This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The global number of deaths from covid 19 has risen to more than 35,000 with the majority of deaths in europe. In the uk the death toll has risen to more than 1400. It comes as the governments chief scientific adviser says social distancing is having an effect in reducing the number of contacts. We see a massive reduction in the amount of transport being used, germanic fallen footfall, we know in places of restaurants and pubs where people aggregate have been close. We are seeing a big change in contact. A New London Hospital
built in a week will be ready to treat patients from wednesday. The people of madrid remember the more than 7000 whove died in spain from covid 19. President trump extends restrictions on movement until the end of april, as the number of cases there continues to rise sharply. A Navy Hospital ship docks in new york as the citys mayor calls on donald trump for more help. And coming up at 19. 30 well be putting your coronavirus questions to the experts in your questions answered. Good evening and welcome to our audiences in the uk and around the world. Were bringing you all of the latest coronavirus developments globally, and here in britain. The global number of deaths from coronavirus have risen to 35,000 with the majority of them in europe. The social distancing measures that the uk has experienced for the past week are having an effect and has reduced the number of contacts between us all in the last week. Britains chief scientific officer sir Patrick Vallance says he still expects the number of infections and deaths to rise over the next two to three weeks. But the number of infections is not accelerating. There are currently 9,000 patients with coronavirus in hospitals across england which means theyre occupying around one in ten beds. 1,408 people have been confirmed to have died from coronavirus in the uk. An increase of 180. In the United States, a new navalfield hospital has docked in new york, as President Trump extends measures to stop the spread of coronavirus until the end of april. Hospital ship. Meanwhile in spain, a minutes
silence has been held to remember over 7,000 people who have died from the virus as number of cases in the country overtakes china. And back in the uk, the foreign secretary, dominic raab has announced a new scheme that will see airlines fly home tens of thousands of stranded british tourists. Well have reports from around the world, but we begin with a report from our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Weve got 0scar, give me a wave. Stretching into the distance. You are missing yourfriends, yeah . But hell be ok. This could last a look longer than the familys daily five kilometres. They are missing a lot of school, but they are young and its important to teach them to be resilient and deal with whatever situation they are faced with. So we can cope. Its not normal life. Even the Prime Ministers chief adviser is at home with symptoms, too. The new government routine, though, produce a Progress Report on how the country is coping with the limits on all our lives that have only been in place for a week. This is a United National effort. The spirit of selflessness shown by so many is an inspiration. The chief scientists slides, capturing the measures. They are in place, they are making a difference in decreasing the contract, which is so important to spread the disease. And we are doing a good job at cutting down. The reason that it is important is because it prevents the number of cases. Based on what you know now, are the restrictions working . What we know is that the measures that have been taken are having a very big effect on contacts. I showed you the data on transport, you can see dramatic reductions in the amount of transport being used. You see dramatic reductions in football. In footfall. We know that things like restaurants
and pubs, places where people aggregate, have been closed. So, we are seeing a big change in contracts. That is predicted to have a very significant effect. Foreign secretary, youre asking a huge amount of the public. Is it the governments view that people need to be willing to follow these restrictions for as long as six months, if that is what it takes . The more members of the public, as they are doing increasingly, follow this guidance, the quicker we will be able to get into a position where we review when and how there is any easing of those restrictions. But any rollback is still likely to be at least three months away. We always understood that they potentially require to be in place for a very long period of time. This period of 13 weeks has always been understood, and clearly we keep that under review. Whether it is easing limits on leaving home or school is reopening, when it eventually comes, it will be piece by piece. Or schools reopening. We may need significant restrictions for longer than the original three weeks. And beyond that period, there will be times when we dont just go from everything being restricted to nothing being restricted. Here is me, standing, Walking Around my garden. Routine is the key to coping for 80 year old hector. He has some other advice. I think i will keep myself fairly busy with one thing or another. But for six months . Youve got to try to keep up your sense of humour, i suppose. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news. Lets talk to our Political Correspondent nick eardley. Interesting to hear from the chief scientific officer that the social distancing measures are having an effect but it is not in the short term going to affect the number of cases and indeed deaths. That is right. 0ne cases and indeed deaths. That is right. One of the slides we were shown by the uk government today showed a traumatic decrease in the number of people using cars and
trains and Public Transport here in london. And that was very much welcomed meaning fewer people are coming into contact with each other giving the virus less of a chance to spend spread but the uk government message is still over the next 2 3 weeks, there will be a spike in cases. The number of people entering a hospital with coronavirus is going to it least increase for a fortnight. Hopefully the experts we re fortnight. Hopefully the experts were advising the government their hope is that the number plateaus and stays the same for a period of time and then gradually starts to decrease. All the messages we have heard today and over the last few days from the government are that the restrictions that are in place will stay in place in some way or another for will stay in place in some way or anotherfor some time. Will stay in place in some way or another for some time. That peaked just around or just after easter slightly brought forward from the
