waste this chance,\" said Ms Aiken.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said there had been a \"massive collaborative effort across government, local authorities, health providers and charities - backed by £1.6bn of government funding to help councils respond to coronavirus\".\n\nShe said the scheme for rough sleepers would ensure \"some of the most vulnerable in society are protected from the pandemic. We're also helping vital services, such as mental health or drug and alcohol addiction support, to remain open\".", "An \"enormous strain\" has been put on the system for obtaining protective kit for NHS staff and care workers, the education secretary has said.\n\nSome 400,000 gowns had been expected to arrive from Turkey on Sunday, but the government said it had been delayed.\n\nGavin Williamson was asked by the BBC why British suppliers offering to make protective kit had not been contacted.\n\nHe responded that government hoped to speak to them within the next 24 hours, and the gowns should arrive on Monday.\n\n\"I think we all recognise the enormous strain that has been placed on the whole system and we also recognise that right across the globe people are trying to get the same items of PPE from quite a limited number of suppliers,\" Mr Williamson said at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym also asked why stocks had been allowed to run down over the last couple of years, and why more was not done to boost them in March and February.\n\nThe education secretary said \"every resource of government\" had been deployed to expand supplies of PPE and ventilators.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries, meanwhile, said the UK remained an \"international exemplar\" of pandemic preparedness, adding there had been challenges but the government was \"always looking ahead\".\n\nThe pledge to take delivery of more protective kit came after warnings that some hospitals' intensive care units could run out of gowns this weekend.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association, described the delay as \"very concerning\".\n\n\"Healthcare workers desperately need proper and effective protection now - by whatever means possible,\" he said, adding: \"This really is a matter of life and death.\"\n\nPublic Health England changed its advice on Friday to allow the NHS to re-use gowns if stock was running low, saying \"some compromise\" was needed \"in times of extreme shortages\".\n\nIt asked staff to reuse \"(washable) surgical gowns or coveralls or similar suitable clothing (for example, long-sleeved laboratory coat, long-sleeved patient gown or industrial coverall) with a disposable plastic apron for AGPs (aerosol-generating procedures) and high-risk settings with forearm washing once gown or coverall is removed\".\n\nThe guidance also said hospitals could reserve the gowns for surgical operations and procedures which were likely to transmit respiratory pathogens.\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis said for the guidance on the use of protective equipment to be properly followed, it was \"absolutely critical above everything else that we have the supplies of PPE going out to the front line\".\n\nBut the Royal College of Nursing said the guidance was developed without a full consultation and the British Medical Association (BMA) - which represents doctors - said any change must be driven by science, not availability.\n\nThe delay to the consignment is a real worry, both in the short and long-term.\n\nIt is clear the pandemic stocks we have been largely relying on to date are running out, at least in terms of gowns and visors.\n\nIt has left us depending on international supply - certainly for gowns - as we do not seem to be able to manufacture them ourselves.\n\nGiven the international demand for them, this threatens to be an on-going issue that could cause problems for months to come.\n\nStaff are understandably worried - they are putting their lives at risk.\n\nMinisters and their officials are clearly working hard to do what they can.\n\nBut in the future, serious questions will need to be asked about why this situation has arisen in the first place.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the UK had built up stocks of PPE in expectation of a flu pandemic - as well as to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit - but he said there was a \"worldwide pressure\" on supplies.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said \"serious mistakes have been made\" by the government in tackling the outbreak.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We know that our front-line NHS staff don't have the PPE, that they've been told this weekend that they won't necessarily have the gowns which are vital to keep them safe.\"\n\nThe government has appointed Lord Deighton, who headed the organising committee of the London Olympics, to resolve problems with supplies and distribution of PPE.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "New data has added to growing evidence that the number of deaths linked to coronavirus in UK care homes may be far higher than those recorded so far.\n\nThe National Care Forum (NCF) estimates that more than 4,000 elderly and disabled people have died across all residential and nursing homes.\n\nIts report comes amid calls for accurate data on virus-linked deaths.\n\nOnly 217 such care home deaths have been officially recorded in England and Wales up to 3 April.\n\nThe NCF, which represents not-for-profit care providers, said its findings highlight significant flaws in the official reporting of coronavirus-related death statistics.\n\nIt collected data from care homes looking after more than 30,000 people in the UK, representing 7.4% of those people living in one of the country's thousands of care settings.\n\nIt said that, across those specific homes, in the week between 7 April and 13 April, there had been 299 deaths linked to coronavirus. That was treble the figure for the previous week and double that in the whole of the preceding month.\n\nIf that number was reflected across all residential and nursing homes, NCF estimated there have been 4,040 coronavirus-related deaths in care homes which are not yet included in official figures.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has denied reports the government has drawn up a graduated plan to start easing the lockdown within weeks.\n\nSpeaking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News, he said: \"It is the case that we are looking at all of the evidence, but we have set some tests which need to be passed before we can think of easing restrictions in this lockdown.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said \"no decision has been made\" on when schools in England, which were closed on 20 March, will reopen.\n\nResponding to a report in the Sunday Times suggesting some pupils could return in early May, he tweeted: \"I can reassure schools and parents that they will only reopen when the scientific advice indicates it is the right time to do so.\"\n\nBut addressing claims in the same paper that ministers had failed to prepare properly for the outbreak, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said there were \"serious questions about the government's immediate response to this pandemic and whether they were too slow to act\".\n\nThe daily number of UK-wide coronavirus deaths, announced each day by the government, only includes people who died with the virus in hospital in the four nations.\n\nMinisters have regularly explained that this is because the hospital figures can be quickly collated and released, enabling their experts to analyse trends to help them advise on how the UK is coping with the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVirus-related deaths in care homes - and elsewhere in the community, such as in hospices or in people's own houses - are measured separately and figures covering England and Wales are announced on a weekly basis by the Office for National Statistics every Tuesday.\n\nBecause these are based on what doctors write on death certificates - sometimes only issued in the days after the death - there is a two-week lag on collecting this data from the thousands of care homes involved. For that reason, the figures issued last Tuesday only went up to 3 April.\n\nThat official figure of 217 is less than half the figure provided by two of the UK's largest care home providers which, between them, say they know of 442 coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC), which holds detailed statistics of care home deaths, has been accused by some in the residential care sector of \"dragging their heels\".\n\nThe CQC, England's health and social care regulator, said it was working to \"provide more detailed information about how the pandemic is affecting care homes\".\n\nSeparately, analysis from Care England, which represents large care home providers in England, claims that there have been 7,500 more deaths in care home - from all causes - in the last two weeks than would be expected at this time of year.\n\nAnd modelling by the health consultancy, Candesic, for the Financial Times, suggested the number of deaths due to the epidemic in UK care homes was at least 6,000.\n\nThe fact the National Care Forum is saying there's been such a rapid increase in deaths is not surprising - the hospital figures show deaths have been increasing at a similar rate, before beginning to slow more recently.\n\nBut it is the scale of the deaths which is shocking.\n\nThey are effectively saying the number of deaths is around six times higher than the Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nThe NCF has relied on its own staff to say whether they suspect a person has died of coronavirus as well as including the confirmed cases, whereas the official figures rely on cases where doctors have recorded the virus on death certificates.\n\nSince we have not had widespread testing in care homes so far it is very difficult to really judge the true impact. The government is now promising more testing so it will only be in the coming weeks and months that we will really know.\n\nVic Rayner, the NCF's executive director, said that as long as residents in care services are omitted from the most widely-quoted statistics, the government will not be able to properly plan how to protect its people or prepare an exit strategy.\n\nShe said: \"Our current national debate on how to mitigate and exit this crisis is virtually entirely centred on the management of the peak within hospitals.\n\n\"We are overlooking how this crisis is playing out in other settings, which are there to protect those who are most vulnerable to the impact of the virus.\n\n\"If we truly believe that every life has value, there can be no meaningful discussions about exit strategies without considering these individuals.\"\n\nA statement from the Department of Health said: \"Every death from this virus is a tragedy and that is why we are working around the clock to give the social care sector the equipment and support they need to tackle this global pandemic.\"\n\nThe statement added that it was particularly focusing on providing tests for care workers and their families and ensuring that workers got access to any protective equipment that they required.\n\nThe UK's daily death figures only include those who died with the virus in hospital\n\nElsewhere, 84 tonnes of personal protective equipment for medics and care home workers is due to arrive in the UK today from Turkey. It follows warnings from the healthcare sector that stock was at \"critical\" level.\n\nThe government has appointed Lord Deighton, who headed the Organising Committee of the London Olympics, to resolve problems with supplies and distribution of PPE.\n\nHowever, speaking at Saturday's Downing Street briefing, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick did not dispute the suggestion that the 400,000 gowns in the shipment would only last NHS England around three days.", "The 99-year-old is to be guest of honour at the opening of a Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire\n\nA 99-year-old war veteran who raised an incredible £26m for the NHS is to be guest of honour at the opening of a Nightingale hospital in Harrogate.\n\nCaptain Tom Moore originally aimed to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.\n\nThe veteran, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, will appear via video link at the opening on Tuesday.\n\nHe said it was an honour and a chance to thank NHS workers directly.\n\nThe field hospital - housed within the Harrogate Convention Centre (pictured) - will open on Tuesday\n\nCapt Tom, who lives in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, said: \"I am still amazed by the amount of kindness and generosity from the UK public who continue to give despite it being an uncertain time for many.\n\n\"I think the amount raised demonstrates just how much we all value the dedication and sacrifices made by our NHS workers. I have fought during a war and they are now fighting in a war too.\"\n\nNHS Charities Together said it was \"truly inspired and humbled\" by his efforts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSimon Stevens, NHS chief executive, said: \"On behalf of the NHS our heartfelt thanks go to Captain Tom Moore for his remarkable fundraising efforts for NHS charities.\n\n\"Inviting Captain Moore to be our guest of honour at the opening of NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and Humber is the least we can do to thank him.\"\n\nHarrogate Convention Centre will be used for 500 beds - the first of the field hospitals to be built outside a city.\n\nThe veteran, who served in Myanmar during the Second World War, has been praised by the Duke of Cambridge, who described him as a \"one-man fundraising machine\".\n\nPrince William also made a donation for an undisclosed amount.\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nBrig Andrew Jackson, colonel of the Yorkshire Regiment, described Capt Tom as \"an absolute legend\" who came from \"an exceptional generation that are still an inspiration for our Yorkshire soldiers today\".\n\nKeighley Town Council said it would \"honour the fundraising hero\" with the freedom of the town.\n\nCapt Tom has also inspired others to raise money, including a youngster from Wetherby, in West Yorkshire.\n\nHector Dee is walking six miles in six days to mark his sixth birthday.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nDarts fans were treated to a little slice of history on Saturday - the second night of a new event in which players compete in their own homes.\n\nWith the usual tournaments suspended amid a lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Professional Darts Corporation has launched a 'Home Tour'.\n\nAnd Englishman Luke Woodhouse threw the competition's first perfect nine-dart finish as he averaged 114 in a 5-0 victory over Wales' world number three Gerwyn Price.\n\nWoodhouse later took on Austrian Rowby-John Rodriguez, who said he 'heard' Woodhouse's achievement while he was on the toilet.\n\nAmid lockdown restrictions, the Austrian said he needed permission from his neighbours in Vienna to play past 8pm.\n\nWoodhouse hit 177 twice before a 147 checkout sealed the nine-darter, prompting Price to shout 'well done, son'.\n\nWoodhouse topped the group by winning all three of his matches in the league format.\n\nEach match is broadcast via video calls - filmed on a mobile phone on a tripod - on the PDC's own TV channel and can be watched free by registered users.\n\nEvery player with a tour card has the chance to feature across 32 consecutive nights of the Home Tour.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"We want to make sure the best scientific advice guides us\"\n\nThe government will make a \"balanced judgement\" when deciding how to relax the coronavirus lockdown, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe government does not yet have the information to show it would be safe to lift the restrictions, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nIt comes as another 596 people have died with the virus, taking total UK hospital deaths to 16,060.\n\nA Sunday Times report said schools could reopen as early as 11 May.\n\nMr Gove dismissed that as \"not true\", saying no decision had been made.\n\nHe also added that hospitality venues would be among the last to exit the lockdown, which was extended on Thursday for another three weeks.\n\nStrict limits on daily life - such as requiring people to stay at home, shutting many businesses and preventing gatherings of more than two people - were first introduced on 23 March, as the government tried to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nCalls for the government to provide an exit plan to end the lockdown have intensified, and some other countries have begun to relax their measures.\n\nMr Gove said the UK government was taking \"a deliberately cautious and measured approach, guided by the science\".\n\nHe said: \"When we have the information, when we have the data that allows us confidently to relax those restrictions we will do so, but that data, that information, is not yet in place.\"\n\nHe also said that while the government was investing in trying to get a vaccine as \"quickly as possible\" it could not be certain when it would be ready.\n\n\"I don't think it's the case that anybody should automatically assume that a vaccine is a dead cert to come soon.\"\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert, who is leading a team developing a vaccine at Oxford University, told the BBC's Andrew Marr that they hoped to start clinical trials towards the end of next week but nobody could be sure it was possible \"to find a workable vaccine\".\n\nShe said they would need government support to accelerate manufacturing because the UK currently does not have the facilities to make the vaccine on a large scale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Sarah Gilbert: \"We know that immunity isn't very long-lived\"\n\nAs the trials progress, she said more people would be vaccinated - including the older population - to look at the safety and immune response of the vaccine.\n\n\"That's important because it's the older population that we really need to protect with the vaccine. But with vaccines in general, you get not-so-good immune responses as the immune system ages.\"\n\nProf Gilbert added that other coronaviruses have shown scientists that immunity is not usually very long-lived, but there was a difference between immunity acquired after natural infection and immunity acquired after vaccination.\n\n\"We could find the vaccine-induced immunity lasts a lot longer than infection-induced immunity,\" she said.\n\nThe Sunday Times article suggested schools could reopen in May as part of the first stage of a three-phase \"traffic light\" plan, which would see the over-70s and other vulnerable people having to wait until a vaccine was found to be able to resume normal life.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has denied claims that lockdown restrictions could be lifted next month, saying that all decisions must be \"solidly based and not premature\".\n\nMr Gove was also asked about another wide-ranging report in the same paper which criticised the government's response to the outbreak.\n\nThe report said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is currently recovering from Covid-19, had missed five meetings of the Cobra emergency committee in the run-up to the outbreak.\n\nMr Gove said: \"He didn't (attend) but then he wouldn't - because most Cobra meetings don't have the prime minister attending them.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"grotesque\" to portray Mr Johnson \"as though not caring about this\".\n\nIt comes as there have been a further 482 deaths of people diagnosed with Covid-19, according to NHS England, bringing the total number of hospital deaths in England to 14,400.\n\nIn Scotland, another 10 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died, according to the Scottish government, taking its total to 903 deaths.\n\nOne person in Northern Ireland has died in hospital with coronavirus in the past day, the Public Health Agency has said, bringing the overall number of hospital deaths there to 194.\n\nAnother 41 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died in Wales, Public Health Wales announced on Sunday, taking its total deaths to 575.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said the 596 virus deaths in the UK was the lowest daily figure in nearly two weeks.\n\nBut he added: \"The fall should be treated with caution, the numbers often drop at weekends because of delays reporting and recording deaths.\"\n\nThe government has been criticised for not providing enough protective gear\n\nThe report also said the government ignored calls to order more personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare staff, as well as sending some stock to China.\n\nMr Gove said the UK had sent protective clothing to help China deal with its outbreak, but said Beijing had generously given far more back.\n\nThe pledge to take delivery of more PPE came after warnings that some hospitals' intensive care units could run out of gowns over the weekend.\n\nHowever, a delivery of 84 tonnes of PPE from Turkey which had been due to arrive on Sunday has been delayed.\n\nA government spokesman confirmed the delay, saying they were working \"to ensure the shipment is delivered as soon as possible\".\n\nThe shipment contained only \"a few days' supply\" anyway, according to Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation which represents hospital trusts.\n\nAsked whether the government would own up to any errors it had made, Mr Gove said: \"All governments make mistakes, including our own. We seek to learn and to improve every day.\n\n\"It is the case, I'm sure, at some point in the future, that there will be an opportunity for us to look back, to reflect and to learn some profound lessons.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said there were \"serious questions about the government's immediate response to this pandemic and whether they were too slow to act\".\n\n\"We knew in February how serious this virus was. Yet today our NHS and care staff are still lacking adequate PPE,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anneliese Dodds: \"This isn't about party political advantage or partisan knockabout\"\n\nThe government has appointed Lord Deighton, who headed the Organising Committee of the 2012 London Olympics, to resolve problems with supplies and distribution of PPE.", "Japan, which initially appeared to have the virus under control, has recorded a flurry of new cases\n\nDoctors in Japan have warned that the country's medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases.\n\nEmergency rooms have been unable to treat some patients with serious health conditions due to the extra burden caused by the virus, officials say.\n\nOne ambulance carrying a patient with coronavirus symptoms was turned away by 80 hospitals before he could be seen.\n\nJapan, which initially appeared to have the virus under control, passed 10,000 confirmed cases on Saturday.\n\nMore than 200 people have now died with Covid-19 and the capital Tokyo remains the worst-affected area.\n\nGroups of doctors at GP surgeries in the city are assisting hospitals with the testing of potential coronavirus patients in order to ease some of the pressure on the health system, officials say.\n\n\"This is to prevent the medical system from crumbling,\" Konoshin Tamura, the deputy head of an association of GPs, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Everyone needs to extend a helping hand. Otherwise, hospitals would break down,\" he added.\n\nTwo medical associations said the coronavirus outbreak was reducing the ability of Japan's hospitals to treat other, serious, medical emergencies.\n\nHospitals are already turning away patients, and all this while the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 remains relatively low compared with other countries.\n\nDoctors have complained of a lack of protective equipment, which suggests Japan has not prepared well for the virus. This is despite the fact it was the second country outside China to record an infection, way back in January.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been criticised for not introducing restrictions to deal with the outbreak sooner for fear they could harm the economy.\n\nHis government has argued with the governor of Tokyo, who wanted tougher measures introduced more quickly.\n\nOnly on Thursday did Mr Abe extend a state of emergency to the whole country.\n\nThe government is also working to increase the rate of testing by introducing drive-through facilities. In recent weeks, Japan has conducted far fewer tests than in other countries and experts say this has made it more difficult to track the spread of the disease.\n\nLast month it conducted just 16% of the number of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests that South Korea did, according to data from Oxford University.\n\nAnd unlike South Korea - which has brought its outbreak largely under control through a programme of large-scale testing - the Japanese government said that carrying out widespread testing was a \"waste of resources\".\n\nTesting is also governed by local health centres, not on the national government level - and some of these local centres are not equipped to carry out testing on a major scale.\n\nBut, on Friday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated that the government was shifting its policy on testing and rolling it out more widely.\n\n\"With help from regional medical associations, we will set up testing centres,\" he told a news conference.\n\n\"If home doctors have decided testing is necessary, test samples are taken at these centres and sent to private inspection firms\" he said. \"Thus, the burden on public health centres will be lessened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to self-isolate successfully to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\nHis comments came shortly after he announced a nationwide state of emergency due to the worsening outbreak.\n\nThe move allowed regional governments to urge people to stay inside, but without punitive measures or legal force. It will remain in force until 6 May.\n\nAfter the initial state of emergency came into force on 8 April, a number of other regional governors called for the measures to be extended to their areas, saying that cases were growing and their medical facilities were overwhelmed.\n\nJapan's two emergency medical associations also issued a joint statement warning that they were \"already sensing the collapse of the emergency medical system\".\n\nAnd the mayor of Osaka appealed for people to donate their raincoats, so they could be used as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers whom he said were being forced to fashion PPE out of rubbish bags.", "The details still have to be worked out but the prime minister agrees children need to have fresh air\n\nSpanish children have been kept at home since 14 March, under strict measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nNow Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez aims to relax the rule on 27 April so they can \"get some fresh air\".\n\nBarcelona Mayor Ada Colau, who has young children herself, this week pleaded with the government to allow children outside.\n\nSpain has seen more than 20,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic and almost 200,000 reported cases.\n\nIn a televised briefing on Saturday evening, Mr Sánchez said Spain had left behind \"the most extreme moments and contained the brutal onslaught of the pandemic\".\n\nBut he said he would ask parliament to extend Spain's state of alarm to 9 May as the achievements made were \"still insufficient and above all fragile\" and could not be jeopardised by \"hasty decisions\".\n\nSpain's latest coronavirus figures appear to confirm the virus's downward curve, given that at one point earlier this month the country was recording nearly 1,000 deaths each day.\n\nAlso, the number of daily new infections appears to have stabilised. Although the health ministry has warned that weekend figures can be misleading because of a delay by local authorities in reporting data, the apparently improving picture will further encourage calls for the lifting of certain restrictions.\n\nThere has been growing social and political pressure on Prime Minister Sánchez to allow children, in particular, to go outside. Opposition leader Pablo Casado tweeted that \"these little heroes are climbing the walls\" after more than a month of not being allowed out beyond the confines of their homes.\n\nHowever, a poll published by 40dB for El País reported that 59% of those asked thought that the lockdown should be maintained as it is for the time being.\n\nAnother 410 deaths were reported on Sunday - fewer than Saturday. The latest toll is well down from the peak of the pandemic, and the government allowed some non-essential workers to resume construction and manufacturing last Monday.\n\nHowever, the main lockdown measures remain in place, with adults only allowed out to visit food shops and pharmacies or work considered essential. Children have been barred from going outside their homes completely.\n\nSpain's eight million children have already spent five weeks in confinement and there has been growing unease at the risk to their health.\n\nPedro Sánchez reacted to growing criticism of the decision to keep children indoors since 14 March\n\nThe Spanish Children's Rights Coalition has warned of mental and physical health problems for children as a result of such measures and called for boys and girls to be allowed outside to play and do some physical activity.\n\n\"These children need to get out,\" the Barcelona mayor demanded. \"Wait no more: Free our children!\"\n\nOther countries such as Denmark have begun opening up schools for under-11s while Norway is set to reopen kindergartens on Monday. Germany will reopen some schools on 4 May although the most populous state will begin opening up from Monday.\n\nSweden has kept its schools open throughout the crisis. However, none of these countries has been as badly hit by the virus as Spain.\n\nThe mayor of Barcelona said that like other parents she worried about the \"psychological and emotional health\" of her children\n\nFrom a week on Monday, the prime minister said, children will be allowed out but he added that he had not yet decided how it would be organised and it would have to be \"limited and subject to conditions to avoid contagion\".\n\n\"The proposal is that starting from 27 April they have the opportunity to leave their homes and for a while in the day they get to enjoy fresh air,\" he said, without specifying for how long that would be.\n\nMr Sánchez said he would discuss the details of easing the restrictions with regional leaders on Sunday and following the advice of paediatricians. Reports said the relaxation would only apply to under-12s but that has not been confirmed.\n\nHe accepted that many children were living in homes of 40-50 sq m (430-540 sq ft) in size and that the youngest would be allowed out in the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the ICU in one of Spain's biggest hospitals\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lancashire Police says the man who was spoken to by an officer \"deserves an apology\"\n\nLancashire Police say they plan to apologise to a man after an officer was filmed threatening to \"make something up\" in order to arrest him.\n\nThe clip, shared widely on social media, shows a man in Accrington being spoken to by police on Friday.\n\nThe man tells the officer: \"You're arresting me? What for? I've done nothing wrong.\"\n\nThe officer responds: \"I'll lock you up.... We'll make something up… who are they going to believe, me or you?\"\n\nLancashire Police said on Saturday the man \"deserves an apology\".\n\n\"We are already aware of footage circulating on social media regarding an officer's actions during an incident in Accrington yesterday,\" it tweeted.\n\n\"It is clear from the footage the member of the public deserves an apology, which we will attempt to provide him with today.\"\n\nLancashire Police said the matter was being investigated and had been referred to the force's professional standards department.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Radio 4 soap centres on life in rural England\n\nThe Archers has announced it will broadcast archive episodes featuring key moments because new material is taking longer than hoped to produce during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nFive archive episodes will be broadcast each week from 3 May to 24 May with themes such as weddings and annual traditions in the Ambridge calendar.\n\nThe cast normally records at BBC Birmingham in the city's Mailbox.\n\nThe drama will reflect challenges posed by the virus in the new recordings.\n\nJeremy Howe, editor of the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap, said: \"We know our listeners tune in to The Archers for many different reasons, not simply entertainment but escapism and companionship too.\n\n\"We're working tirelessly in challenging circumstances on writing and producing new episodes in a different, simpler format with cast recording in their homes, but with that work taking a little longer than anticipated, we want listeners to be able to continue visiting Ambridge.\"\n\nHe added many listeners had said they were keen to hear again, or for the first time, \"important moments\" in the lives of Ambridge characters.\n\n\"So we're selecting episodes from the last two decades we hope will give the audience new insight or an enjoyable trip down memory lane,\" he said.\n\nThe first week of archive episodes will including four weddings and the second will focus on key developments for a number of characters.\n\nThe third week will revisit annual traditions, such as the annual flower and produce show.\n\nRecording is typically done weeks in advance of broadcast, meaning writers have so far been unable to reflect the rapidly evolving pandemic on the show.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None The Archers to include coronavirus outbreak in May", "Mobile sanitation tunnels have been placed around the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka\n\nBritons in Bangladesh will be able to fly home on four repatriation flights this week - the first arranged from the country amid the coronavirus crisis - the Foreign Office has confirmed.\n\nIt said the flights from Dhaka to London will depart on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and next Sunday.\n\nThere will be a total of 850 seats, at a charge of £600 each.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said officials were working \"around the clock\" to get travellers home.\n\nMore than 2,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Bangladesh with 84 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. There have been some restrictions on movement within refugee camps and of aid workers in the country.\n\nRobert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, said arrangements are being made to help transfer a number of British citizens from the north-east city of Sylhet.\n\nDomestic flights between Sylhet and the capital Dhaka will be included in the overall cost of the charter flights for those who require them.\n\nBritish travellers in Bangladesh can book seats via a dedicated website.\n\nWhile the Foreign Office has already in recent days flown home thousands of people who were stranded in India and Pakistan, these are the first flights it has chartered from Bangladesh.\n\nA further 17 return flights from India will run between 20 and 27 April while another 10 flights from Pakistan will depart between 21 and 27 April.\n\nThe Foreign Office had estimated between 300,000 and one million Britons were travelling abroad after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March.\n\nMr Raab said: \"Since the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, we've helped more than a million British citizens return home on commercial flights - backed up by our work with the airlines and foreign governments to keep flights running.\n\n\"Our special charter deal with the airlines has enabled us to return thousands more. Now, I can announce the next 31 flights from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh which will get 7,000 more Brits safely back home.\"", "There's more evidence of the scale of the problem care homes are facing when it comes to coronavirus and elderly residents.\n\nAccording to the National Care Forum, which represents not-for-profit care providers, deaths in one week were double those for the whole of the previous month.\n\nThe forum's director, Vic Rayner, told the BBC a \"ring of steel\" should be created for care home settings.", "Front-line NHS staff should be given an extra £29-a-day reward for their service during the coronavirus pandemic, the Lib Dems have said.\n\nHealth and care staff could receive a financial bonus like that given to military personnel on active duty, the party suggested.\n\nActing leader Sir Ed Davey said Downing Street should consider creating a \"front-line support package\".\n\nThe government has said it is working hard to support front-line staff.\n\nThe daily financial boost that it suggests would be for the duration of the lockdown, the Lib Dems said, adding that all key workers should also receive a coronavirus service medal.\n\nSince 2010, members of the UK military have been entitled to a daily operational allowance of £29.02 when they are deployed on specific operations in \"demanding\" conflicts.\n\nThe Lib Dems' other proposals include a call to fast-track the procurement of personal protective equipment for health staff.\n\nSir Ed said several million key workers are \"risking their lives to protect others\" and that \"NHS and care staff are truly on the frontline in this national struggle\".\n\n\"The top priority for front-line staff is protection,\" he said.\n\n\"We should never ask our military to risk their lives without the proper kit, and we shouldn't be leaving health and care workers without sufficient protective kit either.\n\n\"When the country emerges from this crisis, we must also properly recognise those who were willing to serve and make a sacrifice, just as we do with military forces.\"\n\nOther measures in the initiative include providing more practical help for NHS and care staff such as getting hotels to provide accommodation for key workers self-isolating, or those who have vulnerable people in their household.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems want the government to pay for the funerals of key workers who have died during the crisis.\n\nThe Department of Health has already identified 43 NHS workers who have died with coronavirus, but the total is believed to be more than 50.", "A police officer was kicked and bitten as she tried to break up a party that had breached coronavirus rules.\n\nOfficers were called after a gathering attended by people from different households in Sherbourne Court, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, at about 16:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nAfter asking the guests to leave, the police officer was attacked and bitten on the hand, but her injury is not serious, Greater Manchester Police said..\n\nThe officer was attacked at a party in Sherbourne Court Image caption: The officer was attacked at a party in Sherbourne Court\n\nTwo people have been charged with assault on an emergency worker. They are due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on 2 June.", "Iranian TV broadcast an interview with Sahar Tabar after her arrest last year\n\nAn Iranian Instagram star has contracted coronavirus in prison, her lawyer says.\n\nFatemeh Khishvand, better known by her Instagram name Sahar Tabar, came to fame after posting photos in which she resembled what has been described as a zombie version of Angelina Jolie.\n\nMs Khishvand was arrested in late 2019 for crimes including blasphemy and instigating violence.\n\nBut the head of the prison where she is being held denied she was infected.\n\n\"The news released by the lawyer of Fatemeh Khishvand is not true and I deny it,\" Mehdi Mohammadi, the head of Shahr-e Rey women's prison, told Iran's ISNA news agency.\n\nIran has suffered the highest coronavirus death toll in the Middle East, with new figures announced by a health ministry spokesman on Saturday bringing the total to more than 5,000. However, there are fears the true number could be much higher.\n\nMs Khishvand's lawyer Payam Derafshan wrote an open letter to Iran's judiciary, which he posted on his Instagram account.\n\nHe said he had been told by Ms Khishvand's mother that his client had been moved to a quarantine section of the prison after displaying symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe added that Ms Khishvand - who was, he said, a minor when the \"crimes\" were committed - had not been eligible for temporary release because her case was still being processed.\n\nIn March, Iran released 85,000 prisoners - including including British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - in a bid to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nMs Khishvand made international headlines in 2017 when her heavily edited Instagram photos went viral. Her account has since been deleted.\n\nWhile many social media users voiced concern amid reports she had undergone as many as 50 cosmetic surgeries, she told Russia's Sputnik News that the images were the result of \"Photoshop and makeup\".\n\nShe joined a long list of online Iranian influencers who have fallen foul of the law.", "This week it was revealed that teachers in Northern Ireland will predict the grades they think pupils would have achieved in cancelled GCSE, AS and A-Level exams.\n\nSchools will also be asked to rank pupils in each subject from top to bottom.\n\nBut how do teachers, parents and pupils across NI feel about the decision?\n\nTeaching unions have been largely supportive of Education Minister Peter Weir's decision.\n\nStephen McCord, who is incoming president of the Ulster Teachers’ Union and head of science at Larne High, welcomed the fact that \"our members’ expertise will play a pivotal role in how students transition from GCSE to AS and A-Level\".\n\nMr McCord said the news was \"vindication of what we have long maintained - that for too long, education has been blighted by endless, overly bureaucratic assessment and box ticking, leaving teachers’ professionalism increasingly undermined\".\n\nHowever, there is less optimism about the news among the students who will be most directly affected by the move.\n\nFor those who had planned to put the lion's share of their efforts into the last few months of term, the move has come as a particular blow.\n\nIn Katesbridge, County Down, GCSE student Lara Duffy feels the news still leaves \"many questions unanswered\".\n\nLara is concerned that her predicted mark “won’t be a true reflection of my ability, as I didn’t work as hard as I could have at the beginning of the year because it was very difficult adjusting\" from the move up a year.\n\nThis concern is shared by Year 14 student Scarlett Reid who has applied to study journalism at Leeds University in September.\n\nScarlett Reid has applied to study journalism at Leeds University in September\n\nScarlett’s predicted A-Level grades are three As, so she should, in theory, have no problem being accepted on to her course, which requires two As and a B.\n\nHowever, her fear centres around the fact that her peers at Strathearn School in east Belfast are \"particularly high-achieving\".\n\n“Some of my friends have been predicted three or four A stars, so what if the teachers have a limit on the number of A grades they can award?\n\n\"If they put us in rank order, I could be disadvantaged on the basis that my school year happens to be a really strong one academically.”\n\nYear 14 Rathmore College student Flynn Ryan said the move to use predicted grades is \"heaping a lot of pressure on teachers\".\n\n\"There's still a lack of clarity around how exactly this will work and it's understandable some will feel they've been unfairly treated,\" he said.\n\nFlynn, who has applied to Cambridge University and has been predicted to achieve four A stars, believes that \"for those who've worked consistently throughout the year, it's great, but others who would have pushed really hard to achieve what they needed in the last few months, they'll be disadvantaged\".\n\nLisburn mother Lisa Masterson said her Year 14 daughter Serena’s predicted grades would have been enough to grant her entry into her university course of choice.\n\nHowever, after disappointing mock exams in January, she too is worried that, as she attends “a very academically strong school, when it comes to ranking, [her grades] could fall”.\n\n“The uncertainty has caused the entire household to be anxious and stressed,” said Mrs Masterson.\n\n“Ucas decisions have to be made in May. Student finance needs to be applied for - all this whilst not knowing if the entire school year will need be repeated.”\n\nBelfast mother Anna McGovern acknowledged that there was “no perfect solution” to the problem, and that teachers “have a difficult job on their hands”, but she but added that her Year 12 daughter feels she would have done better in the actual exam than she did in her mocks.\n\nMeanwhile Belfast father Kevin Blaney, who is also a teacher, believes the choice the minister made was “a fair decision”.\n\nHe added that in future, “much more emphasis will be placed on mock exams, for fear a similar situation could arise again”.", "Det Con John Coker has been described as \"charismatic, kind and thoughtful\"\n\nA detective with British Transport Police (BTP) has died with coronavirus, the force has said.\n\nDet Con John Coker, 53, who was based at Euston's criminal investigations department, leaves a wife and three children.\n\nHe was \"charismatic, kind and thoughtful\" and \"much-loved and respected by all those he worked with\", Chief Constable Paul Crowther said.\n\nSo far, more than 14,600 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Crowther said his thoughts were with Det Con Coker's family and colleagues.\n\nHe added: \"John has been part of the BTP family for over a decade... he will be greatly missed by all in the force.\"\n\nAccording to BTP, Mr Coker first fell ill on 22 March and was taken into intensive care after his health did not improve. He died on Friday.\n\nTributes have also been paid to a Greater Manchester Police staff member, Marcia Pryce, 61, who died on 2 April after contracting coronavirus.\n\nMs Pryce worked for the force for more than 30 years.\n\nHer sister Amira Asantewa said: \"Marcia was a powerhouse, a positive influence in my life and the lives of the many people she knew and loved.\n\n\"She touched the lives of so many friends and colleagues over the years and made relationships that lasted a life time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The outbreak has changed the way we all live and work - and, as a result, it's given us a whole new, unprecedented set of problems.\n\nWhat if you can't stand your partner, now that you're in lockdown together and can no longer ignore their annoying traits? Or worse - what if you broke up just before the order to stay at home, and are now awkwardly stuck under the same roof?\n\nIf you're lucky enough to work from home, how do you deal with difficult children - or a boss who likes to micromanage you remotely?\n\nWhat if you still have to go in to work - and your boss won't let you wear a mask?\n\nWhat if your parents are driving you crazy?\n\nOr what if you just feel really lonely?\n\nFrankly, this is a time when we could all use some advice and support - so we spoke to some of the US's favourite advice columnists, to find out what problems are bothering their readers the most - and what advice they have.\n\nYou can read more here.\n\nThe authors of Dr Nerdlove, Savage Love, Sense and Sensitivity, The Moneyist, Ask a Manager and ¡Hola Papi! are here to help Image caption: The authors of Dr Nerdlove, Savage Love, Sense and Sensitivity, The Moneyist, Ask a Manager and ¡Hola Papi! are here to help", "As we bring our live coverage to an end for the day, here's a reminder of today's developments:\n\nPublic Health Wales announced that 41 more people have died after testing positive for coronavirus bringing the total to 575. The figure includes deaths in hospitals and may also include some deaths recorded in community settings like care homes.\n\nTributes have been paid to two workers serving the health care sector in Swansea who have died with Covid-19. Swansea University said Brian Mfula, was an \"inspiring, warm and generous\" mental health nursing lecturer. Swansea Bay health board said Jenelyn Carter, was a \"lovely, caring\" healthcare assistant who worked on admissions at Morriston Hospital.\n\nWales' coronavirus testing system has not \"been good enough\", First Minister Mark Drakeford has admitted as he set out plans to \"simplify\" the process.\n\nWe'll be back with the latest on the outbreak in the morning.", "The Queen addressing the nation during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nThere will be no gun salutes to mark the Queen's 94th birthday on Tuesday because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nA Buckingham Palace official said the monarch had decided it would not be appropriate at this time.\n\nIt is believed to be the first time in her 68-year reign that there will be no such salute, which usually take place at Hyde Park and the Tower of London.\n\nThe Trooping the Colour parade in June to mark the Queen's official birthday has already been cancelled.\n\nThat announcement came after the government introduced restrictions in the UK which required people to stay at home.\n\nOver the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, the Queen stressed the importance of maintaining the coronavirus lockdown, saying \"by keeping apart we keep others safe\".\n\nThat message followed her televised address to the nation on 5 April in which she stressed the country would overcome the virus, and told Britons in lockdown: \"We will meet again.\"\n\nGun salutes are used to mark special royal occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries\n\nThe Palace said the Queen's birthday on 21 April would not be marked in any special way, adding that any phone or video calls she has with family would be kept private.\n\nThe Queen cut short her official duties because of the coronavirus crisis, and is staying at Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh.\n• None Queen: 'We will succeed' in fight against virus", "Home energy use is up by up to 30% during the middle of the day, new analysis by energy firms reveals.\n\nMuch of the population is working from home and schools have closed, meaning home computers and televisions are busier than ever.\n\nThe highest peak is at lunchtime, when cooking is added to the power consumption of working from home.\n\nBut overall, the country is actually using less energy because of businesses being closed.\n\nThe National Grid reports that morning and afternoon electricity demand is down by nearly 20%. But most of that is due to lower demand from large, industrial users like factories.\n\nAt home, where individuals are paying, overall demand is up - and may reveal some details about our new habits.\n\nMany people are no longer commuting to the office - giving them longer to stay in bed before getting ready for work. Energy providers can see that, in a \"delay\" to early electricity demand.\n\n\"Households are consuming 21% less electricity than usual at 07:30, as fewer people commute to work, and are taking back the time to sleep later instead,\" a spokeswoman for Bulb Energy said, based on data from more than 2,000 smart meters.\n\nOvo Energy is seeing similar results from a sample of 230,000 customers.\n\n\"Morning routines are less structured and therefore the peak has reduced by up to 20%, as many people are working from home or not working at all,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are seeing big changes in the way people consume energy during the lockdown period.\"\n\nAny energy being saved in the morning is being consumed later. Ovo reports seeing up to a 30% increase in the midday period, and Bulb reports a 27% rise. EDF did not provide figures, but said it was seeing notably higher consumption in the middle of the day.\n\nBulb also says it is seeing a 7% drop in energy use between 21:00 and 23:00, \"suggesting people are switching off earlier too\".\n\nDespite the midday surge, overall domestic demand has increased by only a few percentage points, rather than dramatically surging - partly due to weekend use remaining mostly the same.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The surprising truth about UK energy use\n\nOvo says that \"balancing out the ups and downs\", it is only seeing a 6% overall increase in domestic consumption. EDF says it is only seeing a 3% rise.\n\nBulb said overall use across the week is flat. But it also calculated its weekday usage separately - and said use is up by 17% between 09:00 and 17:00 Monday-Friday. At the weekend, electricity use is actually down 3% - which it attributes to the warmer weather.\n\nGas use, too, is not showing any clear surge in demand, since many people use it for central heating, and the lockdown coincided with warmer weather.\n\nDespite those small overall numbers, energy bills may rise for some more than others. Professionals who use power-hungry computing equipment, or shared households with many people, could see their bills increase.\n\nIn March, the government agreed a deal with energy providers to support those who may have difficulty paying their bills during the crisis, which has left many people out of work.\n\n\"With millions of people having to stay at home, our energy bills will likely rise as we use more gas and electricity,\" says Guy Anker, deputy editor of financial site MoneySavingExpert.com.\n\n\"So with money tight for so many, it makes it even more imperative to cut back on usage where you can, and also to cut back on your bills by ditching rip-off tariffs.\"\n\nSwitching from a standard tariff could save people up to £350 a year, he says - and using one of the many available price comparison sites should only take five minutes.\n\n\"Your supply isn't cut off as part of the process, while no one visits your home unless you want or need smart meters - though installations are paused for now, so it's not an issue during the lockdown.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and the Rolling Stones Together At Home\n\nSome of the biggest names in music have joined forces to celebrate healthcare workers in a globally televised concert.\n\nLady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish were among more than 100 artists who performed songs from their living rooms, due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Rolling Stones even managed to play together from four separate locations.\n\nThe eight-hour show also featured real-life stories from those on the front line of the fight against Covid-19.\n\nThe event raised almost $128m (£102m), with proceeds going towards vaccine development and local and regional charities, organisers Global Citizen said.\n\nLady Gaga, who curated the line-up, called the event \"a love letter to the world\".\n\nDedicating the show to first responders and medical staff, she said the participating musicians all wanted \"to give back a little bit of the kindness that you've given us\".\n\nShe went on to play an upbeat version of Charlie Chaplin's Smile, adding: \"We want to get to the other side of this pandemic and we know you do too.\"\n\nPaul McCartney joined the programme shortly after, calling health-care workers \"the real heroes\" of the crisis and remembering his mother Mary, who was a nurse during the Second World War.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Global Citizen This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nTitled One World: Together At Home, the concert was organised by the Global Citizen movement and the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nIt began with a montage of people under lockdown applauding the efforts of healthcare workers around the world - from France, Spain, the UK, the US and elsewhere.\n\n\"To all of our frontline healthcare workers, we are with you. Thank you for being there for us,\" read an on-screen caption.\n\nProceeds generated from the concert will go to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO, but Lady Gaga made clear the show was not a fundraising telethon and would focus on entertainment and messages of solidarity.\n\nThe global music marathon began with US singer songwriter Andra Day\n\nFirst to perform was US singer songwriter Andra Day, who sang the ballad Rise Up from her apartment, setting the tone for the rest of the evening.\n\nOne Direction star Niall Horan followed shortly afterwards singing Black and White with an acoustic guitar from his living room and former bandmate Liam Payne appeared with the song Midnight.\n\n\"It's a pretty dark time for us all right now... and I feel we're all being brought a lot closer together by this solidarity,\" he said.\n\nThe Killers' singer Brandon Flowers (right) made a special dedication to teachers who are working through the pandemic\n\nBrandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers performed their hit Mr Brightside, while US singer Adam Lambert gave a rendition of the Tears for Fears song Mad World - which he first performed as an X Factor contestant in 2009.\n\nJohn Legend teamed up with Sam Smith to cover Ben E King's Stand By Me, while Billie Eilish played a soulful version of Bobby Hebb's Sunny.\n\n\"I love this song,\" said the star. \"It's always warmed my heart and made me feel good, and I wanted to make you guys feel good, too.\"\n\nThe Rolling Stones also delivered a spirited version You Can't Always Get What You Want - despite drummer Charlie Watts being reduced to banging on flight cases and the arm of a sofa, in the absence of his drum kit.\n\nRita Ora gave a pre-recorded performance of her 2014 song I Will Never Let You Down\n\nBritish singer Rita Ora urged viewers to stay safe and follow WHO recommendations, before singing I Will Never Let You Down.\n\nAnnie Lennox, meanwhile, appeared to address President Donald Trump's threat to pull funding from the WHO earlier this week.\n\n\"In this unprecedented moment in history we have a collective responsibility to make sure that global health systems are strong enough to identify and prevent future pandemics before they happen again,\" said the singer, although she didn't mention President Trump by name.\n\nEllie Goulding and Christine + The Queens also addressed the mental health issues arising from the coronavirus lockdown, urging viewers to reach out to friends if they were feeling low.\n\n\"I know it's hard,\" said Christine, whose real name is Heloise Letissier, \"and don't hesitate to reach out to people virtually if you feel down.\"\n\nThe concert was split into two parts, with a six-hour \"pre-show\" streamed on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube; followed by the main two-hour broadcast, which was shown simultaneously by all three of the main US TV networks.\n\nChat show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon hosted that portion of the show, during which Fallon teamed up with hip-hop group The Roots and dozens of healthcare workers to perform a coronavirus-themed version of the 80s hit Safety Dance.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video 2 by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\n\nOther performers included Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Burna Boy, Luis Fonsi, Hozier and Stevie Wonder - who played a cover of Bill Withers' song Lean On Me.\n\nTaylor Swift also gave an emotional performance of her ballad Soon You'll Get Better, sat against the pastel-coloured floral backdrop of the piano room in her house.\n\nOriginally written as a memoir of Swift's grief over her mother's cancer diagnosis, the lyrics about hospital waiting rooms and desperate prayers took on an added resonance in the context of the pandemic.\n\nThe show closed with Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Andrea Bocelli and John Legend collaborating on a version of The Prayer - originally written for the 1998 film Quest For Camelot - whose lyrics seek a way out of the darkness.\n\n\"When we lose our way / Lead us to the place / Guide us with your grace / To a place where we'll be safe.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Global Citizen This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn the UK, BBC One will screen excerpts of the concert at 19:15-21:15 BST on Sunday, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, Dermot O'Leary and Clara Amfo.\n\nThey will also introduce extra performances from British artists like Little Mix, Sir Tom Jones and Rag 'N' Bone Man, and stories from frontline workers in the UK. Additional footage from the main concert will also be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lang Lang: \"We are so pleased and so honoured to be playing for them\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"I told local councils I would give them the resources to do the job\"\n\nParks and cemeteries must remain open and family can attend loved ones' funerals, Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nSpeaking at Number 10, he said \"people need parks\" but they must observe social distancing and not congregate in groups.\n\nHe also announced an extra £1.6bn for local councils in England.\n\nAnd the ethnicity of victims will be recorded, in an attempt to understand why it affects some groups more.\n\nGiving the government's daily briefing, Mr Jenrick said he had \"made it clear\" to councils that all parks must remain open, after some closed their gates in recent weeks.\n\nHe said lockdown measures were harder for those without gardens or open spaces and that they needed to be accessible for \"the health of the nation\".\n\nMr Jenrick said funerals can go ahead with close family members present so that they can say a \"respectful goodbye\" to those they love.\n\nHe pointed to the death of 13-year-old Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, who died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nThe tragedy was compounded after the family could not attend his funeral, he continued - adding: \"That is not right and it shouldn't have happened.\"\n\nStanding alongside the minister, NHS England's medical director addressed the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS and other caring staff.\n\nProf Stephen Powis said it was \"critical\" PPE gets to NHS staff so they can follow the best possible guidance on its use.\n\nMr Jenrick said 400,000 gowns were arriving in the UK from Turkey on Sunday.\n\nCouncils are facing increased costs during the coronavirus outbreak, from supporting vulnerable people and providing essential services.\n\nMr Jenrick said council workers were the \"unsung heroes\" of the coronavirus response.\n\nThe additional £1.6bn announced doubles the amount the government has said it will pay.\n\nMr Jenrick has said the new total of £3.2bn in funding means an extra £300m would go to the devolved administrations - £155m for Scotland, £95m for Wales and £50m for Northern Ireland.\n\nLocal Government Association (LGA) chairman, Cllr James Jamieson, welcomed the extra cash pledge, saying it would give councils \"breathing space\". But Richard Watts, the LGA's resource chairman, had previously warned Mr Jenrick of \"extreme cost-cutting\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"There does appear to be a disproportionate impact of the virus upon BAME communities\".\n\nMr Jenrick thanked 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore, who has raised an \"astonishing\" £23m for the NHS, and announced he would be guest of honour at opening of the new Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate next week.\n\nHe also acknowledged research was needed to better understand the disproportionate impact of the virus on people from BAME communities.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer has asked Public Health to look at what might be accounting for increased risks and increased deaths in particular groups.\n\nProf Powis said he was also concerned, especially as a number of NHS England staff were from the groups affected and he wanted to know what they could do to support and protect them.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Asda is cancelling a quarter of orders with clothing suppliers despite seeing record food sales during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket chain has also told suppliers that it would only pay for part of such cancelled orders.\n\nA spokesperson for the supermarket said that Covid-19 had \"had a significant impact\" on the fashion industry.\n\nAccording to reports in the Sunday Times, the move has angered suppliers as the range is still on sale.\n\nOne supplier told the newspaper that the \"behaviour is totally unacceptable\".\n\nThey added that it was \"ridiculous\" for the firm, which is owned by US retailer Walmart, \"not to pay for orders\".\n\nAsda told the BBC that suppliers will be paid 30% of the order value for those that have not yet been finished, and half for those that have. That rises to 60% for manufacturers based in Bangladesh.\n\nIt has committed to paying the costs within seven working days, as well as agreeing suppliers can resell items or donate them to charity.\n\n\"We have longstanding and valued relationships with our suppliers, and want to help them weather this crisis,\" the Asda spokesperson added.\n\nThe move comes as the chain has seen a surge in demand for groceries as UK consumers are staying at home amid lockdown measures.\n\nThe supermarket says its warehouse and in-store colleagues are focused on \"getting food onto our shelves for essential retail\".\n\nAsda recently launched a recruitment drive for 5,000 temporary staff in an attempt to keep up with demand\n\nMeanwhile it has invested in additional storage space for products that it says it is struggling to sell due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket said that it had seen \"severe downturn in the demand for clothing\", along with disruption caused by factory closures.\n\nOther retailers such as Primark have recently opted to cancel orders with their suppliers too.\n\nHigh Street chain New Look informed its suppliers earlier this month that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centres would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nGarment manufacturers based in Asia recently told the BBC that they had seen unreasonable demands from big clients, mainly in the US and UK.\n\n\"Some brands are showing a true sense of partnership and high level of ethics in trying to ensure at least enough cash flow to pay workers,\" said Amit Mahtaney, the chief executive of Tusker Apparel Jordan.\n\n\"But we've also experienced demands for cancellations for goods that are ready or are work in progress, or discounts for outstanding payments and for goods in transit. They are also asking for a 30 to 120-day extensions on previously agreed payment terms.\"\n\nAfter growing criticism, some brands such as H&M and Zara-owner Inditex committed to pay in full for existing orders from clothing manufacturers.", "The owner of one of Scotland's oldest riding stables has vowed to keep fighting for her horses despite having no income during the lockdown.\n\nTower Farm Riding Stables in Edinburgh normally provides lessons to 400 people each week.\n\nBut like many businesses it has had to close due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCaroline Buckle, whose family has run the stables for 48 years, said keeping the 39 horses fed and watered with no money coming in was a real struggle.\n\nShe said: \"My horses are relying on me so I will find a way, I have to. I look at their faces and it makes me very upset.\"\n\nThe stables owner said having to close the farm was \"just horrendous\".\n\nShe added: \"Seeing the staff and children turning up for their lessons and being told they couldn't see their favourite ponies. It has been heartbreaking.\"\n\nThe stables provide lessons to about 400 people each week\n\nShe said the business was already using its overdraft and that it would cost about £5,000 a month to keep the centre on the city's Liberton Drive running.\n\n\"I now have zero income, but a lot going out,\" she said.\n\n\"I need to pay for farriers, hay, water, veterinary treatment, field rental and pest control.\n\n\"I'm feeling a lot of stress and anxiety. I've been very worried about the future of the farm.\"\n\nThe stables have been closed during lockdown\n\nMrs Buckle, 42, has furloughed seven of her 15 staff.\n\nShe said she spends £450 a month just on water for the horses and £1,500 a year on pest control.\n\nThe mother-of-two said the situation was far worse than what the farm experienced during the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001.\n\nShe said: \"This is the hardest thing I've ever had to tackle. Events were cancelled during foot and mouth but we could keep operating by restructuring and using lots of disinfectant.\n\n\"We are the only licensed stables in Edinburgh and it is sad to think it might not be there one day.\"\n\nMrs Buckle said lots of people have great memories of learning to ride at the stables\n\nThe riding stables sits on eight acres, with a further 100 acres of fields rented for the horses to graze on.\n\nIt provide lessons for all age groups - with the oldest rider in her 80s.\n\nMrs Buckle said she had received emails from all over the world from people who had grown up riding at the farm. She has also had donations via crowd funding.\n\nShe said: \"The emails of support from people saying they are thinking about me - plus looking around at all my loyal staff - has made determined not to give up.\n\n\"People have said how they have so many good memories of the stables and how we have instilled a passion and empathy for horses in them and how they have taken these skills into their adult lives.\n\n\"I want to fight and come out of the other side. I feel very strongly that we will come out the other side no matter what debt we have.\"", "Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years.\n\nThe rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on 27 May, taking two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nBoth the rocket and spacecraft were developed by private company SpaceX.\n\nNasa has been using Russian rockets for crewed flights since its space shuttle was retired in 2011.\n\nIf successful, SpaceX – headed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk - will become the first private firm to send Nasa astronauts into space.\n\nThe Falcon Nine rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will take off from the space centre’s historic Pad 39A, the same one used for the Apollo and shuttle missions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the critical moments from the SpaceX test\n\nIt will take astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley approximately 24 hours to reach the ISS.\n\nOne American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are currently aboard the ISS.", "Also on the show are Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds, and Sir David Attenborough.", "There have been concerns that poorer pupils could lose out when lessons are being taught online\n\nDisadvantaged teenagers in England will be able to borrow laptops to help them study at home when schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Department for Education is also supporting free online lessons for primary and secondary pupils.\n\nLaptops or tablets will be provided for some deprived 15-year-olds who do not already have access to a computer.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said it will \"take the pressure\" off parents with children at home.\n\n\"Schools will remain shut until the scientific advice changes,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\nTo help parents now running their own classrooms, the government is promoting a series of 180 online lessons per week, for pupils from reception through to Year 10.\n\nLaptops or computer devices will be provided for some disadvantaged pupils in Year 10 - who will be taking their GCSEs next year.\n\nThere is no specified number of laptops available, or set budget, and it will be up to schools or local authorities to decide who needs help with access to a computer.\n\nThey will also be available to children with a social worker or those leaving care - with schools keeping the computers when regular classes open again.\n\nThere is also the offer of some 4G routers to help families connect to the internet.\n\nThe promises over technology reflect worries that pupils from poorer families could be disproportionately losing out during the weeks out of school.\n\nAn academy trust, AET, has already bought 9,000 laptops and devices to give a computer to all its pupils eligible for free school meals, so that they can stay connected.\n\nFor pupils learning at home, online lessons have been prepared by teachers and education organisations, including the Sutton Trust and Teach First, and will be available under the label of Oak National Academy.\n\nThese will be hour-long lessons in a range of subjects, presented by a teacher, with worksheets and a quiz.\n\nThe BBC will also be launching a range of educational resources online and on TV.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, welcomed the efforts to keep pupils learning.\n\nHe backed the focus on Year 10 pupils who have been missing part of their GCSE course - and said there had to be a \"real sense of urgency\" in supporting them.\n\nBut he said it was important to recognise how many families might not have up-to-date computers or might be struggling to pay for broadband.\n\nThere are still \"significant logistical challenges\" with this support scheme, said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Not least, the speed at which these devices can be sourced and delivered,\" he added.\n\nGavin Williamson said the provision of laptops would take pressure off parents and schools\n\nAnne-Marie Canning, chief executive of the Brilliant Club that helps disadvantaged youngsters get into top universities, said access to technology was already a wealth gap in education.\n\n\"Digital exclusion takes many forms, ranging from a lack of devices to the affordability of internet contracts,\" she said.\n\nBeing able to keep up with classes should not depend on \"broadband status\", said Ms Canning.\n\nMr Williamson said: \"By providing young people with these laptops and tablets and enabling schools to access high quality support, we will enable all children to continue learning.\n\n\"We hope this support will take some of the pressure off both parents and schools by providing more materials for them to use,\" said the education secretary.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Williamson said \"no decision has been made\" on when schools in England, which were closed on 20 March, will reopen.\n\nResponding to a report in the Sunday Times suggesting some pupils could return in early May, he tweeted: \"I can reassure schools and parents that they will only reopen when the scientific advice indicates it is the right time to do so.\"", "On 19 April 1995, a US army veteran parked a rental truck packed full of explosives outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City and fled the scene, detonating his bomb just as the work day was starting.\n\nThe attack, motivated by anti-government extremist beliefs, killed 168 people and left hundreds more injured. At the time, it was the deadliest terror attack the US had ever seen. It remains the worst committed by an American on US soil.\n\nThis is the story of the bombing, told through five people whose lives it forever changed.\n\nYou may find some of the details in this story upsetting\n\nIt was a beautiful spring morning in America's heartland.\n\nKevin McCullough, an Oklahoma police officer and medical technician, was on his way to spend his day off speaking to a group of children at a local church. Robin Marsh, a local television reporter, was in a planning meeting for the day ahead.\n\nFirefighter Chris Fields and his colleagues were going to spend their Wednesday catching up on maintenance jobs around the station. They'd just relieved another group from a 24-hour shift and were about to get themselves some breakfast.\n\nAren Almon didn't work in the Alfred P Murrah building herself, but lived nearby. The office block, made up of nine floors of reinforced concrete, was a hub of government offices. On any given day more than 500 workers would be inside.\n\nThe building also had a day-care centre, America's Kids, on its second floor. On the morning of 19 April 1995 Aren dropped off her daughter there before heading to her new job six miles away. Baylee had celebrated her first birthday the day before.\n\nAren dropped her daughter Baylee at the Murrah building at about 07:30 that morning\n\nFor Ruth Schwab, the school run had gone smoother than normal. The mother of five got to her job at the Department for Housing and Urban Development earlier than normal that day, just before 09:00. She had just sat down at her desk and was reaching to turn on her computer when the bomb exploded.\n\nIt was the loudest noise she had heard in her life. Thousands of pounds of fertiliser and fuel had ignited, causing a massive explosion to rip through the building's nine levels.\n\nThe blast was so strong that it completely tore away the building's north side. Floors within the crater became a tangled concrete heap. Cars parked nearby were engulfed in flames, sending thick black smoke into the city's air.\n\nThe last thing Ruth remembers is feeling like she was tumbling down and down into a black hole.\n\nFor miles around, Oklahomans felt their floors tremble. The fire station's windows rattled. Kevin McCullough's ambulance shook.\n\nIt was 09:02 on a Wednesday morning and Oklahoma City would never be the same again.\n\nChris Fields and the rest of Station 5 ran outside when they heard the blast. Seeing the smoke so close, they knew they'd be asked to help. They jumped in their engines and sped downtown, stopping along the way to help people injured by flying glass and debris.\n\n\"I probably didn't stand there long, but I felt like I was watching everything in slow motion,\" Chris says of his memories of arriving at the scene. \"The debris was still falling down from the sky and seeing that building in the shape it was - even to this day - it's a daunting image.\"\n\nUrgent calls went in to all first responders. Kevin McCullough turned his ambulance around and raced the few miles to the Murrah building. After parking up, he was confronted with the overwhelming and unmistakable smell of nitrates in the air. The bomb had made downtown Oklahoma City smell like a gun range.\n\nThe giant truck bomb threw dust and debris across the local area\n\nThe attack was carried out on the second anniversary of a deadly FBI raid on the Branch Davidians sect in Waco, Texas\n\n\"It was a chaotic site. People were panicked,\" Kevin says. Some were standing dumbstruck - unable to comprehend what had just happened. Others had made their own way out of the destruction, covered in blood and dust.\n\nWhen Ruth Schwab woke up, she was on her office floor. She'd been facing the direction where the bomb went off and her face had taken the brunt of her injuries. \"I could smell smoke and I was hearing faint cries and moans,\" she remembers. \"When you're blinded and can't see anything, you don't know how to help anybody.\"\n\nShe called out to ask if anyone was there. A friend answered back and warned her not to move. Ruth couldn't see but she was surrounded by debris and was only feet from where the eighth floor had collapsed beneath them.\n\nHer friend helped her up, sat her down and in a kind gesture, gave her a handkerchief. \"It was so sweet because that's the kind of gentleman he was,\" she says. \"But I had to have 200 stitches in my face so the handkerchief really, really didn't do any good.\"\n\nIt took just minutes for local news to start covering the attack.\n\nKWTV News 9, the CBS affiliate where Robin Marsh worked, was the first.\n\nThe network's staff had felt their building shake 10 miles away so they quickly re-routed a news helicopter that had been on the way to another story. The footage it captured, as it slowly circled the building, sent shockwaves. A giant horse-shoe shaped hole had been gouged out of the Murrah building.\n\nThe network immediately dispatched all available reporters to the scene.\n\nThe blast ripped away the building's north side, exposing the floors of offices left inside\n\nLike others around the city, Aren had felt the blast miles away. It seemed like thunder, but the Oklahoma City sky was bright blue. Could it have been a demolition? There was always building work going on downtown.\n\nWhen colleagues said it was an explosion, Aren went to find a television in the break room and saw the helicopter footage. The building where she'd left her daughter was in ruins.\n\nAren called her parents and a colleague drove her as close as they could get. When they reached the building, Aren and her family found a scene of chaos.\n\nDowntown Oklahoma City looked like a war zone. Scores of buildings had been damaged by the blast.\n\n\"I remember walking to the front of the building and seeing everybody walk around with blood everywhere,\" Aren says. \"I was surprised anybody came out of there alive.\"\n\nNo-one had the answers they needed. So they headed to local hospitals to try and find Baylee there.\n\nHundreds of people were injured in the bomb attack, with some taking years and multiple surgeries to recover\n\nAbout an hour and a half after the explosion, a message came over Chris Fields's radio to evacuate. They thought they'd found another bomb.\n\n\"I think that's when everyone looked at each other like: 'What do you mean another explosive device?'\" he recalls. \"We didn't know it was an explosive device to begin with.\"\n\nMost had assumed this was a natural gas leak or an accident. No one dared to imagine this could have been done intentionally. This wasn't New York or Washington DC - this was Oklahoma City, a Bible-belt city of only 450,000 people.\n\nThe news of the bomb scare sent people running from the scene. Among them was reporter Robin Marsh, who was broadcasting live when an official ran toward her telling her to evacuate. \"You're trying to stay composed but I'm thinking, 'I need to pitch back to my anchors and get out of here. We've got to move further away',\" she remembers.\n\nAs the chaos unfolded, local news stations became a vital source of information. They told people who to call and where to go for help. But in a place like Oklahoma City, the tragedy hit close to home. Some of those reporting, including Robin, knew and lost people inside that day.\n\nBy 10:30, Ruth Schwab had arrived at the hospital. She had tried walking out the building at first, but with the stairs thick with debris she was eventually passed to a rescuer and carried out. Ruth was still blinded and doctors knew they were in a race to save her eyes.\n\nIt wasn't until the second scare that Kevin McCullouch moved around the building and saw where all the injured people had been pouring from. He'd been on murder calls and traffic accidents before but had never seen devastation like this.\n\nPeople across the local area, then the country, rushed to help at the scene\n\nMore than 250 buildings had some form of damage from the massive explosion\n\nThe main job for firefighters was search and rescue. \"You try and be prepared for everything but at that point we weren't prepared for something of this magnitude,\" Chris Fields says. At one point, as he walked around the building, a police officer appeared in front of him with a critical infant in his arms.\n\nTrained in first aid, Chris offered to take her. He cleared her throat, which was blocked with concrete or insulation dust debris, to try and open her airway. But with what appeared to be a skull fracture too, there was no sign of life.\n\nChris carried the baby's tiny frame to an ambulance. The paramedic looked at Chris: his vehicle was already full. There were already people on its floor and lying on the ground outside waiting to be transported. \"And I remember him telling me: 'Let me get a blanket because we're not going to put that baby on the ground',\" Chris recalls.\n\nThe firefighter held and looked down at her as he waited. Chris had a son close to her age and his thoughts immediately went to her family: \"I was just looking at her thinking: 'Somebody's world is getting ready to be turned upside down today'.\"\n\nHe would not realise it for hours, but two photographers had captured that exact moment. The image of an Oklahoma City firefighter cradling a lifeless baby, covered in dust and blood, became the most famous of the day. The image, which we have chosen not to reprint, conveyed both the cruelty of the day and the city's loss of innocence.\n\nBut for Aren Almon, the loss was more than symbolic. Chris had been holding her daughter.\n\nThroughout the morning, she and her parents had bounced between hospitals trying to get information. It was only when Baylee's paediatrician came around the corner with a priest that Aren's worst fears were realised. As a single mother, her life had revolved around her daughter. \"I was 22, I still had my grandparents. Nobody in my family had ever died,\" she says.\n\nNineteen of those who died were children, most of whom had been in the building's daycare centre\n\nReports spread throughout Wednesday that the bomb could have been linked to international terrorism. But for Aren, details on who was responsible didn't matter at that point. \"I was just consumed with the fact that I woke up in the morning with a child and was going to bed without one,\" she says.\n\nAs the day wore on, journalist Robin Marsh had ended up in a church with families still searching for loved ones. She got home at about 02:00 after a gruelling 18-hour day covering events. \"I remember I just got into that shower and I just cried my eyes out,\" she recalls.\n\nWhile Kevin McCullough continued to work at the bomb site throughout the day, trying to help victims, he had no idea that his wife had been taken to hospital in labour. His fourth and youngest child, Jordan, was born early in the afternoon.\n\n\"Typically when a new parent is spending time with their baby, you know all the joys that come with that. But I was down at the bombing site helping others deal with the loss,\" he says, his voice breaking. \"That made it, I think, even more difficult in interaction with the people, with the parents, that has lost children down there that day.\"\n\nKevin (pictured) says his son's birth ultimately \"really has helped\" him cope with the pain of what happened\n\nBy Wednesday evening the death toll had climbed into the dozens, with hundreds more injured and missing. The last person to survive was a 15-year-old girl pulled from the rubble that night. In the days after, the number confirmed dead only grew.\n\nAs news of the attack spread, the images of Baylee and Chris spread around the world. \"I remember going home that day, thinking that the worst thing that could ever happen has happened,\" Aren says. \"But then I woke up the next day and looked for a newspaper.\"\n\nThe image of her dead daughter became inescapable. \"Every time I went to the store, it was on the front of magazines,\" she recalls. \"I would go to the doctor's office and there it was. On every television show, every news station, on the front of T-shirts, on coffee mugs. It was everywhere and it was devastating.\"\n\nOne of the photographers, whose version was distributed by the Associated Press news agency, received a Pulitzer prize for the shot. Aren says she continues to feel ostracised from other families, who she says felt their loved ones were forgotten amid the notoriety around Baylee. \"It broke my heart that she had to be seen that way,\" Aren says. \"I have no rights to that picture at all. I can't say how it's used… when you die your rights are abolished.\"\n\nSince 2010, it has been compulsory for children in the state of Oklahoma to be taught about the bombing in school\n\nAren (pictured in 2001) has made sure Baylee remained a part of her other children's lives growing up\n\nEvery year Aren marks what would have been Baylee's birthday with a big family dinner.\n\nOver the years, the firefighter who tried to save her daughter has become a close friend. \"Guilt isn't always rational,\" Chris Fields says. \"I felt a lot of guilt for Aren - she wasn't really allowed to grieve privately because of the photo. I took on a little responsibility for that.\"\n\nChris and other fire officials spent the first day searching for survivors. But after a couple of days, it was clear the operation had turned to recovery in order to help families get closure. It took years for him to process what he went through.\n\nEight or nine years after the bombing, everything came to a head. He had been helping someone build a pool, when it started raining. The smell of wet concrete took him back to 19 April 1995.\n\nAs evening fell on Oklahoma City that day, the bright spring morning turned to rain. \"I remember someone remarking that God is crying right now about what has happened to our city,\" reporter Robin Marsh says.\n\nSome emergency responders spent weeks at the site, combing the wreckage for remains\n\nSome responders came from other states to help with the rescue and recovery effort\n\nOver the next few months, after the pool incident, Chris felt like he was losing control.\n\nEventually he sought help and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He retired from the Oklahoma Fire Department in 2017, after 31 years of service, and now travels around the US speaking to first responders about mental health.\n\nIn the weeks after the bombing, the community counted its loss. On top of those who died, many had life-altering or critical injuries. A doctor had to amputate one woman's leg with a pocket knife to free her from the rubble.\n\nRuth was among those whose recovery took years. About a week after the bombing doctors had to remove her right eye. She had dozens of stitches in her face and her jaw had to be wired shut. \"Because of my own condition, I wasn't able to go to the funerals,\" Ruth recalls. \"I had one friend tell me it's not normal to go to four or five funerals in one day.\"\n\nHer family kept the television on mute at first and tip-toed around her questions over who had been found. \"My very best friend was one of the last bodies to be recovered,\" Ruth says.\n\nIt took more than a month for the final victims to be recovered. Some bodies were discovered only after the unstable remains of the Murrah building were demolished on 23 May.\n\nSome 2,000 spectators were said to have gathered to see the building's implosion\n\nThose who watched the demolition, just over a month on from the blast, including family members of victims\n\nThose who lost loved ones then had to wait years before justice was finalised. Suspicion had initially fallen on Middle Eastern terrorists, given the World Trade Centre bombing two years before. But after finding part of a van, investigators were eventually able to trace its rental back to Timothy McVeigh.\n\nThey were then surprised to find out he had been in custody all along, having been pulled over for unrelated charges while fleeing the city. He and Terry Nichols, a former army colleague who shared his anti-government views, were indicted in August 1995 on murder and conspiracy charges. A third man worked with federal authorities for a lesser charge. But even today, conspiracy theories about a wider plot by the right-wing persist.\n\nMcVeigh was executed three months to the day before the attacks of 11 September 2001, which eclipsed the Oklahoma bombing as the deadliest terror attack on US soil.\n\nA lot of what we know about McVeigh's actions came from the government investigation, but also from a book released shortly before he was put to death. Two Buffalo News reporters, local to where McVeigh grew up, had secretly spent more than 75 hours interviewing him about his actions.\n\nThe book faced criticism from some families and supermarket giant Walmart refused to stock it\n\n\"There was a lot of backlash,\" Lou Michel says about its reception. \"But we understood as journalists that we were doing a public service. This was history.\"\n\nDan Herbeck agrees. \"I would say that if I had an opportunity to interview Adolf Hitler and get inside his mind and find out what drove him to murder millions of innocent people, I would have done that story as well.\n\n\"I think people should know as much as possible what makes these monsters tick. The only way we can prevent future acts like this is to understand as much as possible.\"\n\nThere is now a large memorial and museum where the Murrah building once stood.\n\nLocal children, like Ruth's grandkids, grow up learning about the bombing and visit the site on school trips. It has become a place for Oklahomans to gather and pledge to never forget.\n\nRuth (far left) has a big family and shares with them her experience and memories of those she lost\n\nA memorial ceremony is held on every anniversary - this year, given the pandemic, it was streamed online\n\nIt includes a field of empty chairs for each victim and two gateways, labelled 09:01 and 09:03, to reflect the city's loss of innocence and the moment when its healing began.\n\nThe memorial also features a giant American elm known as the Survivor Tree. Even before the bombing the tree was well-known, having stood curiously alone in the middle of a downtown concrete car park for decades.\n\nStanding just across the street from the Murrah building, it was damaged in the blast. Investigators at one point apparently wanted to cut it down to harvest evidence.\n\nBut today, it thrives. Every year officials harvest and distribute its seeds, hoping the tree and its message can live on throughout the world. \"We always say it witnessed and withstood what happened in our community,\" Robin, who is still a local news reporter, says.\n\nFor Oklahomans the tree has come to symbolise the city's resilience and strength: it is a reminder to keep going, even when all seems lost.\n\nAn inscription around it reads: 'The spirit of this city and this nation will not be defeated; our deeply rooted faith sustains us'", "That's all for our rolling coverage from across England for today.\n\nWe'll be back with more live updates on Monday morning, but until then you can keep up to date with the latest news here.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "He’s been told he won't receive chemotherapy for three months because it would put him more at risk of the coronavirus.\n\nHe fears having the treatment taken away would shorten his life.\n\nCurrent NHS guidelines say cancer specialists should discuss with their patients whether it is riskier for them to undergo or to delay treatment at this time.\n\nWatch Panorama's 'Coronavirus: The Most at Risk' on Monday night at 20:30pm on BBC iPlayer.", "Four members of a family who were found dead at a house in West Sussex all died of gunshot wounds, police said.\n\nThe bodies of Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40, and Robert Needham, 42, were found with those of their children Ava Needham, four, and two-year-old Lexi Needham.\n\nPolice made the discovery in Duffield Lane in Woodmancote near Chichester on the evening of 29 March.\n\nTheir family have paid tribute, saying they have been left \"devastated and bewildered\" by the four deaths.\n\nSussex Police says it is not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nMs Fitzgibbons' sister, Emma, said: \"Kelly was a wonderful and special person. She was kind, caring, funny and always smiling with an amazing love for life.\n\n\"Kelly was a dedicated and loving mother and adored Rob and her two beautiful children. She had many friends and was devoted to her friends and family.\n\n\"Kelly will be missed by so many people and has left a hole in our hearts that will never be filled.\"\n\nRobert Needham was found dead at the property in Woodmancote\n\nMr Needham's family said: \"Robert was a man with a loving, caring young family. He had a beautiful partner Kelly and daughters Ava and Lexi, who he cared for deeply and who cared for him.\n\n\"He was a quiet and thoughtful son and brother as well, always there to help when he was needed.\n\n\"We are devastated and bewildered at this most difficult of times.\"\n\nThe post-mortem examinations took place on Thursday and Friday and the provisional causes of deaths were recorded as injuries consistent with gunshot wounds.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths will open on 8 April.\n\nThe body of a pet dog was also found at the house, police said.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The beginning of Holy Week is typically marked by a service in the Vatican attended by thousands.\n\nThis year only a small amount of people attended because of coronavirus.", "Sir Keir Starmer has appointed former Labour leader Ed Miliband to his new shadow cabinet.\n\nMr Miliband, who led the party between 2010 and 2015, will now hold the role of shadow business secretary.\n\nSir Keir won the contest to lead the party on Saturday, after beating Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy.\n\nHe named Ms Nandy as his shadow foreign secretary on Sunday, and has now appointed Ms Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary.\n\nEmily Thornberry, who failed to make it onto the final ballot in the leadership contest, will now become shadow international trade secretary.\n\nSir Keir chose his top team on Sunday, naming the party's new deputy leader, Angela Rayner, as chair of Labour, Anneliese Dodds as shadow chancellor and Nick Thomas-Symonds as shadow home secretary.\n\nRachel Reeves took the job of shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but Jonathan Ashworth kept his post as shadow health secretary.\n\nIn Monday's announcement, he confirmed the rest of his frontbench, including David Lammy as the new shadow justice secretary, John Healey as shadow defence secretary and Jonathan Reynolds as shadow work and pensions secretary.\n\nMr Miliband, who has also served as climate and energy secretary under Gordon Brown, wrote on Twitter that he was \"looking forward to serving… alongside such a talented team\".\n\nHe said everyone must \"focus on playing our part\" to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, but added: \"We cannot go back to business as usual after this crisis.\"\n\nBeyond a handful of lesser known names staying at the top table, Sir Keir Starmer has overseen a clear-out of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies.\n\nFourteen people who had not already signalled their departure are leaving the shadow cabinet, with several new names to get used to.\n\nEd Miliband is back with a brief he knows well, having served as energy secretary under Gordon Brown.\n\nAlready the former leader has warned the UK will need to re-shape its economy after the coronavirus crisis, perhaps pointing towards a post-pandemic policy.\n\nLord Falconer is another link to Labour's past in power and Blair-era minister David Lammy, an outspoken and well known face on the backbenches, takes up a key role as shadow justice secretary.\n\nFresh faces bring Sir Keir Starmer the chance to move on from a difficult and divisive time for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he will also be well aware that many in the party's mass membership will not want a complete clean break.\n\nDeputy leadership candidates Ian Murray and Rosena Allin-Khan have both been given jobs in Sir Keir's new line-up - as shadow Scotland secretary and shadow minister for mental health respectively.\n\nAnd Louise Haigh will serve as the interim shadow Northern Ireland secretary after it was confirmed the current holder of the job, Tony Lloyd, has been hospitalised by coronavirus.\n\nValerie Vaz will remain as shadow leader of the House of Commons, while Andy McDonald is moved from transport to take on the new role of shadow employment rights and protections secretary.\n\nBaroness Smith will stay as shadow leader of the Lords and the former Lord Chancellor in Tony Blair's government, Lord Falconer, becomes shadow Attorney General.\n\nThe new shadow cabinet has been described by Labour as \"gender-balanced\", with 17 women and 15 men.\n\nIt also has seven members from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\nAnnouncing the appointments, Sir Keir said he was \"proud\" of his shadow cabinet, saying it \"showcases the breadth, depth and talents of the Labour Party\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a new team that will be relentlessly focused on acting in the national interest to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and rebuilding Labour so that it can win the next election.\"", "People across the UK gathered to watch the Queen's address\n\nThere have been difficult royal speeches and addresses in the past - times when the wrong word or the wrong phrase could have undermined the message or let slip a critical opportunity.\n\nThe broadcast after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 for example, or the speech the Queen gave on her visit to Ireland in 2011.\n\nThe Palace could have played it safe, stressed unity and given thanks. It would have served.\n\nThis was a different and much more ambitious broadcast, designed to reassure and to inspire.\n\nBut most of all to recast the coronavirus crisis as a defining moment for a nation which will forever remember its collective effort to save the lives of its vulnerable.\n\nGiven the number of Second World War metaphors and comparisons that are around at the moment - a war the Queen remembers well - the temptation might have been to draw parallels to that conflict.\n\nBut the only direct reference was to her first ever radio broadcast, in 1940, when the Queen - then a young princess - and her sister Margaret, spoke to children who had been evacuated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again\"\n\nIt was a reminder, not just of the innocence of childhood and of the sacrifices of an earlier generation, but of her long perspective on Britain's history.\n\nEchoes of that struggle of the 1940s, which for so long defined Britain and its self-image, ran through the broadcast.\n\nWinston Churchill said, after the fall of France in 1940, that even after a thousand years it would still be said of Britons that \"this was their finest hour\".\n\nToday the Queen spoke of how history would judge the nation - that \"those that come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any\".\n\n\"The pride in who we are is not part of our past,\" she said, \"it defines our present and our future\".\n\nThe Queen did not revert to talk of Blitz spirit; instead she celebrated the communal feeling that exists today.\n\nThe applause for care and essential workers she said is \"an expression of our national spirit\" and \"its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children\".\n\nThere was no talk of fighting, of struggle, of conflict. Instead she spoke of more peaceful national traits - \"self-discipline\", \"quiet, good-humoured resolve\" and \"fellow-feeling\".\n\nThe Queen's eldest son, Prince Charles, spent seven days in isolation after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nThis was not a warrior-queen's speech; it was about collective effort.\n\n\"Together we are tackling this disease,\" she said. \"If we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.\"\n\n\"We will succeed,\" she insisted, \"and that success will belong to each and every one of us\".\n\nThere was time for some great-grandmotherly wisdom; she, who occupies an often lonely position, offered her thoughts to those who are now alone though self-isolation.\n\nHard times, she acknowledged, but also perhaps an opportunity \"to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation\".\n\nAnd at the end, one more echo of the conflict that so often this crisis has been compared to. The defining song of the Second World War was for many Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again - a longing for better times to come.\n\n\"Better days will return,\" said the Queen. \"We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.\"", "The power struggle over how Premier League footballers can financially assist in the fight against coronavirus is \"a disgrace\" and has players in a \"no-win situation\", says Wayne Rooney.\n\nPlayers have been urged to do more by health secretary Matt Hancock and the Premier League proposed a 30% pay cut.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association says that may harm the NHS.\n\nDerby striker Rooney says he is happy to offer support but asked: \"Why are footballers suddenly the scapegoats?\"\n\nIn his Sunday Times column, the 34-year-old ex-England captain added: \"For the Premier League to just announce the proposal, as it has done, increases the pressure on players and in my opinion it is now a no-win situation: if players come out and say they can't agree or are not willing to cut by 30%, even if the real reasons are that it will financially ruin some, it will be presented as 'Rich Players Refuse Pay Cut'.\n\n\"It seemed strange to me because every other decision in this process has been kept behind closed doors, but this had to be announced publicly.\n\n\"Why? It feels as if it's to shame the players - to force them into a corner where they have to pick up the bill for lost revenue.\"\n• None Furloughing staff: What have clubs done so far?\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate has reportedly taken a 30% pay cut, though the Football Association is yet to confirm the move.\n\nThe Premier League says it wants a 30% cut in players' wages in order to \"protect employment throughout the professional game\".\n\nThe PFA says the proposal would be \"detrimental to our NHS\" as it would equate to more than £500m in wage reductions over 12 months, and a loss in tax contributions of more than £200m to the UK government.\n\nDerby player-coach Rooney questioned the timing of the Premier League's proposed wage cuts when top-flight captains were already in discussions as to how they could set up a fund that would go to a charitable cause, most likely the NHS.\n\nRooney also said the Premier League's own contribution of £20m to the NHS was \"a drop in the ocean\" compared to what players are being asked to give up.\n\n\"How the past few days have played out is a disgrace,\" added England's all-time leading goalscorer.\n\n\"I get that players are well paid and could give up money. But this should be getting done on a case-by-case basis.\n\n\"Clubs should be sitting down with each player and explaining what savings it needs to survive. Players would accept that.\n\n\"One player might say, 'I can afford a 30%'; another might say, 'I can only afford 5%'.\n\n\"Personally, I'd have no problem with some of us paying more. I don't think that would cause any dressing room problems.\n\n\"Whatever way you look at it, we're easy targets. What gets lost is that half our wages get taken by the taxman. Money that goes to the government, money that is helping the NHS.\"\n\nRooney questioned why \"big stars from other sports, who are able to avoid tax by living in places like Monaco\" are not being scrutinised over the financial support they are offering in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe also criticised health secretary Hancock focusing on footballers and believes big clubs do not need players to take cuts in order to survive, adding if they did then \"football is in a far worse position than any of us imagined\".\n\nPremier League leaders Liverpool are facing criticism from former players and fans for joining Newcastle, Tottenham, Bournemouth and Norwich in furloughing non-playing staff.\n\nRooney said he expects people to \"point the finger\" at him for airing his views on the pay-cut issue but wanted to \"speak up\" for players.\n\n\"At the moment it's almost a free-for-all: it's like the government, Premier League and sections of the media have set the players up to fall,\" he added.\n\nFellow ex-England captain Gary Lineker told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show that footballers he had spoken to were \"desperately keen\" to offer help but were an \"easy\" target for criticism.\n\n\"Why not call on all the wealthy to try and help if they possibly can rather than just pick on footballers?\" the Match of the Day presenter said.\n\n\"Nobody seems to talk about the bankers, the CEOs, huge millionaires. Are they standing up? Are they being asked to stand up? We don't know.\n\n\"The problem is how you do it. It's obviously complicated and it takes time. People are always quick to jump on the judgemental high horse, certainly when it comes to footballers but lots of them do lots of really good things and I'm sure they'll continue to do so.\n\n\"Footballers do an extraordinary amount of good in the community, lots of them will already be giving in their own silent ways and I know that plans are afoot to make their contributions to society.\n\n\"I expect an announcement to come in the next few days, the next week or so.\"", "Twelfth of July parades take place every year in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne\n\nTwelfth of July parades have been cancelled across Northern Ireland due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Orange Lodge of Ireland has confirmed the traditional parades will not go ahead this summer.\n\nOrange Lodge of Ireland Grand Master Edward Stevenson said the decision was taken in light of the ongoing pandemic.\n\nHe said the decision was in keeping with current government health advice on restricting gatherings.\n\nHe said all Twelfth demonstrations will be cancelled following consultation with the Order's grand masters in England and Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster welcomed the decision to cancel the parades as a \"responsible step\".\n\n\"The priority for us all must be public health and protecting lives,\" said the DUP leader.\n\n\"By taking such steps now and if everyone adheres to the advice then we can reduce the pressures on our NHS, save lives and ultimately ensure we emerge as strongly as possible from this pandemic.\"\n\nTens of thousands of people attend parades on the Twelfth, which is held on 12 July every year to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.\n\nKing William III - the Dutch-born Protestant better known as William of Orange or King Billy - defeated the Catholic King James II in County Meath in July 1690.\n\nOn 12 July, marching bands from Orange lodges all over Northern Ireland parade through villages, towns and cities.\n\nThey then listen to speeches and prayers by senior Orangemen.\n\nParades were scheduled to take place at 17 venues across Northern Ireland and also in Rossnowlagh, County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is not the first time the Twelfth has been cancelled.\n\nParades were not held for a time during the First and Second World Wars or during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.\n\nAll parades, including the Twelfth, were cancelled in the 1860s due to the Party Processions Act.\n\nAt these times, alternative ways to mark the occasion were found, such as flying flags and displays of Orange Lilies.\n\nMr Stevenson said that \"in the current circumstances\" large gatherings for the Twelfth would \"not be responsible\".\n\nHe said that the order would look at \"alternative ways the Twelfth of July can be appropriately marked in 2020\".\n\nMr Stevenson added that the organisation \"must prioritise the safety of not only our members, but of the entire community\" and that the \"Orange family has already lost members to this terrible virus whilst others are in hospital\".\n\nThe order's Grand Secretary Mervyn Gibson told BBC Talkback that \"there will be plenty of time after this to celebrate our traditional anniversaries\".\n\n\"Indeed those who fought at the Boyne gave up their day and fought a cause, we are asking people to fight a cause today,\" he said.\n\n\"That's coronavirus. After that, we will celebrate how it was beaten and also commemorate those who sadly will not get through this time.\"\n• None Thousands march at Twelfth of July parades across NI", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola's mother, Dolors Sala Carrio, has died aged 82 in Barcelona after contracting coronavirus.\n\n\"Everyone associated with the club sends their most heartfelt sympathy at this most distressing time to Pep, his family and all their friends,\" said Manchester City on social media.\n\nMonday's increase of 637 coronavirus deaths means 13,055 have died in Spain.\n\nLast month, Guardiola donated 1m euros (£920,000) to help fight the outbreak.\n\nThe money will be used to purchase medical equipment and protective material for staff involved in treating those admitted to hospital.\n\nBarcelona is in Catalonia, which is one of the areas in Spain with the most concentrated number of cases.\n\nManchester United posted on social media to say the club was \"saddened to hear this terrible news\", adding: \"We send our heartfelt condolences to Pep and his family.\"\n\nSpaniard Guardiola, 49, has been in charge of Manchester City since July 2016 after spells as manager of Barcelona and Bayern Munich.\n\nLa Liga side Barcelona posted on Twitter: \"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Dolors Sala during this difficult time, and we would like to express our most heartfelt condolences, especially to Pep Guardiola, his family and his friends.\"", "The Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart has sent his \"warmest wishes to the prime minister and, of course, Carrie, for whom this must be an especially worrying time.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms \"worsened\", Downing Street has said.\n\nHis pregnant fiancee Carrie Symonds has been self-isolating after suffering coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIn February they announced they were engaged and are expecting a baby in early summer.\n\nMr Hart added: \"The Boris we all know is a fighter and a winner. He will tackle this setback as he does every other challenge in life, and I wish him well for a full and speedy recovery.”", "Austria's measures are not as strict as those in the Czech Republic and Slovakia\n\nIt is a debate being had across the world - whether wearing a face mask will stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIn Austria it is now compulsory to wear basic masks in supermarkets and other food and drug stores.\n\nThe idea appears to be gaining support across Europe, although there is uncertainty about how useful the measure will be.\n\n\"If you are going to have protection, you should do it properly,\" said Robert, standing outside an artisanal cheese shop in Vienna, his face largely covered by a woodworking respirator mask.\n\n\"I was lucky to have bought this at a hardware store six weeks ago,\" he said. \"It certainly will protect other people, and this mask protects me too. And as I have it, why not?\"\n\nThe new measure introduced by the Austrian government involves much simpler masks than this.\n\nWhen he announced the move, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz stressed that customers at supermarkets would not be asked to wear medical masks, which are needed for hospital personnel, but basic nose and mouth coverings.\n\nHe said the aim was to prevent the wearer coughing or sneezing on others and infecting them, and he suggested masks might be required more widely in public places, once the lockdown began to be lifted.\n\nAustria's neighbours, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, have gone even further, making the wearing of face masks compulsory once you leave home.\n\nIn Germany, the eastern city of Jena has decided that people should cover their faces when shopping or on public transport.\n\nMasks are now compulsory on the Charles Bridge in Prague and anywhere else outside the home\n\nNow America's CDC public health agency has also recommended that homemade cloth face coverings are worn in shops and pharmacies.\n\nUp to now the World Health Organization (WHO) has said people who are sick and show symptoms should wear masks.\n\nBut it advises that healthy people only need to wear them if they are caring for others suspected of being infected or if they themselves are coughing or sneezing. It has said the incorrect use of masks can be counterproductive, leading the wearer to become infected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With face masks in high demand, we look at whether they really can protect people from the virus\n\nA panel of advisers to the WHO is currently assessing the question.\n\nSome people in Austria are now sewing cotton masks for themselves.\n\nOtherwise supermarkets have to provide shoppers with masks if they don't have their own.\n\nThe compulsory mask order could prove a culture shock for Austrians\n\nLouise, who lives in Langenzersdorf just outside Vienna, said wearing masks to protect others was a good idea.\n\nBut after visiting her local store, she said instructions on how to put them on them should be clearer.\n\n\"There should be more advice on how to wear them properly and what to do with them afterwards,\" she wrote to me. \"It wasn't a nice feeling to wear the mask and I think it made me touch my face more to make it fit properly.\"\n\nIf you see anyone wearing this mask, it might just be the BBC's Bethany Bell\n\nSebastian Kurz admits that the move is something of a cultural shift for Austria which introduced a ban on face-coverings, including Muslim burkas and niqabs in 2017.\n\n\"I am fully aware that masks are something alien to our culture,\" he said.\n\nIt'll be a major change, but it is necessary that we take this step to further reduce the further spread\n\nAstrid in Salzburg told me she was confused.\n\n\"For a long time in Austria we were told masks were not needed, that they do not really protect you, and that we should leave the masks we do have to hospital staff.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden, it was announced that we should wear masks in supermarkets. I'm not sure where this change of mind comes from, but still, if they ask us to wear them, we'll do it, of course.\"\n\nAstrid said she had worn a mask on her last shopping trip but it had been a relief to take it off.\n\n\"I'm not used to it. It's hard breathing with masks, and it's hot under there.\"\n• None Should more of us wear face masks?", "Could a tiny hilltop village in Italy help us solve some of the mysteries around coronavirus?\n\nLast week, the village of Nerola, was suddenly declared a red zone, after a dozens of coronavirus cases were discovered.\n\nIt’s been sealed off by the army, and everyone who lives there put into quarantine. Now medical researchers are testing the entire population, in the hope they learn more about the virus.", "Aerial footage shows police patrolling outdoor spaces, and speaking to people not adhering to rules introduced to restrict the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned tougher government restrictions could be enforced if the public flout current measures.", "The BBC's Fergus Walsh is inside intensive care at University College Hospital in London as medics treat patients with coronavirus.\n\nProduced by Nicki Stiastny, filmed and edited by Adam Walker.", "The PM took part in the clap for carers on Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson will carry on self-isolating after continuing to display mild symptoms of the coronavirus including having a temperature.\n\nThe prime minister tested positive for the virus last Friday and had been due to come out of self-isolation today.\n\nMr Johnson continues to work from home and chaired a coronavirus meeting on Friday morning.\n\nHe was seen on Thursday applauding the NHS and other key workers from his flat in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted on Twitter, Mr Johnson said: \"Although I am feeling better and I've done my seven days of isolation alas I still have one of the minor symptoms.\n\n\"I still have a temperature. So in accordance with government advice I must continue my self isolation until that symptom itself goes.\n\n\"But we're working clearly the whole time on our programme to beat the virus.\"\n\nHe also added with expected good weather over the weekend that people may be tempted to ignore the advice and spend more time outside.\n\n\"I just urge you not do do that,\" he said. \"Please, please stick with the guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson warns public to 'stick with the guidance'\n\nHe added: \"This country has made a huge effort, a huge sacrifice and done absolutely brilliantly well in delaying the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Let's stick with it now and remember that incredible clapping last night for our fantastic NHS. We are doing it to protect them and save lives.\"\n\nIt's been more than a week since the prime minister stood at the podium in Downing Street to deliver the daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nSince announcing he'd tested positive for the virus seven days ago his public appearances have been limited to video clips filmed on his phone from inside his flat, above 11 Downing Street.\n\nHe did venture on to the doorstep of No 11 last night to join the national clap for keyworkers and NHS staff - picked up by TV cameras notably stood some distance away.\n\nIn his latest self-shot message, he said he was still showing mild symptoms of the virus and would therefore stay in isolation until they passed.\n\nAnd in a direct plea to the public, he urged people to stick to social distancing guidelines this weekend.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday, to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson was following official guidance which states that you should continue to self-isolate if a temperature persists beyond the advised seven days.\n\nHe said he was not aware of any more cabinet members who had been infected.\n\nMr Johnson spokesman said the PM was continuing to work with Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, who has also tested positive for the virus. It is not known if Mr Whitty is still in isolation.\n\nMr Hancock has said the government has \"a huge amount of work to do\" to meet its target 100,000 coronavirus tests a day, announced at Thursday's news conference.\n\nHe said he was not relying on new antibody blood tests to meet the goal, which was announced after criticism of the UK's testing strategy.\n\n\"It's got to happen. I've got a plan to get us there, I've set it as a goal and it's what the nation needs,\" he said.\n\nLabour has called for more details on what kind of tests will be involved.\n\nIt came as the Prince of Wales officially opened London's new 4,000 bed NHS Nightingale Hospital via a video link from his Scottish home.", "Many people were out in London's green spaces over the weekend during sunny weather\n\nClosing parks and open spaces in the UK amid the coronavirus lockdown should be an \"absolute last resort\", the communities secretary has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that local councils should be \"very judicious\" in taking such a step.\n\nDowning Street said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the public followed social distancing rules over the weekend.\n\nBut one London council closed a park on Sunday, saying thousands of people had flouted guidance during warm weather.\n\nLambeth Council said Brockwell Park was \"open as usual\" on Monday.\n\nMr Jenrick told the programme that he has \"a lot of sympathy\" with those concerned that public confidence could be lost by people in power with ample space telling those in crowded homes they cannot use parks or exercise outside.\n\nHe added: \"This is [the councils] decision, but I have asked them to be very judicious in taking that step and only to do that where they feel it is impossible to maintain social distancing rules within their parks or open spaces.\n\n\"I think that is what motivated them over the weekend.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned sunbathing was against the government's social distancing rules - as many parts of the UK enjoyed warm sunny weather.\n\nLabour's new deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was \"all right for people who have got big houses and huge back gardens\" to tell people sunbathing while observing social distancing to stop doing so.\n\n\"If you're stuck in inadequate accommodation... then I think people should do social distancing and should keep their distance, but also be reasonable and proportionate about that,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Jenrick said that \"no council wants to close parks and open spaces\".