Transcripts For BBCNEWS Breakfast 20200330

And is expected to go into production next week. Was coronavirus the final straw . Brighthouse, the largest rent to own retailer in the country, is close to collapse. 2,500 jobs at risk. We look at the pressure the pandemic is placing on some businesses. England captain harry kane fears the Current Premier League season wont be completed. Kane says if its not finished by late june, its time to move on. Advice on how to keep calm and carry on from someone who knows we catch up with d day veteran and fund raiser harry billinge. Remember the good days and that youve got a lot to be thankful for. Yesterday, only three places in the uk got into double figures in terms of temperatures. Today, a few more well, its going to be cloudy and cold but not quite as windy. I will have more of it at my new time at 25 past. Its monday 30th march. Our top story. 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help the fight against coronavirus, according to the Prime Minister. Borisjohnson, whos self isolating after contracting the virus, made the announcement in a video online. It comes after one of the governments top medical advisers warned it could be at least six months until life in the uk returns to normal. This morning well hear from the social care minister and well be looking at efforts to support nhs workers as they prepare for the challenges ahead. Rich preston has a round up of the latest developments. Its been a week since Boris Johnson first said life in the uk will have to be severely restricted but the message from britains deputy chief medical officer at sundays downing street press briefing was clear. We need to keep that lid on and then gradually we will be able to hopefully adjust some of the social distancing measures and gradually get us all back to normal. So i think three weeks for review, two or three months to see whether weve really squashed it, but about a 3 6 months, ideally, and lots of uncertainty in that. Tweeting from isolation after testing positive for the virus, borisjohnson said the policy was still to delay the spread of the disease and to reduce the strain on the nhs. We are going to do it, we are going to do it together. One thing i think Coronavirus Crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society. The uk coronavirus death toll passed 1,000 over the weekend. On sunday, it was announced 209 people died in a single 24 hour period. British households will get a letter from the Prime Minister this week in which hell remind people to stay at home and protect the nhs and with one clear message things will get worse before they get better. The uk government has promised to ramp up Virus Testing in the uk, particularly amongst nhs staff amid pressure to ensure adequate protective equipment for those on the frontline. Downing street says measures are in place to keep supplies going to the nhs using the armed forces when needed. The Scottish Government says its delivered 3a million items of protective equipment to hospitals across the country and eight weeks worth are going to be delivered upfront to gp surgeries this week. This 750,000 people have volunteered to help the nhs during the coronavirus pandemic, three times the original target. As work continues on the emergency nhs nightingale temporary hospital at londons excel centre. And the news that easyjet and virgin have written to some of their staff to ask them to work at the medical facility. With hundreds of flights cancelled, the airlines say their staff, many of whom are first aid trained and whove already had security checks carried out on them, can provide vital, nonclinical help to hard pressed nhs staff. Rich preston, bbc news. 0ur Political Correspondent Jessica Parker is in westminster for us now. Jessica with the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary both working from home having being diagnosed with coronavirus, what impact will that have on the governments response this week . We are getting an indication some of this may be be going on for months. Interesting to see borisjohnson posting that video from self isolation at his downing street flat, wearing a suit and tie, trying to make the point that despite having tested positive, he is up and about, co ordinating the governments response. Weve seen images of him chairing meetings remotely. Weve seen downing street press briefings. Likely to see something similar as well. More broadly, looking to the week ahead. This focus on testing. Michael gove sang the top priority would be to test those frontline nhs workers, its going to be a focus on personal protective equipped as well for those people. That letter as well that Boris Johnson those people. That letter as well that borisjohnson has sent households across the country, thats going to be landing on doormats across the uk, warnings things will get worse before they get it up. The government could look at further restrictions if it thinks it is necessary in something we learned yesterday from the deputy chief medical officer, jenny harris, at the downing street press briefing, restrictions of some kind she said could be with us for about six months. She was stressing that asa six months. She was stressing that as a moving target, it depends on oui as a moving target, it depends on our behaviour. She is not saying its going to be a total lockdown to the period stop could see measures adjusted, lifting the lid here and there. The overall message was that these restrictions could be with us for some time stop well be talking to the social care minister at 7 30am this morning. At 7 30am this morning. The Spanish Government has told all non essential workers to stay at home for the next eleven days, as part of tighter coronavirus restrictions. 6,500 people in spain have died more than in any country except italy. 0ur reporter gavin lee has been monitoring the situation across europe from brussels. Gavin whats the latest . Across europe, there are 380,000 people testing positive for coronavirus. Of those, 100,000 are cases in italy in 10,000 people have 110w cases in italy in 10,000 people have now died in italy. At the moment its hard to detect actual rate given these are confirmed cases because of testing the death rate appears to be 10 , huge and frightening but the good news about italy is the spread of cases today and the number of people being killed per day is, despite its height, slowly reducing. Health officials there and in spain and france believe in the next 7 10 days, we will start to see if fall of the peak. 10,000 protective medical suits have arrived in midline from the czech republic, a specialist in biological and chemical weapons, theyve already sent last night 10,000 to spain. Spain, the doctors there had a huge webcam sharing conference with other doctors around the world and described the situation in that seminar is really distressing and struggling to cope. Were talking about six and a half thousand people dying there, the highest rate yesterday 838 in one day. The hope that spain will start to turn the curve ina that spain will start to turn the curve in a few days time. You mentioned a few seconds ago, they are closing non essential businesses, areas like food, journalists, telecommunications, the energy sector. That is the only real thing that will stay open apart from the medical industry and in germany, cases in the last four days have jumped from 30,000 to 60,000. We are starting to see those countries the smaller number really leaping up over the weekend. Thank you very much for the latest. Speak to you later. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in just a few days. The device, which has been developed in collaboration with the mercedes formula one team, delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. Its a small device that could make a big difference. Known as Continuous Positive Airway pressure, or cpap, it pushes oxygen into the lungs, keeping them open, making it easier to breathe. Theyre already used in the nhs but are in short supply so a team modified and improved an existing design in less than a week which has now been approved for use by health regulators. Normally medical Device Development would take years and in this instance weve been able to do it in days because weve cleverly thought about how we can go back to existing devices and models, reverse engineer them and then engage with our Industry Partners to manufacture them at scale. This demonstration was done at University College London Hospital, which is now using the device to treat covid 19 patients. I sincerely think it may actually save many lives by preventing patients from needing to go onto a ventilator and again saving that vital resource for the very, very severely ill. Every Second Counts in motor racing. Here, mercedes formula 1 partnered with doctors and Healthcare Engineers on a medical device that could be mass produced. This is a great example of how the nhs, universities and industry are working together at extraordinary pace to meet the challenge posed by coronavirus. If the trials of this device go well, then mercedes formula 1 says it can produce up to 1,000 of these a day. In italy, around half of covid 19 patients given cpap have avoided the need for intensive care, and unlike mechanical ventilators, this theres no need for them to be sedated. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Just after 6 30am well be speaking to dr amir khan, and answering some of your questions about coronavirus. You can email us at bbcbrea kfast bbc. Co. Uk or share your thoughts with other viewers on our facebook page. And you can tweet about todays stories using the hashtag bbcbrea kfast or follow us for the latest from the programme. There is often a healthy discussion. I love the way you describe it. Healthy discussion. Thats on facebook. Id also you can watch it on the bbc iplayer later if there is something you missed. Weve given you the picture from the uk and across europe. Donald trump has announced that the restrictions imposed in the United States to limit the spread of coronavirus will be extended until the end of april. The president had previously said he hoped america could reopen for business at easter. Now mr trump says the country will be well on the way to recovering byjune 1. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. This is how americas normally bustling city centres look today. Chicago, empty. Philadelphia, deserted. And new york city, unusually quiet. Everyone ordered to stay at home except essential workers like nurses. And this is how its going to stay. No more talk of getting back to work by easter. Now President Trump says social distancing guidelines will be extended to the end of april to slow the spread of covid 19. The peak, the highest point, of death rates, remember this, is likely to hit into weeks. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won, that would be the greatest loss of all. But many more americans expected to die in the weeks ahead. Anthony faucl die in the weeks ahead. Anthony fauci, the head of the president s task force, says the disease could kill more than 100,000 people in the us. The idea we may have as many cases played a role in our decision to make sure we dont do something prematurely and pull back when we should be pushing. The president s advisors say it could have been much worse with up to 2 million americans at risk of dying if drastic measures hadnt been taken. If we could hold that down, as were saying, to 100,000, its a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100 and 200,000, we all together have done a very good job. New york is still the epicentre of the outbreak in the us where some Health Workers are saying there is a desperate shortage of medical supplies. President trump has accused hospitals of hoarding Vital Equipment such as ventilators which he said should be released for wider use. Peter bowes, bbc news. Meanwhile, President Trump has said the us will not foot the bill for prince harry and meghans security amid reports the pair have moved to the us from canada. Mr trump tweeted he was a great friend and admirer of the queen and the united kingdom, but he added, they must pay the couple responded saying they had no plans to ask for publicly funded security in the us. British tourists whove been stranded in peru due to the coronavirus outbreak will arrive back in the uk this morning. The government has chartered a further three British Airways flights with additional connecting domestic flights to rescue those stuck in the countrys lockdown. Over 170 people arrived back last week. A lot of people are keeping fit at the moment by following instructors, likejoe wicks or the Green Goddess, on tv or computer screens. I was going to ask you this, actually. But some residents of hamburg, in germany, can enjoy a live class simply by looking out of their window. Lets smile, perfect ready, ready . 19 year old Fitness Instructor pato cervantes is leading a 30 minute workout in the street every morning, in all weathers. 0h, oh, i 0h, ilove oh, i love it. He said he was inspired after seeing his neighbours drinking wine on their balconies and he thought they would prefer some aerobic exercise instead. There are some lovely things going on among the slight madness. You do more exercise than normal. I think i might be doing more exercise than normal indoors, but yes, there is a real kind of crunch going on. Were all changing in so many different ways and trying to in our house about what might be the future and what changes will stay. You know what . And it has only been a week, hasnt it . Not even a week, because it was monday, wasnt it . Nearly a week. From our childrens point of view, its been a great week. We have done all sorts of things at home, building dens, sleepovers and getting some schoolwork done as well. Sleepovers, in your own house . With our own children, yes. They built a big den and slept in it. With our own children, yes. They built a big den and slept in itm is extremely hard as well. Incredibly difficult. And we think about this this morning, those stories coming out yesterday about not being in the state of lockdown, however you describe it for six months, things not returning to normalfor six months. That concern you and make you worried and anxious, what will things be like in two or three mark months is do not get in contact with us, any questions or concerns, we have a gp interview coming up as well. If there is anything you really want to get to the bottom of this morning we will try to get to that for you. Weve all seen the images of empty supermarket shelves and queues snaking outside supermarkets. Demand for food has skyrocketed, and farmers are warning theyre facing huge pressure to keep up. So, how are producers coping behind the scenes . 0ur correspondent sian lloyd has been to meet those working hard to keep food in the shops. Keeping livestock moving. Markets like this play their part in the food supply chain, but its not business as usual. Restrictions have been introduced in line with government advice and have been further tightened since we filmed here. Hello. Access is controlled and farmers are being told to do things differently. Theyre very dyed in the wool traditionalists but we are asking them to drop the animals, leave them to us and go, so that we are restricting the amount of people even more. We dont want to be locked down, that is the last thing. Its got to be kept going to keep the public basically fed. Those working on the land are facing unprecedented demand. Lambing has just begun on this farm with more newborns arriving every day. But the Family Business is also trying to keep up with a huge increase in demand for potatoes grown here. One of bills concerns is how future crops will be harvested, and across the Agricultural Sector there are calls for british people to fill the gaps that will be left by Seasonal Workers from abroad to keep farming moving. Those opportunities are evermore here. Its a bit like the war. The war, farming was kept going by young women, the land girls, and old men. And they kept producing food to keep our boys fed on the front. This site in hereford supplies poultry from its farms to large supermarket chains. The company produces 11. 5 million chickens, turkeys and ducks a week. Theyve been working with their customers to ensure supplies are held up. It was necessary for everybody to get together and say, how do we really be as efficient as we can, so weve worked very closely with our customers to say what we do we need to do quickly . We started making those changes three weeks ago, were seeing those changes come through the system, and although clearly its been difficult with the level of demand that retailers in particular have seen, there is plenty of supply coming through, the system is not any less supplied than it was. The current pressure on the supply of food is unparalleled, but the sector recognises there will be further challenges to come. Sian lloyd, bbc news, hereford. Lets take a look at todays front pages. There is so much to talk about as well. The telegraph leads on that comment by the deputy chief medical officer for england, drjenny harries, who said that a return to normal life could be six months away. You may have seen her speaking yesterday at a press conference. It also has a picture of a drive through covid 19 testing facility for nhs staff. The daily mirror reports that an nhs consultant in derby has died with coronavirus. Amged el hawrani, 55, passed away on saturday. And if you were wondering what it might take to knock coronavirus off the front pages, the mail leads on President Trump saying that the us will not pay for the security of the duke and duchess of sussex, amid reports the pair have moved across the borderfrom canada. 