original projections. Just turning to the foreign secretary dominic raab and bringing brits back from abroad, £75 million quite a lot of money because that is a lot for airlines to ground their own fleets and charted their own planes . Exactly, there are still tens of thousands of brits abroad who want to get back to the uk. There has been a lot of criticism here about the way the government has been handling that. Not necessarily some people have said offering enough support. That £75 million that you mention is to charter specific flights to go to areas where flights arent running to say to people here isa arent running to say to people here is a way of getting home. There are numerous examples of that happening already but this is a pitch cash sum to say to the airlines going get these people home and at the same time, the airlines are being told that people in areas where flights are still running, airlines are being told that they have to basically allow them on the flight
at next to no charge and allow everybody to change their tickets and make sure if they want to, they can get back to the uk. It is all a big package designed to give folk as much of a chance as possible to get home and anybody wondering how they will be affected, there is information already on the uk government website about exactly where those fights will be coming from. Where are we on testing for front line nhs staff . Public Health England set a few days ago contradict what michael gove and matt hancock said. It is a complicated beast. The uk wants to have 25,000 tests. The target at this point was to have 10,000 a day. The government says it has the capacity or ability to do that but they are not quite testing that many people. We have 8000 in the last 2a hour period, that is 8000 tests. They are only on 5000 people because some folk need more than one test to make sure theyre getting that right. There has been some criticism there but there is a specific
campaign now for front line nhs workers which has been rolled out. 900 of those tests happened over the weekend but there are a lot of people saying there need to be a lot more and quickly. Nick at westminster, think you very much. People in madrid paused for a minutes silence at midday today to remember the more than 7,300 people who have died with coronavirus in spain. The country has overtaken china in the number of infections, and today even tougher restrictions are being introduced. Only the United States and italy have confirmed more. Guy hedgecoe reports from madrid. The new normal in spain. The countrys once buzzing capital is now a virtual ghost town. Spain has been in lockdown for over two weeks. But, now, thats been tightened further as non essential workers have been told to stay at home. The spread of the virus through care homes has been one reason the death
rate in spain has been so high. The vast majority of spaniards have been complying with the terms of the national lockdown, but the government hopes that these new reinforced measures will help bring the virus under control and that that, in turn, will take the pressure off a Health Care Service which is under enormous strain. An all too common sight, ambulance after ambulance speeding through the streets. Over 12,000 Health Care Workers have contracted the virus and many feel they lack the protection they need, even at this critical stage. Translation its frightening when your suit rips or when somebodys saliva gets on yourface. Thats when you are most afraid. The government says the measures its been taking are starting to take off. We are seeing an improvement in the number of infected citizens, we are seeing an improvement in terms of the curve starting
to show a different trend. I think its a little bit unfair to point to spain as being an exceptional case in what i see is a general case around the world. The lockdown has been a challenge for spaniards. A massive change of lifestyle for a society that loves to interact. They sing. But, like so many across mainland europe, singing seems to be cathartic. Almost the new way to get through it. These young women, who live opposite a hospital, keep their spirits up by cheering the Health Workers who have suddenly become national heroes. Guy hedgecoe, bbc news, madrid. That is what has been happening in
europe and particularly in betrayed us we have seen in that report. In the United States they been scaling up the United States they been scaling up there response there as well. Our first report is from the United States, where americans have woken up to the news that measures to stop the spread of coronavirus have been extended. Paul adams reports. As this Global Pandemic spreads, waves of gratitude follow. 0ther cities have already think their Health Workers but this is new york, a deafening course of appreciation echoing down manhattans canyons. But there is disquiet too, nurses and doctors say they dont have enough protective equipment, told to wear masks not just enough protective equipment, told to wear masks notjust for one patient but for up to five days. It is putting all of us in danger because we are reusing mass that should never be reused, we are running out of so many things, other protective equipment. With americas city streets increasingly deserted, the process of a swift return to normality are fading. Authors are now warning for as many as 200,000
american fidelitys. Now warning for as many as 200,000 american fidelitys. If we could hold that down as we are saying to 100,000, that is a horrible number, maybe even less but to 100,000, we have between 100 and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job. But with the virus and the lockdown comes mounting economic hardship. New yorks busy food banks now inundated with newcomers, people deprived in a blink of an eye of the ability to put food on their tables. In new orleans before dawn, emergency room doctor tom prepares for another long shift at nearby hospital. He says he is not used to seeing so many people not recovering. Instead, they have gotten worse while they had been in the hospital and in fact, many of them have passed away already. In a way, thats. Its them have passed away already. In a way, thats. Its not normal. Them have passed away already. In a way, thats. Its not normal. A vast hospital ship is now more off los angeles hoping to relieve the pressure in california. The mercy has 1,000 beds for non coronavirus patients america pop up americas most popular sates is now bracing for hard days. Paul abbott, bbc news. That