\n\n\"That really is an absolute last resort and should be because we want people to be able to go out and have exercise,\" he said.\n\nHe added that exercise should be done responsibly, in accordance with guidelines.\n\n\"It is not to congregate with other people, to have a barbeque or a picnic and to put people's lives in danger by breaching the social distancing rules,\" he said.\n\nGovernment restrictions state that everybody must stay at home where possible, and only leave if they have a \"reasonable excuse\", such as exercise or shopping for basic necessities.\n\nA man jogs in London's Brockwell Park, which was closed over the weekend, on Friday\n\nMr Jenrick said the \"vast majority\" of people were adhering to social distancing guidelines, but added: \"The small minority who are not doing so, please don't spoil things for everybody else.\"\n\nThe communities secretary also insisted there were no \"imminent plans\" to impose tougher social distancing measures, after the health secretary warned that outside exercise could be banned.\n\n\"It would be very unfortunate if we had to do so and make it harder for people, particularly people who live in flats in towns and cities, to get the exercise they deserve,\" he said.\n\nAnd he suggested that measures could be relaxed before long if the \"excess capacity\" in NHS intensive care units can be maintained.\n\nBrockwell Park in south-east London was closed on Sunday, with Lambeth Council saying 3,000 people, many sunbathing or in large groups, had visited on Saturday.\n\nAs the park reopened on Monday, local councillor Sonia Winifred said she hoped the message was \"crystal clear\" to those who ignored the government's rules.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor social distancing as far as possible during this lockdown, in coordination with the police,\" she said, urging people to continue to stay at home.\n\n\"Patrolling parks at this time to make sure people are following the very clear national guidelines isn't the best use of our resources. Neither is having to organise park closures.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, police moved on more than 100 people in north London's Primrose Hill on Saturday and rules were breached on the south coast.\n\nParks are a \"lifeline\" but councils will be \"reluctantly forced\" to close them if people fail to abide by social distancing rules, the Local Government Association's chairman, councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, said.\n\nHowever, the consensus in government is that the public are largely obeying the rules.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"All indications are that the overwhelming majority of the British public chose to stay at home over the weekend or if they did leave they only left for those essential reasons.\"\n\nOn Monday, London's Royal Parks thanked \"everyone who used their local parks and green spaces responsibly over the weekend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after some police and local councils thanked the public on Sunday upon finding far fewer crowds in open spaces - despite higher temperatures than the previous day.\n\nBrighton beach was nearly deserted on Sunday, following a warning by Brighton and Hove City Council that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront.\n\nIt prompted a tweet from Sussex Police thanking the public for heeding government advice.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sussex Police #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Essex, local police echoed the sentiment, tweeting that \"areas that would normally be busy on a sunny Sunday are not today\".\n\nOver the weekend, Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, Harriet Harman, called for a rota for the use of public parks, writing on Twitter that families in flats with young children need green spaces during the lockdown.\n\nShe has since backed the idea of opening up empty golf courses to the public, alongside Green MP Caroline Lucas.\n\nOne golf club near Ipswich has complained of people sunbathing and picnicking on its course, which is built on common land, over the weekend.", "I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.\n\nA time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.\n\nI want to thank everyone on the NHS frontline, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all.\n\nI am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.\n\nI also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones.\n\nTogether we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.\n\nI hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.\n\nAnd those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.\n\nThat the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country.\n\nThe pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.\n\nThe moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.\n\nAcross the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help the relief effort.\n\nAnd though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.\n\nIt reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister.\n\nWe, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety.\n\nToday, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.\n\nWhile we have faced challenges before, this one is different.\n\nThis time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal.\n\nWe will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us.\n\nWe should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.\n\nBut for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.", "Charities are warning hospices could close if funding is not found\n\nHospices could close as they \"cannot wait any longer\" for emergency funding after the coronavirus lockdown hit fundraising, charities have said.\n\nSue Ryder said it is facing a £12m gap in funds over the next three months while Marie Curie said it would need £30m to keep services running over the same period.\n\nBosses say they are helping the NHS by freeing up beds for Covid-19 patients.\n\nHospice UK estimates the sector has already lost more than £70m in revenue.\n\nWith charity shops closed and fundraising events such as the London Marathon as well as individual events run by charities being postponed, the charities that run end of life facilities said services may have to be closed unless the public or government, stepped in.\n\nHeidi Travis, Sue Ryder chief executive, said hospices \"cannot wait any longer\" and were \"a critical frontline support service in the fight against coronavirus\".\n\nShe said: \"We have been calling on the government to support us but no funding has materialised.\n\n\"The country will lose its hospices at a time when they are needed most.\"\n\nMarie Curie runs nine hospices across the UK as well as having more than 2,000 nurses visiting patients and is working with the NHS to see if its staff can be of use at the Nightingale Hospitals.\n\nMeredith Niles, executive director of fundraising and engagement at Marie Curie, said: \"It takes £2.5m just to keep the lights on and do what we normally do, let alone when we are doing extra things.\n\n\"We have a sustainable fundraising model but almost all of that relies on the assumption that people can leave their houses.\"\n\nA spokesman for Hospice UK said there had been \"productive\" conversations with the government but no details on funding had been given.\n\nSupplies of protective equipment remain a problem, he said.", "New car registrations for March saw a steeper fall than during the financial crisis, according to the motor industry.\n\nData from the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show a drop of 44.4% compared with last year.\n\nMarch is usually one of the strongest months of the year for the car industry.\n\nBut the Covid-19 outbreak has taken a heavy toll, forcing potential customers to stay at home for the past fortnight.\n\nNew number plate registrations are released in March and September every year.\n\nBut last month new registrations dropped by about 200,000 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThey fell to the lowest level in March for more than two decades.\n\nThe crisis has come at a difficult time for the motor industry, which was already suffering with falling sales and a collapse in demand for diesel vehicles, while struggling to meet tough new emissions targets.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has also halted car production.\n\nAll of the UK's major car factories suspended work last month, and it is not yet clear when they will reopen.\n\nIn total, 254,684 new cars were registered in March according to the SMMT, a fall of 203,370 compared with March 2019.\n\nDemand from private buyers and larger fleets fell by 40.4% and 47.4% respectively.\n\nAt the same time, the numbers of petrol and diesel cars reaching the country's roads were down 49.9% and 61.9% respectively.\n\nHowever, registrations of battery electric vehicles rose almost threefold to 11,694 units, accounting for 4.6% of the market, while plug-in hybrids grew by 38%. Hybrid electric vehicles fell 7.1%.\n\nThe SMMT said it now expected car sales of 1.73 million in 2020, 25% lower than last year.\n\nLarger falls in new car registrations have been reported in other European countries, with Italy down -85%, France -72% and Spain down -69% in March, the SMMT said.\n\nSMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said, \"With the country locked down in crisis mode for a large part of March, this decline will come as no surprise.\n\n\"Despite this being the lowest March since we moved to the bi-annual plate change system, it could have been worse, had the significant advanced orders placed for the new 20 plate not been delivered in the early part of the month.\n\n\"We should not, however, draw long-term conclusions from these figures, other than this being a stark realisation of what happens when economies grind to a halt.\"\n\nMr Hawes added that it was uncertain how long the market would remain stalled, but it would reopen and the products would be there.", "Quote Message: Two women a week were killed by a partner or ex before the coronavirus crisis - a fact that is shocking enough. Now some will be trapped with a violent perpetrator in self-isolation or lockdown so it’s even more vital to get the helpline number out there. People need to know there is someone right now available to take your call and help if you’re in an abusive or threatening situation. I’d written the number on my hand to tweet a photo of it first thing alongside the new figures from Refuge, and left it on my skin in case it could help any of the millions watching after 09:00 on BBC One.' from Victoria Derbyshire\n\nTwo women a week were killed by a partner or ex before the coronavirus crisis - a fact that is shocking enough. Now some will be trapped with a violent perpetrator in self-isolation or lockdown so it’s even more vital to get the helpline number out there. People need to know there is someone right now available to take your call and help if you’re in an abusive or threatening situation. I’d written the number on my hand to tweet a photo of it first thing alongside the new figures from Refuge, and left it on my skin in case it could help any of the millions watching after 09:00 on BBC One.'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again\"\n\nAbout 24 million TV viewers watched the Queen's broadcast to the nation on Sunday, according to overnight figures.\n\nIn a rare speech, the monarch thanked people for following government rules to stay at home and praised those \"coming together to help others\".\n\nThe message was seen by 23.97 million viewers, making it the second most-watched broadcast this year.\n\nBoris Johnson's statement announcing strict new coronavirus restrictions was watched by 27 million last month.\n\nMore than 14 million viewers watched the Queen's message on BBC One, with about five million viewing it on ITV.\n\nAnother 2.5 million watched the monarch deliver her rare speech on Channel 4, with more watching on Channel 5, Sky News and the BBC News channel.\n\nCatch-up services are not included in overnight figures.\n\nIt was only the fifth time the Queen has given such a speech in her 68-year reign.\n\nHer most recent Christmas Day message drew a combined overnight audience of 7.85 million.\n\nIn her speech on Sunday, the Queen said the UK \"will succeed\" in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe thanked people for following government rules to stay inside and paid tribute to key workers for their efforts.\n\nSpeaking from Windsor Castle, the Queen said the pandemic was a \"different\" challenge compared to what the nation had faced before.\n\nThe message ended with the words \"we will meet again\" - an apparent reference to Dame Vera Lynn's bolstering war anthem We'll Meet Again.\n\nThe Queen's four other special addresses were given in 1991, 1997, 2002 and 2012.\n\nThe first was made at the beginning of the land war in Iraq, while the second was given on the eve of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe 2002 address came on the eve of her mother's funeral, while the 2012 speech marked her Diamond Jubilee.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Queen: 'We will succeed' in fight against virus", "Lord Bath - the 7th Marquess of Bath - died on Saturday, Longleat said\n\nLord Bath has died at the age of 87 after contracting coronavirus.\n\nLongleat, the park and home he ran, announced on Twitter the 7th Marquess of Bath died on Saturday at the Royal Bath United Hospital.\n\nHe was admitted there on 28 March where it was confirmed he had the virus.\n\nIn the statement, his family appealed for privacy and thanked the medical team which \"cared so professionally and compassionately\" for him in his final days.\n\nThe aristocrat was known for his flamboyant style of dress\n\nLongleat Safari Park confirmed the news on Facebook, expressing their \"deepest sadness\" at his death.\n\nIt added: \"The family would like to express their great appreciation for the dedicated team of nurses, doctors and other staff who cared so professionally and compassionately for Alexander in these extremely difficult times for everyone.\"\n\nLord Bath with chimp \"Teddy\" at Longleat Safari Park in 1996\n\nLord Bath in front of Longleat House in 2006\n\nAlexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, was born on 6 May in 1932 and grew up in his family's home at Longleat, near Warminster in Wiltshire.\n\nHe was known for his flamboyant style of dress and for having relationships with women he often referred to as his \"wifelets\".\n\nLord Bath pictured in 1975 with his first wife, Hungarian actress Anna Gael, who was also known as Anna Gyarmathy\n\nTributes have been paid on Twitter, including from Piers Morgan, who described him as \"one of Britain's most colourful characters\".\n\nBen Fogle, who filmed TV series Animal Park at Longleat about the lord's estate, said he was \"devastated\", while the show's present Kate Humble said she was \"very sad\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"Everyone will describe him as eccentric - and he was, gloriously so - but he was also kind and fun - and we all need a bit of kindness and fun in our lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kate Humble This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLord Bath was involved in politics and stood in the very first European parliamentary elections in 1979, representing the Wessex Regionalist Party which he helped to found.\n\nAfter inheriting the Marquess seat in 1992, he then sat as a Liberal Democrat in the House of Lords but lost his seat when Labour reforms excluded most hereditary peers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video on Twitter, Boris Johnson says he is self-isolating and will continue to work from home.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating in Downing Street.\n\nHe said he had experienced mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough, but would continue to lead the government.\n\nEngland's Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he had also tested positive while England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has shown symptoms.\n\nAnother 181 people died with the virus in the past day, figures showed.\n\nIt takes the total number of UK deaths to 759, with 14,543 confirmed cases.\n\nThe daily coronavirus news conference was led by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, alongside deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries and NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens.\n\nThey announced plans to begin a large-scale testing programme of health service staff, starting with critical care teams. It will later be expanded to cover social care staff too.\n\nIt follows mounting criticism from NHS staff over a lack of testing - currently, only seriously-ill patients in hospital are being tested.\n\nTesting will be carried out on staff showing possible symptoms of the virus or staff who live with people who have symptoms - not for all frontline workers as a matter of course.\n\n\"This will be antigen testing - testing whether people currently have the disease - so that our health and social care workers can have security in the knowledge that they are safe to return to work if their test is negative,\" Mr Gove said.\n\nThe British Medical Association, which represents doctors, said the announcement was \"long overdue\" and the lack of testing so far had been \"incredibly frustrating\".\n\n\"For every healthy member of staff at home self-isolating needlessly when they do not have the virus, the NHS is short of someone who could be providing vital care to patients on the frontline,\" BMA chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said.\n\nHe said that 33,000 beds - the equivalent of 50 hospitals - had been freed up across England ready for coronavirus patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has imposed strict restrictions on everyday life designed to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nHowever, BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said the UK's daily death toll will still rise into the many hundreds in the coming weeks.\n\nThis does not mean social distancing measures are not working - but there will be a lag of two to four weeks before we see the effects, our correspondent says.\n\nMr Gove said scientific analysis suggested the rate of infection had been doubling every three to four days, but the \"fantastic\" public response to the restrictions would make a difference.\n\nAsked whether the prime minister and health secretary should have been \"better protected\", he said: \"The fact that the virus is no respecter of individuals, whoever they are, is one of the reasons why we do need to have strict social distancing measures so that we can reduce the rate of infection and reduce the pressure on the NHS,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson is thought to be the first world leader to announce they have the virus.\n\nHe was last seen on Thursday night, clapping outside No 10 as part of a nationwide gesture to thank NHS staff and carers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a video on his Twitter account, Mr Johnson, 55, said: \"I'm working from home and self-isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do.\n\n\"But, be in no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight-back against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe PM chaired a phone call on Friday morning, and later in the day, Downing Street said he had spoken to US President Donald Trump.\n\n\"The president wished the prime minister a speedy recovery from coronavirus,\" a spokesman said. \"They agreed to work together closely, along with the G7, the G20, and other international partners, to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was experiencing mild symptoms of the virus, and would be self-isolating until next Thursday.\n\nHe told BBC Look East it was \"understandable that people will ask the question\" why he and the prime minister were tested, but most people with possible symptoms were not.\n\nThe health secretary said there was a protocol laid down by the chief medical officer which required a small number of senior figures, key to the national effort, to be tested.\n\nEarlier this week the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nThe prime minister's fiancée, Carrie Symonds, who is several months pregnant, is also self-isolating, although it is not known if they are still living together.\n\nPregnant women in their third trimester are advised to be particularly stringent when following social distancing advice, and minimise social contact for up to 12 weeks.\n\nOne of the first moments that raised eyebrows in the course of the UK outbreak was when health minister Nadine Dorries came down with coronavirus.\n\nThen, last week, we discovered that some key staff in No 10, including the prime minister's chief Brexit negotiator David Frost, were self-isolating with suspected symptoms.\n\nA fair number of MPs took themselves off into isolation for fear of having contracted the infection.\n\nTheir remaining colleagues were continually ordered to sit far apart on the green benches, before finally, this week, Parliament itself closed early, with no certain date for a return of normal business.\n\nStill, the news this morning that the prime minister himself has contracted coronavirus felt like a shock.\n\nNeither the PM's senior adviser Dominic Cummings nor Chancellor Rishi Sunak has symptoms. They have not been tested.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman confirmed the Queen, 93, saw Mr Johnson more than two weeks ago on 11 March, and she is in good health.\n\nThe pair usually meet weekly for the prime minister's audience with the Queen, but the most recent meetings have been over the phone.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hancock were seen together and following social distancing advice at PMQs on Wednesday\n\nOther world leaders including Canada's Justin Trudeau and Germany's Angela Merkel have self-isolated after coming into contact with people who have tested positive for the virus.\n\nPoliticians including Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott shared messages to the PM, wishing him a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nMeanwhile, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, told Mr Johnson: \"Europe wishes you a speedy recovery.\"\n\nIn the Irish Republic, the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has announced tough new restrictions on movement.\n\nFrom midnight on Friday, for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, everyone must stay at home unless their work is essential or they are buying food.\n\nTwenty two people with coronavirus have died in the Irish Republic.", "The boy was charged with 11 offences during an appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court\n\nA boy has been charged with right-wing terrorism offences.\n\nThe 16-year-old from Newcastle faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nHe was charged after being summonsed to Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier, with a first official court hearing to be held in due course.\n\nThe offences, which also include encouraging terrorism and inciting racial and religious hatred, date from between May and October last year.\n\nHe was arrested in October by Counter Terrorism Policing as part of an investigation into \"suspected right wing terrorism online\", a force spokeswoman said.\n\nNational Action was proscribed by the government, meaning it is a criminal offence to be a member, in December 2016.\n\nThe boy faces four counts of inviting support for National Action in social media posts, three of publishing statements to encourage an act of terrorism and three of distributing materials intended to stir up racial hatred.\n\nHe also faces one charge of distributing material intending to stir up religious hatred.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's vital we have the equipment we need to keep people safe'\n\nAlmost 400 care companies which provide home support across the UK have told the BBC they still do not have enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nWithout protection, providers say they may not be able to care for people awaiting hospital discharge.\n\nOf 481 providers, 381 - 80% - said they did not have enough PPE to be able to support older and vulnerable people.\n\nThe government said it was working \"around the clock\" to give the sector the equipment it needs.\n\nThe BBC sent questions to the nearly 3,000 members of the UK Homecare Association.\n\nAbout a quarter of respondents said they have either run out of masks or have less than a week's supply left.\n\nOthers said they were struggling to get the gloves and aprons they needed for staff who go from one client's home to the next to support them with washing, dressing and eating.\n\nJust under a third of the home care providers the BBC heard from were looking after people with Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nSuzanne Catterall, a senior care worker at Westmorland Homecare in Cumbria, speaking after visiting the first of seven clients she would see during her day, said: \"I needed to use seven pairs of gloves on one call and an apron.\n\n\"This is due to cleaning, then doing personal care for the client, including applying three different creams, and preparing food.\"\n\nDr Chris Moss, who runs Westmorland Homecare, said they have had to get supplies of PPE from local nail bars and vets' practices.\n\nThey have had some government supplies, he said, but estimated their stock would last about a week.\n\n\"Without having it you risk transmission, you risk making more of society unwell and you put more pressure on the NHS,\" he added.\n\nAnd care providers warned that without the right protective equipment, they would have to make hard decisions about who they support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRaina Summerson, chief executive of Agincare - one of the largest independent care companies, said: \"If we cannot get access to PPE and follow public health guidance safely, we will be left in no position but to say we cannot accept people who are COVID 19 positive, because we will not have the equipment to deliver their care safely.\"\n\nNearly all of the firms said they had some staff self-isolating, with a handful estimating that half their workforce was unavailable.\n\nA further 621 UK deaths were announced on Sunday, bringing the nation's total to 4,934.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it was providing more than 26,000 pieces of PPE to social care settings, including care homes, home care providers and hospices.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are working with the military and established distributors to ensure PPE is available to all staff fighting this virus on the frontline.\"\n\nThirteen residents at a Glasgow care home died in one week following a suspected outbreak of coronavirus. Two of the staff members tested positive and received hospital treatment.", "Conspiracy theories claiming 5G technology helps transmit coronavirus have been condemned by the scientific community.\n\nVideos have been shared on social media showing mobile phone masts on fire in Birmingham and Merseyside - along with the claims.\n\nThe UK's mobile networks have reported 20 cases of masts being targeted in suspected arson attacks over the Easter weekend, including damage to a mast providing mobile connectivity to Birmingham's Nightingale Hospital.\n\nThe posts have been shared on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram - including by verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers.\n\nTV regulator Ofcom is assessing comments made by presenter Eamonn Holmes in which he cast doubts on media outlets for their attempts to debunk the claims.\n\nBut scientists say the idea of a connection between Covid-19 and 5G is \"complete rubbish\" and biologically impossible.\n\nThe conspiracy theories have been branded \"the worst kind of fake news\" by NHS England Medical Director Stephen Powis.\n\nMany of those sharing the post are pushing a conspiracy theory falsely claiming that 5G - which is used in mobile phone networks and relies on signals carried by radio waves - is somehow responsible for coronavirus.\n\nThese theories appear to have first emerged via Facebook posts in late January, around the same time the first cases were recorded in the US.\n\nThey appear to fall broadly in to two camps:\n\nBoth these notions are \"complete rubbish,\" says Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading.\n\n\"The idea that 5G lowers your immune system doesn't stand up to scrutiny,\" Dr Clarke says.\n\n\"Your immune system can be dipped by all sorts of thing - by being tired one day, or not having a good diet. Those fluctuations aren't huge but can make you more susceptible to catching viruses.\"\n\nWhile very strong radio waves can cause heating, 5G is nowhere near strong enough to heat people up enough to have any meaningful effect.\n\n\"Radio waves can disrupt your physiology as they heat you up, meaning your immune system can't function. But [the energy levels from] 5G radio waves are tiny and they are nowhere near strong enough to affect the immune system. There have been lots of studies on this.\"\n\nThe radio waves involved in 5G and other mobile phone technology sit on the low frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Less powerful than visible light, they are not strong enough to damage cells - unlike radiation at the higher frequency end of the spectrum which includes the sun's rays and medical x-rays.\n\nIt would also be impossible for 5G to transmit the virus, Adam Finn, professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol, adds.\n\n\"The present epidemic is caused by a virus that is passed from one infected person to another. We know this is true. We even have the virus growing in our lab, obtained from a person with the illness. Viruses and electromagnetic waves that make mobile phones and internet connections work are different things. As different as chalk and cheese,\" he says.\n\nIt's also important to note another major flaw with the conspiracy theories - coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Iran that have yet to roll out the technology.\n\nThere were plenty of scare stories about 5G circulating before the coronavirus outbreak which Reality Check has already looked into, such as this piece: Does 5G pose health risks?\n\nEarlier this year, a long-running study from the watchdog the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) rebutted these claims, saying there was no evidence that mobile networks cause cancer or other illnesses.\n\nBut if anything, the misinformation seems to have escalated.\n\nTrade body Mobile UK has said false rumours and theories linking 5G and coronavirus were \"concerning,\" while the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has reiterated there is \"absolutely no credible evidence for the link\".\n\nViruses invade human or animal cells and use them to reproduce, which is what causes infection. Viruses cannot live very long outside a living thing, so they have to find a way in - usually via droplets of liquid from coughs or sneezes.\n\nGenome sequencing of this coronavirus suggests it jumped from animals to humans - and then began to pass from human to human.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool have reversed their decision to place some non-playing staff on temporary leave and apologised to fans.\n\nOn Saturday, the club said they were going to apply to the government's taxpayer-funded job retention scheme, sparking a fierce backlash.\n\nBut in a letter to their fans, chief executive Peter Moore said: \"We believe we came to the wrong conclusion last week and are truly sorry for that.\"\n\nHe added that the Reds have \"opted to find alternative means\" to pay staff.\n• None What are Premier League clubs doing on pay?\n\nThe U-turn came after mounting criticism had led to talks between the club's US owners Fenway Sports Group, executives and key stakeholders.\n\nLiverpool had become the fifth Premier League team to furlough non-playing staff with the season suspended indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nStaff affected were to receive 80% of their salary through the scheme and the club would make up the difference, despite making a profit of £42m last year. Liverpool are the world's seventh-richest football club.\n\nThe decision was criticised by former Liverpool players Jamie Carragher and Stan Collymore.\n\nNewcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth and Norwich City had already announced they will furlough some non-playing staff.\n\n\"Despite the fact we were in a healthy position prior to this crisis, our revenues have been shut off yet our outgoings remain,\" said Moore.\n\n\"And like almost every sector of society, there is great uncertainty and concern over our present and future.\n\n\"Like any responsible employer concerned for its workers in the current situation, the club continues to prepare for a range of different scenarios, around when football can return to operating as it did before the pandemic.\n\n\"These scenarios range from best case to worst, and everything in between.\n\n\"It is an unavoidable truth that several of these scenarios involve a massive downturn in revenue, with correspondingly unprecedented operating losses.\n\n\"Having these vital financial resources so profoundly impacted would obviously negatively affect our ability to operate as we previously have.\"\n\nGareth Roberts, from the Anfield Wrap podcast, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the club may have made the original decision \"without thinking about the ramifications\", but eventually \"common sense had prevailed\".\n\nHe added: \"It just felt wrong and I know Liverpool qualified for the government's job retention scheme. It boiled down to morals for me and we expect more from football clubs than other businesses because we are emotionally part of the club - it is something we support and put a lot of our money and time and effort into.\n\n\"In the statement they put out they are talking about revenues possibly going down without months of football. That is going to be a reality for all of football.\n\n\"They just hadn't viably consulted on it. There are plenty of people at the club who would have been opposed to it and it feels like someone, maybe at the very top of the club, made the decision without thinking about the ramifications and what it looked like reputation-wise.\n\n\"They have seen the mass reaction and decided to reverse that decision. Common sense has prevailed in the end.\"\n\nEx-defender Carragher had tweeted: \"Jurgen Klopp showed compassion for all at the start of this pandemic, senior players heavily involved in Premier League players taking wage cuts. Then all that respect and goodwill is lost - poor this, LFC.\"\n\nFormer striker Collymore posted on social media: \"I don't know of any Liverpool fan of any standing that won't be anything other than disgusted at the club for furloughing staff. It's just plain wrong.\"", "Data from atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists accurately age the world's biggest fish.\n\nWhale sharks are large, slow moving and docile creatures that mainly inhabit tropical waters.\n\nThey are long-lived but scientists have struggled to work out the exact ages of these endangered creatures.\n\nBut using the world's radioactive legacy they now have a workable method that can help the species survival.\n\nWhale sharks are both the biggest fish and the biggest sharks in existence.\n\nGrowing up to 18m in length, and weighing on average of about 20 tonnes, their distinctive white spotted colouration makes them easily recognisable.\n\nThese filter feeders live on plankton and travel long distances to find food.\n\nThey are very popular with tourists in many locations, often allowing divers to swim alongside them.\n\nHowever, the species is now classified as endangered because of over-fishing in places like Thailand and the Philippines.\n\nMuch about the species remains a mystery, especially how to age them correctly.\n\nResearchers say this is fundamental to understanding their growth rates - information that's considered crucial to saving the species in the long term.\n\nWhale sharks are a big draw for tourists and generally pose little threat\n\nTo date, scientists have tried to count distinct lines in the vertebrae of dead whale sharks. These act like rings in a tree trunk, increasing as the animal gets older.\n\nBut scientists have been unsure about how often these rings can form and the reasons behind them.\n\nNow researchers say they have come up with a much more accurate way of determining the whale sharks' true age.\n\nFrom the late 1940s, several nations including the US, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and China conducted atomic bomb tests in different locations.\n\nA child plays with a dead whale shark, caught by fishermen off Indonesia\n\nOne side effect of all these explosions was the doubling of an atom type, or isotope, called Carbon-14 in the atmosphere.\n\nOver time, every living thing on the planet has absorbed this extra Carbon-14 which still persists.\n\nBut as scientists know the rate at which this isotope decays, it is a very useful marker in determining age.\n\nThe older the creature, the less Carbon-14 you'd expect to find.\n\n\"So any animal that was alive then incorporated that spike in Carbon-14 into their hard parts,\" said author Dr Mark Meekan, from the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Perth.\n\n\"That means we've got a time marker within the vertebrae that means we can work out the periodicity at which those isotopes decay.\"\n\nOne of the difficulties with ageing these sharks has been in getting access to samples of vertebrae.\n\nThis team managed to find two long-dead specimens stored in Pakistan and Taiwan.\n\nThe study indicated that these creatures do actually live an incredibly long time.\n\n\"The absolute longevity of these animals could be very, very old, possibly as much as 100-150 years old,\" said Dr Meekan.\n\n\"This has huge implications for the species. It suggests that these things are probably intensely vulnerable to over-harvesting.\"\n\nThe scientists say their results explain why whale shark numbers have collapsed in locations like Thailand and Taiwan where fishing has taken place.\n\n\"They are just not built for humans to exploit,\" said Dr Meekan.\n\nWhile the species has recently been upgraded from threatened to endangered on the IUCN Red List, the scientists believe that their work will help efforts at conservation.\n\nBy being able to accurately estimate the age of whale sharks, the scientists will be able to provide more accurate guidance on how well a population is doing and whether any fishing can be allowed.\n\nIn many tropical regions, whale shark tourism is now a major attraction. The researchers say that encouraging co-operation between different countries along the vast routes that whale sharks follow is key to their survival.\n\n\"Whale sharks are a fantastic ambassador for marine life and one that has lifted so many people out of poverty,\" added Dr Meekan.\n\n\"This is a good news story - and it shows there is a silver lining to the mushroom cloud after all,\" he quipped.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.", "Honor Blackman, the British actress who played Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger, has died at the age of 94.\n\nIn a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, East Sussex.\n\nBlackman was also known for playing Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV series The Avengers opposite Patrick Macnee.\n\nThe pair had a novelty hit with 1964's Kinky Boots, which reached the Top 10 in 1990.\n\nHer other roles included Hera in Jason and the Argonauts and Laura West in 1990s TV series The Upper Hand.\n\nThe statement issued by Blackman's family said: \"As well as being a much adored mother and grandmother, Honor was an actor of hugely prolific creative talent.\n\n\"With an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess, along with her unique voice and a dedicated work ethic, she achieved an unparalleled iconic status in the world of film and entertainment.\n\n\"With absolute commitment to her craft and total professionalism in all her endeavours she contributed to some of the great films and theatre productions of our times.\n\n\"We ask you to respect the privacy of our family at this difficult time.\"\n\nComedian and Bond fan David Walliams said Blackman would \"live forever\" as Pussy Galore.\n\nDirector Edgar Wright, meanwhile, remembered her as the \"ultimate Bond girl and original Avenger\".\n\nBlackman was pictured with Paul O'Grady in 2011 at the 50th anniversary celebration of The Avengers\n\nBorn in Plaistow in East London in 1925, Blackman trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.\n\nBlackman's martial arts training helped her win the role of Pussy Galore, an associate of criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger in the third James Bond film.\n\nHer pilot character - who was openly lesbian in Ian Fleming's original novel - becomes Bond's ally after a literal roll in the hay.\n\n\"I was already a James Bond fan but I asked to read Goldfinger before taking the part,\" she once revealed.\n\n\"By the time I had read it, I was convinced it was absolutely me.\"\n\nYet the role was not a particularly glamorous one for the actress.\n\n\"Everyone thinks I went to exotic locations on Goldfinger,\" she recalled at a celebration event at Pinewood Studios in 2008.\n\n\"But the furthest I got was RAF Northolt, just up the road.\"\n\nIn recent years, Blackman toured the UK with her show Honor Blackman As Herself, which saw her reflect on her long career.\n\nShe served as a dispatch rider during World War Two\n\nHonor Blackman was the original feisty, black-clad female agent in The Avengers.\n\nIt made her a role model for an emerging generation of women and an object of desire for their men.\n\nHer characters were both sexy and intelligent and more than a match for their male co-stars.\n\nHer first acting job was as an understudy in a West End play called The Guinea Pig, and, when the lead actress became ill, she was asked to step in.\n\nAged 39 when Goldfinger was filmed, Blackman was actually five years older than Sean Connery and, at the time, the oldest actress ever to play a Bond girl.\n\n\"Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos,\" she once said. \"I have never been a bimbo.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock rebukes the \"minority\" of people \"risking the lives of others\"\n\nIt is \"mission-critical\" to follow social distancing rules to protect the NHS and slow the spread of coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\n\"The more people follow the rules then the faster we will all be through this,\" he said, after reports of packed public parks in London and elsewhere.\n\nThis morning Mr Hancock said such behaviour was \"quite unbelievable\".\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, he said it could not go on. It comes as the UK death toll reaches 4,934.\n\nThe Department of Health said on Sunday there had been 621 more coronavirus-related deaths in the UK in the past day.\n\nAs of 09:00 BST on Sunday, 47,806 people had tested positive for coronavirus, the Department of Health said.\n\nMr Hancock said the government was \"not planning any changes imminently\" to social distancing policies but he \"could not rule out further steps\".\n\n\"What we are doing is being absolutely clear that the current rules must be followed,\" he said.\n\n\"So I say this to the small minority of people who are breaking the rules or pushing the boundaries: you're risking your own life and the lives of others and you're making it harder for us all.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hancock offered his \"profound sympathies\" to the families and friends of those who have died.\n\nHe added: \"I've lost two people that I was fond of so I understand what a difficult time this is for the country.\n\n\"We need perseverance in the face of great challenges.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Dr Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer for England, said the rules in place were \"the best way to be able to bend the curve down and stop the spread of the virus\".\n\n\"It is not just what you are doing but how you are doing it,\" she added.\n\n\"If you are sitting on a park bench, people tend to accumulate - it is very difficult to prevent that.\"\n\nIt comes as Brockwell Park in Lambeth was forced to close on Sunday after more than 3,000 people visited, with many sunbathing or in large groups, on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes on Primrose Hill in Camden on Saturday, when police moved on more than 100 people.\n\nGovernment guidance says people should only exercise once a day - alone or with those they live with\n\nBut local officers tweeted to say thank you after finding far fewer crowds in the area on Sunday.\n\nAnd Brighton beach was nearly deserted on Sunday, following a warning by Brighton and Hove City Council that too many people were meeting up with friends on the seafront.\n\nIt prompted a tweet from Sussex police thanking the public for heeding government advice.\n\nIn Essex, local police echoed the sentiment, tweeting that \"areas that would normally be busy on a sunny Sunday are not today\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned London parks will be forced to close if Londoners do not follow the rules on social gatherings, and urged people to stay at home amid the warm weather.\n\nRestrictions state that everybody must stay at home where possible, and only leave if they have a \"reasonable excuse\", such as exercise or shopping for basic necessities.\n\nBrighton beach was nearly empty of people on Sunday despite the sunny weather\n\nNewly elected Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner told Sophy Ridge it was \"all right for people who have got big houses and huge back gardens\" to tell sunbathers observing social distancing to stop doing so.\n\n\"If you're stuck in inadequate accommodation... and you're all on top of each other, quite literally, then I think people should do social distancing and should keep their distance, but also be reasonable and proportionate about that,\" she said.\n\nHarriet Harman, MP for Camberwell and Peckham, has called for a rota for the use of public parks, writing on Twitter that families in flats with young children need green spaces during the lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns tougher measures could be brought in to stop coronavirus spread\n\nMr Hancock's warning came ahead of the Queen's address to the nation on Sunday.\n\nNew Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party would support the government it if decides to toughen lockdown measures.\n\n\"We've got to get through this and every time people break the guidance from the government they put other people at risk,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who is self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus, tweeted his thanks to \"everyone who is saving lives by staying at home this weekend\".\n\n\"I know it's tough, but if we all work together and follow the guidance we will beat coronavirus,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock said that the number of ventilators needed over the coming weeks will be 18,000, and that currently there are between 9,000 and 10,000 within the NHS.\n\nWhen asked about the number of nurses that had died of coronavirus, Mr Hancock said the latest figure was three deaths.\n\nHow are the lockdown rules on staying at home and social distancing working for you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy has been appointed shadow foreign secretary in Keir Starmer's new shadow cabinet.\n\nOther appointments include Anneliese Dodds as shadow chancellor and Nick Thomas-Symonds as shadow home secretary.\n\nSir Keir won the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday.\n\nThe 57-year-old defeated Ms Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey in a ballot of party members and other supporters.\n\nAngela Rayner was elected deputy leader, replacing Tom Watson, who stood down as an MP before the general election in December. She will become chair of the Labour Party.\n\nRachel Reeves has been appointed as the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Jonathan Ashworth stays as shadow health secretary.\n\nMs Dodds becomes the first female shadow chancellor.\n\nOn her appointment, Ms Nandy, who has been MP for Wigan since 2010, thanked Sir Keir for the \"opportunity to serve\".\n\nShe said: \"It's a real honour to be tasked with leading Labour's foreign policy response in these difficult times.\"\n\nSir Keir's top team will form a new shadow committee, which will be responsible for coordinating Labour's response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said he was \"honoured\" to be appointed Labour's shadow home secretary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Thomas-Symonds MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Ms Reeves said she was looking forward to providing \"a constructive opposition at this incredibly difficult time for our country\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rachel Reeves This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNick Brown has been re-appointed chief whip and Angela Smith remains shadow leader of the Lords.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We are living through a national emergency.\n\n\"Under my leadership, the Labour Party will always act in the country's interest to save lives and protect livelihoods.\n\n\"That will be the number one priority of my shadow cabinet.\"\n\nHe said they would provide a \"responsible opposition that supports the government where we believe they are right\" and would \"challenge them when we believe mistakes are being made\".\n\nBarry Gardiner, sacked as shadow international trade secretary, said on Twitter that he wished Sir Keir and his new team well.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Ian Lavery, sacked as Labour chairman, congratulated Sir Keir on his election victory, and said: \"Our new leadership team must continue to embrace the popular common sense agenda developed in the last few years.\"\n\nMore announcements on Sir Keir's team are expected on Monday.\n\nEmily Thornberry, former shadow foreign secretary, has not yet been appointed to a role but remains in the shadow Cabinet.\n\nThe cast list of any political leader's top team offers an early insight into their grip on their party, and their political instincts.\n\nWe know a fair bit about Sir Keir's internal power - he won the leadership easily and the new look of the party's governing body gives him oomph on the inside too.\n\nWe know less about precisely where he'll take the party politically.\n\nSo what can we read from the appointments so far?\n\nThose most associated with the Corbyn project are gone: John McDonnell had already said he was off. Today we learnt Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett are trundling up to the backbenches too.\n\nThere are none of the names still in the Commons from Labour's time in government - who might have some public recognition value but also cart around political baggage.\n\nInstead: the defeated, the promoted and the retained.\n\nLisa Nandy, beaten by Sir Keir for the top job, is brought to the top table.\n\nAnneliese Dodds is promoted to lead Labour's shadowing of the Treasury - shadow chancellor is one of the most crucial jobs in opposition.\n\nAnd Jonathan Ashworth is kept on as shadow health secretary. Having done the job for three and a half years, holding onto him in the middle of a pandemic was clearly important to Sir Keir.\n\nThere will be further appointments tomorrow, which will be just as revealing.", "This video can not be played.", "The PM took part in the clap for carers on Thursday outside No 11 Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson says he is in \"good spirits\" after spending the night in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nThe PM was taken to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday evening with \"persistent symptoms\" - including a temperature and a cough - for routine tests.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK reached 5,373 - an increase of 439 in a day.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care reported 51,608 confirmed cases.\n\nHe remains in charge of government, although Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab chaired Monday's coronavirus meeting.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Johnson said he was \"keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe\".\n\nHe also thanked the \"brilliant NHS staff\" taking care of him and other patients, adding: \"You are the best of Britain\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said he remained in hospital \"under observation\", and described Russian reports that Mr Johnson had been placed on a ventilator as \"disinformation\".\n\nHe is continuing to receive updates and briefings in hospital, the spokesman added.\n\nLast month, the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Mr Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said he hoped the prime minister would be back in Downing Street \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"He's been working extremely hard leading the government and being constantly updated. That's going to continue,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I'm sure this is very frustrating for him, for somebody like Boris who wants to be hands [on] running the government from the front, but nonetheless he's still very much in charge of the government,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jenrick: PM 'still very much in charge'\n\nUS President Donald Trump is among those who has sent his wishes to Mr Johnson.\n\n\"All Americans are praying for him. He's a great friend of mine, a great gentleman and a great leader,\" Mr Trump said, adding that he was sure the prime minister would be fine because he is \"a strong person\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he hoped the prime minister had a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nHealth minister Nadine Dorries, who herself tested positive for coronavirus last month, said many of those with the virus would be \"felled\" by fatigue and a high temperature and use isolation to sleep and recover.\n\n\"Boris has risked his health and worked every day on our behalf to lead the battle against this vile virus,\" she said in a tweet.\n\nMeanwhile, the former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake said it may be \"sensible\" for Mr Johnson to \"step back\" if he is not well enough to carry out his role for now.\n\n\"I think in the end if he's not well, he will have to reflect on this because the job's tough at the best of times and it's doubly tough now,\" he told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nAlthough Downing Street insist the PM is still in charge, if the medics insist he needs to rest and recuperate then he may well have to take a step back for a period of time.\n\nIn the UK we no longer have a deputy prime minister - the last one was Nick Clegg under David Cameron.\n\nTechnically, Dominic Raab - as first secretary of state - would be expected to step up.\n\nHis position as foreign secretary, however, does not put him at the centre of the fight against coronavirus.\n\nIt would seem likely therefore that the two figures who would be expected to take a key role would be Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nBoth men have been frequent representatives of the government at the daily news conferences.\n\nFortunately, however, many of the key decisions - namely how long the lockdown should continue and what the exit strategy should be - still appear some way off.\n\nAt the moment the focus is on \"flattening the curve\" and reducing the level of infections and admissions to hospital.\n\nThe day-to-day decisions are therefore likely to depend much more on the advice of the scientists and officials.\n\nThe really big decisions are some way off - when it is hoped the prime minister will have recovered.\n\nDr Sarah Jarvis, a GP and broadcaster, told the BBC that Mr Johnson would be likely to have his chest X-rayed and his lungs scanned, particularly if he had been struggling for breath.\n\nShe said he is also likely to have an electrocardiogram to check his heart's function, as well as tests on his oxygen levels, white blood cell count, and liver and kidney function before he is released from hospital.\n\nMr Johnson has worked from home since it was announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus on 27 March.\n\nHe was last seen in public applauding the NHS and other key workers from his flat in Downing Street on Thursday evening, and chaired a coronavirus meeting remotely on Friday morning.\n\nLater that day, the prime minister posted a Twitter video in which said he was still displaying minor symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I still have a temperature. So in accordance with government advice I must continue my self isolation until that symptom itself goes,\" he said.\n\n\"But we're working clearly the whole time on our programme to beat the virus.\"\n\nOn Saturday, his pregnant partner Carrie Symonds tweeted that she had spent a week in bed with the main symptoms.\n\nShe said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, self-isolated after showing symptoms but has now recovered and is back at work.\n\nTony Lloyd, Labour MP for Rochdale, has also been admitted to hospital for coronavirus treatment.\n\nSir Keir wished him a \"swift and full recovery\" on Twitter on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe news of Mr Johnson's admission to hospital came shortly after the Queen delivered a rallying message to the nation, saying the UK \"will succeed\" in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn a rare speech, the monarch thanked people for following government rules to stay at home and praised those \"coming together to help others\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Debenhams will file for administration after the coronavirus lockdown forced it to shut its shops across the UK.\n\nIt described the process as a \"light touch\" administration to protect it from legal action from creditors while its department stores are closed.\n\nDebenhams boss Stefaan Vansteenkiste said the circumstances of the decision were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"We have taken this step to protect our business, our employees, and other important stakeholders,\" he said.\n\nMr Vansteenkiste said it will allow Debenhams \"to resume trading from our stores when government restrictions are lifted\".\n\nHowever, he did not say how many of its 142 shops would reopen after the lockdown.\n\n\"We are striving to protect jobs and reopen as many Debenhams stores for trading as we can, as soon as this is possible,\" he said.\n\nIt will be the second time in a year that Debenhams has filed for administration. It has already closed 22 stores this year and plans to shut a further 28 in 2021.\n\nThe retailer said it is still trading online \"normally\" while its shops are closed.\n\nIt has furloughed the majority of its staff who are being paid under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme which pays 80% of a worker's salary up to £2,500 a month.\n\n\"Debenhams has been in financial difficulties for a while so this doesn't come as a major surprise,\" said Julie Palmer, regional managing partner at restructuring firm Begbies Traynor.\n\n\"But it will leave its 20,000 plus strong workforce in a precarious position who will struggle to get new employment during the ongoing uncertainty.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC reported that Debenhams was in urgent talks with its landlords to strike new terms and conditions. They were told that a number of restructuring scenarios were being explored which had \"varying outcomes\" for the business, landlords and Debenhams' 20,000 workers.\n\nLast April, Debenhams fell into the hands of its lenders, comprising a group of banks and hedge funds led by US firm Silver Point Capital, after struggling for years to keep up with competition from rivals.\n\nThe lockdown has exacerbated the pressures the struggling retail sector was already facing.\n\nArcadia, which is controlled by Sir Philip Green, is reported to be preparing to walk away from a number of its property leases.\n\nThe firm which owns several well known High Street chains including Topshop, Wallis and Miss Selfridge, has furloughed 14,500 of its 16,000 employees since the coronavirus lockdown and said its board members and senior leadership are taking pay cuts of between 25% and 50%.\n\nArcadia is also facing uncertainty over the future of its concessions in Debenhams' stores.\n\nMeanwhile, with all non-essential shops closed, some retailers, such as Primark, have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nFashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nIndependent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.", "The 149th Open Championship has been cancelled but 2020's three other men's majors have been rescheduled because of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Masters has been put back from April to November, while the US PGA Championship is slated for August.\n\nThe US Open, at Winged Foot, New York, is being moved from June to September, a week before the Ryder Cup.\n\nThe Open, due to take place in July at Royal St George's in Kent, will now be hosted by the venue in 2021.\n\nR&A chief executive Martin Slumbers said: \"We have explored every option for playing The Open this year but it is not going to be possible.\"\n\nHowever, all three of the majors hosted on American soil each year are still hoping to go ahead. And the Ryder Cup - the biennial event that pitches Europe's finest golfers against their American counterparts - is being kept in its late September slot.\n\nThe PGA Tour's season-ending FedExCup Play-offs are scheduled to take place on four successive weekends, with the first from 13-16 August.\n\nA joint statement, issued by Augusta National Golf Club, European Tour, LPGA, PGA of America, PGA Tour, the R&A and USGA said: \"We remain very mindful of the obstacles ahead, and each organisation will continue to follow the guidance of the leading public health authorities, conducting competitions only if it is safe and responsible to do so.\"\n\nIn the women's game, the LPGA Tour has moved two of its five annual majors. The ANA Inspiration has been pushed back to 10-13 September at Mission Hills, California, while the US Women's Open switches to 10-13 December at Champions Golf Club in Texas.\n\nOf the three other majors, The Evian Championship in France, switched from a July date to 6-9 August, while the Women's PGA Championship in Pennsylvania (25-28 June), and Women's British Open at Royal Troon in Scotland (20-23 August) are still going ahead as scheduled.\n\nIt is the first time The Open has been cancelled since the 1940-45 tournaments were not played because of World War Two.\n\nThe 149th Open will now be played at Royal St George's in Sandwich from 11-18 July 2021, meaning the R&A can keep the 150th Open at St Andrews in Scotland, from 10-17 July 2022.\n\nThe R&A said all tickets bought for this year's tournament will be transferred to next year's event, with full refunds for those people who are no longer able to attend.\n\nBBC Sport understands that the R&A had pandemic insurance cover, which should significantly reduce the financial losses from the cancellation.\n\nIn a statement on the R&A website, Slumbers added: \"We care deeply about this historic Championship and have made this decision with a heavy heart.\n\n\"We appreciate that this will be disappointing for a great many people around the world but we have to act responsibly during this pandemic and it is the right thing to do.\n\n\"We rely on the support of the emergency services, local authorities and a range of other organisations to stage the Championship and it would be unreasonable to place any additional demands on them when they have far more urgent priorities to deal with.\"\n\nIreland's Shane Lowry, who won last year's Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, tweeted: \"Obviously I'm disappointed that I won't get to defend the Open Championship this year but I feel the R&A have made the right decisions based on people's health and safety. See you all in Royal St George's in 2021.\"\n\nAnd England's Danny Willett, who won the 2016 Masters, told BBC Radio 5 Live; \"Postponement or cancellations is something that we have become accustomed to until everyone is safe and safe to do our sport. It is a shame but there are things bigger than golf at the moment.\"\n\nRoyal St George's has hosted The Open 14 times, most recently in 2011, when Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke won for the first time.\n\nThe Open, which started in 1860, was also previously not held from 1915 to 1919 because of World War One.\n\nThe only other previous cancellation came in 1871, when no trophy was available because Tom Morris Jr was allowed to keep the Challenge Belt for winning the tournament three times in a row.\n\nThe Claret Jug, the prize for the champion golfer of the year, was introduced in 1872.\n\nA golfing year without The Open is hard to imagine but staging the 149th championship in the current situation was always going to be a tall order. Work to erect the temporary infrastructure to house about 200,000 spectators during Open week is a massive undertaking.\n\nBy delaying a year and pushing St Andrews back to 2022, the 150th Open will still be played at the venue known as the home of golf.\n\nIt is a big \"if\" but if the new schedule plays out as now intended, men's golf will have a blockbuster spell between August and November.\n\nThe prospect of the US Open and Ryder Cup in consecutive weeks in September will capture the imagination of golf fans everywhere.\n\nBut the new schedule means that among the biggest tournaments only the PGA Championship can have a material effect on the make up of the European and American teams.\n\nStaging major international events as early as August seems optimistic, indeed the most likely of these tournaments to actually be played is a November Masters.", "A \"long-serving\" nurse at a hospital in Liverpool has died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nDianne Brown, chief nurse at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said with \"great sadness\" she could confirm Ms Glanister had died.\n\nShe said she would be \"sadly missed by all those who knew and worked with her\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Brown continued: \"All our thoughts are with Liz's family at this time and we offer them our sincere condolences.\"\n\nEstephanie Dunn, North West regional director of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"Nurses like Liz are on the front line in this fight and when they succumb to Covid-19, it feels especially cruel.\"\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson also paid tribute to her \"sacrifice\".\n\n\"Words cannot express how much a debt of gratitude this city owes to Liz Glanister and her colleagues,\" he said.\n\nHe added she \"dedicated her life to caring for others and in the true spirit of this city she gave everything she had to make a difference at such a crucial time\".\n\nMr Anderson said flags at Liverpool town hall, St George's Hall and the Cunard Building would fly at half-mast in her honour and the buildings would be lit up blue \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWavertree MP Paula Barker also tweeted it was \"sad news\", while Riverside MP Kim Johnson tweeted her sympathies to Ms Glanister's family, adding that our \"NHS heroes deserve better than this\".\n\nShe said they \"should have the peace of mind that when they are saving lives, that they are safe themselves\" and called for speedier testing for frontline workers.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health, the number of coronavirus-related hospital deaths was recorded as 4,934 as of 17:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Airbnb hosts advertising properties as coronavirus hideouts are \"dangerous and irresponsible\", the government says.\n\nOwners have listed homes as being \"Covid-19 retreats\" and \"perfect for isolating with family\" in the British countryside.\n\nNew coronavirus laws say holiday accommodation should be provided only to keyworkers needing to self-isolate.\n\nBut some listings on the site allow instant booking of rentals without any vetting, BBC News discovered.\n\nThe properties advertised as places to self-isolate include an \"idyllic cottage\", a houseboat and even a castle.\n\nOnly one Airbnb host contacted by BBC News said their rental was available solely to keyworkers.\n\nBut others complained the lockdown had disrupted their business.\n\nIn response to the BBC News's findings, Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"Our advice is clear.\n\n\"Essential travel does not include holidays, leisure travel and visits to second homes - and people must remain in their primary residence.\n\n“It is incredibly irresponsible, and dangerous for some property owners to be marketing themselves as ‘isolation retreats’.\n\n\"We are writing to companies today to remind them of their responsibilities at this time.\"\n\nThis listing was edited to remove the description above after BBC News contacted the host\n\nIndividuals and businesses could face fines of up to £960 for breaking these rules, the government added.\n\nAfter being contacted by the BBC, Airbnb disabled its \"instant book\" function for whole properties.\"We want hosts and guests to follow the rules and we have no tolerance for listings that ignore health or travel advisories,\" an Airbnb spokesperson said.\n\n\"The government has set out clear guidance on the limited conditions under which necessary travel is permitted and we have taken a number of steps to support these measures.\"Hosts in the UK are also opening their homes to NHS and other healthcare providers as part of a global initiative that has seen more than 100,000 places to stay made available so far.\"\n\nLast month, Airbnb announced a worldwide extension to its “extenuating circumstances” policy, stating all guests booked for check-ins between 14 March and 31 May would be eligible for full-refund cancellations.\n\nIn a message on its website, the company acknowledged the decision to offer guests a refund had caused hardship for many hosts and it would pay £200m to help cover the cost of these cancellations.\n\nBut one Airbnb host told BBC News they had received no clear instructions from the platform to say they were not allowed to take reservations.", "Young workers, the worst-paid and women will be most affected economically by the coronavirus, a study has found.\n\nA \"remarkable concentration\" of those groups are employed in sectors that have shut down, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) discovered.\n\nIt said its research raised serious worries\" about the longer-term effect of the crisis on young people especially and inequality.\n\nThose with the lowest earnings were particularly hard hit, the IFS said.\n\nThe research comes as the UK's confidence in the economy has fallen to its lowest in 12 years as the COVID-19 crisis drains consumer confidence.\n\nThe last time such a decline happened was during the 2008 economic downturn.\n\nMarket research firm GfK's consumer confidence gauge dropped to -34, a decline of 25 points compared to just two weeks earlier.\n\nIt suggested record grocery sales were not enough to counteract the \"stark\" outlook for the retail industry.\n\nThe IFS found that the virus lockdown was likely to hit younger workers the hardest, being nearly two-and-a-half times more likely to work in a shutdown area.\n\nBut it also found that the virus was likely to have a bigger effect on women's earnings because of a disproportionate amount of women working in retail and hospitality, with 17% of female employees working in shutdown sectors compared with 13% of men.\n\nHowever, it was also found that the majority of the affected younger workers and lower earners live with parents, or other household members, whose earnings are not directly affected by the lockdown.\n\nIn mitigation, \"in the short run, many will have the cushion of the incomes of parents or other household members,\" it said.\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson told the Today programme said young people aged 25 years old and under tend to work in the leisure, retail and hospitality sectors, which have been heavily impacted by the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nLooking ahead to the future, he said there were two particular problems facing young people.\n\n\"There are those young people who are in those jobs at the moment or were in those jobs before Covid hit, and if they're not able to get back into work then there may be longer term consequences for them.\n\n\"We know that periods of unemployment when you're young can have long-term effects,\" he said.\n\nThe second problem is younger people coming into the labour market after finishing school or university. Mr Johnson said they are making their entry \"in probably the most difficult time in living memory\".\n\n\"Traditionally you're going to be looking to start work in September, [but] now couldn't be a worse moment to be doing it.\"\n\nGfK asked people in mid-March and at the end of March how confident they were about a number of areas such as personal finance and the general economic situation.\n\nData showed that many are now expecting their personal and household's financial position to worsen over the next 12 months.\n\n\"Our falling confidence in our personal financial situation and the wider economy reflects the new concern for many across the UK,\" said Joe Staton, GfK's Client Strategy Director.\n\nThe UK's supermarkets had their best month on record as shoppers rushed to stockpile ahead of the coronavirus lock-down.\n\nMarket data provider Kantar revealed last week that overall sales were up 20.6% in March.\n\nIt said that the average household spent £63 more than usual during this period.\n\nHowever, Mr Staton warned the latest data shows that consumers plan on withholding from making many unnecessary purchases during the current period of economic uncertainty.\n\nHe suggested it could spell disaster for many high-street chains which are already under pressure due to the forced closure of stores.\n\n\"Despite record grocery sales, and recent peaks for purchases of freezers, TVs and home office equipment as people prepared for a long period in the home, the Major Purchase Index is down 50 points - a stark picture for some parts of the retail industry in the short to medium term,\" added Mr Staton.\n\nIt was claimed this week that that 20% of small businesses could fold in April due to the collapse in consumer demand, despite unprecedented government intervention to support jobs.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions revealed a record number of people had applied for universal credit benefits in the past fortnight as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt said 950,000 successful applications for the payment were made between 16 March, when people were advised to work from home, and the end of the month.\n\nThe department said it would normally expect around 100,000 claims in a two week period.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of people are calling on the government to close a loophole in its plans to help workers during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced help for companies to pay staff - but only those on the payroll on 28 February.", "Safety screens protect a pharmacist at Boots, but others say they are being put at risk\n\nHigh street pharmacists are \"needlessly being put at risk\" of catching and spreading coronavirus due to a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), a professional body says.\n\nThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society says that its members have not got the right equipment - masks, gloves and aprons.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said that pharmacists are key health care professionals and are entitled to PPE.\n\nNHS England said millions of pieces of PPE were being delivered.\n\nThe chief pharmaceutical officer Keith Ridge has said the government is making arrangements to get the equipment to pharmacists.\n\nCommunity pharmacists work as contractors for the NHS or for pharmacy chains like Lloyds or Boots and are the first port of call for much of the public when unwell.\n\nPharmacist Johnathan Laird, 36, who is editor of Pharmacy in Practice, said: \"Pharmacies can be very small and we have to get close to patients - it's impossible to keep a two metre distance.\n\n\"The least we expect when delivering NHS services out there is safe and effective PPE. Some pharmacies have bought plastic screens and masks out of their own pocket. That's something the NHS should be paying for.\"\n\nGraham Phillips, 60, is a pharmacist who runs several pharmacies in Hertfordshire and Essex. He said \"my blood is boiling at the callous indifference NHS England has shown towards me and my colleagues.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have been abandoned on the front line.\n\n\"I have tried to source PPE at my own cost - but it has proved impossible to find adequate supplies and I am certain some of my colleagues will die as a result.\"\n\nWithout a ready supply of protective equipment, pharmacists fear they are likely to become unwell - and without the local pharmacy network many patients could struggle to get their prescriptions.\n\nRobbie Turner, director of pharmacy at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: \"The problem the message pharmacists have been getting up until now is to buy PPE from wholesalers. When they even have them in stock it's expensive.\n\n\"Pharmacies should not be having to go out and buy protection to keep them safe - this should be supplied by the NHS. Without it pharmacists are being needlessly put at risk.\"\n\nNHS guidance says that pharmacists in high street stores should wear masks in store and wear gloves and aprons whilst in close contact with patients.\n\nSome pharmacists say they have been forced to ration what PPE they have - and use gloves and masks only when a patient comes in with suspected coronavirus.\n\nNaba Hussain, 29, a pharmacist in London, said: \"We are the front line - GP surgeries are shut so if anyone is ill they go to the pharmacy.\n\n\"We are unprotected and the most at risk. People could be asymptomatic or with the coronavirus symptoms.\"\n\nNaba said customers often don't take the government's coronavirus guidelines seriously.\n\n\"One guy came in for advice the other day saying my partner has coronavirus, what should I do? I told him he needed to leave the pharmacy, self-isolate at home and call 111.\"\n\n\"I sometimes ask myself if it's worth going into work and ask myself why I put myself at such high risk when customers aren't taking coronavirus seriously.\"\n\nMark Lyonette, chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association, said that pharmacy staff needed protective equipment \"without delay\", along with access to testing and funding to cover \"vastly increased costs\".\n\nA spokesperson for the NHS said the latest advice, endorsed by the royal colleges, is that pharmacists should rarely require protective equipment but \"it is vital that all those who need it get the right level of protection\".\n\nMillions of pieces of protective equipment have been procured and are being delivered to front line workers, the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Where there are any issues with supply, staff can raise them through a dedicated hotline, which is open 24/7.\"", "Watford General Hospital is run by the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust\n\nA nursing assistant looking after coronavirus patients has died.\n\nJohn Alagos, 24, became ill and died on Friday after working at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire.\n\nHis mother Gina Gustilo told the BBC the family were waiting to hear whether he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe hospital closed to new patients on Saturday due to problems with its oxygen equipment, but has now reopened. It said it ensured staff had the right level of protection when working.\n\nTracey Carter, chief nurse at the hospital, said: \"John was very popular and will be missed greatly by his colleagues.\"\n\nMrs Gustilo, who is an NHS mental health nurse and lived with her son, said she had shown no symptoms of the virus but was self-isolating at home.\n\nPatients had been asked not to attend Watford General Hospital's A&E Unit\n\nIn a statement issued after Mr Alagos' death, Ms Carter added: \"Our staff are fully briefed on the symptoms of Covid-19 and we would never expect anyone to remain at work if they were showing these symptoms or indeed were unwell in any way.\n\n\"We have always kept our staff updated on the latest PPE guidance to make sure they have the right level of protection for where they are working.\"\n\nThe hospital said the decision on Saturday to declare a critical incident was taken as a \"result of a technical issue with our hospital's oxygen equipment\".\n\nLater that evening the hospital said the problems had been resolved and it lifted the critical incident.\n\nA safe level of oxygen was maintained throughout the duration of the incident, said the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital.\n\nAs of 17:00 BST on Thursday, 29 people had died at the NHS trust's hospitals after being diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nThe trust is responsible for Watford General as well as Hemel Hempstead and St Albans City hospitals.\n\nCurrent NHS advice tells people with coronavirus or suspected symptoms to avoid hospitals and other medical settings like pharmacies.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leicestershire Police stopped the car travelling at 110mph north on the M1\n\nA man has been fined after he was caught speeding at 110mph on the motorway and told police he had been to London to buy bread.\n\nThe man was stopped by officers at about 22:40 BST on Sunday travelling to Nottingham northbound on the M1.\n\nThey said he had been in the car with his two young children and claimed bread in London was £1 cheaper.\n\nLeicestershire Police said the man was handed two fixed penalty notices and reported to court for the speeding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leicestershire Roads Policing Unit (RPU) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe distance between Nottingham and London is more than 120 miles.\n\nThe force said the man was stopped near Junction 22 in Leicestershire.\n\nPolice said the man was handed a notice for speeding and the courts would decide the level of the fine.\n\nThe second notice was under the Health Protection Regulations 2020, which comes with a £60 fine. It came into force last month to give police powers to punish anyone flouting lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe M1 motorway has been virtually deserted since social distancing measures were introduced\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood had apologised for her actions, and initially said she planned to continue in the role.\n\nShe was backed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said Dr Calderwood had made a mistake but should stay in her job.\n\nBut Dr Calderwood released a statement later on Sunday saying she had quit.\n\nShe said she had done so after speaking again to the first minister, and had agreed with her that the \"justifiable focus\" on her actions risked distracting from the pandemic response.\n\nDr Calderwood had earlier been given a police warning for breaking the lockdown rules after the Scottish Sun published photographs taken on Saturday of her and her family visiting Earlsferry in Fife - more than an hour's drive from her main family home in Edinburgh.\n\nThe chief medical officer had fronted TV and radio adverts urging the public to stay at home to save lives and protect the NHS, and took part in daily televised media briefings alongside Ms Sturgeon.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Dr Catherine Calderwood have held regular briefings\n\nDr Calderwood issued an apology on Sunday morning and said she did not want her \"mistake\" to distract from the guidance on social distancing.\n\nShe later admitted during a televised press briefing that she had also made another visit to the property in Fife last weekend with her husband, but insisted she would be remaining in her post.\n\nMs Sturgeon said repeatedly during the briefing that she wanted Dr Calderwood to remain in her role as her expertise was \"invaluable\" during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe first minister announced later on Sunday that Dr Calderwood would not be be attending any more briefings \"for the foreseeable future\" and would no longer be the face of the coronavirus public information campaign.\n\nBut she said Dr Calderwood would continue to offer scientific and medical advice to the Scottish government on the spread of the virus.\n\nDr Calderwood then released another statement at about 22:00, in which she said she was \"deeply sorry for my actions and the mistakes I have made\" and confirmed she was standing down as the country's chief medical officer.\n\nShe added: \"The first minister and I have had a further conversation this evening and we have agreed that the justifiable focus on my behaviour risks becoming a distraction from the hugely important job that government and the medical profession has to do in getting the country through this coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Having worked so hard on the government's response, that is the last thing I want.\"\n\nShe also said she would work to ensure a smooth transition to her successor.\n\nVideos of the chief medical officer urging people to stay at home formed part of the campaign\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"clear\" that Dr Calderwood's mistake \"risks distracting from and undermining confidence in the government's public health message at this crucial time.\n\n\"That is not a risk either of us is willing to take.\"\n\nThe first minister added that the \"very serious mistake\" made by Dr Calderwood should not detract from her \"highly valuable contribution to the medical profession and to health in Scotland\".\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said officers had visited Dr Calderwood and issued a warning about her conduct.\n\nMr Livingstone said \"\"The legal instructions on not leaving your home without a reasonable excuse apply to everyone.\n\n\"Social distancing is the key intervention to curtail the spread of coronavirus and it is essential that the instructions are followed to protect each other, take strain from the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"Individuals must not make personal exemptions bespoke to their own circumstances.\"\n\nDr Calderwood was appointed as Scotland's chief medical officer in March 2015.\n\nA former national director for maternity and women's health at NHS England, she was a leading medical expert in the inquiry into maternity care at Morecambe Bay.\n\nHer deputy is Dr Gregor Smith, a GP and former medical director for primary care in NHS Lanarkshire.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw described Dr Calderwood's decision to stand down as \"embarrassing and inevitable\".\n\nScottish Labour's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said Ms Sturgeon should have \"nipped this in the bud\" earlier.", "Boris Johnson made a statement about his condition on social media\n\nOne of the first moments that raised eyebrows in the course of the UK outbreak was when health minister Nadine Dorries came down with coronavirus.\n\nThen, last week, we discovered that some key staff in Number 10, including the prime minister's chief Brexit negotiator David Frost, were self-isolating with suspected symptoms.\n\nA fair number of MPs took themselves off into isolation for fear of having contracted the infection.\n\nTheir remaining colleagues were continually ordered to sit far apart on the green benches, before finally, this week, Parliament itself closed early, with no certain date for a return of normal business.\n\nStill, the news that the prime minister himself has contracted coronavirus felt like a shock.\n\nWithin a couple of hours we discovered that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has the illness too.\n\nBoth of their symptoms are said to be mild. They have now joined much of the country in that most common of activities, WFH - working from home.\n\nQuestions are swirling, of course, about who else that is part of coordinating the fight against this disease may fall victim soon.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is said to be well, and has not been tested, and nor has the prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nThere is no information that suggests the country's senior scientists, who are at the forefront of the effort to combat the virus, have taken ill.\n\nMr Johnson's team say that he is absolutely well enough to carry on in the job.\n\nHe is self-isolating in the 10 Downing Street flat, which links through to part of Number 11 too, and is carrying out his usual duties, including chairing Friday morning's coronavirus meeting, by video link.\n\nBut with the prime minister now a victim of the virus itself, this is anything but business as usual.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tara: \"I didn't care if I didn't wake up from the night before\"\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse helpline has seen a 25% increase in calls and online requests for help since the lockdown, the charity Refuge says.\n\nIt received hundreds more calls last week compared to two weeks earlier, the charity which runs the helpline said.\n\nCampaigners have warned the restrictions could heighten domestic tensions and cut off escape routes.\n\nThe charity said pressure on other services and awareness campaigns could have also led to the increase.\n\nOne woman, who fled her abuser a few days ago, told the BBC life had become intolerable since the lockdown started.\n\n'Tara', who asked the BBC not to use her real name, said she had been suffering mental and physical abuse from her partner for six months.\n\nWhen the lockdown began things became markedly worse.\n\nTo start with the abuse was subtle: \"Isolating me from my family and friends… thinking I'm cheating on him when I'm with him all the time… just controlling\".\n\nHer abuser deleted her social media accounts and stopped her from seeing family.\n\nShe says he was \"mentally abusive, verbally and obviously hitting me… recently it's obviously been getting worse, since the lockdown.\"\n\n\"It's been bad… I didn't care if I didn't wake up like from the night before... I just knew what was going to happen the next day, I just wanted the days to go past.\"\n\n\"As soon as he gets up, he tries to cause an argument out of nothing, and if I fire back he'll just hit me.\"\n\nTara has now fled to a refuge in Wales, and is being supported by Llamau, a charity for young people and vulnerable women.\n\nVisits to the UK-wide National Domestic Abuse helpline website for information were 150% higher than during the last week in February, Refuge said.\n\nAnother high-profile campaigner, Rachel Williams, believes domestic violence and potentially homicides will escalate as social distancing restrictions in the UK continue.\n\nEscape routes such as the school run have been closed off by the lockdown\n\nMany perpetrators already use isolation \"as a tool of control\" Sandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge said.\n\nShe said last year 1.6 million women in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse, and \"while in lockdown or self-isolation, women and children are likely to be spending concentrated periods of time with perpetrators, potentially escalating the threat of domestic abuse and further restricting their freedom.\n\n\"Domestic abuse isn't always physical - it's a pattern of controlling, threatening and coercive behaviour, which can also be emotional, economic, psychological or sexual.\"\n\nDomestic abuse survivor Rachel Williams believes lockdown will mean more homicides\n\nRachel Williams suffered at the hands of her husband for 18 years and when she told him she was leaving he shot her with a sawn-off shotgun.\n\n\"For me the homicide rate is going to go through the roof, and this is what we're anticipating and bracing ourselves for,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"You can't stop the perpetrator unless he's visible.\n\n\"We'll never eradicate domestic abuse, end of, we've got an epidemic at the moment in the UK, with a pandemic on top.\"\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse Helpline can be contacted online as well as by phone\n\nPolice are emphasising that women and men facing abuse at home during the lockdown should still report their experiences to police and seek support from domestic abuse services.\n\nWest Midlands Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, who leads on domestic abuse for the National Police Chiefs' Council said: \"We would always seek to remove the perpetrator...\n\n\"Because often victims in their own home where family, friends and neighbours can look out for them are much safer than if we remove them.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe leads on domestic abuse for the National Police Chiefs' Council\n\nRefuge says the helpline is still running 24 hours, seven days a week, with staff operating from home.\n\nOne effect of being locked down with your abuser could be that not only are people more vulnerable to domestic abuse - but also possibly less likely to be able to make an emergency phone call.\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse Helpline therefore offers the option of contacting them through its website, with a quick exit button which ensures no record of the attempt is left on the phone.\n\nFor Tara, although the abuse worsened when having to spend 24 hours a day in isolation with her partner, she feels the lockdown proved to her that she needed to escape her relationship forever.\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms \"worsened\", Downing Street has said.\n\nA spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical team and was receiving \"excellent care\".\n\nMr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise \"where necessary\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe prime minister, 55, was admitted to hospital in London with \"persistent symptoms\" on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Queen has been kept informed about Mr Johnson's health by No 10, according to Buckingham Palace.\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the prime minister was given oxygen late on Monday afternoon, before being taken to intensive care.\n\nHowever, he has not been put on a ventilator.\n\nA No 10 statement read: \"The prime minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus.\n\n\"Over the course of [Monday] afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital.\"\n\nIt continued: \"The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all NHS staff for their hard work and dedication.\"\n\nMr Raab - who will later chair the government's daily Covid-19 meeting - said there was an \"incredibly strong team spirit\" behind the prime minister.\n\nHe added that he and his colleagues were making sure they implemented plans Mr Johnson had instructed them to deliver \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"That's the way we'll bring the whole country through the coronavirus challenge,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described it as \"terribly sad news\".\n\n\"All the country's thoughts are with the prime minister and his family during this incredibly difficult time,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said Americans \"are all praying for his recovery\".\n\nHe described Mr Johnson as \"a very good friend of mine and a friend to our nation\" who is \"strong\" and \"doesn't give up\".\n\nMr Johnson was initially taken to hospital for routine tests after testing positive for coronavirus 10 days ago. His symptoms included a high temperature and a cough.\n\nEarlier on Monday, he tweeted that he was in \"good spirits\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter very, very little information was shared today, the prime minister was taken into intensive care at around 19:00 BST.\n\nWe've been told he is still conscious, but his condition has worsened over the course of the afternoon.\n\nAnd he has been moved to intensive care as a precaution in case he needs ventilation to get through this illness.\n\nThe statement from Downing Street makes clear he is receiving excellent care and he wants to thank all of the NHS staff.\n\nBut something important has changed, and he has felt it necessary to ask his foreign secretary to deputise for him where needs be.\n\nThat is a completely different message from what we have heard over the past 18 hours or so, where it was continually \"the prime minister is in touch\" and \"he is in charge\" - almost like everything is business as usual.\n\nBut clearly being in intensive care changes everything.\n\nLast month, the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Mr Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK reached 5,373 - an increase of 439 in a day.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said there were now 51,608 confirmed coronavirus cases.\n\nIntensive care is where doctors look after the sickest patients - his admission to ICU is the clearest indication of how ill the prime minister is.\n\nWe do not know the full details of Mr Johnson's condition, but he is conscious and not being ventilated.\n\nNot every patient in intensive care is ventilated, but around two-thirds are within 24 hours of admission with Covid-19.\n\nThis is a disease that attacks the lungs and can cause pneumonia and difficulty breathing.\n\nThis leaves the body struggling to get enough oxygen into the blood and to the body's vital organs.\n\nThere is no proven drug treatment for Covid-19, although there are many experimental candidates.\n\nBut the cornerstone of the prime minister's care will depend on getting enough oxygen into his body and supporting his other organs while his immune system fights the virus.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said his thoughts were with the prime minister and his pregnant partner, Carrie Symonds, and that Mr Johnson would \"come out of this even stronger\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"sending [Mr Johnson] every good wish\", while Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster added she was \"praying for a full and speedy recovery\".\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford called it \"concerning news\".\n\nMr Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May, and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both said their thoughts were with him.\n\nMrs May noted that the \"horrific virus does not discriminate\".\n\nThe Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar wished Mr Johnson \"a rapid return to health\", and French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped he \"overcomes this ordeal quickly.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also wished him a \"speedy and full recovery\".\n\nFor Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the news \"deepens our compassion for all who are seriously ill\" and those looking after them.\n\nAnd Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that St Thomas' Hospital had \"some of the finest medical staff in the world\" and that the prime minister \"couldn't be in safer hands\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: Boris Johnson \"still remains in charge of the government\"\n\nDuring the government's daily coronavirus briefing earlier on Monday, Mr Raab stressed that the prime minister had been continuing to run the government from hospital.\n\nAsked whether that was appropriate, Mr Raab said Mr Johnson would \"take the medical advice that he gets from his doctor\".\n\n\"We have a team... that is full throttle making sure that his directions and his instructions are being implemented,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary added that he had not spoken to the prime minister since Saturday.\n\nOn Saturday, Ms Symonds said she had spent a week in bed with the main symptoms. She said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, who also tested positive for the virus and spent time in self-isolation, offered \"all possible best wishes to Boris Johnson and his loved ones\".\n\n\"I know he will receive the best possible care from our amazing NHS,\" he tweeted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: Boris Johnson \"still remains in charge of the government\"\n\nIt is too early to consider a strategy for exiting the coronavirus lockdown, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nDominic Raab said the current measures were \"beginning to work\" - but shifting focus could mean \"we won't get through the peak as fast as we need to\".\n\nHe added Boris Johnson remained in charge of the government from hospital, where the PM spent the night receiving treatment for coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe number of virus hospital deaths in the UK now stands at 5,373.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care reported 51,608 confirmed cases.\n\nAsked during the government's daily briefing when the current social distancing measures could be lifted, the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said it must first establish when the peak of the epidemic will come.\n\n\"The key thing is to get to the point where we are confident we have reached the peak, and [that] this is now beyond the peak,\" he said.\n\n\"At that point, I think it [will be] possible to have a serious discussion about all the things we need to do, step by step, to move to the next phase of managing this.\"\n\nHe added to start \"having that discussion\" before then would be a mistake.\n\nIt is the first time Prof Whitty has appeared at one of the briefings since spending time in self-isolation after he showed symptoms.\n\nDeputy chief scientific adviser Prof Dame Angela McLean said it was \"too early to tell\" what the impact of the current measures would be.\n\n\"We need people to carry on following those instructions so we can work out, three weeks later, what actually happens in hospitals,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to know how well the current restrictions are working before we can say anything sensible about what the next stage might be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, says it is too soon to talk about relaxing restrictions\n\nIn a tweet on Monday, Mr Johnson said he was in \"good spirits\" after spending the night in St Thomas' Hospital in London.\n\nHe was taken to hospital on Sunday evening with \"persistent symptoms\" - including a temperature and a cough - for routine tests.\n\nAsked whether it was appropriate for the prime minister to run the government from hospital, Mr Raab said Mr Johnson would \"take the medical advice that he gets from his doctor\".\n\nHe added he had not spoken to the prime minister since Saturday.\n\nAsked whether people should work while recovering from the virus, Prof Whitty said some of his own patients were \"perfectly capable of managing massively complicated things\" from their hospital beds.\n\nLast month, the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Mr Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is among those who has sent his wishes to his \"great friend\" Mr Johnson.\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he hoped the prime minister had a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nMeanwhile, the former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake told the BBC it might be \"sensible\" for Mr Johnson to \"step back\" if he was not well enough to carry out his role.\n\nDr Sarah Jarvis, a GP and broadcaster, said Mr Johnson would probably have his chest X-rayed and his lungs scanned, particularly if he had been struggling for breath.\n\nShe said he is also likely to have an electrocardiogram to check his heart's function, as well as tests on his oxygen levels, white blood cell count, and liver and kidney function before he is released from hospital.\n\nMr Johnson has worked from home since it was announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus on 27 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday, his pregnant partner Carrie Symonds tweeted that she had spent a week in bed with the main symptoms. She said she had not been tested for the virus.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had also tested positive for the virus and returned from self-isolation on Thursday to host the daily Downing Street news conference.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Thousands of UK motorists have won the first stage of a High Court action against Volkswagen over the installation of emissions cheating devices in its diesel vehicles.\n\nIt follows a preliminary hearing in December, when the court was asked whether software installed in the cars was a \"defeat device\" under EU rules.\n\nIn a judgement on Monday, Mr Justice Waksman ruled that it was.\n\nVolkswagen said it was \"disappointed\" and said it may appeal.\n\nA spokesperson for the German carmaker said: \"To be clear, today's decision does not determine liability or any issues of causation or loss for any of the causes of action claimed. These remain to be determined by the court as the case continues.\"\n\nThe case being heard at the High Court is the latest in a global storm of litigation facing VW.\n\nSo far, the group has paid out €30bn (£26bn) worldwide.\n\nAbout 90,000 motorists in England and Wales have brought action against VW as well as Audi, Seat and Skoda, which are also owned by Volkswagen Group.\n\nThey are seeking compensation in a case which could be the largest consumer action in English legal history.\n\nThe use of defeat devices meant that Volkswagen's cars were certified as conforming to EU pollution standards. But, in reality, the vehicles were emitting up to 40 times the legally permitted amount of nitrogen dioxide.\n\nVolkswagen has been dogged by the diesel vehicle emissions testing scandal since 2015\n\nThe German carmaker admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide, including almost 1.2 million in the UK, were affected.\n\nSince then, senior bosses including chief executive Martin Winterkorn have stepped down, while some have been charged with criminal offences in Germany and the US.\n\nThe High Court ruling applies not only to VW cars, but also to those manufactured by Audi, Seat and Skoda.\n\nMr Justice Waksman described some of Volkswagen’s arguments that the vehicles did not contain defeat devices as “completely irrelevant”, “hopeless” and “highly flawed”.\n\nDepending on who you speak to, this is either a ruling that confirms wrongdoing by Volkswagen and puts huge pressure on the company to reach a settlement - or one that changes absolutely nothing.\n\nThe reality is that the judge has settled a couple of specific points, and in doing so has been scathing about the arguments the car giant put forward.\n\nBut the litigation still has a very long way to go.\n\nThe background, of course, is a worldwide scandal that has already cost VW tens of billions of pounds in fines and compensation payments, left blood on the boardroom floor, tarnished its reputation and led to a senior executive being jailed in the US.\n\nBut here in the UK, Volkswagen has consistently denied using prohibited defeat devices - and insists its customers have not suffered any losses, so there is no need for any compensation.\n\nAnd despite Monday's ruling, the signs are it plans to stick to its guns.\n\nGareth Pope, who leads the legal team at Slater and Gordon, which represents 70,000 claimants, said: “This damning judgment confirms what our clients have known for a long time, but which VW has refused to accept: namely that VW fitted defeat devices into millions of vehicles in the UK in order to cheat emissions tests.\n\nHe added: “VW’s utter failure to convince the court of the merits of its case means that now is surely time for it to settle these claims and put this shameful episode behind it.”\n\nA spokesperson for VW said: \"Volkswagen remains confident in our case that we are not liable to the claimants as alleged and the claimants did not suffer any loss. We will continue to defend our position robustly.\n\n\"Nothing in this decision today changes this.\"", "A man has been arrested after \"threatening and offensive comments\" were made against Robin Swann.\n\nThe comments about the health minister were posted on social media on Friday.\n\nA 26-year-old was arrested in Ballymena, County Antrim, on Sunday, on suspicion of improper use of telecommunications causing anxiety.\n\nHe has subsequently been released on bail pending further inquiries and police say the investigation is ongoing.\n\nThere has been widespread condemnation of the abuse from politicians.\n\nSecretary of State Brandon Lewis said Mr Swann \"is working hard to protect the public and online abuse will not deter him\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said there was \"no place for this nonsense as we work together to save lives\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: \"Robin Swann is working night and day to reduce the impact of coronavirus on our communities.\n\n\"The vile sectarian abuse and threats that he and his family have been subjected to are disgusting and those responsible must be held accountable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Steve Aiken described the threats received by his party colleague as a “disgusting attack on someone who is doing their very best for everybody in Northern Ireland”.\n\n“We cannot allow this kind of thing to happen,” Steve Aiken told the BBC's Nolan Show.\n\n\"It’s not just an attack on Robin, it’s an attack on our whole system, it’s an attack on our health service, it’s an attack on our healthcare.\"\n\n\"Robin Swann is doing what in normal circumstances is one of the hardest jobs in government. He is doing so during a global pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThe Department of Health confirmed there had been \"threatening communication received by the minister via social media\" but said it would not comment further now that the matter had been passed on to police.", "Cath Kidston, the floral fashion brand, is set to file for administration as the coronavirus shutdown pushes High Street retailers to breaking point.\n\nThe move will put nearly 950 jobs at risk at the company which is best-known for its brightly-coloured designs.\n\nDebenhams, the department store chain, is also expected to appoint administrators as early as this week.\n\nAnd reports have emerged that Topshop-owner Arcadia may walk away from the leases on some of its 550 shops.\n\nCath Kidston confirmed that it intends to appoint advisory firm Alvarez & Marsal as administrators.\n\nA spokesperson said it was part of an ongoing process to explore all options for the company which was in the middle of a turnaround plan before the global Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n\nCath Kidston employs 941 people, of which 820 have been furloughed under the government's employee payment scheme.\n\nAfter the coronavirus outbreak forced store closures, Cath Kidston has stayed open online.\n\nBut most employees were furloughed on 22 March which means the government will pay 80% of an employee's wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nAn urgent review of the business began last month and there has been interest from possible buyers.\n\nThe chain sells home furnishings, clothes and accessories in trademark floral and vintage prints. It has 60 shops in the UK and a presence in 200 globally. Founded in 1993, it was bought by Baring Private Equity Asia in 2016.\n\nIt is thought a so-called pre-pack administration is now the most likely outcome for Cath Kidston.\n\nDebenhams, which employs around 20,000 staff, is also understood to be considering a pre-pack administration.\n\nIf it goes ahead, it will be the second time in a year that the retailer has filed for administration.\n\nIt is understood Debenhams wants to protect the business against claims from creditors including suppliers who are yet to be paid.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sunday Times reported that Arcadia, which is owned by Sir Philip Green, is preparing to walk away from a number of its property leases.\n\nA spokesman for Arcadia said: \"No decision has been taken at this time.\"\n\nArcadia has furloughed 14,500 of its 16,000 employees since the coronavirus lockdown and said its board members and senior leadership are taking pay cuts of between 25% and 50%.\n\nArcadia is also facing uncertainty over the future of its concessions in Debenhams' stores which include the brands Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge and Wallis.\n\nAs the High Street remains in shutdown, some retailers such as Primark have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nFashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nWhile the coronavirus has heaped pressure on many businesses, independent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.", "A nurse with coronavirus who died was an \"amazing person\" and \"put herself last\", her sister says.\n\nMother-of-three Areema Nasreen, 36, had been placed on a ventilator at Walsall Manor Hospital where she worked in the acute medical unit.\n\nMs Nasreen died in the early hours of Friday, after spending weeks in intensive care.\n\nKazeema Nasreen said her sister \"helped everyone with everything\" and \"was just a rare girl, not just at work\".\n\nShe stated: \"I said to my mum, 'when all this is over, if you want to think about your daughter, just go past her ward, her memories are alive there'.\n\n\"She put herself last in the community back home. Any time she [found] out someone was suffering back home, she'll send money. Someone wants to go to pilgrimage... she used to pay for the poor to go.\n\n\"We've lost an amazing nurse, but we've lost also an amazing person in life.\"\n\nAreema Nasreen had \"always dreamed of being a nurse\", said Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. She started out as a housekeeper in 2003, before working to gain her nursing qualification which she achieved in January 2019.\n\nKazeema Nasreen said: \"Manor Hospital have been amazing throughout her journey.... and the support that we've had... they believed in her.\"\n\nShe reflected that when her sister first \"looked after my nan, she was only a little girl herself and that inspired her more and more\".\n\nShe added: \"[Her] passion started growing..... she just said 'I want to do it, but there's no-one in our entire family who's graduated'.\"\n\nAsked about when her sister first became ill, Kazeema Nasreen stated she had said there was \"slight leg ache\" before texting about two hours later, saying \"the pain's coming up\".\n\nThe UK's largest nursing union has warned that it is \"inevitable\" more health workers will die with coronavirus.\n\nTheresa Fyffe, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, spoke after the deaths of Ms Nasreen and fellow nurse Aimee O'Rourke.", "The man was rescued after getting lost and falling into a stream\n\nA man has been rescued by helicopter from the Pyrenees after trying to walk from France to Spain to buy cheap cigarettes, reports say.\n\nThe local mountain rescue service said the man was found \"exhausted, shivering, cold and lost\" when he was eventually picked up.\n\nDespite his ordeal, he was fined 135 euros ($146; £119) for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\n\"We remind you once more. STAY AT HOME,\" the regional police tweeted.\n\nThe mountain rescue service said the man, from Perpignan - about 25km (15 miles) from the Spanish border - had initially set off by car but was turned back at a checkpoint.\n\nIt said he then decided to attempt the journey on foot along a hiking path over the mountains.\n\nHowever, the man fell into a stream and brambles and got lost before contacting rescuers, the service said. It said he was found quickly and airlifted to a security facility back in Perpignan.\n\nUnder lockdown rules in France, people can only leave home for exceptional reasons and with a letter explaining why.", "Three of the UK's leading video games developers are to display coronavirus safety advice within their titles.\n\nCandy Crush Saga, Dirt Rally 2.0 and Sniper Elite 4 are among the games that will feature the messaging.\n\nThe initial ads will focus on the theme: \"Stay home. Save lives.\"\n\nRebellion - one of the companies involved - also publishes 2000AD among other comics, and has also offered space in these for the government's campaign.\n\n\"I reached out to DCMS [Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport] a few days ago to say is there anything we can do,\" Jason Kingsley, chief executive of Rebellion and chair of the games trade body Tiga told the BBC.\n\n\"A lot of people spend hundreds of hours in computer games.\n\n\"And in this case, we thought we could help society by reminding people of their obligations to others.\"\n\nThe inclusion of Codemasters' off-road racing game Dirt Rally 2.0 comes a day before it is included in Sony's latest PlayStation Plus package. This should give it a high profile over coming weeks, and ensure many thousands of subscribers see the in-game ads despite the title being more than a year old.\n\nLikewise, Activision Blizzard's London-based division, King, predicts millions of gamers will see the ads within its mobile games, which include Farm Heroes Saga in addition to Candy Crush. The firm has also donated 230 digital advertising screens it had booked, to carry coronavirus-related information.\n\nKing had previously promoted other social-distancing advice in its some of its social media posts\n\nThe games creators will feature the promotions in different ways.\n\nIn Rebellion's case, it will display the message on a screen shown before gameplay begins within its Strange Brigade and Sniper Elite titles. It normally uses the launcher pages to promote its other wares. In the case of PC gamers, the pages will also contain a link to a website containing further advice about the virus.\n\nBy contrast, Codemasters will take advantage of the fact it has built in the ability to display ads within the action itself, which it can remotely update. The tech for this is supplied by the London-based start-up Bidstack.\n\n\"We realised that technology within our games, which enables the remote updating of banners within the virtual environment, could be repurposed to assist with the coronavirus communication effort,\" Codemasters' business development chief Toby Evan-Jones explained.\n\n\"Reaching out to our contacts at the civil service was met with nothing but support.\"\n\nIn the case of Dirt Rally, players will see the advice on the roadside banners they race past.\n\nBecause the technology is geo-targeted, the messages will be restricted to UK-based gamers. But Codemasters says it hopes to extend the initiative to other European and American players soon with localised public safety information.\n\n\"As this is a global pandemic, we have prepared localised variants of the asset in French, Italian, German and Spanish - the predominant languages for those within our community whose authorities are advising self-isolation,\" added Mr Evan-Jones.\n\nDCMS is now inviting the UK's other 2,000-plus games companies to join the effort.", "Belgium uses its well-loved food and drink to encourage people to keep their distance Image caption: Belgium uses its well-loved food and drink to encourage people to keep their distance\n\nUntil a few weeks ago, social distancing was an alien idea to most of us. Now, as we learn to navigate this new world, different countries and cultures are figuring out how to best explain new public health measures.\n\nBelgians should be keeping apart the same distance as 22 bottles of Orval beer, 10 cones of chips, or three crates of beer. (Presumably those supplies are useful for self-isolation, too.)\n\nWhile in Kenya, one graphic explains that the length of a lion is the correct distance to keep from others. But please don't use actual lions, it warns.\n\nA graphic in Kenya encourages people to stay the distance of one lion away from others Image caption: A graphic in Kenya encourages people to stay the distance of one lion away from others\n\nAnd in Mexico, superhero Susana Distancia was launched by the government to encourage people to keep their distance and stay at home. Her name is a play on words that translate as \"your healthy distance\".\n\nSusana Distancia's superpower is extending her arms 1.5m to create a bubble protecting herself and others from infection Image caption: Susana Distancia's superpower is extending her arms 1.5m to create a bubble protecting herself and others from infection\n\nMeanwhile in Egypt, a very catchy song with old footage of famous actor Adel Imam is being broadcast on television and even in the streets. \"Don't kiss, don't shake hands, don't transmit the virus,\" it sings.", "After a day in a strange vacuum, an official statement emerged from Downing Street just after 20:00 BST.\n\nHaving struggled to shake off symptoms, and having been taken to hospital 24 hours before, No 10 announced that the prime minister had been moved into intensive care.\n\nDowning Street has made clear that Boris Johnson is still conscious, and it is understood that he has not yet received any kind of ventilation to help him breathe.\n\nBut the decision was taken to move him to part of St Thomas' Hospital, where that kind of treatment would be immediately available if required.\n\nIt has been clear for many days that Mr Johnson was taking far longer to recover than had initially been expected.\n\nHe regularly popped up on social media to say that he was suffering mild symptoms and was following advice in customary bombastic tone.\n\nEven this morning No 10 was insisting that he was still receiving red boxes full of government business and was in touch with his team.\n\nBut obviously, with his condition deteriorating on Monday afternoon, the view of his condition changed.\n\nWith the prognosis uncertain, the government has taken a highly unusual move of asking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to step up to deputise for the prime minister when needed.\n\nTalking on Monday night, he said that the government's business would go on, ministers focused on delivering the plans to tackle coronavirus that Mr Johnson had instructed them to do.\n\nBut the foreign secretary seemed understandably, but obviously, shocked.\n\nPoliticians have repeatedly said that coronavirus does not discriminate, the infection does not pick and choose.\n\nWith Boris Johnson now in intensive care, it is abundantly clear that power is no protection from harm.", "Defence firm Babcock has said it will be manufacturing 10,000 ventilators to help deal with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe plan comes nearly two weeks after Dyson said it had received a government order for 10,000 ventilators.\n\nBoth devices still have to pass stringent medical tests before they can be accepted.\n\nThe move came as tech giant Apple, best-known for phones and computers, said it would start making face shields for medical workers.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook tweeted on Sunday that it has designed and is now making the protective gear.\n\nThe tech giant plans to make more than one million shields a week, which will be shipped first to US medical workers and then distributed globally.\n\nIt has also sourced 20 million face masks which it is donating worldwide to help prevent the spread of the virus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Babcock said in a statement that it had \"responded quickly to the UK Prime Minister's UK Ventilator Challenge\".\n\n\"We are proud to have been awarded a contract by the Cabinet Office to manufacture 10,000 Zephyr Plus ventilators, subject to regulatory approvals; a product being developed in collaboration with an established major international supplier of critical care ventilators,\" the firm added.\n\nThe supplier, believed to be based outside the UK, has asked not to be named.\n\nA ventilator is a machine that helps a person breathe by getting oxygen into the lungs and removing carbon dioxide.