And contributions to this pbs station om viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor this is outside source on bbc news. We are cering the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. The u. S. Economy has shrunk at its fastest rate in a decade as the lockdown virtually shuts down the worlds biggest economy. There is worse still to come. The number of ople who died in u. K. Has jumped past 26,000 as the government start adding deaths in care homes and in the Wider Community to the official death toll. A warning from the internanional labor ortion. Half of the global workforces livelihoods are at risk because of the pandemic. Aftereeks of separation, why switzeand things ite is safe for derly thanks itzerland thinks it is safe for the elderly to hug grandchildren. We start with the u. S in the first three months of this year it shrank at an annual rate of 4. 8 . The country has introduced lockdown measures to slow the spsad of coronavirus which killed 58,000 people. As you can see fro this graph, the u. S. Economy has suffered the sharpest drop since the agcrisis more than a decad it is ending the longest expansion as coronavirus shut down the country. The figures dont reflect the full extent of this crisis since the untry didnt begin its lockdoarchers measures until march. As Mohamed Elbaradei and points out, the next quarter could see a contract by 40 . Here he is outlining what this it is the battle against obal depression. Todays number tells you the urgencyf containing the damage so that shortterm hits dont come longterm hits. The seconds issue it teu is we have got to build a one way for medical advances to be able to sort out the livelihood equation. Not just to win the war against a dression but to secure the peace. We failed to do that in 2008. We won the o wardepression but didnt include high, sustainable todays number tells you we have to think about winning the war andur sg the peace. Anchor despite the threats, the u. S. Ederal reserve is keeping Interest Rates between zero a. 25 . Larry summers says they are containing the coronavirus outbreak as the primary concern. We know economic downturns cast a substantial shadow grward. The people who ang to be the victims in many cases are the peoe coming out of school into a weak economy. Studies showeople that show that people coming out of schools during that time, the impact is there 20 years later on wages and the quality ofs j they have. It is a big deal to do what we can to support the economy through this time. We need to remember it all starts with the virus. People areri ted to work with others, terrified to go into a store, you can do what youes want with intrates but the economy will be weakened. Anchor thes decision caused new divides amongst americans. Nickinrian is speakto some of them in new york. Cant wrap my head around it. It is incredible. He has a road Building Firm which he fears will bet bankr by june. He is a trump supporter who believes the democrats aho run new yo being too cautious. An im not workinthe economy is not opened up, the fea mongers got everybodys scared to death, we all go out of business. I have had it myself. You accept that . Im sorry to hear that. People are going to continue to get sick. I dont think they will continue to get sick at any alarming rate. We e seeing more beggars on new york streets where this is harlem, severely hit new york streets. This is. Arlem, severely hit this is soho, boarded up like a hurricane is i about is about to rip through. Every single shutdown day, it has. The Public Health officials such as this woman warn against the rush to reopen. People are struggling to fee their families but we need to take it slow because i would hate to have to shut dn the cases. Ygain if we get more anchor some of the perspectives from new york. Here is more on the tugoferr ublic health and economic growth. We are seeing statelevel governments trying to grapple you are seeing this in parts of the country, places like georgia. Youre seeing some slow reopening. The great fear is if you start toeopen parts of the economy to quickly, too quickly, ar you going to spark another wave . Will it be more serious . There is no way to counter the severe economic numbers. And it certainly is being evidenced here in new yorwith disparity. The economic disparities that exist inew york, this pandemic, there is no doubt it will exacerbate those. Though it that is one of the challenges you how do you protect all of the citizens while trying to reopen the economy kwing the economic tsunami that is coming through this country . Anchor the head of Americas Institute for Infectious Diseases has expressed optimism about an antiviral drug. Remdesivir, which was developed to treat ebo, has shown four days less time was needed to shake off the effects of the coronavirus. Here is dr. Anthon fauci. If you look at the time to recovery, it was 11 days compared to 15. That is something that although 31 improvement doesnt seem like a knockout, it is important proof of concept. Bloas proven a drug can the virus. Anchor your uptodaat with the sin in the united states. Lets turn to the. U. For the first time here the latest official figures include all deaths linked to the virus including care homes and other immunity settings. It h so far claimed 4000 more lives than were being