ship was arriving on the west coast of the us. Another Navy Hospital ship has arrived in new york designed to relieve pressure on the Health Care System there which has been overwhelmed with the sick. It has 1,000 beds and 12 operation rooms, and the ability to produce oxygen. The comfort will be used to treat patients who do not have the coronavirus disease but who urgently need other care. Speaking a little earlier new york city mayor bill de blasio welcomed the ships arrival at pier 88 in manhattans midtown. This morning, we all watched something absolutely extraordinary, absolutely inspiring as the us and s comfort entered new york harbour. Coming here to save the wives of new yorkers in our hour of need. We have all been through a lot these last few weeks. And we needed this boost. We needed this hope thats being created by our brothers and sisters in the us navy. Usns comfort. Bill de blasio speaking. Lets go live to washington and speak to our correspondent gary 0donoghue. We knew about these ships being the point both west and east. What we didnt know reason he was at Donald Trumps productions that this would all be reverting to normal by easter would be extended. That is right. He did spend quite a lot of last week
touting this idea about easter being very upbeat about possibly rolling out the opening up of the country in different places at different times. He even sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states on friday saying we are to great each county of risk high, medium, and low and start looking at ways of altering the advice on the low risk areas. I think a lot of that has gone away now, i think the scientists have persuaded him that as anthony found she put it, if you take your foot off the pedal now, you run the risk off the pedal now, you run the risk of not onlyjust100 or 2000 deaths but multiple numbers of that. Anthony fauci. I think the administration has frankly been frightened by that kind of number when you start to get into the million or 2 million mark which is something Scientists Say is realistic if you dont keep on with the restrictions. Is President Trump perhaps now listening to medical
advice in a way in which perhaps a few days ago he wasnt . Look, i think he has listened to that advice at various points. At times its looked like he has tried to sort of bossy advice around a bit. In a basic sense, advisers advice and politicians decide and he is the president of the United States. And this is not the first pandemic where there has been tensions between politicians and people who want to keep trade open and people who are advising on the medical, scientific side of it. That has been a pattern of pandemics in the past as well. But i think his kind of Wishful Thinking about the timescale i think has changed remarkably in the last couple of days. And talking about the end of april, maybe even the beginning ofjune he was now talking about, and i think thats something
that people will be glad about certainly the Scientific Community and across the country because people are aware here that they certainly believe the worst is yet to come. Did it take the reports and images from a hospital he knows well from queens where he was brought up in new york to really shake him you think . I think that might be something, he did reference that personal aspect and he also referenced over the weekend the sort of image of these big trucks im afraid taking body bags away from hospitals, its something that he sort of focused in on and targeted for his comments. These clearly had some kind of impact because they are slightly. They have the element of armageddon about them, dont they . Notjust armageddon about them, dont they . Not just that but the intense armageddon about them, dont they . Notjust that but the intense going up notjust that but the intense going up in central park and big boats with hospital beds having two more
on manhattan. These are images you did not imagine you would see in the zist did not imagine you would see in the 21st century in the United States, the most developed, powerful country in the world with is the best suppose a Health System in the world, etc, etc yet it has come and people understand i think that the pressure is going to get bigger over the next couple of weeks and that if the next couple of weeks and that if the preparations arent put in place and this is perhaps something the president understands now, if the system no matter how good it is gets overwhelmed. Gary with the latest in washington, thank you very much. You are watching bbc news as you have been hearing. As youve been hearing, 1,408 people have been confirmed to have died from coronavirus in the uk. An increase of 180. 0ur Health Editor, hugh pym has the latest has more details. Just a week ago, it was a giant Conference Hall with a room for a
dozen football pitches also now it isa dozen football pitches also now it is a hospital room with care beds and vent to be just ready in time to receive the first patients. The capacity will eventually be 4000 and if those beds are used, it would be the biggest hospital in the world. Simon stevens, head of nhs england told the site at Londons Excel Centre today for some and met some of those who are making things happen. Today there are over 9000 positive coronavirus patients in hospitals across england. And we know that number is only going to increase. That is why what you see here is a mass mobilisation taking place right across the country but also at these new nightingale hospitals. This has been an extra ordinary team effort on the part of nurses and doctors and therapists and pharmacists across london but also volunteers and paramedics and people returning to help. The first staff were applauded in today for some volunteers from other hospitals and recently retired doctors and nurses will be carrying here for
seriously ill covid 19 patients of what is now called the nightingale hospital. Those arctic is here best to say when they were here and now we have fully ready to take some patience. Arctic worries. There is so want more were to be done but huge progress about putting a hospital in london, nightingale london in less than two weeks. It is unbelievable. It is in the heart of london bonsai documents and Business Hotels in the fact they have transformed this Conference Centre into a transformed this Conference Centre intoa giant transformed this Conference Centre into a giant hospital so quickly shows how serious they think the pressure on the nhs could be. Birminghams National Exhibition centre will house a nightingale hospital, so to the Central Convention centre in manchester for said the sec in glasgow will also become a temporary hospital in two weeks time with space for up to 1,000 patients. The principality stadium in cardiff is set to be used as an and hejust