\n\nA shortage of ventilators to treat coronavirus patients with acute symptoms is seen as one of the major problems facing the NHS as it battles the pandemic.\n\nBabcock's statement did not say where the ventilators would be manufactured, but it has factories in Scotland and south-west England.\n\nCompanies, from electronics firms to carmakers, have been shifting production to help make vital medical equipment and supplies for hospitals around the world.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter, Apple's Mr Cook said: \"This is a truly global effort, and we're working continuously and closely with governments at all levels to ensure these are donated to places of greatest need.\"\n\nApple has pulled in designers, engineers and suppliers to shape, produce and ship the face shields.\n\nMr Cook said the first shipment of the plastic face shields, which can be assembled in less than two minutes, was delivered last week to some hospitals in Silicon Valley. The materials are sourced from both the US and China.\n\n\"In both these efforts, out focus is on unique ways Apple can help, meeting essential needs of caregivers urgently and at a scale the circumstances require,\" Mr Cook added. \"For Apple, this is a labour of love and gratitude, and we will share more of our efforts over time.\"\n\nWith a worldwide shortage of hospital equipment such as ventilators and protective gear for medical workers, organisations, educational institutions and individuals have been joining the effort to meet the demand.\n\nIn the UK, around 1,400 3D-printer owners have pledged to use their machines to help make face masks for the NHS.", "President Trump, pictured with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has not yet identified a white supremacist group as a terrorist organisation\n\nUS President Donald Trump has labelled a Russian nationalist group as a terrorist organisation.\n\nThe announcement marks the first time the US government has applied the label to a white supremacist group.\n\n\"These actions are unprecedented,\" said Nathan Sales, assistant secretary of State for counterterrorism on Monday.\n\nThe Russian Imperialist Movement is believed to have offered military training to neo-Nazi fighters and aided election interference in the US.\n\nThe group is also thought to have been involved in neo-Nazi bombings at several locations in Sweden in 2016 and 2017.\n\nThe designation has been seen as an unusual move, as President Trump has previously been criticised for failure to do more about the threat of white supremacy.\n\nThe terror designation gives the US government authority to block Americans from providing material support or engage in financial dealings with such groups.\n\nTo receive such a designation, a group must be a foreign organisation and must engage in terrorist activity that threatens the security of US nationals or the national security of the US.\n\nThe Treasury Department can block any American assets belonging to a named terrorist group, and its members can be prevented from entering the US.\n\nThe label has been most frequently used for Islamist extremist groups.\n\nThe Russian Imperial Movement is an ultra-nationalist paramilitary group based in St Petersburg, where it has a training camp, with alleged links to white supremacist organisations in the West.\n\nAccording to Swedish investigators, the group trained two of the three Swedish men convicted of bombings targeting a café and refugee centres in 2016, and a synagogue the following year.\n\nThe group is not believed to be state-sponsored but Russian President Vladimir Putin has \"tolerated\" its activities, the New York Times reports. It supported the Kremlin after the 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by recruiting fighters for the conflict.\n\nThe group is believed to have supported pro-Russia fighters in the Ukraine conflict\n\nThe US is also labelling three of the group's leaders as individual terrorists who will face separate sanctions.\n\n\"This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat,\" Mr Sales said. \"We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.\"\n\nThe designation of the Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organisation suggests the Trump administration is becoming increasingly concerned about a global threat from white supremacist movements.\n\nThe US has a long history of dealing with home-grown white nationalists and supremacists - including the Ku Klux Klan and the group behind the violent 2017 \"Unite the Right\" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Members of a Michigan-based extremist militia group staged the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168, as well.\n\nNow, however, the US is considering similar or even greater dangers sponsored or instigated from abroad, which could be a destabilising force not just in the US but among its allies, as well. Far-right extremism appears to have inspired the 2019 Christchurch shooting at a mosque in New Zealand and attacks in Scandinavia.\n\nThe White House move also represents a change of tone, given that Donald Trump last March said he thought white nationalist violence was the action of \"a small group of people\" and not a rising global threat.\n\nAs is often the case these past few years, the test will now be whether the president echoes the concerns of his administration officials - or contradicts them.\n\nLast year, under a separate authority Mr Trump designated Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organisation - the first time the US had declared another nation's military a terrorist entity.\n\nThe president has faced criticism for minimising the threat of white nationalist violence in the US, especially compared to other terror groups. He was widely condemned for his reaction to the deadly white supremacist rally in Virginia, and his comments suggesting there were \"very fine people\" on both sides.\n\nThis past summer, the US faced a wave of mass violence and attempted attacks, many of them targeting specific minority groups. The government lacks any federal penalties for acts of domestic terrorism, however, like those that exist for international acts of terror.", "Ministers are responding to fears that children on free school meals could go hungry\n\nTeachers' unions have welcomed a government decision that means families eligible for free school meals (FSM) will continue to receive financial help to buy food over the Easter holidays.\n\nLast week ministers said qualifying families could claim shopping vouchers of £15 a week per child in term time.\n\nNow the scheme will be extended in England over the two-week holiday.\n\nUnions said the move would help prevent children going hungry, as the coronavirus pandemic continues.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove confirmed over the weekend that the vouchers would continue to be paid over the Easter holidays.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the leaders' union NAHT, said he was pleased to see the government \"taking action to support some of the most vulnerable children\".\n\n\"We know that for many children, lunch at school is their only hot meal of the day and, in some cases, their only meal full stop.\n\n\"The government is doing the right thing in stepping forward and making sure all children can continue to access the food they need.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Many struggling families will be finding it even harder than normal to make ends meet in the current emergency and with children at home for a long period.\n\n\"The extension of the voucher scheme will make a real difference in helping to alleviate the risk of children going hungry.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the impact of a prolonged shutdown of schools on these young people and their families, and are keen to work with the government on examining the full implications and what more support can be provided to them.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: ''It will be important to get the message out this week that children who qualify for FSM are covered by the national voucher scheme during the Easter holiday period.\n\n''Parents who did not previously qualify for free school meals but whose income has reduced or stopped due to the coronavirus crisis, may qualify based on their new financial circumstances.\n\n\"Parents and carers should check local authority websites for how to apply.\"\n\nJudith Blake, chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said providing for vulnerable pupils, including those on free school meals and with special educational needs and disabilities, was a \"top priority for councils and schools\".\n\nMs Blake said the coronavirus pandemic had forced thousands of families into financial insecurity and warned that \"many parents who did not previously qualify for free school meals may be eligible for them\".\n\n\"We will continue to work with the Department for Education to ensure that these families have the certainty they need,\" she said.\n\nFamilies are being issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card worth £15, to spend at supermarkets including Sainsbury's, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose and M&S.\n\nAround 1.3 million in children in England are entitled to free school meals and, until now, schools had been making their own arrangements.", "HMS Trenchant had been on patrol before having to return to Devonport to undergo repairs\n\nA submarine crew were filmed having a party during the coronavirus lockdown, prompting a Royal Navy investigation.\n\nThe captain of HMS Trenchant, a nuclear-powered attack submarine based at Devonport in Plymouth, has been sent home on leave.\n\nVideo of the crew enjoying a party and barbecue while the submarine was tied up have been shared on social media.\n\nIt shows sailors dancing and laughing, and a source confirmed some were drinking alcohol.\n\nHMS Trenchant had been on patrol before having to return to Devonport to undergo repairs.\n\nThe crew were required to stay with the submarine in isolation while the repairs were completed.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said it was understood the captain had gone ahead with the entertainment despite being advised it might be inappropriate.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way. It would be inappropriate to comment further.\"", "Rebecca Fairclough says she has yet to be called upon despite signing up to volunteer\n\nWhen the NHS invited people to become \"volunteer responders\" a month ago, there was a deluge of applications.\n\nThree quarters of a million people signed up to help with jobs including patient transportation and grocery delivery.\n\nSix hundred thousand were accepted on to the scheme, but so far only 50,000 tasks have been completed.\n\nThere's frustration from volunteers who haven't been used yet.\n\nRebecca Fairclough, from Manchester, applied to become a \"check in and chat\" volunteer - giving phone support to people who feel isolated.\n\nBut although she has spent many hours on standby, she is yet to be called upon.\n\n\"I've been on the app and marked myself as on duty, mainly in the evenings and weekends. So there's a total of 75 hours I've been online ready to volunteer and either make or take calls and I've heard nothing,\" she says.\n\nVulnerable people who are eligible to claim support from the scheme have also complained of it being difficult to access.\n\nAmong them are Rebecca's parents Joanna and Peter who are shielding at their home more than an hour away from her.\n\nPeter has a lung disease which entitles him to claim support from the NHS Volunteer Responder scheme. But his wife Joanna says they weren't aware of it.\n\n\"In the shielding letter it tells you to get friends and family to collect prescriptions, and that's from the government,\" she says.\n\nThe couple say the first three weeks of lockdown were especially difficult for them, but they are no longer in need of extra support because their local village support scheme has helped them.\n\nAway from the main NHS scheme, many smaller scale volunteer schemes have sprung up.\n\nVolunteers are going door-to-door in Liverpool offering help to vulnerable people\n\nIn Liverpool, the St Michael's Community Support Network got under way quickly. It has been going door-to-door to check on people.\n\nOrganiser Kal Ross said: \"We are doing a lot of courtesy calls to keep people company things like that, we've started to deliver hot meals.\n\n\"Really anything we can put our mind to, because the experience within our community is quite significant and if you organise that it can be quite a powerful thing.\"\n\nThe NHS Volunteer Responder Scheme is co-ordinated by the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS).\n\nThe organisers have apologised to volunteers who are still waiting to help, explaining that the system has taken longer to set up than expected.\n\nThey have also set up a new helpline to allow people to request help directly.\n\nRebecca Kennelly, the director of volunteering at the RVS, said: \"I think the key is that we give everybody the opportunity to get themselves into the system.\n\n\"Anybody who feels that they are at risk or vulnerable, who feels that they can get support from a shopping role or prescription pick ups, or maybe a phonecall, please do give us a ring.\"\n\nThe RVS is encouraging those eligible for support to visit its website or phone the hotline which is 0808 196 3646.", "South Africa's president has announced an easing of some lockdown restrictions - to begin next month.\n\nBut Cyril Ramaphosa warned that most people should remain at home and also urged people to wear masks when outside.\n\nYet at the end of his speech he struggled while demonstrating how to put on a mask, leading to widespread mockery on social media and the hashtags #MaskOnChallenge and #CyrilMaskChallenge trending on Twitter.\n\nPresident Ramaphosa later joked that he was going to start a TV channel to \"teach people how to put on a mask\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier says Britain has “failed to engage substantially” in trade talks with the EU\n\nThe progress made in post-Brexit trade talks between the UK and EU has been disappointing, Michel Barnier has said.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator said \"genuine progress\" and a decision on whether to extend the transition period were both needed by June.\n\nThe UK said \"limited progress\" had been made and talks needed to \"move forward in a constructive fashion\".\n\nThe two sides will hold two further rounds of talks before the end of the transition period in December.\n\nMr Barnier said a joint decision would be taken on 30 June about whether to extend the transition period.\n\nBut the UK government has already said it will refuse to extend it beyond December, even if the EU requested a delay.\n\nFollowing the talks - which took place using video-conferencing technology because of the coronavirus pandemic - Mr Barnier said: \"The UK has affirmed once again this week its wish to make tangible progress between now and June and we're on the same wavelength on this and we respect the same timetable.\n\n\"That means that we need genuine progress by June if, at the end of this year, we want to strike an agreement which is commensurate to the level of our economic interdependence and geographical proximity.\"\n\nBut he said there were four areas where progress was \"disappointing\", including the level playing field (what kind of access the UK could have to the European single market after Brexit), justice and fisheries.\n\nAnd he warned that the \"clock was ticking\".\n\nYou can pretty much discard the warm, fluffy comments from EU and UK negotiators that good progress is at least being made on core free trade agreement issues.\n\nWhy? That was always going to be the easy part.\n\nFishing, competition rules, the form of an eventual deal and what kind of mechanism would be used for disputes between the two sides. Those have been the screaming areas of disagreement between EU and UK negotiators from the start.\n\nAnd if they can't be resolved, the EU insists there will be no trade deal at all.\n\nIt's quite clear from briefings with EU and UK officials that the two further rounds of talks planned for May and June won't be enough.\n\nThose are technical negotiations. You need political engagement to find compromise. But the coronavirus crisis means Downing Street and EU leaders already have their plate pretty full.\n\nAnd if the government doesn't budge from its refusal to extend the transition period to continue negotiations past the end of this year, then as the EU's chief negotiator is so fond of saying: \"The clock is ticking\". Really.\n\nMr Barnier said the UK negotiating team keeps repeating that they are negotiating as \"sovereign equals\", but the \"reality\" was that an agreement was being sought between a massive bloc and a smaller nation.\n\nOn fisheries, Mr Barnier said the EU would not agree to a deal without a \"balanced, sustainable and long-term agreement\", describing it as an \"inseparable part of the trade agreement, along with the level-playing field\".\n\nBut he said \"no progress\" had been made on fisheries, as the UK has \"not put forward a legal text\".\n\n\"The UK did not wish to commit seriously on a number of fundamental points,\" he said.\n\nMr Barnier said the two sides \"need to find solutions on the most difficult topics\".\n\n\"The UK cannot refuse to extend transition and at the same time slow down discussions on important areas,\" he added.\n\nMr Barnier reiterated that the UK would have to pay a \"lump-sum\" contribution to the EU budget if the transition period is extended beyond 31 December.\n\nAnd he said any deal agreed by December would have to be \"smart\" to \"cushion the blow\" of Brexit and coronavirus.\n\nA UK spokesperson said: \"We do not recognise the suggestion that we have not engaged seriously with the EU in any area.\n\n\"We have just had a negotiating round lasting most of a week, including two full days talking about fisheries and three full days discussing so-called level-playing-field issues.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said they were \"ready to keep talking\" but some of the EU's proposals were \"unprecedented\" and did not account for the UK as \"an independent state\".\n\nIn a statement, the UK government said it had been a \"full and constructive negotiating round\".\n\n\"However, limited progress was made in bridging the gaps between us and the EU,\" it said.\n\n\"Our assessment is that there was some promising convergence in the core areas of a free trade agreement, for example on goods and services trade, and related issues such as energy, transport, and civil nuclear cooperation.\"\n\nBut it said that the EU's offer on goods trade \"falls well short of recent precedent in FTAs (free trade agreements) it has agreed with other sovereign countries\".\n\n\"This considerably reduces the practical value of the zero tariff zero quota aspiration we both share,\" the statement said.\n\nThe UK government also highlighted \"significant differences of principle\" in areas including the level playing field and fisheries.\n\nIt said talks needed to \"move forward in a constructive fashion\" and the UK \"remains committed to a deal with a free trade agreement at its core\".\n\nThe next round of talks are due to be held during the weeks beginning 11 May and 1 June.", "This video can not be played.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Captain Tom Moore was congratulated by the previous record holder - Tom Jones\n\nCaptain Tom Moore, the war veteran who walked laps of his garden to raise money for the NHS, has become the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK.\n\nAt the age of 99, his duet with Michael Ball has knocked Canadian superstar The Weeknd from the top of the charts.\n\nTheir cover of You'll Never Walk Alone sold 82,000 copies, with proceeds going to the NHS Charities Together fund.\n\n\"My grandchildren can't believe I'm a chart-topper,\" said Capt Tom.\n\nHe thanked the public for buying the single, adding: \"We're in this together, and I am forever grateful for your support.\n\n\"And this just proves 'you'll never walk alone'.\"\n\nCapt Tom's birthday is next Thursday, meaning he will still be number one when he turns 100.\n\nThat will make him the first centenarian to top the charts, having already broken the record for the oldest person to reach number one.\n\nSir Tom Jones was the previous record-holder, having been 68 when his Comic Relief cover of Islands In The Stream came out in 2009.\n\nThe Welsh star was quick to congratulate his successor.\n\n\"Capt Moore, from one Tom to another, congratulations on beating my chart record,\" he said. \"If I was going to lose to anybody, it's an honour to have lost to you, with all you have done raising money for the NHS.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DeccaRecordsMusic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe World War Two veteran's duet partner, Michael Ball, said the achievement was \"the most extraordinary thing, one of the most proudest moments of my career.\n\n\"But it's not about me, it's about Capt Tom. Thank you for giving him a number one on his 100th birthday. You are the best, God bless you.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone isn't the only charity single in this week's Top 40, with an all-star cover of the Foo Fighters' Times Like These entering the chart at number five.\n\nFeaturing Dua Lipa, Hailee Steinfeld, Anne-Marie, Jess Glynne, Sean Paul, Chris Martin, Bastille and AJ Tracey, the song was organised as part of the BBC's Night In fundraiser, and made its chart debut less than 24 hours after its release.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBCRadio1VEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCapt Tom had originally aimed to raise just £1,000 by completing 100 laps of his garden, as a thank-you to the \"magnificent\" NHS staff who helped him with treatment for cancer and a broken hip.\n\nBut he smashed his target after the challenge went viral and he appeared on BBC Breakfast News.\n\nMore than 800,000 people, including the Duke of Cambridge, made donations to his fundraising page, with the total now approaching £30m.\n\nThe single was recorded to celebrate him completing his 100th lap last week, and features a spoken work introduction from Capt Moore, who says: \"Hold your head up high/And don't be afraid of the dark\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReleased last Friday, it took an early lead in the charts, selling 36,000 copies in 48 hours.\n\nBut as the week dragged on, The Weeknd started to catch up, thanks to the popularity of his single on streaming sites.\n\nBy Thursday evening, only 40 copies separated the two records, with The Weeknd predicted to take pole position when the charts were compiled at midnight.\n\nThen, in a late twist, the pop star, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, threw his weight behind Capt Tom's single.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Weeknd This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Weeknd\n\n\"My goodness, how gracious of you,\" replied the army veteran on Twitter, adding that his grandson had told him \"you're rather talented and very popular\".\n\nThe star's show of support worked, with Capt Tom's single 13,000 sales ahead of The Weeknd's closing tally of 69,000.\n\n\"The sight of Capt Tom Moore and Michael Ball at the top of the Official Singles Chart this week should lift everybody's spirits in these extraordinary times,\" said Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company.\n\n\"We are absolutely delighted to see them at the pinnacle and setting new landmarks as they go.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Syd Little and his wife Sheree were among just 10 family and close friends allowed to attend the service\n\nComedian Syd Little has bid farewell to his \"best friend\" and showbiz partner of 60 years, Eddie Large.\n\nLittle said he was \"very privileged\" to be included among family and close friends to attend Large's funeral.\n\nFans lined the route as a funeral cortege passed through Portishead, and paid their respects with a round of applause.\n\nThe pair brought laughs to millions of Britons in the 1970s and 80s with their prime-time BBC TV show.\n\nLarge died on 2 April at the age of 78 after contracting coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking after the service at South Bristol crematorium, Little said: \"We all lost a husband, a father, a grandfather, a brother and I lost my best friend.\n\n\"And after 60 years, it still hurts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLittle, who wore the same suit he had donned for the pair's final performance, said it had been a \"great send-off\".\n\n\"Everybody seemed to be happy - as long as he was too,\" he said.\n\n\"He didn't heckle me, anyway.\"\n\nLittle said he hoped a big memorial service to \"celebrate Eddie's life and career\" could be held when lockdown restrictions are lifted.\n\nBefore the ceremony, Large's son, Ryan McGinnis, tweeted to say he would miss \"the best father I could ever have asked for\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ryan McGinnis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe service was attended by only a few close family and friends due to social distancing restrictions.\n\nLarge, whose real name was Hugh McGinnis, was born in Glasgow but grew up in Manchester.\n\nHe formed his double act with Syd Little in 1963 and the pair appeared regularly on TV for 20 years.\n\nTheir prime-time BBC One series The Little And Large Show attracted audiences of almost 15m before it was axed in 1991.\n\nLittle (right) and Large (left) were a well-known face on TV in the 1970s and 80s", "Could people be allowed to meet a limited number of others to ease some of the isolation of lockdown? Image caption: Could people be allowed to meet a limited number of others to ease some of the isolation of lockdown?\n\nEarlier today, the term 'bubble groups' was mentioned by the first minister as a possible way forward, the idea being that people could meet a strictly limited number of others outside their own households as lockdown measures are eased.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman did not exactly burst the bubble but did say that the concept had \"not entirely been decided yet\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio Scotland: \"What was set out was the critical factors we will look at, the way by which will we take decisions - we do really want to hear from the public.\n\n\"We need more weeks of the current lockdown to be sure, but it looks like there are signs of hope, that we are depressing the virus sufficiently so that we can begin to consider measures to ease the restrictions.\n\n\"We need to look at all the data and say 'if we did X or Y, what would be the impact?' The bottom line is that we are going to be living with this virus for some time to come.\n\n\"What we need to find is a better balance for more normal living, although we won't go back to how it was before, while we control it.\"", "Tom Hanks recovered from coronavirus last month in Australia\n\nUS actor Tom Hanks has written a letter and sent a Corona-brand typewriter gift to an Australian boy who said he was bullied because of his name - Corona.\n\nCorona De Vries, 8, first wrote to the Toy Story actor and his wife Rita Wilson after they fell sick with the virus in Queensland.\n\n\"I heard on the news you and your wife had caught the coronavirus,\" the boy wrote. \"Are you OK?\"\n\nHe added that he loved his name but was being called \"coronavirus\" at school.\n\n\"I get very sad and angry when people call me this,\" he wrote.\n\nIn response, Hanks replied with a letter that began: \"Dear Friend Corona\".\n\n\"Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful! Thank you for being such a good friend - friends make friends feel good when they are down.\"\n\nHanks and Wilson are both back in the US after spending about three weeks recovering from the virus on the Gold Coast in March.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor told the boy: \"You are the only person I've ever known to have the name Corona - like the ring around the sun, a crown.\"\n\nHe also sent a Corona-brand typewriter, which he had used during his quarantine in the city.\n\n\"I thought this typewriter would suit you,\" he said. \"I had taken it to the Gold Coast, and now, it is back - with you. Ask a grown up how it works. And use it to write me back.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by tomhanks This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe De Vries family told Australian media outlet Nine News , who helped Corona convey his letter to Tom Hanks, that the boy was excited to get a \"new friend in the US\".\n\nCorona reached out to Hanks because of his role as Woody in the Toy Story films, his family said.\n\nHanks had hand-written at the end of the letter: \"PS! You got a friend in ME!\" - a reference to the popular film's theme song.\n\nLast month, the Hollywood couple travelled to Australia where Wilson gave a series of concerts and Hanks started filming an Elvis Presley biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann.\n\nIt's thought the couple may have contracted the virus in the US or while travelling to Australia.", "Knife crime in England and Wales increased last year to a new record high, figures released by the Office for National Statistics have shown.\n\nThe ONS said police recorded 45,627 offences in the year to December 2019.\n\nThat is 7% more than in 2018, and the highest since knife crime statistics were first collected in 2010-11.\n\nThe figures - which do not include Greater Manchester Police because of IT issues - showed a 13% rise in the West Midlands.\n\nDowning Street acknowledged there was \"more to be done to crack down on thugs carrying knives and ensuring they are properly punished\".\n\nAnd Diana Fawcett, chief executive of the charity Victim Support, stressed that while the UK's streets were currently \"quieter\" due to coronavirus, victims of historic knife crime were still coming to terms with their experience.\n\n\"Many victims will still be dealing with the emotional consequences of threats or attacks which took place long ago,\" she said.\n\nRobbery offences were also up - for the fourth year running - with an annual increase of 12%, to 83,930 offences.\n\nThere were 670 cases of murder and manslaughter in 2019, excluding Greater Manchester Police, which is up 15 on the year before.\n\nThe total includes 39 people whose bodies were found in a lorry in Grays, Essex, in October.\n\nThese figures are a reminder that, until the coronavirus outbreak, urban areas were facing an epidemic of a different sort - knife crime.\n\nThe number of offences has increased by more than 20,000 in five years, with London now accounting for a third of them.\n\nThe rise appears to have been driven by a recent acceleration in the number of knifepoint robberies - the number has doubled in four years - as well as a surge in stabbings: together, there were 40,000 offences last year.\n\nThe figures do not include the period immediately before and during the lockdown, but statistics released by the National Police Chiefs' Council last week showed that serious assaults had fallen by 27% and robberies by 37%; it's thought knife crime will have followed a similar pattern.\n\nThe challenge for police and communities when people return to the streets will be to ensure the numbers don't return to the record levels seen last year.\n\nOverall trends in crime remain broadly stable, according to the ONS, with the Crime Survey for England and Wales - which includes offences that are not reported to police - suggesting there was a fall of 5% compared with 2018.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the fall as \"encouraging\" and a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nHowever, Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called for a \"comprehensive national strategy\" to deal with knife crime.\n\n\"As the committee has warned, the police have been too heavily overstretched for some years and we need more police officers,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nThe proportion of suspects charged with a crime in England and Wales, meanwhile, has fallen to a new record low.\n\nHome Office figures show that only one in every 14 offences led to court proceedings - less than half the rate five years ago.\n\nThe charging rate has been in decline almost continuously since 2014-15, when changes were made to the collection of the data.\n\nLast year, 7.1% of crimes resulted in a suspect being charged or ordered to appear in court.\n\nThe previous year it was 8.2% - and in 2014-15 it was 15.5%.\n\nThe percentage of crimes in which suspects were cautioned has also fallen, to 1.3% from 4.6% in 2014-15.\n\nThe main reason for the decline appears to be an decrease in the number of victims who are co-operating with police investigations and prosecutions.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the slight fall in overall crime as \"encouraging\"\n\nIn 2014-15, there were 8.7% of cases where the victims did \"not support action\".\n\nLast year, that figure had risen to 22.9%.\n\nThe lowest charging rate was for rape, with just one in every 66 offences recorded by police leading to a prosecution, or 1.5%.\n\nIn more than 40.6% of rape cases the victim did not support action being taken.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We've saved so hard for so long for it, it's beyond belief almost'\n\nBrides and grooms say they are being charged thousands of pounds in cancellation and postponement fees for weddings that can't go ahead because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nWhile the majority of wedding companies across the UK have been flexible, a growing number of couples across the UK are locked in a battle with venues to get their money back.\n\nAdam Gibbs, 36, and Sarah Summerskill, 33, from Woking, were told their dream day in May was off because of social distancing restrictions, but they would still have to pay the venue an 80% cancellation charge.\n\nThey had been planning their wedding for the last 18 months and were supposed to get married at Cain Manor in Surrey on 9 May - one of five venues part of the Bijou Weddings group. Their wedding package costs total £17,000, and the couple has so far paid £13,000.\n\nHowever, the venue has now cancelled the event and told them to pay a cancellation fee amounting to 80% of the total cost of the wedding, as listed in their wedding contract. They were advised to claim the money back on insurance and then re-book the wedding.\n\nBut the couple has had their insurance claim declined on the basis that cancellation of the wedding and closure of the venue arose from a government order, and they feel \"lost and hopeless\".\n\nAdam Gibbs and Sarah Summerskill were meant to get married in May\n\n\"The venue has still got £13,000 of our money and are still demanding additional payments [to fulfil the cancellation charge] in the next week. It's not the kind of money you find down the back of the sofa,\" Mr Gibbs told the BBC.\n\n\"It's seems nonsensical to us that a venue can cancel on us and then charge us 80% [of the cost] without delivering a service.\"\n\nInitially, Bijou Weddings told the couple that they needed to pay the full cancellation charge for the wedding package, which amounts to £13,600. Since the couple had paid £13,000, this would mean they still owed the wedding company another £600.\n\nBut Bijou Weddings then said it would be willing to rebook their wedding date on another date in 2020 free of charge.\n\nBijou Weddings says that if customers are able to make insurance claims and get the cancellation fees refunded, then it will offer alternative dates later on this year or in 2021 or 2022 for rebooked weddings, and the new wedding would be charged at 2019 package prices. The company said it would also throw in a free bar float of £1,000.\n\nAnd for customers who do not have insurance or could not claim on insurance, Bijou Weddings said it will rebook weddings free of charge and on available dates left in 2020, or a Sunday-to-Thursday wedding in 2021 in the same month as their original booking.\n\nSome couples are still unhappy with the options given to them by Bijou Weddings though.\n\nJack Trowsdale, 27, and Claudia Dickens, 25, from West Sussex had already paid £21,000 for their wedding on 12 June at Botleys Mansion - another Bijou venue - when it was cancelled.\n\n\"We'd saved for so long and hard for it and then not only to find the wedding is cancelled, but to be told they think you owe them money for a wedding that didn't even happen. It's beyond belief almost,\" said Mr Trowsdale.\n\nThe couple have both had their wages and hours reduced at work because of the virus. They told the BBC the excitement of planning their big day has been replaced by the stress of a full legal dispute.\n\nThey have since been offered an alternative wedding date on a weekday at no extra cost, but are seeking a full refund as \"the ordeal has shattered\" their hopes of a special day.\n\nSam Cutmore-Scott, managing director of Bijou Weddings said: \"In our 25 years delivering weddings, this is the first time our venues have been forced to close. I should point out that Bijou has not voluntarily or arbitrarily cancelled any weddings - it has been forced to close its venues and halt weddings caught in the government's social distancing restrictions.\n\n\"We have thus tried to accommodate the needs of couples who are immediately impacted, while still respecting our commitments to clients who have weddings booked in 2021 and beyond.\"\n\nCouples that have splashed out on dream wedding venues say they are struggling to get new dates booked\n\nHe added that a majority of couples had successfully re-booked for a later date.\n\nBut Bijou Weddings defended its decision to keep the cancellation charges: \"Cancellation charges protect us from cancellations in an industry where the average engagement and advance booking period is around 23 months.\n\n\"Couples protect themselves from unforeseen circumstances by taking out wedding insurance which, in the normal course of events, covers cancellations that are caused by circumstances beyond the couple's control.\n\n\"We sent cancellation charge information to all our impacted couples so that any with insurance could make a claim and make themselves whole again.\n\n\"We have not followed up or chased cancellation charges during this crisis period and, for those couples who do not have insurance or whose insurance is shirking their responsibilities, we have offered a broad variety of postponement options with no charge or rearrangement fee.\"\n\nDue to existing bookings for next year, other wedding venues are finding it increasingly difficult to reschedule cancelled weddings for equivalent weekends in 2021.\n\nJenny Maybury, 39, and Michael Bromwich, 36, both from the Midlands, had their wedding moved from a Sunday in May, to a Wednesday in September.\n\nOnly 12 of the 75 guests could make the new date in September, so Jenny decided to ask the hotel for a refund of £5,355.\n\nThe venue, Abel's Harp in Shropshire, told the couple no weekends were available, but has refused to compensate them for the difference in price, or for a reduction in the number of guests.\n\nUnfortunately the couple do not have insurance for their wedding.\n\n\"They've backed us into a corner and taken it out of our control. We feel angry and heartbroken,\" said Ms Maybury.\n\nAnother couple, Debra Bingham and her fiancé Jamie, who had booked the same venue, told the BBC they were told they'd have to pay £1,500 to move the date they had chosen this year to 2021, on top of what they had already paid.\n\nAbel's Harp did not respond when approached by the BBC for comment.\n\nJenny Maybury and Michael Bromwich feel they have been forced to hold their wedding on a day most of their guests cannot attend\n\nLorraine Carroll has been in the wedding industry for over 30 years and is currently advising 250 brides and grooms who are in dispute with 15 different venues across the UK.\n\nShe accuses a small minority of venues acting \"appallingly\", trying to profit through the coronavirus disruption and \"making rules and fees up as they go along\".\n\n\"Clients are being treated disgraceful by venues and insurers are finding ways of avoiding paying out. Couples face losing thousands of pounds,\" she said.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority has previously warned the wedding sector that excessive cancellation charges, even when contracts had been signed, are not legally binding.\n\nIn 2016, the authority, which ensures businesses treat customers fairly, wrote to more than 100 wedding and event venues reminding them of consumer protection laws.\n\nThe CMA says it is prepared to \"use the tools at its disposal to intervene\".\n\nConsumer rights group Which? says it has received complaints from other couples about wedding venue cancellations.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that some venues are refusing to provide any refund of couples' significant upfront deposits or charging customers extortionate fees, particularly when it is not the couples' decision to cancel,\" said Adam French, Consumer Rights Editor at Which?.\n\n\"While many businesses will be struggling during this difficult time, it does not seem fair for customers to be charged fees or left thousands of pounds out of pocket for a service the venue can't deliver.\"\n\nHe added that businesses should take a \"compassionate and flexible approach\".", "The books were put on the shelves in order of size rather than alphabetical or by genre\n\nA well-meaning cleaner who took the opportunity to give a locked-down library a thorough clean re-shelved all of its books - in size order.\n\nStaff at Newmarket Library, Suffolk, discovered the sloping tomes after the building underwent a deep clean.\n\nJames Powell, of Suffolk Libraries, said staff \"saw the funny side\" but it would take a \"bit of time\" to correct.\n\n\"It looks like libraries will be closed for a while so we'll have plenty of time to sort the books out\", he said.\n\n\"The cleaner is lovely and does a great job in the library. It was an honest mistake and just one of those things so we would never want her to feel bad about it,\" he added.\n\nA tweet by Krystal Vittles, head of service delivery at Suffolk Libraries, about the enthusiastic cleaner has been shared more than 5,000 times.\n\nIn response, one person said it had \"brought laughter\" during lockdown.\n\n\"I think people are just pleased to be able to share any light-hearted stories at the moment as it helps to cheer everyone up,\" Mr Powell said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Krystal Vittles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "These meals should have been served at 30,000 ft rather than across Greater Manchester\n\nMore than a million airline meals are to be given away to disadvantaged people across Greater Manchester.\n\nA frozen food mountain had been growing at a storage site near Manchester Airport because of the collapse in air travel during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut 1.1m meals have now been saved by not-for-profit group Open Kitchen MCR.\n\n“It’s essential we find safe ways to get not just enough food, but good food to people who need it,” said the social enterprise's founder Corin Bell.\n\nOpen Kitchen MCR, which normally intercepts food waste and turns it in to food for events, is now cooking and delivering up to 10,000 meals a week.\n\n“Before the coronavirus hit, there were 400,000 people that were estimated to be in food poverty in Manchester alone,” said Mr Bell.\n\n“A lot of the usual routes to access food for people in poverty are not available now that Covid-19 has hit.\"\n\nThose benefiting from Open Kitchen’s efforts include the street homeless, people temporarily housed in hotel accommodation, those in self-isolation with underlying health conditions, and people living below the poverty line.\n\nThe meals will be transported to Lineage Logistics in Heywood, where they will be stored before being distributed to those most in need.\n\nOpen Kitchen MCR is working with Manchester City Council to co-ordinate food provision for those in need across the city.\n\nThe meals were being stored near Manchester Airport", "Jay-Natalie La Santa, pictured here with her parents, is one of the youngest people to die of Covid-19 in the US Image caption: Jay-Natalie La Santa, pictured here with her parents, is one of the youngest people to die of Covid-19 in the US\n\nThe five-month-old daughter of New York City firefighter Jerel La Santa and Board of Education employee Lindsey La Santa died earlier this week of Covid-19, after a month in hospital, her family says.\n\nThe baby, Jay-Natalie, had a preexisting heart condition, her grandmother, Wanda La Santa told US media, and was first admitted to a New York hospital on 21 March with a fever.\n\n\"She was a little angel with the most beautiful smile,\" Wanda told NBC News. \"Jay-Natalie had everybody wrapped around her finger.\"\n\nAfter early signs of improvement, Jay-Natalie's condition quickly deteriorated, Wanda said. \"My granddaughter fought a big battle for a whole month in the hospital.\"\n\nJay-Natalie is one of the youngest people to die of Covid-19 in the US. According to a report from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, just three children between the ages of one and 14 had died of the virus as of 2 April.\n\nBoth of the baby's parents tested negative for the virus.\n\nJose Prosper, president of the Hispanic Society of FDNY said that Jay-Natalie's father - who joined the force the same month she was born - called her his \"warrior princess\".\n\n\"Please keep the La Santa family close in prayer,\" Prosper wrote.", "Birmingham City Council has imposed a limit of six people per funeral\n\nBereavement staff have been spat at and assaulted by mourners who are angry at the six-person restriction for funerals, a city council has said.\n\nCouncillors condemned the incidents, which they said put staff at greater risk during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBirmingham City Council has imposed a limit of six people per funeral, although other councils are allowing up to 10 visitors.\n\nThe council said its bereavement staff had been under increased pressure.\n\nPaul Lankester, assistant director of regulation and enforcement - which includes bereavement services - said: \"Emotions always run high when someone has lost a loved one and unfortunately there have been incidents where some of my staff have been verbally abused and that sort of thing.\n\n\"We try and work with people but I would just encourage people to remember they're just doing their job, they don't set the policy.\n\n\"I think the biggest difficulty has been the volume of emails we're getting, we're getting thousands a week more than we would've done and I can only apologise for that.\"\n\nThe council statement said staff had also suffered verbal and physical abuse.\n\n\"There have been a small number of instances in recent weeks where bereavement staff have been verbally abused for assisting the council in implementing the six-mourner restriction at funerals.\n\n\"Occasionally this has turned physical, with staff being spat at or physically assaulted.\n\n\"These incidents have been followed up and investigations are ongoing - therefore we cannot provide further details at this time.\"\n\nCouncil leader Ian Ward, said it was \"so important that key workers are treated with kindness and respect at this time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement released by a cross-party group of councillors thanked bereavement staff for their work and asked people to treat staff with courtesy and respect, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nIt said: \"The difficult decision to maintain the restriction of the number of mourners attending funerals to six - which has the support of all the political groups on Birmingham City Council - was not made by our staff.\n\n\"The decision was taken by councillors and senior management to protect both staff and mourners from unnecessary exposure to the risk of contracting the virus, something we would hope everyone should have sympathy with.\n\n\"We firmly believe that the current limit is correct for Birmingham and must remain in place while the national lockdown continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deaths reporting system to be investigated, says First Minister\n\nThe recording of deaths of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus is to be investigated after a Welsh health board failed to report numbers. First Minister Mark Drakeford said it was important that \"accurate information\" was reported by health boards so people could \"have confidence\" in what was being published. Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which is responsible for the care of people in north Wales, reported 84 deaths over the course of a month for the first time today citing issues with its reporting system. Public Health Wales (PHW) explained this was the reason for the biggest single daily jump in confirmed deaths of people with coronavirus - 110 - taking the total to 751. Mr Drakeford said: \"The additional deaths reported by Betsi Cadwaladr don't change the overall picture, but I have asked for an assurance this afternoon that this is being thoroughly checked, that the whole system is being investigated, so that we can say confidently on Monday that the figures we are reporting through Public Health Wales genuinely represent an accurate picture in every part of Wales\". PHW has repeatedly warned that the number of deaths could be higher than the figures show, as they only include those who died in hospitals, and some care homes, and whose tests were analysed in a lab.", "Tom Tugendhat insists he and his colleagues are not \"anti-China\"\n\nBritain needs a better understanding of China's economic ambitions and global role when the coronavirus crisis ends, a new group of Tory MPs says.\n\nThe group - headed by Tom Tugendhat, a prominent critic of China's response to the pandemic - aims to \"promote debate and fresh thinking\".\n\nHe said the China Research Group would not be \"anti-China\".\n\nIt would \"explore opportunities to engage with\" the country and examine its economic aims, Mr Tugendhat added.\n\n\"The coronavirus crisis underlines the urgent need for a better understanding of China's place in the world, and our economic and diplomatic engagement with it,\" said the Tory MP for Tonbridge and Malling.\n\n\"Beijing's long pattern of information suppression has contributed to the unfolding crisis. The (Chinese Communist) Party are now using the current emergency to build influence around the world.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Tugendhat, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, accused the Chinese Communist Party of putting its own survival ahead of that of the survival of people during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe told Radio 4's the World At One: \"The one thing that really marks out the Chinese Communist Party is not that they didn't have sufficient data, but that they deliberately falsified the data.\"\n\nDespite receiving praise for its handling of coronavirus from the World Health Organisation, many, including US President Donald Trump, have accused the Chinese authorities of manipulating information and failing to adequately warn other countries about its deadly nature.\n\nChen Wen, Minister and First Staff Member of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, defended China's response to the initial outbreak in Wuhan, saying the shutdown of the city had reduced the spread to other countries \"by 77%\".\n\n\"Chinese people have paid a high price for that,\" she added.\n\nOn the alleged spreading of disinformation on the origins of the virus, Ms Chen said it was \"maybe as dangerous as the virus itself, if not even more\" and that \"solidarity\" and \"cooperation\" is the only way to beat the virus.\n\nShe hit back at calls for an international inquiry into China's handling of coronavirus outbreak, saying it would be \"politically motivated\" and would not do anybody \"any good\".\n\nMr Tugendhat said his new group, which includes eight other Tory MPs, including former cabinet minister Damian Green, would attempt to look beyond the pandemic to examine China's long-term economic and diplomatic aims.\n\nIn reference to the controversy surrounding the government's decision to allow Chinese technology firm Huawei access to the UK's 5G network, the group will look at the consequences of new technology and who owns platforms.\n\nIt will also examine China's foreign policy, particularly in relation to the world's poorer regions.", "As Britain scrambled to adjust to the first week of a life of lockdown in late March, Owen Harding and his mum Stella were arguing.\n\nThe 16-year-old was frustrated that his girlfriend Meg Wells Rhodes was 280 miles away in York, where she lives. It had been an emotional few days. Meg had only just left after a short visit to Owen's home in Saltdean, East Sussex. Restrictions on travel had been imposed and it was unlikely the couple would be able to get together again in the near future.\n\nThe teenagers didn't see each other regularly because of the distance, but Owen found the new uncertainty unsettling.\n\n\"I know that I myself was very anxious,\" says his mum Stella. \"And I know that a lot of my friends were very anxious as well, and feeling a lot of grief about not being able to spend time with each other.\"\n\nOwen lives with his mum and five-year-old sister in the art deco-era village of Saltdean set on top of the cliffs on the eastern edge of Brighton.\n\nStella describes herself as \"typical Brighton\" - a swimming and diving teacher who travelled the world with a backpack and met Owen's father on an Indian beach. He died at home in Geneva two years ago after a sudden illness.\n\nOn a video call from the teenager's bedroom, Stella describes her son as \"an articulate and wise and mature, emotionally intelligent young man\". Going missing was out of character.\n\nOwen's GCSE artwork lines the bedroom walls, along with photos of friends. There are football trophies from his three-year career with Woodingdean Wanderers.\n\nOwen and Meg's families became friends through Britain's burgeoning community of parents who choose to home school their children. Meg is taught at home, and Owen had previously attended Brighton Waldorf School, one of the Steiner School network of providers of alternative education, before beginning art and film studies A-levels at a sixth form college.\n\nThe pair had known each other since they were 11 but had only become a couple two years ago.\n\nOwen wanted to spend the lockdown with Meg, and had joked with her and his friends that he might make the journey north. But his mum was adamant that this was not going to happen.\n\n\"It was like this ongoing discussion all week. That was really, really tricky between us,\" she says.\n\nOn Thursday 26 March, the argument flared again, and as the evening sun illuminated the South Downs, Owen left the house without saying a word to his mother. CCTV pictures show the teenager walking south, down Bannings Vale in Saltdean, towards the cliff top at 18:13.\n\nThe distance to the cliffs is less than half a mile. The eastern edge of Saltdean sits next to Telscombe Tye, a scrubby expanse of grass popular with walkers that marks the meeting of Brighton's eastern suburbs and the South Downs. There are only a few hundred yards of grass beyond the coast road before the Tye stops at the Sussex chalk.\n\nHe made a phone call to Meg after he left the house. \"He said that he'd just had a big argument with his mum,\" she says. \"And I was upset as well because I had just had an argument with my mum about the same thing. And then we just sort of cheered up and and he said he was just going to watch the sunset.\"\n\nIt was the last time anyone has reported having spoken to Owen.\n\nCell site records show that Owen's phone was connected to the mast at the top of Longridge Avenue, which runs from the downland behind Saltdean to the coast road and the cliff top. At 18:23 it was disconnected.\n\nMeg made a further call to her boyfriend at 18:32, but it went straight to voicemail. Unaware of this, Stella was not concerned. \"We live by the sea, we live next to the Downs. We go walking a lot. He just went out, off he went and I just thought: 'Well, good, go and get your allocated daily exercise.\n\n\"'Go and stomp it off, go and get it off your chest and then you'll come back.'\" But by late evening she had become worried. She contacted friends in Saltdean and Meg's family in York. Around 23:00 she contacted the police.\n\nMeg and her parents rushed back to the south coast the following day and the families began searching on the Downs behind Saltdean, and along the coast as far as Newhaven. They called in at abandoned farmhouses, shouting Owen's name.\n\nA huge police operation was quickly organised. About 80 officers visited homes and businesses near the Hardings' bungalow. But the lockdown made the operation more difficult. Police were occasionally frustrated by people not answering doors, and shops that might have been able to provide CCTV pictures had closed because of the lockdown.\n\nBut police did give residents who owned security cameras police memory sticks. They were left in packages outside houses and later collected by officers.\n\nBefore long, a huge support campaign had sprung up - one that continued to honour social distancing rules.\n\n\"Saltdean is an amazing community,\" says Stella. \"We don't all know each other, of course, but it's an amazing community.\n\n\"So as soon as the people in Saltdean heard that there was a teenager missing, everybody was talking about it. People started putting up posters on [the] Friday. And everybody was on board.\"\n\nA social media operation found volunteers to create a website and Facebook pages. Celebrities including BBC Radio 2 breakfast presenter Zoe Ball and YouTuber PewDiePie, who both live in Brighton and Hove, posted appeals online.\n\nSimon Watson, a retired Metropolitan police sergeant trained in search techniques, who lives on the Hardings' road, offered to organise a methodical search. Teams of between 10 and 20 people, working in household groups where possible, combed the grassy cliff-top area at Telscombe Tye, and the scrubby countryside behind the houses in Saltdean.\n\nWatson had drawn up full risk assessments and briefed the volunteers before each search - with a strict reminder to maintain a social distance. Acknowledging the difficulties of the case because of the current situation, he said the community had remained resolute.\n\n\"I know from experience you can have hunches. But it's quite tricky, this one, because of the real lack of information.\"\n\nStella set up a small camp in the front garden of her 1930s bungalow, including a small statue of Buddha. She says this is a space for her to rest and reflect.\n\nNeighbours talk to her from the path, offering words of comfort and support. And friends gave her a wood-burning oven so she could keep warm on the nights she spent sleeping outside waiting for her son.\n\n\"Fire and sleeping on the ground, and deep breathing and lots of walking and being outside. They are all things that sort of nourish me and comfort me, so that's why I'm doing that.\n\n\"And I also had this thing in my head, 'If I light a fire and I just keep it going, it's like a kind of beacon and Owen will come home.'\"\n\nBut she misses human contact. \"Everybody just wants to hug me. That's what they want to do. And I want that. So that that is really, really hard right now.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nDet Insp Mark Rosser of Sussex police has conceded that the searches have found no evidence of Owen alive. \"Pretty much all that we can do has been done,\" he says.\n\nHis last hope is that combing through CCTV from buses travelling on the coast road might show the teenager at the time he disappeared.\n\nWhen Owen was last seen, the tide below the cliffs at Saltdean was low at sunset, and the wind a strong north-easterly.\n\nPolice enlisted an oceanographer, Dr Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton, who concluded that the conditions at the time would have carried a body out to sea rather than carrying it east or west along the seafront. DI Rosser's officers have been searching the coast as far east as Dungeness in Kent, and have alerted colleagues in mainland Europe.\n\nStella says she doesn't know whether her son is alive or dead, but she and Owen's girlfriend Meg were prepared for the possibility there had been a tragedy on the cliffs.\n\n\"I think that we've all been prepared for that since the moment he went missing,\" she says.\n\n\"He has a five-year-old sister who adores him, and is aware of his absence. She keeps asking when is Owen coming back, and my heart is aching at the possible thought of having to tell her that he is not ever coming back.\n\n\"What it feels like is that I'm kind of teetering on the edge of the precipice above a massive bottomless canyon of grief.\n\n\"And I don't know if I can actually allow myself to jump into it, you know, like, I want to.\"", "The DIY store has reopened some outlets amid UK lockdown measures\n\nDIY chain B&Q has confirmed it has now reopened 155 of its UK stores as lockdown measures remain in place.\n\nAfter a trial at 14 stores at the weekend, 61 outlets reopened on Wednesday and another 80 on Thursday.\n\nB&Q has introduced \"social distancing controls\", such as capping the number of customers in-store.\n\nOn Thursday, other firms including Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin and Taylor Wimpey said they would return to work in May.\n\nB&Q had closed its shops since the end of March after the government introduced lockdown measures to try to contain the spread of Covid-19.\n\nHowever, hardware shops were included on the government's list of essential retailers that were allowed to trade under the restrictions and B&Q customers could continue to shop online.\n\nThe DIY chain said on Saturday that 14 of its stores would reopen, followed by a further 61 sites announced on Wednesday.\n\nIn the newly re-opened stores, perspex screens will be fitted to checkouts and two-metre floor markers will indicate the distance shoppers should maintain from each other.\n\nThe announcement also saw complaints that the retailer would be allowed to sell plants at its sites which have garden centres.\n\nThe Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) recently told the BBC that millions of plants and shrubs might have to be binned as, unlike hardware firms, garden centres were deemed non-essential.\n\nUK manufacturers and housebuilders announced plans on Thursday to kickstart production during the lockdown.\n\nCarmaker Jaguar Land Rover said it would resume production gradually at its factory at Solihull and at its engine manufacturing plant in Wolverhampton from 18 May. It will also reopen its facilities in Slovakia and Austria.\n\nThe company said the restart of other factories, which include Castle Bromwich and Halewood, will be confirmed in due course.\n\nLuxury carmaker Aston Martin said it would reopen its St Athan plant on 5 May after it had temporarily suspended all manufacturing operations in the UK at the end of March.\n\nHousebuilder Taylor Wimpey also plans to restart work on most of its building sites across England and Wales in May.\n\nIts staff will follow new safety guidelines, while subcontractor work will resume the following week.\n\nPeter Redfern, Taylor Wimpey's chief executive said: \"In the period while our sites have been closed, trading has inevitably been impacted. However, we are still seeing continued demand for our homes and our sales teams have been selling homes remotely, and digitally, week to week.\"\n\nHe added that the firm's show homes and sales centres would remain closed, most likely until social distancing measures are relaxed.\n\nDavid O'Brien, an equity analyst at Goodbody, added that Taylor Wimpey is \"in a strong position to ramp up activity\".\n\nAs Spanish authorities have relaxed some lockdown measures, he added, those operations could provide \"helpful lessons\" and highlight \"potential issues ahead of UK site openings which will also stand it in good stead\".\n\nMeanwhile, housebuilder Vistry - formerly Bovis Homes - announced construction would resume on most of its \"partnership sites\", which are typically affordable housing projects, from 27 April.\n\nThe firm added that a \"significant\" number of private housing construction sites would also reopen.\n\nWilliam Ryder, equities analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that \"any return to activity will be welcome\".\n\n\"Demand for new houses definitely seems to been reduced by the current uncertainty, but it doesn't seem to be as bad as some had feared. However, it's possible that things will get worse from here if we enter a prolonged recession,\" he said.", "Baroness Doreen Lawrence will lead a review into the impact of coronavirus on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, the Labour Party says.\n\nThe campaigner and mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has been appointed as Labour's race relations adviser by leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe review will examine why the virus appears to disproportionately impact those from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nThe government has also commissioned an investigation into the issue.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that 34% of more than 4,800 critically-ill patients with Covid-19 identified as black, Asian or minority ethnic.\n\nThis is despite only 14% of people in England and Wales being from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.\n\nThe virtual launch of Labour's review on Friday was attended by Baroness Lawrence, Sir Keir and Labour's shadow secretary of state for women and equalities, Marsha de Cordova.\n\nOther attendees include Muslim Council of Britain's general secretary Harun Khan, Operation Black Vote's director Lord Simon Woolley, Royal College of Nursing deputy president Yvonne Coghill and the Sikh Network's Jas Khatkar.\n\nSir Keir said it was \"extremely concerning\" to see the \"disproportionate toll\" coronavirus was having on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\n\"We cannot afford to treat this as an issue to investigate once the crisis is over. We must address it now.\"\n\nOn why Labour has launched a rival review instead of supporting the government, Sir Keir said: \"We are happy to work with the government but it seems we've approached this differently by going straight to the representative groups and we will feed this back to them\".\n\nBaroness Lawrence, a Labour peer, said: \"The coronavirus pandemic has brought society together, but it has also exposed the gulf in living standards that still blights our communities.\n\n\"Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities have long been disadvantaged by the social and economic injustice which still exists in our country.\n\n\"There is a clear and tragic pattern emerging of the pandemic's impact on those communities which must be better understood.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think sometimes the government don't understand or they pretend that we are not as important - yet we make up so much of the medical profession.\"\n\nThis is a complex issue that cannot be reduced to a single answer. While it is too early to draw conclusions, researchers have said the pandemic is exposing existing health and social inequalities.\n\nUnderlying health conditions such as diabetes and high-blood pressure are more prevalent in black and Asian communities, which are overrepresented in families living in poverty and overcrowded housing.\n\nPeople from these backgrounds are also more likely to be in precarious jobs or employed on the frontline as key workers - putting them at greater risk of catching the virus.\n\nGeography has been a key factor as the majority of coronavirus cases have been in diverse cities such as London, which has a higher proportion of ethnic minority communities relative to the rest of the UK.\n\nOver the last few weeks some families have also expressed concerns that their loved ones were not seen as \"priorities\" by emergency services.\n\nSpeaking about the government's review at a Downing Street press briefing, Professor Chris Whitty, the UK Chief Medical Adviser, said: \"It's absolutely critical that we find out which groups are most at risk so that we can help to protect them.\"\n\nBut he said that there is currently no conclusive evidence to show that coronavirus poses a bigger risk to people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\n\"This is not yet clear in terms of ethnic minorities and we need to look at this more carefully,\" he said.", "Some workers could make the permanent move to work from home, which will lead to lower commuter numbers\n\nThe number of people using public transport in Britain's cities could be 20% lower than normal after the end of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn London, commuters using buses and tubes could fall by as much as 40% from pre-lockdown levels.\n\nRail use could drop by 27%, a poll for transport consultants SYSTRA has found.\n\nThe survey results capture people's current attitudes about returning to work, but some changes may be carried on into the long term.\n\nThe results are bad news for the government, which wants more people to use public transport to cut emissions that are fuelling climate heating.\n\nIt could lead to more people driving to work.\n\nIt's also challenging for public transport operators, which will face a sharp drop in income until public confidence returns.\n\nBut the survey offers a glimmer of good news too. It suggests that of those expecting to reduce their use of buses and trains, 24% said they plan to work from home more, which will reduce emissions.\n\nThey said they wanted to save on the commute time and cost, and to strike a better work-life balance.\n\nThere's a major boost for video-conferencing, too. As many as 67% of people in the 1,500-strong survey said they believe virtual meetings will replace some or all business trips or meetings.\n\nKatie Hall from SYSTRA said: \"Our climate emergency has not been cancelled. There is no doubt that this situation has opened up different ways of working for many, but if people start rejecting public transport over the car for work and leisure trips - that's a massive step backwards. Public transport operators must rise to this challenge.\"\n\nShe said public transport operators must work hard to convince commuters that they'll be safe from the virus.\n\nTransport for London has has cut many services since the coronavirus outbreak swept through the capital\n\nBut she also said transport planners would need to think hard about how travel patterns may change permanently after lockdown.\n\nThe AA's head Edmund King told BBC News he expected that traffic levels would fall overall. That has implications for the government's £28bn roads programme which is predicated on 1% annual growth in transport demand.\n\nThere could also be a boom in walking and cycling in a population that may be more interested in health messages.\n\nThe government recently cut red tape on issuing urban road closures to allow councils to exclude cars and create space for walkers and cyclists more easily.\n\nCycle campaigners want cars excluded from major parts of cities on a permanent basis - which happened recently in Milan.", "To simulate the ascent of Everest's 8,848m peak, Ed Jackson climbed 89,056 steps\n\nA paralysed ex-rugby player has climbed the equivalent height of Mount Everest on his parents' staircase.\n\nEd Jackson, from Bath, broke his neck after diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool in 2017, leaving him with no or partial use of all four limbs.\n\nSince starting on Tuesday at 04:00 BST, Mr Jackson, 31, has made 89,056 steps and 2,783 trips up and down the stairs.\n\nHe has so far raised £36,000 for charity Wings For Life, which conducts spinal cord research, and also the NHS.\n\nMr Jackson said it had been a \"weird four days\" for him to climb the equivalent of Everest's 8,848m peak and thanked his parents and his wife \"for putting up with me\".\n\nHe started his final day's effort at 04:00 BST, with a head torch illuminating the darkness of the corridor.\n\nEd Jackson also played for London Wasps in 2014\n\nMr Jackson began his professional rugby career with Bath and had spells at Doncaster Knights, London Welsh and Wasps before joining Welsh region Dragons, where his career was cut short in April 2017.\n\nLess than a year after breaking his neck he climbed Mount Snowdon - in real life.\n\nHe said he had taken on the challenge \"to climb Everest\" because it was a \"tough time\" for charities at the moment and he wanted to \"do my bit to support some causes close to my heart\".\n\nHe chose to raise money for charity Wings For Life, which conducts spinal cord research, and also the NHS.\n\nEd Jackson started the challenge on Tuesday at 04:00 BST and finished on Friday at 16:30\n\nHe said: \"I have always dreamed of being able to scale the height of Mount Everest, I just didn't think that I would be doing it next to my parents' bedroom.\"\n\nHis goal was to raise £3,000 but he has surpassed that and the amount currently sits at £36,000.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Commuters have been urged not to travel on the Underground unless it is an essential journey\n\nThousands of Transport for London (TfL) staff are to be furloughed amid \"massive financial challenges\".\n\nTfL's income has been badly affected during the pandemic, and about 7,000 employees will be put on the government's furlough scheme.\n\nLondon's transport commissioner Mike Brown said fares, which are TfL's main revenue, had plunged by 90%.\n\nThe Mayor of London warned transport \"will not immediately return to normal\" when lockdown measures are relaxed.\n\nStaff will initially be furloughed for three weeks from Monday and TfL said it \"will pay the remainder of salaries of all furloughed employees and continue to pay pension contributions, to ensure people are supported\".\n\nCurrently a limited service across the capital is in place to allow \"essential travel\" for key workers.\n\nBus passengers are no longer allowed to board using the front door and do not need to tap in with an Oyster card.\n\nTransport for London is set to place a quarter of its workforce on the government's furlough scheme\n\nSince London entered lockdown on 23 March, Tube journeys have fallen by 95% and bus journeys by 85%.\n\nSadiq Khan said he wanted \"to be honest and upfront\" about the impact on public transport in the capital and its future.\n\n\"There will be no quick return to business as usual,\" he said.\n\n\"Covid-19 has caused massive financial challenges for TfL and every transport provider across the UK.\n\n\"As the only transport authority of any major city in western Europe which doesn't receive a grant for day-to-day operations, the challenge for TfL is very acute.\"\n\nMr Khan said TfL, which has 28,000 employees, would be in talks with the government and various trade unions about putting staff on to the furlough scheme.\n\n\"TfL is urgently working through how it can get Londoners to and from work while social distancing rules remain in place, as is widely expected to be the case,\" he added.\n\nMr Brown said he \"hoped for an urgent agreement\" between TfL and the government.\n\nThe Department for Transport previously said that \"regular discussions\" were taking place with London's mayor and transport authority about financial problems caused by the lockdown, and they \"will continue to do so\".\n\nDozens of London Underground stations have been forced to close\n\nIt has been called the most serious financial challenge ever faced by the capital's transport agency.\n\nUsing just simple maths TfL is in trouble - you can't run a transport agency without fare revenues. Now it has set out what it will do and it involves furloughing a quarter of its staff.\n\nAlso interesting is how the future of London will look when the lockdown ends. If social distancing is in place buses and the Tube will only be able to carry a sixth of passengers.\n\nThat means a huge campaign of \"travel management\" to get passengers to phase journeys and shift the rush hour - the like of which we haven't seen since the Olympics.\n\nBut, big infrastructure projects also now hang in the balance. TfL's future is entirely dependent on a government bailout - which will have to be big.\n\nAt present it costs £600m a month to run the system - or there will be cuts to services.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "As Britain scrambled to adjust to the first week of a life of lockdown in late March, Owen Harding and his mum Stella were arguing.\n\nThe 16-year-old was frustrated that his girlfriend Meg Wells Rhodes was 280 miles away in York, where she lives. It had been an emotional few days. Meg had only just left after a short visit to Owen's home in Saltdean, East Sussex. Restrictions on travel had been imposed and it was unlikely the couple would be able to get together again in the near future.\n\nThe teenagers didn't see each other regularly because of the distance, but Owen found the new uncertainty unsettling.\n\n\"I know that I myself was very anxious,\" says his mum Stella. \"And I know that a lot of my friends were very anxious as well, and feeling a lot of grief about not being able to spend time with each other.\"\n\nOwen lives with his mum and five-year-old sister in the art deco-era village of Saltdean set on top of the cliffs on the eastern edge of Brighton.\n\nStella describes herself as \"typical Brighton\" - a swimming and diving teacher who travelled the world with a backpack and met Owen's father on an Indian beach. He died at home in Geneva two years ago after a sudden illness.\n\nOn a video call from the teenager's bedroom, Stella describes her son as \"an articulate and wise and mature, emotionally intelligent young man\". Going missing was out of character.\n\nOwen's GCSE artwork lines the bedroom walls, along with photos of friends. There are football trophies from his three-year career with Woodingdean Wanderers.\n\nOwen and Meg's families became friends through Britain's burgeoning community of parents who choose to home school their children. Meg is taught at home, and Owen had previously attended Brighton Waldorf School, one of the Steiner School network of providers of alternative education, before beginning art and film studies A-levels at a sixth form college.\n\nThe pair had known each other since they were 11 but had only become a couple two years ago.\n\nOwen wanted to spend the lockdown with Meg, and had joked with her and his friends that he might make the journey north. But his mum was adamant that this was not going to happen.\n\n\"It was like this ongoing discussion all week. That was really, really tricky between us,\" she says.\n\nOn Thursday 26 March, the argument flared again, and as the evening sun illuminated the South Downs, Owen left the house without saying a word to his mother. CCTV pictures show the teenager walking south, down Bannings Vale in Saltdean, towards the cliff top at 18:13.\n\nThe distance to the cliffs is less than half a mile. The eastern edge of Saltdean sits next to Telscombe Tye, a scrubby expanse of grass popular with walkers that marks the meeting of Brighton's eastern suburbs and the South Downs. There are only a few hundred yards of grass beyond the coast road before the Tye stops at the Sussex chalk.\n\nHe made a phone call to Meg after he left the house. \"He said that he'd just had a big argument with his mum,\" she says. \"And I was upset as well because I had just had an argument with my mum about the same thing. And then we just sort of cheered up and and he said he was just going to watch the sunset.\"\n\nIt was the last time anyone has reported having spoken to Owen.\n\nCell site records show that Owen's phone was connected to the mast at the top of Longridge Avenue, which runs from the downland behind Saltdean to the coast road and the cliff top. At 18:23 it was disconnected.\n\nMeg made a further call to her boyfriend at 18:32, but it went straight to voicemail. Unaware of this, Stella was not concerned. \"We live by the sea, we live next to the Downs. We go walking a lot. He just went out, off he went and I just thought: 'Well, good, go and get your allocated daily exercise.\n\n\"'Go and stomp it off, go and get it off your chest and then you'll come back.'\" But by late evening she had become worried. She contacted friends in Saltdean and Meg's family in York. Around 23:00 she contacted the police.\n\nMeg and her parents rushed back to the south coast the following day and the families began searching on the Downs behind Saltdean, and along the coast as far as Newhaven. They called in at abandoned farmhouses, shouting Owen's name.\n\nA huge police operation was quickly organised. About 80 officers visited homes and businesses near the Hardings' bungalow. But the lockdown made the operation more difficult. Police were occasionally frustrated by people not answering doors, and shops that might have been able to provide CCTV pictures had closed because of the lockdown.\n\nBut police did give residents who owned security cameras police memory sticks. They were left in packages outside houses and later collected by officers.\n\nBefore long, a huge support campaign had sprung up - one that continued to honour social distancing rules.\n\n\"Saltdean is an amazing community,\" says Stella. \"We don't all know each other, of course, but it's an amazing community.\n\n\"So as soon as the people in Saltdean heard that there was a teenager missing, everybody was talking about it. People started putting up posters on [the] Friday. And everybody was on board.\"\n\nA social media operation found volunteers to create a website and Facebook pages. Celebrities including BBC Radio 2 breakfast presenter Zoe Ball and YouTuber PewDiePie, who both live in Brighton and Hove, posted appeals online.\n\nSimon Watson, a retired Metropolitan police sergeant trained in search techniques, who lives on the Hardings' road, offered to organise a methodical search. Teams of between 10 and 20 people, working in household groups where possible, combed the grassy cliff-top area at Telscombe Tye, and the scrubby countryside behind the houses in Saltdean.\n\nWatson had drawn up full risk assessments and briefed the volunteers before each search - with a strict reminder to maintain a social distance. Acknowledging the difficulties of the case because of the current situation, he said the community had remained resolute.\n\n\"I know from experience you can have hunches. But it's quite tricky, this one, because of the real lack of information.\"\n\nStella set up a small camp in the front garden of her 1930s bungalow, including a small statue of Buddha. She says this is a space for her to rest and reflect.\n\nNeighbours talk to her from the path, offering words of comfort and support. And friends gave her a wood-burning oven so she could keep warm on the nights she spent sleeping outside waiting for her son.\n\n\"Fire and sleeping on the ground, and deep breathing and lots of walking and being outside. They are all things that sort of nourish me and comfort me, so that's why I'm doing that.\n\n\"And I also had this thing in my head, 'If I light a fire and I just keep it going, it's like a kind of beacon and Owen will come home.'\"\n\nBut she misses human contact. \"Everybody just wants to hug me. That's what they want to do. And I want that. So that that is really, really hard right now.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nDet Insp Mark Rosser of Sussex police has conceded that the searches have found no evidence of Owen alive. \"Pretty much all that we can do has been done,\" he says.\n\nHis last hope is that combing through CCTV from buses travelling on the coast road might show the teenager at the time he disappeared.\n\nWhen Owen was last seen, the tide below the cliffs at Saltdean was low at sunset, and the wind a strong north-easterly.\n\nPolice enlisted an oceanographer, Dr Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton, who concluded that the conditions at the time would have carried a body out to sea rather than carrying it east or west along the seafront. DI Rosser's officers have been searching the coast as far east as Dungeness in Kent, and have alerted colleagues in mainland Europe.\n\nStella says she doesn't know whether her son is alive or dead, but she and Owen's girlfriend Meg were prepared for the possibility there had been a tragedy on the cliffs.\n\n\"I think that we've all been prepared for that since the moment he went missing,\" she says.\n\n\"He has a five-year-old sister who adores him, and is aware of his absence. She keeps asking when is Owen coming back, and my heart is aching at the possible thought of having to tell her that he is not ever coming back.\n\n\"What it feels like is that I'm kind of teetering on the edge of the precipice above a massive bottomless canyon of grief.\n\n\"And I don't know if I can actually allow myself to jump into it, you know, like, I want to.\"", "Mark Drakeford says he would \"do things differently\" to the other nations if that was right for Wales\n\nCoronavirus restrictions in Wales could be eased at the end of the current three-week lockdown period.\n\nWhen it happens it will be a matter of judgement backed by medical and scientific advice, First Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday.\n\nUntil then there will be \"small changes\" to restrictions, including a stricter ban on second home visits and rules stopping loitering outside.\n\nEnding lockdown could be in phases, \"like a traffic light in reverse\".\n\nThere would be a move from red - some \"careful and controlled\" relaxation - to green, which would be \"much more like the lives we had before the crisis hit\".\n\nThe amber zone would see more restrictions lifted and, if the virus is not re-emerging, Wales could then move to the green zone, he said.\n\nAsked when Wales might enter the red zone, the first minister said: \"I hope we will be in a position to do that at the end of the current three-week lockdown period\".\n\n\"We will have to have had hospital admissions falling consistently for 14 days,\" Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Oliver Hides.\n\n\"They have been falling over the last week so it's not impossible that we will get to that point and in that case we can move into the red zone.\"\n\nMark Drakeford also wants to clamp down on second home use amid the coronavirus outbreak\n\nThe framework includes questions to consider before decisions are made around relaxing restrictions.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"I certainly accept that our seven tests are not an algorithm. You don't just put the question at the top and the answer falls out at the bottom.\n\n\"They will, in the end, involve judgements, weighing up these factors one against another, coming to a decision in the round.\"\n\nHe denied his newly published plan for exiting lockdown could undermine the UK-wide approach to the crisis.\n\n\"I think Scotland publishing their framework yesterday, Wales publishing our framework today is a contribution to crafting that UK approach,\" he said.\n\n\"By sharing with one another our thinking, by being open with one another about the issues that we think will matter in different parts of the United Kingdom, I think that will help us to craft a way forward, in which we all understand what one another are doing and we come to a common set of ideas and a common timetable for going about them.\"\n\nHealth officials will spend the next fortnight drawing up plans over how community testing for coronavirus will work, he added.\n\nThe plan to test for new patients then isolate the sick is seen as key to allowing lockdown to be eased.\n\nMr Drakeford said the plan would involve recruiting people to carry out the test and track the data, but he declined to give a figure on how many would be needed, or the number of tests required.\n\nLast week the Welsh Government dropped a target of 5,000 tests per day, with capacity currently at around 1,300.\n\nThe UK government is sticking to a target of 100,000 daily tests by the end of April.\n\nMr Drakeford has also announced some lockdown rules in Wales are being made stricter to make it clear people cannot remain away from the place they live.\n\nThey should take exercise \"as close as possible\" to home, according to the Welsh Government's updated rules.\n\nCyclists should not travel further than a \"reasonable walking distance from home.\"\n\nThey should \"take steps to manage risk\" in order to avoid putting extra strain emergency services and to stick to routes they know well.\n\nThe new rules state people should not drive to exercise unless absolutely necessary.\n\nPeople should not use exercise as \"an excuse\" to do something else, like having picnics or sitting on benches for \"a prolonged period.\"\n\nFamilies with children who have certain learning difficulties, including autism, will be allowed to leave the house more than once a day.\n\nConservative Mark Isherwood AM, who chairs the assembly cross party groups on autism and disability, welcomed the changes for people with specific medical needs.\n\nBut he added: \"It is shocking and extremely disappointing that it has taken the Welsh Government more than two weeks to make this change since the guidance was amended in England, despite the significant impact on the lives of these families.\"", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "Jacqui Budden's husband was allowed to be present for the birth of their daughter but was asked to leave the ward soon after.\n\nWomen say the uncertainty surrounding maternity services during the coronavirus outbreak is \"making a stressful situation harder\".\n\nSome NHS trusts are not allowing home births or partners on a ward following a birth, while others are.\n\nOne trust only provides face-to-face postnatal support when it is \"absolutely essential\".\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives says services may need to be reduced due to Covid-19.\n\nLike many areas in the health sector, staff shortages caused by sickness and workers self-isolating are impacting resources, the college adds.\n\nNadia Hussein from Leeds is more than a week overdue with her second child.\n\nDue to coronavirus measures, the 33-year-old's birthing plan is no longer possible and she is anxious her husband can only stay with her for two hours following the birth.\n\n\"It's going to be difficult because it's going to be different,\" Nadia explains. \"What a lot of pregnant women are experiencing is a loss of control.\n\n\"I understand any decisions that trusts have made are for the benefit of my health and the midwives, but it's sad because you have an image in your mind of what you would like, and it's not working out.\"\n\nJacqui Budden gave birth to her first child Evie on Good Friday, more than two weeks after the UK's lockdown was announced.\n\nHusband Tom was allowed to be present for the birth, but was soon asked to leave the ward.\n\n\"It was hard to say 'bye' to Tom so soon after Evie arrived,\" says the 31-year-old. \"The nurses and midwives were amazing, but it's not the same as having your partner there to give you the emotional and physical support that you need.\"\n\nEvie Budden was born over the Easter bank holiday weekend.\n\nThe BBC asked a group of NHS trusts and boards across the UK about the services they are able to provide during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNine trusts in England, five boards in Scotland and one trust in both Wales and Northern Ireland responded.\n\nAll 16 bodies said one birth partner could be present during labour, but just over a quarter of those asked are allowing partners on the postnatal ward following the birth.\n\nAround a third of trusts and boards that spoke to the BBC are now allowing home births.\n\nIn the weeks after a birth, midwives and health visitors are now heavily relying on virtual communication to provide families with postnatal support.\n\nHome visits are mostly still happening, but one trust in London said it only allows face-to-face contact when it is \"absolutely essential\".\n\nNHS Providers - which represents hospital trusts - say maternity services are constantly under review.\n\nKim Moralee and her husband Pete became parents for the first time at the end of March.\n\nKim Moralee from Alnwick in Northumberland was deemed a high-risk pregnancy, but despite some last minute changes she says she had a \"positive birth\" at the end of March.\n\nHowever, the 27-year-old's family have not been able to meet baby William because of social distancing measures.\n\nWithout the support of relatives, Kim wishes she and her husband could have more face-to-face contact with health professionals.\n\n\"We have had three health visits in two weeks,\" she explains. \"The midwives always say they're at the end of the phone, but in normal times I would have been able to go to our midwife-led unit whenever I wanted, but now it's closed.\n\n\"As a first time mum, I just want to be able to regularly check that everything is ok.\"\n\nThis is the closest baby William Moralee has come to meeting his cousins.\n\nThe health community have acknowledged that the coronavirus outbreak is a particularly \"distressing\" and \"uncertain\" time for pregnant women and new mothers.\n\n\"Our advice to women is to regularly contact your local service and your midwife because services are changing by the day,\" explains Gill Walton, from the Royal College of Midwives . \"Careful thought is going into how maternity services are being provided so we can reduce anxiety.\n\n\"Women can have their partners with them at at the birth of the baby as long as that partner does not have Covid-19 symptoms. We suggest women have a back-up plan in case their partner does have symptoms.\n\n\"Not having your partner with you once you have given birth must be extremely unsettling, but we are encouraging women to use their phones to stay in touch and take videos and pictures.\n\n\"We're seeing lots of stories of happy births,\" she says.", "That's all for today from the team bringing you updates from across England.\n\nThanks for being with us and remember, we will return from Saturday morning to keep you informed with more of the latest stories and developments.\n\nYou can also see what's happening in your region by visiting our England news page.", "UK retail sales fell a record 5.1% in March as many stores shut up shop in the face of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the steepest sales fall since it started collecting the data in 1996.\n\nFood and online shopping rose, and alcohol sales also jumped. But clothes sales tumbled by 34%.\n\nOnline shopping as a proportion of all retail reached a record high of 22%, the ONS said.\n\n\"Retailers are in crisis mode as the impact of Covid-19 has obliterated sales to new record-lows,\" said Richard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics.\n\nOff-licences, which were added to the government's list of essential UK retailers last month, saw sales rise 31.4% in volume terms, although with most drinkers buying from supermarkets, they only contribute less than 1% of alcohol sales.\n\nThe data comes amid dire estimates for the performance of the UK economy amid the lockdown.\n\nYesterday, one of the Bank of England's top policymakers warned that the UK faces its worst economic shock in several hundred years.\n\nJan Vlieghe, a member of the BoE's interest-rate setting committee, said that \"early indicators\" suggest the UK was \"experiencing an economic contraction that is faster and deeper than anything we have seen in the past century, or possibly several centuries\".\n\nHe did, though, say there was \"in principle\" a good chance that the UK would return to its \"pre-virus trajectory once the pandemic is over\".\n\nBut for many shops, it is too late. In the year to date, Oasis, Warehouse, Debenhams, Laura Ashley and Cath Kidston have collapsed, and while some shops will be salvaged, many will be gone for good.\n\nExcluding fuel, sales dropped 3.7% compared with February, a record for retail data collection going back to 1988.\n\nFood sales rose a record 11% as households stocked up and restaurants closed.\n\nFor industries like retail, customer behaviour may never be the same.\n\n\"We don't expect the pattern of post-lockdown spending to be exactly the same as before, with our latest survey indicating that consumers intend to reward more responsible retailers,\"said Lisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at accountants PwC.\n\n\"Particularly those who looked after their staff, and shop more on their local high streets and with smaller or independent retailers, giving some more hope to many of the hardest-hit operators.\"", "Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (right) and other lawmakers were seen wearing masks and social distancing in the Capitol\n\nThe US Congress has passed a new Covid-19 relief package totalling $484bn (£391bn), the fourth aid bill to clear Congress in response to the pandemic.\n\nThe legislation, approved 388-5 by the House of Representatives, tops up a small business aid fund, while funding hospitals and testing.\n\nPresident Donald Trump said he would enact the bill, which passed the Senate unanimously on Tuesday.\n\nThe US has over 845,000 confirmed cases of the virus and 46,800 deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast month, Washington enacted the largest economic stimulus package in US history, with $2 trillion in coronavirus aid.\n\nThursday's bill will bring the total federal spending on Covid-19 relief up to $3tn, swelling the US budget deficit towards record levels.\n\nMr Trump and Democrats are keen on passing another relief bill that could top $1tn, but the president's fellow Republicans are not keen.\n\nRepublican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has drawn bipartisan criticism for saying he would support states declaring bankruptcy rather than having the federal government \"borrow money from future generations\".\n\nThe economic ravages of the pandemic were brought into sharp focus on Thursday by official unemployment figures that showed over 26 million Americans have filed for jobless claims in the last five weeks - and 4.4 million last week alone.\n\nIn Thursday's bill, lawmakers gave $310bn in new funds to the Paycheck Protection Program, which offers loans to small businesses so they can keep employees on the payroll.\n\nThe $349bn allocated to the programme last month ran out last week after just 13 days, leaving millions of business owners questioning how they could keep operating.\n\nThere was uproar when it emerged large, publicly traded companies had obtained the funding, and the US Treasury has given them until 7 May to return the money without penalty.\n\nDuring negotiations for the latest stimulus package, Democrats insisted funds be allocated for hospitals and testing.\n\nHospitals will receive $75bn, and $25bn will go towards expanding Covid-19 testing - which experts have emphasised is a key step to reopening the economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Across the United States, some people insist the lockdowns should be lifted and states reopened\n\nThursday's legislating took place with social distancing - lawmakers waited in their offices for the vote, came to the floor in small groups and the chamber was cleaned between votes.\n\nOhio Republican Jim Jordan angered some Democrats for appearing on the House floor - and reportedly coughing - without a face covering.", "Online retailer Amazon, long accused of killing off bricks-and-mortar book sales, has stunned the industry by donating £250,000 to a fund in aid of bookshops hit by coronavirus.\n\nThe tech giant initially made the donation on a \"low-key\" basis, said the Book Trade Charity.\n\nBut as speculation grew, the charity revealed that Amazon was the donor.\n\nChief executive David Hicks said he realised some booksellers would find that difficult.\n\nHe told the BBC that the Book Trade Charity existed to help the entire book industry, from publishers to bookshops.\n\nAs part of its efforts, it is running a fund to help booksellers facing financial hardship after being forced to close by the pandemic.\n\nMr Hicks said: \"Amazon came to us and said they would like to put some money into our fund, particularly to help at this time and that they would prefer it to be low-key.\"\n\nAs a result, the charity tried to avoid naming Amazon, although the firm had not insisted on anonymity, he said.\n\nHowever, that policy simply led to more questions, especially after trade publication, the Bookseller, ran a story saying a mystery donor had contributed £250,000 of the £380,000 raised so far.\n\nMr Hicks said he had been \"very pleased\" to accept the donation in the interests of the charity.\n\nHowever, he added that he was \"conscious that that does give a little bit of difficulty to some booksellers\".\n\n\"A large part of the trade, particularly on the publishing side, works very closely with Amazon,\" he said.\n\n\"But the bookselling side does have rather a more strained relationship.\"\n\nThe news has already aroused some reactions in the book trade, including from the editor of the Bookseller, Philip Jones, who tweeted that it was \"extraordinary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dyson was one of the large manufacturers asked to help produce ventilators for the NHS\n\nDyson has said the medical ventilator it developed to help treat patients with Covid-19 is no longer required.\n\nIt began developing a device in response to a government appeal for firms to take part in a national effort to increase the number of ventilators.\n\nBut in a note to staff, founder Sir James Dyson said that demand for ventilators had been less than first envisaged.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said that tests on ventilators are still ongoing.\n\nDyson's ventilator has been undergoing clinical tests in recent days and the government had previously said it intended to order 10,000 machines.\n\nBut Sir James told his staff that only a quarter of those available were currently being used.\n\nAs a result, he said, the government did not need to acquire as many of them.\n\nThe company has so far spent around £20 million on the project, which Mr Dyson said he would fund himself, without asking for public funds.\n\nThe Cabinet office, which has been coordinating the effort to boost ventilator production, insisted that a number of devices were currently undergoing testing and no decisions had been made regarding their use.\n\nDyson was one of many large manufacturers which responded to the call from the UK government to reconfigure their design teams and factory lines to produce much-needed ventilators.\n\nAnother consortium of medical, military and civil engineering companies - including Airbus, Meggitt, GKN and others - instead worked to ramp up the production of an existing design.\n\nThe UK government last week gave regulatory approval to that ventilator design to be made by the consortium and put in an order for 15,000 of them as part of efforts to combat the coronavirus.\n\nJust over a month ago, it looked as though the country was facing an acute shortage of ventilators during the Covid-19 epidemic.\n\nThe government appealed to businesses to help out. Dyson came forward with plans to produce a brand new design.\n\nGetting approval for a new design inevitably takes time - and while that process has been going on, it seems the outlook has changed and the shortage risks becoming a glut.\n\nAccording to Sir James Dyson, his devices simply aren't needed any more. But is it true - or has the company encountered other problems?\n\nThe NHS currently has access to nearly 11,000 ventilators, and production is being ramped up.\n\nLast week, the government ordered 15,000 machines from VentilatorChallengeUK - a group which already has the regulatory approvals it needs\n\nAt the same time, the total number required has clearly fallen - as doctors have found less intrusive treatments can be effective in keeping patients alive.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock recently suggested that 18,000 will be needed in total - around half the figure that was being suggested just a few weeks ago.\n\nSo it's fair to say the 10,000 units Dyson was expected to make don't seem to be required - in the UK at least. But the company is still hoping other countries are able to make use of them.\n\nMeanwhile its design is still undergoing clinical trials. The company insists as far as it is concerned, those trials have been going well - and that the project itself will continue.", "The stars of shows such as Doctor Who, The Vicar of Dibley and Miranda have sent messages of thanks and hope on BBC One charity special The Big Night In.\n\nMore than £27m was donated during the three-hour event, with the government promising to double the total.\n\nThe show saw Children in Need and Comic Relief join forces for the first time.", "Messenger Rooms will let up to 50 people drop in to a call\n\nFacebook has added a wave of new video-calling features to WhatsApp, Messenger and its main app, following increased demand for social video calling.\n\nNew Messenger Rooms will let people start group video chats that can be joined by up to 50 people.\n\nThe company told the BBC it released the features earlier than planned due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nFacebook said it had worked with cryptographers to prevent unwanted guests from dropping into chats.\n\nWhile the new features will launch for some users in the UK on Friday, it will take several weeks for the update to reach all Facebook members.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Fox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideo-calling services have seen a sharp rise in use during the coronavirus pandemic. Facebook said video-calling on Messenger had doubled since last year, in areas most affected by coronavirus.\n\nRival app Zoom saw daily active users grow to 300 million in April. And Houseparty, owned by Fortnite-maker Epic Games, was downloaded more than two million times at the beginning of March, as the first major US cities issued stay-at-home orders.\n\nSome apps, such as Microsoft Teams, have offered premium features for free during the pandemic.\n\nFacebook's new Messenger Rooms feature was introduced in a blog post by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, a move usually reserved for its biggest product launches.\n\nLike Houseparty, Messenger Rooms will let people drop in and out of group video chats while the \"room\" is open.\n\nJohn Hegeman, vice president of news feed for Facebook, said the company wanted to recreate the \"serendipity\" that happens in the physical world, something he claimed video-conferencing competitors did not do.\n\n\"In the physical world, you have the ability to bump into people... so, we're hopeful that some of that serendipity will be able to occur in this product,\" Mr Hegeman said.\n\nPeople can \"drop in\" to Rooms, like on rival app Houseparty\n\nRooms can be created via Facebook or Messenger, and the company said it planned to add the feature to Instagram, WhatsApp, and its Portal video-calling devices \"soon\".\n\nPeople creating a Messenger Room will be able to keep their room private, block unwanted participants and send invitations to people who are not on Facebook.\n\nParticipants will be able to use augmented reality filters and change their background in real-time.\n\nPublicly discoverable rooms will be listed at the top of the Facebook news feed.\n\nThe service was tested in Argentina and Poland, where Facebook Messenger is heavily used. During testing, rooms could support 17 to 20 participants at a time, but Facebook said that number would grow to 50 over the coming weeks.\n\nFacebook acknowledged that it had learned from competitors when developing its product.\n\nZoom has been working to prevent \"zoombombing\", which is when uninvited guests drop into video calls. Often they shout abuse or share pornography.\n\nStephane Taine, director of product for Messenger, said avoiding this issue was \"top of mind\" for Facebook.\n\nThe company worked with cryptographers to make the links for the Messenger Rooms difficult for hackers to guess.\n\nAt launch, the chats will not be end-to-end encrypted. Mr Taine said he hoped to add end-to-end encryption in the future.\n\nFacebook stressed it would not listen to or monitor video calls on its platforms.\n\nHowever, the social media giant will still gather data on when users open a Messenger Room. The company said that data would be used to improve the product and the overall Facebook experience.", "Not all families have laptops and broadband to help their children keep learning at home\n\n\"In our schools, 60% to 70% of children wouldn't have laptops,\" says Wayne Norrie, head of an academy trust with schools in disadvantaged areas.\n\nWith schools closed and pupils studying online at home, he says, it is important to recognise the social gap in access to technology.\n\n\"Coronavirus has revealed the scale of the digital divide,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education in England has promised laptops will be lent to some poorer teenagers.\n\nThese will be available to disadvantaged Year 10 pupils without access to a computer, and those with social workers.\n\nThe scheme, announced last Sunday, for un unspecified number of laptops, is expected to soon start taking bids from local authorities and academy trusts.\n\nMr Norrie, chief executive of Greenwood Academies Trust, with 37 schools in the Midlands and east of England, says many families rely on a single mobile phone for an internet connection, which is \"not realistic\" for online learning and streaming video lessons.\n\n\"Many don't have broadband contracts,\" he says.\n\nFor instance, he describes a family in Skegness who have a mobile phone shared between parents and three children.\n\nThe schools have been providing laptops and some families have their own tablet computers - but there are still barriers in terms of parents' IT skills and children having space to study.\n\nThe Department for Education is promising to lend laptops to some teenagers\n\n\"Digital poverty\" is a significant problem, says Matt Morden, co-head teacher of Surrey Square primary school, in south London.\n\nIn his school, 24% of pupils are effectively offline, in terms of being able to study from home.\n\nTheir families might have mobile phones with internet connections - but for those in low-paid, insecure jobs, data is expensive.\n\n\"If families are struggling, the priority is going to be food, not data,\" he says.\n\nAs well as missing out on learning, those without online connections miss \"the sense of belonging\" from staying in touch with their friends and teachers, Mr Morden says.\n\nThe lockdown and the closure of schools has \"brought the digital divide to the forefront\", he says.\n\nThere are digital haves and have-nots in the coronavirus lockdown\n\nThere has been a new virtual academy launched and the BBC has provided educational resources - but those without internet access or usable computer devices are being left behind.\n\nMr Morden's school has been lending laptops - but for families with several school-age children, one might not be enough.\n\nSeb Chapleau, director of the Big Education Conversation charity, says it is \"important to understand that this is a deep problem across many schools\".\n\nThe Co-op Academies Trust is providing 1,000 computer devices across its 24 schools.\n\nChris Tomlinson, who chairs the trust, says online lessons are \"no good if the children don't have the necessary hardware to access the internet\".\n\nThe AET academy trust is providing 9,000 laptops for its 58 schools, one for all pupils on free school meals.\n\nThe current lockdown has turned technology into an educational necessity rather than a luxury, said the trust's chief executive, Julian Drinkall\n\nRobert Halfon, chair of the education select committee, says too often there are assumptions about access to broadband and up-to-date computers.\n\nAs an MP, he says he deals with constituents who have to weigh up the cost of data before sending emails or getting information online.\n\nHe suggests educational programmes could be put on free-to-air television to reach those not online.", "UK companies face a cash flow crisis as many have been forced to close due to the lockdown\n\nPayouts to UK firms over coronavirus could cost £1.2bn, initial estimates from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) indicate.\n\nClose to £900m will go to a small number of firms that have infectious disease insurance, the ABI says.\n\nWatchdogs are predicting a rise in disputes between companies and insurers over whether their cover includes the financial fallout of Covid-19.\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee is urging insurers to be fair with claimants.\n\nMost of the £1.2bn figure is made up of business interruption insurance, but only to those companies which took out specialist policies, such as Wimbledon organisers the All England Club, .\n\nThe organisers of the Wimbledon Championship cancelled its lucrative sporting fixture, but will be covered by insurance\n\nABI chief executive Huw Evans explained why some claims will not result in a payment to firms.\n\n\"Most business interruption insurance policies that most businesses have are very much designed to protect them from fire and floor every day risks that protect their businesses and in the small number of cases it's designed to cover illnesses that come on your premises for a short duration they're not intended and not priced to cover a global pandemic.\"\n\nHowever Mr Evans also said there will be claims that have to go to arbitration between insurers and claimants over whether they are covered for the pandemic.\n\nIf insurers and companies cannot settle a dispute between themselves it goes to the Financial Ombudsman to sort it out.\n\nThe ABI says its early estimate also includes a record £275m paid to customers in cancellation claims on travel insurance, and £25m for claims relating to weddings, school trips and events.\n\nThe initial estimate of £1.2bn in payouts does not include claims made through the major insurance market Lloyd's of London.\n\nCommenting on the ABI's claims, Commons Treasury Select Committee chair Mel Stride said MPs had heard of many UK businesses struggling to get money from their insurers.\n\n\"The ABI has estimated that its members will pay out £900m in business interruption claims relating to coronavirus.\n\n\"Yet, the Committee continues to receive evidence concerning the difficulties that firms are facing in making a successful claim.\n\n\"For example, [Pub and dining firm lobby group] UKHospitality told us that 71% of its members have had claims rejected, with only 1% having any success.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants have been virtually empty across the UK for more than a month\n\n\"There may be many instances where individuals and businesses believe they are covered, but in reality may not be.\n\n\"However, we are concerned that the insurance sector goes the extra mile in meeting claims wherever possible. For example, where there may be grey areas within policies.\"\n\nLast week the Financial Conduct Authority ordered insurance companies to pay out claims to firms \"as soon as possible\" or explain themselves to the watchdog.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce's head of economics, Suren Thiru, said cash flow was an 'urgent concern' for its member businesses \"so it is particularly disappointing that many are facing an uphill struggle to access such a vital lifeline.\n\n\"The insurance industry has the opportunity to demonstrate that it is there for our business communities when they need it most - and work together with government to help their customers weather this unprecedented economic crisis.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday evening. We'll have another update on Saturday morning.\n\nThe government's new website for key workers to book coronavirus tests will reopen later, the transport secretary has told the daily Downing Street briefing. Just hours after being launched on Friday morning, the site closed following \"significant demand\". Grant Shapps said the site had not crashed but that all 16,000 available slots had been booked up. A total of 19,506 patients have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, up 684 in the past day.\n\nReckitt Benckiser, which owns Dettol, Vanish and Cillit Bang, has warned its disinfectant products should not be injected or swallowed, after the US president suggested they could be used to treat coronavirus. Donald Trump's remarks, made at a briefing on Thursday, have been widely condemned as irresponsible. It comes as the virus death toll in the US passes 50,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nTwo married doctors who say they have been exposed to coronavirus patients are challenging government guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE). Dr Nishant Joshi and Dr Meenal Viz - who is pregnant - say the advice is unclear, inconsistent, not in line with international standards, and exposes healthcare workers to a greater risk of contracting Covid-19. Public Health England said the safety of front-line staff was its priority.\n\nIdentical twins Katy and Emma Davis, 37, have died within three days of each other after testing positive for the virus. The pair, who both died at Southampton General Hospital this week, had other health conditions and had been unwell for some time, their sister Zoe has said. \"They always said they had come into the world together and would go out together as well,\" she added.\n\nCapt Tom Moore, who raised almost £30m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden, has become the oldest performer to have a UK number one single. His cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, recorded with Michael Ball, has hit the number one spot on the official UK chart, just in time for his 100th birthday next week. Proceeds from sales of the single will go to the NHS Charities Together fund.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Italy’s coronavirus death toll is the second highest in the world, and its lockdown is the strictest and longest in Europe.\n\nDoctors say both things are creating a mental health emergency.\n\nThe BBC has been given access to a psychological support centre run by the Red Cross, where staff say they’re overwhelmed by calls from people struggling.\n\nPsychologists are warning that Italy is not equipped to deal with the crisis, and that the rest of Europe must prepare.\n\nIf you've been affected by a mental health issue, help and support is available. Visit Befrienders International for more information about support services in your country, or visit BBC Action Line\n\nFilm by the BBC’s Europe Correspondent Jean Mackenzie, produced by Sara Monetta, filmed and edited by Andy Smythe.", "Until recently, Japan had been one of the success stories in controlling the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIn February and March, Japan succeeded in suppressing early cluster outbreaks, and in keeping total infections in the hundreds.\n\nBut now the capital Tokyo appears to have a developing epidemic with more than 3,500 cases confirmed. Countrywide there are now more than 12,000 cases.\n\nDoctors in Tokyo say a state of emergency, declared two weeks ago, is not slowing the spread of the virus enough to stop new cases overwhelming the hospital system.\n\nRupert Wingfield-Hayes and the BBC's Tokyo team have been inside one hospital just south of the capital, which has built a makeshift Covid-19 unit in just 10 days, to try to deal with the overflow.", "Greater Manchester's mayor had said Metrolink could be \"mothballed\"\n\nThe government has confirmed it will support England's light rail systems to \"allow essential services to continue\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was working with networks in Greater Manchester, Sheffield, the West Midlands, Nottingham and Tyne and Wear.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham had warned his area's service could be \"mothballed\" due to financial losses.\n\nThe DfT said it was working \"to identify what support is needed\".\n\nA spokesman said the amount of government funding was still being calculated, but it would \"enable key routes to remain open for people travelling to hospitals, supermarkets or those who cannot work from home, such as NHS staff\".\n\nHe added that as light rail was a devolved issue in London, Transport for London would need to \"consider any measures to support the sector\", while Blackpool's tram network, which was taken out of service at the end of March, \"does not support key workers\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Burnham said Greater Manchester's Metrolink service was \"losing millions of pounds a month\", with passenger numbers down 95% since the outbreak began.\n\nResponding to the announcement, he said he was \"pleased this has been recognised by the government and welcome their commitment to... light rail networks around the country\".\n\nThe funding will support five networks, including Sheffield's Supertram\n\n\"However, we urgently need the detail of this funding, as well as the funding itself, so we can ensure these vital services can continue to run during the lockdown period,\" he added.\n\nMr Burnham said he was already \"looking closely at what services will look like once lockdown is lifted,\" adding: \"The road to recovery is going to be a very long one, and we are already stressing to government the financial help that will be needed throughout 2020 and beyond.\"\n\nA spokesman for Nexus, which runs the Metro service in Tyne and Wear, echoed Mr Burnham's comments and said the firm \"now need to know with some urgency what the details of the financial package are\".\n\nHe said running the system was \"costing us almost £1m a week\" and the firm could only plan for the end of lockdown \"if we know that we have enough money to pay staff wages and carry out maintenance\".\n\nSheffield City Region Mayor Dan Jarvis said securing funding for the area's Supertram network \"will help ease the financial strain during the crisis, allow essential journeys to continue and keep NHS staff and key workers moving\".\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry's regional director Sarah Glendinning said the services were \"the lifeblood of our communities and key workers are relying on them to do their jobs throughout this crisis\".\n\n\"This move to support operators shows that government recognises their vital contribution to Britain's path to recovery.\"\n\nThe union Unison said it had been concerned about the possibility of services being halted.\n\nNorth West regional secretary Kevan Nelson said his members were \"putting themselves at risk every day and... the last thing they need is being delayed, or worse, being prevented from attending work\".\n• None City's trams 'may be mothballed without bail out'", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville says there is \"plenty to work on\" as it was confirmed he will leave his role as England women's manager in July 2021.\n\nNeville was set to lead Team GB into this summer's Olympic Games, before taking control of the Lionesses at the Women's Euros on home soil in 2021.\n\nBut both events have been delayed by a year because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Football Association said it wanted the same coach to lead the Lionesses at the Euros and the 2023 World Cup.\n\n\"I am looking forward to getting back to work with the team as soon as possible,\" said former England international Neville.\n\n\"We have a fantastic squad of players and there is plenty to work on as we look to progress as a team going into 2021.\"\n• None Who could replace Neville for England?\n\nThe 43-year-old former Manchester United and Everton defender was appointed in January 2018 on a contract until the summer of 2021.\n\nHe led the Lionesses to a first SheBelieves Cup success and a fourth-place finish at the World Cup in 2019 but since last year's quarter-final win over Norway, they have lost seven of 11 games and failed to retain their SheBelieves Cup title in March.\n\nThe FA says the decision about his future has come about because of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the women's football calendar.\n\nIts director of women's football, Sue Campbell, said that \"in the best interests\" of the team both the FA and Neville agreed the Lionesses needed to have \"continuity of coaching\" going into the Euros, which will now take place in July 2022, and next World Cup.