recorded under the pvious system. So there have been 765 deaths this takes it to over 26,000 in total. Here is our health editor. Happier times forcelebrating. She is in Critical Care in hospital with coronavirus. Her daughter says she picked up the virus in a nursing home. Testing at an early stage for it is a bit late. Might have kth coronavirus is endemic inr rsing homes and people that are going to suffer the most a the vulnerable and elderly. Testing for all has been made available, either with kits h st to theomes or mobile units visiting them. There are warnings carryg out the test will note easy. T is the physicality of the people. They are so frail doing the test itself takes a lot of time. It takes time to explain it, to reassure them, time afterwards to explain again. Reporter i asked about the new plan at the media briefing. Could testing have started sooner . The scale and speed is really in the last couple of weeks, and there is a Huge National and local endvor to not just test, but to understand the measures that would in care homes and to look at that in a rapid way, looking at the evidence so we can put in place measures that protect people. Reporter drivethrgh testing and at home kits have been made ailable to everyone. Because i am a private care or carer, i work fod myself, i cot get tested bore today. It is important for my clien and me. Reporter r o 65s qualify. We had symptoms for a few days wwanted to get checked. The symptoms had not increased so we did not need to phone 111, but as soon as the tests became available, we were happy. Rtrepo they can be ordered online but only by thmse with sympto we have not opened the packaging of this one so it is safe for future use. There are different types of kits. This is one of them. You need to register online and book the Collection Service to pick it up. Take the swab sple from your nose and throat, put it in the plastic ntainer and p ikaging, and ready to be contained collected. Slots for drivethrough tests have been in high demand. There is news suppl available this evening. Target of 100,000 test today tests a day. Anchor another story to point out, the Prime Minister and his rtner Carrie Simons have spent their a first dparents after the birth of the baby boy. Preventing he will not be pas moment. For the Prime Minister, she said he is delighted about the birth but that she wont comment on his other ildren. Here is what the foreign secretarnt told parlia mother and baby are doing well and i am surehe house will join with me in sending congratulations and our bes wishes to them. Anchor we will get more on that shortly. I want to speak to our Political Correspondent who joins us from westminster. The u. K. Is now counting deaths in care homes and unsurprisingln the number has up. The government is keen to stress this is not a surge in numbers. What happened before was we got daily numbers of the hospital but not those on a daily basis in care homes or in the commun they were released separately. Wld see or we would expect to see an increase in nanbers in totawe did. Almost 4000 re in fa because the figures now incorporate those who died in care homes. That takes on board yesterday staffs yesterday deaths. We would not expect to see such a big increase in the figures tomorrow but titre has been ism of the government for concentrating on hospital deaths the trajectory wassimilar to that in france. T the w make sure they want to make sure they announce dehs outside of hospitals as well. And they say we are on course for one of the wor totals in europe. They are expressing conce t about that are is concerned the numbers are being underreported. These are people who have been tested and died. R it was made cl the downing street press conferee. It is possible in care homes, because the inspecti the infection spreads rapidly, people diere before they tested. There could be Something Else on the death certificate. The figures could be higher than what was announced. Anchor our Political Correspondent live from stay with us. We will tell you how people in spain are coping as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shock the economy anchor new figures from scotland show more than half of the deaths recorded last week were in care homes there. Th figures bring the number of people who have died with the deathsncded six members of nhs staff. Here is the first minister. Care home, while destressing distressing, is in line th the proportions being reported from other countries. That demonstrates how crucial it is toom make care as safe as they can be during a pandemic of this nature. Care homes have had strict guance to fall follow since march. Anchor you are watching outside sourceth live from bbc. The u. S. Economy has shrunk at the fastest rate in a decade as the lockdown has virtually shut down the worldsig bst economy. The u. S. Federal reserve has announced Interest Rates will be as i was saying, the u. Sec omy contraction, you want a more direct measure how its affecting people, 26 Million People in the u. S. Have filed for unemployment since the pandemic first began. This is a global phenomenon. Countries harsh offering. S afering. Reporter nk you. Let begin with a stark warning. We had onerom the u. N. s internationalni labor ortion. It says half of the worlds workers are in danger of having their