0nline, the Huffington Post also leads with a story about President Trump. He has suggested that hospitals in the us must be losing protective masks out of the backdoor after he was asked about dwindling supplies. Supplies of personal protective equipment is something we are talking about on this mornings programme. An the ongoing delivery slot. Have you tried . I have given up. Ithink slot. Have you tried . I have given up. I think people needed more than me. And the boss of morrisons is going to be here. That is at 7 50am. Jonathan and jason shouting in my area. This is related to supermarkets, this is from the mail. Things that people have left out for the dust in to pick up stop these bananas for example, perfectly good then and is good bananas and quantities of bread have been dumped and gone out of debt before they could be eaten. A lib dem counsellor has shared a series of images showing rubbish bins overflowing with discarded food. Bread, chicken, they were thrown away after going past their sell by date. That provoked a furious response from people calling out the behaviour of stopovers people calling out the behaviour of sto pove rs a cross people calling out the behaviour of stopovers across the country. There are people who cannot get food because there is no food in the supermarkets, then there are other people leaving food i need an outside in their bins. So disappointing. Food uneated outside. We will be speaking later toa outside. We will be speaking later to a married couple helping to spearhead campaigns about feeding nhs staff with restaurants. They will bejoining us later, finding out what their individual lockdown is like as well. Have you seen this about harry kane . If they cant get the season finished by the end of june, they may need to call it quick. Interesting for football fans, even if you want that interested in football, there is some appetite for it. People are starting to think about how it might work, whether you can get it finished at a certain time, harry kane is saying if it isnt finished by the end ofjune, it will have such a knock on effect for next year, for the euros and world cup in 2022, he says at some stage they will have to be scrapped and move on. I dont know if that will be the a nswer on. I dont know if that will be the answer but im sure they will try to fit it in somewhere. Maybe next year. A baby boom is being predicted for early next year. Laughter we will see. There will be so much coming out of all of this. Maybe that will be the good news . We will find out. There is the clock. It is 6 24am. We are getting news on so many different things. Lets return to our top story now and the announcement that it could be six months or more before life in the uk returns to normal. Lets hearfrom englands deputy chief medical officer who was speaking at the governments daily coronavirus briefing. I thinkjust to be clear on what i have actually said, i dont think i have actually said, i dont think i have said we will be in lockdown for six months, just to be clear, i also havent said we would definitely be in the best place possible in two or three weeks, the important thing is this is a moving target. If we do well, it moves forward and comes down and we manage all of our air through our health and care systems sensibly in a controlled way. That is what we are aiming for. The issue about the 2 3 weeks is there is a time lag between when somebody gets the disease and becomes somatic and potentially transmits it, and then very sadly for those people who become ill, they will usually be for a period of time ill and then deteriorate in their Health Status and sadly some of them will end up dying. And there are time periods for that. So, one dying. And there are time periods forthat. So, one for dying. And there are time periods for that. So, one for how well we do our intervention. If we all stop shopping on monday, we would not expect any of this data to change on tuesday. We would expect to starting a football drop over the first week, we would see new infections dropping over the next week and we would see deaths dropping over the following week footfall drop. Certification there is, and bay ministers letter is, expect numbers to get worse over the next week, possibly two, then we are looking to see whether we have managed to push that curve down Prime Minister s clatter. The issue about the timeframe is really in port and about the timeframe is really in portand about the timeframe is really in port and important, this is not to say we would the incomplete lockdown for six months but as a nation we would have to be really, really responsible and keep doing what were doing is we can gradually start lifting various interventions which are likely to be spaced, based on the science and our data instill we gradually come back to a normal way of living. That may mean that we have a few bumps on the way rather than the nice curves that you seen in graphs in the media or on our charts. Its really important we do that together. We will not have succeeded in we get right to end of this outbreak and we understand how the disease transmits. As we get more information in due course about the pattern of transmission, then we will have more insights in how to manage that tail end of it and we can provide more information then. We talked a little bit about changes, so we are making a few changes, so we are making a few changes to the programme. Curra will be on ata changes to the programme. Curra will be on at a new time, there is no Regional News, you will get Regional News later in the day. You can catch up news later in the day. You can catch up if you want to when your local radio or online as well but carol has new times. Havent you, carol . This is now, this is the carol time. Anyway, carol, the good thing is, we have you 0h, oh, its lovely to be here with you both as well. Good morning, everyone. The weather this week, while it will be cloudy for many of us, yesterday, only got above double figures and certainly today we are really struggling with our temperatures as well. Not quite as cold as it was yesterday and it wont be as windy either. There are still some wind and showers in the hmmfi still some wind and showers in the forecast was not High Pressure is dominating our weather, there is a subtle change in that it has drifted a little bit south and where it was yesterday and that has changed the wind direction. Instead of coming from the arctic it is coming from the atlantic so it is not quite as cold. But having said that there is still a fair bit of cloud around and we still have some showers. At the moment, a lot of them in the north west, if you have them in the east, but more of them will put westwards as we go through the day. And you can see the extent of the cloud, but nonetheless, too, we will see some sunny skies. Use if you are exposed to the wind it will feel nippy. These light circles indicate the average wind speeds. There will be gusty winds elsewhere, particularly gusty across the Channel Islands. That will feel much cooler than it suggests that generally we are looking at about 8 10 degrees. And through this evening and overnight, still a fair bit of cloud around, still some showers coming in, the wind is starting to ease a little bit and there will be some breaks in the cloud. Its going to be too cloudy or too windy for us to be too cloudy or too windy for us to have issues with rust. You might see the odd pocket here or there in the shelter but that will be the exception rather than the rule. It will still be a cold night, temperatures 2 4d. Then we start off with that same scenario tomorrow with that same scenario tomorrow with some cloud around, a few showers knotting around as well, not as windy, so it wont feel as cold as windy, so it wont feel as cold as in previous days. Our temperatures as we go through the course of tomorrow, still nothing to write home about. Were looking at between 8 9, or 10 degrees. As for the rest of the week, well, subtle changes i would say, it will be brighter in the south on wednesday, still a lot of cloud for many of us, a weather front across the north of the country introducing some rain, but once again, just breezy rather than windy. You will notice something if you are on this east coast, it wont be as cold. Temperatures will also be that bit higher at 11 degrees instead of 7 9. Then, as we head on towards wednesday and thursday, a weather front bringing the rain in across the north sinks south. Isobars tighten and we start to pull in colder conditions. So there goes our weather front, here comes the colder air. Also pretty windy across the north. And although we started with showers in the north, later in the day as the cold and digs in it will turn more wintry. We have a chilly start this week, also looking at some rain and snow in the north as we go through the week, the latter pa rt of we go through the week, the latter part of the week, but it will be milder in the south later. It might ta ke milder in the south later. It might take a wee bit longer to come than we originally thought. As louise and dan both said, i have new times for the weather. The next one should be around 57 minutes to. Passed thanks carol, we will make sure at three minutes to. . I cant imagine carol, we will make sure at three minutes to. . I cant imagine we will get gold stars on the time but we will do our best. Thank you, carol. The reason for that is for the foreseeable future, there are no regional bulletins. This because of changes, what is happening with coronavirus right across the tv schedule. You will have seen changes made across all channels. Do get your information, it will come in the lunchtime and evenings. This is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Well bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning just keep going, remember the good days and youve got a lot to be thankful for. Well have a message from the wonderful d day veteran harry billinge, whos looking on the bright side of life in isolation. Last time he was on breakfast Marcus Rashford was learning sign language today the Manchester United ace will be talking to us about protecting children on Free School Meals during the Coronavirus Crisis. And well speak to celebrity couple damian lewis and Helen Mccrory about a new campaign to get hot food to nhs staff on the frontline. Good morning heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help the fight against coronavirus, according to the Prime Minister. It comes after one of the governments top medical advisers warned it could be at least six months until life returns to normal. More than a thousand people have now died with coronavirus in the uk. Yesterday it was announced 209 people had died in a single 24 hour period. Frontline nhs workers in england are to be tested to see if they have coronavirusit comes after criticism from medics over a lack of screening. Previously, only seriously ill patients in hospital were being tested for the virus. Critical care doctors and nurses will be tested first. The roll out follows similar schemes in wales and scotland. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients of out intensive care has been created in just a few days. The device, which has been developed by technicians at University College london and the mercedes formula one team, delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator. If trials go well, production of around a thousand machines a day could begin next week. So after the announcement that it could be six months or more before life in the uk returns to normal what steps can we take to make sure we stay fit and healthy . Yes, so many questions following that announcement. Lets speak now to gp amir khan. Lets be thank you so much for joining us. So much to talk about. From your point of view, a people changing their behaviour, are you noticing that people are not going out as much, and listening to what the government is saying . Good morning. People are changing their behaviour. We ceded our gp surgery as well. That weekend where we saw the scenes of people out and about. It felt different this weekend. As we know, it will take a couple of weeks before we see the effects of that but people are starting to take it seriously. What impact does it have on your surgery. Is that a good thing . Surgeries around the country are changing the way they work. We are changing the way they work. We are doing a lot of remote consultations. We are doing video consultations. We are doing video consultations and telemetry consultations and telemetry consultations and telemetry consultations and only seeing the sickest people and as of this week, a lot of areas across the country, single entities will no longer exist and will be working in primary care networks. We will have hot sites, surgeries dedicated specifically to people with potential coronavirus symptoms. People will still need to talk to a doctor. What sort of thing should they be contacting . We are still open for business. We have a higher number of calls coming in. People still get sick with other things. We are seeing people worried about symptoms of potential cancer, Mental Health in particular, in the situation we are in and were still talking to them, bringing them surgery if necessary but really for their sake, as well as ours, we are trying to do things over the phone. The normal things are still coming through that we would have seen before this crisis. It is important that people do contact you because you dont need them to get worse. You dont at the end want a whole influx of people who have been holding onto potentially serious symptoms so if you are worried about anything really healthwise, do call yourgp anything really healthwise, do call your gp surgery, expect a phone call or video call in the first instance and if we do need to see you, we will have you in the surgery. You mentioned Mental Health, these are ha rd mentioned Mental Health, these are hard times. There are so many different suggestions. Its hard to people who have existing health conditions, depression, these kind of things. It will make things worse but also people who havent had a history of Mental Health problems before will find they are suffering. Life is different now but try and maintain some structure to your day because its the loss of control that sometimes gets peoples mines going, particularly people with anxiety. Try and wake up at the same time, have breakfast at the same time. Try until sometime. Try and get some exercise if its safe to do so within government guidelines and ta ke so within government guidelines and take regular meaningful breaks from use of the virus. Dont use your phone to find the latest thing, limit the time to a couple of hours a day at the most. A couple of practical questions you may not be able to answer. William. Can the droplets of coronavirus stay in the airfor droplets of coronavirus stay in the air for three droplets of coronavirus stay in the airfor three hours droplets of coronavirus stay in the air for three hours and droplets of coronavirus stay in the airfor three hours and can droplets of coronavirus stay in the air for three hours and can they specifically stone cardboard for 2h hours . There is lots of research yet to be done. It was initially thought a droplets spread virus which means when you cough or sneeze, the droplets come out contain the virus. There is some evidence in only Laboratory Conditions that it can be airborne which means it can be suspended in the air and not drop down through droplets by gravity up to three hours but i must stress, thatis to three hours but i must stress, that is only in ideal Laboratory Conditions, its not really thought to be able to do that in the normal world. Cardboard is a difficult thing. They are still looking into that there is some evidence it can stay on several hours. Im not sure about 24. The best thing you can do, still getting packages and is taking things from supermarkets. If you can, wear gloves and then disinfected with a white before opening it and wash your hands as officers often as you can. Opening it and wash your hands as officers often as you can. David sent this and says how do you know if you fought off covid 19 and when its safe to mix with other people, such as nhs workers or family. Good question and there will be testing for nhs workers to see if they delivered developed the antibodies. We know about the fever and the cough 80 of cases and above that anything, shortness of breath, sore throat, loss of sense of smell is certainly something thats coming through now. If youve developed any of them, you must be seven days clear before returning to work. Seven days clear of the symptoms . The only thing that it is, the cough can persist for three weeks but you wont be shedding the virus. If you are seven days into the honest, thats when you stop shedding the virus. Seven days from the first day. Mary, a Primary School teacher, says there will be lots of people feeling different ways. I have on and off temperature, muscle pain, aching body and today i woke up with less muscle pain, strong bone and joint pain. Ive never had this before, could it be it . Yes, i think she should resume it is it because its such a myriad of symptoms, it affects people in different ways. Fatigue, aches are common symptoms. Shes got that as well as a temperature, you should presume it is the coronavirus and should be socially isolating. The personal point of view, i know youve got otherfamily point of view, i know youve got other family working for example in accident and emergency. Are they getting equipment they need . My sister is a consultant in bradford. She lives with family and my elderly mum because of all this, she said to move out of the family house, into an empty friends house. She doesnt wa nt to an empty friends house. She doesnt want to put my mum at risk of the virus. She is living on our own, going to work. Thats the reality for a lot of nhs workers. The problem is, up until now, the only thing she said to protect yourself from potential coronavirus patients isa from potential coronavirus patients is a paper mask and a pair of rubber gloves. That doesnt offer the right protection and 11 people in her department are off, including three of the consultants with viral symptoms. She is well at the moment tha nkfully symptoms. She is well at the moment thankfully but were assume its a matter of time, unless she gets proper protective gear. Public Health England public Health England says a e workers will get the full protective gear but there are the full protective gear but there a re lots of the full protective gear but there are lots of frontline workers including gps were seeing patients who wont be offered that protective gearandi who wont be offered that protective gear and ijust who wont be offered that protective gear and i just offered who wont be offered that protective gear and ijust offered the muscular gloves which really doesnt protect us gloves which really doesnt protect us from anything. There is one thing needing to be protected and also our testing might help people get back to work. Testing, thankfully they are offering the now to the intensivists from the hospital and will roll it out to the wider team. Its really important because household contacts, if that had a temperature or a cough, we are then supposed to isolate for 14 days which takes a lot of people off the front line. At our surgery last week, we had five doctors off for that very reason. If they could have got tested, they could have come back to work earlier, and relieve the pressure on the nhs workers. Thank you so much for your time at such a busy time. We really appreciate it. Good to speak to you. And thank you for all the questions you sent in. To let you know what is happening timing wise, so it 7 10 a. M. , looking at the issue of testing which the doctor was talking about and then at eight 10am, looking at those various schemes run bya number of looking at those various schemes run by a number of people trying to support nhs staff wherever they might be in the country so do send in your questions and queries about those two subjects have got the Health Minister here at 730, Helen Whately, talking to us about the governments response and the chief medical officer of wales is going to be here at 8 30 a. M. , doctor frank atherton. We have a care minister. 