\n\n\"Once football returns after this difficult period, Phil will continue his work with the Lionesses on the further development of his squad,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"I will support him fully with that important task whilst moving forward with the crucial succession planning process.\n\n\"We will now discuss next steps with the British Olympic Association and the home nations with regard to Team GB football and we are not in a position to make any further comment at this time.\"\n\nHow Neville compares to former England manager Mark Sampson\n\nIt might sound harsh, but in purely footballing terms, Neville's reign feels like a failed experiment.\n\nHe was largely untested as a manager when he was appointed in 2018, but the FA spoke of how his \"winning mentality\" would take England to the next level, having reached semi-finals in their past two major tournaments.\n\nInstead, it could be argued England have gone backwards. The SheBelieves Cup win in 2019 was a high point, and the Lionesses came close to making the World Cup final later that summer, but things have unravelled since.\n\nHe still had the backing of the FA, but there is a feeling of unfulfilled promise as he leaves - and that will surely hurt a dedicated and meticulous professional who never quite brought the best out of his team.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Easier, faster and simpler\" for essential workers to get coronavirus tests\n\nAll essential workers in England - and members of their household - are now eligible for coronavirus tests, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nAbout 10 million key workers who need to book a test to see whether they have the virus will be able to do so on the government's website from Friday.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock said the move was \"part of getting Britain back on her feet\".\n\nHe added 18,000 people will be hired to trace contacts of those infected.\n\nThe Welsh government previously outlined plans to expand testing to key workers, such as teachers and food delivery drivers, and Northern Ireland's health minister has announced the nation's testing programme is being expanded to include front-line workers in the private sector.\n\nScotland is prioritising tests for NHS staff and has yet to announce any expansion of testing to key workers.\n\nAddressing the UK government's \"challenging\" target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month, Mr Hancock said capacity for carrying out tests had accelerated \"ahead of our plans\" to more than 50,000 a day.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is that everyone who could benefit from a test gets a test,\" he said.\n\nThe government is also introducing home test kits as well as mobile testing sites, which will be operated with the support of the armed forces, Mr Hancock said.\n\nKey workers who are unable to access the government's website will still be able to apply for a test, as employers are able to book on behalf of their staff from Thursday.\n\nMr Hancock said those who qualify for testing would be based on an updated list of essential workers and, according to the prime minister's official spokesman, would apply to about 10 million people.\n\nThe whole process will be free for those being tested.\n\nOnce people have entered their details online they will then be sent a text or email inviting them to book an appointment - with the test results issued by text, and a help desk available to help with any queries, Mr Hancock explained.\n\nThe test involves taking a swab from the nose or throat.\n\nHospitals have been carrying out tests, along with a network of about 30 drive-through centres in car parks, at airports and sports grounds.\n\nBut the drive-through centres have not always been in convenient locations, which may have discouraged people from getting tested.\n\nPeople will receive a text or email with an appointment at a drive-through centre\n\nMr Hancock also detailed plans for a network of contact tracers that will be used when lockdown is lifted, insisting a process of \"test, track and trace\" would be \"vital\" to stop a second peak of the virus.\n\nThe hope is that regional outbreaks of the virus can be kept under control by isolating people with the virus, and then tracing their contacts and isolating them.\n\nMr Hancock said infrastructure would be put in place so that contact tracing can be rolled out on a \"large scale\".\n\nHe added that the 18,000 people being recruited to help with contact tracing included 3,000 clinicians and public health experts.\n\nOn testing, Mr Hancock said that capacity had reached 51,000 per day, although Thursday's figures showed only 23,560 tests were carried out - which is still far short of the 100,000 daily target.\n\nFigures released by the Department for Health and Social Care on Thursday showed a further 616 people have died with the virus in UK hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 18,738.\n\nAn analysis of the published figures by the BBC has confirmed that at least 103 health workers have now died with coronavirus, 65 of whom were black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background.\n\nThese are big announcements on testing, which will be important in terms of getting out of lockdown.\n\nThe 18,000-strong army of contact tracers will be significant.\n\nWhen contact tracing was done at the start of the outbreak to try to contain coronavirus, it relied on a few hundred staff working for Public Health England's nine regional teams.\n\nWhen restrictions are eased, infections will rise. The government will need a system of containing any local outbreaks.\n\nThese contact tracers will help by identifying close contacts of those infected to keep ahead of the virus by finding cases early.\n\nBut the missing piece of the jigsaw is widespread testing for the general public so that the people who are identified can be tested.\n\nBy the end of next week the government is aiming to get to 100,000 tests a day.\n\nAchieving that, and perhaps more, will be essential to ensuring there is a robust system in place to allow for a gradual, phased return to some degree of normality.\n\nAlso at the briefing, Prof John Newton, co-ordinator of the UK's coronavirus testing programme, said the government was \"on track\" to reach 100,000 tests a day by the end of April and that new types of test - including ones that do not rely on reagents in short supply - would help to reach the target.\n\nHe added that there would soon be 48 \"pop-up facilities\" that can travel around the country to where they were needed most, while a UK rapid testing consortium was working on antibody tests that people could use at home to tell them whether they have had the virus in the past.\n\nAddressing the coronavirus lockdown, the health secretary said the \"message remains the same\" and the government's tests for lifting restrictions had not yet been met.\n\nHe added that the plan set out by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said the lifting of the coronavirus lockdown is likely to be phased in Scotland, was \"very similar\" to the government's approach.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We set out the five tests that are needed for us to make changes to the lockdown measures and the Scottish government's proposals are based on those tests.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK-wide approach is the best way to go.\"\n\nSpeaking at the same Downing Street briefing, UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said he thought London was ahead of the rest of the country in suppressing the disease, and that in two or three weeks \"you might expect to see some differences across the country\".\n\nHe added that social distancing measures had reduced the rate of infection \"dramatically\".", "The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline published a letter from Meghan Markle to her father to satisfy readers' \"curiosity\" it had \"deliberately generated\", the High Court has heard.\n\nThe duchess is suing for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement after articles reproduced parts of a letter she sent Thomas Markle.\n\nIt argues the Duchess of Sussex had no reasonable expectation of privacy and anticipated publication of the letter.\n\nMeghan is suing Associated Newspapers after two articles in the Mail on Sunday and three on MailOnline published parts of a handwritten letter to Mr Markle, 75, in February 2019. She has also accused them of data protection breaches.\n\nShe claims contents of the letter to her father were selectively edited in a misleading and dishonest manner.\n\nAt Friday's virtual preliminary hearing, the publisher's legal team asked for parts of her case to be struck out.\n\nThe publisher said Meghan's claim that her father was \"harassed\" and \"manipulated\" should not form part of her case and was \"objectionable\".\n\nAntony White QC, representing Associated Newspapers, told Mr Justice Warby that some of the allegations made by Meghan were irrelevant and not made with a proper legal basis.\n\nHe added that the allegations relating to her father were made without any attempt to contact him to see if he agrees with them.\n\n\"In this context it appears that the claimant has seen fit to put these allegations on the record without having spoken to Mr Markle, verifying these allegations with him or obtaining his consent (she admits ... that she has had no contact with him since the wedding),\" he said.\n\nIn court documents prepared for the hearing, Mr White said the duchess alleged the publisher was \"one of the 'tabloid' newspapers which had been deliberately seeking to dig or stir up issues between her and her father\".\n\n\"This is an allegation of seriously improper deliberate, i.e. intentional, conduct to the effect that the defendant's motive was to seek to manufacture or stoke a family dispute for the sake of having a good story or stories to publish,\" he said.\n\nMr White told the court that such \"complex tests of mental state\" of the publisher were \"irrelevant to the claim for misuse of private information\", and asked the judge to strike out that claim.\n\nHe also objected to the duchess's allegation that the publisher \"acted dishonestly\" when deciding which parts of her letter to her father to publish.\n\n\"It is extremely common for the media to summarise or edit documents when reporting current events, and that is not a basis for an allegation of dishonesty,\" he added.\n\nDavid Sherborne, acting for the duchess, said the letter had been reported for \"the sole and entirely gratuitous purpose of satisfying the curiosity of the defendant's readership about the... private life of the claimant, a curiosity deliberately generated by the defendant\".\n\nNo attempt had been made to contact the duchess prior to publication in a \"deliberate\" move \"to secure the enormous 'scoop'\", he said.\n\nMr Sherborne argued additional articles published by Associated Newspapers about the duchess should be taken into consideration in support of her privacy action, but not as part of the claim.\n\nHe said: \"It is very much about the claimant's state of mind.\"\n\nMr Sherborne added this was about \"the distress she feels about the realisation that the defendant has an agenda and that this is not a one-off\" and not about damage to reputation.\n\nIt is understood Harry and Meghan, who have relocated to California after stepping back as senior royals, listened to the parts of the hearing.\n\nAssociated Newspapers had asked for Friday's hearing to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic but the duchess's legal team rejected this and said she \"considered it was unreasonable to accept the offer\".\n\nInstead the hearing was held remotely with Mr Justice Warby sitting in his court in front of several computer screens while counsel called in from elsewhere.\n\nMr Justice Warby said at the end of the hearing that he would give his ruling on Associated Newspapers' application at a later date, but hopefully within a week.\n\nLast week Harry and Meghan announced they would no longer work with several British tabloid newspapers, including the Mail as well as the Sun, Mirror and Express, over \"distorted, false or invasive\" stories.", "The harsh political reality for the president is he faces a re-election contest in just over six months, and the longer the lockdown drags on, the less time the economy will have to recover before voters head to the ballot box.\n\nCurrent polling suggests he is trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden nationally and in key battleground states, and while the race is likely to tighten and the president has abundant resources to run a robust campaign, Trump appears destined for an uphill fight.\n\nThe president also faces a flip-side risk of being seen as supporting re-opening too quickly and shouldering the blame if there is a subsequent spike in cases. That could explain why, just days after calling for states to begin reopening process, he criticised the Republican governor of Georgia for lifting restrictions on places like hair salons, bars and tattoo parlours, where social distancing guidelines would be difficult to follow.\n\nIt's a difficult line for any politician to walk, and in the days ahead the stakes will be at their highest.", "Vocational qualifications will need replacement grades after the cancellation of exams this summer\n\nVocational qualifications needed to get into further education or universities are likely to use estimated grades, says England's exams watchdog.\n\nOfqual has put forward plans to replace vocational exams cancelled by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut it says some qualifications that require a practical, hands-on test might have to be delayed.\n\nOfqual chief Sally Collier says where possible students should not be \"prevented from progressing\".\n\nThe exams watchdog has published proposals for the awarding of vocational qualifications disrupted by the pandemic - with decisions to be taken after a two-week consultation.\n\nThere are 14,000 different qualifications and 160 awarding organisations - and Ofqual says it is too complex to provide the type of \"one-size-fits-all\", standardised approach used for A-levels and GCSEs.\n\nBut qualifications, such as some BTecs, that are used for entry to further-education colleges or higher education will have an estimated grade, in line with the way that A-levels and GCSEs are being assessed this year.\n\nGrades will be based on the evidence of assignments, modules or class work carried out during the course, before the lockdown stopped students attending classes.\n\nThat would give students time to make their applications for courses in the autumn - with the deadline for making decisions about choosing a university course being pushed back to mid-June this year.\n\nBut qualifications for practical, work-based skills could be delayed.\n\nIn the first instance, there will be an attempt to adapt assessments so they can be carried out online. But if that is not practical, tests would have to be deferred until they could be taken in person.\n\nThe watchdog said that, for example, a test in driving a fork-lift truck could not be carried out online, so that type of assessment would have to wait.\n\nThere will be qualifications which include both theoretical and practical tests - and for these the regulator says the awarding body will have to decide whether it \"more closely aligns\" with those trying to go on to another stage of education or is primarily for a practical workplace skill.\n\nPlans for replacement grades for qualifications specific to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be subject to their own devolved regulators.\n\n\"It is vitally important that learners taking vocational or technical qualifications are not prevented from progressing in their studies or careers because of the unprecedented challenges this summer,\" said Ms Collier.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, said the proposals would \"help to reassure students and colleges\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katy Davis (left) and her identical twin Emma always believed they would die together, according to their sister, Zoe\n\nTwin sisters have died within three days of each other after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nIdentical twin Emma, herself a former nurse, died at the same hospital early on Friday.\n\nTheir sister, Zoe, said: \"They always said they had come into the world together and would go out together as well.\"\n\nShe said the \"amazing\" pair, who lived together, had other health conditions and had been unwell for some time.\n\n\"There are no words to describe how special they were,\" she said.\n\nThe \"amazing\" twins had underlying health conditions, their sister said\n\n\"All they ever wanted to do was to help other people. Ever since they were young...they'd pretend they were doctors and nurses caring for their dolls.\n\n\"They gave their everything to all the patients they looked after. They were exceptional.\"\n\n\"It doesn't feel like any of this is real.\"\n\nKaty, who worked at Southampton Children's Hospital, tested positive for Covid-19 on admission to hospital and died on Tuesday evening.\n\nPaula Head, chief executive of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"Katy has been described by her colleagues... as a nurse people would aspire to be like and that nursing was more than just a job to her.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone here... including our patients and the communities we serve, I would like to offer our sincere condolences to her family.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing said: \"She's been described as a dedicated and selfless nurse who had time for everyone sharing her skills and knowledge to ensure excellent patient care.\"\n\nThe sisters died within three days of each other at the same hospital, Zoe Davis said\n\nEmma Davis had worked at the same hospital as her sister in the colorectal surgery unit for nine years until 2013.\n\nIn a message to staff, chief nursing officer Gail Byrne said: \"She had the same underlying health condition as Katy and had been unwell prior to her admission when she tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"It goes without saying just how devastating and tragic this is for the family and all who knew them.\n\n\"Emma has been described as an excellent nurse who was calm and cheerful and a good leader.\n\n\"She was well-liked by all and was a valuable member of the team during her time with us.\"\n\nHospital staff held a \"Clap for Katy\" outside the main entrance on Thursday evening, hours before Emma's death.\n\nA total of 50 British nursing staff have died during the pandemic, according to a list compiled by the Nursing Times.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive", "Odd combinations have long been a staple of the entertainment industry. For those old enough to have seen it (still available on YouTube), who can forget Prince Edward's cringe-inducing toe-dip into television production with the culture-clash that was It's A Royal knockout? Not the Queen, that's for sure, who went on to show her youngest son how to play the incongruous card with her winning James Bond spoof at the London Olympics.\n\nThe Royal Family's infamous day out at Alton Towers was in 1987, 30 years after the comedian Frank Skinner was born, a fact I learnt from listening to his new podcast, which is another example of the light-entertainment-meets-highfalutin genre.\n\nFrank Skinner's Poetry Podcast is knowingly tapping into the surprising-juxtaposition game, following the likes of Lenny Henry who has successfully evolved from kids' show clown to serious Shakespearian actor.\n\n\"Yes, yes, poetry\" Skinner says in his introduction, acknowledging it might seem an unlikely subject for a man still shaking off a '90s laddish image.\n\nThe comedian and actor, Frank Skinner says he developed his love of poetry while studying English at Birmingham Polytechnic\n\nActually, it's not in the least bit strange that he should be drawn to poetry or Lenny Henry to Shakespeare.\n\nThere are two common attributes shared by the majority of successful comedians: the first being an intellectual curiosity, and the second, an understanding and appreciation of language and its use.\n\nIt is a mark of how the Arts have allowed themselves to become segregated - broadly along class lines - between what is seen as cheap entertainment and classy culture.\n\nIt is a perception, not a reality.\n\nRock, pop, and rap are as worthy an art form as classical music, and stand-up comedy could justifiably be considered performance art. The division between the different artistic forms of human expression is a nonsense.\n\nFrank Skinner shouldn't have to defend his love of poetry, nor the fact that he is approaching it as a fan and not as an academic.\n\nPoetry and comedy are natural bedfellows - a fact that Skinner demonstrates in this one-man-no-guests podcast peppered with amusing asides and left-of-field references - from the absurdist dramatist Eugène Ionesco to a whippet dog called Frank Skinner.\n\nFirst up on the first episode of the first series (I hope there are plenty more) is the 20th Century British poet and artist Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971) and her 1957 classic Not Waving but Drowning, a three-verse meditation on someone with a jolly public persona hiding a desperate soul:\n\nNobody heard him, the dead man,\n\nBut still he lay moaning:\n\nI was much further out than you thought\n\nAnd not waving but drowning.\n\nSkinner's approach is to personalise the poems he discusses, arguing, not unreasonably, that his response is a coming together of his viewpoint with that of the poet.\n\nIt's a familiar argument made particularly well in an essay called the Creative Act, written by Marcel Duchamp in the same year as Smith produced Not Waving but Drowning.\n\nStevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning was first published in 1957, and was voted Britain's fourth favourite poem in a poll in 1995\n\nIt is a very good poem, the title of which has become part of our everyday lexicon. I remember sitting on the beach at Bude in Cornwall, keeping half an eye on my kids bodyboarding while staring out at sea and contemplating what flavour of ice-cream I fancied. I saw a woman waving from her surf board and mentioned the friendly gesture to my wife, who, paraphrasing Smith, said \"she's not waving, she's drowning\".\n\nAnd so she was. Two guys in red swimming trunks, neither of whom looked remotely like David Hasselhoff, surfed out and rescued her. It was very dramatic, but not, Skinner speculates, the real subject of Smith's poem.\n\nIt is not literally about drowning at sea but a distant character who stands outside the swim of daily life: a man who - to all appearances - is waving enthusiastically when in reality he is drowning in obscurity (\"I was much further out than you thought\" the dead man reports). This Skinner can relate to, and tells us the thing he most enjoyed about being famous, was neither the money nor the trappings, but being noticed, being \"heard\":\n\nI was much too far out all my life\n\nAnd not waving but drowning.\n\nIt is not easy to relay the meaning and rhythm of poem while retaining a voice that doesn't sound like a cliche of a worthy 1970s round-table poetry group.\n\nSkinner nails the task, bringing the poet's words to life before veering off on an anecdote or explaining that poetry is broken up into lumps known as verses (fancy language is banished, which is why, perhaps, he chose Smith who used simple language to communicate ideas and feelings of great complexity).\n\nThe show is not perfect, but then it is only one episode old.\n\nHaving got our attention and established his chatty approach, there's scope for Skinner to go a little deeper into the text.\n\nNot Waving but Drowning is a timely poem to study, not just because it speaks to our current anxieties, but also that in 12 short lines Smith introduces three separate voices who tell us the ambiguous story in words chosen specifically for their weaselly slipperiness.\n\nThere is also room for a bit more biographical detail. Obviously, this is Skinner's informal take on poetry, with the way it touches him a large part of the show's structure, but it could be rebalanced to allow the poet to share some the limelight.\n\nWe learn very little about Smith, and almost nothing about William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), the American modernist poet who wrote Skinner's second choice of the week, Danse Russe (1916).\n\nThe American poet, William Carlos Williams once wrote \"The purpose of an artist, whatever it is, is to take the life, whatever he sees, and to raise it up to an elevated position where it has dignity\"\n\nIt is another terrific selection.\n\nA little longer than Smith's, but not by much. It shares the subject of loneliness, but from the other side of the desolate coin. This time our male protagonist is watching the sun rise as his wife and children sleep. He is enjoying a moment of sensual euphoria, suppressed from full expression perhaps, to keep the genie of his genius in the bottle:\n\nIf I admire my arms, my face,\n\nthe happy genius of my household?\n\nIt would have helped to have some biographical detail; to have known that Williams was a paediatrician by day and a poet by night (the genius of the household?): that he was searching for a new American idiom that established a language independent from European influences, and that the poem was indebted to the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's L'après-midi d'un faune (Williams spent time living in France).\n\nClaude Debussy then wrote a piece of music in response to Mallarmé, which was subsequently turned into a dance for the Ballets Russes (hence the title of Williams's poem) by Vaslav Nijinsky, which Williams saw performed in New York having known it'd caused a furore in Paris years earlier when Nijinsky started writhing in ecstasy, alone on the stage, to howls of derision and gasps of delight.\n\nThe influence of Stéphane Mallarmé's poem L'après-midi d'un faune can be seen in William Carlos Williams' Danse Russe\n\nVaslav Nijinsky choreographed and danced in L'Aprés-midi d'un faune for the Ballets Russes in 1912, which William Carlos Williams saw years later\n\nSkinner only touches on this back story and isn't entirely accurate on all his factual details (I don't think Williams lived in New York, he was a man of Rutherford, New Jersey). To an extent that's forgivable, our host says he doesn't go much for background info because he wants to have a relationship with the work of art not the person who made it or what might have influenced it. He then humbly adds, \"that might be an error on my part\".\n\nI suspect it is. The more you repeat read a poem, which Skinner rightly encourages us to do, the more you want to comprehend, and that usually means going beyond the page to the person holding the pen. That's the way into the rest of the writer's work, and the discovering of little jewels like Williams's This is Just to Say, which for some reason reminds me of a Cezanne still life:\n\nFirst-episode teething troubles are to be expected and should not detract from a very welcome new addition to the cultural landscape: a simple idea without any fancy production presented by someone who brings insight and enthusiasm to an art form that is enjoying a resurgence in popularity.\n\nRoll on Monday for the second instalment.\n\nI think it's going to get better and better.", "Dr Meenal Viz and Dr Nishant Joshi work at separate hospitals in the Midlands and East of England.\n\nTwo married doctors who say they have been exposed to coronavirus patients are challenging government guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nDr Nishant Joshi and Dr Meenal Viz, who is pregnant, are concerned PPE advice has changed \"without rhyme or reason\".\n\nThe couple also said guidance in England differs from World Health Organization (WHO) advice.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the safety of front-line health and social care staff was its priority.\n\nIn a pre-action legal letter to the Department of Health, the doctors - who work at separate hospitals - said there was \"great anxiety\" among staff over safety protocols.\n\nThey claimed the government's stance was not in line with international standards, was unclear and inconsistent and exposed healthcare workers to a greater risk of contracting Covid-19.\n\nSpeaking to BBC 5Live earlier, Dr Joshi said: \"[We ask] at what stage were PPE guidelines downgraded, and was there science used to back that up?\n\n\"If we were making decisions based on shortages, then why haven't British manufacturers been mobilised?\"\n\nHe said that the \"devil was in the detail\", referring to a statement from Public Health England (PHE), which said the Word Health Organisation \"had confirmed that UK guidance is consistent with what it recommends for the highest-risk procedures\".\n\n\"Those procedures only take place in intensive care units, and that's where all the PPE is being concentrated,\" he said.\n\n\"What about my colleagues in maternity units, in A&E or any other department who have become unwell with coronavirus, quite possibly due to prolonged periods of high exposure to the virus?\n\n\"There have been chinks in their armour because they have not been protected adequately.\"\n\nDr Viz protested outside Downing Street on Sunday\n\nTheir letter also refers to the death of NHS staff who have tested positive for coronavirus, saying the the government owed an apology to their bereaved families.\n\nMinisters have come in for mounting criticism over failures to ensure NHS staff and those in care homes have adequate PPE.\n\nEarlier this week, the British Medical Association said doctors on the front line were \"frightened\" and being left with difficult choices about whether to risk their lives by treating patients because of a lack of kit.\n\nThe Department of Health said it could not comment on pending or potential legal action.", "NHS workers, police and firefighters must get better pay and treatment after they \"see us through\" the coronavirus crisis, a union leader has said.\n\nMatt Wrack, of the Fire Brigades Union, said many of his members were working at testing centres, delivering health supplies and transporting bodies.\n\nHe called the weekly applause for NHS and other key workers \"great\", but added that \"clapping is not enough\".\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"very grateful\" to firefighters.\n\nThey were \"going above and beyond the day job to support the NHS and protect communities by assisting ambulance services, transferring patients and delivering PPE (personal protective equipment), food and medicines\", it added.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and rises were capped at 1% from 2013 to 2018.\n\nThe FBU estimates that, on average, its members are earning £4,000 a year less than they would had their salary increases matched inflation over the past decade.\n\n\"Firefighters haven't felt particularly valued for a long time,\" Mr Wrack said.\n\nBut he added: \"Something that lots of people are beginning to comment on, including people in government, is the key workers who will see us through this crisis.\"\n\nThe FBU, fire service employers and the National Fire Chiefs Council have agreed that firefighters can volunteer to help with tasks such as driving ambulances, delivering food and medicine to vulnerable people, assembling face masks for NHS workers and moving dead bodies.\n\nFirefighters are disinfecting equipment to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\n\"It's great that people are going out and clapping on a Thursday night,\" said Mr Wrack, \"but the question will be - because clapping is not enough - what are we going to do as a society to redress the balance a bit and give recognition?\"\n\nHis demands were not \"all about wages\", he said, adding that pensions had been eroded and workers had to \"have confidence\" employers were ensuring their safety.\n\nThe government has announced up to 10 million key workers can book a coronavirus test.\n\nBut Mr Wrack said: \"There's been a lot of frustration at how slow the UK seems to have been on getting testing up to the levels that we've seen in other countries.\"\n\nHe added: \"Those were political decisions and the people who made them need to be held to account over it. And that needs to start pretty immediately.\"\n\nThe government announced last year that it was awarding above-inflation pay rises to hundreds of thousands of public sector workers.\n\nResponding to Mr Wrack's comments, a Home Office spokesperson said the extra work done by fire and rescue staff was \"hugely important and we are working with the National Fire Chiefs Council to ensure they are properly protected and have the support they need\".", "Debenhams has stores in several locations in Wales including Cardiff\n\nDebenhams has warned the Welsh finance minister it will be forced to shut its major shops in Wales unless the government reverses a decision on business rates relief.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has granted a rates holiday to all retail, leisure and hospitality firms for a year.\n\nWales initially said it would match these plans but then changed the threshold for those eligible.\n\nIt said the change means business rates will be used for grants to small firms.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, Debenhams' chairman writes that the move threatens the viability of its biggest stores in Wales in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrexham and Llandudno.\n\nWales decided not to extend relief to properties with a rateable value of £500,000 and above.\n\nDebenhams' chairman Mark Gifford tells Welsh Finance Minister Rebecca Evans: \"It is deeply regrettable that, by electing to take a different approach to that taken elsewhere in the UK, you have made it economically unviable for us to continue trading the majority of our Welsh business.\n\n\"You have failed to understand the situation, where Debenhams Retail Limited is in administration and will cease to pay business rates unless it chooses to reopen its stores in Wales.\n\n\"It will be unable to reopen its stores unless you reverse your decision.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We decided to limit the Non-Domestic Rates (NDR) Relief for the hospitality, retail and leisure sector announced to exclude the small proportion of properties with a rateable value of over £500,000.\n\n\"This affects fewer than 200 properties across Wales but releases more than £100 million towards our Economic Resilience Fund - enough to support more than 2,000 businesses with grants of £50,000.\n\nAccording to real estate services firm Altus Group, Debenhams has business rates liabilities in Wales of £2.35m for the current financial year.\n\nThe biggest bill is for its Cardiff store at more than £1.1m.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that four more Debenhams stores will not reopen post-lockdown, after the business failed to agree deals with landlords.\n\nThe shops are in Southampton, Swindon, Kidderminster and Borehamwood. They are in addition to seven outlets Debenhams already said will remain closed.", "Laura McLellan says she has never felt so humbled as when she and her team of checkout operators were told they were key workers.\n\nThe Tesco supermarket worker felt so proud that she wanted to go back in time to tell her school headmaster about the important job she was now doing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"I don't fear coming to work,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't feel more at risk, because we are doing everything we possibly can in this unprecedented situation.\"\n\nAs a checkout manager, Laura is in charge of 60 of the 200 staff at a Tesco superstore in Leith.\n\nShe said she was conscious not to show fear in case it would \"ripple down\" to her colleagues.\n\n\"I did have colleagues at the beginning who were concerned, and one young chap was so upset we offered him a lifestyle break.\n\n\"There are concerns but everyone has been pulling together, which has been really positive.\n\n\"I've never been more humbled to be a front-line worker, its a beautiful title.\"\n\nThe 42-year-old said in the early stages, before the safety measures were put in place, some staff had asked to stack shelves rather than work on the checkouts.\n\nShe said: \"When the screens went up on the checkouts that did a lot for their peace of mind, although it was really mind-boggling at first.\n\n\"The screen makes you feel like you're in a goldfish bowl because they warp the sound. Also, you feel like you're shouting.\"\n\nHowever, she said it was better than the \"bizarre feeling\" of having to wear masks.\n\n\"We have a lot of regular older customers who have been coming here for 20 years and speaking to them through a mask was hard for them,\" she added.\n\nLaura said it had also taken \"a lot of guts\" to enforce the rules with some customers.\n\nShe said: \"We have 50,000 customers a week and with that volume of people it's been tricky marshalling them.\n\n\"A few weeks ago when we had restricted items people were sneaking back into the store, and others had to be asked to stay back from the checkouts.\n\n\"It takes a lot of guts when you get push back from the customers.\n\n\"I have also had to pick staff to man the door who are strong enough to be assertive.\"\n\nLaura said her sister was also on the front line as a nurse.\n\nShe said: \"I never thought my mum would have two front-line workers to worry about, especially me working in a supermarket.\n\n\"My husband, Mark, is in isolation because he has asthma so I have to strip off my uniform and go straight to the shower when I get home before I can say hello.\"\n\nAnd she added: \"I never thought that selling bread and butter I would be this proud, but I am.\"", "Tackling climate change must be woven into the solution to the Covid-19 economic crisis, the UK will tell governments next week.\n\nEnvironment ministers from 30 countries are meeting in a two-day online conference in a bid to make progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe gathering is called the \"Petersberg Climate Dialogue\".\n\nIt will focus on how to organise a \"green\" economic recovery after the acute phase of the pandemic is over.\n\nThe other aim is to forge international agreement on ambitious carbon cuts despite the postponement of the key conference COP26 - previously scheduled for Glasgow in November (now without a date).\n\nAlok Sharma, the UK Climate Secretary and president of COP26, said: \"I am committed to increasing global climate ambition so that we deliver on the Paris Agreement (to stabilise temperature rise well below 2C).\n\n\"The world must work together, as it has to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, to support a green and resilient recovery, which leaves no one behind.\n\n\"At the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, we will come together to discuss how we can turn ambition into real action.\"\n\nThe informal conference is co-hosted by the UK and Germany.\n\nDeveloped and developing countries will attend, along with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and members of civil society and business. Last week, Mr Guterres warned that climate change was a deeper problem than the virus.\n\nCampaign groups will be sceptical about the meeting. Since the Paris deal to cut emissions, CO2 has actually been rising - although there's currently a blip in the trend thanks to the Covid recession.\n\nThe development charity CARE says it's alarmed that public finance provided from rich countries to developing countries to adapt to inevitable climate change actually decreased in 2018.\n\nSven Harmeling from CARE said: \"If governments fail to make their economic stimulus sustainable and equitable, they will drive our planet much deeper into the existential economic, social and ecological turmoil caused by the climate crisis.\"\n\nThe EU is already set on delivering a green stimulus. The Commission's Green Deal chief, Frans Timmermans, said every euro spent on economic recovery measures after the COVID-19 crisis would be linked to the green and digital transitions.\n\n\"The European Green Deal is a growth strategy and a winning strategy,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"It's not a luxury we drop when we hit another crisis. It is essential for Europe's future.\n\nMeanwhile, China appears set on its current carbon-intensive development path, and President Trump says the US will rescue struggling fossil fuel firms.\n\nEven in Europe there's a degree of push-back against the idea of a green stimulus .\n\nMarkus Pieper, an MEP from the centre-right German CDU party, told the magazine FOCUS that the EU's sweeping plan for investment in clean technologies would no longer be possible.\n\nHe said: \"The Green Deal was a gigantic challenge for an economy in top shape. After the corona bloodletting, it is simply not financially viable.\"\n\nBut the UK climate economist Lord Stern told BBC News: \"The immediate priority is the current Covid crisis – but then we have to build for the future.\n\n\"Timmermans is right and Trump is wrong. We should only be bailing out firms that are going to contribute to tackling climate change.\n\n\"They don’t have be be ostensibly clean tech firms at the moment – but they do have to be committed to cutting their emissions in line with international targets.\"\n\nThe high-level segment on 28 April can be followed live from around 3:10 pm here.", "Former BBC Watchdog presenter and campaigning journalist Lynn Faulds Wood has died at the age of 72.\n\nA statement from her family said she died peacefully on Friday, \"having suffered a massive stroke last night and a subsequent bleed on the brain\".\n\nThe cancer campaigner was best known for hosting the consumer investigation programme from 1985 to 1993, alongside her husband John Stapleton.\n\nShe was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer while working the show.\n\nFellow TV presenter and journalist Dame Esther Rantzen led the tributes, saying: \"I have known Lynn for many years. We made a series together which was huge fun but also very hard hitting, because she was such an impressive and courageous consumer journalist.\n\n\"She fought for the rights of vulnerable people doggedly and determinedly and she is a huge loss to journalism and to her friends and family. We are all devastated at this news.\"\n\nBBC Newsreader Sophie Raworth described Faulds Wood as \"the most wonderful, generous, kind friend\", while former Watchdog host and 5 Live's Nicky Campbell and LBC's Shelagh Fogarty also paid tribute to the \"groundbreaking\" broadcaster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by sophieraworth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJournalist and media commentator Roy Greenslade added he was \"saddened to hear of the death of one of the nicest people I ever worked with,\" describing her as \"a brilliant consumer writer.\"\n\nThe late broadcaster once appeared in an episode of French and Saunders as herself, and another comedian Rory Bremner noted on Friday how she had a great sense of fun and \"loved our Watchdog [impressions]\".\n\nFaulds Wood, who was born in Glasgow and grew up near Loch Lomondside, began her career working on stories and campaigns for newspapers including the Daily Mail and The Sun.\n\nShe then moved into breakfast TV, before helping to turn Watchdog into a primetime BBC One series.\n\nHer investigations on the ITV show World In Action helped to create the world's first evidence-based guide to symptoms of her cancer.\n\nIn an interview with Cancer World in 2006, the star revealed the BBC had turned down one of her programmes ideas, back in what she called the cancer \"dark ages\" of 1999, saying no one wanted to see the disease discussed during prime-time viewing.\n\nAfter getting the all-clear about her own cancer she felt able to tackle the topic head on in the ITV programme Bobby Moore and Me, which went out on the 30th anniversary of England winning the football World Cup.\n\nThe victorious captain died of bowel cancer in 1993 at the age of 51, but his wife Stephanie Moore gave her her first interview, saying \"she'd been waiting to talk about it\".\n\n\"She'd known that it was an unnecessary death,\" said Faulds Wood.\n\n\"Bobby had four years of symptoms and was told it was irritable bowel syndrome. In the programme I went through each stage in the cancer journey and showed what was wrong in the UK.\"\n\n\"I looked miserable on camera - and I was, because it was so upsetting,\" she added.\n\nShe spent the next few months answering 28,000 letters - \"a catalogue of human misery\".\n\n\"The TV company had never seen anything like it. That's when I decided to give up most of my TV work and concentrate on bowel cancer.\"\n\nThe broadcast journalist went on to co-found the European Cancer Patient Coalition in 2002, which she chaired for seven years, and also helped to set up MEPs Against Cancer - pushing the case to raise awareness of the disease in Europe.\n\nIn the mid-noughties she teamed up with Rantzen to present the BBC consumer investigation series Old Dogs, New Tricks, and later seriously considered entering politics in 2010, but decided to remain a campaigner.\n\nShe returned to Watchdog's new daytime series Watchdog Test House, alongside Raworth in 2014.\n\nTwo years later, Faulds Wood rejected an MBE, saying the honours system needs to be dragged \"into the 21st Century\".\n\nThe activist said she would be a \"hypocrite\" to accept the award for her work on consumer safety.\n\nHer nomination came after she chaired a government independent review into the UK's system for the recall of dangerous products which she feared had been \"kicked into the long grass\".\n\nShe later called on the government to do more to protect consumers from faulty products that can cause fires, in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.\n\nHer husband and son Nick were at her bedside when she died.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister says careful balances will need to struck for some work and schools to reopen\n\nThe lifting of the coronavirus lockdown is likely to be phased in Scotland - with some measures remaining in place into next year, \"or beyond\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said gatherings in pubs and at public events were likely to be banned or restricted for some time to come.\n\nAnd she said all pupils might not be able to attend school at the same time because of social distancing rules.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said Scotland was not yet able to begin to ease its lockdown.\n\nAnd she warned that the country will have to \"adapt to a new reality\" in the future - and that lockdown could have to be reinstated \"with very little notice\" if the transmission of the virus could not be controlled.\n\nShe was speaking as the Scottish government published a new document outlining the basis of an exit strategy from the UK-wide lockdown that has been in place since 23 March.\n\nThe paper did not set any dates for when the restrictions could begin to be lifted, and that even when it does start to be relaxed \"strong measures to sustain low levels of transmission will be required until either a vaccine or cure is developed.\"\n\nAnd it said Scotland will not be able to \"immediately return to how things were\", and would instead target a \"managed transition away from current restrictions\" while still suppressing the virus.\n\nIt said: \"We will need people in Scotland to continue to live their lives in ways that minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"So even as we lift some of the more restrictive measures, better hand hygiene and appropriate physical distancing will need to remain in place at home, on the streets and in the workplace.\"\n\nCountries worldwide have been taking measures to tackle the novel virus which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. There are now more than 2.6 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in 185 countries and at least 184,000 people have died.\n\nThe eventual lifting of lockdown in Scotland will be phased, with mass gatherings and the re-opening of pubs not likely until later in the process.\n\nThe Scottish government paper said: \"We are likely to require that gathering in groups, for example in pubs or at public events, is banned or restricted for some time to come.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon warned that the lockdown currently remained \"absolutely necessary to suppress the virus, protect our health service and save lives\".\n\nShe said it \"could take some time\" but \"ultimately we will come through this challenge\", and the publication of the paper was the start of a process that would evolve into a detailed plan in the coming weeks.\n\nMs Sturgeon said any talk of lifting the lockdown \"like the flick of a switch\" was \"misguided\", saying: \"A return to normal as we knew it is not on the cards in the near future.\"\n\nShe said Scotland would have to find a \"new normal\", which involved \"living alongside the virus in a form which keeps it under control\".\n\nAnd the first minister said it was impossible to know with certainty what the long-term impact of decisions would be, meaning a flexible approach will be needed.\n\nAt Wednesday's government briefing, Ms Sturgeon said a further 58 deaths of people who had tested positive for the virus had been recorded, bringing the total under that measure to 1,120.\n\nThe total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Scotland stands at more than 1,600 once those who died with suspected cases of the virus are included, with a third of the deaths happening in care homes.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said there were \"very encouraging\" falls in the number of patients in hospital and intensive care.\n\nThe Scottish government said work is to be carried out to study how \"physical distancing\" can be continued in schools, transport, businesses and recreation.\n\nThis could involve workplaces and classrooms being redesigned to make social distancing possible - which could mean that not all pupils are able to attend at the same time when schools begin to reopen.\n\nA return to normality is not within reach. That was Nicola Sturgeon's key message today - even when lockdown restrictions are being lifted, it will only happen gradually.\n\nSocial distancing is here to stay, perhaps until the end of this year, perhaps into 2021. We will need to adjust to a \"new normal\".\n\nMight that be different in Scotland compared to other parts of the UK? The first minister certainly reserves the right to take a distinctive approach if that's what the science suggests would work best.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon has previously told me she would \"ideally\" like to lift lockdown in line with other nations of the UK - not least to avoid confusing the public about what they can and can't do.\n\nThe Scottish government is not convinced the UK as a whole has found the right approach to international travel.\n\nIf restrictions on movement are to be lifted at home, they want the UK government to consider what restrictions might be required for those arriving from abroad.\n\nMany countries have already imposed quarantine or closed borders. Expect Scottish ministers to keep questioning what's being done at the UK border to stop new Covid-19 cases arriving through our ports.\n\nConsideration will also be given to having different measures in place for different geographical areas, sectors of the economy and groups of the population, although Ms Sturgeon said this may complicate messaging.\n\nThe paper said \"active surveillance\" of cases and work to trace and isolate people who have symptoms could be a key part of a post-lockdown approach to containing the virus.\n\nIt backs \"early and rapid testing to confirm cases\" and \"tracing of everyone a confirmed case has been in contact with\" - noting that \"increasing our testing capacity is a critical part of this challenge\".\n\nThe paper also said the Scottish government will continue to participate in a \"collective decision making process\" across the UK, but says \"on occasion, expert advice may point to different approaches reflecting the specific circumstances in each country\".", "Parliament is still on course to return on 21 April to debate coronavirus measures and authorise spending on the UK's pandemic response.\n\nIt will not be business as usual for MPs, with social distancing measures still likely to be in place.\n\nThe government needs to pass its Finance Bill, enacting measures in the Budget, which is due to get its second reading on 22 April.\n\nEfforts are under way to allow MPs to work remotely.\n\nThe hospital death toll has climbed to 10,612 since Parliament shut down for an extended Easter recess on 25 March.\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said that when MPs return, Parliament will fulfil its \"essential constitutional functions of conducting scrutiny, authorising spending and making laws\".\n\nAt the moment, MPs are due to debate a key piece of Brexit legislation, repealing EU free movement in UK law, on 21 April.\n\nThis will be followed by a normal programme of debates and votes on government legislation.\n\nIt is not known at this stage whether non-essential business will be put on hold - or to what extent MPs will have to change their normal working practices.\n\nAt the moment, 40 MPs must be present in the Commons chamber for a vote to take place, but this could be reduced so that party whips could effectively act as proxies for all their MPs, meaning fewer would have to attend votes, according to the Institute for Government.\n\nSuch a move would need a change to the standing orders, with the government bringing forward a motion which MPs would then agree to.\n\nOther changes to the way MPs work - and postponing non-essential business - could be agreed informally between Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and party leaders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Lisa Nandy says the government needs set out \"very clear plans\" to end the coronavirus lockdown\n\nSir Lindsay is keen to establish a \"virtual Parliament\" after successful experiments with video conferencing at select committees.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg has said plans for remote-working are being made.\n\n\"In these unprecedented times, technological solutions have already been implemented for select committee and options are being prepared for the Speaker, the government and other parties to consider next week,\" said a spokeswoman for Mr Rees-Mogg.\n\n\"It is important that we have a comprehensive solution that does not inadvertently exclude any members.\"\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said MPs must be able to hold the government's decisions to account.\n\nSir Keir said many areas had seen a \"gap\" between the announcement of policies and their implementation.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg will respond to a letter from Sir Keir in which he said Parliament must return so that it could \"subject government decisions and ministers to proper scrutiny\".\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support the government \"where it is right to do so\", but would also ask \"difficult and searching questions... where that is necessary\".\n\nThe principles of the government's lockdown exit strategy, the availability of coronavirus testing and personal protective equipment (PPE), and support for social care services, employees and businesses are among the issues he said must be discussed.\n\n\"We support the announcements of the government on many of these issues, but it is clear from MPs in many constituencies that there is a gap between the announcements and implementation,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr programme, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there were shortfalls in the government's support provisions, including for small businesses, and that Parliament's return would ensure that \"gaps and problems\" were resolved. \"We plan to be constructive, we want to help the government get this right,\" she said.\n\nMPs are still able to respond to and help their constituents while the House of Commons is on recess.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam Siddiqi recalls the murder of her 17-year-old brother Aamir\n\n\"It was a sunny day. I was in this incredibly great mood. Then my mum phoned me and that call changed my whole world.\"\n\nMiriam Siddiqi recalls the horror of 11 April 2010, the day her 17-year-old little brother Aamir was murdered at home in front of their parents.\n\nHis killers were two hit men who went to the wrong address in Roath, Cardiff.\n\nA decade on, police have appealed for information about \"Wales' most-wanted man\" in connection with the murder.\n\nJason Richards and Ben Hope were jailed in 2013.\n\nA third man, Mohammed Ali Ege, 42, from Cardiff, was arrested in India in 2011 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder but escaped custody before he could be extradited.\n\nThe hunt for him continues.\n\nPolice in Wales are still waiting to question Mohammed Ali Ege about Aamir Siddiqi's murder\n\nSouth Wales Police said Mr Ege has become one of \"Europe's most wanted fugitives\" and his face appears on the Europol website as law enforcement agencies from around the world try to return him to the UK.\n\n\"You relive the day it happened and, honestly, it doesn't feel like 10 years ago to us,\" said Miriam, 37.\n\nAamir Siddiqi was studying law and was also interested in politics\n\nIt was a sunny Sunday when she last spoke to Aamir, while she was on her way out to buy him lunch as a reward for his studying.\n\nShe said: \"It was just a really normal Siddiqi family morning. Everyone was happy, laughing and joking.\"\n\nBut the day turned for Miriam when she later got a phone call from her mother who was screaming - Aamir had been attacked. He was gone.\n\n\"It flips you upside down. There's nothing else I can say to describe how that makes you feel,\" Miriam said. \"This wasn't even my worst nightmare. I couldn't even imagine something like this happening.\"\n\nBen Hope and Jason Richards were convicted of murder at Swansea Crown Court\n\nIt later emerged Richards and Hope, who were high on heroin at the time, had gone to the wrong house for the fatal attack.\n\nThey had burst into Aamir's home in balaclavas, screeching and stabbing him in the hallway, with his parents trying in vain to fight them off.\n\nAlongside the grief for Aamir, Miriam said her parents were left with the trauma of the attack, adding: \"I think that's going to take a lifetime for us to try to heal.\"\n\nBut Miriam, who is a life coach, said her family focused on the positives of Aamir's life and constantly talked about the teenager, who had hoped to work in law and eventually politics.\n\nAamir with his mother and father, Parveen and Sheikh Iqbal Ahmed\n\n\"He gave us a lifetime-supply of happy memories,\" Miriam said.\n\n\"Obviously, there is immense sadness - we've lost him and he was the heart and soul of our family - but his memory is still very firmly in our everyday lives.\"\n\nHowever, the search for Mohammed Ali Ege, who escaped from custody at a New Delhi railway station toilet in April 2017, still hurts.\n\n\"Because it is still an open case it is an open wound and it does make it difficult for my parents to find closure,\" Miriam said.\n\n11 April 2010: Aamir Siddiqi is brutally stabbed to death at his house\n\nSeptember 2010: Police offer a reward of up to £10,000 in their search for Mohammed Ali Ege\n\nOctober 2011: Mr Ege is arrested in India on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, the extradition process begins\n\n1 February 2013: Jason Richards and Ben Hope are found guilty of murder\n\n12 February 2013: Both men are sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 40 years\n\nJanuary 2014: The men appeal against their sentences\n\nJune 2014: The Court of Appeal rejects their claim\n\nApril 2017: Police in India say Mr Ege, who is also accused of passport and identity forgery, was awaiting extradition but escaped after being taken to a court hearing\n\nDet Insp Stuart Wales of South Wales Police attended the scene on the day Aamir died and is now the senior investigating officer in the international effort to find Mr Ege.\n\n\"If the events of that day don't drive you forward, you're possibly in the wrong job,\" he said.\n\n\"Being there on the day and experiencing the immediate aftermath has given me a certain insight that maybe others may not have.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mohammed Ali Ege is wanted by police in connection to Aamir Siddiqi's murder\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information, anywhere in the world, to get in contact with the authorities.\n\n\"Allow us to do our job in locating Mr Ege and help Aamir's family to draw a line under this madness,\" he added.\n\nDI Wales remains \"confident\" police would catch Mr Ege, with an international arrest notification and a European arrest warrant still in effect.\n\n\"South Wales Police is not going to stop looking,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of Aamir's family - including his two other sisters, Nishat, 43, and Umbareen, 41 - Miriam appealed directly to the wanted man.\n\n\"You must be tired. You must be exhausted. And if you are feeling an ounce of exhaustion, can you imagine the turmoil my parents are going through?\n\n\"Please stop running so that my parents can get closure,\" she said.", "Churches have been empty since the coronavirus lockdown was imposed\n\nPrince William has said the Church of Scotland has \"reinvented itself\" in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nThe prince should have been at the kirk's general assembly next month in his role as Lord High Commissioner.\n\nBut the annual meeting of the church's governing body has been cancelled to help reduce the spread of disease.\n\nWith churches across the country closed for the foreseeable future, they have found new ways of reaching members, including online services.\n\nAhead of Easter Sunday the prince wrote to the Right Reverend Colin Sinclair, the outgoing moderator of the Assembly, praising the work of the Kirk in \"this extremely challenging time\".\n\nWilliam and his wife Catherine have also used new ways of keeping in touch with people\n\nIn his letter he says: \"As we approach Easter, I wanted to acknowledge how difficult a time this must be for the Church of Scotland and your ministries.\n\n\"You have had to close your churches at the very moment when you normally come together, and when your communities need you the most.\n\n\"It is heartening to see how the Church of Scotland, like so many other faith communities across the country, is re-inventing itself digitally to continue providing worship, support and guidance for your congregations.\n\n\"I have no doubt that this support, as well as other means of offering help, is hugely appreciated at this extremely challenging time, particularly by the elderly, vulnerable, those economically affected and of course those who have so tragically lost family and friends.\n\n\"I am sure that this continuing connection and support will be particularly welcomed this Easter weekend.\"\n\nIn his reply, Mr Sinclair said: \"As we approach Easter I was delighted to receive as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland a letter from Prince William, the Earl of Strathearn.\n\n\"His Royal Highness was due to be Lord High Commissioner at this year's General Assembly, before it had to be cancelled because of Covid-19.\n\n\"The Church of Scotland is sorry not to be able to welcome him back to Scotland, where he went to university, but we appreciate him taking time to write to us and are grateful for his interest, concern and support.\"", "Aah, the 2010s... Do you remember them?\n\nBack in that golden age when we were all still able to listen to music in bars, cafes, shops, stadiums, at the gym and (sometimes) even at the office.\n\nNow with the first Easter of the 2020s on lockdown, PPL and BBC Radio 2 can reveal the top 40 most-played songs, on UK TV and radio, of the last decade.\n\nDJ Scott Mills will countdown the list of \"absolute bangers\" - led by Adele and Bruno Mars, with three appearances each - on the station on Monday.\n\n\"The top 40 most-played songs are the sounds that radio producers and broadcasters have consistently played throughout the last decade and will evoke many memories for all of us,\" said Peter Leathem, boss of the music licensing company which compiled the chart.\n\nJeff Smith, head of music at Radio 2, added it's \"packed with universally loved, sing-along pop hits that really do stand the test of time\".\n\nThe new data suggests broadcasters mostly favoured songs by male solo artists, with 22 nods compared to 14 solo female tracks, while American stars outweighed home-grown performers by 18-14.\n\nBands and groups accounted for 12 of the tracks, while that most modern phenomenon of the \"collab\" yielded seven hits.\n\nAnd British outlets, it seems, also preferred to give airtime to songs released that decade (34 out of 40), with just a few from the noughties and Natalie Imbruglia flying the flag for the 1990s on her own, with Torn.\n\nRihanna, Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry all made the top 40, however that's the last you'll be hearing of that lot in this article. Because we're about to dip straight into the top 10, which features two Brits, two women and two Pharrells.\n\nThe top 10 most-played songs of the 2010s on UK TV and radio:\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by kingsofleonVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFirst up, pop pickers, is a song that you've almost certainly heard a wedding covers band butcher since its release in 2008.\n\nIt gave the Nashville guitar slingers their first UK number one, and their first Grammy win too, for best rock performance by a group.\n\nIn 2017, they told Radio X how they would one day explain the song's saucy lyrical content to their kids.\n\n\"It's Socks on Fire,\" said drummer Nathan Followill. \"Uncle Caleb's socks caught on fire one night when I was drying them out on the heater.\"\n\nUse Somebody, another track off their fourth album, Only by the Night, also made the top 40.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by CeeLo Green This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs many of you will have noticed, this is actually the broadcast-friendly version of the Atlanta singer's 2010 track, written in collaboration with Bruno Mars and several others.\n\nThe song, which was a dig at the music industry, ironically won him a Grammy award for best urban/alternative performance.\n\nBillboard reviewed it at the time as sounding \"as sunny as a '60s Motown hit and as expletive-laden as an early Eminem song\".\n\nCeeLo was last seen, or heard rather, performing as the monster on the surreal ITV show The Masked Singer.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe US pop-rock band topped the UK charts for the first time in 2013 with Counting Stars, which frontman and songwriter Ryan Tedder penned when he was trying to come up with something for Beyonce (who is notably absent from this chart).\n\nThe song's accompanying video has now been viewed well over 2.9 billion times on YouTube, making it the streaming site's 14th most-viewed video ever.\n\nNot enough music videos contain crocodiles these days, do they?\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 4 by MarkRonsonVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe second biggest-selling song of the decade - on streaming and physical sales - is also the second big royalty cheque on this list for the Mars man, and gives us our first Brit too.\n\nLondon-born US producer/DJ Ronson, and the Hawaiian singer bagged the Brit award for best British single for Uptown Funk in 2015, when it felt like it was never off the speakers, anywhere.\n\nFun fact: after its release though, they were legally made to credit The Gap Band as co-writers, due to the song's resemblance to the their 1979 party hit, Oops Up Side Your Head.\n\nBruno's other songs, Locked out of Heaven, and Just the Way You Are, also appear on the top 40.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Tonight's the night / Let's live it up\" sang B.E.P in their 2009 hit, and I'm sure we all intend to follow that advice if we're ever allowed out again.\n\nThe track was produced by superstar French DJ David Guetta and arguably saw them both at the peak of their powers.\n\nAfter singer Fergie left in 2015, the band went on to perform the song as part of a medley before the 2017 Champions League Final in Cardiff. However, the performance, which included fireworks, ran over time and forced the kick-off to be delayed by several minutes.\n\nFair to say they've had better nights.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 6 by justintimberlakeVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs well as singing the film Trolls' lead song, JT played the worrywart Branch in the DreamWorks animation.\n\nIn an interview with TheWrap, he said, like his character, he was pulling his hair out over the prospect of producing a hit for some colourful mythical creatures.\n\n\"This wasn't just like writing a song for a movie - it was writing a song for characters that are going to sing it in the movie,\" he said. \"That part had to work, and that's the part that made it a task that none of us had ever done.\"\n\nHe needn't have worried, as the song - which he debuted live at the Eurovision song contest - won the Grammy Award for best song written for visual media.\n\nHaving been released in 2016, this is actually the most recent track in the top 10, which is weighted in favour of older songs - because its surveying plays over a whole decade - and perhaps helps to solve the mystery of the missing Ed. Sheeran's stellar 2017 track, Shape of You, came in in 38th.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 7 by DaftPunkVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCombining the musical might of the French electronic duo, the US hip-hop star and the legendary guitarist, it was only ever going to end one way, wasn't it? Choon.\n\nStevie Wonder even added to the talent pool by joining them on-stage to perform the modern disco-hit at the 2014 Grammys, where it won record of the year and best pop group performance.\n\nIt topped almost every chart in the world, selling a million equivalent copies in the UK in just 69 days.\n\n\"When I think how it happened, too, with people who I like a lot, that we just decided to go into the studio and do something,\" Rodgers told the Official Chart Company. \"And then it turns out like this? It's absolutely remarkable, because no-one was prepared for this!\"\n\nWhile attempting to Get Lucky is very much against current government guidelines, dancing around your kitchen to that funky bass-line is not.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 8 by Maroon5VEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nMaroon 5 frontman Adam Levine attempted to brighten up one of the dullest Super Bowls in recent history by going topless as sang this ode to his hip-thrusting abilities, last year in Atlanta.\n\nThe 2010 track peaked at number two in the UK but topped the US charts, meaning Christina Aguilera became only the fifth female to score number one singles in three different decades, after Janet Jackson, Madonna, Spears and Cher. But it still wasn't enough for her to get invited back to the \"greatest show on earth\" to perform.\n\nIncidentally, last year, Sir Mick Jagger - the 76-year-old Rolling Stone referenced in the song's title - posted a video of himself dancing at home following heart surgery, to prove he still had his signature moves.\n\nThe Los Angeles band's other big hit of the decade, Payphone - featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa - also gets a mention in the top 40.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 9 by AdeleVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe opener from Adele's Brit award-winning second album, 21, was essentially her big comeback track following the breakthrough success of her debut, and also the moment she became a real star in the States too.\n\nThe gospel-tinged vibes of the pounding 2010 track saw her pick up three Grammys - record and song of the year, plus best short-form music video.\n\nThe visuals found her alone in an abandoned room which soon began to fall apart, like the relationship she was singing about.\n\nAfter Mark Ronson, the Londoner is the only other British-born artist (and second woman) to appear in the top 10... and he mostly grew up in New York.\n\nSomeone Like You and Set Fire to the Rain, from the same blockbuster album, also made the top 40 mix.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 10 by PharrellWilliamsVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSo there you have it! An upbeat and inoffensive top 10.\n\nThe appearance of Mr Williams' second ubiquitous earworm of the 2010s confirms there is no room at all at the top table for Drake, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber or Ariana Grande. Possibly as while they are popular with younger audiences, radio and TV has to appeal to a much broader listenership.\n\nHappy was another track written for an animated film; namely Despicable Me 2, and it fast became the eighth biggest-selling song in UK chart history.\n\nA live rendition of the song eventually scored the singer/rapper a Grammy, after he previously lost out in the best original song category to Let it Go, from Disney's Frozen. \"When they read the results, my face was... frozen,\" Pharrell told GQ magazine. \"But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to... let it go.\"\n\nWith Lucky and Happy enjoying great success, we look forward to seeing which of the remaining seven dwarves he'll name his hits after in this new era.\n\n(Joke... we know Lucky isn't one really).\n\nScott Mills presents the Most Played Songs of the Decade on Radio 2, at 14:00 BST on 13 April.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has been released from hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nDalglish, 69, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for treatment of an infection which required intravenous antibiotics.\n\nHe was routinely checked for coronavirus and tested positive despite showing no symptoms.\n\nThe former Celtic and Scotland forward is now recovering in self-isolation at home.\n\n\"Thank you for all of your well wishes over the last few days,\" said Dalglish. \"I'm delighted to be back home with the family after receiving brilliant care from the NHS, which we appreciate now more than ever.\n\n\"Marina and I would like to express our immense gratitude to the medical staff who cared for me and who continue to treat countless others throughout the country during an incredibly challenging period.\n\n\"We will now be in full lockdown for the recommended amount of time in order to protect the lives of others.\"\n\nDalglish won the Scottish league title four times at Celtic before moving to Liverpool in 1977. At Anfield his honours included eight league championships as a player and manager and three European Cups.\n\nHe was manager at the time of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, when 96 Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush at an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.\n\nDalglish helped ensure the club was represented at all of the fans' funerals and attended many of them in person. He and the 96 victims were awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in 2016.\n\nHe also won the Premier League as Blackburn Rovers manager in 1995.", "The deal represents the largest cut in oil production ever agreed\n\nOpec producers and allies have agreed a record oil deal that will slash global output by about 10% after a slump in demand caused by coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe deal, agreed on Sunday via video conference, is the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.\n\nOpec+, made up of oil producers and allies including Russia, announced plans for the deal on 9 April, but Mexico resisted the cuts.\n\nOpec has yet to announce the deal, but individual nations have confirmed it.\n\nThe only detail to have been confirmed so far is that 9.7 million barrels per day will be cut by Opec oil producers and allies.\n\nOn Monday in Asia, oil rose over $1 a barrel in early trading with global benchmark Brent up 3.9% to $32.71 a barrel and US grade West Texas Intermediate up 6.1% to $24.15 a barrel.\n\nShares in Australia jumped 3.46% led by energy exporters, but Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.35% on continued concerns of poor global demand because of the spread of the coronavirus.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented agreement because it's not just between Opec and Opec+... but also the largest supplier in the world which is the US as well as other G-20 countries which have agreed to support the agreement both in reducing production and also in using up some of the surface supply by putting it into storage,\" Sandy Fielden, director of Oil Research at research firm Morningstar, told the BBC.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Kuwait's energy minister Dr Khaled Ali Mohammed al-Fadhel tweeted the news, while Saudi Arabia's energy ministry and Russia's state news agency Tass both separately confirmed the deal on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"By the grace of Allah, then with wise guidance, continuous efforts and continuous talks since the dawn of Friday, we now announce the completion of the historic agreement to reduce production by approximately 10 million barrels of oil per day from members of 'OPEC +' starting from 1 May 2020,\" wrote Dr al-Fadhel in a tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlobal oil demand is estimated to have fallen by a third as more than three billion people are locked down in their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPrior to that, oil prices slumped in March to an 18-year-low after Opec+ failed to agree cuts.\n\nTalks were complicated by disagreements between Russia and Saudi Arabia, but on 2 April oil prices surged after President Trump signalled that he expected the two countries to end their feud.\n\nThe initial details of the deal, outlined by Opec+ on Thursday, would have seen the group and its allies cutting 10 million barrels a day or 10% of global supply from 1 May. Another five million barrels were expected to be cut by other nations outside the group such as the US, Canada, Brazil and Norway.\n\nIt said the cuts would be eased to eight million barrels a day between July and December. Then they would be eased again to six million barrels between January 2021 and April 2022.\n\nIndependent oil market analyst Gaurav Sharma told the BBC that the deal agreed on Sunday was \"marginally lower\", compared to the 10 million barrels per day that was originally announced on Thursday. Mexico had balked at making these production cuts, which delayed the deal being signed off.\n\nThen on Friday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Mr Trump had offered to make extra US cuts on his behalf, an unusual offer by the US president, who has long railed against Opec.\n\nMr Trump said Washington would help Mexico by picking up \"some of the slack\" and being reimbursed later, but he did not detail how the arrangement would work.\n\n\"Now a rehashed deal placating Mexico has resurfaced to calm the market, yet, look closer and the doubts surface,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\n\"The bulk of the output cuts are predicated on Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting 2.5 million barrels per day from agreed - and somewhat inflated - levels of 11 million barrels per day. More importantly, for most of 2019, Russia displayed very poor form in complying with previously agreed Opec+ cuts. So the market is unlikely to take the announced cut at face value.\"\n\nHe added that forecasts for a drop in demand in the summer appear to be \"dire\", with even the most optimistic forecasts pointing to a reduction of 18.5 million barrels per day.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"The announcement can stem the bleeding, but cannot prevent what is likely to be a dire summer for oil producers with the potential to drag oil prices below $20 (£16; €18).\"", "Paul McCartney holds a young Julian Lennon, with John Lennon in the background\n\nPaul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song Hey Jude have sold at auction for £731,000 ($910,000).\n\nThe anonymous buyer purchased the item for almost six times more than the £128,000 estimate.\n\nSir Paul wrote the 1968 hit to console the young Julian Lennon after the divorce of the boy's parents John and Cynthia.\n\nThe lyrics sheet was among more than 250 items auctioned to mark 50 years since the Liverpool band broke up.\n\nSir Paul often finishes concerts with an audience sing-along to Hey Jude\n\nSir Paul previously said: \"I was quite mates with Julian. I was going out in my car just vaguely singing this song, 'Hey Jules, don't make it bad…'.\n\n\"Then I thought a better name was Jude - a bit more country and western for me.\"\n\nA bass drumhead used in the opening concert of the band's first North American tour fetched £161,000 ($200,000) - four times its estimate.\n\nJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono's \"BAGISM\" drawing, featured in the couple's 1969 Bed In Peace documentary as part of their protest against the Vietnam War, sold for £75,000 ($93,750).\n\nWhile a script page for The Beatles' Hello, Goodbye music video, complete with drawings and ideas from Lennon, George Harrison and the Beatles' roadie Mal Evans, fetched £67,000 ($83,200).", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "Anyone who cannot leave home may be able to ask a trusted friend or volunteer to withdraw cash at any Post Office using a single-use voucher.\n\nThe Post Office scheme is being extended and offered to all banks, building societies and credit unions.\n\nIf the bank allows it, someone can ask for a one-time barcode sent via text, email or post for a stipulated amount.\n\nA trusted friend or volunteer can exchange the voucher for the cash requested.\n\nPreviously, only a named individual, such as a carer, could collect cash in this way on someone's behalf. Now any trusted neighbour or volunteer can do so.\n\nThe idea of the Payout Now scheme is to allow people who are shielded or self-isolating, mainly elderly, to maintain access to cash without having to hand over a debit card and Pin to somebody else.\n\nThey tell their bank exactly how much they want to withdraw from their account, up to a limit set by the bank, and allow a family member, trusted friend or volunteer to collect it on their behalf in exchange for the voucher.\n\nMartin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office, said: \"Being able to easily access cash is a vital service for older people and those self-isolating.\n\n\"[This] means they can access cash quickly and securely to repay someone for a helpful service like shopping, or simply manage their finances, providing peace of mind that cash can be securely sourced with the help of any trusted helper.\"\n\nA service that allows vulnerable customers to contact their bank and arrange to cash a cheque at a Post Office branch is also being sped up.\n\nUnder the Fast PACE system, the customer should contact their bank and check they can use the service. They would then write a cheque to \"The Post Office\", print the name on the back of the cheque of the person collecting it for them and sign that side too.\n\nThat individual can then collect the cash from a Post Office branch after their ID is verified. At its fastest, the whole process from the initial call to the cash being collected could take a day.\n\n\"Anyone collecting cash on behalf of another person must remember to practise safe distancing and should consider arranging with the recipient how the cash can be safely handed over - perhaps through a person's letterbox, for example,\" Mr Kearsley added.\n\nBoth schemes come with a warning that people should only use friends and volunteers who are completely trusted, they should only withdraw cash they really need, and they should not be put under any pressure to do so.\n\nThere have been reports of fraudsters offering to shop for people who cannot leave the home, but who steal any money they are given, or take money from accounts after a Pin is handed over.", "The UK has confirmed plans for an app that will warn users if they have recently been in close proximity to someone suspected to be infected with the coronavirus.\n\nThe health secretary Matt Hancock announced the move at the government's daily pandemic press briefing.\n\nHe said the NHS was \"working closely with the world's leading tech companies\" on the initiative.\n\nBut one expert who has advised the effort has raised doubts about it.\n\nThe BBC has learned that NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - will test a pre-release version of the software with families at a secure location in the North of England next week.\n\nAt present, the idea is that people who have self-diagnosed as having coronavirus will be able to declare their status in the app.\n\nThe software will then send the equivalent of a yellow alert to any other users who they have recently been close to for an extended period of time.\n\nIf a medical test confirms that the original user is indeed infected, then a stronger warning - effectively a red alert - will be sent instead, signalling that the other users should go into quarantine.\n\nTo report testing positive, the user would have to enter a verification code, which they would have received alongside their Covid-19 status.\n\nMr Hancock signalled that using the app would be voluntary, in the brief comments he made about it.\n\n\"If you become unwell with the symptoms of coronavirus, you can securely tell this new NHS app,\" he explained.\n\n\"And the app will then send an alert anonymously to other app users that you've been in significant contact with over the past few days, even before you had symptoms, so that they know and can act accordingly.\n\n\"All data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research.\n\n\"And we won't hold it any longer than is needed.\"\n\nHis reference to a tie-up with tech companies was a nod to Apple and Google, which announced on Friday that they were working on a software building block, known as an API, to make it easier for others to build contact tracing apps.\n\nNHSX was not aware of this project beforehand, but now plans to integrate the technology into its own product.\n\nIts system will keep track of handsets that came close to each other by recording when they detected each others' Bluetooth signals.\n\nOne benefit of using Apple and Google's API is that the NHS app will not have to employ workarounds to keep monitoring the signals even when the app is not active.\n\nPart of the reason Apple and Google say they developed their own idea was to ensure that iOS and Android users' privacy would not be compromised.\n\nTheir method is designed so that citizens can trigger and receive alerts without the authorities being notified of who was involved.\n\nBut one cyber-security expert who has been consulted about the app listed a series of worries about the project in a blog.\n\n\"I recognise the overwhelming force of the public-health arguments for a centralised system, but I also have 25 years' experience of the NHS being incompetent at developing systems and repeatedly breaking their privacy promises when they do manage to collect some data of value to somebody else,\" added the professor of security engineering.\n\n\"I'm really uneasy about collecting lots of lightly-anonymised data in a system that becomes integrated into a whole-of-government response to the pandemic. We might never get rid of it.\"\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Team - a private company also known as the Nudge Unit - is advising the government on how to encourage as many people to download and use the app as possible.\n\nNHSX believes more than half the population going outside needs to be using it for automated contact tracing to be effective.", "People are being told to stay at home as much as possible - despite the good weather\n\nThe UK has recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths, taking the total number of people who have died in hospital with the virus to 9,875.\n\nFor the second day in a row, more than 900 deaths were recorded in hospitals.\n\nThe latest figures come as the prime minister has told friends he owes his life to the NHS staff who treated him in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to spend the coming weeks resting and recovering and will not rush his return to work.\n\nMeanwhile the home secretary said she was \"sorry if people feel there have been failings\" in NHS protective kit.\n\nHer comments came after some NHS workers said they still did not have the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nSaturday's death toll, accurate as of 17:00 BST on Friday, are slightly down on the previous day's 980 deaths.\n\nHowever, spikes or dips may in part reflect bottlenecks in the reporting system, rather than real changes in the trend and these figures do not include those who died in care homes or the community.\n\nThe growth in the total number of new deaths has stalled in the last four days.\n\nIn some other countries that implemented lockdown, the numbers of reported deaths stopped growing about three weeks into lockdown.\n\nBut it is too soon to know for sure whether we have reached that point.\n\nThere have been reporting lags at weekends and it is possible that a bank holiday weekend will include deaths that go unreported until next week.\n\nThe government is urging people to stay at home over Easter to curb the spread of the virus, despite warm and sunny weather across parts of the UK.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, NHS England medical director Stephen Powis said: \"It is a bank holiday weekend, it is a time of year when typically we would be celebrating or getting together with relatives and close friends.\n\n\"But I'm afraid this year it has to be, for all of us, a stay-at-home Easter.\"\n\nPolice have issued more than 1,000 fines to people not following social distancing measures, according to early figures released at the government briefing.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs Council, said most people spoken to by officers had understood the rules but a \"small minority\" had refused to comply.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: Total crime in the UK has dropped but criminality \"continues to adapt\"\n\nAlso at the briefing, Ms Patel announced £2m to support domestic abuse services as she said anyone suffering during the lockdown would still be able to get support from the police.\n\nFor those people, Ms Patel said: \"Home is not the safe haven that it should be.\"\n\nAnyone in immediate danger should call 999 and press 55 on a mobile if they are unable to talk, she said.\n\nAbdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, was a married father-of-two and a consultant urologist. He died with coronavirus on Wednesday.\n\nThe home secretary also warned that while total crime had fallen during the lockdown, criminals were adapting.\n\nFraudsters had already exploited coronavirus with losses to victims exceeding £1.8 million and perpetrators of \"sickening online child abuse\" were seeking to exploit young people and children being indoors and online.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen has told the nation \"coronavirus will not overcome us\" and said \"we need Easter as much as ever\" in her traditional message marking the celebration.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock defended his warning that some NHS workers were using more PPE than needed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer had said it was \"insulting to imply frontline staff are wasting PPE\".\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC he was not \"impugning anyone who works for the NHS\", saying, \"They do an amazing job.\"\n\n\"But what I am reiterating, stressing, is the importance to use the right amount of PPE,\" he added.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said health workers treating coronavirus patients still did not have access to enough protective equipment.\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson is continuing to make \"very good progress\" as he is treated for coronavirus in hospital, Downing Street said.\n\nMr Johnson, 55, had three nights in intensive care before returning to a ward on Thursday.\n\nNo 10 said he was receiving daily updates and pregnancy scans from his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, and had been passing the time with films and sudoku.", "Residents have used home made vessels to carry their moos further from their windows\n\nA \"crazy\" town has come up with a unique way to fight lockdown boredom - by mooing in unison.\n\nEvery evening at 18:30 locals in Belper, Derbyshire, gather on doorsteps and lean out of bedroom windows for a two-minute cattle chorus.\n\nJasper Ward said the bovine bellow was a way to make staying in \"a little bit more bearable\".\n\n\"The crazy people of this town have taken to it like cows to grass,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC 5 Live, Mr Ward said he expected the project to last for a few days and end with him being \"ridiculed on social media\".\n\n\"But we're three weeks in and at six thirty there's a chorus of moos,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Ward believes hundreds of people join in on busy evenings.\n\nHis hometown, which also boasts a Mr Potato Head statue, has a quirky reputation, but he thinks matters may run a little deeper.\n\n\"I seem to have unearthed a madness that has only been complemented by this lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a pretty grim time, so if we can cast a little bit of silliness into the day, that's great.\"\n\nBecki Farrell said people in the town would talk about this for years: \"I'm really pleased he's done something anyone of any age can get involved with for a silly giggle.\n\n\"We love the community spirit in Belper.\"\n\nIsabel Kennedy has mooed since day one, and said: \"It's a great way to get the community together be part of something in these crazy and weird times. It's the highlight of my day.\"\n\nSome residents have used bagpipes, a saxophone and a didgeridoo to make their moo noises heard\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson has said he owes his life to the NHS staff treating him for coronavirus.\n\nIn a statement released by No 10, the prime minister, 55, thanked medics at St Thomas' Hospital in London, where he continues to recover after spending three nights in intensive care.\n\nIt comes as UK deaths from the virus are expected to pass 10,000 on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths, taking total hospital deaths to 9,875.\n\nMinisters are continuing to urge people to stay at home over the Easter weekend to curb the spread of the virus, despite warm and sunny weather across parts of the UK.\n\nPolice officers talk to two men who had been sunbathing in St James's park in central London on Saturday\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust - Britain's biggest charitable funder of scientific research - said the UK was likely to be \"one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in Europe\".\n\nSir Jeremy, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), also told BBC' One's Andrew Marr programme that a second or third wave of the virus \"was probably inevitable\" and treatment and a vaccine was \"our only true exit strategy\".\n\nHe said a vaccine could be available by autumn but it would take longer to ramp up manufacturing to the scale required to vaccinate many millions of people.\n\n\"I would hope we would get [that] done in 12 months but that is in itself an unprecedented ambition,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeremy Farrar: \"The UK is likely to be one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in Europe\"\n\nAsked whether he agreed with Sir Jeremy's analysis of the UK's death rate, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Different countries are at different stages of this cycle.\"\n\n\"What we have done with the advice that we have now set out to people, to stay at home, is precisely because we want to make sure that we have a flattening of the curve, that infection rates aren't going up, and ultimately people's lives are being saved,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"We are starting to see these measures work,\" he added, but said it was too early for them to be lifted yet.\n\nIn his first public statement since being moved out of intensive care on Thursday, Mr Johnson paid tribute to the medics treating him, saying: \"I can't thank them enough. I owe them my life.\"\n\nSpeaking as she led the government's daily coronavirus briefing on Saturday, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the PM needed \"time and space to rest, recuperate and recover\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said No 10 did not want to speculate about when the PM might leave hospital or be back at his desk, but a return to work \"does not look imminent\".\n\nHe said the prime minister was expected to rest and recover in the coming weeks, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab continuing to deputise - and to be in charge when ministers carry out a review of the lockdown measures.\n\nMeanwhile, a message posted from the prime minister's Twitter account wished the country a happy Easter, as worshippers marked the festival from home.\n\n\"This year across the country churches will remain closed and families will spend the day apart,\" the message said.\n\n\"But by staying home, remember, you are protecting the NHS and saving lives\".\n\nThe number of new deaths announced on Saturday was slightly down on the previous day's 980 deaths - but was the second day in a row the figure had been more than 900.\n\nAbdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, was a married father-of-two and a consultant urologist. He died with coronavirus on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, Parliament is to return virtually on 21 April to debate coronavirus measures, authorise spending and make laws.\n\nIt comes after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said MPs must be able to hold the government's decisions to account.\n\nThere've been so many grim milestones in this coronavirus outbreak but passing a death toll of 10,000 may prove one of the most shocking.\n\nThere are positive signs that the rate of infection is slowing, driven down by social distancing.\n\nBut the numbers dying every day may increase still further because some people who caught the virus three or four weeks ago may not survive intensive care now.\n\nThe scientists advising the government have long warned of this lag between measures to keep the public at home and a reduction in the daily death toll.\n\nThe expectation is that on current trends there will be a peak, perhaps in a week or two, though no-one can predict how long it'll take after that for the losses to fall to low levels.\n\nIt all depends on the public's response and so far officials say it's been overwhelmingly supportive.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma has admitted that \"more money needs to go out faster\" to businesses applying for emergency loans from the government.\n\nHe said 4,200 loans, worth a total of £800m, had been given to firms seeking cash to survive the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHowever, that is just 1.4% of the 300,000 enquiries that are thought to have been made through the scheme.\n\nMr Sharma said banks were working \"at pace\" to issue the loans, which are backed by the government.\n\n\"They've got people working over the weekend talking to customers, making sure that they can process these loans as quickly as possible,\" he told BBC One's Andrew Marr show.\n\nBut the former Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, later expressed worries about how few businesses had got money through the scheme.\n\nSpeaking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News, Mr King said the survival of businesses through the crisis was key to a quick economic recovery.\n\n\"The economy will recover quickly only if we can keep the businesses that existed at the beginning of it still functioning and still able to pick up the reins when the epidemic is over,\" he said.\n\n\"If we find so few business loans being granted, something has gone wrong.\"\n\nMr King said it was a mistake to close local bank branches that could have been able to function - with social distancing - to respond to the queries and claims of business trying to apply for coronavirus business interruption loans.\n\nEarlier this month, the government overhauled the scheme in response to claims that banks were taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nFollowing criticism from firms and MPs, the government banned banks from asking company owners to guarantee loans with their own savings or property when borrowing up to £250,000.\n\nIt also removed a requirement that businesses must have been refused a loan on commercial terms in order to be eligible for the scheme after firms complained of facing interest rates of up to 30% and being asked to make unreasonable personal guarantees.\n\nMr Sharma told the BBC that the changes to the scheme would make it more attractive. But he said there would \"no doubt\" be economic repercussions following the lockdown measures.\n\n\"I think it is absolutely vital we put the support in now so that, when we come out the other side, business are able to start very quickly.\"", "A \"number\" of residents at a nursing home have died during an outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nDr Stephen Illingworth from Edgemont View Nursing Home, on the outskirts of Bristol, said it had done \"everything possible to keep this dreadful virus out\" of the home.\n\nHe would not confirm the number of deaths, but said the home had been having an \"absolutely dreadful time\".\n\nPublic Health England said contacts of confirmed cases had been tested.\n\nThe home said in a statement: \"It is of some comfort to know that all of those who have died did so peacefully, in a place with which they were familiar, cared for by staff who knew them well and who cared for them as individuals.\"\n\nIt said it had followed public health advice, including closing the home to visitors and following infection control procedures.\n\nThe staff were continuing to use personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nDr Illingworth, a local GP and director of the home, said staff were \"struggling to deal with the impact of these deaths.\"\n\nHe described Edgemont View, in Oldland Common, as a \"close-knit and small care home\".\n\n\"This is tragic for those who have died and for loved ones.\n\n\"This is despite us taking all precautions and care. I know how badly the staff are feeling about this,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement, Public Health England South West and South Gloucestershire Council said they \"are working together with local NHS colleagues to support staff and residents of Edgemont View Care Home in South Gloucestershire following an outbreak of Covid-19 in residents\".\n\n\"Sadly a number of residents have passed away.\"\n\nThe statement added some staff and residents, who were deemed to have been close contacts of confirmed cases, were being tested.\n\n\"The home is currently closed to visitors, and staff have been given health advice about the symptoms of coronavirus.\n\n\"Staff will be closely monitoring residents and looking for symptoms such as fever, cough or difficulty breathing.\n\n\"If any symptoms are identified they will be referred for a clinical assessment,\" said the statement.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The gurdwara in Gravesend would normally be decorated for Vaisakhi\n\nCelebrations to mark one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar have been cancelled or postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nVaisakhi, which this year falls on Monday, commemorates the creation of the Khalsa, a collective body of initiated Sikhs.\n\nIn past years, thousands have gathered in the towns and cities that are home to England's largest Sikh communities.\n\nBut now gurdwaras have found ways to take Vaisakhi into people's homes.\n\nTwo of the biggest events that would have been held later this month were in London's Trafalgar Square, where more than 30,000 have gathered in past years, and Birmingham's Handsworth Park, where up to 100,000 people were expected.\n\nCelebrations in Leicester, Southall and Gravesend have also been brought to a halt.\n\nIn London, cultural advisor to the mayor, Manraj Singh Othi, said while Vaisakhi had brought together Londoners, Sikhs and non-Sikhs alike, public safety came first.\n\nThose feelings were echoed by the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras in Birmingham - and in Southall, west London, gurdwara general secretary Navraj Singh added: \"No event in the Sikh calendar should endanger lives.\"\n\nVaisakhi commemorates the creation of the Khalsa, a collective body of initiated Sikhs\n\nAt any other time, celebrations would have included colourful street processions, or nagar kirtans, and free food, or langar, as well as cultural activities including arts, crafts, entertainment and martial arts.\n\nBut this year, religious worship has moved online and the Sikh practice of offering food was set to be taken out to the community, as people self-isolated and stayed at home.\n\nIn Leicester, that initiative has been backed by the Leicestershire Police Sikh Association, which has been helping to cook and deliver meals, distributing between 300 and 400 meals to people each day.\n\nOffering free food, or langar, is a tradition in the Sikh faith\n\nMeanwhile virtual worship included prayers direct from the Golden Temple in Amritsar streamed by Sikh2Inspire, meditation and talks by Basics of Sikhi, and a digital mass prayer on Monday, organised by Digi Sangat.\n\nBut there have still been mixed feelings.\n\nIn Hayes, also in west London, volunteer Sundeep Kaur Gosal said she missed the vulnerable people she would usually help with her \"mind and heart\", while Nari Sohal, from Slough, who volunteers for the charity Swat, said: \"Life feels like it's at a standstill.\"\n\nHowever, as reports emerged that ethnic minority communities were being hit hardest by covid-19, Harjinder Panesar, chairwoman of Harrow Sikhs, said she was relieved events had been cancelled, adding: \"We can return next year when we have a vaccination.\"\n\nSukhjeevan Singh, from the Sikh Council UK, said special food production guidance compiled by the Sikh Doctors Association had been issued to gurdwaras during the pandemic.\n\nBefore the covid-19 crisis, gurdwaras already had \"langar-managers\" who had food hygiene training, allergen awareness, and food handling and hygiene policies in place, he added.\n\nHe said gurdwaras serving langar registered their facilities with their local authorities in a similar way to restaurants.\n\nStreet processions have been cancelled this year\n\nIn Gravesend, Kent, the gurdwara had expected about 10,000 people to celebrate Vaisakhi.\n\nNewly-elected president Manpreet Singh Dhaliwal said, along with the virtual prayers and food deliveries, the gurdwara had been taking langar to NHS workers in several hospitals nearby.\n\nGravesend priest Giani Amerjit Singh said it was to say \"thank you to all these people working on the frontline\".\n\nHardev Singh Sohal, from Liverpool's United Sikh Association and Guru Nanak Gurdwara, said: \"We believe the whole human race is one. We are all equal. Our religion believes in service and humanity. We help everybody.\"\n\nHe said all gurdwaras in Liverpool remained closed and this year he would be spending Vaisakhi at home with his daughter.\n\nCelebrations would usually include singing along with arts, crafts and other music\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "You may be wondering why the number of coronavirus-related deaths have been starkly different from country to country during the pandemic.\n\nWhen comparing statistics, it is important to remember that every country has had a different experience of the pandemic for a range of factors.\n\nJohns Hopkins University, which has been collating coronavirus data, says these factors include the relative testing regimes, demographics and healthcare resources of each country.\n\nIt says the mortality rate is “one of the most important ways to measure the burden of Covid-19”.\n\nThe university has been tracking mortality rate in the 10 worst-affected countries. It has done so in two different ways: per 100 confirmed virus cases and per 100,000 population.\n\nThe top three countries with the most deaths per 100,000 people are Spain (35.5), Italy (32.2) and Belgium (29.2), the university says.\n\nConversely, the top three countries with the most deaths per 100 confirmed virus cases are Italy (12.8%), the UK (12.4%) and Belgium (11.9%), it says.", "Doctors say they have had an increase in patients with serious eye injuries\n\nPeople doing more DIY during the coronavirus lockdown has led to an increase in serious eye injuries, a hospital has said.\n\nOxford Eye Hospital said it had seen an increase in injuries and people who needed operations.\n\nThe hospital saw six \"traumatised eyes\" in a week, but would usually see one no more than every two to three weeks.\n\nConsultant Stella Hornby said she thought the rise was due to people doing DIY jobs without eye protection.\n\nThe trust's clinical lead for Ophthalmology said: \"We're seeing patients with more serious eye injuries and people have needed operations to repair injuries and which could potentially result in sight loss.\"\n\nPeople have been urged to wear goggles and safety equipment when carrying out jobs in their homes\n\nThe eye hospital, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, urged people to wear eye protection while carrying out DIY or gardening.\n\nParents have also been advised to store household detergents and chemicals away from children.\n\nThe hospital added wearing glasses instead of contact lenses would also protect the eyes and reduce the chance of spreading coronavirus.\n\nDr Hornby said: \"Wearing glasses instead of contact lenses at the moment reduces the risk of contact lens-related complications, and reduces the need to touch your face.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reggie, 9, Smith, 8, Flynn, 5, and Bay, 3, just before they rolled their eggs down the stairs inside their house in Edinburgh\n\nChildren across Edinburgh have been coming up with ingenious ways to keep the tradition of rolling Easter eggs.\n\nDuring the coronavirus lockdown, some have opted for the stairs while others have used drainpipes, tubes or garden slides to create the required slopes.\n\nThe roll is a tradition in Scotland and in some other cities such as Preston, which had to cancel its annual event.\n\nIn Edinburgh, parents said their children's antics had caused passers-by to stop in the street to watch the fun.\n\nJohn Talbot, 50, helps his daughter, Alice, 13, roll eggs down a pipe to his son, Finnian, 10, at their house in Blackhall in Edinburgh\n\nLibby Talbot, in Blackhall, said she normally took her two younger children to church to paint and roll eggs.\n\nShe said: \"Instead we found a drainpipe behind the shed and went to my son's bedroom window on the second floor and rolled our eggs down that.\n\n\"My daughter was at the top and my son catching them at the bottom.\n\n\"They had a pulley system so managed to roll the eggs about a dozen times before they all ended up smashed on the ground.\n\n\"People walking past were interacting with us and shouting 'Happy Easter' and others were asking what we were doing, it created quite a storm.\"\n\nHarry Hurst, 7, and Anna Hurst, 10, roll their eggs on Easter Sunday down a chute\n\nJane Hurst, 42, from Edinburgh, said she normally held an Easter egg hunt for children in the street.\n\nShe said: \"My son is only seven and he just doesn't understand that the lockdown lasts longer than one day so he asked me on Easter Sunday if he could go get his friends for our egg hunt.\n\n\"He also kept asking when grandma was coming and I had to explain to him again that we can't have people to our house at the moment.\"\n\nThey used a chute to roll their eggs down.\n\nShe added: \"It was a disaster. They all smashed on the concrete but we did then have a laugh throwing the broken piece at each other.\n\n\"People passing our garden were chuckling at us.\"\n\nPaz Orbegozo, 9, stacked a table against the trampoline in her Edinburgh garden to create a slope for her and her sister Hope, 12, to roll eggs down on Easter Sunday\n\nAnnabelle Edmonstone, 4, about to throw a piñata filled with eggs out of her window on Easter Sunday\n\nRachel Cooney, 29, said her two-year-old son, Isaac, has enjoyed his Easter Sunday at their house in Drumbrae in the capital.\n\nShe said: \"He helped us roll his eggs down the chute in the garden and then we also rolled them down white piping we have in the house which we normally use to roll his toy cars down.\n\n\"My son thought it was fantastic so he was happy.\n\n\"It was just a shame he couldn't have his friends over but we managed to make the best out of an odd situation.\"\n\nArchie, 18 months, on Easter Sunday about to roll his eggs in his garden in Edinburgh", "The Pope read his message at an empty St Peter's Basilica\n\nPope Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter's Basilica.\n\n\"This is not a time for indifference. Because the whole world is suffering and needs to be united,\" the pontiff said in a message broadcast online.\n\nHe warned that the EU risked collapse and urged debt relief for poor nations.\n\nAround the world, services have been held in closed churches as millions of people have been told to stay at home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pope Francis: \"This is not a time for indifference\"\n\nThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church delivered his Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message behind closed doors amid lockdown measures imposed in Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic.\n\nSaying this year's \"Easter of solitude\" message should be a contagion of hope, he urged political leaders to work \"for the common good\", to help people live through the crisis and eventually resume their normal lives.\n\n\"This isn't a time for self-centredness because the challenge we're facing is shared by all,\" the pontiff said in a message almost entirely dominated by the effects of the outbreak, that has killed more than 109,000 people globally.\n\n\"Indifference, self-centredness, division and forgetfulness are not words we want to hear at this time. We want to ban these words forever!,\" he added.\n\nWithout citing any country, the pontiff also called for the relaxation of international sanctions and praised doctors, nurses and other workers who were keeping essential services running.\n\nThe Pope, who usually delivers the message to tens of thousands of people gathered at the square outside the basilica, expressed particular concern for the future of Europe. He warned that the European Union risked collapse if it did not agree on how to help the region recover.\n\nEU nations have been divided over how to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic, with wealthier nations including Germany and the Netherlands blocking some demands from Spain and Italy, the region's hardest hit so far.\n\nThe pontiff said it was \"more important than ever\" that rivalries that existed before World War Two did not \"regain force\", adding: \"The European Union is presently facing an epochal challenge, on which will depend not only its future but that of the whole world.\"\n\nSt Peter's Square has been sealed off as a lockdown remains in place in Italy\n\nAt his Easter vigil service on Saturday evening, the Pope urged people not to \"yield to fear\" over the virus, calling on them to be \"messengers of life in a time of death\".\n\nHe recalled the Biblical account of a woman finding Jesus's tomb empty on the day Christians believe he rose from the dead.\n\n\"Then too, there was fear about the future and all that would need to be rebuilt. A painful memory, a hope cut short. For them, as for us, it was the darkest hour.\"", "The Alan Kurdi, operated by German group Sea-Eye, has been refused entry by Italy and Malta\n\nItaly has ordered 156 migrants on board a German rescue ship off the western coast of Sicily to be transferred to another vessel and quarantined.\n\nThe migrants, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, must then undergo health checks, Italian officials said.\n\nThe German rescue vessel, Alan Kurdi, has been refused access to Italian and Maltese ports over coronavirus fears.\n\nItaly's transport ministry said the move was necessary because Sicily's health services were already stretched.\n\nAllowing the migrants to disembark from the Alan Kurdi ship, operated by the German humanitarian group Sea-Eye, would put too much pressure on the island's local authorities, Italy's civil protection chief Angelo Borrelli said.\n\nAs of Sunday, Italy as a whole had reported 19,899 coronavirus deaths and more than 156,363 confirmed infections.\n\nThe country reported 431 deaths over a 24-hour period - the lowest daily rise in more than three weeks.\n\nMr Borrelli signed a document on Sunday ordering the Coast Guard, with the assistance of the Italian Red Cross, to provide a ship \"in the next few hours\" to quarantine and test the 156 migrants near Italian territorial waters, local media report.\n\nNo decision has been made about the final destination of the migrants, who were rescued from small boats in distress off the Libyan coast, officials said.\n\nItaly has previously said that migrants rescued and brought to its shores become the responsibility of the European Union (EU) and should be fairly distributed among member states.\n\nSea-Eye has also called on EU leaders to find a more permanent solution to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.\n\nEarlier this month, the EU's top court - the European Court of Justice - ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic had broken EU law by refusing to take in refugees under an agreement to ease the burden faced by Italy and Greece.\n\nIn Greece, a number of migrant facilities were recently quarantined after residents tested positive for coronavirus. Aid groups have warned that an outbreak of Covid-19 at overcrowded camps - where sanitation is poor - could allow the virus to spread quickly.\n\nThere have so far been no confirmed cases of the virus in camps on five Greek islands, where roughly half of all EU asylum seekers live.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants in a Greek camp filmed the living conditions inside and the challenges of avoiding coronavirus", "There is \"emerging evidence\" to suggest coronavirus is having a disproportionate impact on people who are black, Asian and minority ethnic.\n\nResearch suggests that more than a third of patients who are critically ill in hospital with the virus are from these backgrounds.\n\nIt comes after Labour called for an urgent investigation into why these communities are more vulnerable.\n\nThe government said it was committed to reducing health inequalities.\n\nOnly 14% of people in England and Wales are from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to the 2011 census.\n\nHowever, the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that 34% of more than 3,000 critically ill coronavirus patients identified as black, Asian or minority ethnic.\n\n\"My father died on my ward\"\n\nDr John Chinegwundoh, 50, works as a consultant respiratory physician at Kingston Hospital in south-west London and has recently lost colleagues, and his 93-year-old father, to coronavirus.\n\nHis older brother has also recently tested positive for the disease.\n\n\"My dad was being looked after in my hospital, on my ward,\" he said. \"It was good that I could be there and hold his hand, explain things to him.\n\n\"But bad that I have to go back and carry on caring for people going through the same things.\"\n\nHe described his father Lawrence as a \"special, loving and gentle man who will be deeply missed by the Nigerian community\", and had been looking forward to his 60th wedding anniversary this year.\n\nDr Chinegwundoh said it was important the government tracked data about coronavirus cases by ethnicity so that \"lessons could be learnt for the future to support communities\".\n\nLabour said the disproportionate number of doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds who had died from coronavirus was \"deeply disturbing\".\n\nAmer Awan, 44, from Birmingham, recently lost his father Nazir to the virus after days in intensive care.\n\nThe grandfather-of-six, who was a leading businessman and philanthropist, was described by his family as a \"legend, the backbone of his community, a man who loved his city and gave so much back to it\".\n\nHe has implored the public to stay home and said his father had strictly followed social distancing advice.\n\n\"When you can't even hug your mother two hours after your father passes away, that pain really does affect you,\" he said. \"It hurts you so much.\n\n\"If you love your parents, your families, your friends, then please stay home.\n\n\"Appreciate the time you have with them because you never know when it'll be gone,\" he said.\n\nDr Chidera Ota, 25, is a junior doctor working in intensive care at Ealing Hospital in London - the capital is one of the worst affected and most diverse areas in England.\n\nAs a whole, 40% of people living in London are from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nDr Ota said some of her colleagues had bought their own goggles and visors because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and that most of her patients were from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\n\"Working on the front line is a worry, you're exposed to a lot of risk and you're concerned about masks running out,\" she said.\n\nCultural factors such as multi-generational households and reliance on places of worship and community centres could be contributing to the data, she suggested.\n\n\"Language barriers for people who can't speak English, especially when you can't say if you're in pain or short of breath, can have a huge impact,\" she said.\n\n\"Particularly when you can't bring a family member with you to hospital now to help translate because of the virus.\"\n\nShe added that underlying health conditions liked diabetes and high-blood pressure could also be a factor.\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, deputy director of the race equality think tank Runnymede Trust, said ethnic minority communities were over-represented among families living in poverty and over-crowded housing.\n\n\"They're also more likely to be in low-paid jobs or key workers - crucial transport and delivery staff, health care assistants, hospital cleaners, adult social care workers as well as in the NHS,\" she said.\n\n\"All of which bring them into more contact with coronavirus and so increase their risk to serious-illness and death.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Any death from this disease is a tragedy and there is emerging evidence to suggest that Covid-19 may be having a disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups.\n\n\"As part of a continuous effort to reduce health inequalities, the government will be working with Public Health England to look further into this and we will be releasing further details shortly.\"", "Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is commemorated on banners in Dhaka\n\nA former army officer convicted of killing Bangladesh's independence leader in 1975 has been executed.\n\nAbdul Majed was hanged in the capital Dhaka after his appeal for presidential clemency was rejected this week.\n\nHe was arrested on Tuesday after spending 25 years on the run for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.\n\nRahman - the father of the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina - was killed during a military coup in 1975, along with most of his family.\n\nHis death came just four years after Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan.\n\nMajed continued to live in the country after the coup but it is believed he fled to India in 1996 when Mrs Hasina was elected prime minister.