unprecedented global health pandemic right now. the number of people who have died in the uk has gone up to 90017 have died in the uk has gone up to 900 17 cents yesterday. gone up to 90017 cents yesterday. according to number 10 the prime minister has told friends he owes his life to the doctors and nurses who looked after him. for the first time the queen has recorded an easter message, in which she offers hope and says that coronavirus will not overcome us. police in the uk say there's been a 21% drop in overall crime in the past four weeks but more than 1,000 fines have been issued, to people breaching social distancing rules. the us has become the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day. as spain's daily coronavirus death toll falls for the third day in a row to 510 the world health organisation tells countries to be cautious about lifting restrictions too early. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentator jo phillips and nigel nelson, the political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people tomorrow's front pages, starting with the sunday telegraph warns that hospitals face running out of gowns to protect doctors against coronavirus. the sunday times reports on plans for a mobile phone app, that will trace every contact of infected people. the mail on sunday leads with borisjohnson's tribute to the nhs staff who, he says, saved his life. the same story makes the front page of the express it says the pm is thankful to the medical staff, who looked after him in intensive care. according to the observer, there are cross party calls for the urgent recall of parliament as the uk's death toll from coronavirus continues to climb. and, a grim warning in the mirror, that hospitals face a shortage of vital drugs to help coronavirus patients. so let's begin... the lines are up. the gas in her phillips on the left nigel on the right. half man, half bookjudging by your impressive book shelves. should we start with you? with the sunday express, i can't thank them enough, i owe them i live. the prime minister in recovery. yes indeed, and what it shows is just how ill he was. obviously, he must‘ve been pretty serious to end up in intensive care unit. but what he's saying is that he can't thank the nhs enough of what the they did for him. in the mortgaged important thing for him to say he owes them his life. i mean, we get some interesting deeds at his time in hospital that apparently he had read 1010 bucks while he was there. which isa 1010 bucks while he was there. which is a bit ofa 1010 bucks while he was there. which is a bit of a come—down from sophocles his normal reading. but the serious point is obviously, he genuinely appreciates everything the nhs has done for him. one hopes he will do something for them when all this is over. and i think that giving the way that doctors and nurses have stepped up to the play, and risk their lives that the least he can do is give them some kind of pay rise. a look at the mail on sunday which has a similar story. boris, the nhs save my life is the headline in the mail on sunday. yes, very much the same as the one in sunday express. i think what's interesting is obviously, we knew when he went into intensive care that he was extremely ill. and i think this bears that out. i think the question now is how long it's going to take for him to recover. and although will be enormous pressure for the prime minister to get back to work and back at the helm, it's really important that he actually does take time off to recuperate. properly. because he has been extremely ill. but as nigel says, thank you is great and tributes are great but i think in the time to come when all of this is over we willjudge him by how he regards the people who work so hard to keep the nhs going. next paper is the sunday times, nhs phone app holds key to lifting lockdown. potential technological breakthrough. nigel, every night when i look at these papers, there's a lwa ys when i look at these papers, there's always one paper which decides to try and give people hope with a potential technological breakthrough 01’ potential technological breakthrough ora potential technological breakthrough or a scientific breakthrough. i don't know if you've had a chance to look through this mobile app story, what you view? it's an interesting idea. basically, the first thing is what it actually work? first it's got to go alongside testing. the idea is that you have an app that will tell you if you've been near a coronavirus software. what that means is that 60% of people to sign up means is that 60% of people to sign upfor means is that 60% of people to sign up for it, it also means that there's got to be massive testing. it would only work when matt hancock gets his hundred thousand test today. and probably the way it works is to bluetooth. in the event that you get corona, what then happens is you get corona, what then happens is you send a message through the app to the nhs. what the app then does is trace all the people who you've been near. now sounds great on the surface, nhsx been near. now sounds great on the surface, nhs x is the technological arm is looking at it quite seriously. but obviously there is a massive issue here about privacy. joe phillips, one can't of course help remembering that nhs had it problems a few years ago. this is a massive ambition this app testing thing. is it something that people should be picking up the papers and think this is how we get out of it? well, i think as you said i think people are looking for good news amongst the gloom. and obviously, and many, many cases around the world technology are really coming into their own along with designers and tech experts and things like this. this is something that's being worked on by google and apple. as nigel said, it's only going to work if you got the testing. but the bigger and actually this was raised by lord evans who was in city street, head of mi five, he talks about how this is a very similar technology to that which is used to track down and trace terrors. but it's a huge ask to allow the public to invasion of privacy. 