stadium in cardiff is set to be used as an and he just feel hospital. Northern ireland two is creating to dedicate a facilities for coronavirus patients. 0ur Health Editor hugh penn reporting there. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in just a few days by engineers at University College london. Theyve been working with clinicians, and the mercedes formula one team, to develop the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator. If it passes clinical trials, it could be used in hospitals by next week. Our medical correspondent, fergus walsh, reports lets speak now to andy neely, professor of manufacturing at university of cambridge and a board member of the catapult consortium of manufacturers helping to make ventilators for the nhs. I believe you are not involved with this specific formula 1 operation pit stop but you are looking at ventilators. Where are we on ventilators. Where are we on ventilators because ventilators are one stitch removed for the more serious cases than the one we have just been speaking about . Absolutely. The ventilating challenge, the national ventilating challenge, the national ventilating challenge in the uk has been a fantastic response by manufacturers generally. My colleagues have been helping and need to co ordinate that facade that has resulted in a number of different groups coming together to try and create ventilators quickly for the National Health service. Now we know that dyson has got a contract for 10,000 but you have two different schools of thought here to develop being for patients which execs already tweaking those or crating something new, which one is proving more successful at the moment . new, which one is proving more successful at the moment . I think what is great about what is happening is the range of different approaches that people are taking. There is not going to be one single solution to this and it is notjust about the ventilator itself. There is lots of elements to the overall manufacturing supply chain the need to be coordinated to make a big
difference in the health service. And what were seeing at the local level is fantastic. For example in university here, we have created in the course of a week, a little which is six hub which is allowing us to ta ke is six hub which is allowing us to take personal protective equipping artist of University Department will close down. We have very little time left, how quickly do you think the year needs to be licenced and brought out and be used . Rapidly. I think the speed at which the manufacturing has responded to this challenge is fantastic. And people are moving heaven and earth to try and make needs available as rapidly as possible. Andy neely we have so little time, thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. We will keep you posted of course about the development of those ventilators and indeed all the other equipment that britain needs in this fight against the coronavirus pandemic. More on the website on all those issues
including all the latest analysis and expert views about where we stand at the moment. We are back in a few minutes time with more. Hope to see you then. Hello there. Lighter winds today, but it has not been as cold. It has been showery for some, with threatening looking cloud across barnsley over the reservoir. We have also had some pretty stubborn cloud in the north and west, as you can see from this weather watcher in cumbria. Generally speaking, there has been a lot of cloud around through the course of the day, particularly into the afternoon, and the showers have been through northern and eastern scotland, eastern england, stretching down into the midlands and a little bit further south as we went through the afternoon. Now, one of the reasons that weve had lighter winds is the High Pressure is sinking down to the south west and the isobars are opening up, and so the winds are going to continue to slacken off through the evening and overnight, with the showers fading away as well and clear skies developing,
so we could see some breaks and a chilly night to follow. Low single figures where we get some breaks in the cloud. So, it is going to be a chilly start to tuesday morning, but again, we will see plenty of cloud developing as we go through the day, and it will be a fairly overcast story. The winds will change direction in a subtle way, really. Theyre coming in from the north west, and that will feed more cloud and a few showers into scotland and across to northern england. Temperatures a little bit disappointing for the beginning of april, highs of 9 11 degrees. The high will continue to drift south west, and eventually we will start to see a weather front starting to threaten into the far north. Its going to take its time in arriving on wednesday, but it will start to bring a change to the story for much of scotland. So, clouding over, outbreaks of rain to the north west of the great glen and the winds will strengthen here. Quite a cloudy day generally on wednesday, so the temperatures struggling a little again, 9 12 celsius the high. As that front pushes through,
it is going to introduce colder air across scotland as the winds revert back to a more northerly direction. We could see showers tied into that low pressure, turning wintry to the tops of the hills across the north and west. So, although we stay slightly milder across the south, with that northerly flow into scotland, it means a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather. So, turning increasingly windy, with gales to the north, but a little bit milder across the south and hopefully a little more sunshine coming through. Thats it. Take care. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The global number of deaths from covid 19 has risen to more than 35,000, with the majority of deaths in europe. In the uk, the death toll has risen to more than 1400. It comes as the governments chief scientific adviser says social distancing is having an effect in reducing the number of contacts. A New London Hospital, built in a week, will be ready to treat patients from wednesday. The people of madrid remember the more than 7000 whove died in spain from covid 19. President trump extends restrictions on movement until the end of april as the number of cases there continues to rise sharply. A Navy Hospital ship docks in new york as the citys mayor calls on donald trump for more help. Hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. The uk foreign secretary dominic raab has announced a £75 million plan to bring home tens of thousands of british nationals stranded abroad. British airways, virgin, easyjet, jet2 and titan are among the airlines that have agreed to take part in the scheme. Lets get reaction to this, from the shadow foreign secretary, labours emily thornberry. £75 million is quite a lot of money. And enough surely to solve this problem. Lets see how far it goes. I have to say that those of us who have been campaigning on this issue since day one im trying to make sure that we get british citizens abroad back home again were disappointed i think that we did not get more detail and that some of the questions that we had simply have not been addressed. So there is more of the same, there is a commitment to keeping airports open, and with working with commercial airlines and at some stage but without any detail perhaps chartering some flights. We dont know where or when. And without addressing the issues like what happens if your insurance has run out while you have been waiting to get on the flight . What happens if your medicine or food is to get on the flight . What happens if your medicine orfood is running out equipment that are not in the a nswe rs
out equipment that are not in the a nswers to out equipment that are not in the answers to that and i do think that what we should be doing is a country is putting all the resources that are available to us into making sure that our citizens abroad are able to get home and that includes the assistance of the military as and when necessary. There are many other things i think that we could have done and i think this commitment to working with commercial airlines if it works may be fine but actually i have had more than 1000 e mails from british people around the world and some of the stories they have told us about the way in which the commercial airlines are frankly just looking the mickey are very worrying. For example, i had a family from yorkshire, six of them with two grandparents, they had gone away to australia because of the floods and they were having a break and now they are stuck. They have been told by the commercial airline that they are relying on to get them home that it will cost £61,000 to get that family out. That is simply unsuitable. And i do think there are commercial airlines that are taking the mickey and i think the other
areas for example with many bangladeshi brits who are in selecting of gone home for some time now want to come back but there are not any aircraft leaving from there because it is not taking any more flights until sometime. £75 million it should be paying for specially chartered flights in the Foreign Office was certainly saying that he would putting pressure on the airlines not to exploit brits who had been stranded abroad. The argument also is that the ford, what office is not really equipped and would not be even if you were in power to deal with something on this sort of scale. I think a couple of yea rs sort of scale. I think a couple of years ago they help 22,000 britons abroad but were talking hundreds of thousands of britons and we dont even know the numbers precisely. No, andi even know the numbers precisely. No, and i asked the Foreign Office that and i asked the Foreign Office that and they simply are not in a position to be able to say how many people there are around the really wa nt to people there are around the really want to come back and all i can do
is talk from my experience where ive had more than 1000 e mails and if had 2701 think inquiries from labour mps is so we have that information. Under the ford office last week and put a lot of the information to the Foreign Office and have been to get in over the weeks in a disappointed that it is taking so long for them to make decisions. The point again there is is the fcl would say people are having to be retrained and are being moved from other duties to deal with this crisis now. And with the best people in the world that takes quite a long time. Hang on. The first thing i wanted to do was give them some credit and the credit is that they have put on some flights from peru which has been really good. And they got those flights and they put on flights from china and that is great. But why are they not making sure that they can send flights from
pakistan, bangladesh, india we have the largest number of brits abroad, and australia and new zealand . Seems to me that is very important. On the point you met at the start when we began talking about the insurance, what is the situation . If the fco advises brits to return, does that negate travel insurance perhaps for stu d e nts negate travel insurance perhaps for students travelling around the world during a Summer Vacation . Students travelling around the world who have not got a return flight, so they dont have a contractual relationship with a private company, so what do they do . And that is one of their problems. And then they buy a ticket and the flight is cancelled and they have given a credit voucher and they have given a credit voucher and are told they will come home a couple of months and in the meantime they have no means in which to live. And they cannot work in australia
any more because the jobs are gone and we dont want to see british people being destitute. So these. And insurance is negated if the Foreign Office has advised him to return . I dont know is the honest a nswer return . I dont know is the honest answer but i do know there are people whose insurance has run out because they have overstayed so they only had insurance until the end of their holiday and now they dont have insurance because it is gone. So what did they do . If they had insurance to the 24th of march but have not been able to get home, what happens now . And those sorts of questions are not being answered. 0k, emily thornberry, thank you very much indeed. Youve been contacting us in your thousands with questions about practical advice and support on covid 19. Were going to do our best now to answer some of them now on the bbcs your questions answered. With me to answer some of your questions is chris smith, consultant virologist at Cambridge University and host of the naked scientist podcast, and also im joined from south london by penny sarchet, news editor at new scientist magazine. Ifi if i could start with you, people have raised this demo why is germany so much more efficient than other European Countries in testing people . Thats from anja grey in guernsey. It all comes down to National Strategies and so the uk has decided that we are going to be testing people who are hospitalized. They have not really advised on why that is our testing strategy generally speaking but the who is recommending a wider strategy. Germany is being