\n\nHer government overturned a law protecting her father's killers from prosecution, and in 1998 Majed and a dozen other army officers were sentenced to death.\n\nBangladesh's supreme court upheld the verdict in 2009 and five of the killers were executed soon afterwards. Majed was arrested after returning to the country last month.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nSir Stirling Moss has been praised as a “true icon and legend” who lived an “incredible life”.\n\nThe world of motor racing has paid tribute following his death aged 90.\n\nMoss is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, even though he did not win the World Championship.\n\n\"I think it's important that we celebrate his incredible life and the great man he was,\" six-time champion Lewis Hamilton wrote on Instagram.\n\nHis former team Mercedes said they have \"lost a dear friend\", while rivals McLaren described him as \"a prodigious competitor and consummate gentleman\".\n\nMercedes driver Hamilton described his friendship with Moss as \"an unusual pairing.\"\n\nHamilton said: \"Two people from massively different times and backgrounds but we clicked and ultimately found that the love for racing we both shared made us comrades.\n\n\"I am truly grateful to have had these special moments with him.\"\n\nMoss won 16 of the 66 F1 races in which he competed from 1951 to 1961, and became the first British driver to win a home grand prix in 1955 at Aintree.\n\nHe claimed 212 victories in all categories before retiring from top-level motorsport in 1962.\n\nMoss retired from public life in January 2018 because of ongoing health problems, and is survived by his wife and two children.\n\n'We will never see his like again'\n\nThere have been a number of tributes from the world of motorsport for Moss.\n\nToto Wolff, principal of Moss' former team Mercedes, paid tribute to \"a larger-than-life figure in our sport.\n\n\"Most of all, Stirling’s career was characterised by an impeccable sportsmanship and in this he truly set himself apart.\n\n\"It is no exaggeration to say that we will never see his like again.\"\n\nFormer F1 world champion Damon Hill said \"no-one ever regarded Moss as anything less than one of the greats.\n\n\"He launched all the other careers of British racing drivers who went on to become world champions of which he was sadly denied,\" Hill told BBC Sport.\n\nMario Andretti, who won the World Championship in 1978, described Moss as his hero.\n\n\"Such a kind man beloved by everyone. He was a true giant in our sport and will be missed forever,\" Andretti wrote.\n• None From the archives: Stirling Moss at 70, from 1999\n\nBritish racing driver Paul di Resta said Moss was \"one of the kindest men I had even met,\" while compatriot Max Chilton felt Moss' \"charm held a room's attention\".\n\n\"He had a press on style on the track and in life. Remarkable man,\" was the view of another British ex-F1 driver, Martin Brundle.\n\n\"He had such great stories to tell, and it was a privilege to know him.\"\n\nThree-time F1 world champion Jackie Stewart, who came into the sport shortly after Moss' retirement in 1961, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He walked like a racing driver should walk, he talked like a racing driver, he looked like a racing driver and he set a standard that I think has been unmatched since he retired.\"\n\nFormer F1 team boss Eddie Jordan told Sky Sports that Moss was \"one of the greatest drivers ever. He was the one person that transcended the sport.\"\n\nAway from motorsport, former world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno said Moss had \"privately supported me over many years and will be greatly missed\".\n\nEx-England football captain and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker added: \"Sir Stirling Moss has reached life’s chequered flag, and what a race he drove. Wonderful driver and a lovely man.\"", "The home secretary has said she is sorry if NHS staff feel there has been a failure to provide protective kit for those treating coronavirus patients.\n\nBut Priti Patel said there were going to be problems during what she called an \"unprecedented global pandemic\".\n\nThe British Medical Association earlier said that NHS staff were putting their lives at risk when treating patients.\n\nThe health secretary said earlier that 19 NHS workers had died with coronavirus since the outbreak began.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, the home secretary said: \"I'm sorry if people feel that there have been failings. I will be very, very clear about that.\n\n\"But at the same time, we are in an unprecedented global health pandemic right now. It is inevitable that the demand and the pressures on PPE and demand for PPE are going to be exponential.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"The central challenge is one of distribution\"\n\nOn Friday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there was enough kit for everyone and unveiled a plan to address shortages.\n\nHe said the government was looking into how NHS staff who had died with the virus had been infected - adding that some may have caught it outside of work.\n\n\"But that doesn't take away from the bravery of every single NHS worker,\" he said, adding that his \"heart goes out\" to those who have died and their families.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"particularly struck at the high proportion of people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people who have come to this country to work in the NHS who have died of coranavirus\".\n\n\"We should recognise their enormous contribution,\" he added.\n\nSupplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) in London and Yorkshire are at \"dangerously low levels\", according to the BMA.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair, said doctors were being forced into a corner and faced \"heart-breaking decisions\" over whether to carry on without proper protection.\n\nHe said: \"This is an immensely difficult position to be in, but is ultimately down to the government's chronic failure to supply us with the proper equipment.\"\n\nA nurse at Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC he felt unsafe with the level of PPE he had been given.\n\nHe said shortages meant those working on wards with coronavirus patients were only being given a surgical mask and plastic apron, rather than a gown covering the whole body.\n\nLast week a nursing assistant who had been looking after coronavirus patients at the hospital died.\n\n\"We are scared because we are spreading the virus,\" he said. \"We don't deserve it and our patients even more.\"\n\nThe health secretary said 742 million pieces of protective gear had been delivered so far, saying: \"There's enough PPE to go around, but only if it's used in line with our guidance. We need everyone to treat PPE like the precious resource that it is.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was not \"impugning anyone who works for the NHS\" and \"they do an amazing job\".\n\n\"But what I am reiterating, stressing, is the importance to use the right amount of PPE,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"insulting to imply frontline staff are wasting PPE\" and the government \"must act\" to ensure sufficient supplies are delivered.\n\nFor several weeks, the government and NHS leaders have insisted there are enough stocks of personal protective equipment (PPE) and that the problem lay in the distribution from warehouses to the front line.\n\nSome hospitals have reported receiving higher consignments of gloves, masks, gowns and aprons. But doctors and nurses have continued to report shortages.\n\nCare homes, pharmacies, GP practices and community health teams feel they are at the back of the queue for equipment to protect staff who may come into contact with patients who have Covid-19.\n\nThere has also been confusion over how safety guidelines should apply.\n\nNow Matt Hancock has admitted there are global supply problems and says it is a \"herculean effort\" to get deliveries to health workers and a \"huge task\" to keep it going. He set out a series of measures to step up provision of equipment.\n\nHe may be given credit for acknowledging the scale of the problem. But NHS and care staff won't take much notice of plans until they are reflected in reality on the ground.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dismissed any suggestion that healthcare staff have been overusing PPE.\n\nRCN chief executive Dame Donna Kinnair told the BBC no PPE was \"more precious a resource than a healthcare worker's life, a nurse's life, a doctor's life\".\n\n\"I take offence, actually, that we are saying that healthcare workers are abusing or overusing PPE,\" she told BBC Breakfast, adding that nurses were still telling her they did not have adequate supply of protective equipment.\n\nMeanwhile, the business organisation Make It British said the government had not yet taken up offers from some firms to help manufacture PPE.\n\nThe group said at least 100 companies had responded to an appeal for help four weeks ago but had heard nothing since.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A Paisley man who is recovering from coronavirus has called on young people not to underestimate the impact the virus can have.\n\nCalum Wishart said when news of the pandemic first broke his \"naive arrogance\" led him to believe he would be OK because he is only 25 years old.\n\nBut within days of the lockdown Mr Wishart started displaying symptoms of the virus and was taken to hospital.\n\nHe described it as \"the most horrendous experience\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, he said: \"I had the completely wrong attitude.\n\n\"I would not say I was hugging strangers or anything like that, I think I just underestimated the real impact of it.\n\n\"I had the perspective that because I was young it would not affect me, that it would be like a kind of flu.\"\n\nMr Wishart was taken to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties and other symptoms of coronavirus\n\nMr Wishart said he had a \"massive dose of reality\" when the gravity of his situation became clear after being rushed to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and put on oxygen.\n\nHe continued: \"It started off as a slight fever and from there it escalated.\n\n\"The next few days was just on and off oxygen and not being able to do anything.\"\n\nThe loss of his freedom of movement was the biggest impact and now, out of hospital and into self-isolation, he is using his time to try and make younger people aware that coronavirus can strike anyone.\n\nNow out of hospital, Mr Wishart is recovering from his experience in self isolation", "Medical staff take notes as they check people's temperature on the street as a precautionary measure against the spread of coronavirus in Yemen.\n\nThe UK will send £200m in aid to help developing nations battle coronavirus.\n\nThe money will mean more help for refugee camps - including new hand-washing stations.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said boosting fragile health systems overseas would help prevent a \"second wave\" of infections hitting the UK.\n\nThe latest donation brings Britain's total contribution to the global effort to halt the pandemic to £744m.\n\nIt makes the UK one of the biggest donors to the worldwide fight against the virus, according to the Department for International Development (Dfid).\n\nBritain's funding will help install new hand-washing stations and isolation and treatment centres in refugee camps, and increase access to clean water for those living in areas of armed conflict, Dfid confirmed.\n\nThere will also be extra support for Yemen, where only about 50% of health facilities are operational, due to the country's ongoing civil war.\n\nThe UN has already warned richer countries that Covid-19 will \"circle back around the world\" in a second wave if they do not help poorer nations cope with the pandemic.\n\nOf the £200m in funding, £130m will go to United Nations agencies, including £65m for the World Health Organization (WHO), which is co-ordinating the global response to the pandemic.\n\nAnother £50m will boost the Red Cross in difficult to reach areas such as those affected by armed conflict, and a final £20m will help non-government organisations, including UK charities.\n\nMs Trevelyan said the funding would help stop a second wave of infections coming to the UK\n\nMs Trevelyan said: \"While our brilliant doctors and nurses fight coronavirus at home, we're deploying British expertise and funding around the world to prevent a second deadly wave reaching the UK\n\n\"Coronavirus does not respect country borders so our ability to protect the British public will only be effective if we strengthen the healthcare systems of vulnerable developing countries too.\"\n\nWHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: \"We are all in this together, which means protecting health around the world will help to protect the health of people in the UK.\"\n\nThe UK has already committed £250m in aid to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to rapidly develop a coronavirus vaccine, the biggest donation of any country.\n\nThe UK's latest donation comes after US President Donald Trump accused the WHO of being \"China-centric\" in its tackling of the pandemic, and said the US would take \"a good look\" at its financial contributions to the organisation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Tedros later dismissed Mr Trump's comments and called for an end to the politicisation of Covid-19.", "Tim Rogerson said he had a \"full house\" of coronavirus symptoms\n\nAbout half of A&E consultants and nurses at a major Welsh hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, a doctor there has said.\n\nConsultant Tim Rogerson, from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, appeared in a video on the Aneurin Bevan health board's Facebook page.\n\nDr Rogerson is self-isolating and said he had \"pretty much a full house\" of coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe health board area is one of the worst affected of the UK.\n\nIt includes Newport, the Gwent valleys and Monmouthshire.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nDr Rogerson said: \"We're probably up to around 50% of the consultant workforce at the Gwent in A&E, who have swabbed positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"And a similar percent in our nursing team - which is probably inevitable, but it is proving a challenge when it comes to staffing the department, when we are facing these numbers coming through.\"\n\nHe added: \"All staff on the various front lines are putting themselves into harm's way when we're dealing with patients who have coronavirus symptoms.\"", "New figures show that a further 24 people with coronavirus have died in Scotland, bringing the total to 566.\n\nThe Scottish government said 5,912 people had now tested positive for the virus, an increase of 322 from Saturday.\n\nIn total, 31,114 patients have been tested across the country.\n\nA total of 1,755 people were in hospital on Saturday with either confirmed or suspected coronavirus, 221 of whom were in intensive care.\n\nThis is down from 1,855 people in hospital on Friday, the first time there has been a fall in this tally since the start of the outbreak.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has cautioned against reading too much into the drop in numbers of patients in Scottish hospitals.\n\n\"It is too early to read anything into that,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nBritish motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90 following a long illness.\n\nHe is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, even though he did not win the World Championship.\n\nMoss retired from public life in January 2018 because of ongoing health problems.\n\n\"It was one lap too many, he just closed his eyes,\" said his wife Lady Moss.\n\nMoss previously spent 134 days in hospital after suffering a chest infection while on holiday in Singapore in December 2016.\n\nMoss' former team Mercedes said motorsport had \"lost not only a true icon and a legend, but a gentleman\", while 1996 F1 champion Damon Hill said Moss \"launched all the other careers of British racing drivers who went on to become world champions\".\n\nThree-time F1 world champion Jackie Stewart, who came into the sport shortly after Moss' retirement in 1961, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He walked like a racing driver should walk, he talked like a racing driver, he looked like a racing driver and he set a standard that I think has been unmatched since he retired.\"\n\nMoss won 16 of the 66 F1 races he competed in from 1951 to 1961 and became the first British driver to win a home grand prix in 1955 at Aintree.\n\nHe famously lost out on the F1 title in 1958 to compatriot Mike Hawthorn after vouching for his rival and preventing him being disqualified when he was accused of reversing on track in the late-season Portuguese Grand Prix.\n\nFour times a runner-up in the F1 drivers' championship, he was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1961 and was knighted in 2000.\n\nTogether with his fine F1 career, Moss was regarded as a motor racing all-rounder and racked up a total of 212 victories in all categories.\n\nHe was an outstanding rally driver and in 1955 set a new course record in winning the famous Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race around Italy.\n\nMoss was effectively forced to retire from top-level motorsport in 1962 after a crash at Goodwood left him in a coma for a month and partially paralysed for six months.\n\nHowever, he continued to race in historic cars and legends events until the age of 81.\n\nMoss is survived by his third wife, Susie, their son Elliot, and daughter Allison from an earlier marriage.\n• None From the archives: Stirling Moss at 70, from 1999\n\nThe British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) said \"no-one could have been prouder\" to be part of the organisation than Moss, who was its longest-serving member.\n\n\"In the history of motor racing, not just in his home country but also wherever he raced around the world, Sir Stirling held a unique status, which continued throughout his life, long after he retired from his front line racing career,\" said the BRDC.\n\n\"He was universally recognised, following the retirement of the great Juan Manuel Fangio in 1958, as the racing driver who set the standards by which all other drivers were judged, whether in Formula 1 or international sports car racing.\n\n\"His versatility and competitive instincts made him a formidable competitor in any race.\"\n\nMoss' former team Mercedes: \"Today, the sporting world lost not only a true icon and a legend, but a gentleman. The team and the Mercedes Motorsport family have lost a dear friend. Sir Stirling, we'll miss you.\"\n\nBritish former F1 world champion Damon Hill: \"He launched all the other careers of British racing drivers who went on to become world champions of which he sadly was denied, but I think no-one ever regarded him as anything less than one of the greats.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Lewis Hamilton: \"Today we say goodbye to Sir Stirling Moss, the racing legend. I certainly will miss our conversations. Sending my prayers and thoughts to his family. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nFIA president Jean Todt: \"Very sad day. Stirling Moss has left us after a long fight. He was a true legend in motor sport and he will remain so forever. My thoughts go out to his wife Susie, his family, his friends.\"\n\nFormer F1 world champion Mario Andretti: \"Just heard the very sad news my dear friend Stirling Moss has died. He was my hero and such a kind man beloved by everyone. He was a true giant in our sport and will be missed forever. My deepest sympathy to his devoted wife Susie. Rest in peace, Racer.\"\n\nBRDC president and former F1 driver David Coulthard: \"A truly great character and gentlemen who will be sorely missed by all who had the fortune of knowing him.\"\n\nFormer F1 team boss Eddie Jordan, speaking to Sky Sports: \"You say he's one of the greatest drivers not to win the world championship but actually he was one of the greatest drivers ever, you don't need to enlarge on that. He was all-powerful. He was the one person that transcended the sport.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeremy Farrar: \"The UK is likely to be one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in Europe\"\n\nThe UK is likely to be among the European countries worst affected by coronavirus, one of the government's senior scientific advisers has said.\n\nThe warning from Sir Jeremy Farrar comes as UK hospital deaths are set to pass 10,000 on Sunday.\n\nIn response, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said countries were on \"different trajectories\".\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital after being treated for coronavirus.\n\nOn the advice of his medical team, Mr Johnson will not immediately return to work and will continue his recovery at his country residence, Chequers, a No 10 spokesman said.\n\nHe had three nights in intensive care before returning to a general ward on Thursday.\n\nThe total number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK currently stands at 9,875, following a rise of 917 recorded on Saturday.\n\nThe figure does not include deaths outside of hospitals, such as in care homes or in the community.\n\nOn Sunday, a further 657 deaths were announced in England, 24 in Scotland, 18 in Wales and 11 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures have not yet been confirmed by the Department of Health.\n\nMinisters are continuing to urge people to stay at home over the Easter weekend to curb the spread of the virus, despite warm and sunny weather across parts of the UK.\n\nWellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the UK was likely to be \"one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in Europe\".\n\nCurrently Italy has the highest number of deaths of any European country - with more than 19,000 deaths - followed by Spain, France and the UK, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGermany has kept deaths below 3,000 so far.\n\nSir Jeremy, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the \"remarkable\" scale of testing in Germany had been key to keeping the number of hospital admissions for coronavirus lower than in the UK.\n\nSir Jeremy said testing allowed countries to isolate people with Covid-19, preventing them from transmitting the virus to others, as well as buying time for hospitals to prepare.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are lessons to learn from that,\" he added.\n\nThe UK government has said it wants to do 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April but has faced criticism for not increasing the number more quickly.\n\nSir Jeremy said a second or third wave of the virus \"was probably inevitable\" and treatment and a vaccine was \"our only true exit strategy\".\n\nHe said a vaccine could be available by autumn but it would take longer to ramp up manufacturing to the scale required to vaccinate many millions of people.\n\n\"I would hope we would get [that] done in 12 months but that is in itself an unprecedented ambition,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether he agreed with Sir Jeremy's analysis of the UK's death rate, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Different countries are at different stages of this cycle.\"\n\n\"What we have done with the advice that we have now set out to people, to stay at home, is precisely because we want to make sure that we have a flattening of the curve, that infection rates aren't going up, and ultimately people's lives are being saved,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"We are starting to see these measures work,\" he added, but said it was too early for them to be lifted yet.\n\nProf Keith Neal, emeritus professor in the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said it was likely the UK would have one of the largest numbers of coronavirus deaths because it had the second largest population in western Europe after Germany.\n\n\"The important figure is the death rate per million and not the total number of deaths. On this count Belgium seems to be heading for a serious problem like Italy and Spain,\" he said.\n\nThere have been so many grim milestones in this coronavirus outbreak but passing a death toll of 10,000 may prove one of the most shocking.\n\nThere are positive signs that the rate of infection is slowing, driven down by social distancing.\n\nBut the numbers dying every day may increase still further because some people who caught the virus three or four weeks ago may not survive intensive care now.\n\nThe scientists advising the government have long warned of this lag between measures to keep the public at home and a reduction in the daily death toll.\n\nThe expectation is that on current trends there will be a peak, perhaps in a week or two, though no-one can predict how long it'll take after that for the losses to fall to low levels.\n\nIt all depends on the public's response and so far officials say it's been overwhelmingly supportive.\n\nOn Saturday evening Mr Johnson paid tribute to the medics treating him, saying: \"I can't thank them enough. I owe them my life.\"\n\nA message posted from the prime minister's Twitter account also wished the country a happy Easter, as worshippers marked the festival from home.\n\n\"This year across the country churches will remain closed and families will spend the day apart,\" the message said.\n\n\"But by staying home, remember, you are protecting the NHS and saving lives\".\n\nAbdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, was a married father-of-two and a consultant urologist. He died with coronavirus on Wednesday.", "Border Force picked up 72 migrants in four vessels in Kent and Sussex\n\nFour boats carrying 72 migrants were intercepted by Border Force off the coast of Kent and Sussex on Sunday.\n\nThe first two boats were intercepted at 06:30 BST and were carrying 22 men and eight women, who identified as Iraqi, Iranian and Syrian nationals.\n\nThe third boat was intercepted three hours later with 13 men, who said they were Iraqi or Iranian.\n\nThe fourth vessel was carrying 25 men and four women, who identified as Iranian or Iraqi.\n\nAll individuals were being taken to Dover to be assessed for any medical requirements before their cases are considered.\n\nTony Eastaugh, the Home Office's director for crime and enforcement, said those facilitating illegal crossings were \"breaking the law\" and the UK would seek to return anyone with no right to be in the country.\n\nThe Home Office said those attempting to enter the UK on small boats were \"generally from France\" and that French police had stopped more than 90 migrants from \"risking their lives\" in the past two weeks.\n\n\"We are working around the clock each day with the NCA (National Crime Agency) and French law enforcement agencies to arrest and dismantle organised crime gangs in France,\" Mr Eastaugh said.\n\nExtra police patrols were being deployed on French beaches \"on a daily basis\", he said, as well as specialist vehicles, drones and detection equipment.\n\nThe Home Office said Border Force and all operational staff had personal protective equipment (PPE) available to them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Military personnel could carry out a range of tasks such as transporting patients between intensive care units\n\nNearly 200 members of the armed forces are being deployed to help ambulance staff battle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey will carry out tasks across Britain such as driving ambulances, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe military have already been helping the NHS by delivering protective equipment and helping to build London's NHS Nightingale hospital.\n\nMembers of the Royal Navy, the British army and the Royal Air Force will be sent to five NHS ambulance trusts.\n\nTheir responsibilities will vary depending on the area they work in, but they are expected to drive ambulances and take calls from the public.\n\nSome 80 military personnel will be sent to the South Central Ambulance Service in southern England, where they will drive emergency response vehicles, larger ambulances and work at the response centre to answer calls from the public.\n\nIn London, 21 medical personnel will help transport critical care patients between intensive care units; while Army engineers will help to maintain suction units used in ambulances.\n\nIn Wales, 60 soldiers have completed a two-day ambulance training course and will assist paramedics with non-clinical tasks.\n\nThe RAF is already assisting the Scottish Ambulance Service by using its Puma helicopters to take patients to hospital.\n\nMilitary personnel helped plan and build the NHS Nightingale hospital at London's ExCel centre, which was created in just nine days\n\nRAF Puma helicopters have been supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service transporting patients\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service will receive 37 personnel, who will assist with tasks including driving and logistics.\n\nThe group all volunteer as emergency responders in their free time and have previously trained with the service.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Our armed forces always step forward at the appearance of threats to the country and its people.\n\n\"Across the United Kingdom, soldiers, sailors, airmen and women have got the backs of our NHS colleagues as they confront coronavirus.\"\n\nMembers of 101 Logistic Brigade have delivered medical masks to St Thomas' hospital in London\n\nSoldiers from the Coldstream Guards have delivered testing equipment\n\nAs well as helping with the planning and construction of the NHS Nightingale hospital at east London's ExCel centre, the military are currently providing planning advice for the development of another four emergency field hospitals across the UK.\n\nSome personnel have also been trained to fill and deliver oxygen tankers to NHS facilities. Others have helped deliver equipment designed to test front-line NHS staff for the virus.", "Volunteers from a Covid-19 support group in Devon have been spending the day dressed as rabbits to deliver 800 Easter eggs to children in the area.\n\nJohn Hutchings, one of the coordinators of the Covid-19 Mutual Aid group in Holsworthy, Torridge, told the BBC they had initially asked children to hang up an Easter drawing on their window in return for an egg.\n\nThese eight volunteers have dedicated their Easter to putting smiles on children's faces Image caption: These eight volunteers have dedicated their Easter to putting smiles on children's faces\n\nBut with Waitrose, Morrisons and the local Lions Club donating so many eggs, the eight-strong group of volunteers has been giving them to all children in the area.\n\n\"Everyone is locked in their houses and we thought it would be nice to cheer the kids up at what is a pretty rubbish time,\" Mr Hutchings said.\n\nEmma Gliddon, from Holsworthy, said her three children were \"absolutely delighted\" to see the bunnies arrive with the delivery.", "Apollo 13's commander Jim Lovell selects music on a portable tape player while Jack Swigert naps off to the right\n\nImage enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail.\n\nFifty years ago, the craft suffered an explosion that jeopardised the lives of the three astronauts aboard.\n\nUnsurprisingly, given they were locked in a fight for survival, relatively few onboard images were taken.\n\nBut imaging specialist Andy Saunders created sharp stills from low-quality 16mm film shot by the crew.\n\nOne of the techniques used by Mr Saunders is known as \"stacking\", in which many frames are assembled on top of each other to improve the image's detail.\n\nCrewed by Nasa astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third American mission to land on the lunar surface. During the journey to the Moon, an explosion in the service module allowed some of the spacecraft's oxygen to leak out into space.\n\nFred Haise takes a nap. This before and after composite shows an unprocessed 16mm frame (L) and a multi-processed still image (R). Among other things, Mr Saunders had to correct the \"fish eye\" effect created by the camera's wide angle lens\n\nAstronaut Jack Swigert reported the accident to ground controllers with the immortal, and much misquoted, phrase: \"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.\"\n\nThe part of the Apollo spacecraft designed to return the astronauts through Earth's atmosphere after the mission - the command module (CM) - had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources for re-entry. The crew had to use the lunar module (LM) - also known as the lander - as a lifeboat.\n\nThe lander's life support systems were designed for two astronauts living for two days on the lunar surface. Experts at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, had to figure out a way to stretch its resources so that it could support three crew members for four days.\n\nA moment of levity amid the crisis: Lovell (left) and Swigert (centre) appear in good spirits\n\nLovell, Swigert and Haise looped around the Moon and back to Earth in a cold, damp module with limited drinking water. Luckily, the improvised plan to get them back was a success, and the three astronauts splashed down safely into the Pacific Ocean.\n\nDespite their grave predicament, the crew used a 16mm film camera to record scenes of life aboard the spacecraft. But the footage is of low quality by today's standards.\n\nIt is this footage that Mr Saunders used as the basis of his enhanced images, which reveal new insights into the crew's fight for survival aboard the damaged spacecraft.\n\nSwitches galore: Swigert (L) and Lovell (R) with a good view of the lunar module's control panel\n\nA composite panorama of the lunar module \"lifeboat\" shows Commander Jim Lovell's attempts at normality by selecting some music on a tape player, while command module pilot Jack Swigert takes a nap in the storage area.\n\nAnother, dubbed \"Happy crew\" by Mr Saunders, captures Lovell and Swigert in apparent high spirits.\n\n\"One striking thing about the 16mm footage is how calm the crew appear, given the grave nature of the situation, the conditions, and the critical mission tasks that lay ahead,\" Mr Saunders told BBC News. \"This perhaps belies their true feelings as we know that, in reality, the crew doubted if they would make it home alive.\"\n\nThe crew members are eating in the scene. The freeze-dried food relied on mixing it with hot water, but only cold water was available. Lovell later admitted he had eaten little in the days following the accident, losing 6kg (14lb) in weight.\n\nPanorama showing the dark, powered-down command module. Haise went to check it before the crew moved back in from their lunar module \"lifeboat\" for the final perilous stage of the mission\n\nA panorama of the dark, powered-down command module was produced from footage shot by Fred Haise when he went to check it out before the rest of the crew moved back in for the risky return through the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nIn an interview for a new Nasa documentary called Apollo 13: Home Safe, Haise recalls how damp it was in the CM. The astronauts had to wipe down the panels with towels because of a concern that the water could cause an electrical short that could lead to a fire. This would have been catastrophic in the spacecraft's enclosed environment.\n\nTwo concepts are important for understanding the technique used to process the images: signal - the parts of the image that are desirable to keep - and noise - the unwanted parts of the image. Mr Saunders started by stacking different frames of the same scene on top of one another.\n\n\"It all hinges on the principle that stacking images improves the signal-to-noise ratio,\" Mr Saunders explained.\n\nHe added: \"As the noise in each frame is truly random, then stacking multiple frames of the same scene on top of each other and averaging out the levels of each aligned pixel has the effect of identifying and reducing noise whilst maintaining signal (the signal will be present on all frames).\"\n\n(L-R) Lovell, Swigert and Haise sit together as they prepare for re-entry through Earth's atmosphere\n\nThis ultimately boosts the detail, along with overall image quality, making it more \"photo-like\".\n\nBut because he was dealing with moving pictures, Mr Saunders had to re-align multiple parts of the image, combining all the results into one final picture. These combined images are made up of more than 20 sections stitched together, with each section consisting of a stack of up to 75 separate processed frames, revealing the crew and spacecraft in unprecedented detail.\n\nUsing commercial software, he then enhanced the photos; adjusting the contrast, correcting the colour and removing some of the \"fish-eye\" effect resulting from the wide angle lens that was needed to capture events in such a confined space.\n\nMore restored images from the Apollo missions, including those from the Apollo 13, can be viewed on Andy Saunders' Twitter feed.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Chelsea and England goalkeeper Peter Bonetti has died aged 78 after a long illness.\n\nBonetti was described by Chelsea as a \"goalkeeping superstar of the 1960s and 1970s\" and \"one of our indisputably all-time great players\".\n\nHe was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad but was unused throughout the tournament.\n\nBonetti made seven England appearances and featured in the 1970 World Cup quarter-final defeat by West Germany.\n\nAs well as playing 729 times for Chelsea, Bonetti also had brief spells at American side St Louis Stars, Dundee United and Woking FC during a career which spanned more than three decades.\n\nOnly former Chelsea captain Ron Harris has made more appearances for the Blues and Bonetti held the record for the most clean sheets until January 2014, when Petr Cech surpassed him.\n\nHe played an important role in Chelsea's FA Cup final victory over Leeds United in 1970 and the club has described \"his superhuman attempts to thwart the opposition\" in front of a TV audience of more than 28m people in the UK.\n\nBonetti also won the League Cup in 1965 and the Uefa Cup Winners' Cup in 1971 with Chelsea.\n\nNicknamed 'The Cat' by former team-mate Ron Tindall, he was voted runner-up in the 1969-70 Footballer of the Year award.\n\nLater in life, Bonetti took up roles as a goalkeeping coach at Chelsea and England as well as working with Kevin Keegan at Manchester City, Newcastle United and Fulham.\n\n\"Peter Bonetti's position in the pantheon of Chelsea footballing gods is unassailable,\" the club's official website said .\n\n\"He was the Cat who broke the mould, defied the odds, drew the gasps, earned the cheers and got the cream. All in front of an adoring Stamford Bridge.\n\n\"All at Chelsea wish to send our heartfelt and deepest condolences to Peter's family and friends.\"\n\nFA Chairman Greg Clarke said: \"I am very saddened to hear that Peter Bonetti has passed away. Part of our 1966 World Cup-winning squad, he was not only a wonderful goalkeeper but also a hugely-popular figure in the English game.\n\n\"Of course, he served Chelsea to distinction over many years, and as a young boy I can remember watching his superb performance in their 1965 League Cup win against Leicester City. My thoughts are with his family and friends today.\"\n\nPeter Shilton, England's most capped player, also paid tribute to Bonetti. He wrote on Twitter : \"I was in the 1970 World Cup squad with Peter as a lad he was a hero of mine a tremendous player and a true gentleman. RIP Goalie.\"", "Adult social care workers in Scotland are to be given a pay increase.\n\nHealth secretary Jeane Freeman said she had reached a deal with councils to pay the workers the real living wage of £9.30 per hour.\n\nIt comes as a further 24 people with coronavirus have died in Scotland, bringing the total to 566.\n\nThere has been a slight fall in the number of people in hospital from Covid-19 but Ms Freeman said it was \"too early to read anything into that\".\n\nIn other developments from the Scottish government briefing:\n\nThe latest figures show that a further 24 people with coronavirus have died in Scotland, bringing the total to 566.\n\nThe Scottish government said 5,912 people had now tested positive for the virus, an increase of 322 from Saturday.\n\nIn total, 31,114 patients have been tested across the country.\n\nA total of 1,755 people were in hospital on Saturday with either confirmed or suspected coronavirus, 221 of whom were in intensive care.\n\nThis is down from 1,855 people in hospital on Friday, the first time there has been a fall in this tally since the start of the outbreak.\n\nThe new social care pay agreement covers all hours worked, including sleep-overs and personal assistance, with an agreement also in place on funding for sick pay in cases where workers are ill or self-isolating.\n\nMs Freeman said she has reminded NHS boards to ensure that social care workers are given access to key worker testing and that \"broad progress\" has been made, although \"there is still work to do\".\n\nThe health secretary said while ambulances have so far been used to transport people suspected of having Covid-19 to community assessment centres, the Scottish government is keen to free up those vehicles and crews.\n\nIt has received more than 100 offers of help from taxi companies and car hire firms to help take people to the centres, subject to social distancing guidelines.\n\n\"I am grateful to all the companies who have volunteered their vehicles and drivers to help our NHS,\" she added.\n\nAt the briefing Fiona McQueen, Scotland's chief nursing officer, added she has been \"bowled over\" by more than 16,000 doctors, nurses, midwives, and other medical professionals offering to rejoin the NHS to help tackle the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn addition, it was revealed more than 60,000 people have registered to volunteer for the government's 'Scotland Cares' campaign.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christians around the world have continued with Easter celebrations, experimenting with new forms of worship as many countries stay under lockdown.\n\nSome clergy have been preaching to cameras in empty churches as their congregation watch services online this Easter Saturday.\n\nBut in other countries traditions continued as normal, ignoring calls for tougher restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWorshippers gathered at a graveyard in Herasti, Romania, as part of traditional Orthodox celebrations on Saturday.\n\nLike many around the globe, this church in Quezon City, the Philippines, streamed its Easter Sunday service online.\n\nWith lockdown measures in place, many Christians watched services from their homes - including this family in Melbourne, Australia.\n\nPastors wore masks during Sunday worship at a church in the South Korean capital Seoul.\n\nBut in Belarus the government has ignored calls to impose stricter measures, prompting worshippers to attend a ceremony as normal at this Catholic church in Dvorets.\n\nMeanwhile social distancing rules are in place across areas of Germany. Clergy at a church in Oberhausen held their service in front of portraits of those unable to attend.\n\nA drive-through Easter event was also organised by a church in the US state of Massachusetts, where children dressed as chicks and rabbits.\n\nIn the Polish town of Zakopane, a priest sprinkled holy water on worshippers while driving by on a horse-drawn cart.\n\nThis priest gave blessings from the back of a van in the Chilean capital, Santiago.", "Mortuary suppliers have told BBC News they have no stocks of standard body bags left for sale, blaming the shortage on stockpiling due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNew stocks from overseas cannot be sourced for many weeks, they say.\n\nThe NHS says it currently has adequate stocks but health workers report having to wrap bodies in sheets.\n\nPublic Health England said the virus that caused Covid-19 degraded quickly after a patient had died.\n\nAnd there was no specific need for body bags to be used to transport these corpses, although \"there may be other practical reasons for their use\".\n\nBarber Medical, which has the NHS contract for mortuary supplies, said availability of zipped mortuary bags was a real problem and they could not be sourced anywhere.\n\nThe company has, however, increased the availability of polythene bags, known as body pouch bags, and urged any hospital or trust struggling with supplies to contact it.\n\nA major supplier to undertakers also told BBC News it could not get hold of body bags, because of stockpiling.\n\nNHS trusts and funeral directors were desperate for the bags and \"horrified\" by the official advice it was safe not to use them, it said.\n\nThe bags it sells are made in China but it said it took six weeks to ship them to the UK and air freighting them was prohibitively expensive.\n\nThe company has looked into making its own bags but cannot source the required plastic fibre.\n\nThe supplier also said it was unable to keep up with the desperate demand from funeral directors for personal protective equipment (PPE) and the whole industry was worried about how to cope with current death rates.\n\nWilliam Quail, managing director of mortuary supplies firm Mortuary Equipment Direct, has hired a team of people to sew between 150 and 200 body bags a day, but he said he was struggling to get the products to hospitals due to bureaucracy.\n\nHe said at £57.50 the bags were more expensive than those made in China, which he said cost £9.\n\n\"Dignity is the word,\" Mr Quail said. \"I don't think £57 would seem very much if it was your mother or father. I understand they are more expensive but what is a body worth to treat it with respect.\"\n\nOn Monday, Sally Goodright, a nurse in a west London hospital, wrote on Facebook, in a post later removed: \"We ran out of body bags but still the dead were arriving from the wards.\"\n\nThe GMB union says some porters have been told to transport the bodies of patients in sheets.\n\nHelen O'Connor, a regional organiser at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, said: \"We are extremely concerned about the psychological and physical wellbeing of our hospital members who are traumatised and struggling to cope with the impact of this pandemic.\n\n\"They are on the front line, doing the type of work that would distress anyone and increasingly dealing with death.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust denied there was a shortage - but did not dispute sheets were being used to wrap bodies, saying there were plenty of zippered body bags to get the hospital trust through the current period but under Public Health England guidance they were not always necessary.\n\nThe guidance says: \"Body bags are not deemed necessary but may be used for other practical reasons.\n\n\"Placing a cloth or mask over the mouth of the deceased when moving them can help to prevent the release of aerosols.\"\n\nBBC News also received a report from a worker at Watford General Hospital who said bedsheets were being used to wrap the dead.\n\nWhen the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust was asked if using bedsheets was appropriate, it responded: \"We're wrapping bodies in line with national procedures.\"\n\nBBC News understands an emergency stock of thousands of body bags held by emergency services will be made available to hospitals and funeral directors.\n\nAn NHS Supply Chain spokeswoman said it had an adequate stock of body bags and was expecting more to arrive soon.\n\nIndustry body the British Plastics Federation said UK plastics companies were stepping in to help provide equipment in high demand - but it had not received any requests for body bags.", "A group of motorbike riders made up of volunteers is helping vulnerable people who are self-isolating in Cornwall.\n\nBodmin bikers was formed in response to calls for help on social media.\n\nThe group has grown quickly and now includes a chef, mechanic and someone working for the emergency services.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: bbc.in/YourCoronavirusStories", "Pope Francis called on people to be \"messengers of life in a time of death\"\n\nPope Francis has urged people not to \"yield to fear\" over coronavirus, calling on them to be \"messengers of life in a time of death\".\n\nThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church was speaking at his Easter vigil service on Saturday evening in an almost empty St Peter's Basilica.\n\nMembers of the world's 1.3 billion Catholic community could follow a live stream of the service.\n\nLockdown measures are still in place across Italy, hard hit by the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte praised the Pope for his \"gesture of responsibility\" in marking Easter without a congregation.\n\nChristians around the world are celebrating Easter, the most important festival in the Christian calendar, despite the restrictions that have left hundreds of millions confined to their homes. Many priests are conducting services in churches without congregations.\n\nPope Francis recalled the Biblical account of a woman finding Jesus's tomb empty on the day Christians believe he rose from the dead.\n\n\"Then too, there was fear about the future and all that would need to be rebuilt. A painful memory, a hope cut short. For them, as for us, it was the darkest hour,\" he said.\n\nThe Pope's vigil was attended by only a couple of dozen people\n\n\"Do not be afraid, do not yield to fear: this is the message of hope. It is addressed to us today,\" he added.\n\nHis service, normally held in front of thousands of worshippers, was attended by only around a couple of dozen people. Several traditional features were also scaled back, including the baptism of converts.\n\nOn Sunday, the Pope will give his Easter Sunday address at a ceremony behind closed doors. Historically it has been given to crowds in St Peter's Square.", "Arkansas has yet to issue a stay-at-home order\n\nAfter coursing through New York and other cities, Covid-19 is now hitting small towns, in different ways. Here's a look at how one in Ohio and another in Arkansas have fared.\n\nWilliam Knapp, the head of a local health board in New London, Ohio, spoke about the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak in Huron County at a meeting in February.\n\nA few days later he came down with something. \"It started with a cough,\" his daughter, Sheri Gavalya, says. \"That hacking, dry cough.\"\n\nKnapp, 79, died of the disease on 29 March, adding to the state's grim toll: 65 dead from Covid-19.\n\nMs Gavalya, a 58-year-old nurse, is now worried about her own health. So are others in New London, a one-traffic-light town in the north-eastern part of Ohio. The governor, Mike DeWine, was one of the first in the country to issue a stay-at-home order, one he has extended to 1 May.\n\nMost New London stores are closed, making this sleepy town even quieter than usual. The silence, says mayor Toby Thomas, is \"kind of eerie\".\n\nIn Arkansas, the toll is sobering but not as bad as it is in Ohio and other states - there have been 625 cases in Arkansas, and 10 people have died.\n\nThe governor of Arkansas has decided not to issue a stay-at-home order.\n\nIn Des Arc, an Arkansas town of 1,800, an accountant named Ashley Parchman has been busy this spring. More people are filing taxes than usual so they can receive payment from an economic recovery package that was passed by Congress.\n\nShe arrives at her office at nine every morning, and stores are still open for business.\n\n\"Life has to go on,\" she says. \"I'm just trying to keep it as normal as possible.\"\n\nTwo small towns, with dramatically different experiences of the pandemic.\n\nMore than two months into the crisis in the US, it is helpful to look at how those in small cities and towns, a category that encompasses 30 million people, are facing coronavirus. Their lives reflect the larger story of a nation in the midst of a pandemic, with its churning mix of fear, disease and politics.\n\nThe hot spots of Covid-19 are New York, Detroit and other big cities. But small towns across the nation are going through their own wave of infection. Medical experts say the disease could be devastating in rural areas - many of the residents are elderly, living far from hospitals and clinics.\n\nThe severity of the outbreak in small towns is determined by a number of factors - towns in sparsely populated states such as Arkansas, South Dakota and Wyoming have been affected only slightly, while those in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, densely populated areas with big airports and busy interstates, are more likely to suffer.\n\nA century ago, people in the US also saw an uneven pattern of infection.\n\nMore than 675,000 people died of the Spanish flu here between 1918-20, but the fatalities were not spread evenly across the country. \"Some communities got lucky,\" says University of Michigan's Alex Navarro, who co-authored a seminal work on the 1918 epidemic. Some towns instituted social distancing or even set up barricades, but some simply had good fortune.\n\nAn ambulance in St Louis, Missouri, in 1918\n\nThe reasons for the disparity today among small towns - with those in Ohio feeling the effects more acutely than those in Arkansas - is still partly because of luck. But the way that people in small towns live is determined not only by geography. Politics plays a role, too.\n\nConservative Republican governors in a number of states, including Wyoming and Arkansas, have not issued stay-at-home orders, while most Democratic governors and some moderate Republicans have issued one. Governor DeWine of Ohio, a Republican, was one of the first to adopt a stay-at-home measure.\n\nPresident Trump recently extended the timeline for his recommendations on social distancing and other measures to contain the virus. Medical experts say these steps will help prevent the spread of the disease.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump had earlier downplayed the health crisis and said the coronavirus was like an ordinary flu.\n\nThe conservative governors of Arkansas, North Dakota and several other states underscored his message by choosing not to issue stay-at-home orders. Telling people to stay at home helps to contain the disease, but this measure wreaks havoc on the state's economy.\n\nThe result is two realities - people in New London and other small towns in Ohio are working from home or not working at all, trying to flatten the curve. In Danville, for example, a virtual funeral was held for a farmer, James Lee Colopy, 82, who died of heart failure, so family members would not risk infection.\n\nYet those in another swathe of the country live in much the same way as they did before. A Des Arc businessman, William Calhoun, who works in construction, says he is travelling less and spends more time with his dogs. But sales remain strong: \"It's not really affected us.\"\n\nTrains rattle through New London, a Midwestern town of 2,400 that is surrounded by grazing fields. On a normal spring weekend, locals stop for ice cream on North Main Street and go to church. These days, though, people are hunkering down.\n\nMs Gavalya, the nurse, has been in isolation, looking at old photos of her late father and fighting off her own \"flu, icky-like symptoms\". Her cough seems to have gone away, she says: \"I think I'm one of the lucky ones.\"\n\nWalking her dogs is the biggest delight of the day, says Sheri Thomas\n\nNot far away, the mayor, Mr Thomas, 68, and others are working from home. During breaks, he and his wife take walks, holding hands, with their terriers, Kiko and Hope, describing the outings as their \"delight for the day\".\n\nMeanwhile, in Des Arc, Arkansas, a state located in the southern part of the US, Ms Parchman, the accountant, goes to her office each day.\n\nA hardware store, one owned by the mayor, James Garth, 63, who also runs the town's funeral parlour, is open. A farmer and others in town say they are going ahead with their plans to build a gravel car park; as soon as the rain dries up, they will start clearing brush.\n\nDes Arc was named after a bend in the White River, a waterway once filled with steamboats. Local farmers grow rice, the state's main agricultural product, hunt deer and squirrel, and fish in the lakes.\n\nMost of the town's businesses, a bank, a used-car dealer and restaurants, are open, and the hum of activity provides a contrast to the empty offices in New London and other Ohio towns.\n\nSo far only one person in Des Arc has been infected with the virus, says Mayor Garth. The patient was quarantined and quickly bounced back, and the townspeople take pride in their ability to carry on.\n\n\"Even though the country's shutting down, we're still open for business,\" says John Guess, 26, a general manager of a dealership, Car City, who works out of two locations, one in town and another in Searcy, 30 miles away. \"We really haven't slowed down.\"\n\nMany of the merchants in town have changed the ways that they run their businesses, but only slightly. The restaurants offer take-out instead of table service, and bank tellers direct customers to a drive-through.\n\n\"People are just trying to be as normal as they how know to be,\" says Mr Guess, the car dealer. He adds, only half-joking: \"They're trying not to horrify the kids.\"\n\nOne of the coronavirus measures instituted in New London\n\nFarmer Harvey Joe Sanner, 77, says they made it through \"some pretty tough times\" in the past: as a boy, he picked okra till his fingers bled.\n\nWorking in farming construction, William Calhoun, 62, recalls crop failures and drought and says he almost went bankrupt - at least once. They are working hard to ensure that they and others in town get through this bad patch, too.\n\n\"We're taking it day by day,\" says Mr Sanner.\n\nHe and other Arkansans can move about freely and find a workaround for the disruptions in their daily lives.\n\nMr Sanner usually has breakfast at TJ's, a local restaurant, and works on a crossword puzzle, for example. On Monday, he picked up an order of sausage patties and drove to his mother's house instead. Gladys, who is 93 and goes by Tootsie, made coffee, and they chatted in her kitchen.\n\nThat morning was hectic for Mayor Garth, who has also made some adjustments to his life. He had a funeral early in the day for a death unrelated to the virus.\n\nThen he stopped by City Hall and headed to the hardware store. He and his employees are now showing up on alternate days, allowing for social distancing, and as a result they are all working harder when they are at the store.\n\n\"It makes us much busier,\" he says.\n\nStill those who work at the hardware store still have their jobs - unlike millions of others in other parts of the country furloughed or fired due to businesses being forced to close.\n\nAnd while the Arkansas governor has not issued a formal order, many of those in Des Arc say they adopted their own measures to keep working and stay safe.\n\nAt 31, Ms Parchman is not in a high-risk category.\n\nStill she says her views of the disease have changed: \"I thought at first it was a political thing.\"\n\nThese days, she feels uneasy. She still works in her office, taking calls, but otherwise avoids people, adding: \"I keep my door locked.\"", "Domestic abuse services are set to receive an extra £2m as the Home Office launches a new support campaign during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe additional money will \"immediately\" bolster helplines and online support, the home secretary announced.\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse helpline has seen a 25% increase in calls and online requests since the lockdown.\n\nPriti Patel also launched an initiative called 'You Are Not Alone' to help those experiencing domestic abuse.\n\nIt comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £750m package for charities during the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the extra funds will allow those most vulnerable to abuse to access support during periods when it might be difficult to communicate on the phone.\n\nPeople are also being encouraged to take part in the government's campaign by sharing a photo of a heart on their palm in their windows and on social media using #YouAreNotAlone.\n\nMartin Hewitt, National Police Chiefs' Council chairman, said 400 domestic abuse suspects were arrested in two weeks in the West Midlands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tara: \"I didn't care if I didn't wake up from the night before\"\n\nFrom next week, social media adverts will highlight where people can find help.\n\nMs Patel said: \"Coronavirus has opened Britain's enormous heart and shown our love and compassion for one another as we come together to help those who are most in need.\n\n\"I am now asking this nation to use that amazing compassion and community spirit to embrace those who are trapped in the horrific cycle of abuse.\n\n\"To help us all look out for those who need help, we have created a new campaign and we have created a symbol of hope - a handprint embossed with a heart - so that people can easily show that we will not tolerate abuse as a society.\"\n\nMr Hewitt added: \"To abusers, do not think that this is a time where you can get away with this. We will still arrest, we will still bring people into custody and we will still prosecute.\"\n\nMs Patel added that while perpetrators should be the ones to leave homes, the government will work to ensure there is refuge for victims and their children if this is not possible.\n\nMs Patel said anyone in immediate danger should call 999 and press 55 on a mobile if they are unable to talk. \"Our outstanding police will still be there for you,\" she added.\n\nThe campaign will also publicise the support available on the 24-hour freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline number - 0808 2000 247.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of national domestic abuse charity Refuge, welcomed the government's announcement \"at this critical time\".\n\nThe Home Office has launched a new domestic abuse awareness campaign.\n\n\"We have worked around the clock to ensure our national helpline and frontline specialist services remain open and accessible to women experiencing domestic abuse,\" Ms Horley said.\n\n\"What is needed now, more than ever, is to ensure every woman experiencing domestic abuse is aware of the confidential support available.\"\n\nMs Horley added that she hopes the campaign will reach \"the tens of thousands of people experiencing domestic abuse\".\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse helpline has seen a spike in calls, with campaigners warning the restrictions in movements as the UK tries to stem the spread of coronavirus could have heightened domestic tensions and limited escape routes.\n\nPressure on other services could also have contributed to the increase, campaigners said.", "Operations in Hart Island, which has been used to hold mass graves for 150 years, has ramped up.\n\nNew York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country, according to latest figures.", "Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 with coronavirus, his agent has confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThe entertainer, best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies, and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, died on Sunday.\n\nThe third member of the trio, Graeme Garden, said he was \"terribly saddened by the loss of a dear colleague and close friend of over 50 years\".\n\n\"He was a funny, sociable, generous man who was a delight to work with. Audiences found him not only hilarious but also adorable.\"\n\nOddie recalled some of the Goodies' sketches in his tribute tweet, adding: \"No-one could wear silly costumes or do dangerous stunts like Tim. I know it hurt cos he used to cry a lot. Sorry Timbo.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill Oddie Official This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Bill Oddie Official\n\nBrooke-Taylor's career spanned more than six decades and his comedic roots lay in the Cambridge Footlights Club, which he joined in 1960.\n\nMembership of the Footlights brought him into contact with both Garden and Oddie as well as future Monty Python stars John Cleese and Graham Chapman.\n\nCleese paid tribute by saying: \"Tim was one of my very oldest friends, and one that I used to love performing with. He did 'frightened' better than anyone...\".\n\nAnd another member of Monty Python, Eric Idle, revealed that his career was started in 1963 when he was auditioned by Brooke-Taylor for an annual comedy revue.\n\nBrooke-Taylor started his own broadcasting career on BBC radio, before forming The Goodies with Garden and Oddie and later becoming a long-standing panellist on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.\n\nA host of comedians have paid tribute to Brooke-Taylor on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Walliams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sandi Toksvig This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Rory Bremner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Susan Calman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Jack Dee, the current host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, said: \"It has come as devastating news to hear that Tim has succumbed to this dreadful virus - especially when we all thought he was recovering.\n\n\"Tim was a delightful man and never anything but great company. It has always been one of the great joys of my career to work with someone who was part of the comedy landscape of my childhood.\"\n\nOne of his biggest contributions to British comedy was co-writing and performing the famous Four Yorkshiremen sketch with John Cleese, Chapman and Marty Feldman, originally for the ITV comedy programme At Last The 1948 Show! The sketch later became a popular fixture of Monty Python's live shows, and was generally performed by Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.\n\nBill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor had a Top 40 hit with the Funky Gibbon\n\nAs part of The Goodies, he also enjoyed an unlikely pop career. At a time when novelty comedy songs regularly made the charts, the trio achieved five Top 40 hits, the biggest of them 1975's The Funky Gibbon - which they memorably performed on Top of the Pops.\n\nThe trio found international fame with The Goodies, becoming household names in Australia and New Zealand, with shows attracting millions of TV viewers.\n\nIn 2011, Brooke-Taylor was appointed an OBE for his services to entertainment, joining Oddie and Garden in having the same honour.", "Since the government announced the UK lockdown on 23 March, our streets, roads and public spaces have been changing.\n\nIn Yorkshire, once-gridlocked roads and motorways now run clear and normally packed shopping streets are empty versions of their former selves.\n\nMeanwhile, beaches and other public spaces are often deserted except for those enjoying their daily exercise.", "NHS staff on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic could develop anxiety, burnout, or post-traumatic stress disorder, the BBC has been told.\n\nPsychological first aid should be provided as the UK runs the risk of a \"future mental health crisis\", the British Psychological Society said.\n\nMinisters say NHS staff can call a helpline if they are feeling stressed.\n\nBut MPs say this is not enough and that the government should provide extra support to those feeling overwhelmed.\n\nThe cross-party group says any support should be extended to all front-line staff such as care home staff, mortuary workers and cleaners.\n\nIn a letter, MPs call for management in front-line organisations to put in place preventative measures like regular breaks, encouraging people to look after themselves and to tell people that it is \"OK to not be OK\".\n\nThe MPs and British Psychological Society also say professional help from psychologists and therapists needs to be easily accessible - so trauma can be dealt with early.\n\nFront-line staff in the coronavirus crisis are routinely exposed to things the general population would never encounter - loss of patients, illness of colleagues, high levels of stress and increased exposure to Covid-19.\n\nTrauma can leave some with insomnia, feeling disorientated, with a sense of guilt or even physical symptoms like shaking, headache, loss of appetite and aches and pains.\n\nSome people could see a deterioration of their mental health or develop anxiety or PTSD.\n\n\"We are running the risk of a future mental health crisis and a generation of burnt-out health workers,\" said Kathryn Scott, director of policy at the British Psychological Society.\n\n\"If we act now with a plan focused on prevention and leadership we can minimise the impact of trauma on responders to Covid-19.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: ''We share the concerns that this epidemic poses challenges to the mental health and wellbeing of all our health and care workers.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said NHS England had partnered with Headspace, UnMind and Big Health to offer \"free-to-use mental health apps for both NHS and care staff\".\n\nA £5m grant was also available for mental health charities to fund additional services for people who are struggling, the spokesperson said.\n\nDr Andrew Molodynski, a consultant psychiatrist and mental health lead for the British Medical Association, said: \"Health workers are used to seeing death, but we aren't used to seeing lots and lots of people die when we can't do anything about it.\n\n\"That will cause a lot of symptoms of anxiety, depression and trauma.\n\n\"I'm already seeing that in my hospital - staff are anxious and some are already off work because of the impact that has had on their mental health.\"\n\nThe all-party group of MPs has asked the government to encourage the NHS and care organisations to treat their staff with compassion, and signpost ways to get help.\n\nThe MPs also call for a focus on psychological first aid, developed for use in disasters like hurricanes or wildfires in the US.\n\nIt sees people at risk encouraged to seek help and support one another with stress before it becomes a serious permanent problem.\n\nSNP MP Lisa Cameron, who wrote the letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, said protecting the mental health of staff was \"essential\" - just like providing adequate protective equipment.\n\nMs Cameron added: \"If we fail to act now, front-line staff and communities will be living with the psychological consequences of coronavirus for decades to come.\"\n\nThousands of people in the UK have died after being diagnoses with coronavirus, including nurses, doctors, surgeons and other NHS staff.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "Robin Deane said he and his wife have been forced out of their home\n\nA couple who were self-isolating have had to leave their home after a car crashed into it.\n\nRobin Deane, 74, said he and his wife Carol, 66, were in the upstairs bedroom when the crash happened on Wednesday night, in a street in the Cashes Green area of Stroud.\n\nHe said it sounded \"like a bomb had gone off\" downstairs.\n\nPolice said the vehicle's occupants left the scene, but a man had since come forward to say he was the driver.\n\nThe house, in Hyett Road, has been structurally damaged, meaning tenants Mr and Mrs Deane could not get back in.\n\nThe crash has 'taken away' the downstairs toilet\n\n\"There's no downstairs toilet, it's been taken away,\" Mr Deane said.\n\n\"The supporting wall, supporting the floor upstairs is hanging down.\n\n\"There's a big split in the wall. Even the stairs aren't structurally safe because where they come up, it's on that wall.\"\n\nMr Deane said Stroud District Council had now provided them with a property nearby in Stonehouse.\n\nHe said the couple had been allowed inside their old house for an hour, to collect a few belongings.\n\nThe couple have been self-isolating to avoid contracting coronavirus since 27 February because Mr Deane suffers from a medical condition that affects his immune system.\n\nA spokesperson for Gloucestershire police said it was called at about 23:30 BST on 15 April and the vehicle occupants had left the scene.\n\n\"Extensive damage was caused to the property and no-one inside the house was physically harmed,\" they added.\n\nThey said a man contacted police on Thursday morning to say he was the driver, after an initial search using the force helicopter failed to locate him.\n\nThe man later attended hospital for treatment for injuries which are not believed to be serious, and enquiries are continuing, they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"The last month has been the hardest of my 35 years in pharmacy,\" said Dai Williams.\n\nHe runs two pharmacies in Rhondda in South Wales and while demand has increased massively since the lockdown, that's not been good for business.\n\nThat's because the wholesale price of medicine has shot up, cutting margins and putting financial pressures on.\n\nMeanwhile, longer hours and twice as many deliveries have meant higher staff costs.\n\nThousands of independent community pharmacies across the country are facing a cash crunch.\n\nThe net result could be closures, leaving communities around the country with no local chemists.\n\nWorking life for pharmacists has change considerably since the lockdown, said Dai Williams.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues have had to shut for a couple of hours during the day just to cope with the extra demands,\" he reported.\n\nThe biggest issue has been a sharp rise in demand for prescriptions.\n\nMaking up the medicine is already time-consuming, but currently takes longer because staff are wearing protective equipment.\n\nSocial-distancing has also had an effect.\n\n\"I have a member of staff going round to doctors surgeries to pick up repeat prescriptions, return to the pharmacy to dispense them, and then deliver them to vulnerable members of the community,\" said Mr Williams.\n\nThe number of deliveries has doubled since the lockdown from 40 to 80 a day.\n\n\"We have to cope with the extra work and stress, it's simply what we have to do,\" he said. \"But it's been tough,\" he admitted.\n\nPharmacies aren't cashing in from the extra business as many supply prescriptions at a loss.\n\nThat's because the NHS drugs tariff, which pharmacies receive for selling generic prescription drugs, is often lower than the prices suppliers demand.\n\nThat raises the prospect of heavy losses, especially for the majority of community pharmacies that make around 95% of their income from the NHS.\n\n\"Suppliers have increased prices since the lockdown,\" said Mark Burdon, who operates five independent pharmacies in Tyne and Wear.\n\n\"The price of paracetamol wholesale climbed from around 50p to £2,\" he said.\n\nThe ramp in the price of hydroxychloroquine - the malaria drug mentioned by Donald Trump as a possible Covid-19 cure - was even more dramatic.\n\n\"It used to cost us £2. Now it costs up to £32.49,\" Mr Burdon said.\n\nThe surge in demand and higher prices has left Mr Burdon's practices facing a drugs bill more than 50% higher in March than the previous month, which creates its own problems.\n\n\"We are effectively paid a couple of months in arrears by the NHS, and we have to pay suppliers before we get the money back,\" he explained.\n\n\"Pharmacies are geared up for that but not these sudden extra charges, which could cause huge cashflow problems for some.\"\n\nMr Burdon is one of the regional representatives of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.\n\nHe reckons the government should earmark emergency cash to help pharmacies stay afloat.\n\n\"The case has been proven for investment in the community pharmacy service as the front door to the NHS, supporting self-care and keeping people away from their GP or the hospital,\" Mr Burdon said.\n\nMeanwhile workers at pharmacies have reported a rise in aggressive behaviour from frustrated customers, with some reportedly even being forced to hire security guards.\n\nProblems became so severe in one area that they launch a local campaign urging patients to respect pharmacy staff.\n\n\"We were getting calls that staff were getting abuse from a small number of patients, such as banging on windows and shouting, with one member of staff even reporting being spat at,\" said Kath Gulson, chief officer of Community Pharmacy Lancashire.\n\n\"Problems began with the surge in prescriptions at a time when we faced reduced staff because some were forced to self-isolate.`'\n\nWith pharmacies shutting at times to catch up with prescriptions, plus restrictions placed on the amount of over-the-counter drugs that could be bought, some customers got very angry, she said.\n\nThey launched the \"Care for your pharmacy so your pharmacy can care for you\" campaign.\n\n\"We're just asking customers to understand the different way we have to operate now and support us so we can support the people that need us.\"", "Conservation groups say nature must be a cornerstone of economic recovery plans for the sake of people, health and economies.\n\nThe call comes amid fears of a \"spike in poaching\" as rural communities lose vital income.\n\nIn Cambodia, 1% of the entire population of one critically endangered bird was wiped out in a single event.\n\nThe Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said three of only a few hundred remaining giant ibis were poisoned.\n\nAnd more than 100 painted stork chicks were killed at Cambodia's Prek Toal Ramsar Site, the largest water bird colony in Southeast Asia.\n\nConservationists are noticing increases in hunting of protected species since the spread of coronavirus began to disrupt traditional economic and social systems in rural areas, said the WCS.\n\nThree giant ibis were poisoned in a nature reserve\n\nOnce widespread across Southeast Asia, the giant ibis is now confined to Cambodia, with less than 300 individuals left\n\n\"Suddenly rural people have little to turn to but natural resources and we're already seeing a spike in poaching,\" said Colin Poole, WCS regional director in Phnom Penh.\n\nConservation organisations need to be doing their utmost to support local people, he said. \"They're the last line of defence for these forests, these birds, these wetlands, and they're the people that need support right now so they have alternatives and they don't need to turn to natural resource extraction to survive.\"\n\nIn India, there have been reports of an upsurge in tiger poaching, while there are fears in Africa that the rhinoceros and other endangered species could be at risk.\n\nMatt Brown, director of the Africa region for the Nature Conservancy, spoke of a sudden decline in tourism revenue at some of Africa's key wildlife reserves and national parks as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"The concern is how do these areas maintain the effectiveness of their wildlife patrolling and security when about 50% of their planned revenue for the year has now dropped to zero,\" he said.\n\nAnd the closing of export businesses and manufacturing plants had put a lot of people out of work, which on top of the tourism drop was \"a double whammy\".\n\n\"There could be an increased direct poaching pressure on wildlife as a result of the downturn in the global economy,\" he said.\n\nFinance ministers from G20 countries are meeting this week to discuss economic recovery plans to address the impacts of the pandemic.\n\nConservation group Campaign for Nature, which includes experts from Asia, Africa and Latin America, is calling on ministers to include protection of nature in their plans.\n\nHugo van der Westhuizen, of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, said now more than ever was the time to re-evaluate the value of nature.\n\n\"Conservation cannot be built and maintained only on tourism income or donor funding,\" he said. \"Covid-19 is teaching us that we take nature for granted, together with clean water and air, and it seems we need to lose something before we realise its value. Nature cannot be recreated once it is gone.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has said he \"hated selling myself\" to party members during his recent campaign to become Labour leader.\n\nHe told the BBC's Coronavirus Newscast he found the experience of going up against party colleagues \"very odd\".\n\nHe added it was \"the same in all political parties,\" but he was \"much more comfortable\" in a decision-taking role.\n\nThe 57-year-old former lawyer defeated Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey on the first round of voting, with more than 50% of ballots cast.\n\nSir Keir has given both his former rivals posts in his shadow cabinet team, in keeping with a commitment he made during the campaign.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"You're in your own party and you're up against colleagues, and very good colleagues, who you like. And it is a very odd thing to do.\n\n\"I'm very glad that that part of it is over I have to say.\n\n\"For me personally, I really hated selling myself to the membership and I much prefer leadership decisions as leader.\n\n\"I'm much more comfortable in this than I am in the campaign.\"\n\nHe added that the coronavirus crisis now \"frames everything\" in terms of how the Labour party will conduct itself as an opposition party.\n\nHe said he wanted to be \"constructive\" throughout the crisis, adding the country would need a \"different kind of opposition because of the circumstances we're in\".\n\nLabour has backed the government's decision to extend lockdown restrictions for \"at least\" another three weeks, but has called on ministers to publish their strategy for easing the measures.", "A contact-tracing app could help stop the coronavirus pandemic, but 80% of current smartphone owners would need to use it, say experts advising the NHS.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Big Data Institute has modelled a city of one million people to simulate the software's impact.\n\nIf there is lower uptake, academics say the app would still help slow the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThey add that letting people self-diagnose the illness could be critical.\n\nThat means users would only have to answer an on-screen questionnaire before being judged to be at significant risk of infection. They would not have to speak to a health advisor or wait for a medical test result.\n\nThis would send a cascade of alerts to people they had recently been in proximity to, advising them to go back into self-isolation.\n\nThe experts say \"speed is of the essence\", and that delaying contact tracing by even a day from the onset of symptoms could make the difference between epidemic control and resurgence.\n\n\"There would be more people receiving notifications as a result of false warnings,\" explained Prof Christophe Fraser.\n\n\"But actually, it results in fewer days of people in self-isolation and quarantine, because the effect of suppressing the epidemic more quickly outweighs the risks in waiting for a test before the notification.\"\n\nThe over-70s have not been factored in, on the basis they would remain \"shielded\" by staying at home, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Oxford University academics are a mix of epidemiologists and ethicists advising NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - on what basis the contact-tracing app should be created. They are not involved in coding or designing the software itself.\n\nTheir model takes into account different age groups, household structures and movement patterns in an effort to try to maximise the number of people who could be allowed to freely move about once a contact-tracing app has been launched.\n\n\"We're looking at introducing the app towards the end of lockdown,\" Prof Fraser added.\n\n\"When you install it, it needs a few days to start recording data before it can be fully functional.\"\n\nThe group first published a paper about its work at the end of March.\n\nSince then, they have adjusted their model to take account of changing factors, including the fact that Covid-19's infection rate has been faster than they had anticipated.\n\nThey have also changed plans from using a system that relied on GPS location readings and scanning QR codes to one that exclusively depends on Bluetooth signals. This has been done to provide users more privacy, which in turn could encourage take-up.\n\nThe hope is that using the app, as well as other measures such as hand-washing and social distancing from vulnerable members of the population, will prevent a second peak in infections or the need for repeated national lockdowns.\n\nThe team estimates that 56% of the general population must use the app to halt the outbreak. Prof Fraser said that equated to 80% of all existing smartphone owners, based on data from Ofcom.\n\n\"That's a very ambitious target,\" the professor acknowledged.\n\n\"It's not something that would typically happen for a new app - even an incredibly popular one - but if we can explain that this is a public health intervention, that will be new and different.\n\n\"Some of my colleagues have... commissioned large surveys in multiple European countries including the UK.\n\n\"More than 80% of people surveyed said they were likely to or would install this app when it was explained in detail what it would be doing.\"\n\nEven if fewer people install the app, the team estimates that one infection will be averted for every one to two users.\n\nThe Oxford team suggests that use of the tool should be voluntary. However, this will pose a challenge.\n\nOn 20 March, Singapore became one of the first countries to deploy a voluntary contact-tracing app, TraceTogether.\n\nBut only about 12% of the population installed it, and after a spike in new cases the city-state introduced a lockdown on 7 April, which it termed a \"circuit-breaker\".\n\nTo further complicate matters, a small number of phones still in use in the UK do not support the Bluetooth Low Energy system required, making the target even harder to reach.\n\nProf Fraser said that officials were discussing giving smartphones to those without - or cheaper, wearable Bluetooth devices - in order to boost the number of citizens involved.\n\nNHSX is also keen to keep the app opt-in.\n\nBut some have already started exploring the implications of it becoming obligatory.\n\nInternet law expert Prof Lillian Edwards has drafted a law to safeguard citizens' rights that says:\n\nOthers - including the cyber-security expert Ross Anderson and AI entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee - have cast doubt over whether contact-tracing apps have any chance of success, and fear they could give \"false hope\" to politicians looking for a way out of lockdowns.", "Kerala has reported three deaths and more than 370 confirmed cases\n\nOn 12 March, a 33-year-old salesman disembarked from a flight from Dubai at an airport in southern India, feeling very sick.\n\nHe was suffering from the chills, dry cough and breathlessness.\n\nAirport officials quickly moved him to hospital in the city of Trivandrum in Kerala state, where they tested him for coronavirus.\n\nThen they put him in an ambulance and sent him home to his village in Kasargod district, some 564 km (350 miles) away.\n\nChengala is a cluster of four wooded settlements where 66,000 people live. Most are engaged in farming paddy and vegetables.\n\nMany others, like the young salesman, are among the more than two million people from Kerala who work outside the country, including in the Gulf states.\n\nWhen the man reached Chengala, local village council members immediately reached out and the local public health centre took down his details.\n\nThey asked him to isolate himself from his wife and three children. So the man began living alone in a shed outside his house.\n\nSix days later, his test came back as positive. By that time, he was already in isolation in his home. Later, he was taken to hospital, where he recovered. After returning home, the salesman is still living in isolation \"just for safety\".\n\n\"We were ready from the very beginning. We realised a storm was coming. So we began erecting our defences,\" Shahina Saleem, the president of the 23-member local village council, told me. These elected village councils are the lowest tier of governance in India.\n\nOver the last month, Chengala has reported 22 cases of Covid-19 infection and quarantined more than 400 people. Twenty patients have recovered in hospital and returned home. More than 370 samples have been tested at hospitals some 8km away. Results usually arrive in 48 hours.\n\nRoadside hand washing kiosks have been set up in the state\n\nThe local village council galvanised local health and community workers and opened a community kitchen to feed the people in isolation.\n\nThey have been providing free lunches for more than 1,200 people in the area - local residents and stranded migrant workers. Local health officers are making sure that villagers on medication get their pills on time.\n\nUsing a local helpline and two WhatsApp groups, the council encouraged local villagers to accommodate people who were in isolation and didn't have enough space for social distancing at home. Two-dozen families vacated floors and even homes for this. Everyone in isolation now has to observe a 28-day quarantine.\n\nKerala, many believe, has turned out to be a striking outlier in the battle against the virus in India. The world's second-most populous country has reported more than 9,750 cases and 377 deaths from the contagion so far.\n\nIn the beginning, the odds seemed to be stacked against the picturesque southern state, which is a major tourist location. In January, it reported the first Covid-19 case in India. The number of cases rose steadily, and it became a hotspot. Two months later, half a dozen states are reporting more infections than Kerala.\n\nKerala has porous borders, a large number of migrant workers, and a huge expatriate population who keep travelling back and forth and whose remittances oil the state's economy.\n\nMore than two months after the outbreak of the pandemic, the state has reported three deaths and more than 370 confirmed cases of the infection. More than 100,000 people remain in isolation, at home or in designated facilities.\n\nMany believe Kerala has flattened the curve at a time when the infection is on the rise all over India.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as these Indian policemen do a coronavirus handwashing dance\n\nTo be sure, the state has been alert and vigilant. It imposed a lockdown a day before the nationwide one, on 25 March. It did rigorous contact tracing, using detailed \"route maps\" of people coming in from abroad. It set up Covid-19 care centres in all districts to accommodate outsiders who were stuck and had been advised to isolate.\n\nHealth workers supported people with special needs and the elderly living alone. Counsellors made more than 340,000 telephone calls to personnel working in affected areas to counsel them on how to handle stress.\n\nIt's not that Kerala tested aggressively. Testing was bound strictly by and limited to federal protocols. More than a dozen labs are testing 800 samples a day.\n\nIndia's first Covid-19 case was reported from Kerala in Janurary\n\nBut, experts say, what really mattered in the end was Kerala's robust public health system, and a culture of thriving grassroots democracy with power devolving effectively to the village councils. This mainly helped in community outreach, rigorous contact tracing and mass quarantine. The Communist government released abundant information about the developments every day, analysts say.\n\n\"A strong game-changer was the decentralised health care system. And village councils took upon themselves to enforce and monitor mass quarantine with the consent of the people. The shutdown also helped,\" B Ekbal, a neurosurgeon and head of an expert panel advising the government on prevention of the virus, told me.\n\nEconomists like Jacob John believe that the devolution of power in Kerala - local government, community-driven village councils, vigilant municipalities - have helped the state tackle two consecutive floods and an outbreak of the vicious Nipah virus in the last three years.\n\nThe three-tier public health system, involving functioning government hospitals, is the result of a more than half-century long legacy of spending on healthcare. \"Kerala,\" says Dr John, \"has spent more on health and education than most Indian states.\"\n\nBreathless media reports of Kerala \"flattening the curve\" could be premature, officials warn.\n\nMigrant workers in Chengala are being supplied free provisions\n\nLike in the rest of India, much of the testing has been limited and delayed.\n\nMass screening with antibody tests has been delayed because about 100,000 kits which the state ordered haven't arrived yet.\n\nFresh cases haven't dried up completely. Kerala also \"got lucky\", as one doctor told me - the average age of infected people here is 37 years old, and the majority of them are Gulf returnees.\n\n\"It's not counter-intuitive. Some 70% of our Covid-19 patients have come from outside the country,\" says Dr Ekbal. This in a state where more than 12% of the population are over 60 years old.\n\nAlso, worryingly, Kerala has one of the highest rates of communicable diseases - one that spreads from one person to another - in India. A large number of people also suffer from diabetes, heart diseases, respiratory and liver diseases.\n\nThe summer monsoon rains, which begin in June, usually trigger a spike in diseases like influenza, dengue and scrub typhus. Fever is a common symptom in many of these diseases. \"This can complicate diagnosis. To make sure we don't end up facing a fresh wave of infections during the rains, we have to very vigilant during the monsoon,\" says a doctor.\n\nSuch heightened vigilance - controlling inflows of people across the border and isolating suspects - will come at an economic cost. The government has worked out a painstakingly detailed plan for the phased opening up of the state when infections stop.\n\nKerala has reported three deaths and more than 370 confirmed cases\n\nSo far Kerala has stuck to the script and done it well it, say analysts. Cases have slowed down, recoveries are high and the mortality rate is low. It helped that it had a smaller population (33 million) than many other states and also a highly literate one.\n\n\"We have won the quarter-final,\" says Sreejith N Kumar, a doctor. \"The semi-final would be a staggered easing up without a second wave of infection. And the final would be a return to normal life.\"\n\n\"Only then we can say we won the game.\"", "This video can not be played.", "The IMF has suggested the UK and the EU should not \"add to uncertainty\" from coronavirus by refusing to extend the period to negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nManaging director Kristalina Georgieva, when asked what she thought about the prospect of no trade deal this year and no extension to talks, told the BBC that because of the \"unprecedented uncertainty\" arising from the pandemic, it would be \"wise not to add more on top of it\".\n\n\"I really hope that all policymakers everywhere would be thinking about [reducing uncertainty]. It is tough as it is, let's not make it any tougher,\" she said.\n\nAsked specifically if she would advise an extension to trade talks, Ms Georgieva said: \"My advice would be to seek ways in which this element of uncertainty is reduced in the interests of everybody, the UK, the EU, and the whole world.\"\n\nThe IMF chief had expressed her backing for the deal struck by Boris Johnson's team last autumn, having warned then that a no-deal Brexit would hit the UK economy by up to 5%.\n\nThe UK government chose to put into law a refusal to trigger provisions to extend the Brexit implementation phase beyond the end of the year.\n\nThat means that without a deal, the UK and EU would trade on World Trade Organization terms, including significant new taxes and checks on trade, from the beginning of next year.\n\nNumber 10 says that remains the position.\n\nYesterday, both the UK and EU announced a curtailed timetable to carry out three negotiation rounds by video conference.\n\nMs Georgieva says she is now preoccupied with trying to find ways to help alleviate \"a global recession we have not seen in our lifetimes\", arising out of the pandemic.\n\nThe IMF chief, a former vice-president of the European Commission, also heaped praise on the UK Treasury and Bank of England's \"early\" and well co-ordinated economic response to the crisis.\n\nShe said: \"That very strong package of measures is helping the UK, but given the UK's sizeable role in the world economy, it's actually helping everyone.\"\n\nThe IMF is currently hosting a virtual version of its annual meetings with world finance ministers and bankers.", "Ministers are later expected to announce a three-week extension to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab will lead emergency Cobra committee and cabinet meetings about the continuation of social distancing measures.\n\nLabour has said it will support an extension, but also called for details on how and when the lockdown would end.\n\nMeanwhile, social care directors have said distribution of protective kit for carers has been \"shambolic\".\n\nThere have been 27 verified deaths with coronavirus among NHS staff, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed.\n\nOn extending the lockdown, Mr Hancock told BBC Breakfast he believed the government had been clear \"we think it too early to make a change\".\n\nHe said: \"We can see that we're reaching a peak, that is good news, but we can see that the numbers are not yet coming down, therefore we can't make a change.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that he did not want to put the \"good effort\" of the public to waste by ending the lockdown too early.\n\n\"If we just released all the measures now then this virus would run rampant,\" he said.\n\nThe health secretary is due to meet the first ministers of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales later ahead of making a formal decision on the lockdown.\n\nDuring Wednesday's daily press briefing, Mr Hancock said restrictions on movement were beginning to help reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has warned of a possible \"bounce\" in the numbers soon, due to delays in reporting deaths over the Easter weekend.\n\nHe said while the UK was \"probably\" reaching the peak of its epidemic, the high numbers of deaths were expected to continue for a \"short while\" longer.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson introduced strict curbs on life in the UK on 23 March, as the government sought to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nSince then, people have been allowed to leave home only to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil medical or care needs.\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, every three weeks.\n\nThe government - led by Mr Raab as Mr Johnson continues to recover from the virus - will detail the outcome of the first assessment at the daily Downing Street news conference later.\n\nAll the indications are that the UK is hitting the peak of coronavirus cases. The number of patients in hospital with coronavirus seems to be levelling out.\n\nThere are more than 10,000 beds on general wards available and another 2,000 spaces in intensive care - and that's before you count the capacity available at the Nightingale hospitals.\n\nIt is this headroom that prompted NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, to declare this week that it was \"increasingly\" confident the health service could cope.\n\nBut the government's advisers will be advising ministers that the lockdown should continue.\n\nThey fear any lifting of restrictions at this stage could undo the good work, and see a spike in cases that would gobble up that spare capacity and overwhelm the health service.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Breakfast he expected the lockdown to be extended for a further three weeks, and that the party would back an extension.\n\nBut he called for clarity from the government about \"what happens next\" and for a move to a \"testing and contact-tracing strategy\" to exit the lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"Last night the junior health minister Nadine Dorries was complaining on Twitter that people shouldn't be asking about an exit strategy because there's no exit strategy until we get a vaccine.\n\n\"Well that could be 18 months away so if the government are saying we're in lockdown for 18 months they probably need to tell us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinisters in Scotland and Wales have already said their lockdowns are set to remain in place, while Northern Ireland's Arlene Foster confirmed the NI lockdown will be extended until 9 May.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, 12,868 patients have died in hospital after testing positive for the virus in the UK, a day-on-day increase of 761.\n\nIn a letter to the Department of Health and Social Care, seen by the BBC, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said early deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) had been \"paltry\".\n\nIt described more recent deliveries as \"haphazard\".\n\nThe group said mixed messages from the government had created \"confusion and additional workload\", as the care sector struggled to cope with the virus.\n\nThe leak came to light after the health secretary launched a new supply network, including an emergency 24/7 helpline, to help get PPE to care home staff.\n\nCare providers have been calling for more testing and PPE for weeks, amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock displays a new \"badge of honour\" designed to recognise the work of carers\n\nThe Department of Health's statistics have come in for scrutiny in recent days. They do not include deaths in care homes - leading charities to claim the government was \"airbrushing\" the death toll.\n\nIn Scotland, new figures suggest a quarter of deaths linked to coronavirus have occurred in care homes.\n\nIn England and Wales there were 217 deaths in care homes by 3 April. That number is known to now be much higher. And 24 residents died after an outbreak at one care home in Staffordshire.\n\nAs part of new government guidelines, Mr Hancock announced on Wednesday that family members of dying relatives would be allowed to visit them to say their goodbyes \"wherever possible\".\n\nHe also promised anyone moving from hospital into social care would be tested for the virus to prevent care home outbreaks. However, critics have questioned the logistics of isolating people as they await test results.\n\nLabour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said few care home staff had been tested so far.\n\nIn response to Mr Hancock unveiling what he called a \"badge of honour\" to recognise care workers, she told the BBC: \"I think probably what they want more than a brand or a badge is protective equipment, proper testing and a decent salary.\"", "About 1,500 Penlon Prima ESO2s a week will be made by May\n\nThe first new medical ventilator to treat people with severe symptoms of Covid-19 has been approved in the UK.\n\nHundreds of the Penlon Prima ESO2, which is an updated version of an existing model, are expected to be built for hospitals over the next week.\n\nBut the consortium of major firms that helped to develop it hopes to make about 1,500 a week by the start of May.\n\nThe government has said it needs to increase ventilator stocks from 10,000 to 18,000 to cope with the pandemic.\n\nBut some have cast doubt on whether it can meet this goal fast enough.\n\nOn Thursday, following the approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the government said it had confirmed an order for 15,000 of the new Penlon devices.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said the devices would be delivered over the coming months and it would continue to consider additional bids from other consortiums.\n\nCabinet Secretary Michael Gove said it showed \"the significant progress being made\" after big manufacturers were asked to help ramp up production.\n\nFirms including Siemens, Airbus, Ford and a number of Formula 1 teams worked with Penlon, a medical device maker, to adapt its ventilator so that it could be mass-produced at speed.\n\nUnder normal circumstances, Penlon would only be able to make 50 to 60 ventilators a week.\n\nIn line with updated MHRA rules, the ESO2 can also be switched on and off more easily, allowing liquid to be regularly drained from patients' lungs - something the sickest Covid-19 patients can require on an hourly basis.\n\nDick Elsy, chair of the VentilatorChallengeUK consortium which is making the device, said it had undergone \"stringent testing and clinical trials for the last two weeks\".\n\n\"Ventilators of this type are complex and critical pieces of medical equipment, so ensuring the absolute adherence to regulatory standards and meeting clinical needs were always our priorities,\" he said.\n\nAirbus' Broughton site, which makes wings for commercial aircraft, Ford's Dagenham engine factory and McLaren's Woking site are helping to produce the ESO2.\n\nThe consortium also said it was ramping up production of another existing design, the Smiths Group paraPAC, which is used for less acute patients.\n\nA number of other businesses are also involved in designing new ventilators, including Dyson.\n\nHowever, the government recently abandoned plans to buy a device developed by a group including the Renault and Red Bull Formula one teams, because it was not considered suitable for treating Covid-19 patients.\n\nIt is exactly a month since the government appealed to businesses across the UK for help manufacturing ventilators and components for the NHS.\n\nSince then there has been some progress - production of an existing design, the Smiths Group paraPAC, is already being ramped up. And the Mercedes F1 team has been building a simpler breathing aid in large quantities.\n\nBut until today none of the much-hyped new designs had received official approval - and the government was facing criticism in some quarters for initially specifying machines that were allegedly ill-suited to the treatment of Covid-19 patients.\n\nNow production of the Penlon-designed machine can begin in earnest, drawing on the combined know-how of companies such as Airbus, Ford and McLaren.\n\nThe government had been expected to buy about 5,000 of the machines. In fact, it's ordered 15,000 - a measure perhaps of its relief that deliveries to the NHS can now start in earnest.", "The Duke of Cambridge has officially opened an NHS Nightingale hospital in the outskirts of Birmingham.\n\nSet up inside the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the site is intended to take coronavirus patients from 23 Midlands hospitals.\n\nPrince William said it was a \"wonderful example\" of the \"pulling together\" going on up and down the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe spoke via video link to healthcare, military and civilian personnel.", "Apple has announced a new iPhone SE, reviving a mid-market brand it had discontinued in 2018.\n\nIt resembles the form of 2017's iPhone 8 with a 4.7in screen, and a fingerprint ID sensor but not a depth camera for facial recognition.\n\nIt is powered by the same processor as the flagship iPhone 11 Pro, but lacks multiple rear cameras.\n\nThe handset costs the same as the original SE in the US, but is more expensive in other markets.\n\nThe iPhone SE is priced at $399 in the US and £419 in the UK.\n\nOne analyst said that having a mid-range phone again could help Apple compete for new customers against rivals such as Samsung and Google, which have a strong presence in that market sector.\n\n\"Once you buy an iPhone you are more likely to buy another one,\" said Dan Iver from Wedbush Securities.\n\nDespite Covid-19 causing lower demand, smartphone makers continue to release models. Earlier this week, OnePlus unveiled new models, and last month Huawei launched its flagship P40 range.\n\nIn February, Apple warned that the coronavirus lockdown in China would impact iPhone production and lower sales.\n\nBut Mr Iver expects the phone to sell between 20 million and 25 million units in the first six to nine months.\n\n\"Apple's hands are almost being forced to bring this out because from a supply chain perspective it was ready,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that while competitors might be similarly priced, \"Apple is this golden brand\".\n\nThe device supports wireless charging. Its rear-facing camera's resolution is 12 megapixels and can still create background blur in portrait photos, despite lacking a second lens. The selfie camera is 7MP.\n\nMobile analyst Carolina Milanesi also said Apple's brand appeal would help it in this price range.\n\n\"The second-hand market is pretty vibrant for Apple so are there users who have never have a new iPhone that will want one, and can afford it at this price,\" said the Creative Strategies consultant.\n\nBut she also warned: \"I think the phone has to have some compromises. It can't be too close to the iPhone 11 or a iPhone XR - or what is the point?\"\n\nThe iPhone SE goes on sale on 24 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be Britain's oldest patient to recover from coronavirus, has been discharged from hospital.\n\nConnie Titchen was applauded by staff as she left Birmingham's City Hospital on Tuesday, after three weeks.\n\nRetired shop worker Ms Titchen, from the city, was admitted in mid-March with suspected pneumonia, the hospital said.\n\nShe said: \"I feel very lucky that I've fought off this virus.\"\n\nIn a statement released by Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Ms Titchen said she could not \"wait to see\" her family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SWBH NHS Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe trust said it believed Ms Titchen was Britain's oldest patient to overcome coronavirus.\n\nAlex Jones described her grandmother as someone who bounced back from anything, adding: \"She has had a really active life. She loved to dance, cycle and play golf.\n\n\"She has always cooked for herself too, although she likes a cheeky McDonald's every now and then. I haven't told her they are closed.\n\nConnie Titchen said she felt \"very lucky that I've fought off this virus\"\n\n\"I think the secret of her old age is that she is physically active and very independent.\n\n\"She had a hip operation back in December and within 30 days she was walking again.\"\n\nMs Jones added: \"The care she has received at the hospital has been brilliant and I can't fault it.\n\n\"I want to thank the staff for all they have done for her during her stay.\"\n\nSister Kelly Smith, who looked after the great-grandmother of eight, said: \"It's been fantastic to see Connie recover.\n\n\"She is amazing and we've been doing our best to nurse her back to health. It's nice to see patients leave our ward after having beaten this virus.\"", "High Street fashion chains Oasis and Warehouse have fallen into administration, leading to more than 200 immediate job losses.\n\nSome 1,800 staff across the shops, concessions and head office will be furloughed and receive 80% of pay.\n\nThe brands will continue to be sold online \"short-term\" while the administrators try to sell the brand.\n\nAdministrator Deloitte said the coronavirus had had a \"devastating effect on the entire retail industry\".\n\nThe owner of the High Street brands, Icelandic bank Kaupthing, had been in talks to sell the businesses before the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHowever, the crisis, which has seen many shops temporarily close, made the sale untenable.\n\nRob Harding, joint administrator at Deloitte, said it had seen \"significant interest from potential buyers\", but that it had not been possible to save the business \"in its current form\".\n\n\"As administrators, we appreciate the cooperation and support from the management, employees, customers, landlords and suppliers, whilst we investigate options for the business. This is clearly an unprecedented and difficult time,\" he added.\n\nHash Ladha, the chief executive of Oasis Warehouse, said: \"This is a situation that none of us could have predicted a month ago, and comes as shocking and difficult news for all of us.\n\n\"We as a management team have done everything we can to try and save the iconic brands that we love.\"\n\nThere is expected to be interest from bidders to buy the business, a source said on Tuesday, but with the current economic uncertainty, it is not clear how many jobs ultimately could be saved.\n\nDeloitte has furloughed 1,800 of the employees under the government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, while 41 head office roles will be kept on to help the administrators.\n\nThe chains were forced to shut their 92 UK stores because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe group also has 437 concessions in department stores including Debenhams and Selfridges.\n\nOasis and Warehouse, along with fellow group members The Idle Man and Bastyan Fashions, have gone into administration.\n\nOperations in Ireland, Sweden and worldwide franchise partners are not in administration.\n\nHigh Street retailers in the UK were facing a tough environment before the crisis, because of rising costs and changes in people's shopping habits.\n\nBut the temporary closure of many shops during the coronavirus pandemic has heaped more pressure on retailers.\n\nIndependent retail expert Clare Bailey said retailers had already been under strain for the last two or three years because of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and its effect on consumer confidence.\n\n\"[Coronavirus] was the final straw of all the straws that broke the camel's already very broken back,\" she said.\n\nSome retailers, such as Primark, have opted to cancel orders with their suppliers.\n\nMeanwhile, fashion chain New Look recently informed its suppliers that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centre would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nLast week, department store chain Debenhams, which employs about 22,000 staff, confirmed it had entered administration for the second time in a year.\n\nIts 142 UK stores remain closed in line with government guidance and the firm said it would work to \"reopen and trade as many stores as possible\" when restrictions end.\n\nAt the same time, floral fashion firm Cath Kidston filed for administration, putting 950 jobs at risk.\n\nKathleen Brooks, founder and director of consultancy Minerva Analysis, said that while a number of retailers had been struggling for some time, \"the difference now is there aren't necessarily buyers to buy them, so in this environment, they may go under.\n\n\"They may cease to exist because no one is willing to take a punt on the retail sector, which really seems to be at the epicentre of this coronavirus crisis from an economic point of view.\"", "For a fourth week in a row, people across the UK clapped to show appreciation for health professionals and other key workers, during the coronavirus pandemic.", "US actor Brian Dennehy, whose chiselled jaw and towering figure featured in dozens of films, has died at the age of 81 of natural causes.\n\nOn screen he played macho roles like the sheriff who jails Rambo in First Blood and portrayed the serial killer John Wayne Gacy in To Catch A Killer.\n\nHis work brought him a Golden Globe and six Emmy nominations.\n\nBut Dennehy was equally at home playing the classics on stage, and won two Tony Awards.\n\nHamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda paid tribute to the man on Twitter, saying: \"Was lucky enough to see Brian Dennehy twice on stage, masterful in Love Letters, and monumentally heartbreaking in Death Of A Salesman. A colossus. What a loss.\"\n\nFellow American actor James Woods, who starred alongside him in Bestseller, mourned a \"beloved friend and colleague\", tweeting: \"I've never laughed so hard as we did every day on the set or off.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Woods This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn on 9 July 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he took up acting at the age of 14 in New York City where he studied at a high school in Brooklyn. He played the title role in a production of Macbeth.\n\nA scholarship at Columbia University followed and then five years of service in the US Marines.\n\nPhysically, Dennehy was an imposing man, standing at 6ft 3in (1.9m). To fund his acting career in the 1960s he worked as a truck driver, a bartender and a salesman.\n\n\"I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend,\" he told The New York Times in 1989.\n\nDennehy broke into film in 1977 with Semi-Tough, which starred Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson. He was paid $10,000 a week for 10 weeks' work and it \"looked like it was all the money in the world\", he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.\n\nIn 1991 came the TV movie To Catch A Killer for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special.\n\n\"I try to play villains as if they're good guys and good guys as if they're villains,\" he said in an interview the following year.\n\nThere were numerous roles in TV dramas including Dallas and Dynasty.\n\nIn 2007 he voiced the character of a rat called Django in the hit Pixar animation Ratatouille, delivering lines like \"Now shut up and eat your garbage\".\n\nDennehy's theatre work ranged from Shakespeare and Chekhov to the American greats like Miller and O'Neill: he won Tony Awards for Death Of A Salesman (1999) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (2003).\n\nThe 2000 television film adaptation of Death of a Salesman earned him a Golden Globe.\n\nHe died from natural causes not related to coronavirus at his Connecticut home on Wednesday evening, with his wife Jennifer and son Cormac by his side, his agent told AFP news agency.\n\nBrian Dennehy is also survived by four other children, three of them from a previous marriage.", "As cases have risen in Japan, criticism of the government's response has grown louder\n\nA nationwide state of emergency has been declared in Japan due to the country’s worsening coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe move allows regional governments to urge people to stay inside, but without punitive measures or legal force.\n\nThe state of emergency will remain in force until 6 May.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe had previously declared a month-long state of emergency in seven regions.\n\nSpeaking at a special meeting of medical experts, Mr Abe said: “Areas where a state of emergency should be carried out will be expanded from the seven prefectures to all prefectures.”\n\nAs the number of infections in Japan has increased, criticism of Mr Abe’s response has grown louder.\n\nOne poll shows 75% of people think the prime minister took too long to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo.\n\nAfter a recent spike in cases in the capital Tokyo, experts warned that the city’s emergency medical facilities could collapse under the pressure. Officials in Tokyo have also urged people to work from home.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe, centre, declared the state of emergency at a special meeting of medical experts\n\nAfter the initial state of emergency came into force on 8 April, a number of other regional governors called for the measures to be extended to their areas, saying that cases were growing and their medical facilities were overwhelmed.\n\nJapan’s two emergency medical associations also issued a joint statement warning that they were “already sensing the collapse of the emergency medical system”.\n\nAnd the mayor of Osaka appealed for people to donate their raincoats, so they could be used as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers whom he said were being forced to fashion PPE out of rubbish bags.\n\nHow has Japan responded to the outbreak?\n\nDespite recording its first case more than three months ago, Japan is still only testing a tiny percentage of the population, the BBC’s Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.\n\nUnlike South Korea - which has brought its outbreak largely under control through a programme of large-scale testing - the Japanese government said that carrying out widespread testing was a “waste of resources”.\n\nThe health ministry fears that hospitals could be overwhelmed by people who test positive, but only have mild symptoms.\n\nTesting is also governed by local health centres, not on the national government level - and some of these local centres are not equipped to carry out testing on a major scale.\n\nHokkaido became the first region in Japan to declare a state of emergency due to the coronavirus in late February, and lifted the state of emergency on 19 March. However, it was re-imposed this week because of a second wave of infections.", "Plans to allow MPs to take part in some Parliamentary business virtually have been approved by the body responsible for administration in the Commons.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said ministers will be quizzed via Zoom for the first time in the House's 700-year history.\n\nThis \"unprecedented step\" will \"keep democracy going\" during the coronavirus crisis, it said.\n\nMPs will have to approve the plan next week when they return on 21 April.\n\nIt means that up to 120 MPs will be able to take part in proceedings virtually at any one time, while 50 could remain in the chamber under social distancing rules.\n\nThe Commons authorities will mark out the 2m (6ft) distance MPs will have to maintain when they go into the chamber.", "All care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms will be tested for coronavirus as laboratory capacity increases, the government has promised.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"determined\" to ensure everyone who needed a test had access to one.\n\nProf Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, welcomed the pledge but predicted \"logistical challenges\".\n\nIt comes as a further 761 hospital deaths were announced in the UK, bringing the total to 12,868.\n\nCare providers been calling for more testing for weeks, amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.\n\nAt the moment only the first five residents who show symptoms in a care home are tested, to determine whether there is an outbreak of the virus.\n\nProviders have also complained that deaths among residents were being \"airbrushed\" out of official figures and demanded greater support for the industry.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is urging the government to publish an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nSir Keir said his party would support the government if, as expected, it extends lockdown measures later this week. But he called for more transparency about how and when the rules will be relaxed.\n\nOn Wednesday, 651 new deaths were announced in England, 84 in Scotland, 60 in Wales and six in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe totals can differ from the number reported by the Department of Health and Social Care for the whole of the UK, as they are based on different reporting periods.\n\nBBC head of statistics Robert Cuffe said only Scotland and Wales had seen a post-weekend spike in deaths due to delays in reporting caused by the Easter weekend, giving hope that the daily death toll had stopped rising.\n\n\"The overall picture for the UK is almost a week with no growth in the number of deaths announced every day. This adds to the evidence that the lockdown has stopped the growth of the coronavirus,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that more data was needed to know for sure, and the high number of deaths remained a shocking and sad feature of daily life.\n\nIn theory, increasing the amount of testing in care homes will be certainly possible as capacity increases.\n\nOver the next 10 days, extra facilities from commercial partners are expected to become available.\n\nThe most tests carried out in one day is 18,000. Doing around 50,000 a day certainly looks possible in the coming weeks, but the 100,000 a day pledged by the government will be a stretch.\n\nLogistically, delivering the testing will remain challenging. More than 400,000 frail and vulnerable people are spread across more than 15,000 locations in England alone.\n\nCompare that to around 200 hospitals and it is easy to see how difficult it will be to get out to homes to carry out the tests and then process them quickly enough.