0ne we have a care minister. One thing we certainly do is catch up with the sport, of which there is much. Sally has the headlines. Good morning to you and everybody at home. We not reporting on sport that is actually happening at the moment but i can bring renew developments from the world of sport. We have had last few hours from harry kane, something quite remarkable. He said there is a real chance of this premier league to not be completed. He said it shouldnt happen at all. Kane said we need to try to finish the season, but there needs to be a point where enough is enough. He thought the limit was probably the end ofjune and that if the campaign wasnt completed by then, the premier league should just look forward to the next season. Italys sports minister is planning to extend the ban over there for games and all competitions in the country through all of april. The current nationwide lockdown is due to expire on friday but is likely to be extended. Vincenzo spadafora said that talks about restarting serie a football on may 3rd were unrealistic with some clubs pushing to restart training as soon as this week. Spadafora says hes hoping serie a officials will now show a serious desire to change. Meanwhile, barcelona say theyve delivered 30,000 masks to the catalonia government to help fight coronavirus. The masks were ordered from china via one of the clubs Business Partners and will be distributed to nursing homes. The british boxer Anthony Yarde says his father has died after contracting coronavirus. The 28 year old light heavyweight has urged people to stay at home, saying his father had been fit with no Health Issues before becoming ill. Yarde was due to fight Lyndon Arthur in april, but the event has been delayed untiljuly. There was that wonderful moment last week when we all stood on our doorsteps and applauded the nhs. Well, now some of golfs big names have paid tribute to all those involved in the fight against coronavirus. This is their tribute to all of those doing their best at the moment. This is a message to all of you at the moment. I am not your hero. Our heroes other doctors and nurses. Doctors and food producers. Our heroes are cleaning our streets and keeping us safe. They are all of the essential workers that we take for granted. Please help our heroes and follow the advice of the World Health Organization and respective governments around the world. Health Organization and respective governments around the world. If we can do that, we can save lives and become heroes. Brilliant to see from them, wasnt it . Now we know keeping fit under lockdown is a real challenge and even harder if you have kids in the house. Take a look at this for some inspiration, maybe. Double 0lympic gold medallist max whitlock has the answer. Look just what you need. Hes recruited daughter willow into his regular indoor exercise routines. Willow looks to be quite enjoying herself. Maybe she is part of the kit a bit. I think this might need a little more testing if you have teenagers, but great to see. And coming up later in the programme we will be talking to Marcus Rashford after 8 30am this morning. I love those pictures. Thats absolutely adorable. Thank you, sally, for bringing a little bit of iy sally, for bringing a little bit of joy to the programme. If you are keen on those online exercise classes there are all sorts of options available. There really are. So, it is 6 48am. One of the biggest problems faced by hospitals, care homes and other buildings during the coronavirus pandemic, is cleaning rooms properly after someone has tested positive. 0ur reporter Duncan Kennedy has been given access to a company which is carrying out coronavirus deep cleaning across the uk. He sent us this report. When its buildings, not people, that need to be cleaned, this is how you kill coronavirus. A special chemical spray that destroys all biological matter, including covid 19. We were given access to a small team from hampshire that has become one of the uks leading units working against the virus. By using the fog fogging system with micro misting 49, we are sanitising the entire building and any bio hazards. We are currently getting two or three callouts every single day so important is the whole idea of safety. Even is going to his workshop here requires protective clothing. Jim demonstrated how the droplets no wider than a human hair must reach every pa rt wider than a human hair must reach every part of a room. And what does this involve . Applying formula 49, we are saturating the environment as it falls into every surface. 0nce the fogging is finished, rooms can be opened to people after ten minutes. The chemical production will keep the virus at bay for up to five weeks. What we do to prepare to go to work. The team members who create and spray the formula are fully aware of the dangers of coronavirus. It is very frightening. The work has kind of taken over the whole world. But when we go into a job, we are wearing the very best year you can possibly get. I archly feel safer going to work than i do walking out on the street. In the past week, the team have been everywhere from a London Hospital to a portsmith care home. 18 hour days, driven by professionalism and pride. To be out there with the thought we are actually protecting people and helping to stop this virus is actually quite a proud thing for me to do, yes. Covid19 leaves its mark on people and places, this team says they will only stop when the virus has been removed. Duncan kennedy, bbc news. The rent to own company brighthouse is reportedly on the brink of collapse the latest business victim of the coronavirus pandemic. Ninas been looking into this for us. Whats going on, nina . Good morning. Im getting used to my new position now, i quite like the isolation, actually. I dont know about you, but in the old world, one of my favourite things to do was to get a potter on the high street. But we just cant do that anymore so there is an inevitable impact on businesses. We are starting to see the ramifications. Were talking about brighthouse here the largest rent to own company in the country. So customers pay a weekly fee to rent things like tvs, fridges and sofas. Eventually they own it outright. It allows people access to products even if they cant afford to buy them outright but does mean they pay lots of interest. Like the majority of Retail Businesses all the Brighthouse Stores are currently closed. Plus of course with thousands of people facing a drop in their incomes they will inevitably be facing problems with some customers keeping up payments. But it has been in trouble for a while. In april last year the amount of interest a customer could pay on a product was capped at the value of that product meaning brighthouse couldnt make as much money. Great news for consumers. Plus, they are also in the midst of paying hundreds of thousands of customers compensation after authorities said they had been irresponsible with some of their customers. Coronavirus appears to be the final straw. As it does for Many Companies. We expect the company to say it is going into Administration Later today. That means they will either look for a new buyer or shut down completely. So what does that mean for customers . Customers locked into deals will continue to pay those weekly fees but the money will go to administrators. As the people taking compensation claims as they might not get the full amount, that will be down to administrators. The company does also employ 2500 people, worrying times for those people, worrying times for those people, but if they cant find a buyer, it looks inevitable those jobs will sadly be lost, louise. And nina, there are other companies in trouble, arent there . It is inevitable, because we cant get out there and spend money on the same way. So it will be a really difficult time for thousands of businesses, especially those who, like brighthouse were already in trouble. Laura ashley has already entered administration. Restaurant group chiquito has permanently closed. Carluccios is expected to follow. Mountain warehouse which sells Outdoor Clothing says it is considering widespread redundancies. Then there are the airlines. Flights have been almost entirely grounded because of the virus. Virgin atlantic and loganair have both said theyre going to need government help. And that is in order to survive. The chancellor now has ruled that out so they will have to look at every other option possible. We do not know the full impact on the Public Health of this virus from this virus, and we dont know the full impact on the economy because of this virus. Its just like the Prime Minister said, how this virus. Its just like the Prime Ministersaid, how things this virus. Its just like the Prime Minister said, how things will get worse before they get better, it is probably the same with the economy. I think that is a fair assessment. Thank you. Its hard to be certain about anything at the moment. We will be here 6am every morning as long as we possibly can. We will be here and naga and charlie. With everyone over 70 advised to stay indoors, coronavirus has meant a huge change in lifestyle for older people. Among them is 94 year old d day veteran and fundraiser extraordinaire harry billinge. Friend of breakfast we can call him, i think. Earlier this month he received an mbe for the tens of thousands of pounds hes raised for a memorial to the british veterans who died in normandy. Tim muffetts been in touch to see how hes getting on. D day veteran harry billinge, mbe, has faced formidable enemies before. At 94 years old he is at home in cornwall, keeping coronavirus at bay. Hey, harry, how are you doing . Um im feeling very, very well indeed. And i dont take any chances, im just sitting in my arms are, igot chances, im just sitting in my arms are, i got the fire on and some light reading, i got a lovely hotbed with a blanket, so im really co mforta ble with a blanket, so im really comfortable and quite grateful to everybody being very kind to me. Normally, you are out fundraising. How hard are you finding it to stay indoors . Its been very difficult because i felt a bit guilty. I ought to be out and about. Thats about £35, harry. The other day, i was doing well, in the army i was good at obeying orders. My mind is free, ican be at obeying orders. My mind is free, i can be anywhere. Youve faced many enemies in your time. How would you rate coronavirus as an enemy . Its a very good thing to draw people together to realise we have got ourselves and other people, notjust ourselves. People who want isolation, whether it is shopping who are in isolation and want help, whether it is shopping, its marvellous people are rallying about. Its like the war years, everybody mucked in, which is great. All of our breakfast view is want to wish you the best. Do you have anything to say to them . Dont get dragged down, stay positive. If you cant look after look with yourself, you cant live with anybody. From all of our viewers, very best wishes and stay well. The people from the bbc have been very kind to me personally, so thank you very much indeed. He is so great. So many great messages. Remember the good days. And remember to be thankful as well. Wise words as ever from harry billinge. Theres a slight change to the programme this morning, theres no Regional News. We dont know how long that will be. Carol has the weather at 27 minutes past and 57 minutes past. We are late better get cracking. There is afair bit late better get cracking. There is a fair bit of cloud around today but not as windy as yesterday. We have some showers and more of us was the hours throughout the day. High pressure is in charge our weather and if anything it slipped a little bit further south. Now, that has had a very subtle change in wind direction, so instead of coming from the arctic, it is coming from the atlantic, not quite as good a direction for us but dont be full. It will feel cold if you are outside. What we have is a fair bit of cloud, as i mentioned. Showers across the north west of scotland, showers and ease, if you already the west, and we will see further showers throughout the day. The wind is not as noticeable as it was yesterday except through the english channel, particularly the Channel Islands where we will only see highs of seven degrees today, so it will feel quite cold. These circles indicate the average wind speeds. Gusts of course will be more than that. These are our temperatures of roughly 8 11 degrees, and when you add on the wind if you are exposed to it, it will feel cooler than that. Through this evening and overnight, still quite cloudy, a few showers around. If anything, the wind continuing to ease down a touch. There will be some clearance in the sky but we are anticipating any problems with ross because where we have the clear skies it will be windy and where we have the cloud, that will prevent the frost from forming. Although we mightjust see the odd pocket in sheltered glands, for example. Through the course of tomorrow it will still be fairly cloudy except for in the south, particularly in the south east where we will see the lions share of the sunshine. There will be a few showers dotted around the north and west of scotland. But with the wind continuing to come down, it wont feel quite as cold although temperature values will be similar and the temperature is actually below average for this stage at the end of march. Of course by then well be heading into aprilfor wednesday and we are looking up again, a largely dry day, a lot cloud around, some breaks in the cloud, a weather front coming cloud around, some breaks in the cloud, a weatherfront coming in across the north of scotland will introduce some rain and temperatures picking up down this is closed where it has been so cold. As we had into wednesday from thursday and there you can see the weather front sink further south with some snow and ice bars really squeezing. Isobars. There will be some snow and rain in the forecast, a little milder later but i will have more in half an hour. This we good morning. Welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today 20,000 ex nhs staff return to the service to help fight coronavirus the figure is revealed by the Prime Minister in a message recorded from isolation. One thing i think Coronavirus Crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society. His comments come as englands deputy chief medical officer warns it could be at least six months before life in the uk returns to normal. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in less than seven days and is expected to go into production next week. In the us, donald trump extends social distancing guidelines to the end of april. The pressure builds on supermarkets to stay well stop can deliver efficiently. I will be talking to the boss of morrisons about what that means for their staff, customers and the companys future. Its monday 30th march. Our top story. 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help the fight against coronavirus, according to the Prime Minister. Borisjohnson, whos self isolating after contracting the virus, made the announcement in a video online. It comes after one of the governments top medical advisers warned it could be at least six months until life in the uk returns to normal. This morning well hear from the social care minister and well be looking at efforts to support nhs workers as they prepare for the challenges ahead. Rich preston has a roundup of the latest developments. Well also be its been a week since Boris Johnson first said life in the uk will have to be severely restricted but the message from britains deputy chief medical officer at sundays downing street press briefing was clear. We need to keep that lid on and then gradually we will be able to hopefully adjust some of the social distancing measures and gradually get us all back to normal. So i think three weeks for review, two or three months to see whether weve really squashed it, but about a 3 6 months, ideally, and lots of uncertainty in that. Tweeting from isolation after testing positive for the virus, borisjohnson said the policy was still to delay the spread of the disease and to reduce the strain on the nhs. We are going to do it, we are going to do it together. One thing i think Coronavirus Crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society. The uk coronavirus death toll passed 1,000 over the weekend. On sunday, it was announced 209 people died in a single 24 hour period. British households will get a letter from the Prime Minister this week in which hell remind people to stay at home and protect the nhs and with one clear message things will get worse before they get better. The uk government has promised to ramp up Virus Testing in the uk, particularly amongst nhs staff amid pressure to ensure adequate protective equipment for those on the frontline. Downing street says measures are in place to keep supplies going to the nhs using the armed forces when needed. The Scottish Government says its delivered 34 million items of protective equipment to hospitals across the country and eight weeks worth are going to be delivered upfront to gp surgeries this week. 750,000 people have volunteered to help the nhs during the coronavirus pandemic, three times the original target. As work continues on the emergency nhs nightingale temporary hospital at londons excel centre. And the news that easyjet and virgin have written to some of their staff to ask them to work at the medical facility. With hundreds of flights cancelled, the airlines say their staff, many of whom are first aid trained and whove already had security checks carried out on them, can provide vital, nonclinical help to hard pressed nhs staff. Rich preston, bbc news. 0ur Political Correspondent Jessica Parker is in westminster for us now. Jessica with the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary both working from home having being diagnosed with coronavirus, what impact will that have on the governments response this week . I think its interesting, you noticed im sure how the Prime Minister in that video that we saw a clip of a moment ago, from self isolation in downing street. He was ina suit isolation in downing street. He was in a suit and attire, trying to hammer home the message that he is still up at about, still trying to co ordinate the governments efforts to tackle the virus. He did sound a little horse of course but images over the weekend of him chairing government meetings remotely from within his downing street flat. The downing street press conference happens on a daily basis, we are not likely to see the Prime Minister ta ke likely to see the Prime Minister take that. A succession of other ministers, so that will continue today. More broadly for the week ahead, will be a huge focus on testing. Obviously the government has been criticised by some brits approach to testing. The Cabinet Office minister ramping up testing. Top priority to test those frontline nhs social care workers. Also a focus on the distribution of personal protective equipped and for those same people. Also that letter we heard about over the weekend. Sent to households across the country. That will land on doormats over the coming days warning things are going to get worse before they get out of. The government making it clear they would consider further restrictions if they think its necessary in one domain takeaway is from the weekend, you will be seeing it on the front pages of a lot of the papers this morning, is what the deputy chief medical officer said about how long the restrictions could last its a moving target but it could be up to six months before we returned to normal. It depends on our behaviour. That could be some adjustments to measures. See what impact this has. The overall message is the restrictions to some extent could be with us for some time to come. Thats it about less than half an hour. The Spanish Government has told all non essential workers to stay at home for the next eleven days, as part of tighter coronavirus restrictions. Six and a half thousand people in spain have died more than in any country except italy. 0ur reporter gavin lee has been monitoring the situation across europe from brussels. Gavin whats the latest . Around 380,000 people have now been confirmed to have coronavirus across europe and there is an old pattern which may give a sense of the advanced countries in terms of the number of cases and how far they are ahead. Uk 20,000, france, 40,000, germany, 60,000, spain, 80,000 in italy, 100,000 cases. In italy, 10,000 of those cases have died. Italian Health Officials have told bbc that peak will come to an end and drop over the next week within 710 and drop over the next week within 7 10 days. In spain, new meshes, similarto 7 10 days. In spain, new meshes, similar to what italy has. In food, in pharmacies, in medicine. Then you have to stay at home. In france, the tgv has special trains running from the east, the worst hit, to the south, transporting coronavirus patients since yesterday and in germany, where theyve gone, 30,000 60,000 cases. Authorities are debating whether to track where people are moving, if they have coronavirus, to pinpoint locations around them and quarantined them. Its been muted in some Eastern European countries but critics say controversial, disproportionate and could amount to spying. Very interesting to discuss as well. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in just a few days. The device, which has been developed in collaboration with the mercedes formula one team, delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. Its a small device that could make a big difference. Known as Continuous Positive Airway pressure, or cpap, it pushes oxygen into the lungs, keeping them open, making it easier to breathe. Theyre already used in the nhs but are in short supply so a team modified and improved an existing design in less than a week which has now been approved for use by health regulators. Normally medical Device Development would take years and in this instance weve been able to do it in days because weve cleverly thought about how we can go back to existing devices and models, reverse engineer them and then engage with our Industry Partners to manufacture them at scale. This demonstration was done at University College London Hospital, which is now using the device to treat covid 19 patients. I sincerely think it may actually save many lives by preventing patients from needing to go onto a ventilator and again saving that vital resource for the very, very severely ill. Every Second Counts in motor racing. Here, mercedes formula 1 partnered with doctors and healthca re engineers on a medical device that could be mass produced. This is a great example of how the nhs, universities and industry are working together at extraordinary pace to meet the challenge posed by coronavirus. If the trials of this device go well, then mercedes formula 1 says it can produce up to 1,000 of these a day. In italy, around half of covid 19 patients given cpap have avoided the need for intensive care, and unlike mechanical ventilators, theres no need for them to be sedated. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Donald trump has announced that the restrictions imposed in the United States to limit the spread of coronavirus will be extended until the end of april. President had previously said he hoped america could re open for business at easter. Now mr trump says the country will be well on the way to recovering byjune the first. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports this is how americas normally bustling city centres look today. Chicago, empty. Philadelphia, deserted. And new york city, unusually quiet. Everyone ordered to stay at home except essential workers like nurses. And this is how its going to stay. No more talk of getting back to work by easter. Now President Trump says social distancing guidelines will be extended to the end of april to slow the spread of covid 19. The peak, the highest point, of death rates, remember this, is likely to hit in two weeks. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won, that would be the greatest loss of all. But many more americans are expected to die in the weeks ahead. Dr anthony fauci, the head of the president s medical task force, says the disease could kill more than 100,000 people in the us. The idea we may have as many cases played a role in our decision to make sure we dont do something prematurely, and pull back when we should be pushing. The president s advisors say it could have been much worse, with up to 2 million americans at risk of dying if drastic measures hadnt been taken. If we could hold that down, as were saying, to 100,000, its a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100,000 and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job. New york is still the epicentre of the outbreak in the us where some Health Workers are saying there is a desperate shortage of medical supplies. President trump has accused hospitals of hoarding Vital Equipment such as ventilators, which he said should be released for wider use. Peter bowes, bbc news. For the last week weve all been looking for ways to amuse ourselves at home, and Justin Bieber and his wife hayley are no different. The canadian singer posted a video on twitter of himself completing an assault course. He starts on the sofa moves across several chairs then on to a skateboard and then a foam roller. I wouldnt recommend that at home. The chances of falling off a high stop he ends his challenge by attempting to jump from a foam roller stop a foam roller onto his bed and misses. Well hes got plenty of time to practise his tricks. Another foam roller. He anotherfoam roller. He is also wearing a onesie, which i feel the need to mention. The big finish, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. Its nice to know hes not perfect. There you go. Hopefully that has put a smile on your face. There you go. Hopefully that has put a smile on yourface. It is 7 15am. Thank you for being with us today. Frontline hospital staff in england are starting to be tested to see whether they have coronavirus. Previously, only seriously ill patients in were being screened, leading to criticism from nhs staff that they were being left unprotected. From today, Critical Care doctors and nurses in england will be checked if they show symptoms or live with people who do. Tests for a e staff, paramedics, gps and social care staff are expected to follow. Frontline staff in scotland and wales are already being screened, while in Northern Ireland testing also begins today. Joining us to discuss this is gp dr chaand nagpaul, the chair of the council of the British Medical Association and the president of the Royal College of physicians, professor andrew goddard. Thank you for spending time with us this morning. Andrew, can we come to you first, professor gothard . The amount of workforce currently off because they are showing symptoms, how many is that . Its around 20 30 , so one in four people. With testing, what difference would that make to those numbers particularly . I think would make a big difference when we get there. I have lots of collea g u es when we get there. I have lots of colleagues at the moment you are sitting at home with Family Members who have symptoms. They themselves dont have symptoms, they are trying to get back to work. So if we can get people back on the floor, that would be brilliant. And doctor nagpaul, what are you hearing about the difference when people are getting tested . As you heard, this is only now being announced, starting effectively today, so until now, what we have experienced in hospitals as professor goddard has said but also in general practice is significant said but also in general practice is significa nt staff said but also in general practice is significant staff shortages, and it isntjust doctors, its nurses, front line staff, who have been self isolating, front line staff, who have been self isolating, often feeling well, but a Family Member may have a cough or but a Family Member may have a cough ora but a Family Member may have a cough or a temperature but a Family Member may have a cough ora temperature and but a Family Member may have a cough or a temperature and unable to come to work because they havent been tested. I think what is also important to remember is that this time of year there is a large number of patients who would ordinarily have a cough or temperature with nothing to do with covid 19. So, if we can test people. I can still hear you. If you can test people that would make a huge difference to the whole health service, will it . 0h, doctor nagpaul, we unfortunately cant hear you. But lets talk to professor goddard about that. How much of a difference do you think this testing will make on the whole service . Patients will be seeing theirgp, service . Patients will be seeing their gp, often talking to them on their gp, often talking to them on the telephone. But the crunch point is in Emergency Departments, ambulances and Critical Care. Those are the three key areas to focus on to begin with. Then hopefully, as we have heard, that will broaden out to other parts, adding social care as important. I think everybody is really feeling the pressure now. In my own hospital, wards are falling over like dominoes to become covert cohorts and their is hardly anyone in the hospital who isnt managing covid 19 patients in some form or another covid cohorts, so we can get everyone back in the regular roles as soon as possible, that would be best. We will try to get doctor nagpaul with us soon. There seem to be two tests, have a good coronavirus now, and have i had it in the recent past. In conjunction with each other, why are they helpful to enable us to buy this disease . They are two very different tests. How they got it now is the swa b test tests. How they got it now is the swab test you will see the swab to the nose and back of the throat. It stings a bit and it isnt very nice but is the most accurate test at the moment to see if you have got the virus at the moment. The other virus in our test being developed at the moment, it isnt widespread, just validating them to make sure they are accurate and works, that is a blood test which could be a pinprick. Have you had an infection in the past, most likely in the recent past, that means we may be able to use them in a different way. It helps us to really understand how the virus is moving through our community. One of the things we learn in china was that we think the family unit, households, i really really important mechanism for spread. And its the main reason why we have gone for social distancing and really strongly encouraging people to stay home. The more families mingle with each other, the more the virus will be spread. And i think the blood test is as much of a tool to understand that and help us fight it. Professor, can i pick up a thought with you there as well. The information you have is if you have had it, that you shouldnt get it ain . Had it, that you shouldnt get it again . But what do we know about it . We think that is very unlikely that you will get it again in the near future. Who knows what will happen as time passes and how long that immunity people will have after the initial infection, how long that will last. Getting occasional reports, literally a handful, from china where people may have been reinfected, having had it before, but this isnt a widespread phenomenon on, it isnt something we are getting occasional reports, literally a handful, from china where people may have been reinfected, having had it before, but this isnt a widespread phenomenon on, it isnt something were phenomenon on, it isnt something we re really phenomenon on, it isnt something were really worried about. Normal coronavirus, one in eight of us will get common cold every year, we get that each year, we get the common cold easier because our immune system cold easier because our immune syste m d ro ps cold easier because our immune system drops a bit and the virus changes a bit. So i think with this particular coronavirus that is causing covid 19, that is likely to last for a while and people should be immune against this current outbreak. Very helpful advice there, professor. Lets get back to nagpaul you has joined us professor. Lets get back to nagpaul you hasjoined us after a professor. Lets get back to nagpaul you has joined us after a few technical difficulties. We will be speaking to the uk minister Helen Whately in about ten minutes time. Whately in about ten minutes time. What would you like to ask her . What would you put to her this morning around this testing issue . would you put to her this morning around this testing issue . I would like to know when all healthcare staff will be able, so while this is beginning in hospitals, what we know isa beginning in hospitals, what we know is a large number of practices over the last few weeks have had very shortstaffed because the staff have had covid or were self isolating. I would like to know when this will be extended to all sectors of the Healthcare Service because all of us are playing a part in trying to combat the disease. Professor goddard, are you beginning to see a comeback in people coming back to service . No, i knowa lot comeback in people coming back to service . No, i know a lot of collea g u es service . No, i know a lot of colleagues of mine have stepped back and want to come back in, i am looking forward to that but we should see that in the next week or two. We need to get them up to speed because people will be a little bit rusty. They will need some of skilling but there are lots of processes in place in which hospitals at the moment however that so its we shouldnt so it shouldnt take so long to get that upskilling. Doctor nagpaul, scotland and wales mark, they have testing that has already started. Why hasnt testing started earlier in england . Id dont know, because on the 16th of march, two weeks ago, we heard that the government was ramping up testing and prioritising healthcare workers. The Prime Minister announced that and two weeks on we are now Just Announced that and two weeks on we are nowjust starting testing. In those two weeks we have really recognise just how much the nhs has suffered in terms of staff shortages. So i havent got an explanation for the government but what i would say is it is really important not to delay this any further and make sure that this testing is available to all healthcare staff, certainly as i said earlier, while it is being focused at the moment and i understand why we are focusing on Critical Care staff, we do need this extended to all staff and certainly in general practices at the moment were still waiting testing. So i have a lot doctors contacting me saying they want to get back to work. It is affecting the service because gp practices are small units. If you have two doctors help isolating and two nurses, it effectively cannot run. So some practices are having to body with others, patients are having to be managed by other practices. It is having a huge impact and i think it is really important we see this testing widespread and really as of this moment now. There is no doubt this moment now. There is no doubt this is having a huge impact. I know you and doctor Adele Al Taylor has very sadly died. Yes, i think its fairto very sadly died. Yes, i think its fair to say that. We knew he was u nwell fair to say that. We knew he was unwell and was receiving support in leicester, so we were all hoping for the best, but in some ways we were prepared for the worst doctor adel altayar, it hit the trust a bit like a adel altayar, it hit the trust a bit likea train adel altayar, it hit the trust a bit like a train and it has brought home to everybody the seriousness of this outbreak and that the nhs and social ca re outbreak and that the nhs and social care workers outbreak and that the nhs and social ca re workers are outbreak and that the nhs and social care workers are literally putting their lives on the line to fight it. But we need to stick together about this. This is in some ways also a gelling moment and we will do this for him and continue to work as a trust and Healthcare Professionals to support our patients and fight covid 19. To support our patients and fight covid19. And im so sorry all of you, and thank you as well, everybody who is doing incredible work. I suppose one last question, because we have talked about it so much, professor, are you seeing the personal protective equipment now . Are you seeing that will protect all of you . Yes, there are always concerns about shortages and in some areas we are running short. We know the government are doing the best they can to get that to us. They are trying very hard. There is a global shortage of ppe but it is important we get that and we need to keep that tingle does it is good to talk about ventilators in the news, that is exciting and we need to keep that and it is good to talk about ventilators in the news. That is exciting and it is good to see that. Thank you for your time here on bbc brea kfast. Thank you for your time here on bbc breakfast. Of all of the things that we are learning about, it is a lot, isnt it . The questions you have asked us is changing over the next few days and last few days, but one thing that has come out of all of this is our respect and understanding of the amazing job so many healthcare understanding of the amazing job so many healthca re professionals understanding of the amazing job so many Healthcare Professionals do. The more you speak to them, the more you understand what they are going through in the circumstances they are facing at the moment. You just realise their jobs are facing at the moment. You just realise theirjobs are so essential. There are some brilliant people working right across the industry. It is 7 27am. Some news on the last few minutes or so, easyjet has grounded its entire fleet of aircraft due to the coronavirus pandemic. The airline had been helping to repatriate british passengers stranded abroad but the last Repatriation Flight landed on sunday, easyjet says it cannot be certain when commercial flights will be start. So, some breaking news for you this morning. If you havejust switched on bbc breakfast, there is a bit ofa switched on bbc breakfast, there is a bit of a change the way we had of to the programme this morning. 0ne to the programme this morning. One of the things which is changing from today is there is no Regional News. We will no longer be sang for the moment saying during this programme, time for the news, travel and weather wherever you are, because you will have to get your Regional News during this show either online, through the bbc website, or on local radio. Instead, website, or on local radio. Instead, we have carol at 27 past. This morning it is a chilly start of the day if you havent yet ventured out. There is cloud around as well but it wont be quite as windy as it was yesterday. Mind you, if you are exposed to the wind that is there, it will still feel cold. You can see as we have gone through the night, where we have had the showers, some of those have been wintry on mountain tops and as we go through the course of this morning we will see a very similar distribution of showers. Still the chatter could be wintry in the tops the mountains but there is a subtle change in the weather. High pressure is still dominating but it has moved a little bit allowing the wind to come from the atlantic instead of the cold arctic where it has been coming from during the last couple of days. So a cloudy start, some breaks granted there will be some sunshine around as well. We have the showers across the north west and they will carry on through the day across northern and western parts of scotland, and further inland you could catch one or two. For england, further inland you could catch one ortwo. For england, we further inland you could catch one or two. For england, we are not immune to those showers either, neither in wales, the midlands, east anglia or cairns. Not all of us will catch those showers. Temperature wise, nothing to write home about. Although it isnt as windy as yesterday, if you are in the wind, it is still going to feel cold. You will need to wrap up warmly if you are heading out to do your exercise. This evening and overnight, still a bit of cloud around, or two showers but the wind continuing to ease stop these are our temperatures, between 2 4d across the board. We arent having any problems with frost, you might see the odd pocket in sheltered areas, but that is it, too much cloud or too windy tomorrow we start off, spot the difference. Still cloud around, still a fair few showers, brighter skies across southern areas. Particularly in the south east, we are expecting to see some sunshine. Temperature wise, similarto some sunshine. Temperature wise, similar to today but not feeling as cold because the wind isnt going to be as strong. For wednesday, well, still a lot of cloud around, actually. There will be some breaks and sunshine coming through, different in that we have a weather front coming in across the north of scotland that will introduce some rain. If you are down the east coast, look at that temperature, higher than it has been for quite a while. And with less wind, it will feel much better as well. For thursday, a weather front sinks southwards, its a cold one so we have cold air coming in behind it, showers to the cause of the day, the tops of the hills and mountains will turn wintry but had a bit there is still going to be quite a lot of cloud, some brighter breaks but temperature is a little bit better. Were looking at five in lerwick, still cold, but as we come further south, 10 12 degrees. And as louise and dan were staying at the top of this broadcast, the weather timings have changed. I will be back in about an hour. We will try and keep to time carol. We will try and keep to time carol. We will try and keep to time carol. We will do our very best. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help the fight against coronavirus, according to the Prime Minister. It comes after one of the governments top medical advisers warned it could be at least six months until life returns to normal. More than 1,000 people have now died with coronavirus in the uk. Yesterday it was announced 209 people had died in a single 24 hour period. I thinkjust to be clear on what i have actually said, i havent said we will be on lockdown for six months or definitely in the best place possible in two or three weeks. The important thing is, this isa weeks. The important thing is, this is a moving targets. We manage all our care through our care. Sensibly ina our care through our care. Sensibly in a controlled way and that is what we are aiming for. The issue about the 2 three weeks is, there is a time lag between when somebody gets the disease and become symptomatic and potentially transmitted and very sadly for those people who become ill, they usually are ill for a period of time and then deteriorate in their Health Status. Sadly some of them will end up dying in their time periods for that. One flower well we do our intervention. If we. Shopping on monday we wouldnt expect any of this started to change on tuesday. We would expect to start seeing footfall dropping. New infections dropping over the next week. Good start to see debts dropping over the following week. Implication there is we actually anticipate that our members will get worse over the next week. Then we are looking to see whether we have managed to push that curve down and see a decline. Issue about the timeframe is really important. This is not to say we would be incomplete lockdown for months but it means that as a nation we have to be really, really responsible and keep doing what we are all doing until were sure we can gradually start lifting various interventions which are likely to be spaced based on the science and our data until we gradually come back to a normal way of living and that may mean we have a few bumps on the way rather than the nice curves youve seen in graphs in the media or on our charts. Its really important we all do that together. We will not have succeeded until we get right to the end of the site break. We understand how the disease transmits. About the pattern of transmission. We will then have more insight into how to manage that tail end and we can provide more information than. That was the governments Daily Press Briefing yesterday. Lets speak now to the care minister, Helen Whately, who joins us from her constituency in kent. Thank you for coming live on bbc brea kfast. Thank you for coming live on bbc breakfast. All sorts of questions to get through. A bit of clarity on the timeline yesterday, the lockdown measures. We could have restrictive measures. We could have restrictive measures in place for six months. Certainly we know that we will need to be taking steps for some time. The whole aim is to control the spread of the virus and flat the peak so the nhs can cope and give life saving care needed for those who need it. As we heard from doctor jenny harris yesterday, that means these measures may be in place for some time. We are learning all the time about the virus and that will influence how long and what we also know is that in two or three weeks, we will look again at the latest measures, and how that is making. The important thing now is that we have government guidelines. Do you feel that there is a positive message to go along side that feeling . There might be a lack of normality. Following those government guidelines, can have a real impact on the amount of time we all have to spend on the way were spending it the moment. Exactly. We will be looking at the effect of the government guidelines and the duration of them but i cant emphasise enough how important it is the people to stay at home, only go out when you have to, to get food and essential items like medicine if you can. Avoid unnecessary activity and exercise once a day. Really limit your trips outside and stay at home. Id like to speak about the issue of testing. We are getting a lot of questions from viewers. They are all asking those same questions. We spoke to the chair of the council, and a professorfrom we spoke to the chair of the council, and a professor from the copier college of physicians and the point the pair of them made the minister said on the 16th of march, testing for Healthcare Professionals was a top priority in two weeks on, its only really starting now. Can you explain why there has been a hold up . You explain why there has been a holdup . Workers been going on to increase our testing capacity. Thats been absolutely flat out to get us to the point where over this weekend, we began to Start Testing front line nhs workers and rolling that out across to more nhs workers and also to social care staff and other staff and front line services. Particularly focusing on the services in places where weve got higher absence rates and we know we can higher absence rates and we know we ca n test higher absence rates and we know we can test people and they test negative for coronavirus, they can come back to work. That will be the focus. Within three weeks, we expect to be reaching 25,000 tests per day. How realistic is that . I put it out there and i said because its something we actually believe we can achieve. We are working really hard because we know how much people want testing and what a difference testing and what a difference testing could make. Not everybody comes back testing positive for coronavirus. With the guidance we got now, if you have the symptoms, 14 days. Really hoping to identify those who do not need to be in isolation. While we behind other countries in terms of the testing we are able to do and the timing . What is the issue . Weve done hundreds of thousands of test, one of the leading countries in the world for testing. Weve made good progress. Asi testing. Weve made good progress. As i said, getting to a point to test front line staff and rolling it out to other staff over the days and weeks ahead. In terms of those other staff, the gp was telling us, we understand why Critical Care staff need to be tested as a priority. The gp practices have been hugely affected. This is the chair of the council of the British Medical Association seeing their instances. When one gp is unable to work because they are awaiting tests, that has a huge impact on the gp service. Whether its in hospitals, pharmacies testing, care homes, home ca re pharmacies testing, care homes, home care providers. Across the health and social care set the, employs organisations want testing, whether that would be a help. The party protesting is to make sure where theres lots of stuff off sick, to make sure we have enough staff to give safe care and keep people safe so that is the prioritisation. What are the questions were getting from viewers is home testing kits. Do you have any idea about how long the might take to be available. As well as the test of the moment which is to test coronavirus. We also want to have an ability to test our people have an ability to test our people have had it, the antibody test. They could be in much larger numbers and it could be a really good thing, lots of work going on to get that testing as well. Lots of questions were getting this morning about personal protective equipped into. Weve been speaking to lots of front line workers, talking about the gardens. Healthcare workers have said the current guidance is not good enough and should be available for all staff working with patients. Is that the guidance on ppe, something you are looking at changing . I pick up on the guidance and it is essential that those the front line have the ppe they need from when they doing close contact clinical activities. We been working incredibly hard on that. 0ver clinical activities. We been working incredibly hard on that. Over the last two weeks, 170 million items of ppe went out across the nhs and social care and gp providers and registered care providers, including 25 million masks. A huge effort going out. A logistical exercise. A huge call for that equipment. I know that you want to have very clear guidelines. We are looking again to make sure those guidelines are clear enough. Ive heard from quite a few parts of the public services, and some businesses. When actually the activities as staff are doing, so we have to make sure the guidance is clear. Where you do need it and you dont need it. What do you feel when you hear from gps dont need it. What do you feel when you hearfrom gps and dont need it. What do you feel when you hear from gps and those working across the healthcare profession that they are frightened to go to work because of potential for contracting the virus. Some of them dont have that personal protective equipment they need, they feel, to do thejob to equipment they need, they feel, to do the job to the best of their ability while being able to protect themselves from this virus . Firstly, we had to make sure those in the front line have the ppe they need. I also want to say, a sincere thank you to all the doctors. Social care workers who are at the front line. Ca re of workers who are at the front line. Care of the people with coronavirus and keeping those Vital Services going. A huge thank you because many people are working at home day in and day out, those healthcare workers are going to work sincere thank you to them for what they are doing. Josie has contacted us saying, we have no masks at the local authority and stuff on the front line in home care, care and the community are asking whether they should wear masks or not during this 2 week period. I suppose that comes back to what you are saying about guidance. She says any advice would be help for. All registered providers of social care, registry and co providers of social care, registry and c0 see have over the last week received their drop, initial drop of personal protective equipment. They have a Contact Number to follow up if they need further supplies. I would urge the employer she works quarter make sure they follow that. And as you say, hand in hand, we have to make sure the guidance is clear. We would refer her to the guidance that has been published on when you need to use ppe. Id also like to talk to about ventilation. Talking about testing and personal protective equipped winter. Lots of questions about the use of ventilators. Lots of manufacturers have expressed concern that they cant meet the deadline for the 30,000 ventilators, the figures set by the government. Is that a reliable figure . At the moment, we got 8000 ventilators in the nhs and another eight thousand on the way and there was tremendous response to the Prime Minister s call to manufacturers to make more ventilators, over 3000 responses to that. A Huge National effort, phenomenal and exciting. Its great to see more ventilators coming on line. All this is part of increasing the nhss capacity to look after those who need intensive care and need nhs care if they get a severe case of coronavirus. But this is one reason why the gardens are so clear to everybody, to stay at home if you can, unless you are somebody has to go to your place of work, stayed home as much as you can. This is all about flattening the peak. And looking after those who need it. We are talking about the collaboration between College Hospital and formula 1 mercedes to try and make a breeding aid. The plan is to roll that out i think, there is a thousand who say they can produce every single week if it goes ahead. How effective are some of those technological advances potentially for treating the virus Going Forward . Before any new piece of equipment is released it is tested to make sure can do the job released it is tested to make sure can do thejob it is meant to. That is done hand in hand with staff who are trained to operate the equipment. 0n the other part of what is going on is boosting the number of workers in the nhs. We have had fantastic news now over 20,000 doctors and nurses and other Healthcare Professionals have registered to return to the nhs, to return to work. I like to say thank you to those stepping forward to do that. This is all about creating the capacity to help those who need it. We appreciate the time you spent with us this morning. We understand you have a busy day ahead. Thank you to all of those questions you have been sending through on those main issues we looked out, on the issue of testing, personal protective equipment and some of those questions about ventilators as well. 0ne questions about ventilators as well. One of the issues is what is or isnt in the supermarkets. Lots of pressure on them. However they coping . Nina will give us a bit more. Good morning. Supermarket shopping is one of those activities we are still allowed to do. Essential food shopping only, and before these new social distancing measures came into place, we had already increased the amount of food we we re already increased the amount of food we were buying from supermarkets. Uk supermarkets were up nearly 20 for the week ending march 14. That was an extra 15 million food Shopping Trips at an increase of 10 on a normal week. Things seem to have calmed down a little bit, whether or not you have been to a supermarket since those measures were put in place, but still an enormous amount of pressure on supermarkets and their staff. Just how difficult is it . Lets speak to david potts, chief executive of morrisons, the uks chief executive of morrisons, the uks fourth biggest supermarket. Thank you for speaking to us at this incredibly busy time. I know you wa nt incredibly busy time. I know you want to make an announcement on food banks and we will come to that shortly. We have a question from a viewer first. Are you doing enough to protect frontline staff members, notjust from the to protect frontline staff members, not just from the virus but also from the frustration of some customers, which at times is spilling out into abuse . Well, to be honest, the public have been brilliant and so have our own people. Of course in these times, social distancing is a real challenge and we call for patients from the public, and as i say, they have been subclass call for patience. The plans you have hand sanitiser at each till, it is meaningful for the public. There are some behaviours instinctive to shoppers. I saw someone then across to pick up an apple, look at it and put it straight down again. How do you stop people behaving in a way thatis you stop people behaving in a way that is irresponsible, but not really conscious . I think we can all play our part in the measures to contain the virus and do the very best by the nation. Its only by playing our part that we will ever become well as quickly as we can. There is no exaggeration to say your staff have become almost before the Emergency Service in some ways. Do you think its time for them to have protective clothing . Our staff with ourselves, we follow the public Health England advised, we listen quite closely to authorities and we provide the opportunity to be protective at the tills. We have closed down many of them and it has become more of a self service business. Washing your hands and taking all of the social distancing measures, that is the advice we follow. And we intend to do our very best to play our part in feeding the nation. But there is an inevitable transience with your workforce, isnt there . People going off sick and having to recruit people quickly. How hard is it to make sure you dont become an environment for spreading the virus . Well, all of those measures and more and of course absence affects us the rest of the population. We continue to recruit, we continue to look for pickers and drivers and volunteers and our people have been absolutely top notch. Of course absence is up but that is why we are recruiting more people are not as wide we are taking the measures we are taking. It is very difficult at the moment to know for certain you are not recruiting somebody who is carrying the virus . Yeah, and so we are doing the virus . Yeah, and so we are doing the very best we can on what are very difficult circumstances. But as you say, the concept of being before the Emergency Services really something the company in the industry actually takes very seriously. We had an email from jill who asked about deliveries, lots of our viewers have. We logged on to morrisons to try five different delivery addresses across the country, but we couldnt get a delivery slot in the next three weeks. You said you are recruiting more staff, that happened weeks ago. When will we know we can get a slot to get food delivered to our homes . Well, we are making great progress with delivery slots, we are up 60 now from the situation before the virus, that is significant progress. We now have over 100 stores doing store pick and local delivery. So we are very store pick and local delivery. So we are very open minded. We are trying to fulfil the needs of consumers and particularly those who are vulnerable in society. Have a centre in bradford, a telephone sales operation telesales, and we had a food box programme. We werent sure what the demand would be on day one but we sold 8004 hours. We have ramped up from 11,000 to 20,000 a day we sold 8000 in four hours. We are aiming to get to 300,000 of those boxes in the next two weeks. There we must play our part, but already there are very significant increases in both slots that are available and the way we will feel what i would call remote orders in the end home shopping, not having to be done by computer. Time is of the essence, though, isnt it . Competition was being relaxed. Is it time to work more closely with other supermarkets, so sau and tesco could ta ke supermarkets, so sau and tesco could take a postcode and share deliveries say you . Take a postcode and share deliveries say you . It is something we will ta ke say you . It is something we will take on very seriously and working with the authorities we have already worked together well in my view. So we could see more of you working with other supermarkets. Lets talk about the food