able to do that. We are aware there is probably some thing to do with shortage in the supply change and not having enough tests so each country is having to make their own decisions which means it then becomes very difficult to compare case numbers in Different Countries because obviously those attacks more have more of an idea how many cases there are. In the uk, we really only know about those that are severe enough to be the hospital. Crisco may depend somewhat on the quality of the tests themselves whether the tests are for coronavirus or other things as well. Can you explain that ina bit things as well. Can you explain that in a bit more detail . We are testing for coronavirus commit we are not just testing for one thing. Were looking for certain stages of the invention and different things. When a person has symptoms of humour look for evidence the virus is there. When we do that is to use a tacit look for the genetic material of the virus. This is very labour intensive and is very dependent on the skill of the operators are having enough staff who can do this and do it quickly is really tough. Now that
tells us whether or not a person has the virus there and then but then what we can also know is the big hold up in a big frustration and hope we can solve this soon is he wa nt hope we can solve this soon is he want to know who is already immune to the virus and we do that by looking for antibodies a person has made when they fought it off having previously caught it. That is in the punk government has said they headwater task its four but the moment we have not seen any of them and he will be really useful to have them because we can test for health ca re them because we can test for Health Care Workers and if it turns out that they have got antibodies they will not catch the virus again and are not infectious anyway so they are not infectious anyway so they are not infectious anyway so they are not at her the patients or at risk from patients so they can quite safely return to the front line and would be at no risk. There is a . About other people do have long term immunity which we should bear in mind as well. I suppose that testing question, why is the uk not doing test airports returning passengers feeds into the same answer. Not enough tests and specific tests. You
would be testing everyone coming in if you are looking to still contain the virus will unfortunately we are long past that now. We know it is circulating in the uk population and we cannot contain everything a person who has it and trace all their contacts and make sure they dont pass it on anyone else so that is why we now having the distancing measures and these more extreme rules because the virus is readily spreading in the uk. The catching people at an airport would not make that much difference so that is why they are not deploying testing like that any more. Lets move on. A lot of shops only taking debit and credit cards and would not take cash. Can notes and coins we can committee with this virus was meant they can. Scientists in america have asked how long can this new virus in an infectious stay on Certain Services and of done the experiment where they put a certain amount of virus onto different types of surface including paper and it also
metals and of course they could be paper money or coin money and they have come back different time periods later. Swathes of service and asked from the swabs cannot infect cells proving the virus is in an an infectious stay on the services and paper and cardboard, the virus was intact and viable for up the virus was intact and viable for up to three days so money could therefore theoretically remained as a service contaminated with infectious viruses for several days. Coins and Metal Services it depends on what metal. Stainless steel was pretty good at supporting the virus for three days and he remained intact and was infectious but copper on the other hand seem to be quite poisonous to the virus and it was the committee quickly within minutes. Interesting. What about temperature . This from john and hartlepool come if i put food in the freezer, will it kill the virus . Have not seen any studies on that yet but my guess is probably not. We never think of the flu virus, freezing food does not kill
influenza. I know that there is quite a lot of concern about food at the moment and what should you do because we are told to worry about services. But i think one thing to really bear in mind is the best and you can do isjust really bear in mind is the best and you can do is just really good hygiene when you are cooking and when youre washing your photo but also your hands during the cooking in the preparation process and that will make much more of a difference i think than really worrying too much about cleaning your food. As it comes in from the shop because i have begun to hear reports we will try to use things like bleach on food which you do not want to be doing and then a lot of other household cleaners are not effective against a virus or be really difficult to clean every neck and cranny of all of your food. It is difficult because you here at the bbc we are having distancing and two metres apart but we have a communal coffee and tea area. Chris from manchester says is it on site to prepare mugs of tea or coffee for my
key worker colleagues in the office . The whole purpose of social distancing is to break the chain of transmission for this virus because you are infected with a and have an acute infection and the virus will make you a medium so it has to find a new home and it does that by leaping on another person. So every opportunity it takes it will effect the people and it is a very infectious virus. Need to be close enough for a person for that jump to happen and so yes if youre standing there at the side working and talking to somebody than you were sharing with them and this is an airborne virus and they potentially if they are infected could breathe out that virus into the air and you can breathe in. But if they are not infectious were not carrying the virus and there is no risk what you dont know that. Washed accounts pretty carefully because you dont wa nt pretty carefully because you dont want it passing those around. Potentially. As we have discussed him of those services could have virus on them if someone excreting virus on them if someone excreting virus but we dont know that they are but it is better to be cautious and just Water Services and washed