livelihoodsesoyed by the pandemic. This focus on workers in the informal economy, not regulated or protected by the state. Here is the head of the i. L. O. The likelihood has been massively has been going on. These are people who earn very little on a good day. Their incomes are going down on average of 60 in the first month of the pandemic effect. They need our helpate straits. Reporter in india, the figures are staggering. The i. L. O. Has warned 4 Million People are at risk of falling deeper into poverty because of this crisis. Or you could look at bangladesh. This highlights how empty high streets all around the world are putting 2 million bangladeshi jobs at risk because clothing ordering have dried up. That is one example ofal how gled trade means experiences of one country could impact elsewhere. In africa many families are reliant on relatives working abroad who send money back. According to the world bank, over 700 billion were paid in remittancearnd the globe. It is predicting remittance transfer will drop 10 in 2020, families who rely on them. Bbc aica has been investigating this issue. Reporter when thimigrant worker in south africa would normally send money to his rents in the lobby to cover eirmalawico to vethr suncraute, b now with a strict stayathome brder ih countries, he cant use the transfer services as they are closed for not being essential business. He has had toind other ways to send money to his parents. I have got friends who have businesses in malawi. It is asking a favor money to ms month. You cant do on continuously like thatsecse they have got their flow issues. Porter the world bank is remittance flows for 2021. Hee road to recovery is an uncertain one as world continues to fight the pandemic. Reporter the Economic Impact of this pandemic is being felt around the world iluding in europe where countries are wealthy like by global standards. Lets focus on spain. We have this report. Reporter i spain the daily tally of the dead may be fallg, but the lines of the hungry are lengthening. Chewing lining up for handouts toil fl empty stomachs. Ugnew wave of suffering b by the virus is gathering force. This cleaner has lost all of her work. 300 euros a month is what she is left with. The poore, being hit hardest. The people whose house i was working at said dont come any untithis is finished. Now i dont know if i can afford to pay my rent. Reporter what she gets, she shares with her brother. His work distributing flyers has dried up area there are four in his house dried up. There are four s his highd. His household. Assistance from others is all that is left. Every day we pray for hp, donations and volunteers. Thanks to god, we are getting them. It is mia e. Racl reporter t that is w many businesses need through the plan is to open next month customer numbers must be limited area cafes can only serve outdoors. Businesses, shutred for weeks, may struggle to suffer. This man finds the bills piling up, more than he wil able to pay. If his restaurant fails, his staff will be jobless. Reporter there was an Emergency Fund to support economies during this crisis, butwill months untile know whether the Emergency Fund is helping spain, italy and the other countries in the south of europe which had borne the brunt of this. Anchor thank you. Since cid19 began, elderly people have been shielded from ci contact even from members of their own family. This care home in austria is one of many which introduced social distancing rules so when relatives visit, they can see them from the balcony but no closer. Switzerlandas struck out on a different path as it begins to lift its lockdown measures. Dont drink and now hug grandparents once again. Asome exper skeptical yog grandchildren can now hug some experts are skeptical. How much human touch is denied, tiffany is the to rector the director of t touch receive and Touch Research institute. What are some examples of how important physical touch is . The most example is children in romanian orphanages who failed to thrive and grow and that is an extreme example. Ors. I dont think that is happening in ts covid19 time. It is wonderful children can hug their grandparents and vice versa because it does a lot for immune function. They w migt to wear masks so they dont run a risk. That would be fun for the kids and grandparents. We know from studies we have done on elderly people touching children lowers their stress hormones. When you lower stress hormones, eouav kill viral cells. In this pandemic, when we are not allowed to touch people, touch is more important for saving the natural killing the. Anchor switzerland is reducing for grandchildren and grtoandparenucts. Others say we dont know the ability of childreto pass on covid19. Many otherhat countries case, fs that tonoar grants, what else can we do to substitute human contact . The skin to get positive effects on immune function. You are stimulating pressure that sends a message to the nerve in the brain. That nerve slows down the nervous system. It is slowed dowg like the slow heart rates, blood pressure,heyou save the natural killer cells. If people simply walk floorro ad stretch, wash hands, sit with legs crossed awing, they are moving their skin. There was a lot of physical things you can do. Most exercise. Anchor thank you. 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