Where there may be icy patches. Some sunshine for a while back out to the west we have cloud and rain coming in reaching eastern scotland and Eastern England by the end of the day. As it turns wetter in the west the winds will strengthen and temperature is around eight to 10 celsius. Hello. This is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines. 16 Million People in northern italy are placed in quarantine for a month because of coronavirus. In lombardy, ski resorts, gyms and nightclubs cant be opened. Restaurant customers must sit at least a metre apart. China reports its lowest number of new infections in a single day since january. Here, new emergency laws including court cases over videolink or phone to help tackle the virus are announced. A doubling in funding for flood defences to £5 billion is expected in the budget on wednesday. A slightly unorthodox royal welcome for meghan, who delivers a message for International Womens day. She really is beautiful, innit . Value and appreciate the
In about ten minutes well have newswatch, but first on bbc news its time for click. This week marks three months since the world first heard about a newly identified disease. I am of of course talking about covid i9, which is caused by a new type of coronavirus. To date there have been over 3,000 deaths from nearly 100,000 confirmed cases in 81 countries. And this is how i know that. This is Thejohns Hopkins University covid i9 dashboard. And since it went live injanuary, it has gone. Viral, in a good way, by demystifying the stats and the numbers behind the spread of this disease. It is amalgamation data from many of the Worlds Health agencies, and so for example right now i can see the total number of confirmed cases isjust over 93,000, these are the countries where they have confirmed cases by numbers, and just as importantly i think, this is the total number of people who have already recovered completely from the disease. And this is just one of the pop up projects that have appea