her hands and then he wont be at any risk. Talked on this a little bit but lawrence asking if a letter delivered by post, what are the chances of that will contain coronavirus . Do we know that . So it is possible and it has he said their study suggested the virus can persist on various services for at least a few days. But we dont actually know the extent to which that really does cause infection yet and it really the risk is being in a room with someone who is infected. So it is all about probability here so we have a letter to is a chance or might be a virus on it but there is an or might be a virus on it but there isana or might be a virus on it but there is an a chance within that that it might be capable of infecting you but it starts getting small and what you can do is if you leave something for a few days, like at the three days so like three days, it is less infectious than would actually arrive sub as long as its not urgent coming that one to set it aside and not open it away but also
just more generally i would not order things unnecessarily online at the moment for a variety of reasons but if an important letter comes, open it but wash your hands afterwards and dispose of it if you can and afterwards. But the scale of risk is not high up there. Some help with things now. Extraordinary this far into this crisis we are still getting questions like this. So martin says i have diabetes, and i have risk and should i be self isolating and for how long . Diabetes isolating and for how long . Diabetes is on the list of things that you should regard yourself is at high risk because diabetes does mean if you catch this disorder, you could, not a given but you could get a more severe infection. So it is better not to take the chance and therefore to isolate yourself and pleasures of out of harms way. This is from lee, im immune suppressant due to lifelong medication i take for a recent liver transplant. I showed
all those symptoms recently so we cannot expect to be anti body tested . Sounds as cannot expect to be anti body tested . Sounds as if she has a symptoms but hopefully looks as if she is recovered. The current advice is from the uk government is after seven they said you isolate for seven they said you isolate for seven days and then you can go out again. The World Health Organisation says 14 day so there is a discrepancy there and there are studies that suggest you can share the virus for several weeks after you feel better also the thing is as we alluded to earlier you still dont really know to what extent your immune after you have a disease but we just dont understand yet that it to be reinfected so especially if youre compromised i would still be really about minimising coming out even once your past 14 days after symptoms. Just one quick one left. Another person says hope how can i increase my lung capacity that we survive the virus was meant to breathing exercises help in a nutshell . Take your daily
one hour, go outside whether or not other people where you will be at risk with the exercise will do you a world of good. Fantastic. Chris, penny, thank you both very much and i hope we have answered some of your questions. Theres been a surge in new cases of coronavirus injapan amid fears that a lack of widespread testing has allowed the virus to spread undetected. 68 new cases have been reported in tokyo. Japan has not instituted many of the virus Protection Measures seen in other countries. Heres Rupert Wingfield hayes. So, these new measures the japanese government has brought in are really, i think, in response to a significant pick up in the number of confirmed Coronavirus Infections injapan over the last week or so. And weve seen a particular rise, particularly large rise here in tokyo over the last few days. So, on saturday and sunday, we saw more than 60 new cases on both days. Thats much higher than weve seen in previous weeks. And really, japan looked like it had this epidemic well under control for most of the last month. The figures have been going up, but theyve been going up very, very slowly. And then suddenly in the middle of last week, it started to look like there was an acceleration. And on saturday evening, Prime Minister shinzo abe came out and said that he was concerned that tokyo might be on the verge of a very major outbreak. Whats really strange here, living here in tokyo, is that even now, life is going on pretty much as normal. Over the weekend, parks, the citys parts were all closed down, people were told to stay at home, Department Stores were closed and so the streets were much quieter. But come monday morning, today, we have seen people go back to work,
its still very busy. The citys notoriously crowded Subway Network is just as crowded as normal. So, it is still very strange, and a lot of people are questioning why it is that the government, Prime Minister shinzo abe and the tokyo city government, have not taken stronger measures. More than 110 countries and territories around the world have now put in place widespread restrictions on the movement of their citizens. Schools have closed and businesses have been forced to stop working. There are, though, still large differences in the approach that some countries have been taking. As jim reed reports. So, its vital to slow the spread of the disease. Stay at home. It will break the chain of transmission, and it will save lives. A quarter of the world is now living under some form of lockdown. 3 billion people have been told to stay at home. In most of europe,
day to day life has stopped. In the north of italy, hospitals are still struggling to cope. Its three weeks now since the start of the worlds first full national lockdown. The street is completely deserted. On a sunday afternoon, usually there would be certainly lots of people. Translation its a special emergency situation. Every one of us has a responsibility to do our bit, so we mustnt approach each other. In northern europe, similar measures are now in force. In the united kingdom, any social gathering is now banned. The public has been ordered to stay at home with only a few exceptions. So, this is what a lockdown looks like in the south of london. Youre allowed to go out for essential needs, so ive been in the house for a couple of days now, about to go out to the big supermarket. They now restrict the number of people in the building at any one