\n\nGovernment officials have always recognised care homes will be the weakest link in the chain of protection they have tried to wrap around the British public.\n\nThe nature of care home residents, many of whom struggle with dementia, means it can be difficult for them to follow social distancing and good hand hygiene guidance.\n\nThey rely on care home staff for intimate personal care, putting both staff and residents at risk as soon as the virus gets into a home.\n\nNow the virus is circulating in care homes, slowing the spread and saving lives is going to be incredibly difficult.\n\nEvery year around 150,000 care home residents die - the fear now is that the number could increase dramatically.\n\nAll these sets of figures are only for deaths in hospital. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, which includes every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed 406 such deaths registered up to 3 April had occurred outside of hospitals - 217 of them in care homes.\n\nThe number is expected to have increased since then.\n\nIn Scotland, there have been 237 deaths in care homes with coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate, according to figures released on Wednesday.\n\nBritain's largest care home operator, HC-One, said the virus represented about one-third of all deaths at HC-One's care homes over the last three weeks. And MHA, a charity which operates 131 homes, said it had recorded 210 coronavirus-related deaths to date.\n\nClaire Rencher, manager of Veronica House Nursing Home in Tipton, in the West Midlands, told the BBC that some residents had gone to A&E and come back without being tested.\n\nShe said she did not feel the home was getting the support it needed from government, while staff said they felt \"vulnerable\", especially due to the lack of PPE.\n\nMr Hancock said he would ensure anyone in a care home with symptoms of the virus, as well as any new care home residents being discharged from hospital into care, would be tested.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) is co-ordinating the effort and will offer tests to the UK's 30,000 care providers by the end of the week, the Department for Health and Social Care said.\n\nGail Grant is worried about the virus reaching Ian's care home\n\nGail Grant, from Swindon in Wiltshire, has not been able to visit her husband Ian for three weeks.\n\nIan, a former dentist, has dementia and lives in a care home in Marlborough, some 12 miles away. He turned 70 this month.\n\n\"Because of his cognitive level, we can't Skype or talk on the phone. He doesn't have any understanding of the situation and doesn't really know us anymore. But it's more me - I'm aware I'm not going to see him,\" Dr Grant says.\n\n\"They say they don't have any cases at the moment at his home. But I think it's a matter of time. And when any carers go down with it, it will be a difficult situation.\"\n\nShe says of the official figures currently just including hospital deaths: \"What right do they have to withhold information that should be in the public domain?\"\n\nProf Green said the roll-out poses a \"major challenge\" and stressed the need to make sure there are enough tests, and to work out how to carry out tests in care homes while keeping residents safe.\n\nHe said the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) has \"started to improve\" but that there has been \"conflicting guidance\" about how it is used.\n\nSocial care minister Helen Whately told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government had delivered more than 7 million facemasks to care providers, set up an emergency supply line to contact for PPE, and distributed stocks to local resilience forums.\n\nShe said they have done a \"a huge amount to help get PPE to the front line\" but acknowledged it was still \"worrying\" for places where stocks were running low.\n\nMr Hancock is set to give further details of the testing scheme when the government's coronavirus social care action plan is outlined on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peterborough care home boss moves in as third of residents die\n\nThe government said its increased tests in care homes will bring it closer to the target of completing 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nThe latest figures show a total of 302,599 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the UK.\n\nDr Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics, told BBC Newsnight the government was \"nowhere near\" hitting its target.\n\nDo you work in a care home? Or do you or your relative live in a care home? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Loans to all medium-to-large firms will now be included in the government's £330bn coronavirus support package for the economy, the Treasury has said.\n\nAll viable companies with a turnover of more than £45m will be able to apply for government-backed support, including those which take in more than £500m.\n\nSchemes for smaller firms and the largest businesses are already in place.\n\nBusinesses with turnovers of more than £500m were not originally going to be eligible for the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme, which will be launched on Monday.\n\nThe scheme, which will be part of £330bn of taxpayer money intended to support the UK economy, will let firms with a turnover of more than £45m apply for up to £25m of finance from banks.\n\nThe government will guarantee 80% on those bank loans.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"I want to ensure that no viable business slips through our safety net of support as we help protect jobs and the economy. That is why we are expanding this generous scheme for larger firms.\n\n\"This is a national effort and we'll continue to work with the financial services sector to ensure that our £330bn of government support, through loans and guarantees, reaches as many businesses in need as possible.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Coronavirus has struck a heavy blow against businesses of all sizes across the UK. Expanding this scheme will provide larger firms with the support they need during the pandemic, helping to provide job security to thousands of people and protect our economy.\"\n\nThe scheme is part of government efforts to help keep the UK economy afloat as it is battered by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSmaller businesses may be eligible for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.\n\nHowever, the British Chambers of Commerce has said that so far only 2% of UK firms have secured the loans.\n\nAnd some small businesses, which say they are viable, have been unable to get help.\n\nThe government has also admitted that the small business scheme needs to work faster.\n\nOther government initiatives intended to help businesses include the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which covers 80% of workers' pay; tax deferrals; cash grants; and covering the cost of statutory sick pay.\n\nThe largest firms may be able to get Bank of England lending under the Covid Corporate Financing Facility.\n\nBusiness lobby groups welcomed the government announcement of help for medium to large businesses.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief economist at the CBI said: \"These measures set out by the chancellor will go a long way to supporting mid-cap companies, some of which are the UK's most important and iconic regional employers.\n\n\"This scheme is clearly targeted at helping several thousand mid-tier firms, rather than those already up and running for small and larger businesses.\"\n\nAdam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the changes \"fill an important gap in government support, and could make a real difference to medium-sized and larger-firms navigating challenging circumstances\".\n\n\"It's now crucial to ensure that this enhanced support reaches companies in difficulty as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\nStephen Phipson, Make UK's chief executive, said: \"The situation remains fluid and as we assess the detail we will continue to work closely with the Treasury to ensure those companies who need support can turn on the tap when needed.\"\n\nAnd Jonathan Geldart, director general of the Institute of Directors, said: \"The government deserves credit for showing willingness to continue to adapt its coronavirus response.\"\n\nGovernments and institutions around the world have scrambled to try to cushion economies from the effects of the coronavirus crisis.", "India imposed a lockdown on 25 March and the first British repatriation flight left two weeks later\n\nBritish tourists returning from India have called the UK government response \"shambolic\" and \"embarrassing\".\n\nSome said it took hours to reach anyone by phone, communication was confusing and the British authorities were \"incompetent and uncaring\".\n\nOne man, who is still in India, said he was told he was being taken to a flight but later found out this was an error.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said repatriation was a \"huge and complex\" operation.\n\nAndy Hadfield, 56, from Derbyshire, who was in India for a two-month holiday, arrived back from Goa on Sunday, three weeks later than planned.\n\nHe said he had already had his scheduled flight home cancelled before India's lockdown was initially announced on 25 March and then spent hours waiting on the phone. But he said when he got through to a British official he was offered \"no help whatsoever\".\n\nAndy Hadfield said he felt the FCO was \"incompetent and uncaring\"\n\nDescribing his attempts to get a flight home, he said: \"You pay them £681 and get nothing - it just says you're on a list but there is no promise of a flight.\n\n\"The Germans, Belgians, Italians were all getting flown back. It was embarrassing; everyone felt our government just didn't care.\"\n\nHe said when the plane carrying more than 300 people landed passengers were told, if necessary, to get home via public transport or have someone pick them up.\n\n\"It's shambolic,\" he said.\n\nChandni Ladwa, 37, arrived back in Leicester from the Gujarat region on Monday. She said she flew out in early March before it was clear how serious the situation would become and when the FCO still said travel to India was ok.\n\nShe said she only found out she had a place on a return flight the day before it left and had to argue with the transport company the FCO was using \"for hours\" in the middle of the night to ensure she would get to the airport the next day.\n\nMiss Ladwa said the company said it had not been given her details by the FCO. She said the taxi did arrive the next morning, but three hours late.\n\n\"There's a four-letter word for what I think of the government response,\" she told the BBC. \"There was just no-one to speak to.\"\n\nChandni Ladwa said there are still people \"who know there is a last flight out but do not know if they are on it\"\n\nAmrik Mahil, 68, from Nottingham, is still in the Punjab area but was hoping to get a flight on Thursday because after that his medication for a blood clot would run out.\n\nHe has been in India since February and said he has not left the house he has been staying in for a month as there had been reports of assaults on people breaking the curfew.\n\nMr Mahil had been told he would be taken to the airport for the first flight out but was later told that was an error.\n\nHe added: \"I did not sleep that night. The government needs to pull its finger out and get people home.\"\n\nAmrik Mahil said he has not been able to leave the house in four weeks\n\nThe FCO said it will have repatriated about 5,000 UK citizens from India by next week. But it estimated there were up to 20,000 in the country wanting to get home when the lockdown was first declared on 25 March.\n\nA spokeswoman said it is keeping everyone updated through social media and has tripled its call centre capacity.\n\nShe added: \"We are doing all we can. This is a huge and complex operation which also involves working with the Indian Government to enable people to move within India.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first case was reported at the home, which has 140 residents, on 23 March\n\nTwenty-four residents have died at a care home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEight people who died at Bradwell Hall Nursing Home in Newcastle-under-Lyme - the largest care home in Staffordshire - tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nOthers died after suffering \"pneumonia-like symptoms\" but were not tested.\n\nThere are a further 10 elderly residents and one member of staff who are self-isolating after testing positive for the disease.\n\nEdward Twigge, owner of the home, said the past three weeks have been \"truly heart-breaking for everyone involved\".\n\nThe first case was reported at the home, which has 140 residents, on 23 March.\n\nIt has since been working with Staffordshire County Council, Public Health England (PHE) and the NHS during and has been closed to new admissions for more than three weeks.\n\nThe home implemented cleansing, self-shielding and self-isolation measures on PHE's advice once symptoms developed in residents and care workers, said Dr Nic Coetzee from PHE West Midlands.\n\nOf the 414 members of staff, 100 were self-isolating once the first cases were discovered. The remaining staff are having their temperature taken every day when they come to work.\n\nOver the same time period last year, there were five deaths at the home.\n\nDr Richard Harling, the council's director of health and care, said: \"Our thoughts are of course with all those who have lost a loved one, but I would also thank the home, the families and staff for doing everything they can to support and care for these residents in these very difficult times.\"\n\nMr Twigge said: \"We look after some of the most frail and elderly people and it is always upsetting when someone passes away.\n\n\"However, the last three weeks have been truly heart-breaking for everyone involved with the home. Our thoughts are still very much with the families of the lovely residents we have sadly lost.\n\n\"I would also like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful staff for their hard work and dedication during these difficult times.\"\n\nThanking people for their support, Mr Twigge added there were clearly still \"a difficult few days and weeks to get through\".\n\nThe government has said all care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms will be tested for coronavirus as laboratory capacity increases.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 200,000 more employees could now be furloughed following changes to the government scheme to help pay people's wages.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which covers 80% of workers' pay, will take applications from Monday from companies which have laid off workers.\n\nInitially, it only supported those already employed on February 28. The cut-off date is now to 19 March.\n\nHowever, many recently employed workers will still miss out.\n\nWorkers need to have been on the payroll by 19 March - the day before the scheme was first announced. This will not cover people who were not put on the PAYE system until later in the month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrian Buzer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmployers would need to have notified HM Revenue and Customs that a new employee was on the payroll. This is done through the Real Time Information (RTI) system which updates the tax authority when someone is paid.\n\nSo somebody paid late in March is unlikely to be covered by their current employer.\n\nHowever, the Treasury wants to guard against businesses hiring \"ghost\" employees to fraudulently claim furlough payments.\n\nThe plight of new starters has prompted a campaign for them to be included in the furlough scheme by unions, opposition parties, and the workers themselves.\n\nHMRC has promised to release wages for furloughed workers by the end of April. The scheme currently runs until 1 June.\n\nBut there are fears firms could start to cut staff unless the government soon clarifies whether the scheme will be extended.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said it is worried companies will be forced to start redundancy procedures this Saturday to comply with the minimum 45-day consultation period.\n\nCBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn, said: \"We are very concerned that businesses will be forced into a position potentially of having to make people permanently redundant.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the scheme, which pays wages for March, April and May, could run for longer.\n\n\"The scheme is open for an initial three months and we hope conditions will improve sufficiently during this period. However, the Chancellor has been clear he will review extending it for longer if necessary,\" said a Treasury spokesperson.\n\nBut Ms Fairbairn said businesses need clarity from the government before 18 April: \"What we are saying to government is that firms need to be able to plan.\n\n\"These are massive decisions being taken on a day-to-day basis that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and having that clarity of a 45-day notice period for business is absolutely vital.\"\n\nHMRC chief executive Jim Harra told the BBC's Today programme that the chancellor Rishi Sunak \"has been clear that if it needs to be extended then he will look to do that\".\n\nMr Harra added that the system through which companies can claim funding to pay their furloughed workers will be accessible from Monday.\n\nHe said he was \"confident\" employers will get the money in time to pay people by the end of the month.\n\n\"Most employers run their payroll on the last banking day of the month which would be 30 April and there is time to get your claims in in time and to get money before then,\" he said.\n\nSome people who changed jobs around this time have found themselves without any income.\n\nFelicity Williams, age 30, handed in her notice at the Richmond-on-Thames estate agency where she worked on 27 February, with her last day set for 28 March.\n\n\"Obviously between those two dates it became apparent that the coronavirus was going to shut things down and there would be some difficulties with me starting my new job on 1 April,\" she said.\n\nFelicity Williams has unsuccessfully asked her former employer four times to furlough her\n\nAlthough government guidelines state that Ms Williams can go back to her previous employer and ask them to furlough her, she said the company is unwilling to help.\n\n\"I've been to them four times now and pleaded with them to re-employ me and put me on furlough, just so I've got some sort of income coming in, and every time it has been a no,\" she said.\n\nMs Williams said she is also unable to claim universal credit because she lives with her boyfriend, who has savings and an income.\n\nShe said: \"I have my own bills, I have my own credit cards, my own loans that I need to pay off, and obviously I've frozen them for the short term. But it is not going to help me out in terms of paying rent and bills and food.\"\n\nMr Harra said: \"I think in all of these schemes designed to help the economy, we've had to design them so they can be implemented very quickly and time, in some senses, has been the enemy of perfection.\n\n\"But there are a whole range of schemes available to help businesses and people and I'm confident that the vast majority of employees who have been furloughed will get help.\"", "New Jersey police found 17 bodies in one of the state's largest nursing homes after an anonymous tip said a body was being stored in a shed.\n\nA total of 68 people associated with the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation centres have recently died, with 26 having tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nPolice did not find a body in the shed, but said the facility's tiny morgue was \"overwhelmed\".\n\nNew Jersey has over 71,000 cases and 3,100 deaths due to the coronavirus.\n\nOver the weekend, the nursing home had requested 25 body bags from authorities. On Monday, police received the anonymous tip about a body being kept in a shed.\n\nInstead, they found 17 bodies kept in a morgue built to house four.\n\nThe two buildings at the facility have nearly 700 beds\n\n\"They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,\" Andover police chief Eric Danielson told the New York Times.\n\nIt is unclear whether any of the 17 deaths were due to the coronavirus.\n\nChaim Scheinbaum, a co-owner of the nursing home, addressed the morgue problem in an email to New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer, according to the Associated Press.\n\n\"The backup and after hours holiday weekend issues, plus more than average deaths, contributed to the presence of more deceased than normal in the facility holding room,\" he said.\n\nMr Scheinbaum also said the facility is adequately staffed.\n\nSeventy-six patients have tested positive for Covid-19 along with 41 staff members between the two buildings, according to the Times .\n\nThirteen bodies were moved to a refrigerated truck at a neighbouring hospital, while the remaining four were to be sent to a funeral home.\n\nThe nursing home owner has since obtained a refrigerated truck for bodies, local media reported.\n\nThe home's two buildings have nearly 700 beds in all.\n\nAn Andover employee told the New Jersey Herald, which first reported the story, that in the second building, 65 residents had died since 31 March.\n\nThe centre is one of New Jersey's largest nursing homes\n\nFamily members have expressed concerns to the Herald, saying they received little information before their loved ones died.\n\nThe state governor, Phil Murphy, said he was \"outraged that the bodies of the dead were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility\".\n\n\"New Jerseyans living in our long-term care facilities deserve to be cared for with respect, compassion, and dignity,\" he said, adding that he had asked the attorney general to review all long-term care facilities that had experienced a disproportionate number of deaths.\n\nAccording to New Jersey's health commissioner, 10% of 60,000 people in care facilities across the state have Covid-19.\n\nThe state's health department has sent thousands of additional supplies to the nursing homes to help combat the virus.\n\nOn 4 April, the department also ordered nursing homes to inform staff, other patients and families within 24 hours if anyone in the facility tested positive for Covid-19.", "The White House has defended Ivanka Trump's personal trip to New Jersey last week even as federal guidelines advise Americans to remain at home.\n\nThe president's eldest daughter and her family travelled from Washington DC to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster to celebrate Passover.\n\n\"Her travel was not commercial,\" the White House said. \"She chose to spend a holiday in private with her family.\"\n\nBoth the nation's capital and New Jersey are under stay-at-home orders.\n\nMs Trump, her husband and fellow administration adviser Jared Kushner, and their three children went to \"a closed-down facility considered to be a family home\", the statement to US media said.\n\nThe White House added that the \"travel was no different than had she been traveling to/from work\", and \"the location was less populated than the surrounding area near her home\" in Washington.\n\nAccording to current federal coronavirus guidelines, people should \"avoid discretionary travel, shopping trips and social visits\".\n\nThere are currently 653,825 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the nation, with nearly 31,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWashington DC has been under a stay-at-home order since 1 April, with residents told to leave home for \"essential\" travel only.\n\nNew Jersey has been a hotspot for the outbreak, with over 71,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,100 deaths - second to its neighbour, New York, which is the epicentre of the pandemic in the US.\n\nShortly ahead of her trip, Ms Trump, who is a senior adviser to the president, had told her Twitter followers: \"Those lucky enough to be in a position to stay at home, please, please do so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What exactly is the role of Ivanka Trump?\n\nThe day before Passover, 7 April, she also shared a tweet by New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy that asked residents to celebrate health workers by \"by staying home for them\".\n\nLast month, Governor Murphy called on residents with second homes in the state to avoid travelling until restrictions eased.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control's guidance for the New Jersey, New York and Connecticut region also urges residents to \"refrain from non-essential domestic travel\".\n\nLast week, Scotland's chief medical officer resigned after similar travel during the pandemic.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood had apologised for taking two trips to her second home and initially said she planned to continue in the role, but quit on Sunday.\n\nShe had earlier been given a police warning for breaking the lockdown rules after photographs emerged of Dr Calderwood and her family visiting Earlsferry in Fife - more than an hour's drive from her main family home in Edinburgh.", "A deacon who left medicine to join the church has gone back to the NHS front line to help fight coronavirus because there was \"a need and an ask\".\n\nReverend Dr Susan Salt spent more than 30 years as a physician before she joined the Blackburn diocese in 2019.\n\nShe decided to rejoin Blackpool Victoria Hospital after the government called on retired medics to return.\n\n\"I was inspired by what had been achieved... reorganising everything to respond effectively to this crisis,\" she said.", "Eastern European farm workers are being flown to the UK on charter flights to pick fruit and vegetable crops.\n\nAir Charter Service has told the BBC that the first flight will land on Thursday in Stansted carrying 150 Romanian farm workers.\n\nThe firm told the BBC that the plane is the first of up to six set to operate between mid-April and the end of June.\n\nGovernment department Defra said it was encouraging people across the UK \"to help bring the harvest in\".\n\nBritish farmers recently warned that crops could be left to rot in the field because of a shortage of seasonal workers from Eastern Europe. Travel restrictions due to the coronavirus lockdown have meant most workers have stayed at home.\n\nSeveral UK growers have launched a recruitment drive, calling for local workers to join the harvest to prevent millions of tonnes of fruit and vegetables going to waste. However, concerns remain that they won't be able to fulfil the demand on farms.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest fresh food producers, G's Fresh, based in Cambridgeshire, confirmed it chartered two out of the six flights carrying Eastern European farm workers from Romania.\n\nDerek Wilkinson, managing director of G's Fresh's Sandfield Farms division, told the BBC that the 150 workers arriving at Stansted from eastern Romania on Thursday will be taken by bus to farms in East Anglia to pick lettuce.\n\nThe firm said the group will be screened on arrival in the UK, will be socially distanced, and anyone found to have a temperature will be quarantined.\n\nMr Wilkinson said his business needed 3,000 seasonal workers, with the greatest need in May at the start of the spring onion harvest, followed by the pea and bean crop in June.\n\nHe added that the company had had a good response to a recruitment campaign aimed at local workers. So far, 500 British people have registered their interest.\n\nMany UK growers depend on seasonal migrant workers from Eastern Europe\n\nThe Air Charter Service, a private firm, has already arranged flights for seasonal workers in other countries. It flew 1,000 farm workers to Germany from Bulgaria and Romania in recent weeks.\n\nThe workers will board in Iasi, eastern Romania, after having their temperatures taken and filling out a health questionnaire. The BBC understands that they will be taken from the airport by minibuses to farms in the South East and the Midlands.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) said up to 70,000 fruit and vegetable pickers were needed. It is calling for a modern-day \"land army\" of UK workers.\n\nNFU vice president Tom Bradshaw told the BBC: \"Growers that rely on seasonal workers to grow, pick and pack our fresh fruit, veg and flowers are extremely concerned about the impact coronavirus restrictions may have on their ability to recruit this critical workforce this season.\"\n\n\"In the meantime, I would encourage anyone who is interested in helping pick for Britain this summer to contact one of the approved agricultural recruiters.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA national campaign is appealing to students and those who have lost their jobs in bars, cafes and shops to help with the harvest.\n\nSeveral schemes have been set up to recruit new workers. They include one by the charity Concordia, which typically helps young people arrange experiences abroad, and another by the industry bodies British Summer Fruit and British Apples and Pears.\n\nData released to the BBC last week by job search engines suggested that those recruitment efforts might be paying off.\n\nTotaljobs said it had seen 50,000 searches for farming jobs in one week alone. It added that searches for terms such as \"fruit picker\" or \"farm worker\" had surged by 338% and 107% respectively.\n\nIndeed.co.uk said that there had been a huge spike in interest for fruit picker jobs in particular. Between 18 March and 1 April, there was an increase of more than 6,000% in searches for these roles on its website.\n\nMeanwhile, Monster said the number of UK users searching for \"farm\" or \"farm worker\" jobs had nearly tripled.\n\nThe charity Concordia said the response had been \"phenomenal\", but that a labour shortage was still expected.\n\nStephanie Maurel, its chief executive, told the BBC's Today programme that 36,000 people had registered interest and more than 6,000 had conducted a video interview.\n\nBut in the last 10 days, while almost 900 people had been offered jobs, just 112 have agreed contracts to accept employment.\n\n\"We've got brilliant people who are ready to work, but the reality of a job when it comes to it hasn't really matched their circumstances, so we're just working through that at the moment,\" Ms Maurel said.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it was \"working hard with industry to ensure farmers and growers have the support they need\" for harvesting produce.\n\n\"We are encouraging as many people as possible to take part in seasonal working opportunities across the country to help bring the harvest in, and recruitment efforts by industry are well under way,\" a Defra spokesperson said.\n\nThe government is not involved in chartering flights of European workers to the UK.", "We're expecting a White House press briefing shortly, where President Donald Trump is expected to give guidelines on reopening the US economy.\n\nIn the meantime, here's a quick recap of how the outbreak unfolded in the country.\n\n21 January 2020: The first case is reported in the US. The patient is a man in Washington state who had returned from Wuhan. In the days that follow, cases are reported in Illinois, California, Arizona, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, all thought to be related to visits to China\n\n29 January: The government announces a coronavirus task force to handle the outbreak\n\n31 January: The US suspends entry to foreign nationals who have travelled to China in the past 14 days. It does not include immediate relatives of American nationals and permanent residents\n\n24 February: President Trump asks Congress for $1.25 billion (£1 billion) for the country's response to the virus.\n\n26 February: The US reports its first case of suspected local transmission.\n\n29 February: The first coronavirus death is announced in the country. The government issues \"do not travel\" warnings for countries including China, Iran, South Korea and Italy.\n\n17 March: The death toll in the US rises to 100. The deaths were reported in 18 states.\n\n19 March: California becomes first state to order residents to stay at home.\n\n20 March: New York state follows suit, issuing its own stay-at-home order.\n\n22 March: The US records 32,000 cases and at least 400 deaths.\n\n26 March: US confirms 81,321 infections, making it the country with the most confirmed cases.\n\n12 April: The US confirms more than 20,000 deaths.\n\n16 April: President Trump says the US has \"passed the peak\" of new coronavirus cases. So far the country has reported over 650,000 cases and over 32,000 deaths.", "Socially distanced? EasyJet plans to leave the middle seat on planes empty\n\nEasyJet plans to keep the middle seat on its planes empty to allow for social distancing once the Covid-19 lockdown has been lifted.\n\nThe airline grounded its entire fleet at the end of March.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren expects the seating measure will encourage more people to fly.\n\n\"That is something that we will do because I think that is something that the customers would like to see,\" he said.\n\n\"Then we will work out with the authorities and listen to the customers' views and points on what they believe is the right thing to do, particularly in the start-up period.\"\n\nEasyJet later said the idea was one suggested measure that could be undertaken \"for a short period while flying was resuming\".\n\nCommenting on how social distancing on its planes would work, Mr Lundgren said passengers would sit next to the window or the aisle in a three-seat configuration.\n\nHe said the airline would be able to implement the measure because he did not expect EasyJet's aircraft to be full immediately after the lockdown is lifted.\n\n\"I'm talking about this as an initial phase. Nobody knows for how long that phase will be,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's important that customers understand that we are taking this very seriously, and first and foremost, our concern is about the customers' well-being and our people's well-being.\"\n\nMr Lundgren said bookings for winter flights were ahead of last year, helped by customers who had rebooked tickets after the coronavirus disrupted their travel plans.\n\nHowever, EasyJet has been criticised by customers who have had difficulty in getting refunds. Rebooking is done online, but refunds require people calling the airline's busy customer services department.\n\nLooking ahead, EasyJet has reduced costs through a number of measures, including deferring the delivery of 24 new aircraft from planemaker Airbus.\n\nEasyJet also revealed that it expects to report a pre-tax loss between £360m and £380m for the first half of its financial year. The airline will incur significant fuel costs because it has already bought jet fuel for its planes, with no certainty of when they will fly again.\n\nEasyJet grounded its planes a week after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the UK Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March.\n\nThe company had a full roster of pilots and staff during that period when many flights were being cancelled, leading to a rise in costs.\n\nIt also only started furloughing staff after the end of March.\n\nIt said it had a cash balance of around £3.3bn and based on a number of scenarios, it would have enough reserves to \"remain liquid\", should its jets stay grounded for nine months.\n\nThe airline said: \"At this stage, given the level of continued uncertainty, it is not possible to provide financial guidance for the remainder of the financial year.\n\n\"However, we continue to take every step necessary to reduce cost, conserve cash burn, enhance liquidity, protect the business and ensure it is best positioned for a return to flying.\"", "'No changing of our vote on the day', say Dundee\n\nDundee, who have been at the centre of the SPFL vote saga, insist their delayed approval has delivered the \"best deal possible out of a situation that was going to be bad for us in any iteration that was being proposed\". The Championship club's intended 'no' vote failed to arrive in time for Friday's suggested deadline, leaving them with the decisive say in the motion to call an end to their division as well as League One and League Two. A 'yes' vote was cast yesterday, making it 35 out of 42 clubs in favour of the measures proposed to help deal with the coronavirus crisis. Dundee say they submitted their vote and issued yesterday's statement \"simultaneously\", adding: \"There was no changing of our vote at any time that day as has been reported in some channels.\" With talks on league reconstruction beginning soon, the latest statement from Dens Park concludes: \"From a very poor situation we have gotten the best result for Dundee FC and for Scottish football as a whole.\"", "As entire countries shut down to prevent the spread of Covid-19, \"essential\" services remain open.\n\nIn some countries, that's gun shops and chocolate stores.\n\nBBC journalists in five countries around the world explain.", "The Charles de Gaulle is now docked in the French port of Toulon\n\nA third of the sailors serving with France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle - 668 out of nearly 2,000 - are infected with coronavirus.\n\nNearly all are on the carrier itself, the navy says. An escorting frigate and carrier pilots are also in quarantine.\n\nThe carrier returned to the French port of Toulon early from Atlantic exercises. Twenty sailors are in hospital, one in intensive care.\n\nThe infection total looks set to rise, as 30% of test results are not yet in.\n\nThe navy is investigating how so many sailors caught the virus. Last week the aircraft carrier was brought home 10 days early from its Atlantic deployment after some sailors showed symptoms.\n\nEarlier this month nearly 600 coronavirus cases were confirmed aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, one of two US aircraft carriers in the western Pacific.\n\nOne sailor later died of Covid-19 in Guam, after the ship - which has a total crew of 4,800 - had docked there.\n\nThe ship's captain Brett Crozier was fired after his letter pleading for help with the outbreak was leaked to US media. A public outcry over that dismissal triggered the resignation of acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly.\n\nThe US military has expanded medical facilities on Guam for the emergency\n\nMeanwhile, a Dutch navy submarine, MS Dolfijn, has returned to its Den Helder base two weeks early because of a coronavirus outbreak on board.\n\nEight of the 58 crew tested positive and the submarine, which had been sailing near Scotland, is now in quarantine.\n\nProximity and contagion make for dangerous shipmates. We have already seen how deadly the virus can be in the close confines of civilian cruise ships, albeit with many older passengers. Now France's only carrier and its naval flagship, the Charles de Gaulle, has been hit.\n\nFollowing the outbreak on the US carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, the US Navy is attempting to quarantine the crew of the USS Nimitz on board, ahead of a future deployment. The problems of confinement are heightened on such large vessels.\n\nA typical US nuclear-powered carrier has a crew of over 5,000, including the ship's sailors and air wing. Aircraft carriers are the prime tool of global military presence and this pandemic is proving hugely problematic for the US Navy.\n\nThe number of carriers available is limited and there are never enough. The US Navy is taking drastic measures. The carrier USS Harry S. Truman, at the end of a seven-month mission, is being held offshore, to ensure that at least one carrier is ready for a short-notice surge deployment if required.\n\nFrance's Covid-19 death toll is 17,167 while 10,643 of those died in hospital. Health authorities said on Wednesday 6,457 Covid-19 patients were in intensive care, 273 fewer than on Tuesday.\n\nThe country has a very strict lockdown, which President Emmanuel Macron has extended to 11 May. It has the third-highest death toll in Europe after Italy and Spain, however some European countries appear to be under-reporting care home deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The coronavirus crisis has deepened the struggle facing migrants in Calais and the UK\n\nA diplomatic row flared up between France and China this week after an unnamed Chinese diplomat posted an article in French, dated 12 April, claiming that in some Western care homes staff had abandoned sick pensioners. The writer used the French term \"Ehpad\" for nursing homes, and the article is still on the Chinese embassy's website.\n\nNow the Chinese embassy has responded to French anger by adding a statement from its foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, stressing that Beijing is co-operating closely with France and other countries to fight the pandemic.\n\n\"We hope that there is no misunderstanding: the Chinese side has never made a negative comment on French management of the epidemic, and has no intention of doing so,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nFaced with shortages of medical kit, like many other countries, France has ordered about 600 million face masks from China, though they have not yet arrived, Reuters news agency reports.", "Three major takeaway chains in the UK have announced limited reopening programmes after closing during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBurger King, KFC and Pret A Manger are opening certain restaurants around the country for delivery only.\n\nGovernment guidelines state that while restaurants and pubs have to close, they can prepare food for collection or delivery.\n\nThe chains had decided to temporarily close as the lockdown took effect.\n\nBurger King is to reopen four restaurants: two in Bristol, one in Coventry, and one in Swindon, with a pared-down menu.\n\nStaff will wear masks and gloves and will be trained in running delivery-only kitchens hygienically, the fast food chain said.\n\nThere will be stringent cleaning measures, and staff will get social distancing training.\n\nThe restaurants will also donate 1,000 meals per week to staff working at NHS hospitals in the vicinity of the reopened restaurants.\n\nKatie Evans, marketing director at the chain, said Burger King hoped the re-openings would go \"some way to lifting our customers' spirits in these difficult times\".\n\nShe added: \"We want to demonstrate how appreciative everyone at Burger King UK is of [NHS staff] efforts in these unprecedented times.\"\n\nKFC said it had reopened 11 UK restaurants in the past week for delivery only, with a limited menu. The restaurants are in Aldershot, Birmingham, Glasgow, Ipswich, London, Manchester, Portsmouth, Stockport, and Tamworth.\n\nThe fast food chain says it has donated \"thousands of meals from all our open restaurants to those on the frontline, including the NHS and key workers, in partnership with Deliveroo, and will continue to do so each week whilst the situation continues\".\n\nKFC said it had decided to close temporarily on 23 March \"with the wellbeing of our teams and guests in mind\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We've spent the time since closure developing new processes to ensure we can reopen carefully and responsibly, which we've now started to do.\n\n\"We also saw the impact the situation is having on those who may not be able to easily get to the supermarkets, like key workers. There's a need for affordable, accessible food and we wanted to do our part.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that furloughed staff would find their jobs \"waiting for them when we are able to fully reopen\".\n\nPret a Manger will reopen 10 shop kitchens near London hospitals from Thursday.\n\n\"This allows us to also get our supply chain up and running to donate food to homeless charities, so we will be donating 7,000 additional meals per week to our homeless charity partners,\" the chain said in a statement.\n\nNHS workers will get half-price food until the end of April.\n\nPret's chief executive officer Pano Christou wrote in a blog post that NHS workers and hospitals want to be able to get \"freshly made food nearby\".\n\n\"We are incredibly grateful that 160 team members have volunteered to help reopen 10 shops in London, located close to hospitals.\"\n\nFood delivery firm Deliveroo has raised more than £1.5m from customer donations and corporate funding for free meals for NHS workers.\n\nWhile the business declined to reveal overall order volumes, it said 3,000 new restaurants had signed up in March.\n\nA report in the Financial Times in March suggested that delivery apps could be feeling the pinch due to restaurant closures and as coronavirus anxiety continues.\n\nHowever, Deliveroo said it is seeing more orders from families, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. The majority of dishes it delivers are pizza, fish and chips, and burgers, it said.\n\nIt added that it had also started to deliver food from stores including Morrisons, McColls, M&S and BP service stations.\n\nRival delivery firm Just Eat also said that about 3,000 takeaways had signed up since the lockdown was announced.\n\nThe firm has seen a 36% rise in orders for desserts, and said customers are ordering food earlier in the day, and earlier in the week.\n\nWhile fast food is very popular in the UK, there have been warnings about its effects on people's health for a number of years.\n\nIn February, BBC One documentary \"The Truth About Takeaways\" found that over two weeks of eating two fast food meals per day, participants gained body fat, which is a marker for increased risk of cardiovascular disease.\n\nEating two takeaways per week \"is associated with increased body weight and various cardiovascular risk markers\", Dr Ian G Davies, Reader in Nutritional Science at Liverpool John Moores University, told the programme.\n\nIn general, pizza has the highest salt, fat and energy density compared with other fast foods.", "He was running as the opposition United Future Party's main candidate in Gangnam\n\nThae Yong-ho has become the first ever North Korean defector to win a constituency seat in South Korea.\n\nMr Thae was once North Korea's deputy ambassador to the UK, but defected in 2016 with his family, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean official to ever do so.\n\nHe was running as the opposition United Future Party's main candidate in the affluent district of Gangnam of Seoul.\n\nHe won by 58.4% and was seen crying after his victory was announced.\n\nHe said ahead of his victory that he hoped his running would send a message to the elite in North Korea about what could happen if they turned their back on the regime.\n\n\"I want to tell them that there is a new way for their future,\" he said.\n\nSouth Korea held its parliamentary elections on Wednesday which saw a record turnout of 66.2%, despite voting taking place in the middle of a virus outbreak.\n\nThe party of President Moon Jae-in - the Democratic Party - won a resounding victory , taking 163 seats in the 300-seat National Assembly.\n\nThae Yong-ho could have lived a quiet life in South Korea. Instead he has used his platform to openly denounce Kim Jong-un's regime and highlight the various challenges faced by the 33,000 defectors who have made it to the South.\n\nMr Thae was seen tearing up after his victory was announced\n\nHe has even changed his name to Ku-min, which means \"saving people\".\n\nHe has cast a colourful figure during the campaign and rapped in his own campaign song wearing a pink baseball cap. When not pounding the pavements of Gangnam, he was holding chats over social media.\n\nIt was a safe seat. However, Thae's victory in the heart of South Korea's richest district is still remarkable.\n\nWhatever the politics of this win, it is such a positive signal for other defectors who've risked their lives to come to the South.\n\nYou've also got to wonder what they're thinking in Pyongyang right now as someone who was once part of their regime steps into the South's National Assembly.\n\nMr Thae defected to the South in August 2016, saying he had become increasingly aware of the \"gruesome realities\" of life in North Korea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Korean defector Thae Yong-ho said in 2017 that thinking about the fate of his family in North Korea \"breaks his heart\"\n\nSpeaking to a South Korean parliamentary committee, he said North Koreans were living in conditions amounting to slavery.\n\nAfter his defection North Korea called him \"human scum\".\n\nThe North's state media said the envoy had been accused of leaking secrets, embezzlement and child rape.\n\nAbout 1,000 people defect from North Korea each year, fleeing a repressive state that has faced numerous accusations of human rights abuses.", "The baby of a \"highly valued and loved\" nurse who died after contracting Covid-19 has been delivered successfully.\n\nMary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, 28, had worked for five years at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, where she died on Sunday.\n\nA hospital trust spokeswoman said the nurse's \"child was doing very well\" but could give no further information.\n\nMs Agyapong was admitted to hospital on 7 April, having tested positive for Covid-19 two days previously.\n\nDavid Carter, chief executive of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said she was a \"fantastic nurse and a great example of what we stand for in this trust\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Mary's family and friends at this sad time,\" he said.\n\nMary Agyeiwaa Agyapong had worked at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for five years\n\nMs Agyapong's husband is currently self-isolating and has been tested for Covid-19.\n\nColleagues have paid tribute to Ms Agyapong, who also went by her married name Mary Boateng, on a fundraising page set up to support her family.\n\nThe page raised thousands of pounds within hours of being set up on Wednesday morning.\n\nOne former colleague said Ms Agyapong had \"devoted her life to the NHS as a nurse\".\n\nRenai Mcinerney wrote: \"Sister Mary was my colleague, I worked alongside her for a few years.\n\n\"She deserves her family to be looked after, after she devoted her life to the NHS as a nurse.\n\n\"It's time to look out/after our own and return the selflessness persona Mary carried and give something so small, but so big to her family in this time of need. RIP sister Mary!\"\n\nCaitlin Green posted: \"So sorry to Mary's family and friends for her loss.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Coronavirus (COVID-19)- what you need to do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grades for cancelled GCSEs and A-level exams in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will now be published on their original planned results days.\n\nGrades are going to be decided by teachers' assessments - with an initial suggestion that results could be issued earlier than usual this year.\n\nBut A-level results will be published on 13 August and GCSEs on 20 August.\n\nEngland's School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said it would give pupils some \"reassurance and clarity\".\n\nIn Wales, Minister for Education Kirsty Williams, said the confirmation of dates would allow students \"to make future plans with a little more confidence, although I recognise this continues to be a time of great uncertainty\".\n\nAfter schools were closed by the coronavirus, exams due to be taken this summer were cancelled.\n\nAs a replacement, exam boards are gathering assessments from teachers about what they expected pupils to achieve and these predictions will be moderated so the overall national results and shares of grades are in line with previous years.\n\nTeachers' predictions will be based on an overall professional judgement, using the evidence of previous exams, coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nFor those pupils in England who think they would have done better in an exam, there is the promise of another exam that can be taken in the autumn.\n\nBut for A-level students planning to use their results to go to university, or deciding whether to defer a year, it is still uncertain whether university campuses will reopen in the autumn or will be teaching online.", "Some Londoners have been wearing face masks when travelling for several weeks\n\nWearing face masks while travelling in London should be compulsory, city mayor Sadiq Khan has told the government.\n\nDespite UK public health experts not currently recommending the use of face-coverings, Mr Khan is lobbying for guidelines to be changed.\n\nIt comes after it was made compulsory in New York on Wednesday, with similar schemes also being operated in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.\n\n\"[But] the evidence around the world is that this is effective,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"I'm lobbying our government and advisers to change their advice, and I want us to do that sooner rather than later.\n\n\"They are already reviewing this on the basis of our representation.\"\n\nSadiq Khan is calling on the government to change scientific advice to require people to wear face masks outside\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says it remains the case that medical masks should be reserved for healthcare workers, not the general public.\n\nBut WHO special envoy Dr David Nabarro has suggested more widespread use of masks will become \"the norm\" as the world adjusts to living with Covid-19.\n\nShaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for London mayor however, has accused Mr Khan of not doing enough to help supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to Transport for London (TFL) staff and this also should be compulsory.\n\nMr Bailey claims to have sourced 600,000 face masks and vinyl gloves - enough to protect every bus worker for 30 days.\n\n\"The mayor of London is also the chairman of TfL, and his failure to provide transport workers with PPE is putting lives at risk,\" said Mr Bailey.\n\n\"If he wanted to, he can start tomorrow by sourcing PPE for all 60,000 of the transport staff who work for him.\n\n\"Now more than ever, London needs its mayor to take responsibility and to stop blaming the government to score political points during a national crisis.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With the business of Parliament set to go \"virtual\", two MPs talk about the change\n\nPlans to allow MPs to take part in some parliamentary business virtually have been approved by the body responsible for administration in the Commons.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said ministers will be quizzed via Zoom for the first time in the House's 700-year history.\n\nThis \"unprecedented step\" will \"keep democracy going\" during the coronavirus crisis, it said.\n\nMPs will have to approve the plan next week when they return on 21 April.\n\nIt means that up to 120 MPs will be able to take part in proceedings virtually at any one time, while 50 could remain in the chamber under social distancing rules.\n\nThe Commons authorities will mark out the 2m (6ft) distance MPs will have to maintain when they go into the chamber.\n\nThe House of Lords will also conduct some non-legislative debates remotely after guidance was changed by senior peers.\n\nThese will only be broadcast from early May, while debates on laws will initially continue in the chamber with the \"expectation of limited participation\".\n\nThe meeting of the House of Commons Commission on Thursday included Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, shadow leader Valerie Vaz and the SNP's Pete Wishart.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay, who chairs the commission, said: \"By initiating a hybrid solution, with steps towards an entirely virtual Parliament, we are enabling members to stay close to their communities, while continuing their important work scrutinising the government.\n\n\"I do not want members and House staff putting themselves at risk.\n\n\"By working virtually, this is our contribution to the guidance of stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said: \"These measures will make it possible for Parliament to continue its work of conducting scrutiny, authorising spending and making laws - all of which are essential to tackling coronavirus.\"\n\nThe House of Commons Commission said there was an expectation that fewer MPs will be present in the Chamber when they return after recess and all MPs were being encouraged to work virtually.\n\nIf MPs approve the measures, some will be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions, any urgent questions and statements via video link for the first two hours of each sitting day, from Wednesday 22 April.\n\nScreens will be placed around the Commons' chamber to allow the Speaker and MPs present to be able to see their \"virtual\" colleagues.\n\nThe Commission said that if an MP is called \"but cannot be heard or seen for technological reasons, it should be possible for them to be called later in the proceedings\".\n\nAnd once the delivery of the hybrid proceedings was \"judged satisfactory and sustainable\", work to extend the model to debates on motions and legislation will begin \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nIt will be up to the House to decide on any change to a system of remote voting, the Commission said.\n\nIt added that 20 virtual committee meetings a week will be able to held from 20 April.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has advised the Commission that for public Parliamentary proceedings it considers the use of Zoom appropriate, if the installation and the use of the service is carefully managed.\n\nAhead of the decision, Conservative MP Stephen Crabb, who is the Commons' Welsh Affairs select committee chairman, said a transition to a \"virtual\" Parliament \"isn't so significant\" as many MPs \"are well used to working from home\".\n\n\"We don't necessarily think this lockdown is going to end in the next few days or even few weeks,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"So we don't want to let this period pass without the government really being questioned on very, very serious and challenging issues - and that's what we need to be able to do.\"\n\nMr Crabb said it was \"inevitable\" that there were \"a few teething challenges\" when chairing a committee meeting via video conferencing.\n\n\"You have 10 other people in the room all wanting to perhaps talk at the same time - it's much easier to chair that when you're physically in the same space,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the virus \"will force us to look at reforms with more urgency\" in an \"old-fashioned\" Parliament - such as electronic voting or video conferencing.\n\nMeanwhile, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has been part of a cross-party group of MPs who have been calling for Parliament to be reconvened immediately and virtually.\n\n\"We have to take our responsibilities seriously, our constituents expect us to be holding the government to account,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We should be using the technology, we shouldn't be exposing anyone to risk - the public, our constituents and our staff members.\n\n\"Let's do the job that we need to do, but let's do it from a position of safety.\"\n\nMPs are currently due to debate key Brexit legislation when they return, and the government needs to pass its Finance Bill, enacting measures in the Budget.\n\nUnder current rules, 40 MPs must be present in the Commons chamber for any votes to take place, but there have been suggestions this could be reduced so that party whips could effectively act as proxies for all their MPs, meaning fewer would need to attend in person.\n\nSuch changes would, however, need the government to bring forward a motion which MPs would need to agree to. Other changes to the way MPs work could be agreed informally between the Speaker and party leaders.\n\nMembers of the National Assembly for Wales held their first votes during a virtual parliamentary session last week\n\nAnd leaders of the four opposition parties in Scotland put questions about coronavirus to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon via an online meeting for the first time on Thursday last week.", "The trial will take plasma from the blood of people who have recovered from coronavirus, and give it to patients who are very unwell\n\nA potential new treatment for coronavirus being trialled at a hospital in Wales offers patients a \"glimmer of hope\", specialists say.\n\nThe University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff hopes to offer the treatment as part of a study within a month.\n\nBlood will be extracted from people who have recovered from Covid-19 and the plasma will be given to patients.\n\nIt is hoped antibodies in the plasma of the blood could help others struggling to fight the infection.\n\nAt this early stage, the plan is to trial the treatment on patients who are severely affected by coronavirus, according to Dr Stuart Walker, medical director at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.\n\nDr Stuart Walker, the health board's medical director, says the treatment offers \"a glimmer of hope\"\n\n\"At the moment there are no other treatments per se for the viral infection itself, so this does give us a glimmer of hope,\" he explained.\n\n\"When you have an illness like this you produce a response in the form of antibodies in the blood stream.\n\n\"Those antibodies can potentially negate the effects of the virus in people who are suffering from it in a more severe way.\"\n\nThe University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff is at the \"forefront\" of such treatments\n\nPublic Health Wales will identify and write to potential donors, with the plasma collected and processed by the Welsh Blood Service.\n\nDonors will need to have tested positive for Covid-19 and now be fully recovered.\n\nFor years, so-called \"convalescent plasma\" has been used on a daily basis in the health service to help combat other viruses, as well as internationally in response to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) and Ebola epidemics.\n\nThe BBC has been told other hospitals across the UK are also looking to trial the treatment, with further announcements understood to be imminent.\n\nBut UHW is \"at the forefront\", in part due to the expertise of its staff, according to Dr Richard Skone, clinical board director for specialist services.\n\nThere are a number of experts in the particular field at UHW, according to Dr Richard Skone\n\n\"We're very fortunate here in Cardiff to have a number of specialists who have already been working in this area,\" he said.\n\n\"This is in the research stage at the moment but there's a chance it could help people who can't defend themselves against the virus - and for those people it could make a big difference.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said Wales was playing \"a leading role in the UK programme\" for treating coronavirus patients using convalescent plasma.\n\n\"If the practical application works then we should be in a position where we can have a more effective response to people who are seriously ill,\" Health Minister Vaughan Gething said.\n\n\"And we know there are hundreds of people who are seriously ill across Wales.\n\n\"This is a really good news story for Wales and we need some good news at this really difficult time.\n\n\"People should be really proud of this work that is being done and lead from Wales.\"", "Another 5.2 million Americans registered for unemployment benefits last week as businesses remain shut amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe new Department of Labor filings bring the number of jobless claims over the last four weeks to more than 20 million.\n\nThat amounts to roughly as many jobs as employers had added over the previous decade.\n\nThe economic crisis comes as the number of US virus cases exceeds 629,000.\n\nThe surging joblessness is a stark reversal for the world's biggest economy where the unemployment rate had been hovering around 3.5%. Economists now expect that rate to have hit double digits.\n\nWhile the 5.2 million new claims in the week ended 11 April were down from 6.6 million the previous week, the numbers still eclipse prior records.\n\nMany economists warn that elevated numbers will linger, with Goldman Sachs researchers expecting some 37 million claims by the end of May.\n\n\"Records are being broken left and right with respect to the depth and breadth of the current downturn,\" said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com.\n\n\"With no immediate end in sight to efforts aimed at mitigating the virus' spread and impact, it is impossible to see a near-term upturn in employment prospects.\"\n\nElectronics chain Best Buy this week said it would furlough more than 50,000 employees, while Royal Caribbean Cruises announced it would cut or suspend about a quarter of its American workforce.\n\nThe moves come as retail sales plunged by a record 8.7%, while manufacturing output dropped by the most in more than 74 years.\n\nThe US has expanded its unemployment programme, making disbursements bigger and more people - including the self-employed - eligible. But requests to participate have overwhelmed state offices, which process the applications.\n\nGlenn Hawker, co-owner of a now-closed hair salon in Virginia, said he had applied for the funds as an independent contractor at least twice and been rejected. When he called to figure out why, he couldn't reach anyone.\n\n\"The phone rings and rings and rings,\" the 49-year-old said.\n\nMr Hawker had also sought assistance through a loan programme for small businesses, but he has not received any.\n\nOn Thursday, the Small Business Administration, which is in charge of administering that $349bn programme, announced it had run out of money.\n\nRestaurant owner George Constantinou last month laid off most of the 130 people who work at the four businesses he owns in New York and New Jersey, retaining a core group to continue doing take-out and delivery.\n\nHe said he expected the move would allow the business - which saw sales drop some 80% in the early weeks - to conserve money and workers to receive at least some pay until he could bring them back.\n\n\"I honestly thought this was a two-week thing,\" he said. \"Then it just got worse and worse and worse.\"\n\nAmid delays to claims processing, some staff have sought his help in applying for food stamps. If the economic downturn is prolonged, re-hiring everyone may not make sense, even after he can fully reopen.\n\n\"At this point, we have to take it almost day by day to figure it out,\" he said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is expected to issue \"new guidelines\" for reopening the economy in parts of the country where experts believe the rate of infection is under control.\n\n\"There has to be a balance,\" he said on Wednesday. \"We have to get back to work.\"", "Police have been told to stop people \"home-working\" in parks or sitting on a public bench for long periods of time.\n\nGuidance to officers in England says neither activity is likely to be a \"reasonable excuse\" for someone to leave their home in the lockdown.\n\nBut the advice from police leaders and trainers says that people can move to a friend's address for a cooling-off period \"following arguments at home\".\n\nIt says such moves must be \"genuine\" and \"measured in days, not hours\".\n\nThe three-page document, entitled \"what constitutes a reasonable excuse to leave the place where you live\", is designed to help police enforce the emergency restrictions that came into effect three weeks ago and are set to be extended.\n\nIt has been produced by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing, and appears to be drawn from guidelines issued by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nBut it has not been made public before - and suggests that some police have been applying the rules in the wrong way.\n\nThe regulations say householders can go outside if there's a \"reasonable excuse\", such as shopping for essential items, providing medical help and for exercise.\n\nThe guidance spells out what is \"likely to be reasonable\" for each of the key categories.\n\nIt says buying food for several days, including \"luxury items and alcohol\", is likely to be reasonable.\n\n\"There is no need for all of a person's shopping to be basic food supplies; the purchase of snacks and luxuries is still permitted,\" it says.\n\nLast week, Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley backtracked after threatening that his officers would start to look in people's shopping trolleys and baskets if they continued to flout the rules.\n\nIt also says people are not allowed to buy paint and brushes \"simply to redecorate a kitchen\" but can purchase tools and supplies to repair a fence \"damaged in recent bad weather\".\n\nOn exercise, the guidance lists driving to the countryside for a walk as \"reasonable\" if \"far more time\" is spent walking than driving.\n\nBut it adds that driving for a \"prolonged period with only brief exercise\" is not reasonable.\n\nThat would appear to indicate that someone who drove for an hour to a beauty spot for a walk would not be contravening the rules.\n\nUnder the guidance, police are advised not to intervene if people stop to rest or eat lunch while on a long walk, but short walks to sit on a park bench are not allowed.\n\n\"A very short period of 'exercise' to excuse a long period of inactivity may mean that the person is not engaged in 'exercise' but in fact something else,\" the guidance says.\n\nThe document also clarifies that anyone can travel to work if it is not \"reasonably possible\" to work from home. However, it says it is not allowed for home-workers to \"choose\" to work in a park.\n\nThe College of Policing said the information was published for forces before the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.\n\n\"It was designed to help officers remain consistent with criminal justice colleagues,\" a spokesman added.", "Police have been patrolling parks, where playgrounds have been closed during the lockdown\n\nReports of anti-social behaviour have increased substantially during the coronavirus outbreak, police have said.\n\nIn the last four weeks, there were 178,000 incidents across England and Wales - a rise of 59% on last year.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council, which published the figures, said the rise was likely linked to breaches of lockdown measures - with more than 3,200 fines issued in England.\n\nOverall, crime fell 28% - with rape and burglary allegations down 37%.\n\nThe figures covered the four weeks to 12 April.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the NPCC, said it was not surprising that crime had dropped significantly given that pubs, bars and most shops were closed and people were staying at home.\n\nOther figures showed that shoplifting plummeted by 54%, with serious assaults, robbery and car crime all down by 27%.\n\nThere were also reductions in 999 and 101 calls, as more people reported offences online.\n\nHowever, the figures do not include fraud. Lynne Owens, director-general of the National Crime Agency, warned that criminals were exploiting the crisis by trying to sell Covid-19 testing kits and protection equipment.\n\n\"Fraudsters are playing on people's fear,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Owens also said drug dealers were adapting their methods by wearing high-visibility jackets and posing as key workers and doing deals in supermarket car parks.\n\nShe said the NCA was \"very alive\" to the potential for rivalry between drug gangs because the wholesale and retail price of cocaine had risen.\n\nMeanwhile, Border Force said they had discovered about 14 kilos of cocaine hidden in a consignment of protective face masks which were being transported through the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe driver, a 34-year-old man, was arrested. Border Force regional director Ian Hanson said it was a \"despicable\" attempt to exploit the pandemic.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sara Glenn, who is head of enforcement for the NPCC during the lockdown, said in the past week there had been an increase in serious violence, which could be linked to addicts finding it harder to get drugs.\n\nThe NPCC said between 27 March and 13 April, police in England issued 3,203 fines, with a further 290 given to people in Wales over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nMore than 80% of the penalty notices were imposed on men, while 39 were mistakenly issued to children - aged 16 and 17 - who by law cannot be fined. The fines were rescinded.\n\nMr Hewitt said there was no evidence that the fines were being issued disproportionately to black and ethnic minority groups.\n\nIn total, 26 fines were imposed on people aged 65 to 100.", "A leaked letter seen by the BBC has revealed an extensive list of concerns about how the social care sector is coping with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe letter raises fears about funding, testing, personal protective equipment (PPE) and the shielding scheme for vulnerable people.\n\nWritten on Saturday, to a senior official at the Department of Health and Social Care by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass), it says mixed messages from the government have created \"confusion and additional workload\".\n\nOn protective equipment for care workers, the letter says the national handling has been \"shambolic\".\n\nEarly drops of equipment have been \"paltry\" and more recent deliveries have been \"haphazard\", with some even being confiscated by border control for the NHS.\n\nThe letter says there have been contradictory messages from the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health on the shielding scheme for people particularly at risk from the illness.\n\nAnd while the rollout of testing for care workers has been generally welcomed, the letter states \"testing for care workers appears to be being rolled out without being given thought to who is going to be tested and what we are going to do with the result\".\n\nAdass is a charity that supports members from all 151 local authorities in England with responsibility for adult social care.\n\nThe organisation is also critical of the way central government has recruited volunteers, saying the national scheme has \"diverted 750,000 volunteers away from supporting local communities and left them with nothing to do for the first three weeks\", and claiming it was \"shameful that this was not done in collaboration with local government\".\n\nWhile the letter, also reported in the Local Government Chronicle, welcomes some of the guidance given by Whitehall, it raises significant concerns about the interaction between central government and local government.\n\nIt suggests the sector had to make \"invidious decisions before the pandemic\" and now is not being given the same consideration as the NHS.\n\n\"We are very concerned that there is a significant imbalance between listening, hearing, and understanding NHS England as opposed to social care,\" it says.\n\nThe social care system helps and looks after older and disabled people in residential centres and in their own homes. There are more than 400,000 residents in care homes in 15,000 locations in England.\n\nAdass has broadly welcomed the health secretary's plan to help social care, which was announced on Wednesday.\n\nMatt Hancock announced that all care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms will be tested for coronavirus, as well as any new care home residents being discharged from hospital into care.\n\nBut senior figures in the care sector say there is scepticism about whether the commitments can be delivered.\n\nResponding to Mr Hancock's announcements, Adass said: \"We now have a national strategy; the challenge is now to implement it. Any strategy will ultimately be judged by actions it produces, not words it contains.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said: \"It's absolutely true that we need to do more - that's why we put the next stages of our action plan out... so we can test all people going from hospital into care homes.\"\n\nHe said that 15% of care homes in the UK have two or more cases of Covid-19.\n\nWhen challenged on that figure - one care home boss, for example, says two thirds of his homes are infected - Mr Hancock said it was a \"robust figure\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that \"what really matters is availability of testing now in social care\" where he said more than 10,000 tests of residents had been undertaken.\n\nMr Hancock also said his latest figures showed 1,500 care workers were tested on Tuesday, while 4,100 workers have the test \"immediately available to them\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health said the government's plan in England included \"ramping up testing, overhauling the way PPE is being delivered to care homes and helping to minimise the spread of the virus to keep people safe\".\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the social care sector to ensure they have everything they need to respond to this outbreak and receive the recognition they deserve,\" they added.\n\nThe government has also said it is \"committed to ensuring that all areas have access to PPE\" and is \"working round the clock\" with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the army to ensure supply.\n\nIt said 38 million items of PPE had been delivered to local resilience forums - multi-agency groups of emergency services and agencies - since last week.\n\nLabour's shadow social care minister Liz Kendall said the concerns raised in the letter were \"extremely worrying\".\n\n\"Their view that the supply chain for PPE has been shambolic and that testing for care workers hasn't been properly thought through must be an urgent wake up call for ministers,\" she added.\n\n\"Coronavirus has exposed the already fragile state of these vital services. Ministers must heed the warnings from Adass and take all necessary to halt the emerging crisis in social care.\"\n\nDo you live or work in a care home? How have you been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Facebook is changing how it treats Covid-19 misinformation after a damning report into its handling of the virus.\n\nUsers who have read, watched or shared false coronavirus content will receive a pop-up alert urging them to go the World Health Organisation's website.\n\nA study had indicated Facebook was frequently failing to clamp down on false posts, particularly when they were in languages other than English.\n\nFacebook said the research did not reflect the work it had done recently.\n\nThe California tech firm says it will start showing the messages at the top of news feeds \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nA spokesman for Facebook said it did not recognise the alerts as a being a change of policy, but instead told the BBC they were \"operational changes to the platform\".\n\nThe messages will direct people to a World Health Organisation webpage where myths are debunked.\n\nA Facebook spokesman said the move will \"connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources, in case they see or hear these claims again off of Facebook\".\n\nThe changes have been prompted by a major study of misinformation on the platform across six languages by Avaaz, a crowdfunded activist group.\n\nResearchers say millions of Facebook users continue to be exposed to coronavirus misinformation, without any warning on the platform.\n\nThe group found some of the most dangerous falsehoods had received hundreds of thousands of views, including claims like \"black people are resistant to coronavirus\" and \"Coronavirus is destroyed by chlorine dioxide\".\n\nAvaaz researchers analysed a sample of more than 100 pieces of Facebook coronavirus misinformation on the website's English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian and French versions.\n\nFacebook says it is continuing to expand its multilingual network of fact-checkers issuing grants and partnering with trusted organisations in more than 50 languages.\n\nFadi Quran, Campaign Director at Avaaz said: \"Facebook sits at the epicenter of the misinformation crisis.\n\n\"But the company is turning a critical corner today to clean up this toxic information ecosystem, becoming the first social media platform to alert all users who have been exposed to coronavirus misinformation, and directing them to life-saving facts.\"\n\nOne of the falsehoods that researchers tracked was the claim that people could rid the body of the virus by drinking a lot of water and gargling with salt or vinegar. The post was shared more than 31,000 times before eventually being taken down after Avaaz flagged it to Facebook.\n\nHowever, more than 2,600 clones of the post remain on the platform, with nearly 100,000 interactions and most of these cloned posts have no warning labels from Facebook.\n\nMark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive, defended his company's work in an online post saying: \"On Facebook and Instagram, we've now directed more than two billion people to authoritative health resources via our Covid-19 Information Center and educational pop-ups, with more than 350 million people clicking through to learn more.\n\n\"If a piece of content contains harmful misinformation that could lead to imminent physical harm, then we'll take it down. We've taken down hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to Covid-19, including theories like drinking bleach cures the virus or that physical distancing is ineffective at preventing the disease from spreading. For other misinformation, once it is rated false by fact-checkers, we reduce its distribution, apply warning labels with more context and find duplicates.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg insists that warning pop-ups are working, with 95% of users choosing to not view the content when presented with the labels.\n\n\"I think this latest step is a good move from Facebook and we've seen a much more proactive stance to misinformation in this pandemic than during other situations like the US elections\", says Emily Taylor, associate fellow at Chatham House and an expert at social media misinformation.\n\n\"We don't know if it will make a huge difference but it's got to be worth a try because the difference between misinformation in a health crisis and an election is literally that lives are at stake,\" she said.", "The Super Kamiokande detector consists of a cylindrical steel tank holding 50,000 tonnes of purified water. The detector wall is covered in photo-sensors known as photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs)\n\nStars, galaxies, planets, pretty much everything that makes up our everyday lives owes its existence to a cosmic quirk.\n\nThe nature of this quirk, which allowed matter to dominate the Universe at the expense of antimatter, remains a mystery.\n\nNow, results from an experiment in Japan could help researchers solve the puzzle - one of the biggest in science.\n\nIt hinges on a difference in the way matter and antimatter particles behave.\n\nThe world that's familiar to us - including all the everyday objects we can touch - is made up of matter. The fundamental building blocks of matter are sub-atomic particles, such as electrons, quarks and neutrinos.\n\nBut matter has a shadowy counterpart called antimatter. Each sub-atomic particle of ordinary matter has a corresponding \"antiparticle\".\n\nToday, there is far more matter than antimatter in the Universe. But it wasn't always this way.\n\nThe Big Bang should have created matter and antimatter in equal amounts.\n\nThe Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is often described as the \"afterglow\" of the Big Bang\n\n\"When particle physicists make new particles in accelerators, they always find that they produce particle-antiparticle pairs: for every negative electron, a positively charged positron (the electron's antimatter counterpart),\" said Prof Lee Thompson from the University of Sheffield, a member of the 350-strong T2K collaboration, which includes a relatively large number of scientists from UK universities.\n\n\"So why isn't the universe 50% antimatter? This is a long-standing problem in cosmology - what happened to the antimatter?\"\n\nHowever, when a matter particle meets its antiparticle, they \"annihilate\" - disappear in a flash of energy.\n\nDuring the first fractions of a second of the Big Bang, the hot, dense Universe was fizzing with particle-antiparticle pairs popping in and out of existence. Without some other, unknown mechanism at play, the Universe should contain nothing but leftover energy.\n\n\"It would be pretty boring and we wouldn't be here,\" Prof Stefan Söldner-Rembold, head of the particle physics group at the University of Manchester, told BBC News.\n\nSo what happened to tip the balance?\n\nThat's where the T2K experiment comes in. T2K is based at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, based underground in the Kamioka area of Hida, Japan.\n\nResearchers used the facility's detector to observe neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, generated 295km away at the Japanese Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-Parc) in Tokai. T2K stands for Tokai to Kamioka.\n\nA prototype of the detectors that will be used at DUNE has been built by Cern\n\nAs they travel through the Earth, the particles and antiparticles oscillate between different physical properties known as flavours.\n\nPhysicists think that finding a difference - or asymmetry - in the physical properties of neutrinos and antineutrinos might help us understand why matter is so prevalent compared with antimatter. This asymmetry is known as charge-conjugation and parity reversal (CP) violation.\n\nIt is one of three necessary conditions, proposed by the Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov in 1967, that must be satisfied to produce matter and antimatter at different rates.\n\nAfter analysing nine years' worth of data, the researchers found a mismatch in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate by recording the numbers that reached Super Kamiokande with a flavour different from the one they had been created with.\n\nThe result has also reached a level of statistical significance - called three-sigma - that's high enough to indicate that CP violation occurs in these particles.\n\nThe results have been published in the journal Nature.\n\n\"While CP violation involving quarks is experimentally well established, CP violation has never been observed for neutrinos,\" said Stefan Söldner-Rembold.\n\nAndrei Sakharov developed nuclear weapons for the Soviet Union but later campaigned for disarmament. He proposed three conditions for producing matter and antimatter at different rates\n\n\"The violation of CP symmetry is one of the (Sakharov) conditions for a matter-dominated Universe to exist, but the quark-driven effect is unfortunately much too small to explain why our Universe is mainly filled with matter.\n\n\"Discovering CP violation with neutrinos would be a great leap forward in understanding how the Universe was formed.\"\n\nHe said a theory called leptogenesis links the dominance of matter to CP violation involving neutrinos. \"These leptogenesis models predict that the matter domination is actually due to the neutrino sector. If you were to observe neutrino CP violation, that would give us a strong indication that the leptogenesis model is the way forward,\" said Prof Söldner-Rembold.\n\nThe results from T2K \"give strong hints\" that the CP violation effect could be large for neutrinos.\n\nThis would mean that the next-generation neutrino experiment DUNE, which is currently being constructed in a mine in South Dakota, might detect the effect faster than expected. The international project is being hosted by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).\n\nProf Söldner-Rembold is a member of the DUNE scientific team and the collaboration's spokesperson. The experiment's detector will contain 70,000 tons of liquid argon buried one mile underground. It will be used to discover and measure CP violation with high precision.\n\nHe added that the T2K result \"brings us a step closer to having a model that explains how the Universe evolved from the beginning to the matter-dominated Universe today\".", "The UK must keep a \"significant level\" of social distancing until a vaccine for coronavirus is found, a scientist advising the government has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC there was \"little leeway\" to relax measures without \"something... in their place\" - such as testing and contact tracing.\n\nA three-week extension to the lockdown is expected to be announced later.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded another 861 coronavirus deaths, taking the total number of hospital deaths to 13,729.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson introduced strict curbs on life in the UK on 23 March, as the government sought to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, every three weeks.\n\nThe government - led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab as Mr Johnson continues to recover from the virus - will detail the outcome of the first assessment at the daily news conference later.\n\nLabour said it would support an extension, but called for details on how and when the lockdown will end.\n\nMeanwhile, more than nine in 10 people dying with coronavirus have an underlying health condition, analysis by the Office for National Statistics has found.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Prof Ferguson, of Imperial College London, said easing the lockdown after another three weeks would depend on \"how quickly case numbers go down\".\n\nHe said that required \"a single-minded emphasis\" in government and the health system on \"scaling up testing and putting in place the ability to track down cases in the community and contact trace\".\n\nContact tracing aims to identify and alert people who have come into contact with a person infected with the virus.\n\nThe government has announced plans for a contact-tracing app, but experts say 80% of smartphone owners must sign up for it to halt the outbreak.\n\nWithout scaled-up testing and contact tracing, Prof Ferguson said estimates showed \"we have relatively little leeway\".\n\nThe UK now has the capacity to carry out 35,000 tests for coronavirus a day, Downing Street said, although latest figures showed that fewer than half that number were carried out.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said this was due to a \"lack of demand, not a lack of capacity\" and the government was expanding eligibility.\n\nOn relaxing the current restrictions, Prof Ferguson said: \"What we really need is the ability to put something in their place. If we want to open schools, let people get back to work, then we need to keep transmission down in another manner.\n\n\"And I should say, it's not going to be going back to normal. We will have to maintain some level of social distancing, a significant level of social distancing, probably indefinitely until we have a vaccine available.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent James Gallagher said if a vaccine were to be found, it was not expected that manufacturers would be able to mass produce it until the second half of 2021.\n\n\"Remember, there are four coronaviruses that already circulate in human beings. They cause the common cold, and we don't have vaccines for any of them,\" he said.\n\nProf Ferguson said he believed the \"daily number of infections peaked two weeks ago\", but said it was \"too early to relax\".\n\nAsked whether the government is moving towards having a lockdown exit strategy in place, Prof Ferguson said he would like to see \"action accelerated\" and called for more infrastructure.\n\n\"I'm reminded by the fact we had a Department for Brexit for government - that was a major national emergency, as it were - and we're faced with something which is, at the moment, even larger than Brexit and yet I don't see quite the same evidence for that level of organisation,\" he said.\n\nThe health secretary, Matt Hancock, told Today that Prof Ferguson was not seeing such action behind the scenes in government \"because he advises government, he's not in the government\".\n\nHe said that ministers would \"not be distracted\" into confusing its \"core\" message to stay at home and protect the NHS.\n\n\"How we communicate as a government has a direct impact on the amount of cases that we have and therefore the amount of people who die,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"We talk about what is needed now and when we need to change that we will.\"\n\nEarlier, the health secretary told BBC Breakfast he believed the government had been clear \"we think it too early to make a change\".\n\nMr Hancock said he did not want to put the \"good effort\" of the public to waste by ending the lockdown too early, adding that releasing all measures now would let the virus \"run rampant\".\n\nAll the indications are that the UK is hitting the peak of coronavirus cases. The number of patients in hospital with coronavirus seems to be levelling out.\n\nThere are more than 10,000 beds on general wards available and another 2,000 spaces in intensive care.\n\nIt is this headroom that prompted NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, to declare this week that it was \"increasingly\" confident the health service could cope.\n\nBut the government's advisers will no doubt be advising ministers that the lockdown should continue - because they fear any lifting of restrictions at this stage could undo the good work, and see a spike in cases that would gobble up that spare capacity and overwhelm the health service.\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, warned of a possible \"bounce\" in the numbers soon, due to delays in reporting deaths over the Easter weekend.\n\nAnother 740 people have died in English hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus. In Scotland, a further 80 people died and Northern Ireland recorded a further 18 deaths. In Wales, there were another 32 deaths.\n\nThe UK-wide figures use a different timeframe to individual nations.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Breakfast that Labour would back an extension.\n\nBut he called for clarity from the government about \"what happens next\" and for a move to a \"testing and contact-tracing strategy\" to exit the lockdown.\n\nMinisters in Scotland and Wales have already said their lockdowns are set to remain in place, while Northern Ireland's Arlene Foster confirmed the NI lockdown will be extended until 9 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Hancock said wanting to be with a loved one at the end of their life is \"one of the deepest human instincts\"\n\nClose family members will be able to see dying relatives to say goodbye under new coronavirus guidelines, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe said the UK would introduce new steps to \"limit the risk of infection\" and allow goodbyes \"wherever possible\".\n\nMr Hancock also launched a new network to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to care home staff.\n\nIt comes as the number of hospital deaths in the UK rose by 761 to 12,868.\n\nMany loved ones have been unable to say goodbye to family and friends since stringent restrictions were introduced on life in the UK on 23 March.\n\nMr Hancock highlighted the death of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, from Brixton, south London. Ismail died alone in hospital last month and his close family were then unable to attend his funeral because they were self-isolating.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's briefing, Mr Hancock said the reports made him \"weep\".\n\n\"Wanting to be with someone at the end of their life is one of the deepest human instincts,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a moment that will be with you forever. Done right it can help those left behind cope and it brings comfort to those who are dying.\"\n\nNew government guidelines for social care providers, published shortly after the briefing, say that care homes should still \"limit unnecessary visits\" but advises that \"visits at the end of life... should continue\".\n\nIt also outlines how ministers hope to get PPE to care providers most in need - including an emergency 24/7 helpline.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has made big play of the fact relatives are to be allowed to visit dying family in care homes.\n\nThis was already allowed under guidance issued on 2 April, but many care homes have blocked visiting because of concern about spread of the virus, partly fuelled by a lack of protective equipment.\n\nThe same applies to hospitals. It has meant many people with Covid-19 have died with no family or friends around them.\n\nJust because a minister says it is allowed, it does not mean it will happen.\n\nOn the frontline, staff are under huge pressure and are reluctant to take risks.\n\nCare providers have been calling for more testing and PPE for weeks, amid outbreaks at more than 2,000 homes.\n\nIn Scotland, new figures suggest a quarter of deaths linked to coronavirus have occurred in care homes.\n\nIn England and Wales there were 217 deaths in care homes by 3 April. That number is known to now be much higher. Twenty-four residents have died after an outbreak at one care home in Staffordshire.\n\nEarlier, the government promised to test care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms as laboratory capacity increases.\n\nAt the news conference, Mr Hancock extended the promise on testing to include anyone moving from hospital into social care.\n\nPrevious guidance said only the first five residents with Covid-19 symptoms in each care home needed to be tested to confirm that an outbreak was taking place.\n\nEngland's care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, says it has started contacting care providers to book tests for staff who are self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIn response to Mr Hancock's announcements, Labour's shadow minister for social care Liz Kendall said that workers \"really need to see action and not just words\".\n\nShe told BBC News there were sill questions over the government's strategy - such as how those who test positive while in care can be isolated effectively.\n\nAnd she called for \"rapid action\" to increase testing and to get more PPE to the front line.\n\nMr Hancock also announced a \"badge of honour\" to allow care workers to \"proudly and publicly identify themselves\" during the pandemic - in a bid to boost public recognition of all those in caring roles.\n\nAnd he said supermarkets have been asked to ensure social care workers are given the same priority access as NHS staff.\n\nThe badge Mr Hancock displayed was in fact launched by Care England, which represents care home providers, in 2019.\n\nRehana Azam, national officer of the GMB union, said care workers \"need more than a badge and a pat on their head to define their precious role in society\".\n\n\"They need the protective equipment and testing on the front line now to protect their lives,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the restrictions on movement were \"starting to work\" but warned \"we will not lift these measures until it is safe to do so\".\n\nMinisters are required by law to assess whether the rules are working, based on expert advice, every three weeks - with the first assessment carried out by Thursday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock displays the \"badge of honour\" devised for care workers\n\nDeputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Angela McLean, said there was continuing evidence that the social distancing measures were having an impact on the rate of people testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe numbers of coronavirus patients in hospital beds have also fallen, she said. On Tuesday, the number fell by 1% across the UK, and by 5% in London.\n\n\"We expected everywhere to be the same. That is not exactly what we are seeing,\" she said.\n\nShe said the number of people in hospital in London with coronavirus was falling faster than elsewhere perhaps because cases rose faster in the capital and then people responded to advice more quickly.\n\nNHS bosses have told the BBC that hospitals should be able to cope with an expected peak in coronavirus cases.", "There is no suggestion that Mr Ghani has been infected\n\nDozens of members of staff working at Afghanistan's presidential palace have tested positive for coronavirus, according to media reports.\n\nTwenty cases were initially reported, but on Sunday the New York Times said the number had risen to 40.\n\nThe Afghan government has not commented and there is no suggestion that President Ashraf Ghani himself has been infected.\n\nMr Ghani, 70, reportedly lost part of his stomach to cancer in the 1990s.\n\n\"Twenty-odd people are infected with COVID-19 in the presidential palace. However, it is [being] kept under wraps to ensure no panic is caused,\" one government official told AFP on Saturday.\n\nA Twitter post published by the presidential palace on Thursday showed Mr Ghani chairing a cabinet meeting via video link, but the account has since shared photos of the president meeting Iranian officials in person - albeit at a distance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ارگ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfghan government figures from Saturday showed 933 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Afghanistan as a whole, with 33 deaths.\n\nWhile the numbers appear low, the country has limited access to testing and the health system has suffered under decades of conflict.\n\nThere are also fears that the virus could have spread after more than 150,000 Afghans returned from virus-stricken Iran during March, while tens of thousands of others returned from Pakistan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and the Rolling Stones Together At Home\n\nSir Tom Jones and Little Mix have paid tribute to NHS workers during a British version of the star-studded One World: Together At Home virtual concert.\n\nA host of big names performed from home on the US broadcast earlier, before more British stars were added to the line-up for a UK edition on BBC One.\n\nThe event aimed to celebrate healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLittle Mix singer Perrie Edwards said NHS staff and other key workers \"all deserve such a huge thank you\".\n\nThe girl group were among the UK acts who took part in the British version of the concert on Sunday, along with Rag 'N' Bone Man, George the Poet and The Kingdom Choir.\n\nIt was presented by Dermot O'Leary, Clara Amfo and Claudia Winkleman - who, unlike their home-based US counterparts, hosted together in a studio.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John and the Rolling Stones all filmed themselves singing in their own lavish homes, and all appeared in the main concert on US TV on Saturday and the UK version.\n\nLady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift were among the US stars in both. Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne, Michael Buble, Jennifer Lopez, Sam Smith and John Legend also appeared.\n\nSir Tom performed The Glory of Love and told viewers he was isolated for two years when he had tuberculosis as a child.\n\n\"I thought that was bad then,\" the 79-year-old said. \"But the National Health Service helped me then like they're helping all of us right now.\n\n\"So I would like to say thank you so much to the National Health for doing what they did for me then and what they're doing right now for everybody else and we have to do our best to stay home to help the National Health.\n\n\"We should stay home and follow orders and go along with what we're being told to do.\n\n\"Stick with it, be together and we'll survive.\"\n\nThe four members of Little Mix performed from their homes\n\nLittle Mix performed their hit Touch with all four members in different locations. Edwards said she hoped fans were \"being positive during this weird, weird time\".\n\nShe said: \"I think we can all agree that the love that we feel for the NHS staff at this time and the key workers, doctors, nurses, carers, retail workers, postmen, waste collectors, the list goes on and on.\n\n\"You all deserve such a huge thank you and we appreciate you so, so, so much. Everybody please take care of yourselves, take care of your loved ones, stay home, save lives, protect the NHS.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Global Citizen This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSir Paul called healthcare workers \"the true heroes\" of the crisis, and remembered his mother Mary, who was a nurse during World War Two.\n\n\"Let's tell our leaders that we need them to strengthen the healthcare systems all round the world so that a crisis like this never happens again,\" he said before launching into Lady Madonna.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Global Citizen This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAlthough the show was dubbed the \"lockdown Live Aid\", the stars weren't asking viewers to donate to charity.\n\nInstead, Global Citizen, the organisation that put the show together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Lady Gaga, said \"world leaders, corporate partners and philanthropists\" had pledged $127m (£100m) during Saturday's event to support health workers.\n\nAs well as raising funds and celebrating front-line staff, the broadcast gave viewers a glimpse into the homes of pop and rock superstars - from Taylor Swift's floral wallpaper to Sir Elton John's basketball hoop and US singer Charlie Puth's unmade bed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlie Puth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Rolling Stones managed to play together from four separate locations - although drummer Charlie Watts did not appear to have a drum kit in his house.\n\nInstead, he banged on flight cases and the arm of a sofa for their rendition of You Can't Always Get What You Want.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Italy's lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have been allowed to reopen\n\nThe number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country's outbreak began, authorities have said.\n\nAs of Monday, there were 108,237 people either being treated in hospital or recovering at home, 20 fewer than the previous day.\n\nAuthorities say the small but symbolic drop is a \"positive development\".\n\nItaly's lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have reopened.\n\nThey include bookshops, stationers and shops selling children's clothes, as officials see how social distancing measures can be safely applied.\n\nItaly has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world after Spain and the US. On Sunday, the increase of active positive cases in the country was 486.\n\n\"For the first time, we have seen a new positive development: the number of currently positive has declined,\" civil protection agency chief Angelo Borrelli told reporters.\n\nMore than 24,000 people have so far died of the coronavirus in Italy, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the disease globally.\n\nHowever, as people who die at home or in care facilities are not included in the country's figures, many believe the actual death and infection rates may be higher than the official tallies.\n\nThe Italian authorities have called the figures \"extremely encouraging\". The number of people currently infected with coronavirus has fallen for the first time; it is an important milestone, despite the fact that there were fewer tests than the previous day.\n\nTotal cases, which includes those who have died and recovered, rose by just over 1.2%, the smallest proportional increase since the outbreak began. There were, however, 454 deaths - slightly up on Sunday's figure.\n\nWhile the infection numbers are cause for optimism, the daily death toll is proving stubbornly high.\n\nIntensive care figures also show a downward trend, with occupancy now at its lowest level in a month. Italy is by no means out of the woods. But it is on the right path - and it now feels like its sacrifices are paying off.\n\nFrance has become the latest country to record more than 20,000 deaths related to coronavirus, a toll the country's director of health Jérôme Salomon has called \"symbolic and painful\".\n\n\"Tonight, our country is crossing a painful symbolic milestone,\" he said.\n\nUnlike the UK, France is including nursing home deaths in its daily toll. As of Monday, there have been 20,265 virus-related deaths in France - 12,513 of them in hospitals and 7,752 in nursing homes, Mr Salomon added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played.", "Brian Mfula and Jenelyn Carter had both worked in the Swansea area\n\nTributes have been paid to two workers serving the health care sector in Swansea who have died with Covid-19.\n\nSwansea University said Brian Mfula, was an \"inspiring, warm and generous\" mental health nursing lecturer.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said Jenelyn Carter, was a \"lovely, caring\" healthcare assistant who worked on admissions at Morriston Hospital.\n\nNurse director Mark Madams said she had a \"heart of gold\" and \"would go the extra mile for anyone\".\n\n\"We are devastated by her death and offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends,\" he said in a Facebook message.\n\nProf Ceri Phillips, Swansea University head of the College of Human and Health Sciences, said it had been \"inundated\" with condolence messages following Mr Mfula's death.\n\nHe said the father-of-four was known for his \"generous spirit\", \"warm personality\" and his \"highly infectious laugh\".\n\nProf Phillips said students had described him as an \"inspiring teacher\" and a role model.\n\n\"Brian was also recognised as a dedicated family man and our thoughts and prayers are extended to his wife Mercy and children, Kato, Nkweto, Thabo and Thandiwe for their tragic loss,\" Prof Phillips added.\n\nKato Mfula, 23, said he was \"broken\" by his father's death.\n\n\"I never even got to say goodbye to my hero, my dad,\" he said in a tweet.\n\n\"I'm so broken right now I don't know what we're gonna do without you.\"\n\nA family statement added: \"We just want to say that he was our hero who only ever wanted to help whoever he could.\n\n\"He did it all with a smile and that's how we're going to remember him. We miss him so much.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLondon's Heathrow airport normally has about 600 flights landing on an average day, but in lockdown Britain, about 60 arrive daily.\n\nOther UK airports are receiving a tiny number of flights between them. But the number is still high enough to trouble MPs, who on Friday received a letter from the UK aviation minister explaining why flights were still in the air.\n\nIt is the airlines, who say nearly all of their passengers on their flights into Heathrow are people heading home, which decide which routes to run.\n\n\"No-one is on holiday,\" says Airlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade, whose group represents British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and other UK-based carriers.\n\nThat was certainly the picture at a deserted Heathrow Terminal 5 when I visited this week. I watched from a distance as a trickle of mask-sporting passengers appeared after flying in on British Airways from Los Angeles.\n\nSome people on social media have questioned why flights are still coming in from countries such as the US, Italy and Spain, where Covid-19 is also prevalent.\n\nAlitalia said the four daily flights it is now operating between Rome and London are \"quite empty\" flying into Heathrow.\n\nHowever, on the return leg to Rome, its aircraft are \"almost full\" of Italian citizens who want to fly back to Italy. Those people travelling to Italy must fill in a declaration to say that their journey is essential.\n\nMadrid and Barcelona are, like Heathrow, hub airports. That means many passengers flying in from there will have started their journey elsewhere, such as airports in Latin America.\n\nAnd many people flying into Heathrow will transit and fly straight back out again to another destination.\n\nMany airlines would not disclose exactly how many passengers they have been ferrying into London.\n\nHowever, American Airlines said social distancing had been possible \"for all passengers\", suggesting that its aircraft have a lot of empty seats.\n\nPassenger numbers have been so low for Dutch carrier KLM that over the past few days, it has had to cancel its only daily flight from Amsterdam Schiphol into Heathrow.\n\nIn normal times, it runs 11 of those flights in a single day.\n\nHeathrow is seeing just a trickle of mask-wearing passengers arriving\n\nVirgin Atlantic revealed that many of its commercial flights which have been running over the past couple of weeks have only, on average, been a quarter full.\n\nAnd my understanding is that British Airways is, globally, currently carrying a minuscule fraction of its usual passenger load.\n\nBut if passenger flights are not full of passengers right now, their belly will be full of cargo which, because of demand, now travels at a premium.\n\nCargo has become a vital source of income for airlines, which have had their passenger revenue slashed in apocalyptic fashion.\n\nAt the same time, their high fixed costs, such as maintaining, leasing and parking aircraft, remain.\n\nIn specific cases, airlines such as BA and Virgin Atlantic have been using passenger airliners to carry solely cargo, namely medical supplies such as ventilator parts, face masks and protective clothing (PPE).\n\nOver a 10-day period earlier this month, Virgin Atlantic ran 20 cargo-only flights into Heathrow.\n\nIt ran just 15 commercial passenger flights over the same period.\n\nWhen a passenger aircraft is used to carry cargo, most of the seats can be covered with netting, so that supplies can travel in the cabin as well as in the belly of the plane.\n\nNormally, most of the world's air cargo is transported in the hold of passenger aircraft.\n\nBut with the vast majority of airliners grounded, cargo companies have had to step up their operations in an effort to meet the demand.\n\nCompanies such as FedEx Express, DHL and IAG Cargo (a sister company of BA and Iberia) have been ferrying medical supplies into the UK, namely from China.\n\nThere is \"a huge demand\" for component parts for projects to manufacture respirators in the UK, according to Trevor Hoyle from FedEx Express.\n\nHe said his company had also moved \"a huge amount\" of personal protective equipment (PPE) into the UK in recent days.\n\nThe number of cargo-only flights travelling into Heathrow has grown exponentially throughout the crisis.\n\nAnd despite most passenger flights being grounded, East Midlands Airport, which boasts the UK's \"largest dedicated air cargo operation\", has seen a rise in overall flight numbers because of the demand for freight.\n\nAs for getting people home, BA and Virgin Atlantic are also running official repatriation flights for the Foreign Office.\n\nThe UK government says it has brought back 7,300 people on 35 flights since the coronavirus outbreak began in China. However, the vast bulk of people returning have travelled via commercial routes.\n\nIt's estimated that 1.3 million people have arrived back in the UK on commercially operated aircraft over that same period, but thousands of British residents are still stranded abroad.\n\nOne of those to return was Kiran Sandhu, who was flown home this week from India, where she was visiting family. When she left India, Kiran was given a temperature check and had to answer questions about whether she had Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nBut when she landed in the UK, there were no such questions or tests.\n\n\"It was a bit confusing,\" she says. \"You just assume that if one airport is doing it, then other airports would follow through with the same regulation and process.\"\n\nPublic Health England says checks are not effective, because some people carrying Covid-19 do not have a temperature and some show no symptoms at all.\n\nThis may not remain the case forever. Heathrow's boss says that at some point, tests might have to become the norm in airports around the world, partly so passengers are not confused by inconsistent approaches.", "The deal represents the largest cut in oil production ever agreed\n\nOpec producers and allies have agreed a record oil deal that will slash global output by about 10% after a slump in demand caused by coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe deal, agreed on Sunday via video conference, is the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.\n\nOpec+, made up of oil producers and allies including Russia, announced plans for the deal on 9 April, but Mexico resisted the cuts.\n\nOpec has yet to announce the deal, but individual nations have confirmed it.\n\nThe only detail to have been confirmed so far is that 9.7 million barrels per day will be cut by Opec oil producers and allies.\n\nOn Monday in Asia, oil rose over $1 a barrel in early trading with global benchmark Brent up 3.9% to $32.71 a barrel and US grade West Texas Intermediate up 6.1% to $24.15 a barrel.\n\nShares in Australia jumped 3.46% led by energy exporters, but Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.35% on continued concerns of poor global demand because of the spread of the coronavirus.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented agreement because it's not just between Opec and Opec+... but also the largest supplier in the world which is the US as well as other G-20 countries which have agreed to support the agreement both in reducing production and also in using up some of the surface supply by putting it into storage,\" Sandy Fielden, director of Oil Research at research firm Morningstar, told the BBC.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Kuwait's energy minister Dr Khaled Ali Mohammed al-Fadhel tweeted the news, while Saudi Arabia's energy ministry and Russia's state news agency Tass both separately confirmed the deal on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"By the grace of Allah, then with wise guidance, continuous efforts and continuous talks since the dawn of Friday, we now announce the completion of the historic agreement to reduce production by approximately 10 million barrels of oil per day from members of 'OPEC +' starting from 1 May 2020,\" wrote Dr al-Fadhel in a tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlobal oil demand is estimated to have fallen by a third as more than three billion people are locked down in their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nPrior to that, oil prices slumped in March to an 18-year-low after Opec+ failed to agree cuts.\n\nTalks were complicated by disagreements between Russia and Saudi Arabia, but on 2 April oil prices surged after President Trump signalled that he expected the two countries to end their feud.\n\nThe initial details of the deal, outlined by Opec+ on Thursday, would have seen the group and its allies cutting 10 million barrels a day or 10% of global supply from 1 May. Another five million barrels were expected to be cut by other nations outside the group such as the US, Canada, Brazil and Norway.\n\nIt said the cuts would be eased to eight million barrels a day between July and December. Then they would be eased again to six million barrels between January 2021 and April 2022.\n\nIndependent oil market analyst Gaurav Sharma told the BBC that the deal agreed on Sunday was \"marginally lower\", compared to the 10 million barrels per day that was originally announced on Thursday. Mexico had balked at making these production cuts, which delayed the deal being signed off.\n\nThen on Friday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Mr Trump had offered to make extra US cuts on his behalf, an unusual offer by the US president, who has long railed against Opec.\n\nMr Trump said Washington would help Mexico by picking up \"some of the slack\" and being reimbursed later, but he did not detail how the arrangement would work.\n\n\"Now a rehashed deal placating Mexico has resurfaced to calm the market, yet, look closer and the doubts surface,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\n\"The bulk of the output cuts are predicated on Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting 2.5 million barrels per day from agreed - and somewhat inflated - levels of 11 million barrels per day. More importantly, for most of 2019, Russia displayed very poor form in complying with previously agreed Opec+ cuts. So the market is unlikely to take the announced cut at face value.\"\n\nHe added that forecasts for a drop in demand in the summer appear to be \"dire\", with even the most optimistic forecasts pointing to a reduction of 18.5 million barrels per day.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"The announcement can stem the bleeding, but cannot prevent what is likely to be a dire summer for oil producers with the potential to drag oil prices below $20 (£16; €18).\"", "Sir Tom Jones and Little Mix are among the UK artists featuring in a British version of the star-studded One World: Together At Home concert.\n\nThe event, which has already been shown online and on US TV, celebrates the dedication of front-line healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay's Chris Martin, who appeared in the main concert on US TV, are also in the UK version - which is being shown on BBC One on Sunday evening.\n\nFronted by Dermot O'Leary, Clara Amfo and Claudia Winkleman, the BBC concert also includes performances from Rag 'N' Bone Man, George the Poet and The Kingdom Choir.\n\nSir Paul called healthcare workers \"the true heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\n\"Let's tell our leaders that we need them to strengthen the healthcare systems all round the world so that a crisis like this never happens again,\" he said.\n\nAlthough not a charity concert, Global Citizen, the organisation that put the show together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Lady Gaga, said \"world leaders, corporate partners and philanthropists\" had pledged $127m (£100m) during the event to support health workers.\n\nRolling Stones performed together - from their separate homes - for the concert Image caption: Rolling Stones performed together - from their separate homes - for the concert", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"There are currently no plans to have schools open over the summer period\"\n\nThe education secretary has said he cannot give a date for when English schools will reopen, four weeks after they were shut to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Gavin Williamson said there were \"no plans\" to open schools over summer.\n\nHe said five \"tests\" must be met before schools could reopen, including a fall in infections and the daily death rate.\n\nIt follows a Sunday Times report that said schools could reopen on 11 May.\n\nUK schools were closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers on 20 March.\n\nMr Williamson said: \"People are anxious to know when we're going to relax restrictions, when schools are likely to be fully back and open again.\n\n\"Of course, I want nothing more than to see schools back, get them back to normal, make sure the children are sat around, learning, and experiencing the joy of being at school. But I can't give you a date.\"\n\nDecisions on education are devolved in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said five \"tests\" must be met before education establishments could reopen including a fall in the daily death rate from coronavirus, reliable data showing the rate of infection was decreasing to \"manageable levels\", and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak.\n\nAddressing children directly, Mr Williamson said: \"I wanted to say to you how sorry I am that you've had your education disrupted in this way.\n\n\"I want you to know that you are such an important part of this fight too, and I cannot thank you enough for all that you are doing.\"\n\nThe education secretary also said he recognised how care leavers, and those about to leave care, were \"really vulnerable\", adding that he had asked local authorities \"to ensure no-one has to leave care during this difficult time\".\n\nMr Williamson said a further £1.6m had been given to the NSPCC charity to help it provide advice to children and adults.\n\nFrom Monday, he said, a series of 180 online lessons per week will be made available for pupils from reception through to Year 10.\n\nThe online lessons, which have been prepared by teachers and education organisations, will be available under the label of Oak National Academy.