bank initiative. You are planning to relax the three items policy. How will that work . Well, we have always had a variable maximum cap on restricted sales. That is part of it, but we our as food makers, providing £10 million of food into our 500 stores so our Community Champions can help restart the nation has s food banks. For many people who use the feedback, thatis many people who use the feedback, that is their only store and this is a very important part of society. We will play our part so nobody is left behind. So if i am will play our part so nobody is left behind. So if am a will play our part so nobody is left behind. So if i am a customer going in tomorrow and i want to buy an extra tin of baked beans, i will be able to do that and with that in a food bank designated area . Exactly that. We have converted the cafes, which are currently operating into Community Hubs in parts to come and the pickup donation areas will be very visible from this morning in all of our stores. In the end it is the choice of the public, isnt it, if they are prepared to buy three, leave one, that would be terrific for the food banks, but as i say, were putting in £10 million. Relaxing four items into three, is that perhaps coming down a little bit, are they shopping in a more responsible way . I think its a dynamic situation. We have taken around 10,000 items of the cup, but that leaves us with 5000 still on. Very few items where we have gone from three to four, we have taken it off areas like canned soup and flower and we had increased wine from three bottles to six flour, but toilet paper, and milk, there are still maximum, so it is a fluid situation. It is a fluid situation overall, it is day by day, week by week, for everybody. What do you see the long term impact on your Business Model being . Is it too soon to say . Yeah customers have been remarkable and people have been unbelievable. The british Food Industry will emerge stronger as a result from the virus. David potts, thank you to all of your staff, yourself and all of the staff working in supermarkets across the country. Thank you very much. Good to have information from the frontline of the supermarkets. We have to change the programme at the moment, we will have carol, three minutes to the hour at 27 minutes past the hour. That is because we wont have the Regional News at those times anymore that you can get your original news online Regional News online and on the radio and website. We have had to make some changes because of the coronavirus outbreak. We promised you carol at 7 57 a. M. , but we are a bit early. Yeah its nice to see you, good you, bit early. Yeah its nice to see you, good morning. Some beautiful weather watchers pictures in this morning. Look at this from st andrews in five stop the forecast todayis andrews in five stop the forecast today is generally a cloudy one. Its not going to be as windy as it was its not going to be as windy as it was yesterday but it still will be quite windy for some, and if you are exposed to that wind, it will feel cold. And were at some scattered showers as well as we go through the early hours of this morning. And across the north west of scotland and eastern areas, on the top heels of some mountains on the tops of hills and some mountains, we have had especially cold weather. The direction of this High Pressure has sunka direction of this High Pressure has sunk a little further south, allowing the wind to come from the atlantic rather than straight down from the arctic. So, a lot of cloud first thing this morning, we still have showers, if anything they will push further west as we go through the day even into the afternoon we have a mixture of dried spells, some showers and a fair bit of cloud across scotland. Northern ireland, you could catch the odd shower as well but quite cloudy as well, same for Northern England. One or two brighter breaks but, a fair few showers. And in central and south Eastern England as well. Its also worth noting the uv levels are moderate. If you are taking exercise today outside, do better in mind. Temperatures are about 8 10 degrees, but in the wind it will feel colder than that. Through this evening and overnight once again it is fairly cloudy, still a few showers around. The wind is continuing to ease down and even though there will be some holes in this cloud, we are not expecting any widespread issues with rust. You may see one or two pockets but that is it, there is too much cloud and it is going to be too busy. Tomorrow we start on that note, again, fairly cloudy, brighter skies for the longest tomorrow will be across the south east of england. The wind continuing to come down and temperatures are similar to today but not feeling as cold because it will be as windy. 8 but not feeling as cold because it will be as windy 8 10 degrees. As we had from wednesday to thursday, were at against again subtle changes. We have some rain introduced, but a bit of cloud once again, not as windy, breezy conditions, but look at the temperature along the ease closed, 11 degrees. You havent seen that very well. Still not brilliant because wednesday is the first of april, of course, but better than it has been. For thursday, april, of course, but better than it has been. Forthursday, ourweather front sinks further south taking the rain with it. Its a cold front and behind it we see a return to colder conditions. This showers through the course of the day are increasingly turning wintry on the hills and mountains. South of that weather front we back into cloudy skies, yes, there will be some breaks and bringing highs of 11 12 as we pushed to the south. But only 5 nine as we move further north. It looks like at the moment as we are heading into the moment as we are heading into the weekend, it will turn a little milder but at the moment it is looking like probably the latter pa rt of looking like probably the latter part of the weekend. Ill have more details in half an hour. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today. 20,000 ex nhs staff return to the service to help fight coronavirus. The figure is revealed by the Prime Minister in a message recorded from isolation. One thing i think Coronavirus Crisis has already proved is there really is such a thing as society. His comments come as englands deputy chief medical officer warns it could be at least six months before life in the uk returns to normal. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in less than seven days and is expected to go into production next week. Easyjet grounds its entire fleet of planes. The airline says travel restrictions across europe mean it is no longer viable to fly any commercial aircraft and there is no certainty when they will re start. Making a difference in a World Without football Manchester United and England Forward Marcus Rashford talks to us about protecting children on Free School Meals during the Coronavirus Crisis. Its monday 30th march. Our top story. 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help the fight against coronavirus, according to the Prime Minister. Borisjohnson, whos self isolating after contracting the virus, made the announcement in a video online. It comes after one of the governments top medical advisers warned it could be at least six months until life in the uk returns to normal. Rich preston reports. Its been a week since borisjohnson first said life in the uk would have to be severely restricted, but the message from englands deputy chief medical officer on sundays downing street press briefing was clear. We need to keep that lid on and then gradually well be able to hopefully adjust some of the social distancing measures, and gradually get us all back to normal. So i think three weeks for review, two or three months to see whether we have really squashed it, with about three to six months, ideally, and lots of uncertainty in that. Tweeting from isolation after testing positive for the virus, borisjohnson said the policy was still to delay the spread of the disease and to reduce the strain on the nhs. We are going to do it, we are going to do it together. One thing i think Coronavirus Crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society. The uk coronavirus death toll passed 1000 over the weekend. On sunday, it was announced that 209 people in the uk had died in a single 24 hour period. The uk government has promised to ramp up a Virus Testing in the uk, particularly amongst nhs staff, amid pressure to ensure adequate protective equipment for those on the front line. Downing street says measures are in place to keep supplies going to the nhs, using the armed forces when needed. The Scottish Government says it has delivered 34 million items of protective equipment to hospitals across the country, and eight weeks worth are going to be delivered upfront to gp surgeries this week. 750,000 people have volunteered to help the nhs during the coronavirus pandemic, and 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work. Work is continuing on the temporary nhs Nightingale Hospital at londons excel centre, and news that easyjet and virgin have written to some of their staff to ask them to work at the medical facility. With hundreds of flights cancelled, the airlines say their staff could provide vital nonclinical help to hard pressed nhs staff. Rich preston, bbc news. We will be talking about that in about ten minutes. In the last half hour, the care minister Helen Whately told us the government was working hard to address the supply issues with protective equipment. 0ver over the last two weeks, 170 million items of ppe went out across nhs and social care, every hospital, every gp provider, to all registered care providers including over 25 million masks. A huge effort has been going out. It is a logistical exercise to get the stock to the front line when there has been a huge call for that equipment. And yes, i know that people want to have a very clear guidelines on when they should be using ppe, so we are looking again to make sure those guidelines are clear enough. 0ur Political Correspondent Jessica Parker is in westminster for us now. Good morning. There are big demands on the government at the moment, particularly about testing and personal protective equipment, the impact on the governments response at the moment with the Prime Minister sending out videos from isolation, no Health Secretary, matt hancock also in isolation, and so is professor christopher t. The big hitters in government at the moment are currently out the equation. Chris whitty. They may dispute they are out of the equation, we saw this video from borisjohnson equation, we saw this video from Boris Johnson yesterday, equation, we saw this video from borisjohnson yesterday, he posted it from isolation in his flat in downing street, dressed up in a suit and tie purposefully, his voice was and tie purposefully, his voice was a little bit hoarse but he was trying to suggest that he was still coordinating the governments effo rts coordinating the governments efforts from self isolation. We saw him pictures at the weekend of him chairing government weekends meetings remotely. Three senior figures including the Prime Minister in self isolation, even if they are working from home, there will be concerns about what impact they will have. We will have the press briefing later today, the Prime Minister very unlikely to take that, a number of senior ministers have stepped up to take that in recent days so that will continue. Two issues the government will be under considerable scrutiny for this week. Testing, michael gove the Cabinet Office yesterday saying they are ramping up testing, prioritising front line staff, nhs and social ca re front line staff, nhs and social care workers, the government has faced questions as to whether it has produced in tests for those people and more broadly, and that personal protective equipment for those front line workers that the social care minister was talking about a moment ago on bbc breakfast. The other thing we will see in the next few days, Boris Johnsons thing we will see in the next few days, borisjohnsons letter that he has penned to households across the country, it will be landing on doormats where he does warn quite starkly that things will get worse before they get better. He talks about the possibility of further restrictions if the government thinks that is necessary. 0ne restrictions if the government thinks that is necessary. One of the other big takeaways from the weekend was, the deputy chief medical officer, jenny harry talking about how life could not return to normal for three to six months. She said it was a movable feast, not a straight timeline, it depends on our behaviour but you could see measures gradually readjusted and relaxed over that period. Social distancing measures and restrictions could be with us for some time yet. Thank you, much to digest this morning. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in just a few days. The device, which has been developed in collaboration with the mercedes formula one team, delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator. Heres our medical correspondent fergus walsh. Its a small device that could make a big difference. Known as Continuous Positive Airway pressure, or cpap, it pushes oxygen into the lungs, keeping them open, making it easier to breathe. Theyre already used in the nhs but are in short supply so a team modified and improved an existing design in less than a week which has now been approved for use by health regulators. Normally medical Device Development would take years and in this instance weve been able to do it in days because weve cleverly thought about how we can go back to existing devices and models, reverse engineer them and then engage with our Industry Partners to manufacture them at scale. This demonstration was done at University College London Hospital, which is now using the device to treat covid 19 patients. I sincerely think it may actually save many lives by preventing patients from needing to go onto a ventilator and again saving that vital resource for the very, very severely ill. Every Second Counts in motor racing. Here, mercedes formula 1 partnered with doctors and Healthcare Engineers on a medical device that could be mass produced. This is a great example of how the nhs, universities and industry are working together at extraordinary pace to meet the challenge posed by coronavirus. If the trials of this device go well, then mercedes formula 1 says it can produce up to 1,000 of these a day. In italy, around half of covid 19 patients given cpap have avoided the need for intensive care, and unlike mechanical ventilators, theres no need for them to be sedated. Fergus walsh, bbc news. We have some news that has emerged in the last hour. Easyjet has grounded its entire fleet of aircraft due to the coronavirus pandemic. The airline had been helping to bring back british passengers who were stranded abroad but the last Repatriation Flight landed on sunday. Easyjet says it cant be certain when commercial flights will re start. In scotland a volunteer scheme for people who want to help the nhs battle coronavirus has been launched today. First minister Nicola Sturgeon announced scotland ca res yesterday, calling on former health and care staff to come forward, as well as members of the public, to act as Community Response volunteers. A lot of people are keeping fit at the moment by following instructors likejoe wicks or the Green Goddess on tv or computer screens. But some residents of hamburg, in germany, can enjoy a live class simply by looking out of their window. Ready . Ready 19 year old fitnesss instructor pato cervantes is leading a 30 minute work out in the street every morning, in all weathers. He said he was inspired after seeing his neighbours drinking wine on their balconies and he thought they would prefer some aerobic exercise instead. I bet some of them have wine and exercise, possibly not at the same time a combination a great idea if you live in a block of flats, some can be downstairs. We are all in the situation at the moment where everything feels of the world is closing in a little bit, in terms of being in lockdown, we dont know how long that will last. And for some people come exercising is so important. For everybody at this point. Yes, maintaining that mental and physical balance. There are so many opportunities, through your computers or on the street. Its like being part of a community as well. 11 minutes past eight. Airline cabin crew are being invited to join doctors and nurses at the new nhs Nightingale Hospitals to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic. With all planes currently grounded, thousands of Virgin Atlantic and easyjet staff have been asked to swap the skies for scrubs, and join the volunteer effort. For more on this, were now joined by englands chief nursing officer, ruth may, whos in colchester. Good morning, thank you forjoining us. Tell us a little bit about whats happening with virgin atla ntic whats happening with Virgin Atlantic and easyjet particularly. Im very gratefulfor atlantic and easyjet particularly. Im very grateful for not only all of our nhs staff working across the whole of england and the united kingdom, pulling out every stop, working and supporting our patients, planning for the are anticipating, but we have lots of people wanting to come and help us. The surge we are anticipating. Im very grateful for the for the help. The latest help is from airline crew, and very grateful, if they volunteer, of course, that they will be part of ourteam, course, that they will be part of our team, supporting Health Care Professionals to make sure we are able to care for our patients coming to our doors. So where might they do it and what might they be asked to do . So far, we have got about 100 also who have expressed an interest to come back and work with our health care team. Our doctors, nurses and physios will be leading health care of patients but these people along with stjohns ambulance volunteers, along with many other support staff, will be working as a team supporting at the Nightingale Hospital in london. Its not just our volunteers that Nightingale Hospital in london. Its notjust our volunteers that have a role to play, we all have a role to play in this fight against coronavirus. So thank you to those people, members of the public, to our population that are washing their hands and thank you to those who are staying at home. Tell us a bit about the Nightingale Hospital, when will it be ready to be opened and starts taking patients . We are hoping to take patients this week, andi hoping to take patients this week, and i know that we have got many nurses, doctors and other professionals that are volunteering to come and work at the Nightingale Hospital. I am to come and work at the Nightingale Hospital. Iam particularly grateful, my inbox has been full at the weekend of third year student nurses wanted to come back onto the front line to support the nhs and i have had a many student nurses wanting to come and work at nightingale london. Its a huge challenge, we are in a Global Health emergency. Something that i have never seen as a nurse in my 30 odd yea rs never seen as a nurse in my 30 odd years as never seen as a nurse in my 30 odd yea rs as a never seen as a nurse in my 30 odd years as a nurse, but something which is huge, massive. Its not impossible, though. And in very many ways, they are incredibly brave because they are putting their lives on the front line. Will these people who go into, for example, the nightingale, have the protective equipment that they need, and will they be protected from the virus . M is vitally