0ne it's a huge ask to allow the public to invasion of privacy. one of the things in here just a suggestion, is that people would be allowed to go back to work providing they install the app that would allow this to happen. it's not going to work and less people are tested. joe, you get a double go because were going to go to the observer and i'll go to you first. there's a reason for that in a second. the observer says virus death toll nears 10,000. parties unite to invite the recall of parliament. i think this is quite an interesting story. i did think last week after kiersten was elected the leader of the labour party and boris was in the hospital that that was the perfect opportunity for them to bea the perfect opportunity for them to be a government of national unity. and i know nigel has got a you on that. and has spoken about it. but he's written to the leader of the house of common asking for urging talks of the speaker. now parliament is due to return obviously certain recess on the 215t of april. that's clearly not going to happen. there is in argument that there are lots of things that need to be held up to scrutiny. not least of all the shortage of bbe. another good example is the three and half million covered covid—19 testing kits that were ordered. nobody knows how much that cost but patients we guarantee regardless of the fact that they didn't work. i'm just going to move across to nigel because we've got a few more papers to get through. you talked and your point about holding the government to account. no relief that would be via parliament. but we've seen every day essentially journalists try to hold the government to account in the daily press conferences including you this afternoon. with one of your questions. what your view on the recall of parliament? we only ever get a couple of questions when it comes down to the number ten press c0 nfe re nce . when it comes down to the number ten press conference. while we do our best i still think parliament is the right vehicle to hold the government to account. 0bviously, right vehicle to hold the government to account. obviously, there are issues about holding a virtual parliament. which is the only way this can happen. but select companies are operating at the moment. and they're doing quite well. if you tune into one of them, watch the way they do it over resume, its worked not totally effectively but reasonably effectively. and so i'd certainly like to see parliament come back to actually get ministers to answer questions. they have a lot of questions. they have a lot of questions to answer. nigel nelson if you're double go now. because did we go to your paper at the sunday mirror. i will redo the headline even though you probably know it. we are running out of drugs for sickest patients. ventilators... talk us through that. this has been a concern of doctors that have been trying to ventilate their patients. they basically need three drugs and that made when is per default which isa that made when is per default which is a sedative when you put somebody ona is a sedative when you put somebody on a ventilator, then you add another drugs that are pain killers. without them you can't ventilate patients. there are substitutes but they are very old, they don't work as well, it means that when you try to bring a patient back after ventilation it can sometimes take days. which obviously, is denying event for somebody else. so the question comes down to, why did they not have the drugs that they needed to do this job? not have the drugs that they needed to do thisjob? is not have the drugs that they needed to do this job? is the same sort of question that comes down to personal protection equipment from top it seems they just weren't protection equipment from top it seems theyjust weren't prepared for this crisis. even though we had a couple of months when we knew it was coming our way. very similar story in the sunday telegraph. it talks about a different kind of shortage thatis about a different kind of shortage that is of long—sleeve gals. joe your response to the sunday telegraph story. again the story about shortages? exactly. we've got shortages of everything. not least because obviously, stating the obvious, this is going on around the world. everybody wants the same things. everybody needs counts, everybody needs masks and gloves and ventilators and all the other equipment on the drugs and of course a vaccine. this is a shortage of the gallons that medical staff have to wear, and what's happening according to the telegraph is that nhs trust are acting on their own volition. and flying in pbe from china. there isa and flying in pbe from china. there is a terrible, awful irony in the fa ct is a terrible, awful irony in the fact that we're having to get this stuff from china. where this terrible disease started in the first place. again, it's about this lack of coordination. and the lack of bulk ordering, buying in partnership which we could have done with other european countries. i think there a lot of question. which again goes back to this thing holding government to account. do you hold them to account in the middle of this? i think the select committee is working extremely well. you don't want people distracted from actually getting the kit that we need. nigel nelson, very briefly on that sunday telegraph story. how should shortages be addressed? the only way you can address them is actually the way the government is doing now. and that is the issue. i don't think that is the issue. why it wasn't there in the first place? 0bviously, it wasn't there in the first place? obviously, you can't answer that question right in the middle of an emergency like this one. but there will be a day of reckoning, a public inquiry and then we will find out if there are things that should have been done quicker that were done. 0ur been done quicker that were done. our final story been done quicker that were done. 0urfinal story is in the been done quicker that were done. our final story is in the sunday times. it's tucked at the bottom and the front page of the big snore. coronavirus apparently has a sleeping again. to no 1's great surprise teenagers are enjoying getting up late but 62% of people are sleeping just as well or better than they were before hand. joe phillips, how are you sleeping? actually, i find this is very interesting, is in a? a lot of people will be sleeping better because they not having to get up and run fortrains, because they not having to get up and run for trains, they're not rushing off to get the kids to school. it's also the silence. i think it's only when we are now living in this so much quieter time you know, no aircraft, no traffic, reduce traffic. in the general sort of sound that is around all the time that you suddenly realise actually how noisy life in. —— it is. the most interesting is that this is a survey from king's college, apparently people have been having an incredibly vivid dreams. many of them featuring the prime minister. right. let me just what nigel in them featuring the prime minister. right. let mejust what nigel in our final sentence vivid dreams?” haven't had dreams about the prime minister at least nine i can remember. here is actually a good news story with an unfortunate ending. right. you've made it through to paper reviews, thank you so much forjoining me. that's it for the papers. my thanks tojoe phillips and nigel. coming up next the film review. goodbye. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode.

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