\n\nLaptops will be provided for some disadvantaged children in England, including pupils taking GCSEs next year, children with a social worker, or those leaving care.\n\nThere is no specified number of laptops available, or set budget, and it will be up to schools or local authorities to decide who needs help with access to a computer.\n\nMr Williamson also promised free 4G routers to help families connect to the internet.\n\nNo decision is imminent on re-opening schools in England.\n\nThat was the clearest message from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBefore even setting a date he said five tests would need to be met. Once that had happened, parents and teachers would need \"proper notice\" before re-opening schools.\n\nNone of that sounded like any change in the next few weeks.\n\nTeachers' unions have described social distancing in school as \"impossible\" - and head teachers have described pressure for an early return as \"irresponsible\".\n\nMr Williamson's strong notes of caution suggest any return this half-term is unlikely - which would mean attention might shift to the second half of the term - so not before 1 June at the earliest.\n\nThe focus instead will be on helping pupils to learn online at home, because that is where they will be for the foreseeable future.\n\nAnother 596 people in the UK have died in UK hospitals with coronavirus, taking the total number of hospital deaths to 16,060.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 briefing, England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said the lower number of deaths recorded on Sunday was \"very good news\" but cautioned against jumping to conclusions.\n\nShe declined to say whether the UK had \"passed the peak\" of the virus, adding: \"If we don't keep doing the social distancing, we will create a second peak and we definitely won't be past it.\n\n\"But I do think things look to be heading in the right direction.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said while Sunday's figure was the lowest for nearly two weeks, figures often dropped at weekends because of delays reporting and recording deaths.\n\nAddressing ongoing criticism and concern over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care workers, the education secretary said an \"enormous strain\" had been put on the system.\n\nMr Williamson said 400,000 gowns from Turkey which had been expected to arrive on Sunday had been delayed but were due to be flown in to the UK on Monday.\n\nThere have been warnings that some hospitals' intensive care units could run out of gowns this weekend.\n\nAsked by the BBC why UK suppliers offering to make PPE had not been contacted, Mr Williamson said the government hoped to speak to them within \"the next 24 hours\".\n\nHe added that \"every resource of government\" had been deployed to expand supplies of PPE and ventilators.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The BBC has been invited to film inside the University Hospital Wishaw in Lanarkshire to show the impact of the coronavirus pandemic across all aspects of care.\n\nThe team filmed the challenges facing the rapidly expanded intensive care unit and the transformation of other services, including the maternity unit, over 12 hours inside the hospital.\n\nThe Scottish government says “this is the biggest challenge we have faced in our lifetimes” and “NHS and social care staff across Scotland are doing incredible work”.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "An \"enormous strain\" has been put on the system for obtaining protective kit for NHS staff and care workers, the education secretary has said.\n\nSome 400,000 gowns had been expected to arrive from Turkey on Sunday, but the government said it had been delayed.\n\nGavin Williamson was asked by the BBC why British suppliers offering to make protective kit had not been contacted.\n\nHe responded that government hoped to speak to them within the next 24 hours, and the gowns should arrive on Monday.\n\n\"I think we all recognise the enormous strain that has been placed on the whole system and we also recognise that right across the globe people are trying to get the same items of PPE from quite a limited number of suppliers,\" Mr Williamson said at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym also asked why stocks had been allowed to run down over the last couple of years, and why more was not done to boost them in March and February.\n\nThe education secretary said \"every resource of government\" had been deployed to expand supplies of PPE and ventilators.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries, meanwhile, said the UK remained an \"international exemplar\" of pandemic preparedness, adding there had been challenges but the government was \"always looking ahead\".\n\nThe pledge to take delivery of more protective kit came after warnings that some hospitals' intensive care units could run out of gowns this weekend.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association, described the delay as \"very concerning\".\n\n\"Healthcare workers desperately need proper and effective protection now - by whatever means possible,\" he said, adding: \"This really is a matter of life and death.\"\n\nPublic Health England changed its advice on Friday to allow the NHS to re-use gowns if stock was running low, saying \"some compromise\" was needed \"in times of extreme shortages\".\n\nIt asked staff to reuse \"(washable) surgical gowns or coveralls or similar suitable clothing (for example, long-sleeved laboratory coat, long-sleeved patient gown or industrial coverall) with a disposable plastic apron for AGPs (aerosol-generating procedures) and high-risk settings with forearm washing once gown or coverall is removed\".\n\nThe guidance also said hospitals could reserve the gowns for surgical operations and procedures which were likely to transmit respiratory pathogens.\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis said for the guidance on the use of protective equipment to be properly followed, it was \"absolutely critical above everything else that we have the supplies of PPE going out to the front line\".\n\nBut the Royal College of Nursing said the guidance was developed without a full consultation and the British Medical Association (BMA) - which represents doctors - said any change must be driven by science, not availability.\n\nThe delay to the consignment is a real worry, both in the short and long-term.\n\nIt is clear the pandemic stocks we have been largely relying on to date are running out, at least in terms of gowns and visors.\n\nIt has left us depending on international supply - certainly for gowns - as we do not seem to be able to manufacture them ourselves.\n\nGiven the international demand for them, this threatens to be an on-going issue that could cause problems for months to come.\n\nStaff are understandably worried - they are putting their lives at risk.\n\nMinisters and their officials are clearly working hard to do what they can.\n\nBut in the future, serious questions will need to be asked about why this situation has arisen in the first place.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the UK had built up stocks of PPE in expectation of a flu pandemic - as well as to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit - but he said there was a \"worldwide pressure\" on supplies.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said \"serious mistakes have been made\" by the government in tackling the outbreak.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We know that our front-line NHS staff don't have the PPE, that they've been told this weekend that they won't necessarily have the gowns which are vital to keep them safe.\"\n\nThe government has appointed Lord Deighton, who headed the organising committee of the London Olympics, to resolve problems with supplies and distribution of PPE.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "On 26 March, Chicago stopped for a moment of gratitude: People took to their balconies, porches and rooftops, cheering and ringing bells in the dark winter night.\n\nThe applause was for the healthcare workers, first responders and service-industry employees on the frontlines of the pandemic who were risking their lives every day to save people from the virus wreaking havoc around the world.\n\nBut for hospital cleaner Candice Martinez, the recognition of nurses and doctors has left her feeling empty.\n\n\"It's disappointing to me that us 'lower level employees' aren't getting any kind of recognition for what we are doing.\"\n\nAs an Environmental Services Worker at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ms Martinez is responsible for cleaning the rooms while patients are in hospital or after they are discharged or moved.\n\nShe is one of the thousands of essential employees in the city who still have to go to work despite the crisis. And one of the 12,571 cases of Covid-19 identified in Chicago.", "A doctor takes a swab sample of a resident at a Covid-19 coronavirus testing drive inside the Dharavi slums\n\nThyrocare, a private diagnostic laboratory in India, had just started testing for Covid-19, when the Supreme Court ordered all tests to be carried out free.\n\n“We thought the order would say the rich would pay, and the government would pay for the poor,” says Arokiaswamy Velumani, Thyrocare’s founder.\n\nAt 4,500 rupees ($59; £47), it’s not a cheap test. But the court did not clarify if and how private labs would be reimbursed. Panic stricken, some, including Thyrocare, put testing on hold.\n\nAn anxious federal government petitioned the court to reconsider - which it did.\n\nAccording to the new order, issued on 13 April, the government will reimburse private labs for testing the 500 million people covered by a flagship public health insurance scheme. The rest would have to pay.\n\nBut the volte-face sparked a bigger question: can India scale up testing for Covid-19 if it’s not free?\n\nIndia's numbers - 15,712 active cases and 507 deaths - are relatively low for a country of 1.3bn. Many believe this is because it's still testing too little - as of Sunday there had been 386,791.\n\nBut scaling up is a challenge. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved only one homegrown testing kit so far, imports are delayed because of a global surge in demand, and the protective gear and medical staff required to conduct tests are in short supply. Also the sheer size of India’s population, and the resources needed to reach every corner of the country, is daunting.\n\nAll of this has made testing expensive. It’s free at government hospitals and labs - and for months they were the only ones permitted to even test for coronavirus. But soon private players were roped in to support India’s underfunded and struggling public health system.\n\nThe government capped the price of a test at 4,500 rupees at home, or 3,500 rupees in a hospital, based on the recommendations of an expert committee including heads of private health firms.\n\nBut the figure, says Malini Aisola, from the All India Drug Action Network, a health sector watchdog, is \"arbitrary\". One virologist said when he calculated the cost, it worked out to around 700 rupees.\n\n\"If the private sector was part of the process of deciding the cost, the government should release the breakdown,” argues Ms Aisola.\n\nBut private lab owners say it’s a fair price. “The supply chains are clogged - everyone is working on advance payments,” says Zoya Brar, founder and CEO of Core Diagnostics.\n\nShe says that the basic RT-PCR test kit - widely used to diagnose HIV and influenza - costs around 1,200 rupees. And this is supplemented with an extraction kit, used to pull DNA and RNA, another kind of genetic code, from the sample.\n\n“This is in short supply and when it’s available, we’re getting it for around 1,000 rupees, which is a blessing.” And then, she adds, there are the overheads - personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff; employees’ salaries; and the cost of running the lab overall.\n\nThyrocare's Dr Velumani says he is also paying higher salaries than usual because staff are being pressured to stop working by their families who are scared they may contract the virus.\n\nRight now, Indians are getting tested only if a doctor advises them to do so. But the long wait at government hospitals, and the prohibitive cost at private ones, could deter even those with symptoms from showing up.\n\n“If you want to contain a pandemic, you can’t have testing determined by cost,” says Jayati Ghosh, an economics professor at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.\n\nAnd making it free only for the poorest Indians doesn’t help either, according to some economists.\n\n“There’s a big chunk of people just above the poverty line that are also struggling and there are middle-class workers who have been laid off and can’t afford to pay for their families to get tested,” says Vivek Dehejia, an economist.\n\nMore importantly, the asymptomatic nature of the virus in many people means that India may soon have no choice but to begin mass testing.\n\n“If you really want to push up testing rates across the country, you can’t expect everyone to pay out of their pockets - for themselves and their families - especially if they’re not showing any symptoms,” Mr Dehejia says.\n\nSingapore and South Korea have both been lauded for their aggressive testing, which is funded by the government. Vietnam, perhaps more comparable to India, has focused more on isolating infected people, but the government still foots the bill for testing.\n\n“You cannot contain the virus unless you know who has it,” says Prof Ghosh. “So it’s in your interest to make sure there is universal access [to testing].”\n\nEconomists who spoke to the BBC made a range of suggestions - including employers chipping in, and insurance covering it - but all seemed to agree the government should do more.\n\nAlready, it is paying for the lion’s share of testing, however, Mr Dehejia says it should \"encourage and subsidise free testing\".\n\n“You cannot rely on private charity to get you out of an international public health emergency.”\n\nBut India's health sector is poorly funded - it receives just about 1.3% of GDP - and is largely unregulated. Health insurance is not mandatory, and the market is fragmented - most policies cover hospitalisation but not diagnosis or medicines.\n\nAnd now with private hospitals in the mix, it’s going to be harder for the government to retain control of its testing strategy. A prominent hospital chain has just made testing mandatory at the time of admission, which runs counter to current guidelines, recommending testing only for those with symptoms or who have come in contact with a positive case.\n\nOf course, testing could become cheaper as more homegrown kits are approved, and supply outstrips demand. Some states are also experimenting with standardised collection points - such as mobile centres or kiosks - which means fewer PPE suits and lower transport costs.\n\nIndia is also considering pool testing, which involves collecting a large number of samples and testing them in one go. If the test is negative, nobody has the virus but if it’s positive, everyone who gave a sample has to be tested individually.\n\n“It’s definitely a good way to reduce costs - as long as it’s done efficiently and smartly,” Ms Brar says.\n\nBut the more immediate solution, she says, is to perhaps regulate prices.\n\n“If you can fix the price of the raw materials, you can fix the overall price.”", "The details still have to be worked out but the prime minister agrees children need to have fresh air\n\nSpanish children have been kept at home since 14 March, under strict measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nNow Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez aims to relax the rule on 27 April so they can \"get some fresh air\".\n\nBarcelona Mayor Ada Colau, who has young children herself, this week pleaded with the government to allow children outside.\n\nSpain has seen more than 20,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic and almost 200,000 reported cases.\n\nIn a televised briefing on Saturday evening, Mr Sánchez said Spain had left behind \"the most extreme moments and contained the brutal onslaught of the pandemic\".\n\nBut he said he would ask parliament to extend Spain's state of alarm to 9 May as the achievements made were \"still insufficient and above all fragile\" and could not be jeopardised by \"hasty decisions\".\n\nSpain's latest coronavirus figures appear to confirm the virus's downward curve, given that at one point earlier this month the country was recording nearly 1,000 deaths each day.\n\nAlso, the number of daily new infections appears to have stabilised. Although the health ministry has warned that weekend figures can be misleading because of a delay by local authorities in reporting data, the apparently improving picture will further encourage calls for the lifting of certain restrictions.\n\nThere has been growing social and political pressure on Prime Minister Sánchez to allow children, in particular, to go outside. Opposition leader Pablo Casado tweeted that \"these little heroes are climbing the walls\" after more than a month of not being allowed out beyond the confines of their homes.\n\nHowever, a poll published by 40dB for El País reported that 59% of those asked thought that the lockdown should be maintained as it is for the time being.\n\nAnother 410 deaths were reported on Sunday - fewer than Saturday. The latest toll is well down from the peak of the pandemic, and the government allowed some non-essential workers to resume construction and manufacturing last Monday.\n\nHowever, the main lockdown measures remain in place, with adults only allowed out to visit food shops and pharmacies or work considered essential. Children have been barred from going outside their homes completely.\n\nSpain's eight million children have already spent five weeks in confinement and there has been growing unease at the risk to their health.\n\nPedro Sánchez reacted to growing criticism of the decision to keep children indoors since 14 March\n\nThe Spanish Children's Rights Coalition has warned of mental and physical health problems for children as a result of such measures and called for boys and girls to be allowed outside to play and do some physical activity.\n\n\"These children need to get out,\" the Barcelona mayor demanded. \"Wait no more: Free our children!\"\n\nOther countries such as Denmark have begun opening up schools for under-11s while Norway is set to reopen kindergartens on Monday. Germany will reopen some schools on 4 May although the most populous state will begin opening up from Monday.\n\nSweden has kept its schools open throughout the crisis. However, none of these countries has been as badly hit by the virus as Spain.\n\nThe mayor of Barcelona said that like other parents she worried about the \"psychological and emotional health\" of her children\n\nFrom a week on Monday, the prime minister said, children will be allowed out but he added that he had not yet decided how it would be organised and it would have to be \"limited and subject to conditions to avoid contagion\".\n\n\"The proposal is that starting from 27 April they have the opportunity to leave their homes and for a while in the day they get to enjoy fresh air,\" he said, without specifying for how long that would be.\n\nMr Sánchez said he would discuss the details of easing the restrictions with regional leaders on Sunday and following the advice of paediatricians. Reports said the relaxation would only apply to under-12s but that has not been confirmed.\n\nHe accepted that many children were living in homes of 40-50 sq m (430-540 sq ft) in size and that the youngest would be allowed out in the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the ICU in one of Spain's biggest hospitals\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameras got a first look inside the field hospital at the Principality Stadium on 14 April\n\nWales' biggest hospital has been opened by Prince Charles to ease the pressure on the NHS from coronavirus.\n\nCardiff's Principality Stadium has been turned into a 2,000-bed field hospital and is the second biggest in the UK behind Nightingale Hospital, London.\n\nThe Cardiff site - called Dragon's Heart Hospital - will have a mobile x-ray and CT scanners.\n\nIt will care for people recovering from coronavirus, and for others facing the last weeks or days of their life.\n\nSpeaking in a pre-recorded video message on the stadium's big screens, the Prince of Wales said the transformation of the stadium was part of the \"immense effort to combat the dreadful threat that we face\".\n\nHe praised the way the community had come together and frontline workers who have put themselves first during the pandemic \"without sorts of reward and without regard for self\".\n\nA pre-recorded message from Prince Charles was played on a big screen during the opening ceremony\n\n\"Words simply cannot express the gratitude and humility that such compassion and courage inspires in us all,\" he added in the video recorded at his Birkhall home in Scotland.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to all those who have lost their loved ones in such a terribly tragic way. Today we honour their memory, and can resolve in words long used to commemorate those who fell in other countries.\n\n\"Their sacrifice shall not be forgotten. We could honour them too by doing all we can to aid those are on the frontline of the struggle.\n\n\"Time and again in these last days and weeks we have heard the most inspiring stories of people from every possible background.\"\n\nAbout 750 beds are on the pitch with 250 on platforms around it\n\nHe also said: \"We hope and trust that the measures which have been taken and the hardship that so many are enduring will help hasten the day when the shadow of this disease will finally be lifted.\"\n\nThe site was planned in one week and erected over two weeks with 600 people involved.\n\nIt is ready to accept its first 300 patients and is expected to be fully functional within a further 14 days, with up to 2,000 staff working there, and will double the size of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's (CVUHB) system.\n\nLiquid oxygen tanks have been installed outside the stadium\n\nThe hospital will care for patients who are coming to the end of their treatment for Covid-19 and require rehabilitation and support, or end-of-life palliative care.\n\nFacilities include mobile x-ray, CT scanners and care for people in the last weeks or days of their lives.\n\nThe adjacent Cardiff Blues stadium will offer a rest area for staff and a reception area for relatives.\n\nThe hospital covers the whole Principality Stadium pitch and there is an on-site radiography unit, laboratories and a pharmacy\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the \"spirit that has helped us to get through the coronavirus crisis can be seen here in Cardiff today - the remarkable Ysbyty Calon Y Ddraig (Dragon's Heart Hospital)\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"By ramping up the number of beds available in settings such as this, we can make sure there is capacity in our hospitals to care for those most in need during these extraordinary times.\"\n\nProfessor Charles Janczewski, chairman of CVUHB, said: \"It is not until you see the scale of the work and the turnaround of this stadium... that the impact of this virus has had on us all really hits home.\n\n\"Sadly like many other NHS organisations we have suffered losses, and I would like to pay tribute to those colleagues and healthcare workers at Cardiff and Vale and indeed across Wales and the world.\"", "The government decision is designed to enable key workers to walk or cycle more safely\n\nBarriers to imposing car-free streets are being lifted following a government decision to enable key workers to walk or cycle more safely.\n\nNormally, councils in England that want to close streets to cars must follow procedures that can take weeks to implement.\n\nBut ministers say councils can now cut red tape governing temporary road closures.\n\nThis could help people walk and cycle whilst social distancing.\n\nHealth and environment groups say the measures will also promote healthy walking and cycling - and tackle climate change and air pollution.\n\nA letter from the Department of Transport to councils in England says: “This is temporary guidance and will be withdrawn once conditions allow.”\n\nBut campaigners say that, even after the epidemic peaks, many workers will still fear infection from public transport. They will also be wary of car accidents.\n\nThat applies particularly to novice cyclists, who have recently dusted off their bikes during the crisis.\n\nThe campaign groups want ministers to encourage all councils to make simple changes such as using bollards to shut streets to motor vehicles.\n\nBrighton has already closed off a major road to allow people to carry out social distancing while walking, running or cycling.\n\nThe organisations behind the road closure initiative include Barts NHS Trust, Cycling UK, British Cycling, Sustrans, Brompton Cycles and The Ramblers.\n\nJonathan Kelly, deputy director of operations at Barts NHS Trust, told BBC News: “People require more public space to socially distance safely and the current set-up of the roads isn’t facilitating that adequately.\n\n“As we move out of the virus, it’s important to maintain that distance to avoid infection.\n\n“Personally, I would like to see many more road closures in future to allow people to use forms of travel that are good for them and good for the planet.”\n\nIt’s part of a global trend. Road closures have happened in New Zealand, Canada, Germany and the US.\n\nIn New York, the city council is preparing plans for 75 miles of “streets for people”.\n\nAshok Sinha, from the London Cycling Campaign, told BBC News: “First we have a moral responsibility to keep staff safe whilst cycling to work during the crisis.\n\n“We know this crisis will end - but we will still be faced with an ongoing climate crisis which, longer term, will cause much more loss of life.\n\n“We are being taught a lesson here about what a difference it makes to people’s activity and air quality and carbon emissions if we allow people to cycle safely.”\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEdmund King, president of the AA, said: “We remain generally supportive of measures to encourage more cycling and walking both during and after lockdown.\n\n“It’s heartening to see more children taking to the roads on bikes.\n\n“It’s too early to say exactly what will happen to transport post-pandemic but if trends of more people working from home and lower car use persist, then it might give us the opportunity to re-assess road use in targeted areas.”\n\nIt’s part of a broader debate on the future of transport in cities.\n\nThe Transport Secretary Grant Shapps recently said the overall use of vehicles would need to fall if UK targets for tackling climate change are to be met.", "The bodies were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nA man has been arrested in the Republic of Ireland in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese nationals found in a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe 31 men and eight women were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October in Grays.\n\nRonan Hughes, who is 40 years old, was held under a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nHe is due to appear at Dublin's High Court on Tuesday charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, as well as immigration offences.\n\nMr Hughes has links to County Armagh in Northern Ireland and County Monaghan in Ireland.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Smith, head of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: \"This investigation is one of the largest in Essex Police history and we are working tirelessly to piece together the events leading up to the 23 October 2019 for the sake of the victims and their loved ones.\n\n\"We have worked closely with the National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service as well as police and prosecutors in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany and Vietnam.\"\n\nWaterglade Industrial Park was closed off after the lorry container was discovered in October\n\nOn 8 April, 25-year-old Maurice Robinson, of Craigavon, County Armagh, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nHe had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nRobinson will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nFour other men will stand trial at the Old Bailey in connection with this investigation on 5 October.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 22, of Mayobridge, Northern Ireland, who under a European Arrest Warrant faced 39 charges of manslaughter, has been granted leave to appeal against his extradition to the UK.\n\nHe also faced a charge of conspiracy to traffic people, as well as conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nA further hearing will be held in Dublin on 7 May.\n\nThe bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered at an industrial estate soon after the lorry arrived in the UK on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nAmong them were 10 teenagers, two of them 15-year-old boys.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Facebook Gaming app provides access to gaming streams, but none of Facebook's other content\n\nFacebook has launched a dedicated gaming app earlier than planned, in its latest attempt to grow its presence in the online gaming world.\n\nFacebook said the \"accelerated\" launch was a direct response to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe app lets users follow high-profile gamers, watch live gaming streams and leave comments without interacting with the rest of Facebook.\n\nIt also lets gamers broadcast their own smartphone screen.\n\nWhile Facebook remains the largest social network on the planet, it has struggled to compete against dominant players Twitch and YouTube when it comes to games streaming and esports.\n\nCompetition in the space is heating up, with Microsoft's Mixer and YouTube funding players and franchises in recent months.\n\nUntil now, Facebook's gaming brand been accessible as a tab inside the main Facebook app, and as an independent website.\n\nThe company said the stand-alone app was \"a focused, gaming-only experience for people who want deeper access\".\n\nThe app, which has been tested in Asia and Latin America for about a year and a half, launched on the Google Play app store on Monday. A version for Apple's iOS is still to follow.\n\nIn common with rival apps, users can follow streamers and comment on live gameplay, and also interact with Facebook groups about individual games.\n\nBut Facebook's app also lets people play games from the company's \"instant games\" library from a tab inside the app, without installing the software separately.\n\nAnother feature is the ability to \"go live\" from the app and broadcast the smartphone's display on Facebook.\n\nThe feature lets mobile gameplay be streamed directly without any extra equipment. YouTube has a similar feature available to channels with more than 1,000 subscribers.\n\nBringing all those functions together \"helps it differentiate from other live streaming-only apps,\" said Piers Harding-Rolls, Research Director for games at Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Facebook's approach is to democratise the streaming process, meaning any user can go live with a stream very easily.\"\n\nThe approach may provide it with some advantages in markets where mobile gaming is much bigger - such as China and south-east Asia - he said.\n\nThe app lets people follow their favourite streamers or play Facebook games\n\nFacebook says it had five million installations of the app during the 18-month test run in limited markets, and that more than 700 million people already interacted with its gaming products.\n\n\"The Facebook Gaming app is a prime example of gaming's resurgence at Facebook over the last few years, and we're just getting started,\" said Vivek Sharma, vice president of Facebook Gaming.\n\nBut Mr Harding-Rolls warned that a dedicated app strategy \"has its pros and cons\".\n\n\"It allows Facebook to position its offering against other live-streaming sites focused on games and helps drive visibility of games content on Facebook, but it requires users to download a dedicated app, which is likely to hamper adoption,\" he said.\n\n\"But it is also a user-acquisition funnel for consumers that might not be interested in the Facebook app, including young consumers,\" he said.\n\nGame-streaming viewership is estimated to have increased during the coronavirus lockdown period by at least 10%. But competition in the space had already increased before the virus emerged.\n\nIn August last year, Microsoft secured an exclusive deal with the world's most-followed streamer, Ninja, resulting in him leaving Twitch.\n\nIn January, YouTube purchased the rights to the Overwatch League and Call of Duty esports tournaments.\n\nFacebook has also made another recent bid for gamers' attention with the release of a gaming tournaments feature earlier this month, designed to let amateurs more easily organise their own esports competitions.", "Walt Disney will stop paying more than 100,000 employees from this week as it struggles with coronavirus closures.\n\nThe world's biggest entertainment group operates theme parks and hotels in the US, Europe and Asia.\n\nStopping pay for almost half of its workforce will save Disney up to $500m (£400m) a month, according to the Financial Times.\n\nDisney made operating income of $1.4bn for its parks, experiences and products in the last three months of 2019.\n\nThe company said it will provide full healthcare benefits for staff placed on unpaid leave and urged its US employees to apply for government benefits through the $2tn coronavirus stimulus package.\n\nThe number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits has been surging since its national lockdown, rising above six million. Protesters have taken to the streets in the US, demanding the reopening of economies.\n\nThe travel and leisure sectors were the first to be hit financially from coronavirus shutdowns. Airlines have been struggling to survive with many asking for financial assistance from governments.\n\nBut Disney's fortunes for its online streaming site Disney Plus are much better, with more than 50m subscribers in just five months since it was launched.\n\nLast month Walt Disney said its executive chairman Bob Iger would give up his entire salary during the pandemic while chief executive Bob Chapek will take a 50% pay cut. Mr Iger is one of highest paid executives in the entertainment sector, earning $47.5m last year as chairman and chief executive.\n\nWhen the theme parks reopen, Mr Iger has forecast that temperature checks of visitors could become part of its normal routine along with bag checks.", "Shipping firms have halted crew changes to protect their seafarers\n\nWith the world in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the shipping industry is already feeling the impact as the global economy heads into a deep recession.\n\nHundreds of ship sailings have been cancelled as first ports in China, and then across the globe, have seen trade fall away - with millions of workers and consumers in lockdown.\n\nCaught in the centre of this have been the world's 1.6 million seafarers, on 50,000 tankers and cargo carriers. Many of them are unable to leave their ships, or find themselves stuck in hotels without pay and unable to get flights home.\n\nEvery month, 100,000 merchant mariners come to the end of their contracts on their ships and need to be flown home. But the pandemic has halted this.\n\nSince the coronavirus outbreak Chinese border guards have been checking the health of crews\n\n\"Working at sea is often described as similar to being in prison, except there is no TV,\" says former ship's navigator Nick Chubb.\n\n\"Though my experience was usually positive, a feeling of deep fatigue sets in towards the end of a contract. I once had a four-month contract on an oil tanker extended by three weeks, and found it incredibly difficult to deal with.\n\n\"Some of these seafarers have spent nine months away from their families already. And it's not looking particularly likely they'll be able to go home any time soon,\" adds Mr Chubb, who is now a director for the maritime technology intelligence platform Thetius.\n\nThe world's biggest shipping firm, AP Moller-Maersk, is one of those which has halted its crew changes, and says its done so to protect them, by lessening the number of social interactions they need to have.\n\nIt adds that \"the rapid changes to global travel poses a risk of stranding seafarers in locations from where they are unable to leave, or get sufficient assistance\".\n\nThe cost of shipping an item around the world is just a fraction of its final retail price\n\nYet even before the coronavirus outbreak, the industry was grappling with major issues.\n\nFirst, the need to move to cleaner fuels because of the introduction of the 2020 sulphur emissions cap by the International Maritime Organization.\n\nSecond, the fallout from the US-China trade war, and the failure of Washington and Beijing to implement the first phase of their trade agreement.\n\n\"Shipping lines have had a very hard time making money in the past ten years,\" says Alan Murphy, chief executive of analysts Sea-Intelligence in Copenhagen.\n\nFor example, for a $100 (£80) pair of trainers, the cost of ocean transport will be a fraction of that - just 10c. This makes the distance that goods travel to market irrelevant in cost terms. And it is why China, with its low labour costs, has become the world's main manufacturer.\n\nChina accounts for seven of the world's 10 busiest container ports\n\nPeter Sand, chief shipping analyst with Bimco, the world's largest international shipping association, warned at a recent webinar that 2020 could become increasingly harsh for the industry.\n\n\"We need to make sure that local ports and terminals are kept open, to make sure that food and goods are kept flowing to where it's needed - because that's where shipping hands a lifeline to the global public.\"\n\nFaced with the rippling disruptions to supply and demand around the globe, shipping firms have been scaling back operations. So far, 384 sailings have been cancelled, and the first half of 2020 could see a 25% fall in shipping, with a 10% drop for the year overall, says Sea-Intelligence.\n\nChinese ports have resumed sailings in April, but many ports serving key consumer markets are still operating well below capacity.\n\nThe industry has not yet had to lower prices, but if shipping firms are forced to do so, and freight rates fall by 20% - as they did after the 2008 financial crisis - and were shipping volumes to remain 10% lower, \"we could see operating losses of some $20-23bn\", says Mr Murphy.\n\n\"That would wipe out the shipping firms' last eight years' worth of profits,\" he adds.\n\nOil tankers are now in big demand, as the major fall in the price of crude has led to stockpiling\n\nThere are a lot of unknowns in the preceding sentences, and Sea-Intelligence stresses it is not yet clear how long it will take for fractured global supply chains to get back to normal once lockdowns are ended.\n\nFor consumers, there could well be periodic shortages to come, says Jody Cleworth, of consultants Marine Transport International.\n\n\"In developing nations like South Africa there's an almost complete shutdown in exports, whereby only critical goods are moving through ports. So the seasonal goods we expect in Europe in summer would be limited from such countries.\n\n\"For example, charcoal for your summer barbecue. At the moment those containers are not being moved out of South Africa, so they will not be arriving in the UK for their intended dates,\" he says.\n\nBut there is one exception to this gloom: the oil tanker sector. Demand for oil tankers has been rising following the oil price falls, which have sent the tanker sector \"sky-high\", says Nick Chubb of Thetius.\n\n\"There are ships that are being chartered now for $230,000 a day as offshore floating storage for when the oil prices recover. It's almost a tale of two industries,\" he says.\n\nBut given the impact of Covid-19 on economic activity, energy demand in 2020 is likely to be substantially lower, and it is possible these tankers may be storing oil for a while to come.\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nSo what will be the effect of Covid-19 on the shipping industry beyond 2020?\n\nWith virtually no cargo moving by air, shipping could become even more crucial. Already 90% of world trade by volume goes by sea. Yet many analysts expect the drop in demand across Europe and North America to have a longer-term impact.\n\n\"We could be talking a decade, at least, of difficulty,\" suggests Nick Chubb of Thetius.\n\nAlan Murphy says the pandemic will trigger questions about the shape and sustainability of world trade - and globalisation. \"A lot of protectionist arguments are going to be made against outsourcing.\n\n\"It will have a very profound impact on how global supply chains are organised. It is going to be a political topic in coming years.\"\n\nAre you a sailor stranded away from home because of coronavirus? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history.\n\nThat means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May.\n\nDemand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns across the world have kept people inside.\n\nAs a result, oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory.\n\nThe price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barrel.\n\n\"This is off-the-charts wacky,\" said Stewart Glickman, an energy equity analyst at CFRA Research. \"The demand shock was so massive that it's overwhelmed anything that people could have expected.\"\n\nThe severe drop on Monday was driven in part by a technicality of the global oil market. Oil is traded on its future price and May futures contracts are due to expire on Tuesday. Traders were keen to offload those holdings to avoid having to take delivery of the oil and incur storage costs.\n\nJune prices for WTI were also down, but trading at above $20 per barrel. Meanwhile, Brent Crude - the benchmark used by Europe and the rest of the world, which is already trading based on June contracts - was also weaker, down 8.9% at less than $26 a barrel.\n\nMr Glickman said the historic reversal in pricing was a reminder of the strains facing the oil market and warned that June prices could also fall, if lockdowns remain in place. \"I'm really not optimistic about the prospects for oil companies or oil prices,\" he said.\n\nOGUK, the business lobby for the UK's offshore oil and gas sector, said the negative price of US oil would affect firms operating in the North Sea.\n\n\"The dynamics of this US market are different from those directly driving UK produced Brent but we will not escape the impact,\" said OGUK boss Deirdre Michie.\n\n\"Ours is not just a trading market; every penny lost spells more uncertainty over jobs,\" she said.\n\nThe oil industry has been struggling with both tumbling demand and in-fighting among producers about reducing output.\n\nEarlier this month, Opec members and its allies finally agreed a record deal to slash global output by about 10%. The deal was the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.\n\nBut many analysts say the cuts were not big enough to make a difference.\n\n\"It hasn't taken long for the market to recognise that the Opec+ deal will not, in its present form, be enough to balance oil markets,\" said Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at Axicorp.\n\nThe leading exporters - Opec and allies such as Russia - have already agreed to cut production by a record amount.\n\nIn the United States and elsewhere, oil-producing businesses have made commercial decisions to cut output. But still the world has more crude oil than it can use.\n\nAnd it's not just about whether we can use it. It's also about whether we can store it until the lockdowns are eased enough to generate some additional demand for oil products.\n\nCapacity is filling fast on land and at sea. As that process continues it's likely to bear down further on prices.\n\nIt will take a recovery in demand to really turn the market round and that will depend on how the health crisis unfolds.\n\nThere will be further supply cuts as private sector producers respond to the low prices, but it's hard to see that being on a sufficient scale to have a fundamental impact on the market.\n\nFor US drivers, the decline in oil prices - which have fallen by about two-thirds since the start of the year - has had an impact at the pumps, albeit not as dramatic as Monday's decline might suggest.\n\n\"The silver lining is, if you for various reason actually need to be on the roads, you're filling up for far less than you would have been even four months ago,\" Mr Glickman said. \"The problem for most of us is even if you could fill up, where are you going to go?\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the government will buy oil for the country's national reserve. But concern continues to mount that storage facilities in the US will run out of capacity, with stockpiles at Cushing, the main delivery point in the US for oil, rising almost 50% since the start of March, according to ANZ Bank.\n\nMr Innes said: \"It's a dump at all cost as no one, and I mean no one, wants delivery of oil with Cushing storage facilities filling by the minute.\"", "Margaret Tapley was \"very aware\" of coronavirus, but \"could never imagine leaving her work family\"\n\nTributes have been paid to a \"one of a kind\" 84-year-old auxiliary nurse who died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nMargaret Tapley had continued to work as a healthcare assistant at Witney Community Hospital in Oxfordshire.\n\nShe died on Sunday in hospital in Swindon, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust said.\n\nHer grandson Ben Wood told BBC Radio 5 Live she \"had such a drive\" and \"gave her life and dedicated it towards the NHS\".\n\n\"That was the way she was, there would be no talking her out of it,\" he said.\n\n\"She had been working for just over 40 years doing three night shifts a week and she dedicated her life to the end.\"\n\nKathryn MacLennan said her \"incredible\" grandmother was \"very aware\" of the risks posed by coronavirus but \"she could never imagine leaving her work family\".\n\nShe said Mrs Tapley started her career as a nurse after her children had grown up.\n\n\"She loved her job, in some ways it's horrible that it's happened but also it's nice for us all to know that she died doing the thing she loved,\" said Ms MacLennan, who is from Didcot.\n\nMargaret Tapley had been working for the NHS for more than 40 years\n\nThe trust said Mrs Tapley worked her last shift on 10 April.\n\nHer family said the grandmother of four had been experiencing symptoms of coronavirus before she was admitted to hospital on Thursday and died three days later.\n\n\"We always said she would outlive all of us with the energy she had and it is tragic her life has been cut short,\" Mr Wood said.\n\n\"She still had an awful lot to give.\"\n\nMr Wood said he was grateful for the \"incredible\" response online to his grandmother's death.\n\n\"We always knew she was a very special, and it's amazing to see so many others are recognising that and paying tribute as well,\" he said.\n\nThose who worked with Mrs Tapley called her a \"legend\"\n\nHannah Tapley, a high jumper who has competed for Team GB, said her grandmother was the \"strongest woman\" she had ever known.\n\nAnother of her grandchildren, Tom Wood - a senior charge nurse in an A&E department - described his Ms Tapley as his \"inspiration\".\n\nOxford Health chief executive Stuart Bell said Mrs Tapley \"embodied all that is best in those who work for the NHS\".\n\n\"She was a legend on the ward, and more widely throughout the whole hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"She had worked there for many years, and was remarkable in that she stayed with her team well beyond the point when many others would have retired.\"", "The UK's Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he wants to address the issue of PPE - which the government has been criticised on in recent days.\n\nHe says it is an “international challenge” for all countries.\n\nThe government is working hard to get the PPE NHS staff need, he says, and receiving shipments of PPE regularly.\n\nHe also says the government is \"working to resolve the Turkish shipment following unexpected delays\" -more on that here.\n\nAnd today the UK has \"unloaded 140,000 gowns from Myanmar\".\n\nHe says they are continuing to pursue “every possible option” for procurement.", "The government has announced a £1.25bn package to support innovative new companies that are not eligible for existing coronavirus rescue schemes.\n\nIt will match up to £250m of private investment and add £550m to an existing loan and grant scheme for smaller firms that focus on research and development.\n\nAdding it up, that totals £800m of new money to support fledgling firms.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said start-ups would help power the UK's growth after the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"This new, world-leading fund will mean they can access the capital they need at this difficult time, ensuring dynamic, fast-growing firms across all sectors will be able to continue to create new ideas and spread prosperity,\" he said.\n\nNewly-founded companies often lose money in their early years, which makes them ineligible for the government's emergency loan scheme. But it also makes them a risky investment.\n\nIt took some of the world's most well known and valuable firms - including Amazon and Tesla - years to turn a profit. Uber is yet to make any profit at all.\n\nHowever, the government is keen to ensure that the economic impact of the coronovirus does not kill off some of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative companies.\n\nNevertheless, the rescue package comes with strings attached.\n\nTo qualify to receive the government money, a company must have raised £250,000 privately in the last five years.\n\nOn top of that, any money put in by the government must be matched by private investors. And, if the money is not repaid, the government will take an ownership stake in the company.\n\nThe package has been broadly welcomed by the entrepreneur community but some have warned that - as with other coronavirus support mechanisms - complexity is the enemy of speed. And it's speed that is all important.\n\nAs of last week, just over £1bn in government-backed loans had been approved out of a total support package of £330bn.\n\nUnder the scheme, the government guarantees 80% of each of the loans, which are issued by banks. But many firms have complained that those banks have been slow to lend cash because they would be left to cover 20% of losses on loans that cannot be repaid.\n\nThat has put pressure on the Treasury to increase the government guarantee to 100% to accelerate the approval process.\n\nTreasury officials have raised the spectre of widespread abuse of the programme if the government were to fully guarantee all loans to coronavirus-affected companies. But the Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey, has said that increasing the government guarantee would make the process \"less complicated\".\n\nAnd a former senior Treasury official, who did not want to be named, warned that Mr Sunak's department was trying to be \"too clever by half\", a tacit admission - perhaps - that in a time of economic crisis, there is no such thing as a blunt instrument.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristilan Georgieva, told the BBC that governments around the world should pay out money as fast as possible but, she said, \"keep the receipts\".\n\nThe emergency is now. The reckoning can come later.", "Betty Gutteridge from Warwickshire was meant to celebrate her 100th birthday with her family and friends.\n\nShe had to cancel her party due to the pandemic, so Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service set up a special surprise for her to help mark the big day.\n\nStaff from the fire service, as well as the local community, came out to celebrate Betty turning 100.\n\nHer daughters live in Hong Kong and before the coronavirus outbreak they had planned to visit and celebrate with their mother.\n\nBetty was worried she was going to have a \"lonely\" birthday, but said the surprise made the day \"wonderful\".", "Captain Tom Moore tweeted that he was \"missing celebrating [his] wonderful news\" with his daughter\n\nThe daughter of a 99-year-old Army veteran who has raised more than £27m for the NHS has said it is \"very painful\" not to be with him.\n\nCaptain Tom Moore's eldest daughter Lucy Teixeira watched from her home in Berkshire as his target of £1,000 for walking 100 laps of his garden grew.\n\nShe said visiting him was \"100% the first thing\" she would do when lockdown restrictions were lifted.\n\n\"I am just lucky in that I have been able to see him on TV,\" she said.\n\nCapt Tom completed 100 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, well before the deadline of his 100th birthday on 30 April and raised millions for NHS Charities Together.\n\nSoldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment formed a Guard of Honour for the final laps\n\nCapt Tom has lived with his other daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her family for 12 years\n\nMs Teixeira, 51, who lives in Reading, normally visits him every month and said it has been difficult not being able to, especially with his 100th birthday coming up.\n\n\"It's very painful not to be with him at the moment,\" the mother of two said.\n\n\"But I want to compliment team Tom as my sister and her family have done a sterling job supporting him through this.\n\n\"I am one of those families who can't be with someone and I feel their pain as well, but at least I've seen film crews talking to him.\n\n\"I have already sent him his birthday card - ahead of the millions he'll probably get - but on the day we'll probably watch it on TV.\"\n\nLucy Teixeira (left) said Capt Tom \"finds it unbelievable that this has happened\"\n\nMs Teixeira said her father's efforts were \"typically him\" and \"he never sits still\".\n\n\"How many 99-year-olds order a running machine? That raised a few eyebrows when it arrived,\" she said.\n\n\"But he wanted to improve his ability to walk in the winter because he knew he'd be sitting around more.\n\n\"It's amazing what my little old dad has done and captured everybody's hearts and minds with the result of supporting the NHS at this most critical time.\n\n\"It's so overwhelming the amount he's made and I'm bursting with pride.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Restrictions brought in to try to stop the spread of Covid-19 prompt demonstrations\n\nProtesters have taken to the streets in states across the US, demanding that governors reopen economies shut by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRallies in Arizona, Colorado, Montana and Washington state took place on Sunday, following earlier protests in half a dozen states.\n\nAgitation for easing restrictions has grown, despite the risk of a Covid-19 resurgence posed by reopening too soon.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has signalled support for the protests.\n\nThe US has become the centre of the Covid-19 crisis, with over 735,000 cases and some 40,000 deaths - but signs have emerged that it is reaching the apex of the outbreak and that infection rates are slowing in some states.\n\nMore than 2,000 protesters attended the march in Olympia, Washington state\n\nIn Washington state, an early US virus hotspot, hundreds of people gathered in the state capital, Olympia, to demand the governor relax rules restricting the economy.\n\nPolice estimated the crowd at 2,500, making it one of the largest protests in US states against lockdowns over the past week, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nMany of the protesters ignored social distancing guidelines, as well as pleas from rally organisers to wear masks.\n\nMontana saw a few hundred protesters at a rally held in Helena, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nHealthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood in front of vehicles in counter-protest to the anti-lockdown rally in Denver, Colorado\n\nThere was a similar-sized protest in Denver, Colorado, where protesters descended upon the state capitol building to demonstrate against the social distancing orders.\n\nAs protesters clogged streets with cars, healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood at crossroads in counter-protest.\n\nDozens of cars circled the capitol, local media report, while roughly 200 people assembled on the lawn, waving signs and flags.\n\nIn Arizona, protesters also took to their cars - estimated to be about 100 - and drove in circles around the state capitol in Phoenix to create gridlock, reports say.\n\nGovernors in several states have begun discussions to plan reopening amid signs of the slowdown, but other regions remain under strict lockdown.\n\nCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom was the first in the nation to issue a state-wide stay-at-home order, shuttering the country's most populous state since 19 March. Neighbouring west coast states Washington and Oregon followed suit days later, putting their combined 11.5 million residents under a stay-at-home order since 23 March.\n\nNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week that the state would extend its stay home measures until 15 May. Speaking at his daily virus briefing on Sunday, Mr Cuomo urged caution to residents, beset with \"cabin fever\" and desperate for their state to reopen.\n\n\"We still have to make sure we keep that beast under control,\" Mr Cuomo said. \"As we all get very eager to get on with life and move on.\"\n\n\"This is only halftime in this entire situation.\"\n\nMr Trump, a Republican, appeared to endorse protests against strict lockdown measures, which are needed to curb the spread of the virus. He said on Friday that orders in place in Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia were \"too tough\".\n\nProtests against stay home orders in Michigan erupted this week\n\nWashington Governor Jay Inslee called the president's support of the protesters \"dangerous\", tantamount to encouraging \"insubordination\" to state laws.\n\n\"To have an American president encourage people to violate the law, I can't remember any time in my time in America we have seen such a thing,\" he said on ABC news on Sunday.\n\nNancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, accused Mr Trump of endorsing the protests as a \"distraction\".\n\n\"The president's embrace of it as a distraction from the fact that he has not appropriately done testing, treatment, contact tracing and quarantine,\" she told ABC.\n\nOn Saturday, protesters gridlocked the streets of Annapolis, Maryland, honking car horns in protest of lockdown measures. More than 200 people rallied outside the residence of the Indiana governor, while about 200 gathered in Austin, Texas. New York state also saw disruption.\n\nFurther protests are expected on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The clip shows an officer threatening to \"make something up\"\n\nA police officer who threatened to \"make something up\" in order to arrest a man has been suspended from duty.\n\nA clip of the incident, which happened in Accrington, Lancashire, on Friday, had been widely shared on social media.\n\nIn a statement the force said: \"We absolutely recognise the impact this footage has had on public confidence.\" It has been referred to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.\n\nLancashire's chief constable said the officer's behaviour was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe statement said the decision was taken after an initial review by the professional standards department.\n\nPolice were on their way to execute a search warrant at an address when they \"stopped to speak to a group of males with a quad bike\".\n\nIn the clip, a young man is shown telling the officer: \"You're arresting me? What for? I've done nothing wrong.\"\n\nThe officer responds: Police filmed threatening 'to make something up'\n• None Police filmed threatening 'to make something up'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This week it was revealed that teachers in Northern Ireland will predict the grades they think pupils would have achieved in cancelled GCSE, AS and A-Level exams.\n\nSchools will also be asked to rank pupils in each subject from top to bottom.\n\nBut how do teachers, parents and pupils across NI feel about the decision?\n\nTeaching unions have been largely supportive of Education Minister Peter Weir's decision.\n\nStephen McCord, who is incoming president of the Ulster Teachers’ Union and head of science at Larne High, welcomed the fact that \"our members’ expertise will play a pivotal role in how students transition from GCSE to AS and A-Level\".\n\nMr McCord said the news was \"vindication of what we have long maintained - that for too long, education has been blighted by endless, overly bureaucratic assessment and box ticking, leaving teachers’ professionalism increasingly undermined\".\n\nHowever, there is less optimism about the news among the students who will be most directly affected by the move.\n\nFor those who had planned to put the lion's share of their efforts into the last few months of term, the move has come as a particular blow.\n\nIn Katesbridge, County Down, GCSE student Lara Duffy feels the news still leaves \"many questions unanswered\".\n\nLara is concerned that her predicted mark “won’t be a true reflection of my ability, as I didn’t work as hard as I could have at the beginning of the year because it was very difficult adjusting\" from the move up a year.\n\nThis concern is shared by Year 14 student Scarlett Reid who has applied to study journalism at Leeds University in September.\n\nScarlett Reid has applied to study journalism at Leeds University in September\n\nScarlett’s predicted A-Level grades are three As, so she should, in theory, have no problem being accepted on to her course, which requires two As and a B.\n\nHowever, her fear centres around the fact that her peers at Strathearn School in east Belfast are \"particularly high-achieving\".\n\n“Some of my friends have been predicted three or four A stars, so what if the teachers have a limit on the number of A grades they can award?\n\n\"If they put us in rank order, I could be disadvantaged on the basis that my school year happens to be a really strong one academically.”\n\nYear 14 Rathmore College student Flynn Ryan said the move to use predicted grades is \"heaping a lot of pressure on teachers\".\n\n\"There's still a lack of clarity around how exactly this will work and it's understandable some will feel they've been unfairly treated,\" he said.\n\nFlynn, who has applied to Cambridge University and has been predicted to achieve four A stars, believes that \"for those who've worked consistently throughout the year, it's great, but others who would have pushed really hard to achieve what they needed in the last few months, they'll be disadvantaged\".\n\nLisburn mother Lisa Masterson said her Year 14 daughter Serena’s predicted grades would have been enough to grant her entry into her university course of choice.\n\nHowever, after disappointing mock exams in January, she too is worried that, as she attends “a very academically strong school, when it comes to ranking, [her grades] could fall”.\n\n“The uncertainty has caused the entire household to be anxious and stressed,” said Mrs Masterson.\n\n“Ucas decisions have to be made in May. Student finance needs to be applied for - all this whilst not knowing if the entire school year will need be repeated.”\n\nBelfast mother Anna McGovern acknowledged that there was “no perfect solution” to the problem, and that teachers “have a difficult job on their hands”, but she but added that her Year 12 daughter feels she would have done better in the actual exam than she did in her mocks.\n\nMeanwhile Belfast father Kevin Blaney, who is also a teacher, believes the choice the minister made was “a fair decision”.\n\nHe added that in future, “much more emphasis will be placed on mock exams, for fear a similar situation could arise again”.", "There have been concerns that poorer pupils could lose out when lessons are being taught online\n\nDisadvantaged teenagers in England will be able to borrow laptops to help them study at home when schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Department for Education is also supporting free online lessons for primary and secondary pupils.\n\nLaptops or tablets will be provided for some deprived 15-year-olds who do not already have access to a computer.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said it will \"take the pressure\" off parents with children at home.\n\n\"Schools will remain shut until the scientific advice changes,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\nTo help parents now running their own classrooms, the government is promoting a series of 180 online lessons per week, for pupils from reception through to Year 10.\n\nLaptops or computer devices will be provided for some disadvantaged pupils in Year 10 - who will be taking their GCSEs next year.\n\nThere is no specified number of laptops available, or set budget, and it will be up to schools or local authorities to decide who needs help with access to a computer.\n\nThey will also be available to children with a social worker or those leaving care - with schools keeping the computers when regular classes open again.\n\nThere is also the offer of some 4G routers to help families connect to the internet.\n\nThe promises over technology reflect worries that pupils from poorer families could be disproportionately losing out during the weeks out of school.\n\nAn academy trust, AET, has already bought 9,000 laptops and devices to give a computer to all its pupils eligible for free school meals, so that they can stay connected.\n\nFor pupils learning at home, online lessons have been prepared by teachers and education organisations, including the Sutton Trust and Teach First, and will be available under the label of Oak National Academy.\n\nThese will be hour-long lessons in a range of subjects, presented by a teacher, with worksheets and a quiz.\n\nThe BBC will also be launching a range of educational resources online and on TV.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, welcomed the efforts to keep pupils learning.\n\nHe backed the focus on Year 10 pupils who have been missing part of their GCSE course - and said there had to be a \"real sense of urgency\" in supporting them.\n\nBut he said it was important to recognise how many families might not have up-to-date computers or might be struggling to pay for broadband.\n\nThere are still \"significant logistical challenges\" with this support scheme, said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Not least, the speed at which these devices can be sourced and delivered,\" he added.\n\nGavin Williamson said the provision of laptops would take pressure off parents and schools\n\nAnne-Marie Canning, chief executive of the Brilliant Club that helps disadvantaged youngsters get into top universities, said access to technology was already a wealth gap in education.\n\n\"Digital exclusion takes many forms, ranging from a lack of devices to the affordability of internet contracts,\" she said.\n\nBeing able to keep up with classes should not depend on \"broadband status\", said Ms Canning.\n\nMr Williamson said: \"By providing young people with these laptops and tablets and enabling schools to access high quality support, we will enable all children to continue learning.\n\n\"We hope this support will take some of the pressure off both parents and schools by providing more materials for them to use,\" said the education secretary.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Williamson said \"no decision has been made\" on when schools in England, which were closed on 20 March, will reopen.\n\nResponding to a report in the Sunday Times suggesting some pupils could return in early May, he tweeted: \"I can reassure schools and parents that they will only reopen when the scientific advice indicates it is the right time to do so.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How can you tell if it's hay fever or coronavirus?\n\nPeople with hay fever should not confuse their reaction to pollen with the symptoms of coronavirus, GPs say.\n\nWhile many symptoms - such as a runny nose - are different, hay fever can also prompt a cough that can alarm both sufferers and those around them.\n\nThat has prompted many of those suffering with the allergy to contact family doctors for advice.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said sufferers should consider whether their symptoms are the same as in previous years.\n\nBut it has also expressed concern that people may leave the house thinking they have just got the seasonal illness when they have actually contracted the deadly virus.\n\nThe main coronavirus symptoms are a fever or a new continuous dry cough, which can sometimes lead to breathing problems at a later stage of the illness.\n\nDr Jonathan Leach, of the RCGP, said: \"For most people who have hay fever it is the same symptoms as they have each year.\n\n\"What we are finding is that some patients are saying 'look this is a different thing to what I had last year, could this be coronavirus?' and in that case it might be.\"\n\nMore than a quarter of the British population gets hay fever every year and the Met Office forecasted high pollen counts throughout the week for most parts of the UK.\n\nAllergy UK said it advised those suffering from hay fever to treat it proactively to minimise symptoms before they occur - therefore reducing the urge to touch the face or sneeze, minimising spread of the virus.\n\nGPs are advising patients who are unsure or who are having trouble breathing that they should phone their doctor or use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service.", "Manjeet Singh Riyat was described as an \"incredibly charming person\" who will be missed \"immensely\"\n\nAn accident and emergency consultant who was \"hugely respected\" nationally has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nManjeet Singh Riyat, 52, died on Monday at the Royal Derby Hospital, where he worked.\n\nUniversity Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) said Mr Riyat - who was the UK's first Sikh A&E consultant - was widely respected across the NHS.\n\nThe trust's chief executive said he was an \"incredibly charming person\", \"well loved\" and would be missed \"immensely\".\n\nGavin Boyle said Mr Riyat \"was instrumental in building the Emergency Medicine Service in Derbyshire over the past two decades\".\n\n\"He was an incredibly charming person and well loved,\" he added.\n\n\"Manjeet knew so many people here across the hospital, we will all miss him immensely.\"\n\nSusie Hewitt, an emergency medicine consultant at the hospital, said: \"Manjeet was enormously valued and much loved as a colleague, supervisor and mentor as well as for his wise council and discreet support in tough times.\n\n\"For many, Manjeet was considered the father of the current Emergency Department in Derby and many more will reflect on how his inspiration has shaped their own careers.\"\n\nThis is the second death in the trust. Dr Amged El-Hawrani, an ear, nose and throat consultant at Queen's Hospital Burton, died last month.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "An RAF aircraft has departed the UK for Turkey to pick up a delayed delivery of protective kit amid a row over a shortage in the NHS.\n\nThe plane left at around 17:00 BST on Monday to collect 400,000 gowns.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the daily No 10 briefing the government was working \"around the clock\" to address the lack of protective gear.\n\nIt comes as another 449 coronavirus deaths were recorded in UK hospitals, taking the total number to 16,509.\n\nBut the number of new confirmed infections was \"flattening out\", the UK's deputy chief scientific adviser, Prof Dame Angela Maclean, told the briefing.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 140,000 firms have applied for help to pay their wage bill through the government's job retention scheme, which went live on Monday morning.\n\nThe row over a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the NHS has intensified over the last few days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Are you ashamed?\" – BBC News health editor Hugh Pym challenges Chancellor Rishi Sunak over PPE\n\nDoctors, nurses and other healthcare workers complain that a lack of adequate kit such as gowns, masks and gloves puts them at increased risk of catching coronavirus and of spreading it to their patients.\n\nThe children of Josiane Ekoli, a nurse from Leeds who died after contracting the disease, said on Monday that her death could have been prevented \"if they gave my mum the proper equipment in the first place\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Sunak said the shortage of PPE was \"uppermost\" in people's minds and the government would \"pursue every possible option\" to secure more PPE.\n\nHe said ministers were trying to resolve problems around the consignment, which had been expected to arrive from Turkey on Sunday, but was hit by \"unexpected\" delays.\n\nHowever, he said there were regular shipments expected from other sources, and cited a delivery of 140,000 gowns from Myanmar.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"We're improving our sourcing internationally and domestically to make sure we can get the PPE we need in what is a very challenging international context.\n\n\"But people on the front line can rest assured that we're doing absolutely everything we can, and straining everything we can, to get the equipment they need.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence confirmed that the first of three expected RAF transport aircraft departed from Brize Norton for Turkey on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital show how health care workers put on PPE\n\nEarlier, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers - which represents healthcare trusts across England - said there was \"no doubt\" some hospital trusts were already experiencing shortages of the gowns.\n\nHe said that while the 400,000 gowns from Turkey would be welcome, NHS staff were getting through approximately 150,000 gowns a day.\n\nMr Hopson also said too much focus should not be placed on individual consignments.\n\nHe gave the example of an expected consignment of 200,000 gowns from China, which turned out to be 20,000 gowns when it arrived last week.\n\nDowning Street said the government had now delivered one billion pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline staff.\n\nSpeaking at the government briefing, Public Health England's medical director Prof Yvonne Doyle said a lack of PPE was \"a concern\".\n\nHowever, she denied that PPE guidance had been downgraded based on availability of equipment rather than safety standards,\n\nPublic Health England changed its advice on Friday to allow the NHS to re-use gowns if stock was running low, saying \"some compromise\" was needed \"in times of extreme shortages\".\n\nProf Doyle said: \"The guidance remains exactly the same. And that is a very precautionary set of advice - it's quite the opposite to putting people at risk because there aren't enough supplies.\n\n\"It's trying to ensure that people are well secured and safe when there may not be enough supplies, and it also stresses how important it is not to take risks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland currently had \"adequate stocks\" of all the main items of PPE but gowns were one of the items \"under most pressure\".\n\nThe owner of a healthcare service in Hampshire providing care to people in their own home said PPE was the \"biggest challenge\" her organisation faced.\n\nAlice Ushumba said she was struggling to get hold of enough masks, and that some staff had resigned because they didn't feel safe with the protective equipment available.\n\n\"We're going into people's houses who might have Covid but we don't have anything to protect ourselves except perhaps a little plastic apron and gloves,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nThe latest UK death total of 449 was the lowest daily figure announced since 6 April. The new figures also showed that the number of new infections - 4,676 - was the lowest for four days.\n\nProf Maclean told the daily briefing that infections in the UK were \"flattening out\", and that the number of patients in hospitals in London had fallen for seven consecutive days. She added she hoped the fall would be \"replicated\" across the UK.\n\nThe number of new deaths announced - 449 - is the lowest for two weeks.\n\nLast week the figures were hovering between 700 and 900, before dropping below 600 on Sunday.\n\nThat is, of course, good news. Although the figures for the past two days should be treated with caution.\n\nThey cover the weekend and we know reporting and recording delays can mean figures drop before rising again.\n\nBut the falls are big enough to suggest we may soon start seeing the number of new deaths coming down.\n\nThe numbers in hospital with coronavirus have already started dropping gradually so the signs are there that we are beginning to turn the corner.\n\nMr Sunak said there were \"encouraging signs we are making progress\" in tackling the virus but added that the lockdown restrictions needed to remain in place.\n\nHe reiterated the government's message that the UK needed to meet five tests set down last week before exiting the lockdown - which include increasing testing in the community, and being certain there was no risk of a second peak.\n\n\"We are not there yet and it is very clear that, for now, what we should focus on is following the guidance, staying home to protect the NHS,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told colleagues his concerns that relaxing lockdown measures too soon could lead to a second outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nHe is understood to have had a video call with his deputy, Dominic Raab, on Friday to discuss the crisis.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the UK's tabloid press they are ending all co-operation with them.\n\nIn a letter to editors of all the Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express titles and websites, a representative said the pair had taken the step due to \"distorted, false or invasive\" stories.\n\nHarry and Meghan said they refused to \"offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion\".\n\nThe couple have relocated to California after stepping back as senior royals.\n\nIn the letter, the couple's public relations representative wrote it was \"gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media\" has printed \"distorted, false or invasive\" articles.\n\n\"There is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society,\" the letter said.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know - as well as complete strangers - have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\"\n\nThe BBC was told that the letter had been sent to the editors of the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express newspapers.\n\nThe new policy will apply to the four newspapers, their Sunday editions and associated websites, the Guardian's media editor Jim Waterson reported.\n\nThe Daily Star, which was not specifically mentioned, is published by the same group that publishes the Mirror and Express titles.\n\nThe ban on engagement with the papers will mean that the couple's PR team will no longer even answer calls from the papers asking them to confirm whether claims made about the couple are true or not.\n\nOutlining the new policy of \"no corroboration and zero engagement\" with all the publications that received it, the letter said the measure would also protect the couple's communications team \"from the side of the industry that readers never see\".\n\n\"This policy is not about avoiding criticism,\" the letter continued.\n\n\"It's not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can't be based on a lie.\"\n\nPrince Harry has spoken in the past of seeing - as a young child - the effect media intrusion had on his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe letter said the couple will continue to work with other media and \"young, up-and-coming journalists\" to raise awareness of the issues and causes they care about.\n\nIn recent days, photographs of the Sussexes delivering food to vulnerable people in Los Angeles have been published by two of the newspapers to receive the letter.\n\nAnd it comes ahead of a court hearing this week in a legal case Meghan has brought against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter written to the duchess by her estranged father.\n\nThe couple officially stepped back as senior working members of the Royal Family at the end of March as part of a transition following an announcement of their intention to become financially independent in January..\n\nAs The Duke and Duchess of Sussex now settle into the next chapter of their lives and no longer receive any publicly funded support, we are writing to set a new media relations policy, specifically as it pertains to your organisation.\n\nLike you, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that a free press is a cornerstone to any democracy— particularly in moments of crisis. At its best, this free press shines light on dark places, telling stories that would otherwise go untold, standing up for what's right, challenging power, and holding those who abuse the system to account.\n\nIt has been said that journalism's first obligation is to the truth. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex agree wholeheartedly.\n\nIt is gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media, over many years, has sought to insulate themselves from taking accountability for what they say or print—even when they know it to be distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason. When power is enjoyed without responsibility, the trust we all place in this much-needed industry is degraded.\n\nThere is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know—as well as complete strangers—have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\n\nWith that said, please note that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be engaging with your outlet. There will be no corroboration and zero engagement. This is also a policy being instated for their communications team, in order to protect that team from the side of the industry that readers never see.\n\nThis policy is not about avoiding criticism. It's not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can't be based on a lie.\n\nThey also want to be very clear: this is not in any way a blanket policy for all media.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are looking forward to working with journalists and media organisations all over the world, engaging with grassroots media, regional and local media, and young, up-and-coming journalists, to spotlight issues and causes that so desperately need acknowledging. And they look forward to doing whatever they can to help further opportunities for more diverse and underrepresented voices, who are needed now more than ever.\n\nWhat they won't do is offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion.\n\nWe are encouraged that this new approach will be heard and respected.", "We've seen some amazing examples of people making a difference across the country today.\n\nFrom free roast dinners to fundraisers, from people making visors to those sewing together scrubs, and those carving NHS superhero plaques for hospitals.\n\nIt's clear lockdown really isn't stopping some from pitching in where they can.\n\nThat's all from our positive news live page this week, but we'll be back tomorrow with all the latest coronavirus news from across England.\n\nWe'll also be back next Monday for another day filled with stories of those making a difference.", "The government says it is to provide an extra 30,000 temporary mortuary places during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move is a precaution rather than a prediction, say ministers.\n\nLocal government minister Simon Clarke said the government did not want to alarm people but had to ensure capacity for the worst possible outcome.\n\n\"We all hope these contingencies will not be needed... that requires everyone to play their part in the national effort,\" said Mr Clarke.\n\n\"We're trying to strike an appropriate balance,\" he added.\n\nBefore the coronavirus crisis there were 18,000 public mortuary places around the country with a similar number provided by funeral directors.\n\nAs part of the new capacity, local authorities are using existing buildings and in some places specially adapted modular buildings are being sited next to existing NHS and other public mortuaries.\n\nLast week, one of the government's senior scientific advisers - Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust - said the UK was likely to be \"one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in Europe\" in terms of the number of deaths.\n\nIn response, Mr Clarke said: \"We have started to see a flattening of the curve because people are following the measures.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we have the right capacity for the most pessimistic possible outcome.\n\n\"It's about making sure that we have the right resources in place for a range of outcomes and we all hope these contingencies won't be needed.\n\n\"But we do want to make certain that we are not caught without enough capacity, that would obviously be dreadful.\"\n\nProf Jim McManus, director of public health for Hertfordshire and vice president of his professional body, said his area, like others, had planned for many years for such an emergency.\n\n\"Most people have identified buildings that can be converted and worked on within a matter of weeks.\"\n\nProf McManus said there was now extra provision in place in Hertfordshire: \"Whatever the numbers, we will be able to hold in dignity all those who might die.\"\n\nMeanwhile the bereaved are being urged to continue to hold funerals as quickly as possible, despite the restrictions they face.\n\nThe message from the government is that families should not think it better to wait until the end of the lockdown.\n\nDavid Collingwood, director of funerals at Co-op Funeralcare - the biggest provider in England, Wales and Scotland - said most families were taking advice and going ahead with funerals.\n\n\"People might now be thinking there's light at the end of the tunnel.\n\n\"Even if restrictions were lifted we would still be limiting social contact,\" Mr Collingwood said.\n\nThe National Association of Funeral Directors has criticised some local councils for banning all mourners.\n\nIt said this went beyond government guidance and was not in the interests of bereaved families.\n\nThe government has now issued new guidance, underlining that close family members should be able to attend.", "Chris Lewis was sleeping in a tent when the lockdown was imposed on 23 March\n\nA former British paratrooper is isolating on a previously uninhabited island after lockdown measures were introduced midway through a fundraising challenge to walk the UK coastline.\n\nChris Lewis has walked 12,000 miles after setting off from near his home in Swansea in August 2017.\n\nHe has now been given special permission to live in the one house on Hildasay, Shetland, with his dog Jet.\n\nThe 108-hectare island sits off the west coast of the Shetland mainland.\n\nThe 39-year-old was sleeping in a tent on mainland Shetland when lockdown restrictions were imposed on 23 March to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he and Jet were taken to Hildasay by boat and have remained there ever since.\n\nTheir new home is a former shepherd's hut without running water, heating or electricity. He was offered the keys by the family of the man who owns it after they heard he was camping.\n\nAfter lockdown restrictions are lifted, Mr Lewis and Jet will continue their journey around the UK coastline to raise money for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity - with donations already reaching almost £98,000.\n\nThe island's only house is a former shepherd's hut with no electricity\n\n\"I've mainly been in isolation for the past two years due to the nature of the places we've been walking,\" he said.\n\n\"When I heard there was going to be a lockdown, I was kindly given a boat to get over to Hildasay, which is an uninhabited island.\n\n\"I thought it would be better if I wasn't on the mainland - I didn't want to be in the way.\"\n\nSince then, Mr Lewis has survived thanks to a regular boat drop bringing fresh water and coal.\n\nHe said he collects driftwood, forages and fishes for his food, and always makes sure he has a three-week supply of dog food for Jet.\n\nHildasay has been uninhabited since the late 19th Century, with Mr Lewis and Jet joined only by 15 sheep and thousands of birds.\n\n\"It has really given me a chance to enjoy the island,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm able to reflect on the walk so far, just realising what this has done to help me personally and the amount of amazing people there are in the UK.\n\n\"I'm the happiest I've ever been.\"\n\nChris Lewis is sharing the island with 15 sheep and thousands of birds\n\nAlmost 40,000 people have been following Mr Lewis's journey on a Facebook page, Chris Walks the UK.\n\nMr Lewis said he struggled to cope with life on \"civvy street\" after leaving the Parachute Regiment and finding himself homeless.\n\nHe slept on the street and in cars before SSAFA, which he describes as \"truly amazing\", stepped in to help.\n\nHe set off from Llangennith beach on the Gower Peninsula with just £10 in his pocket and a few days of supplies to raise money for the charity.\n\nWhen he is able to resume his fundraising challenge, Mr Lewis will make his way to the north of Scotland before heading down the east coast of the UK.", "Britain may hold a minute's silence next week to pay tribute to NHS workers who have died with coronavirus.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said government was actively looking at the idea, proposed by health unions Unison, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives.\n\nIt could be on 28 April, International Workers' Memorial Day, two days before the weekly Clap For Our Carers event.\n\nThere have been 49 verified deaths of NHS staff during the pandemic so far.\n\nBut the real figure will be higher and continues to rise.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Donna Kinnair said: \"We've become used to hearing a great roar on a Thursday night for key workers but this respectful silence will be a poignant reminder of the risks they run to keep us safe.\n\n\"I hope the public gets behind this with the same affection they show when applauding our people.\"\n\nThe minute's silence would be to remember all the health, care and other key workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\n\nUnison general secretary Dave Prentis said: \"This is the ultimate tribute to remember workers who've lost their lives and put themselves in harm's way to keep us safe and vital services running.\"\n\nThe deaths include retired staff who still worked within the NHS.\n\nMargaret Tapley's grandson said she dedicated her life to the NHS\n\nMargaret Tapley most recently worked as a healthcare assistant at the Witney Community Hospital in Oxfordshire.\n\nHer family said the grandmother of four had been experiencing symptoms of coronavirus before she was admitted to a hospital in Swindon on Thursday and died three days later.\n\nMr Roberts worked as a nurse in the Cardiff and Vale health board area\n\nGrandfather Gareth Roberts, who had worked as a nurse at sites across the Cardiff and Vale health board since the 1980s, died at the Prince Charles Hospital, in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nThe board described him as \"extremely popular, fun-filled and well liked\", while colleagues called him \"kind and helpful\".\n\nDr Saadu worked for the NHS for nearly 40 years, at various London hospitals\n\n\"Living legend\" Dr Alfa Saadu, who had returned to work after retirement, died at the Whittington Hospital, north London, on 31 March.\n\nHe had been working part-time at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, when he started to show symptoms of coronavirus and immediately self-isolated.\n\nHis son Dani said the family had suggested he should be admitted as a patient but his father had insisted he \"did not want to take up a hospital bed, because others would need it\".\n\n\"He was a very passionate man, who cared about saving people,\" Dani said.", "South Australia Police have captured the moment a kangaroo hopped through the heart of downtown Adelaide during coronavirus lockdown.", "Asda is cancelling a quarter of orders with clothing suppliers despite seeing record food sales during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket chain has also told suppliers that it would only pay for part of such cancelled orders.\n\nA spokesperson for the supermarket said that Covid-19 had \"had a significant impact\" on the fashion industry.\n\nAccording to reports in the Sunday Times, the move has angered suppliers as the range is still on sale.\n\nOne supplier told the newspaper that the \"behaviour is totally unacceptable\".\n\nThey added that it was \"ridiculous\" for the firm, which is owned by US retailer Walmart, \"not to pay for orders\".\n\nAsda told the BBC that suppliers will be paid 30% of the order value for those that have not yet been finished, and half for those that have. That rises to 60% for manufacturers based in Bangladesh.\n\nIt has committed to paying the costs within seven working days, as well as agreeing suppliers can resell items or donate them to charity.\n\n\"We have longstanding and valued relationships with our suppliers, and want to help them weather this crisis,\" the Asda spokesperson added.\n\nThe move comes as the chain has seen a surge in demand for groceries as UK consumers are staying at home amid lockdown measures.\n\nThe supermarket says its warehouse and in-store colleagues are focused on \"getting food onto our shelves for essential retail\".\n\nAsda recently launched a recruitment drive for 5,000 temporary staff in an attempt to keep up with demand\n\nMeanwhile it has invested in additional storage space for products that it says it is struggling to sell due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket said that it had seen \"severe downturn in the demand for clothing\", along with disruption caused by factory closures.\n\nOther retailers such as Primark have recently opted to cancel orders with their suppliers too.\n\nHigh Street chain New Look informed its suppliers earlier this month that payment for stock already sitting in its shops or distribution centres would be delayed \"indefinitely\".\n\nGarment manufacturers based in Asia recently told the BBC that they had seen unreasonable demands from big clients, mainly in the US and UK.\n\n\"Some brands are showing a true sense of partnership and high level of ethics in trying to ensure at least enough cash flow to pay workers,\" said Amit Mahtaney, the chief executive of Tusker Apparel Jordan.\n\n\"But we've also experienced demands for cancellations for goods that are ready or are work in progress, or discounts for outstanding payments and for goods in transit. They are also asking for a 30 to 120-day extensions on previously agreed payment terms.\"\n\nAfter growing criticism, some brands such as H&M and Zara-owner Inditex committed to pay in full for existing orders from clothing manufacturers.", "Sir David Attenborough, Danny Dyer and Jodie Whittaker are among the celebrity supply teachers who will be helping the BBC educate the nation's schoolchildren during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nFootballer Sergio Aguero, Ed Balls and Professor Brian Cox are also involved in the virtual learning initiative.\n\nLaunched on the day children were due to return to school, the scheme offers 14 weeks of curriculum-based learning.\n\nThe programme is the biggest education offering in the BBC's history.\n\n\"We said the BBC would be there for people through this crisis and we meant it,\" said Alice Webb, director of BBC Children's and Education.\n\n\"We're proud that the BBC can bring together so many people to offer such a wide-ranging package of support to help children and parents right across the UK at such a challenging time.\"\n\nUK schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since 20 March to curb the spread of Covid-19, and the two-week Easter holiday has just finished.\n\nThe programme includes BBC Bitesize Daily, airing on BBC iPlayer and the BBC red button, which will feature six 20-minute programmes each day aimed at different age groups.\n\nThere will also be a maths and English lesson every day for different age groups, daily education podcasts and programmes on BBC Four on weekday evenings to support GCSE and A-level courses.\n\nDoctor Who actress Jodie Whittaker will be dropping in on Bitesize Daily lessons, while a host of stars will read books aimed at both primary and secondary age children.\n\nThey include singer Mabel, Strictly Come Dancing's Oti Mabuse, One Direction member Liam Payne and Countryfile presenter Anita Rani.\n\nDyer found out he had royal ancestry in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?\n\nMore than 200 teachers and education specialists have helped develop the programme, which the BBC announced earlier this month.\n\nLaunching the scheme on Monday, BBC director general Tony Hall praised the \"extraordinary teamwork\" underpinning the venture.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sir Philip Rutnam resigned in February amid bullying claims against Mrs Patel, which she denies\n\nEx-Home Office chief Sir Philip Rutnam has lodged an employment tribunal claim for unfair dismissal and whistleblowing against Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nA statement from the civil servants union the FDA said Sir Philip formally began legal action on Monday.\n\nSir Philip resigned in February amid bullying claims against Mrs Patel, which she denies.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We do not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\"\n\nMrs Patel has not commented publicly on the allegations against her, but government sources have said she denies them.\n\nAt the time of his resignation, Sir Philip, who was the Home Office's most senior official, said there had been a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him.\n\nAnnouncing the legal action, FDA general secretary Dave Penman said in a statement: \"Following his (Sir Philip's) resignation, the FDA instructed Gavin Mansfield QC, head of Littleton Chambers and employment law specialist, as counsel to advise Sir Philip, supported by Clive Howard, senior principal lawyer, employment and partnership at Slater and Gordon.\n\n\"This morning, Sir Philip, with the support of his legal team and the FDA, submitted a claim to the employment tribunal for unfair (constructive) dismissal and whistleblowing against the home secretary.\n\n\"Sir Philip will not be making any further comment at this time.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office investigation was launched in March over whether Mrs Patel had breached the ministerial code, amid the bullying allegations.\n\nThe prime minister also gave Mrs Patel his support.\n\nIn an email to Home Office staff last month, Mrs Patel said she regretted Sir Philip's resignation.\n\nShe thanked him for his service but said it was \"now time for the Home Office to come together as one team\".\n\nShe said she \"deeply cared\" about the \"wellbeing\" of her civil servants and valued their professionalism.", "Sir Richard Branson has pledged his luxury island resort as collateral to help get a UK government bailout of his stricken airline Virgin Atlantic.\n\nThe billionaire Virgin Group boss said in an open letter to staff he was not asking for a handout, but a commercial loan, believed to be £500m.\n\nThe airline's survival was in doubt, and his Necker Island home in the Caribbean could be mortgaged, he said.\n\nIt comes as Virgin Group's airline in Australia enters administration.\n\nBoth airlines have been hit hard by the global coronavirus lockdown, and Sir Richard has appealed to governments in both countries for help.\n\nHowever, he has been criticised for appealing for taxpayer aid rather than drawing on his huge wealth. Sir Richard's fortune is thought to be well over £4bn. The large US airline Delta owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic.\n\nSir Richard said in his letter to staff: \"Many airlines around the world need government support and many have already received it.\" The crisis facing airlines, and the staff they employ, was \"unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nDespite his wealth, this did not mean he had \"cash in a bank account ready to withdraw\". And he hit back at criticism that he was a tax exile who did not deserve help, saying he and his wife \"did not leave Britain for tax reasons but for our love of the beautiful British Virgin Islands and in particular Necker Island\".\n\nHe said Necker would be offered as security for any loans. \"As with other Virgin assets, our team will raise as much money against the island as possible to save as many jobs as possible around the group,\" Sir Richard said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn his letter to staff, Sir Richard said: \"We will do everything we can to keep the airline [Virgin Atlantic] going - but we will need government support to achieve that in the face of the severe uncertainty surrounding travel today and not knowing how long the planes will be grounded for.\n\n\"This would be in the form of a commercial loan - it wouldn't be free money and the airline would pay it back (as EasyJet will do for the £600m loan the government recently gave them).\"\n\nHe pointed out that Virgin Atlantic started with one plane 36 years ago, before adding: \"Over those years it has created real competition for British Airways, which must remain fierce for the benefit of our wonderful customers and the public at large.\"\n\nSir Richard offered to inject £250m into the Virgin Group last month, with most of that going to the airline.\n\nEarlier this month, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Heathrow airport and Manchester Airports Group sent letters to the government highlighting the importance of Virgin Atlantic to the UK's manufacturing supply chain.\n\nMeanwhile, Virgin Australia - in which Sir Richard holds a stake of around 10% - is going into administration.\n\nThe carrier has been forced to cancel nearly all of its flights during the coronavirus crisis and been unable to restructure its debts.\n\nThe Australian government offered some support, but refused a request from the company for a A$1.4bn (£720m) loan.\n\nThe airline is part-owned by Sir Richard along with Etihad, Singapore Airlines and China's HNA.\n\n\"The brilliant Virgin Australia team is fighting to survive and need support to get through this catastrophic global crisis,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"We are hopeful that Virgin Australia can emerge stronger than ever, as a more sustainable, financially viable airline.\"\n\nHe warned: \"If Virgin Australia disappears, Qantas would effectively have a monopoly of the Australian skies. We all know what that would lead to.\"\n\nSir Richard also addressed the fierce criticism he has faced in recent weeks over his tax situation.\n\nCritics have pointed out he has paid no UK income tax since moving to the tax-free British Virgin Islands 14 years ago.\n\nSir Richard is the 312th richest person in the world with an estimated $5.2bn fortune, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index.\n\n\"I've seen lots of comments about my net worth - but that is calculated on the value of Virgin businesses around the world before this crisis, not sitting as cash in a bank account ready to withdraw,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the years significant profits have never been taken out of the Virgin Group, instead they have been reinvested in building businesses that create value and opportunities.\"\n\nTurning to the question of living abroad he said: \"Joan and I did not leave Britain for tax reasons but for our love of the beautiful British Virgin Islands (BVI) and in particular Necker Island, which I bought when I was 29 years old, as an uninhabited island on the edges of the BVI.\n\n\"Over time, we built our family home here. The rest of the island is run as a business, which employs 175 people.\"", "Icke used to be a sports presenter, while Holmes is a host on ITV's This Morning\n\nBroadcasting watchdog Ofcom has \"issued guidance\" to ITV following Eamonn Holmes' comments about 5G technology and coronavirus on This Morning.\n\nThe regulator said Holmes' remarks had been \"ambiguous\" and \"ill-judged\".\n\nOfcom said they \"risked undermining viewers' trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence\".\n\nThe regulator also found local TV channel London Live in breach of standards for an interview it aired with David Icke about coronavirus.\n\nConspiracy theorist Icke, it said, had \"expressed views which had the potential to cause significant harm to viewers in London during the pandemic\".\n\nOn 13 April, in a segment with This Morning's consumer editor Alice Beer, Holmes cast doubt on media outlets that had debunked the myth that 5G causes coronavirus.\n\nBeer, formerly a presenter on the BBC's Watchdog programme, said the theory, which has led to phone masts being set alight or vandalised, was \"not true and incredibly stupid\".\n\n\"I totally agree with everything you are saying,\" said Holmes. \"But what I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true.\n\n\"No-one should attack or damage or do anything like that, but it's very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative,\" he continued.\n\nHolmes was widely criticised for his comments, which he said had been \"misinterpreted\" on the following day's programme.\n\n\"For the avoidance of any doubt, I want to make it completely clear there's no scientific evidence to substantiate any of those 5G theories,\" he continued.\n\nOfcom said it had taken this on-air statement into account, along with the \"context\" Beer had provided, before deciding to issue guidance to ITV \"and its presenters\".\n\n\"In our view, Eamonn Holmes' ambiguous comments were ill-judged and risked undermining viewers' trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence,\" it said.\n\n\"His statements were also highly sensitive in view of the recent attacks on mobile phone masts in the UK, caused by conspiracy theories linking 5G technology and the virus.\n\n\"Broadcasters have editorial freedom to discuss and challenge the approach taken by public authorities to a serious public health crisis such as the coronavirus,\" it continued.\n\n\"However, discussions about unproven claims and theories which could undermine viewers' trust in official public health information must be put fully into context to ensure viewers are protected.\"\n\nIn a separate ruling, Ofcom said ESTV, owner of London-based TV channel London Live, had broken broadcasting rules by airing an interview with former footballer and TV presenter Icke.\n\nIt said the interview, recorded on 18 March and broadcast on London Live on 8 April, \"included potentially harmful content about the coronavirus pandemic\".\n\nWhile not mentioning 5G by name, Icke referred to an \"electro-magnetic, technologically generated soup of radiation toxicity\" that he claimed had damaged old people's immune systems.\n\nHe also claimed that official health advice aimed at reducing the spread of the virus were being implemented to further the ambitions of a clandestine \"cult\", rather than to protect public health.\n\nOfcom said it was \"particularly concerned\" by Icke \"casting doubt on the motives behind official health advice to protect the public from the virus\".\n\n\"These claims went largely unchallenged during the 80-minute interview and were made without the support of any scientific or other evidence.\"\n\nThe London Live programme was produced by a London-based independent company.\n\nLondon Live is owned by the Russian businessman Evgeny Lebedev, who also owns the Evening Standard and Independent newspapers.\n\nThe channel will be required to broadcast a summary of Ofcom's findings and may face additional sanctions from the media regulator.\n\nConspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.\n\nThere have dozens of reported attacks on telecoms equipment over the past weeks\n\nOne falsely suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other falsely claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.\n\nWhile 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still \"non-ionising\", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart chemical bonds in the DNA in our cells to cause damage.\n\nEarlier this year, scientists at the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection completed a major study of related research into the topic.\n\nWhile it recommended slightly tighter limits on the transmitting capabilities of handsets themselves to minimise any chance of damage caused by human tissue being heated, its key finding was that there was no evidence that either 5G networks or earlier systems could cause cancer or other kinds of illness.\n\nThe second theory appears to be based on the work of a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who suggested bacteria could generate radio waves.\n\nBut this remains a controversial idea and well outside mainstream scientific thought. In any case, Covid-19 is a virus rather than a bacterium.\n\nThere's another major flaw with both these theories. Coronavirus is spreading in UK cities where 5G has yet to be deployed, and in countries like Japan and Iran that have yet to adopt the technology.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duke of Edinburgh retired from public duties in 2017\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has issued a rare public statement to praise key workers who are keeping essential services running during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, also said he wanted to recognise the \"vital and urgent\" medical and scientific work taking place to tackle the pandemic.\n\nHe has rarely been seen in public since he retired from public duties in 2017.\n\nDuring the outbreak the duke has been staying at Windsor Castle with the Queen, who turns 94 on Tuesday.\n\nIn his message, published online, the duke said: \"As we approach World Immunisation Week, I wanted to recognise the vital and urgent work being done by so many to tackle the pandemic; by those in the medical and scientific professions, at universities and research institutions, all united in working to protect us from Covid-19.\n\n\"On behalf of those of us who remain safe and at home, I also wanted to thank all key workers who ensure the infrastructure of our life continues; the staff and volunteers working in food production and distribution, those keeping postal and delivery services going, and those ensuring the rubbish continues to be collected.\"\n\nThe duke is affiliated to more than 750 organisations, including those in the scientific, technological research, healthcare and infrastructure sectors which have been responding to the outbreak.\n\nHis grandson, the Duke of Cambridge, said on Friday that the Royal Family were doing everything they could to protect the duke - who turns 99 in June - and the Queen.\n\nPrince William said: \"Obviously I think very carefully about my grandparents who are the age they're at - we're doing everything we can to make sure that they're isolated away and protected from this.\"\n\nEarlier this month the Queen, who has cancelled her birthday gun salutes on Tuesday, made a televised address to the nation in which she stressed the country would overcome the virus.", "A Welsh doctor has described the huge effort being made to treat an increasing number of patients diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\nDr Martin Bevan, who is the unit medical director at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, spoke outside a Covid ward which is currently treating five patients – but until a week ago was a rheumatology unit.\n\n\"It's been re-purposed, it’s now an acute medical unit where we admit patients who are either suspected or known to be [Covid] positive,\" he said.\n\n\"So we're able now to admit patients direct from the community or transferred from Singleton and Morriston hospitals.”\n\nThere are five on the unit and another four who have tested positive for coronavirus on the medical wards.\n\nDr Bevan – who himself suffered with the symptoms of the illness - said the patients started arriving just a few days ago, but they expect many more in the coming days.\n\n“We only have five beds out of 17 used on the admission unit and we have a 40 bed ward upstairs ready as well for transfers from the medical unit,\" he said.\n\n\"I anticipate within the next few weeks we will be probably fill up.\n\n“But we still have plenty of capacity in the hospital. So we hope that we will have sufficient capacity to cope with the projected demands that are predicted at the moment.”\n\nHe said that the staff there are ready for what comes next.\n\n“We are confident that we can cope with whatever's thrown at us. Obviously, no one knows what is going to happen,\" Dr Bevan added.\n\n\"But I think we are as well prepared as we can be. And you know, all eventualities have been considered.”\n\n“All this is challenging. My role has changed considerably over the last week.\n\n\"I am a consultant rheumatologist but now I am working in acute medicine and doing resident on calls. So that is a big change. But everyone is stepping up to the challenge. And there have been a lot of volunteers to work in the Covid areas. “", "The family of a boy, 13, who died after testing positive for coronavirus have pleaded with the public to follow social distancing rules to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\nIsmail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, south London, died in hospital on Monday.\n\nIsmail, who had no underlying health conditions, was described as a \"gentle and kind\" boy.\n\nHe tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, his family said.\n\n\"We are all praying at this difficult time for all the people affected by this Covid-19 virus and we wish everybody speedy recovery,\" Ismail's family said in a statement.\n\n\"We also wanted to reiterate the need for people to listen to government guidance.\n\n\"So please, do everything you can to ensure that we adhere to social distancing; that people stay at home as much as they possibly can, to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nIsmail's death was confirmed by the NHS, which stated he was among patients with no known underlying health condition who had died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood he died after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nFamily friend Mark Stephenson, who was speaking on behalf of the boy's mother and six siblings, said there would not be a post-mortem examination.\n\nOn Tuesday Dr Nathalie MacDermott, clinical lecturer at King's College London, said Ismail's death \"highlights the importance of us all taking the precautions we can to reduce the spread of infection in the UK and worldwide\".\n\n\"While chronic underlying medical conditions are known to result in worse outcomes in Covid-19 infection, we have heard of cases of younger individuals with no known medical problems succumbing to the disease,\" she said.\n\n\"It is essential that we undertake research to determine why a proportion of deaths occur outside of the groups expected to succumb to infection, as it may indicate an underlying genetic susceptibility of how the immune system interacts with the virus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helena from Hampshire had prepared her rainbow picture\n\nThe NHS has asked people to stop posting rainbow pictures to the new Nightingale hospital in London after a social media request went viral.\n\nThe nurse who started the campaign said she wanted to create \"a sign of hope\" for patients and staff.\n\nThe rainbow logo has become a symbol of support for people wanting to show solidarity with NHS workers.\n\nNHS Nightingale is a field hospital that has been set up at breakneck speed and will have 4,000 beds.\n\nIt is now asking people to share their rainbow pictures digitally only.\n\nIn an email to the BBC, the staff nurse, who said she was based in Birmingham, wrote that she had \"organised a small team\" to help her coordinate the artwork and hoped to get enough to share with other temporary hospitals as well, once they are set up.\n\nShe asked for pictures to be laminated before they were sent in the post.\n\nHundreds of parents took part, asking their children to draw rainbow-themed pictures, laminating them and sending them in.\n\nHowever the NHS has asked people to share them online instead, using #RainbowsForNightingale.\n\nOn its social media channels it referenced a\"fake\" Facebook account but has since told the BBC that this was not the nurse's rainbow appeal, and added that the false account has now been removed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChildren have also been creating rainbows for their own homes", "Owen Harding seen on CCTV images in Saltdean on the day of his disappearance\n\nCCTV images of a missing teenager who disappeared from his home a week ago have been released.\n\nOwen Harding, 16, left his family home in Saltdean, East Sussex, on Thursday 26 March.\n\nHis mother has said he was upset and it is thought he may have set off on a 280-mile walk to see his girlfriend in Pocklington, East Yorkshire.\n\nPictures published by Sussex Police show Owen walking away from his home on the day he disappeared.\n\nThe force said he walked south along Bannings Vale at about 18:50 GMT, and may have turned into Hamsey Road.\n\nOwen's mum, Stella Harding, said: “He was upset. We were talking about travel restrictions because of the Covid-19 situation and I think he needed to go and stomp it off.\n\n“We often go for walks in this area and when he didn’t come back I started to worry and I spoke to my friends and we went to look for him.”\n\nTwo witnesses have reported a boy matching his description alongside the A259 near the clifftop at about 18:15 BST.\n\nPolice have appealed to any drivers who may have recorded Owen on dashcam after this time.\n\nPolice have searched nearby cliffs and urged drivers to check dashcam footage taken in that area\n\nOwen is described as white, 6ft tall, of athletic build, and with short brown hair.\n\nHe was wearing a black or dark hooded top, grey tracksuit trousers and white trainers.\n\nSussex Police said he has not been in touch with any friends or family since leaving home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business Secretary Alok Sharma: It's time for banks to \"repay the favour\" of the 2008 financial bailout\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma has issued a stark warning to banks, after concerns that up to a million companies could fold because they could be denied emergency loans.\n\n\"It would be completely unacceptable if any banks were unfairly refusing funds to good businesses in financial difficulty,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\nThe government-backed loan scheme aims to ensure companies can access cash as the UK lockdown slows the economy.\n\nBut some say loans have been denied.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street on Wednesday, Mr Sharma referenced the financial crisis - when the government bailed out a number of the UK's largest banks.\n\n\"Just as the taxpayer stepped in to help the banks back in 2008, we will work with the banks to do everything they can to repay that favour and support the businesses and people of the United Kingdom in their time of need,\" he said.\n\nBanks have been criticised by companies and MPs for insisting directors put their own property or savings up as collateral before they are approved for the emergency loans.\n\nBusinesses have also complained of banks charging interest rates of up to 30%.\n\nThe head of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry, said banks were either trying to push firms towards \"standard, expensive products\" or they were \"simply not responsive\".\n\n\"We can't have a situation where banks are approached by successful small firms and lenders offer up business as usual products,\" he said. \"This is not business as usual.\"\n\n\"They were promised interest-free, fee-free, government-backed support from banks,\" he said.\n\nHe said millions of firms were at risk of collapsing because they were in need of urgent help that has not been made available.\n\nThe Treasury is preparing to change the rules that govern its emergency loans scheme for businesses facing a cash-flow crisis because of the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nMany companies have told the BBC that the scheme isn't working for them, with some turned down for a government-backed loan and others told they may have to wait weeks.\n\nThe planned rule change follows a furious behind-the-scenes row between the banks and the government over whose fault it is that too few emergency loans have been offered to businesses in need.\n\nPrivately, the banks say it's the government's rules that are in the way. They are required to lend to firms on normal commercial terms if they can - and only businesses that can't get a traditional loan qualify for the scheme.\n\nBut the Treasury is now reportedly planning to scrap that rule so that banks can lend faster.\n\nAnother obstacle has been the demand from banks that company directors put their own assets at risk by signing personal guarantees when borrowing £250,000 or more. That is also expected to be addressed.\n\nResearch from a network of accountants suggested that nearly a fifth of Britain's small and medium-sized businesses were unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next month, under the existing scheme.\n\nThe study said that between 800,000 and a million firms nationwide may soon have to close.\n\nActing leader of the Liberal Democrat's Sir Ed Davey said: \"At a time when the whole country is coming together to fight Covid-19 it is becoming increasingly clear that the government cannot just leave the big banks to deliver the coronavirus business interruption loans. The big banks are simply not rising to the challenge.\n\n\"Too many small businesses report long delays, high interest terms and being asked for personal guarantees.\"\n\nBanking trade body UK Finance said lenders were \"working hard\" to get money to businesses as quickly as possible both under the government-backed scheme or by offering normal loans.\n\nBut the group stressed that banks could only offer loans on the government's terms if they were unable to lend \"under their normal criteria\".\n\n\"As the business secretary said today, this is a new scheme delivered at pace and there will be issues that need to be addressed,\" Stephen Jones, who runs the trade body, said.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief economist at the CBI business lobby group, told the BBC's Today programme: \"I think everybody is trying their best to get the system up and running, but the system itself is too complicated.\n\n\"What we really need to see is the Treasury listening to what businesses and banks are saying to make it easier for these loans to be dispersed.\"\n\nShe added that the other challenge for business was that \"there's a whole range, what we call the 'stranded middle', who are too big for the government's short-term business interruption loans, but too small for the Bank of England's commercial paper\".\n\n\"These are big regional employers, from Cumbria to Coventry, and we just cannot afford to lose them just because they have a turnover of more than £45m.\"", "This video can not be played.", "Signs that Saudi Arabia and Russia may end an oil feud sent prices up more than 20% on Thursday, the biggest one-day leap on record.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he expected the two sides to cut supply, while Saudi Arabia called for an emergency meeting of oil producers.\n\nThe Russian energy minister also said his country may re-enter talks.\n\nA deal to cut production - in response to the drop in demand from coronavirus shutdowns - collapsed last month.