time, so the queue to get in goes round there. And finishes there. There are differences, though. In sweden, schools, cafes and bars have stayed open, at least for the moment. In the United States, meanwhile, some individual states are moving faster than others. The sooner we get back to normal, the better, but obviously thats up to the experts. Even the president has to listen to those people, and hopefully hell do that. New york state still makes up around half of all cases nationally. Broadway theatres and schools have been shut, residents have been ordered to stay at home. In asia, 1. 3 billion indians have been told to stay indoors for 21 days. The government is desperate to stop the virus spreading in its huge cities. Translation no one is helping us. People are scared to give us a ride because of the virus. The police are also asking for our identity cards. In other countries, though, rigorous infection tracking has allowed life to go on. In singapore, the streets
are busy and the shops open. Its closed its borders, but there is no lockdown. Here, a heat sensitive camera takes your temperature before youre allowed to enter an Apartment Building or restaurant. I feel very fortunate were living in a place like this, in this moment. Because most of my friends and family members, they dont have the luxury to contemplate the idea of going out for a drink. In china, meanwhile, the number of new hospital infections in the city where the outbreak began has slowed to a trickle. And the residents of wuhan are now being allowed to walk the streets again. Translation for us, the news about lifting the lockdown is like the biggest recognition for us staying at home for more than two months. Its a positive sign, then, a relaxation of restrictions in a world that elsewhere has been shutting itself down. Social media has never been more important given the millions of people in self isolation
at the moment. Notjust for information and news, its also providing a welcome outlet for frustrated sports commentators to get creative with a whole new audience. 0lly foster reports. This could be quick. The pig has gotten off to an absolute blinder here who says sports are not in lockdown . He is working with pictures of his grandchildren in the background and, yes, theyll be so proud of grandpa tonight this is about making people laugh and realising that being stuck at home does not have to be an awful experience. We have all got to get through this together, and with a sense of humour and a little twist on traditional sport, we can do that. Being graced by two of the greats, saskia and alex. Rob has even roped in some former 0lympians for the new show. It is saskia who wins the battle of breakfast. Nick heath was one of the first a few weeks ago to make the everyday exhilarating. He has got a decent start, and now on the outside and nowjamie has dragged over the shoulder and leggings is going to get there. She does it again, three titles in three days mark church and his daughter delivering a daily dose of the sports iconic moments. What can you tell us about this young man . One word can some of this young man from the garden, elegant. It is quite a lot of fun and i did not think it was going to be but it was actually a lot of fun. I think she is enjoying it a bit more now than when we started because i think really she did it to keep daddy amused when we first started. Daddy was feeling a bit sad about not having any work like a lot of people. So putting us on peoples faces, thats the most important thing, and i think we will keep doing one every day until we all come out the other side of this crisis at the moment. Earlier this month, Andrew Carter was trying to stay impartial as scotland beat france in the six nations. Try for scotland and for Sean Maitland and the clock goes red now he is doing this. Both settling quickly into rhythm. See the contrast in styles. See the heavy tail use, happy to be alive, amazing. There is more out there, you have to find it. That is it for us today. One more bit of news from italy with the locked and going to april the 12th. See you soon. Hello there. Lighter winds today, but it has not been as cold. It has been showery for some, with threatening looking cloud across barnsley over the reservoir. We have also had some pretty stubborn cloud
on the north and west, as you can see from this weather watcher in cumbria. Generally speaking, there has been a lot of cloud around through the course of the day, particularly into the afternoon, and the showers have been through northern and eastern scotland, eastern england, stretching down into the midlands and a little bit further south as we went through the afternoon. Now, one of the reasons that weve had lighter winds is the High Pressure is sinking down to the south west and the isobars are opening up, and so the winds are going to continue to slacken off through the evening and overnight, with the showers fading away as well and clear skies developing, so we could see some breaks and a chilly night to follow. Low single figures where we get some breaks in the cloud. So, it is going to be a chilly start to tuesday morning, but again, we will see plenty of cloud developing as we go through the day, and it will be a fairly overcast story. The winds will change direction in a subtle way, really. Theyre coming in from the north west, and that will feed more cloud and a few showers into scotland and across to northern england. Temperatures a little bit
disappointing for the beginning of april, highs of 9 11 degrees. The high will continue to drift south west, and eventually we will start to see a weather front starting to threaten into the far north. Its going to take its time in arriving on wednesday, but it will start to bring a change to the story for much of scotland. So, clouding over, outbreaks of rain to the north west of the great glen and the winds will strengthen here. Quite a cloudy day generally on wednesday, so the temperatures struggling a little again, 9 12 celsius the high. As that front pushes through, it is going to introduce colder air across scotland as the winds revert back to a more northerly direction. We could see showers tied into that low pressure, turning wintry to the tops of the hills across the north and west. So, although we stay slightly milder across the south, with that northerly flow into scotland, it means a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather. So, turning increasingly windy, with gales to the north, but a little bit milder across the south and hopefully a little more sunshine coming through. Thats it. Take care. Welcome to outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. We are covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. The us Navy Hospital ship which is heading to dock in new york. The states governor says these get the scale of deaths is already staggering. This Conference Centre in london has been transformed into a hospital in just one week. That will eventually accommodate up to 4000 patients expected to be of all ages. We have