important that our staff wherever they are working, have the right personal protective equipment. Its not just right right personal protective equipment. Its notjust right for them to be safe, but to feel safe. Thats why we are stepping up our delivery of the right ppe to the right places. We have absolutely have had challenges, and i recognise that, but we are stepping up. We delivered millions upon millions of gowns, goggles, all sorts, gloves, we have delivered lots and lots. There is a still more to do and we are really stepping it up right now. You must be in touch with nurses all the time, you say your direct message box is full, are they scared going to work . Its a very big mixture actually, theres an enormous pride in our profession, you have to look last week, there was an enormous clap for art nurses. Many of them are feeling extraordinarily proud to be able to support our patients right now and into the forthcoming weeks. But then there are some stupid behaviours. Some real acts of unkindness to our staff and i want to urge every member of the public to respect your profession, to protect and respect my profession and others. Nhs staff are my profession and others. Nhs staff a re really my profession and others. Nhs staff are really working hard so please, the kind to them because they may just be saving your life very soon. You talk about stupid behaviours, what kind of thing are you talking about . Some people have been verbally abused in the streets, i know that some have been spat at in the street. Its not right, these people are working so hard, around the clock, they are getting ready for the surge that we know is coming and they are working, huge personal thanks to them and i believe the nation, owes a huge thanks to my profession and other nhs staff. Thank you for your time this morning. Thank you. Communities secretary robertjenrick announced that the number of volunteers who have signed up to help the nhs during the crisis has hit 750,000, three times the initial target. Ata at a daily government briefing yesterday, this is what he said. We have all been moved by the number of people who have signed up to be one of the nhss voluntary responders. Today we can announce an extraordinary three quarters of a Million People have signed up to do that. In every city, in every town, in every village, there is going to be work to be done and in each of us, there is the power to do it. And so, please take part, please play your part, please consider your friends, your family, your neighbours when you are shopping, please call the elderly and support them. When this is done, and it will be done, we all want to be proud of the part that we have played together. Extraordinary amount of volunteers, isnt it . Lets speak to two people who are working with organistations that are supporting our nhs. Alick varma, whos been providing staff with free hot meals, joins us from london, along with Cassandra Baiano whos been helping Health Workers with their daily tasks outside work. Shes in dundee. Good morning to both of you. Cassandra, firstly, health ship, i think thats what its called, give us an idea of how you set it up and why it works. By my medical student in scotland. A fellow student of mine and in scotland. A fellow student of mine and i thought what can we do and what should we be doing in the next few months and we saw there was a potential for next few months and we saw there was a potentialfor an next few months and we saw there was a potential for an area to help Health Care Staff on the front line by supporting them in their daily tasks like childcare, grocery shopping, things like that and we have a tech background so we thought we could do it by building a system that could coordinate that. Tell us whats going on, fodder peeping helping with mostly . At the moment its childcare, ba by sitting. Helping with mostly . At the moment its childcare, baby sitting. We are looking at expanding that into medicines pick up, pet walking, things like that, whatever the front line needs. Just be there for them. Alick, tell us about providing the nhs with meals. For those who dont work in the nhs, lots of canteens are closed down and when you are on are closed down and when you are on a long shift, the need for hot food is essential. Exactly, we set up meals for the nhs dot com on saturday, ive been speaking to friends who are doctors and nurses in the front line and realised at the end of 18 hour shifts, going in to save lives, they were encountering canteens that a shorter empty vending machines and we realise you cant say the nation on an empty stomach and we wanted to bring together the local community to fund meals from local restaurants and Catering Companies that would go directly to front line staff. We are seeing lovely pictures of the meals arriving, tell us how many people have been able to get meals to . Weve now sent meals to over 4000 people, 4000 meals in exactly the la st people, 4000 meals in exactly the last seven days. The maximum i had to wait was only ten minutes. 4000 bill so far however weve gone on to raise over £330,000 which will allow us to give out 160,000 meals across the country and tonight we will do the country and tonight we will do the first meal drops outside london which is really exciting. Brilliant. You are helping thousands of people. Cassandra, coming back to you, you started this in dundee. What is the response been like . As we understand it youre getting volunteers from across the uk and the republic of ireland as well, is that right . We lost about seven days ago as well. We got about 800 users on the platform at the moment so we decided to expand over to ireland as well. From devon up to over to ireland, people are getting involved. What the reaction been from people that you are able to help . Everyone seems to be really appreciative. Its the Little Things that allow them to go on and do theirjobs. That was our mission. Alick, i wanted to come back to you. When you think about the scale and the number of people who have wanted to volunteer, to help particularly the nhs, 750,000 people, thats half the amount of sta b people, thats half the amount of stab that work in the nhs have come forward in the last few days to say they want to volunteer and be of assistance. There is such an appetite to support our front line carers, isnt there . Absolutely. There is a real opportunity for us, sitting at home right now, besides staying at home, to make a difference, to those people who are putting their lives at risk to save us. And we found the donations we have received had made a real difference, people sitting at home might have saved money from not commuting to work and they are giving us that money that will go towards making a difference but in the meantime, we had large donors coming in and offered to sponsor entire hospitals for the duration of the covid 19 crisis and last night we committed to having one hospital funded for seven meals a week, 200 meals a day for the entirety of this crisis so help is coming in small and big but adult an exeter prince. Where is the food made . We partner up where is the food made . We partner up with local restaurants that are still providing services and local Packaging Companies so its being made by local businesses, thats the second benefit we can bring, keeping local Companies Alive during this really ha rd local Companies Alive during this really hard time and whats great is we work with hospitals to understand their safety requirements, delivery requirements and we can fill that gap with local restaurants. requirements and we can fill that gap with local restaurants. I was reading a lovely tweet from someone who said they were coming towards the end of the shift and 50 burritos turned up and i know, in the scale of things, its just a burrito turned up and i know, in the scale of things, itsjust a burrito but when youve been working that hard and you think i need food and maybe there is only a vending machine and a barof there is only a vending machine and a bar of chocolate available to you and youve got to work with some food in your stomach, that hot meal can makea food in your stomach, that hot meal can make a huge difference and also make you appreciate how people outside of the industry that youre working in our caring for you as well . I think thats absolutely the case. Weve seen messages coming to us at 2am, 3am, in the morning, from doctors and nurses, saying how grateful they are. They can take a bit of a break, have a meal together, as a family, as we are doing in our hassles sol together, as a family, as we are doing in our hassles so i want to say thank you to them but thank you to over 6000 people so far who had donated to the fund. Huge thanks across the board. Cassandra, i can see very across the board. Cassandra, i can see very briefly smiling, from you its a big thank you as well . Absolutely. The Community Coming together, its been amazing in support of the front line. It makes me quite emotional. Thats lovely, thank you both very much and good work, both. Thank you. It is important, isnt it, aside from bringing you the news and the numbers and statistics, i think something we really enjoy doing over the last few days just watching those smiles, its just wonderful. Thank you, its nice to have a little bit of good news, actually. It makes a big difference when you can have that real tangible impact on other people. Sometimes, like you say, a burrito at 3am can go a long way especially if your name is dan walker. With everyone over 70 advised to stay indoors, coronavirus has meant a huge change in lifestyle for older people. Among them is 94 year old d day veteran and fundraiser extraordinaire harry billinge. Earlier this month he received an mbe for the tens of thousands of pounds hes raised for a memorial to the british veterans who died in normandy. Tim muffetts been in touch to see how hes getting on. D day veteran harry billinge, mbe, has faced formidable enemies before. At 94 years old hes at home in cornwall, keeping coronavirus at bay. Hey, harry, how are you doing . Im feeling very, very well indeed. And i dont take any chances, ive been sitting in my armchair, i got the fire on and some light reading, i got a lovely hot bed with a blanket to get into, so im very comfortable and very grateful to everybody thats been very kind to me. Normally, you are out fundraising. How hard are you finding it having to stay indoors . Its been very difficult because i felt a bit guilty. I ought to be out and about. Thats about £35 there, harry. The other day i was very good at giving orders, but when i was in the army i was also very good at obeying orders. Idont mind. My mind is free, i can be anywhere. Youve faced many enemies in your time. How do you rate coronavirus as an enemy . When theres evil, its a very good thing to draw people together to realise we dont live just for ourselves, but for other people, and thats what ive tried to do all my life. Kids 8 years old, 12 years old, going out. If youre in isolation and want help, well fetch them. Shopping or do anything for you. So everybodys marvellous, really, people are rallying around. Its like the war years, everybody mucked in, which is great. I know everyone on breakfast and all our viewers want to wish you all the very best. Have you got a message for them . Dont get dragged down, just keep going. Remember the good days. Remember, youve got a lot to be thankful for. You know, you wont get worried about living with yourself in your own home. If you cant live with yourself, you cant live with anybody. Harry, thanks so much for talking to us. From all of us on breakfast, and i know, from all our viewers as well, very best wishes and stay well. All the people from the bbc have been very kind to me personally, and id like to say a big thank you. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. It would like you to say thank you to harry for once again, particularly at this time, cheering us up. We talk about positivity, he a lwa ys us up. We talk about positivity, he always lifts your spirits. Theres a slight change to the programme this morning, theres no Regional News. The weather will be a 20 minutes 27 minutes passed and three minutes to the hour. Carol, good morning good morning everyone. The weather isnt replacing the local news, its just a safety thing, less people in the building and that kind of thing. Theyre a bit of cloud around this morning, also not as windy as it was yesterday but if you are in the wind that we have today, it still will feel cold and we got scattered showers in the forecast as well. Theyve been following through the course of the night, some of them wintry on tops of the hills, some of them getting to the west, the north and east we are seeing them, that process will continue through the day. High pressure still driving the weather but its likely change position, that means the wind is coming from the atlantic, its a milder direction for us and the arctic where it was coming from this weekend. We got a lot of cloud to start, showers in abundance, some of them getting over towards the west of the uk through the day, even into the afternoon across scotland. Still some showers. Not everywhere but wintry over the hills. You could catch the odd shower in Northern Ireland and Northern England and there will be one or two brighter brea ks there will be one or two brighter breaks like we had this morning. But for wales, through the midlands, east anglia, the south of england, Channel Islands, you could catch a shower. These temperatures are eight 11 shower. These temperatures are eight 11 degrees, below average for the time of year. As i mentioned earlier the wind is lighter than yesterday, if you are in it it will still feel cold. As we head on through the evening and overnight, again looking ata evening and overnight, again looking at a fairly cloudy night, showers around, the wind continuing to ease and there will be holes in the cloud. We are not anticipating any widespread issues with rust, you may see some pockets in sheltered areas but there will be too much cloud or it will be too breezy to have any real issues. Tomorrow we continue with a fair bit of cloud around, still some showers as well, the brightest skies the longest period likely to be in the south east, we will see some sunshine. Temperature wise, similar to today but because the wind is lighter than today, it will feel a little bit better. By the time we head into wednesday, we have a slight difference in the weather fronts coming our way. Have a slight difference in the weatherfronts coming our way. Its heading on across the north of scotland, introducing some rain. As you can see ahead of it, cloud around, not as windy. Look at these temperatures on the east coast, 11 degrees, we havent seen that for a little while, pleasant respite if you are heading out perhaps to do your exercise during the course of wednesday but for the rest of us, nine or 10 degrees you can expect. By nine or 10 degrees you can expect. By the time we get to thursday, this weather front will be slipping steadily southwards as a cold front, some rain in it, behind it it turns colder and it will be fairly windy as well. Particularly in the far north. As you can see, turning colder, showers turning wintry over the tops of the hills and mountains. Ahead of that weather front, for much of england and wales, southern parts of Northern Ireland, we hang on to the cloud. 0ne parts of Northern Ireland, we hang on to the cloud. One or two brighter brea ks on to the cloud. One or two brighter breaks and temperatures between 11 and 12 degrees. Its fairly quiet weather wise this week, High Pressure in charge. Carol, thank you. See you in 30 minutes. Cant believe youve gone all the way on to 8 31am. Honestly youve gone on forfar to 8 31am. Honestly youve gone on for far too to 8 31am. Honestly youve gone on forfar too long do to 8 31am. Honestly youve gone on for far too long do you know what, you never throw to me on time, i never know when i am on. We nearly got there on time. I tell you what, with our new rules, its slightly more likely im not holding my breath always nice to have you on the programme. Thank you. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 20,000 former nhs staff have returned to work to help the fight against coronavirus, according to the Prime Minister. It comes after one of the governments top medical advisers warned it could be at least six months until life returns to normal. More than 1,000 people have now died with coronavirus in the uk. Yesterday it was announced 209 people had died in a single 24 hour period. Frontline nhs workers in england are to be tested to see if they have coronavirus. It comes after criticism from medics over a lack of screening. Previously, only seriously ill patients in hospital were being tested for the virus. Critical care doctors and nurses will be tested first. The roll out follows similar schemes in scotland and in wales. Lets speak now to the welsh chief medical officer, dr frank atherton. Thank you very much, really good to speak to you this morning. Can i ask you first of all, coming to the issue of testing, we heard of the deputy chief medical officer yesterday, as part of the governments briefing here, talking in westminster about this six months until we can return to Something Like normality. Does that fit in with this timescale that you have in your mind as well . Yes, good morning. It does, we have always been saying across the four nations that as we get into these social distancing measures, the aim of thoseis distancing measures, the aim of those is to reduce the transmission of the virus, to stop the community spread. 