\n\nSince then, the cost of crude has fallen to lows not seen for almost two decades as Russia and Saudi Arabia slashed prices and ramped up production in a fight for market share.\n\nThose moves, alongside the wider collapse in demand, have caused US oil to its worst quarter on record. Prices fell by two thirds in the first three months of the year, rocking the American energy sector.\n\nThe damage has prompted Washington to try to broker a new deal.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Trump tweeted \"I expect & hope\" the two countries will agree to cut supply by 10 million barrels \"and maybe substantially more\".\n\nSpeaking earlier about the dispute at a White House news conference, Mr Trump said: \"It's very bad for Russia, it's very bad for Saudi Arabia. I mean, it's very bad for both. I think they're going to make a deal\".\n\nSeparately, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Moscow would work to stabilise the market.\n\nThe international benchmark, Brent crude, rose 21% to finish at $29.94 a barrel and the price of US oil, known as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), jumped almost 25% to $25.32. Both were record gains.\n\nA cut of 10 million barrels per day would amount to about 10% of global output.\n\nAnalysts said the US oil industry might also have to make cuts - either voluntarily to help stabilise prices or due to financial pressures because of the broader demand drop. Global demand for crude oil is predicted to be almost 23% lower this month than it was a year ago, according to research firm Rystad Energy.\n\n\"While a truce (if actually enacted) would be a positive [for oil prices], we believe the benefits from a likely modest reduction in global crude oil supply are still likely to be swamped by the decline in crude oil demand that we see today, courtesy of the coronavirus,\" said Stewart Glickman, analyst at CFRA Research.\n\nMr Trump, who is set to meet the bosses of major energy companies, including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, at the White House on Friday, has described the US energy sector as having been \"ravaged\".\n\nOn Wednesday, it saw the first stock market-traded casualty of the collapse in oil prices when shale producer Whiting Petroleum, which was once the largest oil producer in the US state of North Dakota, filed for bankruptcy.\n\nThe company said it had worked to cut costs and would continue to operate under a restructuring plan.", "British Airways is among many airlines that have seen passenger numbers shrink and bookings collapse\n\nBritish Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be \"short term, perhaps long term\".\n\nThe airline industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nAn internal memo to Ryanair staff, seen by the BBC, said crew may be allocated to take unpaid leave due to cancelled flights and schedule changes.\n\nBA boss Mr Cruz said: \"We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term.\"\n\nThe airline is in talks with unions but gave no further details about the scale of the likely job losses in the video message transcript seen by the BBC.\n\nThe airline boss said that British Airways, which is owned by FTSE 100 company IAG, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way they had \"never had to do before\".\n\nBritish Airways would \"continue to do our best for customers and offer them as much flexibility as we can\", Mr Cruz said in the video.\n\nAlthough Mr Cruz said the British flag carrier airline had a strong balance sheet and was financially resilient, he told staff \"not to underestimate the seriousness of this for our company\".\n\nBA and other carriers' revenues have been hit by the coronavirus response as governments close borders, companies ban lucrative business travel, conferences and events are cancelled and demand for leisure travel slumps.\n\nBritish Airways boss Alex Cruz said the effect of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will be worse than 9/11\n\nIAG shares bounced on Friday after the global share market rout on Thursday. They closed up 4.8% to 350p per share, but were trading higher before news of the mass groundings broke.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association warned on Friday that global airline revenue losses would be \"probably above\" the figure of $113bn (£90bn) that it estimated a week ago, before the Trump administration's announcement of US travel curbs on passengers from much of continental Europe.\n\nEarlier this month, IAG said flight suspensions to China and cancellations on Italian routes would affect how many passengers it carried this year.\n\nMajor US airlines are in talks with the government there over economic relief, as traveller demand plummets.\n\n\"The speed of the demand fall-off is unlike anything we've seen,\" Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said on Friday in a note to staff, which also said the firm would cut flights by 40% over the next few months, ground 300 aircraft and reduce spending by $2bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe increase in flight cancellations comes after the European Union said it would suspend until the end of June a \"use it or lose it\" law that requires airlines to use their allocated runway slots or risk losing the lucrative asset.\n\nThe law had led to so-called \"ghost flights\" where airlines were flying near-empty planes in order to keep their slots at airports.\n\nThe pilot's union Balpa on Friday called for greater government support for the aviation industry and complained that this week's Budget had not included a cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the industry had lobbied for.\n\nBALPA general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Removing APD is just one step that could help airlines make it through their financial woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The reality is, with such a loss in forward bookings for the summer - the time when airlines make all their profit - the airlines have had to look at ways to save money to keep the companies afloat\".\n\nDo you work for British Airways? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "NHS workers have been tested at a drive-through site at an Ikea store in Wembley, north London\n\nThe government is facing growing pressure to ramp up coronavirus testing, as the UK saw its biggest daily increase in deaths.\n\nSome 2,352 virus patients had died in hospital as of 17:00 on Tuesday - up 563 in a day, the latest figures show.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said testing was \"massively increasing\" and it was \"the way through\" the pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile a major international climate meeting, COP26, is the latest event to be postponed as a result of the virus.\n\nThe climate talks were due to take place at Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus in November - which is being turned into a temporary field hospital to treat coronavirus patients.\n\nThe UN's climate body, the UNFCCC, and the UK government said the summit would be pushed back to 2021.\n\nIn a video message posted on Twitter, the prime minister said Wednesday had been a \"sad, sad day\" due to the high number of deaths in the UK.\n\nMr Johnson, who is self-isolating in Downing Street after contracting the virus, also reiterated the government's commitment to \"ramp up\" testing.\n\nHe said: \"This is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle. This is how we will defeat it in the end.\"\n\nThe government has been under pressure to increase the screening of medics, so that those who are self-isolating unnecessarily can return to work.\n\nMore than 3,500 NHS frontline staff in England and Wales have been tested for the virus since the outbreak began.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said a shortage of chemicals needed for the tests meant the NHS - which employs 1.2m in England - could not screen all workers.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government was working with NHS England, Public Health England and other organisations to boost test capacity with an additional network of labs and testing sites.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England medical director, told a daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street that there was currently capacity for about 3,000 tests a day for frontline NHS staff.\n\nShe said the \"intention\" was for testing for frontline staff to increase from \"thousands to hundreds of thousands within the coming weeks\".\n\nThe World Health Organization has said the world is set to reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths worldwide in the next few days.\n\nDr Doyle said the UK was not in \"as severe\" a position as Spain, the US or Italy, but added there was \"no reason to be complacent\".\n\nShe said while the spread of the virus was most advanced in London, the Midlands was \"obviously a concern\" too.\n\nAs of 9:00 on Wednesday, 152,979 people in the UK had been tested for the virus with 29,474 confirmed positive.\n\nThis includes 4,139 cases in the Midlands and 8,341 in London.\n\nDr Doyle added while use of public transport had gone down since the government enforced social distancing measures, an \"up-tick\" in motor vehicle use in the last 24 hours was \"slightly concerning\". She urged members of the public to stay home to \"protect the NHS\".\n\nThe number of questions about the lack of testing at the daily press conference came as no surprise. The government has been heavily criticised for not increasing testing capacity more quickly.\n\nDr Doyle said she was confident the UK would achieve the target of 25,000 tests a day by the end of the month.\n\nThere is some way to go - over the past 24 hours just shy of 10,000 tests have been done.\n\nThe lack of tests means NHS staff have had to self-isolate at home when members of their household show symptoms.\n\nNews that there are going to be five drive-through centres for staff will also help.\n\nBut it was interesting Dr Doyle was also asked by how much more testing can be increased by in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of cases does come down, testing will play a crucial role in allowing the lockdown to be eased.\n\nThe plan would be to contain the virus by testing lots of people quickly. That will require the UK to be able to tests hundreds of thousands of people a day.\n\nA doctor who came out of retirement to volunteer for the NHS has become the fourth UK medic to die with the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nDr Alfa Sa'adu, 68, had been volunteering at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Welwyn when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHis son Dani Saadu posted online that his dad had died after \"fighting the virus for two weeks\".\n\n\"My dad was a living legend, worked for the NHS for nearly 40 years saving people's lives here and in Africa,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's head of statistics Robert Cuffe said the latest increases in the number of patients dying with coronavirus balance out with the below-average rises on Sunday and Monday.\n\nHe said the number of new deaths has been increasing at a slightly slower rate than earlier in the epidemic, \"but if that keeps up, we'd expect to see in the region of a thousand deaths a day by the weekend\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business Secretary Alok Sharma: It's time for banks to \"repay the favour\" of the 2008 financial bailout\n\nDowning Street said 390 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) including masks, alcohol wipes and aprons, have been delivered to NHS staff over the last two weeks.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said the government was working with a number of suppliers which had come forward with offers of PPE, or proposals to manufacture more.\n\nIt follows criticism from some frontline workers over the lack of protective equipment, with staff at one hospital in Essex warning they could \"limit services\" to patients with coronavirus \"to a bare minimum\" over fears for their own safety.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles speaks for the first time since contracting the coronavirus, in a recorded video message in support for the charity Age UK\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson also said the NHS will be sent 30 new ventilators next week and promised \"hundreds\" more would follow.\n\nThe NHS is reported to have 8,175 ventilators and the government believes up to 30,000 ventilators could be needed at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nDo you work in the NHS? Have you been tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Greg James, Dermot O'Leary, Lauren Laverne, Dotty and Harpz Kaur hosted the broadcast from separate studios\n\nUK radio listeners formed a nationwide choir on Thursday, as five BBC stations teamed up for a communal singalong.\n\nFor the first time, Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music, 1 Xtra and Asian Network all broadcast the same programme, designed to lift spirits during the lockdown.\n\n\"This is a unique moment,\" said Radio 1's Greg James. \"Isolation doesn't mean you have to be lonely.\"\n\nSongs were suggested by listeners, with choices including Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline and Prince's Raspberry Beret.\n\nRadio 1's audience submitted Florence + The Machine's You Got The Love, while 1 Xtra listeners chose Toast, an uplifting reggae-soul song by up-and-coming Jamaican artist Koffee.\n\n\"For anyone hearing this for the first time, I promise it's exactly what we need right now,\" said 1 Xtra's breakfast host Dotty, calling Toast \"the most uplifting song I've heard in years\".\n\n\"If you don't know it, nod your head and raise a glass of orange juice\".\n\nDuring the broadcast, people were encouraged to film themselves singing along and post videos on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mrs C-S This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Roopsmanuva This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sally Westley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral BBC presenters joined the fun from home, too.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by sara cox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Ken Bruce This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Shaun Keaveny This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreg James kicked off the simulcast just after 09:00 BST, explaining: \"Radio is brilliant at bringing people together, and at this time its power is magnetised.\"\n\n\"Radio is a great pal to all of us. We'd love to see you singing along ... This is a massive, brilliant community.\"\n\nIndeed, radio listening has increased dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC says live streaming of its networks has risen by 18%. Global, which owns Capital FM, Heart and talk station LBC; and Bauer, whose stations include Absolute and Magic, have both seen listening increase by 15%.\n\nLorna Clarke, the controller for BBC Popular Music, said: \"In these challenging times, we know that many people have been turning to radio as a lifeline.\n\n\"The live broadcasts from our amazing presenters are providing people with a sense of community and some much-needed escapism at a time where many of us are feeling distant from our loved ones.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Premier League footballers should \"take a pay cut and play their part\" during the coronavirus pandemic, says health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nSome clubs have furloughed non-playing staff but not looked at players' wages.\n\n\"Given the sacrifices many people are making, the first thing PL footballers can do is make a contribution,\" he said at the daily government briefing.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said \"players will have to share the financial burden\".\n\nIn a statement, the PFA added: \"We are aware of the public sentiment that the players should pay non-playing staff's salaries. However, our current position is that - as businesses - if clubs can afford to pay their players and staff, they should.\n\n\"The players we have spoken to recognise that the non-playing staff are a vital part of their club and they do not want to see club staff furloughed unfairly.\n\n\"Any use of the government's support schemes without genuine financial need is detrimental to the wider society.\n\n\"In instances where clubs have the resources to pay all staff, the benefit of players paying non-playing staff salaries will only serve the business of the club's shareholders.\"\n• None Check out BBC Sport's five things to do today\n\nHancock's comments came on a day when the number of UK deaths from coronavirus rose to 2,921 and followed those made by Conservative colleague Julian Knight, who is chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee.\n\nKnight has written to Premier League chief executive Richard Masters calling for action on player wages, saying clubs which furlough non-playing staff but do not impose cuts on player wages should be subjected to a windfall tax if they do not change approach by Tuesday, 7 April.\n\n\"The purpose of the coronavirus job retention scheme is not to support the economics of Premier League clubs,\" Knight wrote.\n\nThe PFA statement added: \"We fully accept that players will have to be flexible and share the financial burden of the Covid-19 outbreak in order to secure the long-term future of their own club and indeed the wider game.\n\n\"Our advice going out to players at this point reflects that expectation.\"\n\nPremier League sides Tottenham, Newcastle, Bournemouth and Norwich have opted to utilise the government's job retention scheme.\n\nPlayers, coaches and executive staff at Norwich have donated £200,000, made up of a percentage of their salaries, to help local people affected by the pandemic.\n\nPlayers at Championship leaders Leeds United have already volunteered to take a wage deferral, while Birmingham City players who earn more than £6,000 a week have been asked to take a 50% cut for the next four months.\n\nIn Europe, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid players have taken a 70% pay cut, while Juventus players and manager Maurizio Sarri have agreed to freeze their pay for four months.\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe became the first Premier League boss to take a voluntary pay cut during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday.\n\nBrighton chief executive Paul Barber, technical director Dan Ashworth and head coach Graham Potter have each taken a \"significant\" voluntary pay cut but no decision has been taken on whether to furlough any of the club's staff.\n\nSome will no doubt view politicians' criticism of highly-paid footballers as a convenient deflection tactic at a time of intensifying scrutiny on the government's handling of a national crisis.\n\nNo players have so far objected to contributing some of their wealth to help their clubs at a time when their finances are in peril. But there is now a perception that the PFA has been too slow to agree action, and by failing to take the initiative have ensured a PR disaster for their members, especially after several clubs furloughed non-playing staff.\n\nThe PFA needs to look after the interests of less well paid players in Leagues One and Two of course. But it has not gone unnoticed that negotiations are being led by chief executive Gordon Taylor, who promised to stand down from his £2m per year role more than a year ago, but remains in power.\n\nThe union has been holding out for a collective wage deferral and has finally broken its silence to explain its position, with some thinly-veiled digs at some clubs in its statement.\n\nBut during talks with the Premier League over the past two days it has been made very clear to the PFA that an actual pay cut is required, with clubs deprived of matchday revenue and worried that TV rights-holders will start demanding hundreds of million of pounds worth of refunds.\n\nI understand any cut would not be as high as the 70% reduction seen at clubs like Barcelona, but that now seems to be the direction of travel with an agreement anticipated on Friday. For many, however, such a gesture should already have been made.", "Comedian Eddie Large, best known for being part of double act Little and Large, has died with coronavirus.\n\nThe star, 78, was a well known face on TV in the 1970s and 80s and was famous for his partnership with Syd Little.\n\nHis family confirmed the news \"with great sadness\" on Facebook, saying he had been suffering with heart failure and contracted the virus in hospital.\n\nLittle said he was \"devastated\" by the news. \"He had been ill for a while but when it happens, it hits you,\" he said.\n\n\"We were together 60 years,\" he told BBC Radio Lancashire. \"It wasn't like having a partner. We were friends.\"\n\nThe comedian's family said they had been unable to visit him in hospital due to restrictions around the coronavirus, \"but all of the family and close friends spoke to him every day\".\n\n\"We will miss him terribly and we are so proud of everything he has achieved in his career with Syd and know that he was much loved by the millions that watched them every week.\"\n\nReacting to the news, TV hosts Ant and Dec said the entertainer, who they recently worked with, \"will be missed\".\n\n\"He just loved making people laugh,\" they wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLarge, whose real name was Hugh McGinnis, was born in Glasgow but grew up in Manchester's Moss Side.\n\nHe formed double act Little and Large with Syd Little in 1960, after watching Little's set in a local pub, and joining him on stage to sing a Cliff Richard song.\n\nThey went on to win the talent show Opportunity Knocks and had a long-running comedy show on BBC One in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nThe sketch-based comedy show was as a fixture of Saturday evening TV, with Little mainly acting as the butt of Large's cheeky humour.\n\nThey largely stepped away from the limelight when the show ended in 1991, after doctors told Large his heart couldn't stand the rigours of touring their live show.\n\nThe comedians' sketch show was regularly watched by 15 million people.\n\n\"That phone call to Syd was the most painful I've ever had to make,\" he told the Mirror in 2017.\n\n\"I was crying my eyes out because I knew I was putting him out of work. He had bills to pay.\n\n\"I felt horrible. We weren't just a double act. We were mates, right from the start.\"\n\nLarge had a heart transplant in 2003, and became an spokesman for the British Heart Foundation.\n\nIn later years, he lived in Portishead, near Bristol, with his wife Patsy Scott.\n\nLittle said he had remained in almost daily contact with his stage partner, and spoke to him on Wednesday night, shortly before he died.\n\n\"He was in pain, bless him, but he even asked me how are we up here [in Lancashire],\" he said. \"He was so thoughtful to everybody.\"\n\nReflecting on their career, he added: \"We did everything there was to do in showbiz and we did it together. Happy times.\"\n\nThe duo largely stopped working together when their TV series ended in 1991\n\nFellow comics including Little Britain's Matt Lucas paid tribute on Twitter, writing: \"Eddie Large (along with his supersonic friend Syd) was really lovely and kind and encouraging to me when I was a nipper on Shooting Stars. So sad to hear of his passing.\"\n\nActress Kate Robbins described him as a \"great chap\".\n\n\"Sorry to hear the comedian Eddie Large has died,\" she tweeted. \"A real pro. Rest in peace Eddie\".\n\nManchester City Football Club also paid tribute to Large, who was a lifelong fan, saying everyone at the club was sad at the news.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Eddie's friends and family at this difficult time.\"\n\nFellow City fan and comedian Jason Manford added: \"So sorry to hear about Eddie Large passing away.\n\n\"Came to every comedy and musical show I did whenever I hit Bristol and was always around for a chat about comedy and Man City afterwards. Such a gentle, funny man. RIP Eddie.\"\n\nCall the Midwife actor Stephen McGann described Large as \"a constant feature on telly in my life.\"\n\nAnother comic, Sir Lenny Henry recalled seeing him perform in Great Yarmouth in 1978 and how he had \"never heard laughter like it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lenny Henry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTommy Cannon, of Cannon and Ball-fame, said he was \"devastated\" to hear of the death of his \"good friend\".\n\n\"Eddie Large has passed.. very heavy hearts at home today,\" he wrote. \"Mine and Hazels hearts go out to Patsy and the family.\"\n\n\"Dear Eddie Large - thank you for the laughter and joy,\" added 80s TV comedy character Timmy Mallett.\n\nMichael Barrymore described Large as \"such a funny and talented man.\"\n\n\"I was his support act for many years and he was nothing but kind caring and supportive to the upstart at the bottom of the bill,\" posted Barrymore on Twitter.\n\nPaul Chuckle, who is currently recovering from having contracted Covid-19 himself, said Large \"was such a funny and lovely man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Adam Lewis, who was sentenced on Wednesday, also threatened to bite the officer, police said\n\nA man who coughed on a police officer and claimed to have coronavirus has been jailed for six months.\n\nAdam Lewis, 55, told the officer: \"I am Covid and I am going to cough in your face and you will get it.\"\n\nThe Met said the officer had been flagged down by a member of the public during a cycle patrol in Westminster when it happened on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nLewis was sentenced by Westminster magistrates after being convicted of assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nThe officer was told that a man had been seen trying the handles of car doors in the area, magistrates heard.\n\nLewis resisted the officer's attempt to search him and smashed a bottle of wine he was holding on the floor, police said.\n\nAs well as coughing on the officer, Lewis also tried to cough up phlegm and threatened to bite him, the Met said.\n\nCh Supt Helen Harper said: \"My officers are doing everything they can to keep the public safe and police to the very best of their abilities - and we appreciate that the vast majority of people are making every effort to comply with the measures the government has introduced.\"\n\nShe added that what happened was \"horrendous\" and promised a \"robust\" response to any \"unacceptable behaviour\" police encountered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Tillyer said acts of kindness towards NHS staff made them feel appreciated\n\nA \"humbled and emotional\" paramedic has thanked a stranger who paid for his shopping and customers who applauded him at a supermarket.\n\nPeople queuing outside Lidl in Cromer, Norfolk, made way for David Tillyer - who had just finished a night shift - \"with applause and thank-yous\".\n\nHe said a woman who \"ran up and swiped her card\" as he went to pay told him: \"Not much you can do to stop me\".\n\nHis thank-you on Facebook has been shared 78,000 times.\n\n\"I am humbled and a bit emotional,\" wrote Mr Tillyer, who works for the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS)\n\n\"Thank you to the lady that did that and thank you to all the shoppers that made me feel special after a tough run of shifts #NHSandProud #stayhome #covidkindness.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said he had just finished a 12-hour shift and was about to join the end of the queue waiting for Lidl to open when the young couple in front of him let him go ahead.\n\n\"About two-thirds of the way through the queue someone said 'let's give him a round of applause', and people started clapping and saying thank you.\n\n\"It was really heart-warming to know that people out there really respect what we do and are grateful to everyone on the frontline of the NHS for what we're doing at the moment.\"\n\nHe praised the \"amazing, kind gesture\" from the woman who ran to the till to pay for his shopping.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"When we get these acts of kindness - and there have been so many recently - and it really makes us feel appreciated.\"\n\nEEAS said it was \"extremely appreciative of the fantastic public support\" shown to NHS workers.\n\n\"Our staff and volunteers are working around the clock to ensure the public are safe and cared for, so it is particularly heartening to see this widespread recognition of our collective efforts.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Thursday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nJust 2,000 of about half a million frontline NHS workers in England have been tested for coronavirus. With ministers under fire, Boris Johnson says testing will \"unlock the coronavirus puzzle\".\n\nThere were 563 deaths among patients with Covid-19 within 24 hours - the biggest daily increase yet. As the number of cases keeps growing, you can find out how many there are in your area.\n\nUp to 3,000 more armed forces reservists are being called up to strengthen the medical and logistical response to the pandemic. Services personnel have already helped to build the temporary Nightingale Hospital in east London, below.\n\nThe number of people infected globally will reach one million within days, World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said. Follow the latest developments across the world.\n\nJoin the Great British Singalong at nine this morning, when BBC Radio 1,1Xtra, Radio 2, 6 Music, and the Asian Network will each play a morale-boosting song selected by listeners to be broadcast across all five pop stations.\n\nThe rules on exercise, travel and shopping during the lockdown. Tap here for the lowdown.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "About 4.3 billion journeys were made by bus in England in 2018-19\n\nThe government will cover the losses of bus companies in England over the next three months to ensure that services can still run.\n\nThe UK's bus industry says passenger numbers have \"fallen off a cliff\" since the government advised people against all non-essential travel.\n\nBut a new £167m fund will ensure that bus companies can cover their costs on essential services so that key workers, such as NHS staff, can get to work.\n\nSimilar agreements are already in place in Scotland and Wales. The deal in Wales includes free bus travel for NHS workers.\n\nHundreds of millions of pounds of support measures from local and central government have been dedicated to the UK's bus industry to ensure that companies can survive through the coronavirus crisis and keep a reduced bus network moving.\n\nThe latest figures from the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), which represents bus and coach companies in Britain, showed that passenger numbers were down by 75%, although the numbers from bus operators suggest numbers are even lower.\n\nWith people advised to stay at home, many buses around the UK are being driven around with no passengers on them at all.\n\nCPT boss Graham Vidler said the funding would \"plug the gap\" between the costs of running essential routes and the income received by companies. He said that would allow \"critical journeys to continue\".\n\nGovernment support is conditional on bus companies operating about half of their routes.\n\nOperators have also pledged not to let buses carry more than 50% of their maximum capacity to ensure that social distancing is possible on board.\n\nStagecoach said on Friday that its local regional bus companies were currently seeing sales at about 15% of \"normal levels\".\n\nMartin Griffiths, the chief executive of Stagecoach, said that in a \"very challenging period\", the new funding would mean \"key workers can still get to and from work, and that communities can still access other services\", such as shopping for food or picking up medicines.\n\nStagecoach added that its Megabus inter-city bus service in England and Wales would be suspended by Sunday 5 April.\n\nTransport groups Go-Ahead and FirstGroup also said they had seen huge falls in bus use, with passenger numbers and revenues down by about 90%.\n\nGo-Ahead boss David Brown said the government funding package was \"crucial\" to ensure the company could provide essential services.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapp, emphasised that people should \"stay at home if possible\". However, he described buses as a \"lifeline for people who need to travel for work or to buy food\".\n\n\"It's absolutely vital we do all we can to keep the sector running,\" he said.\n\nGrant Shapps described buses as a \"lifeline\" for those who need to make essential trips\n\nBus companies aim to temporarily lay off around half their staff who will then receive income under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme.\n\nBefore the coronavirus outbreak the government had earmarked funding to reopen bus routes which had been cut in recent years. Some of that money is now being spent on keeping existing routes running.\n\nAny losses incurred by bus companies since the government advised people against all but essential travel should be covered under the rescue package.", "Drive-through testing sites for some NHS staff have opened in southern England\n\nHealth officials say they are \"frustrated\" by a lack of progress in expanding UK coronavirus testing.\n\nProf Paul Cosford of Public Health England (PHE) said \"everybody involved\" was unhappy testing had not \"got to the position yet that we need to get to\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson responded to criticism of the UK's strategy by hailing screening as a solution to \"unlock the puzzle\" of coronavirus.\n\nIt came as a further 569 patients died with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAs of 17:00 BST on Wednesday, the overall number of deaths with the virus in the UK was 2,921.\n\nMr Johnson, who continues to suffer mild symptoms during self-isolation in Downing Street after contracting the virus himself, has faced widespread criticism over his government's testing strategy.\n\nAround 13,000 tests are available each day against a target of 25,000.\n\nProf Cosford said testing would hit 15,000 per day \"imminently\" and that PHE had played its part in ensuring tests were \"available to support clinical treatment of patients who need it\".\n\nThe government has confirmed that 2,800 NHS frontline staff out of half a million in England have been tested for coronavirus since the outbreak began.\n\nProf Cosford, PHE's emeritus medical director, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the figure was \"nowhere near where we need to get to but it's a good start\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP Dawn Butler said her uncle died after contracting coronavirus in hospital following a fall.\n\n\"Government needs to test everyone who works in the hospitals without delay,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nAnd Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti said the slow pace of testing showed \"a lack of clarity of what the plan is and how it is going to be executed\".\n\nSir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick research institute - which will soon be able to conduct 500 Covid-19 tests a day - said a Dunkirk-style effort was needed to co-ordinate smaller laboratories and increase test numbers.\n\n\"We are a lot of little boats and the little boats can be effective,\" he said, referring to the evacuation of Allied troops from the beaches of the French city during World War Two.\n\nHe added: \"The government has put some big boats, destroyers in place. That's a bit more cumbersome to get working and we wish them all the luck to do that, but we little boats can contribute as well.\"\n\nThe daily figures for the number of new cases, deaths and tests virtually mirror those released yesterday.\n\nAt this stage, when we are on an upwards trajectory, the fact that there has not been significant increases in terms of cases and deaths can perhaps be interpreted as a good sign.\n\nBut what is more important is the trend over a few days - not 24 hours in isolation.\n\nAny improvement will be seen in the number of new cases first.\n\nThey were hovering around the 2,500 to 3,000 mark in the five days up to yesterday.\n\nThen the number of new cases jumped to over 4,300, which has been nearly matched today.\n\nThere will be hope that this is where it plateaus, before dropping down.\n\nIn a video message on Twitter on Wednesday evening, Mr Johnson said that increased screening would be how the UK defeats the coronavirus.\n\n\"I want to say a special word about testing, because it is so important, and as I have said for weeks and weeks, this is the way through,\" he said.\n\n\"This is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle. This is how we will defeat it in the end.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM posted a video message on Twitter on Wednesday evening\n\nMr Johnson said more coronavirus testing would enable staff who were self-isolating - either because they had symptoms or shared a household with someone who was sick - to know if they were safe to work.\n\nAntibody tests - which look for signs of immunity in the blood - could also show who had already had coronavirus and was therefore not at risk of being infected or passing the infection on to others, the prime minister said.\n\nHowever, these tests are not yet ready for use and it is not clear when they will be.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said more than 2,800 people had been tested at drive-through sites and a \"significant number\" additionally in NHS and Public Health England laboratories, with an update expected later.\n\nThe spokesman confirmed that two laboratories, in addition to one in Milton Keynes, were being set up in Cheshire and Glasgow to process tests in the North of England and Scotland.\n\nAn NHS coronavirus drive through test centre is already in place at Chessington World of Adventures car park\n\nAmbulance workers outside the Nightingale Hospital at the Excel centre in London\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has held talks with industry figures, issuing what his department said was a \"rallying call\" to improve diagnostic capability.\n\nHowever, some NHS trusts have said they are limited in the number of tests they can carry out due to continued shortages of swabs, reagents and testing kits.\n\nDespite there being capacity for 12,799 daily tests in England, there were only 10,657 carried out on Wednesday.\n\nAs of 09:00 on 2 April, 163,194 people in the UK had been tested for the virus, of which 33,718 were confirmed positive.\n\nMeanwhile, Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge has become the first in the UK to use a new, much quicker Covid-19 test for staff and patients.\n\nCalled Samba Two, it gives a result in just 90 minutes - as opposed to the 24 hours tests currently take - and has been adapted from an HIV test by a small Cambridge technology company.\n\nBusinessman and philanthropist Sir Chris Hohn, who is helping make the test more widely available, told the BBC it could be a \"game-changer\" in helping hospitals cope with the crisis.\n\nDo you work in the NHS? Have you been tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Thomas Harvey's death was \"an absolute tragedy\", his daughter Tamira said\n\nAn NHS worker has died from coronavirus after treating patients with only gloves for protection, leaving his family feeling \"let down\".\n\nThomas Harvey collapsed on Sunday after falling ill having helped a patient who later tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 57-year-old healthcare assistant's family claim with the \"right\" personal protective equipment (PPE) at Goodmayes Hospital, London, he may not have died.\n\nThe hospital said there were \"no symptomatic patients on the ward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thomas Harvey's children, Tamira and Thomas Jr, say their father \"just had gloves and a flimsy apron\"\n\nMr Harvey was signed off sick from the hospital in Ilford on 11 March after developing symptoms including a cough, shortness of breath and body aches.\n\nHe had only been given gloves at work and did not have the correct PPE, according to his family and a former colleague.\n\nThe colleague said Mr Harvey had contracted the virus at work after treating a patient who later tested positive.\n\nThomas Harvey had worked at the Goodmayes Hospital for more than 20 years\n\nHe was told by paramedics to self-isolate, but he was not officially tested for coronavirus.\n\nHis 19-year-old daughter, Tamira, told the BBC they called 999 again a few days later but were referred back to NHS 111.\n\n\"They told us he wasn't an emergency, but he was breathing badly.\"\n\nMr Harvey collapsed in his bathroom on Sunday and died despite efforts by paramedics to resuscitate him.\n\nTamira said: \"It's so sad. I feel like he was let down in so many ways.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy and he didn't deserve to lose his life in the way he did.\n\n\"If he had just had the right equipment we wouldn't be in this predicament and it wouldn't have escalated in the way it did.\"\n\nShe said he had been let down by the government.\n\n\"They underestimated the severity of it. Something big was coming and they didn't do their best.\"\n\nThomas Junior, 24, said his father's death could have been \"prevented so easily if he had been diagnosed quicker and was given the right equipment and given the right treatment in hospital\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by #JusticeforThomas This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe father-of-seven who had three grandchildren, was described by his family as a \"caring, supportive and selfless man who always put others before himself\".\n\nHis family said Mr Harvey did not have any underlying health conditions and had \"rarely taken a sick day\".\n\nIn a statement, Goodmayes Hospital said: \"At the time Thomas went off sick and self-isolated there were no symptomatic patients on the ward.\n\n\"We are following national PPE guidance.\"\n\nThe Department of Health said: \"We are working around the clock to give the NHS and the wider social care sector the equipment and support they need.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The licensee was serving drinks at The Blue Bell in Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire without the bar owners knowing\n\nA pub that was holding a \"lock-in\" for regular drinkers has been shut down under new coronavirus legislation.\n\nThe licensee was serving drinks at The Blue Bell, in Nottinghamshire, unbeknownst to its owners, police said.\n\nNottinghamshire Police officers were called to weekend reports that drinks were being served and, along with Ashfield District Council, shut it.\n\nAll stock and alcohol has also now been removed from the premises, in Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield.\n\nFollowing the government's social distancing measure announcement on 20 March, all pubs were told to close.\n\nCh Supt Rob Griffin said this \"sends a very clear message\" that \"police and our partners will not tolerate those people who deliberately break the rules and put other people's lives in danger\".\n\nCouncillor Helen-Ann Smith, from Ashfield District Council, said the bar manager was \"irresponsible\" and \"drinking with even one friend goes against the government's guidelines\".\n\n\"It beggars belief why this group of people thought it was acceptable to have a private party when the majority of residents were staying home to help save lives,\" she said.\n\nLee Anderson, MP for Ashfield, reported the lock-in to the police after it was brought to his attention.\n\nHe said: \"At a time when the vast majority of residents are obeying government advice we have a small majority who think the rules do not apply to them.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince Charles has spoken of the \"strange, frustrating and often distressing experience\" of being without family and friends during self-isolation. He was diagnosed with the virus in March.\n\nIn a recorded a video message in support for the charity, Age UK, the Prince of Wales called for \"faith in ourselves and in each other\" as the world battles the pandemic.", "Up to 3,000 armed forces reservists are being called up to aid the military response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIndividuals with specialist skills will provide medical and logistical support to the NHS, engineers and accountants, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe MoD said it had identified the units and individuals it will need and notified their employers.\n\nReserves who are already working in the NHS or delivering front-line services will not be called up.\n\nThe MoD has already set up a 20,000-strong Covid-19 response force to help in the fight against the virus, though only a few thousand full-time military personnel have so far been deployed.\n\nThey have been assisting in tasks such as delivering protective clothing to the NHS and building the Nightingale Hospital in east London, the first of several new temporary hospitals to be set up across the UK.\n\nThe hospital, being set up in London's ExCeL centre, is due to be operational this week, despite building work only starting last Wednesday.\n\nThe 4,000-bed facility will be split into more than 80 wards containing 42 beds each and will be one of the biggest hospitals in the world, according to its chief operating officer, Natalie Forrest.\n\nThe facility will be used to treat Covid-19 patients who have been transferred from other intensive care units across London.\n\nA further two hospitals will be built at Birmingham's NEC and the Manchester conference centre and will be ready later this month.\n\nThe Nightingale Hospital will have 4,000 beds and will be used to treat Covid-19 patients who have been transferred from other intensive care units across London\n\nIt comes as the UK once again saw its biggest daily increase in deaths - 563 - taking the overall toll to 2,352.\n\nThe government is facing growing pressure to increase the testing of medics, so that those who are self-isolating unnecessarily can return to work.\n\nIn a video message posted on Twitter, the prime minister, who is self-isolating after contracting the virus, reiterated the government's commitment to \"ramp up\" testing.\n\nAre you an armed forces reservist who has been or is expecting to be called up? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Andrew Goodall said Public Health Wales was exploring options for more labs being able to test\n\nFewer than 1.5% of health service staff have been tested for coronavirus, the head of NHS Wales has confirmed.\n\nMore than 1,500 staff have been tested to date but there is a promise to test 1,100 people a day from next week.\n\nMeanwhile, there has been a dramatic 60% fall in people attending hospital emergency units over the last two weeks.\n\nNHS Wales chief executive Andrew Goodall said there had been a \"significant drop\" in normal activity.\n\nHe also said over the last couple of days around 200 health care workers a day were now being tested.\n\n\"Just yesterday we were close to 1,000 tests actually being processed and you will continue to see those numbers actually rising in Wales,\" he said.\n\nDr Goodall told the daily news briefing he was continuing to explore opportunities to expand testing capacity.\n\nTests among the NHS workforce in Wales started on 18 March.\n\nBut with more than 104,000 people working in NHS Wales, including 9,469 in GP practices, fewer than 1.5% have so far been tested.\n\nMore tests for NHS workers are expected by the middle of the month\n\nThe numbers being tested by mid-April are anticipated to jump to 5,000 tests a day to see if people have the virus.\n\nIn England, only 2,000 frontline health workers - compared to the 1.2m who work for NHS England - have been tested.\n\nDr Goodall said 10% of the NHS Wales workforce were currently off work sick. He said this was \"probably\" twice the normal rate.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of A&E attendances over the last two weeks has reduced by up to 60%.\n\nThe number of emergency admissions has also fallen from around 420 a day on average to around 150 a day across Wales.\n\nDr Goodall urged the public to continue to play its part by following the \"stay at home\" rules.\n\nHe said: \"These measures are helping to limit further transmission and are a critical part of the plans we are putting in place in Wales and across the UK.\n\n\"We are recruiting extra NHS staff, and we are bringing extra capacity online, but limiting the demand will make the greatest difference, the public's own actions will help to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"", "Warehouse workers keeping \"essential supplies moving\" should be given greater protection, a mayor has said.\n\nConcerns have been raised over conditions at sites in the region used by clothing retailers ASOS and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nThe Labour MP said a \"number of businesses\" in the region \"continue to operate unsafe working practices\".\n\nLast month, Pretty Little Thing said it had \"implemented stringent hygiene and self-distancing measures\" amid claims its Sheffield warehouse was \"a breeding ground for Covid-19\".\n\nWhile earlier this week, ASOS said it \"totally refutes\" claims from a workers' union that it was risking the safety of employees at its Barnsley warehouse by not enforcing social distancing measures.", "The Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, which is due to host COP26, includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro buildings\n\nA key climate summit in Glasgow will be delayed until next year due to disruption caused by the coronavirus.\n\nThe announcement was made in a joint statement from the UK and UN after a \"virtual\" meeting of officials.\n\nDozens of world leaders were due to attend the COP26 gathering that was set to run in Glasgow from November 9 this year.\n\nIt is expected that the conference will now take place by the middle of next year.\n\nAs the virus has spread around the world, there has been a growing expectation in recent weeks that the COP26 talks would be delayed.\n\nAround 30,000 delegates, journalists and environmental campaigners were due in Scotland for the meeting.\n\nHowever the changing priorities that coronavirus has forced on governments can be clearly seen in Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus (SEC) which was due to host the talks.\n\nIt is now set to become a temporary hospital to house patients affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe decision to move COP26 was taken by UN officials, including UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and UK Business Secretary Alok Sharma, who is president-designate of the meeting.\n\n\"The world is currently facing an unprecedented global challenge and countries are rightly focusing their efforts on saving lives and fighting Covid-19,\" Mr Sharma said in a statement.\n\n\"That is why we have decided to reschedule COP26.\"\n\n\"We will continue working tirelessly with our partners to deliver the ambition needed to tackle the climate crisis and I look forward to agreeing a new date for the conference.\"\n\nAlok Sharma is president-designate of the meeting\n\nFive years on from the landmark Paris agreement, all nations were due to put new improved climate action plans on the table at the Glasgow meeting.\n\nEnvironmental groups said the decision was understandable.\n\n\"Postponing COP26 is the right thing to do - public health and safety must come first now,\" said Laurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the Paris agreement and CEO of European Climate Foundation.\n\n\"This crisis has shown that international cooperation and solidarity are essential to protect global well-being and peace. COP26 next year should become a centre piece of revitalized global cooperation.\"\n\nThe summit has had its fair share of controversy with rows between the UK and Scottish governments, and with Claire O'Neill, the minister originally appointed to run the talks, sacked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nWhile the delay was almost inevitable in the light of coronavirus, some officials believe there may be a silver lining.\n\nGovernments are set to spend huge amounts to boost their economies once the pandemic is over. There's a view that when the summit is eventually held, it could be an important forum for ensuring that money is spent on sustainable and renewable projects.\n\n\"The pandemic will also reorder to an extent the priorities for COP26, as alongside the UN climate process countries will be devising stimulus packages for economies hard-hit by the crisis,\" said Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.\n\n\"With low-carbon stimulus as a new priority for COP26, it should be seen as an opportunity to rebuild economies hit by coronavirus in ways that are healthier, more resilient to future shocks and fairer to a wider range of people.\"", "Voting in the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has closed.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy or Sir Keir Starmer will be announced as the new leader on Saturday.\n\nThe party's next deputy leader - replacing Tom Watson who resigned in December - will also be revealed.\n\nIt is understood members will hear the result via email and the media after a special conference was cancelled over the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey confirmed earlier this week that the candidates had been asked to record a victory speech “so it can be sent out over the airwaves as quickly as possible”.\n\nAfter the ballot closed, Sir Keir, who is widely considered to be the front-runner in the contest, posted a video on Twitter, saying: \"It's been a long campaign and it's ending in circumstances that none of us could have predicted.\n\n\"But we've kept it positive, we've demonstrated unity.\"\n\nHe added that all of the leadership candidates have \"demonstrated to our party, to our movement and hopefully to the country that real good can come out of this election\".\n\nMs Nandy said in her video, also posted on Twitter after the ballot closed, that the contest had ended \"in the hardest of circumstances\".\n\nBut during the campaign they \"showed Labour to be a party that has humility and self-confidence\" and \"honest when we get things wrong, but ambitious about our future\".\n\nShe said Labour \"is a party that will win again\".\n\nAmong those casting their votes were 114,000 new members who had joined since December's election, when Labour won its lowest number of seats since 1935.\n\nMembers of affiliated trades unions and groups have also been voting, as well as about 14,700 \"registered supporters\" who paid £25 to take part on a one-off basis.\n\nThe ballot used a preferential system, with members ranking the candidates in order of preference.\n\nIf one fails to get more than half the first preference votes, the second preference votes of the lowest-ranked candidate are redistributed until the contest produces a winner.\n\nThe system is the same for the deputy leadership race, where shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is regarded as the front-runner.\n\nShadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP Ian Murray, Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon are also in the running for the role.", "Doorstep criminals are adapting old scams (picture posed by model)\n\nA coronavirus conman barged into the home of an 83-year-old woman claiming he was \"from health and safety\" and needed to check her property.\n\nThe potential thief demanded £220 from the lady, who has dementia and was following guidance to stay at home amid the outbreak.\n\nHe left empty-handed after she told him she only had 20p in cash with her.\n\nTrading standards officers say this is an example of how con artists are exploiting the current crisis.\n\nYears-old doorstep crimes and frauds are being revised to steal from people left alone and vulnerable by the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nCases of kindness within communities still far outnumber doorstep crimes, but those on the front line say there is an increasing risk of exploitation.\n\nIn the case of the 83-year-old woman, the cold caller repeatedly banged on the door and said she would be arrested if she did not let him in.\n\nTrading standards officers said cases of doorstep crime and other scams were rising, and urged family and neighbours to look out for the vulnerable, albeit from an appropriate distance. With only about 5% of scams reported to the authorities, they are also encouraging people to come forward if they have been targeted so cases can be investigated.\n\nNational Trading Standards (NTS), the frontline UK consumer protection body, said thieves were also offering to shop for housebound residents, but stealing the cash they were given.\n\nLouise Baxter, head of the NTS scams team, said: \"As people stay indoors to prevent the spread of Covid-19, criminals are preying on people in vulnerable situations who are isolated and living alone.\n\n\"There has never been a more important time for neighbours to look out for each other.\"\n\nThe organisation has previously warned that members of the gangs involved in such criminality could be victims of modern slavery themselves.\n\nSome have their passports, ID and money taken by gangmasters who then put them to work, paying them poorly or not at all.\n\nTrading standards officers, who would normally visit victims, alongside other support charities and possibly police officers are themselves stretched and subject to social distancing guidelines.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead officer for doorstep crime at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said that while officers might not be able to visit in person, they could still investigate and urged people to report crimes. Without a complaint, no investigation can be started.\n\nOfficers were able to issue advice remotely, and community forums were playing a vital role in issuing warnings, she said.\n\nScam texts like this one have become more common\n\nAlongside doorstep crime, there have been widespread warnings about online, text and telephone scams which use coronavirus as a trigger to attempt to steal personal information and drain bank accounts.\n\nThese range from unsolicited emails and texts claiming to be from utility providers, asking for banking and other details, to offers of refunds for cancelled holidays on fake websites. One suggests people have been fined for leaving their home during the outbreak, playing on people's fears.\n\nMany text messages impersonate the authorities and use links to fake sites, or to install malware on computers.\n\nKaty Worobec, managing director for economic crime at banking trade body, UK Finance, told BBC 5 Live Breakfast that \"it would have helped\" if the government had not put a link in its coronavirus advice text message to everybody in the UK.\n\n\"It has opened the floodgates a little for fraudsters to copy that idea,\" she said.", "Lemon juice, mosquito bites and blood donations? Reality Check's Chris Morris tackles more myths about coronavirus that are being shared online.", "Marie Dinou was arrested at Newcastle Central Station on Saturday morning\n\nA woman has been fined for breaching coronavirus restrictions after she refused to tell police who she was and why she was at a railway station.\n\nMarie Dinou, 41, from York, was arrested at Newcastle Central Station at 08:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nNorth Tyneside Magistrates' Court imposed a £660 fine under the Coronavirus Act 2020 on Monday.\n\nDinou, who did not enter a plea, was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £66 and costs of £85.\n\nBritish Transport Police assistant chief constable Sean O'Callaghan said enforcement of the new legislation was a last resort.\n\n\"In this case, officers tried their utmost best to engage with Dinou.\n\n\"I can assure you we would much rather not have to take such action.\"\n\nPeople risk committing an offence if they appear to be breaching restrictions laid out in the emergency legislation and fail to give a reasonable excuse when challenged.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "Big Issue sellers have lost their income with the end of street sales\n\nBig Issue sellers, forced off the streets by the coronavirus lockdown, are relying on emergency bailouts being provided by the magazine.\n\nLord Bird, founder of the magazine, which helps the homeless earn a living, says many have been left in a \"parlous state\" without an income.\n\nHe says sellers and the magazine are unable to get government support for lost earnings during the crisis.\n\nSo the Big Issue is giving sellers cash from online sales and subscriptions.\n\nThe ban on street selling has threatened to take away the regular earnings of its vendors.\n\n\"I genuinely don't know what I'm going to do, I really don't,\" says Robin Price, in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, who has been selling the magazine for 26 years.\n\nWill Adams says selling the Big Issue was his only income\n\nApart from providing an income, Robin says selling the magazine helps his mental health.\n\n\"I'm going to miss my customers,\" he says. \"I'll miss the banter.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Simon Gravell, a vendor in Norwich, fears it will \"put me back to where I was 10 years ago, sleeping rough\".\n\nIn a bid to ensure the Big Issue survives the lockdown, the magazine has switched to subscriptions and online sales.\n\nThis income will be distributed to sellers, including those who have been put into temporary accommodation for the homeless.\n\nAnd for the first time, the Big Issue will also be on sale in shops, including Sainsbury's and McColl's.\n\nLord Bird says there would usually be 1,500 to 2,000 street sellers over the course of a year.\n\nThe magazine has made contact with about 1,000 of these.\n\nLord Bird says the magazine has to survive through the lockdown\n\nAnd they will be given cash, vouchers or top-ups for electricity and gas during the weeks when no street sales are possible, including by digital transfer.\n\nBillions have been promised by the government to support those employed or self-employed whose incomes have disappeared because of the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nBut Lord Bird says the sellers, who operate as independent traders, are unlikely to have the financial records needed by the self-employed to get assistance.\n\nThe Big Issue is not their employer, so cannot claim under the job-retention scheme.\n\nAnd it has been trying to help sellers get universal credit support - but that can mean delays.\n\nWill Adams, who sells the magazine in Exeter, says: \"My life has been affected drastically, as the Big Issue was my only income.\n\n\"I now have to go through the universal credit route, which is really hectic as you can imagine.\n\n\"I hate the fact I have to go back on benefits, as I have been working for a while now.\"\n\nSimon Gravell fears he might have to return to rough sleeping\n\nLord Bird says the magazine will carry on being independent and promoting self-reliance - under the principle of a \"hand up, not a handout\".\n\n\"We've never taken any government money, always relied on the marketplace,\" says Lord Bird, a former rough sleeper himself.\n\nAnd he is determined the magazine's \"spirited club of solidarity\" will return to the streets after the lockdown.", "The pandemic has led to the closure of Job Centres\n\nNearly a million people have applied for universal credit benefits in the past fortnight as the coronavirus pandemic has worsened.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said 950,000 successful applications for the payment were made between 16 March, when people were advised to work from home, and the end of the month.\n\nThe department would normally expect 100,000 claims in a two week period.\n\nOfficials said they were working \"flat out\" to help people get support.\n\nBut Labour said the figures were \"truly shocking\" and the government \"must wake up and take action\" to help the millions of those at risk of losing their jobs and the self-employed not covered by government hardship schemes.\n\nThe figures show the massive increase in demand on the benefit system since the government urged people to avoid non-essential travel and contact with others to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nThere was a warning on Wednesday that 20% of small businesses could fold in the next month due to the collapse in consumer demand, despite unprecedented government intervention to support jobs.\n\nUniversal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working-age, which replaced a host of previous benefits including income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit.\n\nIn October 2019, there were 2.6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of whom were in work.\n\nThe government said the benefit system was still \"delivering\" despite the massive increase in demand.\n\n\"With such a huge increase in claims there are pressures on our services, but the system is standing up well to these and our dedicated staff are working flat out to get people the support they need,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're taking urgent action to boost capacity - we've moved 10,000 existing staff to the help on the front line and we're recruiting more.\"\n\nThe sudden and vast increase in those signing up is powerful evidence that the coronavirus crisis is an economic emergency for a very significant portion of the public, losing work and losing income in ways they could never have anticipated a few short weeks ago.\n\nThe numbers of people losing out on work could therefore be higher even than this significant level. But given the numbers who have managed to register, there are obviously very significant efforts going on at the DWP to expand the service to try to meet the scale of the need.\n\nThe government has already stepped in with support for the economy and for workers in ways that have no modern parallel.\n\nIn time, there may be questions about whether the country can really afford to support new legions of workers through hard times for more than a short emergency period.\n\nBut right now, these figures provide urgent evidence that only a fortnight after the country was told to shut up shop, there are many, many thousands, already in economic need.\n\nSince the virus struck, the government has made a series of changes designed to make it easier for the self-employed to claim the benefit and to ensure they will not lose out as their earnings dry up.\n\nLabour has urged ministers to go much further, saying the verification process for new claimants should be speeded up and upfront cash advances - available for those in urgent need - should not have to be repaid.\n\n\"People need help now,\" said shadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood.\n\n\"The government should turn advances into non-repayable grants to end the five week wait and make sure people get the support they need quickly at a level that genuinely protects them from poverty.\"\n\nHave you lost your job or been furloughed due to the coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "British Airways has reached a deal to temporarily suspend more than 30,000 of its cabin crew and ground staff.\n\nThe airline, which has grounded most of its fleet due to the coronavirus, has been locked in talks with unions for more than a week.\n\nBut on Thursday, BA boss Alex Cruz told staff that a large majority of employees would be suspended for the next two months.\n\nHe said the government's job retention scheme would fund 80% of their wages.\n\nExplaining the decision, Mr Cruz said: \"We need to act now to protect jobs and ensure that BA comes out the other side of this crisis in the best possible shape.\"\n\nThe decision will affect all staff at Gatwick and London City Airport after the airline suspended its operations at both locations until the crisis is over.\n\n\"The number of colleagues who will be furloughed reflects the significant drop in flying,\" Mr Cruz said.\n\nUnder the jobs retention scheme, the government funds 80% of someone's salary capped at a maximum of £2,500 a month. But union Unite said there would be no cap on earnings under its agreement with BA.\n\nThe union also said no BA staff would be made redundant during the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"Given the incredibly difficult circumstances that the entire aviation sector is facing this is as good a deal as possible for our members,\" the union's national officer for aviation, Oliver Richardson, said in a statement.\n\nNo one who works at British Airways will be surprised at today's announcement. When the planes are sitting on the ground - and nearly all of BA's fleet is doing just that, dispersed to regional airports around the country - there is no need for the army of workers who fly the aircraft, maintain them, load and unload the bags, and serve the passengers.\n\nStaff typically make up about 40% of an airline's costs, and BA should be able to reclaim 80% of wages from the government employment support scheme set up to help companies affected by the virus.\n\nBA has not, so far, asked the government for any other specific financial assistance. Nor has EasyJet, where senior sources say the general assistance programmes - wage assistance and loan guarantees - should be sufficient.\n\nVirgin Atlantic, however, continues to press, and has written to MPs pointing out that it provides the only British-flagged competition to British Airways on many key routes from Heathrow.\n\nSo far the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has taken a hard line, saying airlines should exhaust all financial revenues before turning to the taxpayer. If Virgin does make a formal application for more aid, it will have to be able to show it has met the chancellor's test.\n\nBA had already reached a separate deal with its 4,000 pilots who will take a 50% pay cut over two months.\n\nJohn Strickland, independent aviation analyst, said \"tough negotiations\" between BA and the Unite union meant it had taken a while to reach an agreement.\n\n\"The pilots' deal for half pay was concluded rather earlier - I guess there was a recognition as to just how serious that issue was,\" he said.\n\nBA's parent company, International Airlines Group (IAG), is in a better financial position than some of its competitors. The group has made healthy profits in recent years.\n\nBut the airline's expected decision to suspend such a large number of workers gives a sense of how hard UK aviation has been hit by travel restrictions designed to stem the spread of the pandemic.\n\nWith future bookings cancelled for the foreseeable future, airlines have been haemorrhaging cash.\n\nOver the next three months, the International Air Transport Association expects airlines to rack up losses of almost $40bn (£32.3bn). It said carriers were burning through their cash reserves fast, mainly because of the multi-billion-pound cost of refunding tickets for cancelled flights.\n\nMany staff at Virgin Atlantic have had their jobs suspended for two months and crews at Easyjet are out of work for three months.\n\nThis week, British Airways has run government repatriation flights to get hundreds of British nationals home from Peru, after the country went into lockdown.\n\nIt is one of several UK-based airlines that has agreed to run further repatriation flights in the coming weeks as hundreds of thousands of people are still stuck in other parts of the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clap for Carers: Watch the UK applaud its key workers\n\nPeople across the UK have taken part in a second \"Clap for Carers\" tribute, saluting NHS staff and other key workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDelivery drivers, supermarket staff, care workers and bin collectors were among those honoured by the nation.\n\nHouseholds banged pots and pans, while others played the bagpipes to show their support.\n\nThe event is now expected to happen every Thursday at 20:00 BST.\n\nHouseholds gathered on balconies, doorsteps and gardens to pay tribute to the efforts of key workers during the crisis.\n\nEmergency workers and NHS workers also joined in the applause.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - who is currently self-isolating in his flat above Number 11 Downing Street after testing positive for coronavirus - joined in, standing alone in his doorway to applaud.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn also joined the tribute, from his Islington constituency.\n\nLast week's inaugural event paid tribute to NHS workers working on the frontline of the pandemic.\n\nThe initiative was devised by Annemarie Plas, from Brixton, south-west London, who was inspired by same event happening in her home country of the Netherlands, and in many other countries.\n\nMs Plas posted details of the event on her social media channels, and enthusiasm for taking part quickly spread across the UK.\n\nA string of buildings including the Shard in central London and Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, were lit up blue to mark the moment.\n\nMeanwhile bagpipers across Scotland performed tunes to pay tribute to key workers.\n\nFinlay MacDonald, 42, of Clarkston in East Renfrewshire, took part, calling it a \"really special moment\".\n\n\"All our neighbours were out in their gardens with a rousing round of applause. We have heard from people in Japan, South Africa, America, Spain and Italy who are all taking part.\"\n\nFinlay MacDonald plays the pipes at his home in Glasgow alongside sons Elliott, ten, and Fionn, eight to salute local heroes\n\nComedian Jason Manford took to Twitter to post a photograph of his 96-year-old grandmother joining in the applause.\n\nHe wrote: \"She's beaten breast cancer and Hitler and is still here at the age of 96.\n\n\"She's not gonna let a virus get her now! Thank you to all the NHS workers and every key worker who is keeping this country running. You are incredible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Manford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting from their Kensington Palace Twitter account, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shared conversations they had with staff at two hospitals to thank them for their work during the pandemic.\n\nThe couple thanked staff at Queen's Hospital Burton and University Hospital Monklands, adding: \"The whole country is proud of you.\"\n\nEar, nose and throat consultant Amged El-Hawrani worked at Queen's Hospital Burton and became one of the UK's first senior medics to die after contracting coronavirus.\n\nAn ear, nose and throat consultant at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, Mr El-Hawrani died at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, on Saturday.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Samuel West posted a photo of a broken spoon on Twitter after paying tribute by banging a pan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Samuel West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd posting to Twitter, NHS London said a \"huge thank you\" to everyone who took part in the applause.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by NHS London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Saunby's husband Victor is now looking after their twin boys alone\n\nA woman who died from coronavirus had been putting up with what she thought was tonsillitis, her sister has said.\n\nCaroline Saunby, 48, from New Marske on Teesside, became unwell on Friday. She improved slightly but then collapsed on Sunday.\n\nHer six-year-old twin boys and husband are now waiting to see if they have caught the virus.\n\nHer identical twin, Sarah Jarvis, said her sister thought her sore throat was \"nothing major at all\".\n\n\"Why would she go to work if she thought she was going to die?\" she said.\n\nAfter two days ignoring her suspected tonsillitis, Mrs Saunby developed a \"raging fever\", sickness and diarrhoea but her husband, Victor, was advised that, unless she had extreme breathing difficulties, she should stay at home.\n\nHe called an ambulance when she collapsed, which arrived within minutes, followed by another, then a paramedic car and the air ambulance.\n\nMrs Saunby was given CPR and taken to hospital but died later the same day.\n\nMs Jarvis said the extended family - who all live within five minutes of each other - were distraught because they could not go near Mrs Saunby at the time and cannot go near each other now.\n\n\"We can't console the boys. Vic's had to deep clean his own house to try and make it as safe as possible because no-one's allowed in,\" she said.\n\nMr Saunby and his children are now in quarantine for 14 days.\n\n\"They've all been exposed so we're just waiting to see - and we can't get tested to see whether they're going to get ill,\" Ms Jarvis said.\n\nMs Jarvis said she was worried about what will happen if her sister's husband becomes unwell too.\n\n\"Those boys have lost their mother. If he got sick how can you leave those boys in the house with him?\" she said.\n\n\"If he shows symptoms he would have to go to hospital and I would have to go and live in the house and take the risk.\"\n\nMs Jarvis said she wanted to warn people \"how serious this is\".\n\n\"If people do start to take it more seriously and more lives are saved, well hopefully it won't be in vain, this terrible thing that's happened to us,\" she said.\n\nA JustGiving page set up to help the family has raised more than £15,000.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the past 15 days, NHS 111 has responded to more than 1.7 million inquiries from people concerned they might have symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nAbout 1.5 million were web-based assessments, while the rest were calls to the 111 phone number or 999.\n\nPeople who think they have symptoms - a fever or a new, continuous cough - should use the online service and call only if they cannot get help online.\n\nThe NHS Digital data is not based on outcomes of tests for coronavirus.\n\nAnd the numbers do not represent individual people - it is possible some have sought help more than once or via various channels.\n\nMeanwhile, the government faces growing criticism over a lack of testing for front-line staff who could return to work if found clear of the virus.\n\nOn Tuesday, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove admitted the UK had to go \"further, faster\" to increase testing.\n\nIt came as a 13-year-old boy from south London with coronavirus died.\n\nIsmail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, is thought to be the youngest reported victim of the disease in the UK.\n\nThe total recorded number of UK deaths with coronavirus in hospitals now stands at 2,352, 563 more than yesterday.\n\nThe Department of Health says 29,474 people have tested positive for the virus, up 4,324 since Tuesday.\n\nMore than 2,000 NHS front-line staff in England had been tested for coronavirus since the outbreak began, says No 10.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We have been advised of additional coronavirus deaths'\n\nNew figures have shown that a further 50 people with coronavirus have died in Scotland, bringing the total to 126.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the figure included 10 deaths over the past 24 hours, as well as a further 40 from previous days.\n\nThe Scottish government said 2,602 people had now tested positive for the virus, up from 2,310 on Wednesday.\n\nThe first minister said \"every single death from this virus is a tragedy\" and that her thoughts were with families.\n\nShe also confirmed that there are 1,282 patients currently in hospital who have been diagnosed with the virus, of whom 162 are in intensive care.\n\nMs Sturgeon said delays in notifying families about deaths via one laboratory was behind the additional 40 deaths being added to the overall figure on Thursday.\n\nHowever the Scottish government is also changing the way it compiles data on the number of coronavirus deaths in the country.\n\nOnly laboratory-confirmed cases reported by health boards are currently counted, but records from the death registration process will soon be added to this.\n\nFrom next week, the daily figures will also start to include all deaths where the virus is officially \"suspected\" to have been a factor, even if it has not been confirmed by testing.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would increase the number of deaths on record, but would not speculate about how significant this could be.\n\nShe said she was \"determined that information continues to be as accurate, comprehensive and up to date as possible\" and that her government will be \"as transparent as we can be\".\n\nThe sharp in rise in deaths announced today exposes another gap in our knowledge of how this epidemic is advancing.\n\nThe rise in deaths by an additional 40 previously unknown or undeclared cases may be, as was explained, down to a single lab not officially recording the deaths as they happened.\n\nWe are expecting more information on how this number of deaths was missed. Although the chief medical officer told me she was not surprised by the increase, it does seem to mean we are further along the curve monitoring deaths than it previously appeared.\n\nThe Scottish government is now moving to a new definition of coronavirus deaths, relying on details from the National Records of Scotland so that anyone whose death certificate mentions Covid-19 will now be included in the daily totals.\n\nToday's figures also underline how much information we don't know about the people behind the numbers of deaths in Scotland. For example, we don't have a breakdown of ages, gender, how many had underlying conditions, or how long they were in intensive care for.\n\nThe government says that we are now entering a phase where the number of deaths means that patient confidentiality is no longer such an issue.\n\nWe are expecting to get much more of this detail next week and a fuller picture of the impact of this pandemic in Scotland.\n\nThe first minister also said testing for the virus had been \"very rapidly expanded\", with a focus on testing key workers including healthcare staff and their families.\n\nShe said the government initially had capacity to test around 390 samples a day, but that figure has risen to 1,900 tests a day - with the aim of carrying out 3,500 a day by the end of April at the latest.\n\nMs Sturgeon said ministers were continuing to look at ways of expanding testing and were taking part in \"four country initiatives with the rest of the UK\" to add to capacity.\n\nBut she said due diligence had to be carried out before new laboratories could be used to make sure testing is safe and has high quality standards.\n\nAnd she stressed that testing key workers did not in and of itself mean they could return to work, saying: \"I don't think testing is a side issue, but I want to be very clear what testing can and cannot achieve.\n\n\"It tells us right now whether someone with symptoms has the virus or not - it doesn't tell us if they're going to get symptoms, or whether, once they've recovered, they had the virus.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was not an \"either/or\" choice between testing and social distancing, saying there was \"no quick fix\".\n\nShe said: \"We all want this phase of our lives to be over as soon as possible, but it's unlikely this will be in us a few weeks. We are in this for the long haul.\n\n\"I know how tough this is, but please, please stick with it - you are helping us save lives.\"", "When Danny Cairns developed a cough and a sore throat, he isolated himself at home in Greenock.\n\nBut after a few days, he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nThe 68-year-old died there last Thursday, telling his brother on a video call that he was \"on my way out\".\n\nMr Cairns is one of the first Scots to die after contracting coronavirus to be named publicly.\n\nHis brother Hugh, who lives in the United States, said the ordeal had been a \"nightmare\" for the family.\n\n\"He wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend,\" Hugh added.\n\nThe Cairns family is one of 126 families in Scotland to have lost a loved one to Covid-19 already.\n\nAcross the UK, 2352 people with the disease have died.\n\nHugh told BBC Scotland that Danny was \"pretty strong\" and \"didn't break down\" when the brothers spoke last week.\n\nHugh added: \"From the time of going into hospital within three days he was dead.\n\n\"His last words to me were, 'I'm on my way out mate'.\"\n\nDanny's family said he was a healthy 68-year-old with no underlying health conditions.\n\nHugh's wife Faye said Danny had \"started feeling poorly a little over a week ago\", and was complaining of \"a little bit of a sore throat and a dry cough\".\n\nBut, she said, he was \"very, very healthy\" until then. \"He just had a physical two months ago where he was given a clean bill of health\", she added.\n\n\"He has a weight problem but the doctor was surprised he had no diabetes, no high cholesterol - he was very, very healthy.\"\n\nNew restrictions on funerals mean that Danny, who was very involved with his local church and was active in local community with his wife Eunice, will be laid to rest in a service restricted to immediate family.\n\nOnce these restrictions are lifted, Danny's loved ones are planning a remembrance service which can be attended by all those who would have liked to have attended his funeral.\n\nHugh described the coronavirus as a \"demon\" you couldn't see, adding: \"It's taking so many lives.\n\n\"You start to get a little bit paranoid about it. You are afraid of the unknown.\"\n• None Coronavirus in Scotland: How many cases are there?", "The coronavirus-hit Coral Princess cruise ship is going to dock in Fort Lauderdale in Florida, its owner has said.\n\nThe ship has been stuck at sea since 19 March after being banned from docking in Buenos Aires. There are 1,898 people on the ship, 12 of whom have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThree of the Princess Cruises' other ships have had outbreaks on board too, including the Diamond Princess in Japan. On 12 March the company cancelled all new cruises for 60 days.\n\nTwo other virus-hit cruises arrived in Fort Lauderdale earlier today - the Zaandam, which has people with confirmed and suspected coronavirus on board, and its sister ship the Rotterdam, which is carrying asymptomatic passengers who were originally on the Zaandam.\n\nAndrew Rae, whose parents Morven and Ian are still on board the Zaandam, told the BBC: \"We're not entirely out of the woods yet. When they tell me they've got a flight booked and they're on their way home I'll be a lot happier.\"\n\nMorven and Ian Rae are on the Zaandam, which docked in Fort Lauderdale earlier today Image caption: Morven and Ian Rae are on the Zaandam, which docked in Fort Lauderdale earlier today", "Suspected fraudsters and gangsters should not be charged during the coronavirus outbreak to avoid \"clogging up\" courts, new guidance recommends.\n\nCases involving serious organised crime and major fraud are among those dubbed \"lower priority\".\n\nThe guidance will apply to courts in England and Wales for several months.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council and Crown Prosecution Service document also advises that some people charged be released on bail for long periods.\n\nCases in this category include certain types of domestic abuse, serious violence, and terrorism where there are no national security considerations.\n\nThe aim is \"to allow the current crisis to pass\" and is likely to be needed until social distancing restrictions, imposed due to the virus, are lifted.\n\nBut prosecutors say \"essential work to deliver justice continues\" and the public should report all offences.\n\nNew jury trials have already been halted in all parts of the UK.\n\nThe seven-page guidance, titled \"Interim CPS Charging Protocol\", says the criminal justice system is facing an \"unprecedented crisis\" with courts unable to start any new jury or summary trials.\n\nMost current trials have been stopped, it says, because of problems over the attendance of witnesses, defendants, lawyers and jurors.\n\n\"It follows that there must be careful consideration of what new offences are fed into the system and how those offences are progressed,\" the guidance says.\n\nIt suggests placing offences into one of three categories, according to how quickly criminal proceedings have to be brought, with priority given to cases where a suspect needs to be remanded into custody.\n\nThese cases, classed as \"immediate\", include murder, serious domestic abuse where there is a risk of further offending, serous sexual offences, robbery, offences under the Terrorism Act and violent disorder.\n\nAttacks on emergency workers, frauds related to Covid-19 and other crimes linked to the virus would also be passed to the courts immediately.\n\nThe next type of case, referred to as \"high priority\", would involve the suspect not appearing in court for up to eight weeks after being charged.\n\n\"This will hopefully allow the current crisis to have passed and thereafter enable a structured timetable for future hearings,\" the guidance says.\n\nCourt proceedings in the last category, known as \"other cases\", would be delayed.\n\nThey include criminal damage, benefit fraud, common assault and lower-level road traffic offences - as well as serious fraud and large-scale serious organised crime cases.\n\nThe document says fraud and organised crime require \"lengthy investigations and consideration of disclosure\", adding that they are \"likely to clog up the court system if charged and actioned at this stage\".\n\nSue Hemming, CPS legal director said: \"It is right we should try to prioritise the most serious cases to make sure dangerous offenders are dealt with quickly. However, this does not mean crimes will go unpunished and all offences, including fraud and organised crime should be reported in the usual way.\"", "People struggling financially amid the coronavirus pandemic should not be charged interest on the first £500 of existing overdrafts for 90 days, the UK's financial watchdog has proposed.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) also suggested repayments on loans and credit cards should be frozen for up to three months for those in trouble.\n\nThe FCA said the outbreak had caused an “unprecedented financial shock”.\n\nExperts suggest that support from banks at present is \"patchy\".\n\nBanks said they were facing record numbers of calls for help, but were supporting customers.\n\nIn a timeframe reserved for emergency measures, the City watchdog is asking banks to respond to its proposed measures by Monday 6 April, and it wants them to come into force by Thursday 9 April.\n\nAfter the FCA recently announced an \"overhaul\" for overdraft charges, many banks increased their charges for some customers and clustered around a similar figure of about 40%.\n\nIn its latest announcement, the watchdog said: \"Over the next 90 days, firms would have to ensure all consumers are no worse off and not paying more than they would have under previous prices.\"\n\nOther measures it has proposed to help struggle borrowers include:\n\nThe FCA also said that consumers using any of these measures should not see their credit rating affected.\n\nFCA interim chief executive Christopher Woolard said: \"If confirmed, the package of measures we are proposing today will help provide affected consumers with the temporary financial support they need to help them weather the storm during this challenging time.\"\n\nSome lenders have already put measures in place to assist people hit by the financial impact of the outbreak, but Martin Lewis, founder of Moneysavingexpert, described the picture as a \"banking lottery\".\n\nIf approved, these proposals would bring a level playing field for borrowers. However, they would still need to contact their bank to access the help, rather than just stopping repayments.\n\n\"If you're struggling to afford interest and debt repayments, don't assume any of these things are in place until it's confirmed by your bank. If you just halt payments without confirmation, you may end up being chased for payments and having charges added to your debt,\" said Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nThese are emergency rules to make sure that people who are affected by the crisis don't fall through the cracks.\n\nThey could make a big difference because customers can apply for help knowing that the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - is on their side.\n\nBanks have already put their own measures in place to help families who are hit by a sudden loss of income.\n\nBut their concessions vary and some don't match up to the level of protection that the FCA wants to see.\n\nOn top of that, the new guidance stretches across a wide range of lending, from bank loans to catalogue credit.\n\nCustomers still need to be aware that interest charges might build up in the background and have to be paid later on.\n\nBut on overdrafts, the stop-gap regime is clear: you can request to pay zero interest for three months.\n\nThis could make a big difference because it comes just as most big banks are introducing overdraft rates of nearly 40%.\n\nContacting banks can be frustrating at present, with long queues, but information is also available on lenders' websites and some are offering online applications for help.\n\nApart from the zero interest on £500 of arranged overdrafts, firms would be entitled to charge a \"reasonable rate of interest\" when a customer requested a repayment holiday on loans, credit cards, and store cards.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"Payment holidays mean exactly what they say - you don't pay, but you can still be charged interest. And with interest rates often high, especially on cards, that can mean storing up trouble for future.\n\n\"Those struggling for cashflow may have no choice, but if you don't need to do it, don't.\"\n\nBanks are already offering three-month mortgage repayment holidays for some struggling customers.\n\nStephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance, which represents banks and other lenders, said: \"It is critical that the FCA's proposals do not disrupt the provision of credit to borrowers and takes account of the business models of all credit providers including those outside the mainstream market.\"\n\nMr Jones said that lenders have been receiving a record number of calls but have also faced staffing pressures. He urged customers to check their lender's website first to see if it answers their question, and consider getting in touch via online chat, social media and online banking and mobile apps.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits has hit a record high for the second week in a row as the economic toll tied to the coronavirus intensifies.\n\nMore than 6.6 million people filed jobless claims in the week ended 28 March, the Department of Labor said.\n\nThat is nearly double the week earlier, which was also a new record.\n\nThe deepening economic crisis comes as the number of cases in the US soars to more than 236,000.\n\nWith the death toll rising to more than 5,600, the White House recently said it would retain restrictions on activity to try to curb the outbreak.\n\nAnalysts at Bank of America warned that the US could see \"the deepest recession on record\" amid forecasts that the unemployment rate could hit more than 15%.\n\nThe outlook is a stark reversal for the world's biggest economy where the unemployment rate had been hovering around 3.5%.\n\nHowever, more than 80% of Americans are now under some form of lockdown, which has forced the closure of most businesses.\n\nThis is the highest number of new unemployment claims in US history.\n\nBut what is so terrifying is not just the magnitude but also the speed with which American firms have shed workers.\n\nRoughly 10 million Americans lost their jobs in just the last two weeks. To put that in context, 9 million jobs were lost in the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nThere were several reasons for this week's historic increase.\n\nMore states ordered non-essential businesses to close to contain the virus. According to economists, a fifth of the US workforce is now in some form of lockdown.\n\nAnd a government relief package signed last week expanded unemployment benefits to help more people, such as the self-employed and independent contractors.\n\nSome fear the true number could be even higher since many people couldn't even get through to file a claim.\n\nGiven these are weekly figures, this data is the closest we have to real-time information showing just how catastrophic the pandemic is for the American economy. And it points to a bruising couple of months ahead.\n\nMore than 3.3 million people filed claims two weeks ago, eclipsing the previous record of 695,000, set in 1982 and bringing the two-week total to about 10 million.\n\nThe most recent figure was worse than many economists had feared.\n\n\"I don't usually look at data releases and just start shaking,\" said Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist at the US Department of Labor and now policy director at the Economic Policy Institute. \"This is a portrait of disaster ... It's like nothing we've ever seen before. It represents just incredible amounts of grief and suffering.\"\n\nWorkers in accommodation and food services were hit hard again this week, the Department of Labor said.\n\nBut it added that states are reporting \"a wider impact across industries\".\n\n\"With this report there should be little doubt that ... US is already in deep recession and the global economy will be too\", tweeted Mohamed A El-Erian, chief economic adviser to financial services firm Allianz.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mohamed A. El-Erian This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe US recently passed a more than $2tn rescue bill, which funds direct payment for households, assistance for businesses and increased unemployment benefits.\n\nIt also made more people eligible to receive benefits, including workers whose jobs are suspended rather than cut. There is speculation the government may provide further relief.\n\nUnlike other countries such as the UK, the US has not implemented a programme that pays firms to keep workers on the payroll - one reason the numbers are so stark, Ms Shierholz says.\n\n\"There's an attempt at it,\" Ms Shierholz said, pointing to the expanded eligibility. \"But this concept of keeping workers on payroll through a downturn is not well socialised in the US. It's just not how we've done things in the past.\"", "Alisha Malhotra (left) and Niraly Jadeja had been one month into a 12 week \"trip of a lifetime\"\n\nTwo Londoners who have been \"stranded\" in Argentina for three weeks say they still have \"no idea\" when they will be able to get home.\n\nAlisha Malhotra and Niraly Jadeja have been trapped in Córdoba since the country went into lockdown, and are relying on others for food and money.\n\nMs Malhotra said she was particularly \"desperate\" to return after an elderly relative contracted coronavirus.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"working urgently\" to help UK travellers.\n\nMs Malhotra, 24, from Ruislip, and Ms Jadeja, 23, from Rayner's Lane, were a month into a 12-week \"trip of a lifetime\" to five different countries when they arrived in Córdoba on 17 March.\n\nTwo days later, a strict quarantine severely limiting travel and allowing only single-person journeys to buy necessities was imposed nationwide and has since been extended until 12 April.\n\nTravellers have been warned that anyone caught outside their accommodation without justification may be charged with committing a public health crime.\n\nThe pair have called for the UK government to help them return home\n\nFollowing the announcement, the pair said they were barricaded inside their hostel for 10 days, with police and army officials patrolling the streets.\n\n\"We were locked within four walls and relied on locals to do a food shop for 20 of us in our hostel, every four days,\" Ms Jadeja said.\n\n\"The only place we could go for fresh air was the rooftop - but the police came and shut that down.\"\n\nA letter from the British Embassy in Argentina has allowed them to move to a new hostel, but they have run out of physical cash and have not been allowed to go outside to an ATM.\n\nAs a result they are relying on others in the hostel to pay for their food shopping.\n\nThe women say their families are desperate for them to return home, especially since one of their grandparents is on life support in intensive care having contracted the virus.\n\n\"Me and my grandma are best friends. I slept in her bed almost every night when I was little,\" said Ms Malhotra.\n\n\"If anything happens, I'd never forgive myself for not being in the UK. I feel helpless.\"\n\nThe government has announced plans to repatriate UK travellers stuck abroad and the pair said \"the dream right now would be for the government to contact us and say help is coming\".\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCO) told the BBC it recognised British tourists abroad were finding it difficult to return to the UK because of \"unprecedented international travel and domestic restrictions\".\n\n\"FCO teams around the world are working urgently to ensure that governments have sensible plans to enable the return of British and other travellers,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adam Schlesinger (left), Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen with their 2019 Emmy Awards for Crazy Ex Girlfriend\n\nAdam Schlesinger, from the US power pop band Fountains of Wayne, has died aged 52 in a New York hospital, his family lawyer has confirmed.\n\nHe had been receiving treatment for Covid-19, with the use of a ventilator.\n\nThe bass player co-wrote the band's 2003 hit, Stacy's Mom - an ode to unrequited teenage lust, which starred model Rachel Hunter in the video.\n\nHe went on to win Emmy and Grammy awards for his soundtrack work on Crazy Ex Girlfriend, and A Colbert Christmas.\n\nChris Carrabba, from the band Dashboard Confessional, confirmed his death.\n\n\"I am grasping for the right words\" he tweeted. \"My dear friend Adam Schlesinger has passed away from COVID-19.\"\n\nHe added: \"I knew him best as a mentor, and a friend. We must take this seriously. People are sick and dying. It is hard to stay locked indoors but lives will be saved. Take care of each other. Rest In Peace, my dear friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dashboard Confessional This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the US has gone above 5,000, while confirmed cases worldwide are close to reaching one million.\n\nHollywood actor and director Tom Hanks recently recovered from the virus. In 1997, Schlesinger received an Oscar nomination for writing the title track for That Thing You Do!, the 1997 musical comedy directed by Hanks.\n\n\"He was a One-der,\" wrote Hanks, referencing the film's fictional band The Wonders, who enjoyed success with the title track. \"Lost him to Covid-19. Terribly sad today. Hanx.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tom Hanks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDJ and producer Mark Ronson also paid tribute on Thursday to the \"brilliant\" musician, pointing to his \"gem\" of a track from the same movie.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Ronson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSchlesinger's current bandmate, Reni Lane, from their synth-pop duo Fever High, added she felt \"incredibly lucky\" to have known him.\n\n\"I feel incredibly lucky to have been part of his life in some way and I will never forget all that I learned from him,\" she posted on her Instagram story.\n\n\"My heart goes out to his family, friends and everyone who was touched by his music.\"\n\nAdam Schlesinger and Jodi Porter of Fountains of Wayne with Rachel Hunter in 2004.\n\nFountains of Wayne formed in New York in 1995 but rose to prominence in the UK in 2003 with Stacy's Mom, which peaked at number 11.\n\nThe track became an instant cult classic among adolescents owing to its catchy hormone-driven chorus, and accompanying video featuring Hunter - poolside in a bikini - in the titular role.\n\nIt also got them Grammy nominations for best pop performance and best new artist.\n\nThey put out five albums, with the last one, Sky Full of Holes, coming in 2011.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAlongside his work with the band, and other acts Ivy, and Tinted Windows, Schlesinger scored countless movies and made many TV soundtracks.\n\nHis music for the Broadway adaptation of the movie Cry-Baby received a Tony Awards nomination in 2008.\n\nAnd he won a Grammy in 2009 for best comedy album, for his efforts on A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!, by the US chat show host.\n\nAt the 2019 Emmys, he won the award for outstanding original music and lyrics for the track Antidepressants Are So Not A Big Deal, from Crazy Ex Girlfriend.\n\nFountains of Wayne formed in 1995 in New York and released five albums\n\nAline Brosh McKenna, who co-created the TV musical comedy-drama, paid tribute, saying she had known Schlesinger since the early 1990s.\n\n\"Adam was so funny, so kind, so opinionated, so clever, so passionate,\" she wrote.\n\n\"We worked together and agreed and disagreed and rejoiced and bemoaned and celebrated and it felt extra sweet for me because I'd known him so long.\n\n\"I love that guy. I love all the memories.\"\n\nSchlesinger was married to Katherine Michel from 1999-2013 and he is survived by their two daughters, Sadie and Claire.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The work that Bletchley Park and MI6 did during World War Two, was instrumental in the allies’ victory.\n\nBut until now, there hasn't been any video showing what life was like on the sites dedicated to this work.\n\nThis all changed when a piece of film was anonymously donated to Bletchley Park Trust, providing an unprecedented insight into the lives of those there.", "Dr Alfa Saadu (second from left) has been praised for his leadership\n\nA doctor who dedicated nearly 40 years to saving others has died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nDr Alfa Saadu, 68, died on Tuesday afternoon at the Whittington Hospital in north London.\n\nThe doctor had been a medical director at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex and Ealing NHS Trust and worked at many hospitals in the capital.\n\nTributes have been paid to Dr Saadu, including from the former president of the Nigerian Senate.\n\nTwo weeks ago Dr Saadu started to show symptoms of coronavirus and immediately self-isolated.\n\nHis son Dani Saadu said the family suggested he should go to hospital, but his father insisted he \"did not want to take up a hospital bed because others would need it\".\n\nMr Saadu added: \"He was a very passionate man, who cared about saving people.\n\n\"As soon as you spoke to him about medicine or what was happening with the NHS his eyes would light up - he was very passionate.\n\n\"He was working part-time as a locum as he just could not fully retire. He just loved medicine so much.\n\n\"He worked for the NHS for nearly 40 years in different hospitals across London and he loved to lecture people in the world of medicine, he did so in the UK and Africa.\"\n\nDespite retiring in 2017, Dr Saadu continued to work part-time at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Welwyn, Hertfordshire.\n\nDuring his career he also worked as medical director of the Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and was appointed interim medical director when the trust merged to become the London North West University NHS Trust in 2014.\n\nThe Princess Alexandra Hospital, where Dr Saadu worked as a medical director until he left in December 2017, also paid tribute: \"Our condolences to you and your family. Our thoughts are with you all.\"\n\nMr Saadu warned people to take the government's advice seriously as the numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths continued to rise across the UK.\n\n\"I remember a few weeks ago when Boris Johnson said 'be prepared to lose loved ones',\" he said.\n\n\"I got really angry and remember thinking, 'why is he saying this? It is not the kind of thing you say on TV'.\n\n\"Now I understand what he means. People need to take this virus seriously. I have seen it first-hand - this virus kills people.\"\n\nDr Charles Cayley who worked with Dr Saadu at London North West University NHS Trust, described his colleague as a \"pleasure to work with\".\n\n\"His appointment as medical director at Ealing was a landmark moment in improving the number of ethnic minority staff appointed to senior positions in the NHS. We will miss him greatly.\"\n\nDr Alfa Saadu retired from his medical career in 2017 but carried on working part-time\n\nDr Saadu is the fourth NHS professional to die from coronavirus in a week after the deaths of Dr Habib Zaidi in Southend, Dr Adil El Tayar in west London and Dr Amged El-Hawrani in Leicester.\n\nFormer Nigerian Senate president Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki posted his condolences on Twitter.\n\nDr Saraki said Dr Saadu had been a chairman of the Kwara State Association, a community leader and traditional office holder as Galadima of Pategi.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some of Owen's friends believe he may have tried to walk to Yorkshire to see girlfriend Meg, his mother said\n\nA teenager missing for six days may have tried to walk 280 miles to see his girlfriend, his mother has said.\n\nOwen Harding, 16, was last seen leaving his home in Saltdean, Sussex, last Thursday.\n\nHis mum Stella said he had been upset at being unable to get a train to visit girlfriend Meg in Pocklington, near York, amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said relatives were desperately worried and urged the public to be on the lookout for Owen.\n\nIn an earlier appeal over her son's disappearance - shared by family friend Nadia Sawalha - Ms Harding said he had left home to watch the sunset.\n\nSome of Owen's friends have since said they believe he has attempted to walk from Saltdean to the North, Ms Harding said.\n\n\"While it is extremely out of character for Owen to leave and not be in contact, Covid-19 has put everyone under lots of strain and we don't want to rule anything out,\" she said.\n\n\"Because search activity and resources are limited right now, I'm begging the UK public to look out for him whilst out on their daily walks.\n\n\"But please make sure that, in doing so, you adhere to social distancing and government guidance and do not put yourself or anyone else at risk.\"\n\nSussex Police said searches have taken place in the Saltdean and Telscombe cliffs area near Brighton.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alasdair Henry asked anyone who was driving near the cliffs last Thursday after 18:00 GMT to check if they had dashcam footage of Owen.\n\nHe said police were keen to hear from anyone who could help, but echoed Ms Harding's request to abide by government guidance at all times.\n\nThe force would link up with colleagues across the country if there was anything to suggest Owen had travelled out of Sussex, he added.\n\nOwen is described as white, between 5ft 11ins and 6ft, and of athletic build with short brown hair.\n\nStella Harding said she was begging the UK public to look for him\n\nThe teenager had been upset he couldn't get on a train to Yorkshire\n\nThe appeal to find Owen has been shared by TV presenter and family friend Nadia Sawalha.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice have searched nearby cliffs and urged drivers to check dashcam footage taken in that area\n• None Missing teenager's mum in plea to find him\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A revamped loan fund for ailing firms hit by the coronavirus lockdown will have an immediate impact, RBS has said.\n\nRBS chairman Sir Howard Davies admitted there had been problems but expects to see a \"sharp increase\" in lending to small firms in the next few days.\n\nOn Thursday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak overhauled the scheme amid claims banks were taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nThe government has pledged to guarantee £330bn of loans but only £145m has been lent so far.\n\nSmall firms say they have struggled with onerous eligibility criteria for the government-backed loans, which are being issued by High Street banks and other lenders.\n\nThey have also complained of facing interest rates of up to 30% and being asked to make unreasonable personal guarantees.\n\nIt comes as the UK is facing recession as large parts of the economy are shut down.\n\nOn Friday, the influential Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey showed Britain's dominant services industry suffered its biggest slump in March since 1996, sinking from a reading of 53.2 to 34.5.\n\nMr Sunak said that under changes to the Coronavirus Business Interuption Loan Scheme (CBILS):\n\nSir Howard, who used to chair the Financial Services Authority (now known as the Financial Conduct Authority), told the BBC's Today programme that the process of checking borrowers' eligibility had been \"difficult\".\n\nHe also said RBS had struggled with the demand after inquiries about the loans jumped \"by 45 times\" in a week.\n\n\"I think we have to accept that the scale of this process and the speed with which it's been put in place has caused challenges for everybody,\" he said.\n\n\"But we've had good discussions with the Treasury and small firms, and I think the changes announced overnight will make a quite a big difference.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said it would \"completely unacceptable\" if any banks were unfairly refusing funds to good businesses in financial difficulty.\n\nHe also referenced the financial crisis - when taxpayers bailed out a number of the UK's largest banks - suggesting lenders should now repay the favour.\n\nHowever, Sir Howard told the BBC that comparing the current crisis to 2008 was \"rewriting history\".\n\n\"In the last crisis the problem was that the banks didn't have the money to lend, there was a credit crunch.\n\n\"We're not in that position at all. The banks have got the money to lend, we have a large amount of capital, we are not constrained in the volumes we can lend.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Sunak said the government was making \"great progress\" on supporting businesses to help manage their cashflows but needed to take \"further action\" by extending the scheme.\n\nBut some firms still feel they will struggle to access the loans fast enough or that they are too risky.\n\nThere has been widespread concern, acknowledged by the government, that some of the emergency measures to provide financial assistance to businesses are not working.\n\nToo few firms felt able or willing to take on loans that carried an 80% government guarantee to the lender but not the borrower. The Treasury has announced new rules, meaning business owners asking to borrow less than £250,000 will no longer have to offer up personal guarantees.\n\nPerhaps most importantly, the requirement for companies to have first tried to get a normal commercial loan elsewhere will be dropped.\n\nHowever, they are still loans. Companies wishing to take them out will be 100% liable for the debt and the government has not capped the interest rate banks can charge even though banks are able to borrow at close to 0%.\n\nThe loans may now be available to more businesses but what's not clear is whether firms want them.\n\nLabour welcomed the measures but accused the government of being \"behind the curve\" when implementing support measures.\n\n\"There remain huge gaps in support for employees and self-employed that must be addressed immediately if people are to avoid facing serious hardship in this crisis,\" said shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\nThe head of the Confederation of British Industry, Carolyn Fairbairn, described the changes as a \"big step forward\" although she said more detail was needed.\n\n\"Each week brings unprecedented levels of economic support and it's encouraging to see the government stepping in where urgent help is needed.\"\n\nMike Cherry, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, told the BBC's Today programme: \"It's a very necessary and timely intervention by the chancellor, because clearly, businesses were being promised interest-free, fee-free, government support by the banks.\n\n\"Time and time again, the FSB has heard from our members and other small businesses who've approached banks seeking these emergency loans that they were being offered anything but.\"\n\nStephen Jones, the chief executive of UK Finance which represents the banks, also welcomed the changes.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, he said: \"It was clear that those viable businesses, who were required to be offered under the terms of the scheme commercial lending under commercial terms, felt aggrieved that they were not given access to the scheme and therefore the change gives the scheme to all businesses who are capable of repaying debt after this crisis is over.\n\n\"This change is extremely welcome and it means that banks will not be forced to make very unenviable assessments in terms of who cannot or can access the scheme in terms of viable businesses out there.\"", "An XAG drone flown over a children's play park in China\n\nA group of drone experts is calling on the UK government to relax regulations on chemical spraying from the air during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt wants to train drone pilots from the emergency services to spray public areas with disinfectant.\n\nIt has been done in China and India - but aerial spraying is largely banned in Europe.\n\nThe drones can cover large areas - but there is debate around whether the method is effective.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said there were no plans to disinfect outside on a large scale.\n\n\"The expert advice is that disinfecting outdoor spaces would not be an effective use of resources,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We want to focus our efforts and resources on measures which have been recommended by scientific experts to have the most benefit in protecting the NHS and saving lives.\"\n\nAt the moment, Public Health England advises decontamination only where there has been a possible or confirmed case of the virus.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive did not comment.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority, which oversees drone flight safety, said it was not involved in the decision.\n\nDrone pilots would be more protected than people walking the streets or driving vans with spray equipment, because they would be further away, said Jonathan Gill, from Harper Adams University, in Shropshire, who has spent four years researching spray drones used on farm crops in several countries outside of Europe.\n\n\"The spray drones would keep people away from dull, dirty, dangerous jobs,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe disinfectant would be likely to drift from its target and travel further than intended, he said, but other forms of distributing disinfectant would do the same and specialists had calculated the best type of nozzle and droplet size to target hard surfaces.\n\n\"Doing something is better than doing nothing,\" he added.\n\nChinese Investment Connections director Robert Pearson, who has been working with Chinese company XAG, which says its drones disinfected over 902 sq km (350 square miles) in 20 provinces of China, said: \"It's not one solution - but it's an important part of the arsenal.\"\n\n\"A drone can spray 600,000 sq m a day - that's the equivalent of 100 workers.\"\n\nLast month, DJI announced it had adapted its agricultural drones to spray disinfectant over 3 sq km in the city of Shenzhen, including \"factories, residential areas, hospitals, and waste treatment plants\".\n\nBut this month, a spokesman told BBC News: \"The effectiveness of using drones for spraying disinfectant is still being tested\".\n\nAnd it appears from a note on its blog the company has stopped doing it.\n\n\"DJI will continue to work with professionals in the medical and scientific community to offer the most effective form of assistance it can provide,\" it said.\n\nUniversity of the West of England associate professor in aerospace engineering Steve Wright said UK drone laws focused on safety.\n\nAnd crashes and malfunctions had to be taken into account, as well as the relatively short battery life between charges.\n\n\"All our legislation is about the prevention of failure,\" he said.\n\n\"However, now people are working the numbers and saying, 'Is the danger of flying a drone over a public park greater than the danger of not doing it?'\n\n\"In times of crisis, people's attitudes to technology completely transform.\"", "Pearl went missing in Karachi in 2002 while researching extremism\n\nPakistan has overturned the death sentence of the man convicted of killing US journalist Daniel Pearl, defence lawyers have told reporters.\n\nBritish-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, imprisoned since 2002, has had his sentence reduced to seven years for kidnapping, said lawyer Khawaja Naveed.\n\nThree other men given life sentences over the killing have been acquitted by the Sindh High Court and released.\n\nThe Sindh chief prosecutor says he will lodge an appeal in the Sheikh case.\n\nThe province's prosecutor general Fiaz Shah told the BBC he expected Sheikh to remain in jail pending the appeal, which would be heard by the Supreme Court.\n\nA group of US journalists, including former colleagues of Pearl, said in 2011 that they believed Sheikh had not carried out the beheading. The Pearl Project alleged the killer was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is being held in Guantanamo Bay, accused of being behind the 9/11 attacks.\n\nMr Naveed said he expected his client to be released \"in a few days\".\n\nPearl, who worked for the Wall Street Journal, went missing in January 2002.\n\nHe had been researching links between Islamist militant activity in Karachi and Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a passenger plane using bombs hidden in his shoes.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Omar Saeed Sheikh lured him to a meeting with an Islamic cleric. The two had built a relationship discussing concerns about their wives, who were both pregnant at the time.\n\nAlmost a month later, a video showing the 38-year-old's beheading was sent to the US consulate in Karachi.\n\nPearl's son, Adam, was born in May 2002.\n\nSheikh was convicted of Pearl's murder in July 2002 by an anti-terrorism court, and has been on death row since.\n\nSheikh was born in London in 1973, where he attended public school before going on to study at the London School of Economics. He did not graduate, failing to return after driving aid to Bosnia after his first year.\n\nHe was arrested for being involved in the kidnapping of four tourists - three British and one American - in Delhi in 1994.\n\nHe was released from prison as part of demands by militants who hijacked a plane in 1999.\n\nAccording to news agency Reuters, police in India later accused him of transferring money to one of the militants who flew a plane into the World Trade Center on 9/11.\n\nThe main argument of the defence lawyers was that the prosecution had failed to prove their case beyond doubt. They may have a point. There have been questions over whether the four had any direct role in Daniel Pearl's murder, though there was some evidence to show Sheikh's involvement in his kidnapping.\n\nSheikh was widely seen as having links to Pakistan's top intelligence service, the ISI, as well as al-Qaeda, and had a role in forming the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group that carried out attacks in Indian Kashmir during the 1990s.\n\nHis arrest and conviction in 2002 came in quick succession, at a time when Pakistan was under severe pressure from the United States to eliminate terror networks operating on its soil.\n\nBut the Pakistani judiciary has sat on his appeal for nearly two decades, and some observers believe the present ruling has come at a time when the mood in the US and the rest of the world has changed and nobody seems to be worried about the terrorists of the past."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52376022", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52370928", 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