0nce of the virus, to stop the community spread. Once that has happened, theres always a risk that when you lift this restriction too quickly, the disease will bounce back and cause a large spike in cases again. The art of removing the restrictions that have been put in place will be a difficult one and will take a number of months. And have you seen a change in the number of people out on the streets . We saw pictures of attacked snowdon last weekend, a packed snowdon, when thousands of people went to enjoy the welsh countryside. Have you seen a change in that in wales in the last few days, people paying attention to the advice . I have, its very important, it isa advice . I have, its very important, it is a sea change in public behaviour in the last week or so. I went out for my short run on saturday in the streets were extremely quiet even in the middle of cardiff. So its good to see that people are taking note and its important that we all do. If we are to break this current chain of transmission, if we managed to do that, the impact on our nhs will be much less than if we only have partial observance of these measures. Just a difference in the behaviour of humans in the current period of time, people and the way that they behave, is going to make an enormous difference to the duration of the wave of this infection and the pressure on the nhs. All the Health Care Professionals talk about the issue of testing. We hope that will be happening in england, its already been taking place, started last week in wales. What has been the impact on testing in the medical profession . We have been Testing Health care workers and others for a couple of weeks now. Obviously, we dont have as much testing as we would like, we have been increasing the amount of testing here in wales. We currently have a capacity of 1100 tests a day and we increase that every day. We took a decision early on that the First Priority for testing would be patients, those falling into problems in Emergency Departments and in intensive care units. The second line of testing was for Health Care Workers who are perhaps isolating at home and who we re perhaps isolating at home and who were really important to the front line. Those front line workers who we need to get back into care, we have been testing them for a while. As we expand that, we intend to move that be on health and into social ca re that be on health and into social care and into other services. dont want to put words in your mouth, did you say that you asked people not to waste personal protective equipment, avoid wasting ppe . Can i ask you to clarify . How is that. How can it be a waste in the current climate . If people are trying to use these items, face masks, gowns and protective clothing, to try and keep themselves safe in a time like this, surely they have got to use what they have got when they can . The issue of pp has been a very significant one in wales as it has been across the rest of the uk. There are three issues, one is the guidance, we need to make sure staff have absolute confidence in the guidance and very usefully the World Health Organization yesterday declared that the uk guidance is appropriate and it is useful in the right guidance to protect our staff who are our most valuable resource. There have been issues around procurement, local glitches, we do have enough ppe here in wales at the moment, we have been pushing personal protective equipment out into health and social ca re equipment out into health and social care but there have been local distribution issues. The reality is there is a Global Market for this equipment, everyone is trying to get hold of it globally. We need to use it wisely, so it is available to staff here in wales. It is used according to the guidelines and if we do it and cautiously and wisely, then we will have enough ppe to get through. And you are confident if someone working this morning is concerned about that, you can reassure them about that . There is enough ppe in wales for the current demand and the levels of demand that we are seeing, we are moving it out through the system, there have been some distribution issues which we are trying to improve. There is ppe available. The important thing is that people need to understand what the ppe is and what the requirements are for the work that they are doing, and along with other chief medical officers, in the uk, we are looking at the guidance, constantly revised and refined the guidance, and we can expect to upload that again this week. The third issue is communication. We need to get far better at communicating to staff so they really do know what their ppe requirements are, what they should use, where they can go if they need advice, where to go if they dont have the stocks they need. One more question, some of our viewers might have seen, there has been spike in one health board in gwent, one of the worst hit areas in the uk. Have you been able to analyse why that is and what are you doing to try and scale down the problem in that area . As in the rest of the uk, we know that the coronavirus is circulating widely here in all of our communities. Again, just as in england where london and birmingham in big cities have been the focal points of the infection to date, we are seeing the same pattern here in wales. So the gwent area seems to be a bit ofa wales. So the gwent area seems to be a bit of a hotspot for us at the moment, cardiff, we are also seeing significant of cases. Its just the way the disease is transmitting around the country, it tends to be more prevalent at the moment in areas of high density, and there is traffic out of london and Communication Channels from our cities into london. Doctor frank atherton, the chief medical officer for wales, thank you so much for your time this morning, good to talk to you. It is 8 39am. Within the past hour or so, British Airline easyjet has announced it is grounding all its planes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Nina is back with us in the newsroom outside. Good morning. Iwill tell you good morning. I will tell you what easyj et have good morning. I will tell you what easyjet have said this morning, as a result of the unprecedented of travel restrictions and the implementation of National Lockdown is across many european countries, easyj et has is across many european countries, easyjet has fully grounded its entire fleet. It sounds dramatic and it is but the reality is that the only flights leaving the ground have been the ones that have brought people home. Airlines are under lots of pressure, some like loganair and Virgin Airlines have said they need a lot of Government Support to survive but the chancellor has ruled that out. Easyjet has said their Business Model is strong loan term but no certainty when they will come back to normal. We expect the rent to buy company brighthouse to go into administration today, they will need a new buyer or closing down completely. They were asked to buy hundreds of pay thousands of customers a lot of money last year after rules over the interest that they charge. The boss of morrisons told me earlier this morning that he is willing to work with other supermarkets in order to improve delivery times. At the moment, there is more than a three week wait to get the delivery slot with morrisons, but he told us that should be changing soon. We are making great progress with delivery slots, we are up 60 from the free virus situation, that is significant progress. We now have over 100 stores doing store pick and local delivery. So we are very open my how we fulfil the needs of consumers, particularly those who are vulnerable in society. We are opening a call centre in bradford, a telesales operation. That is an emergency hotline providing a basic food box, £30 for a box with £5 delivery, they are prioritising delivery, they are prioritising delivery for those and you dont have to go online to get it. Undoubtedly supermarkets will continue to change the way they work a move will have more on that as the days and weeks progress. Lots of things coming up, the Green Goddess, and damian lewis and Helen Mccrory arejoining goddess, and damian lewis and Helen Mccrory are joining an effort to get nhs staff hot food. And sally will be chatting to premier league and england star, Marcus Rashford, i believe we will do that now. Yes, we are to do that right now. Good morning everyone. With the premier league postponed, many footballers are using their new found free time to help good causes. We are going to talk to Marcus Rashford now. You have been helping with a very specific way, helping children who would normally get Free School Meals, to make sure they still get food at the moment, even though all of the schools are closed. How did this first come to your attention and how did you get involved . Good morning to you, sally. In the past i have done a lot of work with regards to children and basically, when i heard about the school shutting down, that means free meals for some kids, theyre not getting them. When i was in school, i was on free meals and my mum wouldnt get home till 6pm so my next meal would have been a pm. But i was fortunate. There were kids in many more difficult situations that dont get a meal at home. When i had the schools were closing, i wanted to try and get a positive influence going and make sure these kids were getting the meals that they need. And how much of an impact do you feel like you might be able to have at the moment . Is it possible to help every child . Well, we have done as best we could. I think with the donations, people donating, they have done very well. We managed to get to 100,000, which means that we get to 100,000, which means that we get to 100,000, which means that we get to feed 400,000 children. So it has been positive. Quite unusually, at the moment, the two manchester clu bs, at the moment, the two manchester clubs, Manchester United and Manchester City are working together. Thats something we dont usually hear about, how is that going . I know, but i think when times are tough, its important that two clubs that have huge social following, its important to show eve ryo ne following, its important to show everyone that we do come together and ultimately make a difference when things are bigger than football, like whats going on now, do happen. So credit to both club. know that educating and feeding children is a cause which is close to your heart at the moment, and we have been working on poetry competitions that you have been judging for local schools in the north west of england, who educate children with hearing loss, how important is it to you . How important is it to you . How important is it to you . How important is it to help kids at the moment . Its very important. Its at the top of my to do list. 0ur generation, there has been a lot of positive and negative influences. So im just trying to impact the next generation in that positive way. So hopefully they continue this when they grow and get older. hopefully they continue this when they grow and get older. I mentioned at the start, obviously everybody has got a different type of free time at the moment. How are you managing in isolation, how managing to stay fit . Of course, an injured right now. Its just about patience. Ive been working hard on the bikes, following the programme from the club. Ive also been playing fifa and reading, reading different types of books, been on calls, face time with my friends. Its just important to keep time passing and stay in positive vibes and keep smiling. You mentioned the injury. I know lots of england and Manchester United fans will want to know how that is at the moment . Yes, just taking it day by day but i can say that i do feel ten times better than how i did feel. Things are moving in the right direction. Hopefully ill be ready to play soon. The last time we met was in your kitchen. We were having a cup of tea, going three entries for the poetry competition that i mentioned. Have you had the chance to go through the selection of poems that the kids send you . There seemed to be hundreds of them there was a lot but yes, weve managed to go through them with a bit of help from my family. We managed to get through them. Obviously with whats going on now its not possible for that to continue. But as soon as this is finished im definitely going to go to the school and see the kids and definitely give them the awards for the competition. Of course you have a bit more free time to continue working on your sign language skills. You are quite a bit better than me. How are you getting on . definitely need more time but i am definitely need more time but i am definitely Getting Better but yes, its things like that, this is what i have been doing in my spare time. You mentioned reading. I know youve posted a lot of pictures of you keeping your reading going. How important is it that you pass this message on to the kids that might be following you because they are football fans, to keep reading even though there are not at school . What books would you recommend to them. read a lot of books on mentality, thats just because in my profession i feel like thats one of the key points. I always like to keep developing and keep improving in some way. Physically, i obviously cant do that right now so their main way cant do that right now so their main way i can do it as mentally. But for kids, its definitely important to be reading. Because i feel like theres so much knowledge in books and you dont really know that until you start reading yourself. Marcus, how much are you missing football . Yes, its very difficult. Even on the tv, theres nothing on tv, ive been watching old games in the premier league from yea rs old games in the premier league from years ago. Little things like that. Thats all i can do right now but yes, i know that me and the boys are missing football. Finally, message to some of those kids that youve been helping at the moment, the kids who arent getting fed at school. What message would you send to them at school . I would say theres people out there that are dry to help them. Its important for them to keep going, keep smiling. Keep themselves active. And yes, the main thing is to keep your spirits high and keep smiling, everything will be all right. Marcus, great to hear from you. Hopefully we will meet up again soon. And finish judging that poetry competition. Marcus ratchford, we wish you all the best, thank you very much indeed. There we go. Little bit of positivity for you this morning. From marcus. Keep smiling. Absolutely wonderful to hear from smiling. Absolutely wonderful to hearfrom him. And the fact he smiling. Absolutely wonderful to hear from him. And the fact he was on Free School Meals, really inspiring as well. Thank you. Another person who is trying to make a difference, we need some more of that now. As nhs doctors and nurses in intensive care units across the uk battle to save as many lives as they can, teams of volunteers are working to ensure they get fed. The actors damian lewis and his wife Helen Mccrory are leading the feednhs campaign in partnership with a number of food chains which aims to provide free hot meals to nhs staff. Lets speak to them now. Not the best quality line weve had on breakfast but we are desperate to chat with you this morning. Good morning to the peer review. We cant even see ourselves sorry good morning to you. I wouldnt say its perfect televisual magic but we will persist with this and see if we can get it to work. Helen, tell us about this process, fight you wanted to sign up and whats happening . We have lots of friends that we know on the nhs front line in london at the moment. We were calling them, finding out how they were and one thing they said they needed was food so we send them pizza and then we made a phone call and they said thats lovely but actually st Mary Pennington doesnt have a canteen so some pizzas arent going to do it. We love various places, we are really worried about care workers doing longer hours and how to feed staff, thats a real problem, so we phoned up an individual, john vincent, already wanted to be on board and he and his wife katie, damien and i, various people have been working hard to get the imperial trust, ucl h, those hospitals, and leon together to start providing. Already this morning, its 11 30am . Start providing. Already this morning, its11 30am . Yes, the first meals going out. The big news is can you still see us and heroes . Im going to interrupt you, for we lost you. Helen said the big news is what is it . Well, you know, this started with this effort with thousands of members of staff. Leon has been absolutely incredible. And we re has been absolutely incredible. And were going to start working today in london. Quite rightly, people were wanting to donate and saying how can i help my local hospital in birmingham or manchester or liverpool . The news is weve got into cooperation with Nhs Charities together. The mothership. Charity at the nhs. All the funds when you click on leon, it will go through to the Central Charity and they will disperse all of it to 145 charitable trusts around the uk. Thats great news. Weve managed to take it national now with the help of the nhs. We are hearing you well enough to hear that obviously you have managed, one thing we were going to ask you this morning is whether youve tried to nationalise this which is great news, youve managed to do that with the help of the charity. Helen, coming back to you, weve spoken to so many people over the last few days, desperate to volunteer, to help ourfront line staff. In these difficult times, its really encouraging to hear such positive stories about people who are willing to go out of their way to make sure they can make a difference to others . It really is. Its a call to arms thats happening i think at the moment in the country. We launch this on friday. Weve had so Many Companies contacting us. Lots of people calling and saying, what can we do . You solve it with the nhs. What everybody realises is that in times like this, we are only as strong as each other and people have really pulled together. And it makes you feel like youre at least doing something in such an overwhelming situation. Im going to ask about this question. Answer briefly. Hold on, we heard that very briefly, damien first, and then you helen, what is the best thing about isolation, damien . Spending time with your family doing group meditation. And forcing my children to read with me. Helen . Time with the family, Easter Holiday soon, home schooling, we would be shot by 0fsted we would be shut down. Its been so lovely to catch a glimpse of you at home, brilliant work that you are doing. Thank you so much indeed and good luck with all the home schooling. To all the people supporting them. Talk about people supporting them. Talk about people making a difference, shall we have our regular work out . Its a gentleman this morning. Its a gentleman this morning. Its a gentle one. Time now for one of our regular gentle home work outs with diana moran, better known as the Green Goddess. Good morning, everyone, i hope youre feeling well. Time to move a muscle or two. I think well do a bit of tuning up this morning, ready for you to get out and do some gardening, perhaps, thats what im going to hope to do later on. Or maybe take yourself off for a walk. So, lets start, once again, by warming up our bodies. So, up off your chairs. And just start lifting those feet. Thats right, just a little bit of a gentle walk. Now, lift those knees higher, and start swinging your arms as well. This is intending to get your heart beating, get the body warm and ready to move a few muscles. Come on, lets keep going. Move those arms. Lift those knees. Yes there we go. Thats all right. Lets just go down quietly now, just a little bit. 0k. Fingertips together in front of your chest. And lets fling out the arms, work the upper body. Fling, and fling. We could actuallyjust do a little press first of all. Lets do that again, lets do a little press, press, fling, fling. Thats a bit more fun. Press, press, fling, fling. Working the chest, working the back. And the arms. Fling, fling. Too much talking, diana, this morning fling, fling. All right, that will dojust for a moment. So, what i want you to do now is stretch out the legs. So if youve been walking, running, even the gardening, the body is nice and warm, this is the time to improve your suppleness. So just on the back of the chair here, one foot behind and press that heel down. You should then be able to feel a nice stretch on the back of your legs. Thats it, good. Hold the stretch like that for about five to ten seconds. If i dont always show the work on the other leg, its because you really wouldnt want the back view of me at all on this so, anyhow. Heres the other leg. Push the heel down. This is only all to give you guidance and encouragement. You can always do more for yourself. Thats it, good, push, push down. Feel a nice stretch. Thats good. Finally today, well stretch out what we call the quadriceps. Front thigh muscles. This is important because doing all these stretches improves our suppleness. Stamping around improves your stamina. Flings improve strength. This is suppleness. And you must do the other thigh as well. There we are for today. So, keep fit and carry on we will, thank you very much for watching today. See you at 6am tomorrow. Hello, good morning, how are you . Welcome to bbc news, im Victoria Derbyshire with you until 11. We begin week two of our partial lockdown in britain. Hows it going for you . Let me know the challenges and also the positivies. Send me an email victoria bbc. Co. Uk or message me on twitter