Museums and galleries. On other sports too . And a recovery in the global yes, markets, after a torrid week that on other sports too . Cancellations, postponement saw the biggest declines in a generation. Sport but British Airways warns yes, cancellations, postponements in sport have been snowballing. The staff of job losses, premier league, the efl, the saying the Company Faces a crisis of global proportions scottish premiership, all wales like no other. Matches a face put bowman in football, but the first golf major coming up on afternoon live, of the year, the masters, has been all the sport with jane. Postponed. One of the biggest events and the impact of coronavirus being of the golfing calendar and it comes after the pga tour announced that felt widely. Football by no means the only sport all events will be postponed until affected by coronavirus englands cricket tour of sri lanka april. It has now been extended to cancelled, formula one delayed until may, and golfs pga tour include the masters. So fred ridley, suspended until april. Well have all the details. The chairman, said the health and thanks jane, and helen has all the weather. Mixed picture finally well being of everyone associated had led them to that decision. A no weather warnings huge decision. Earlier, the players championship in florida was at the moment, no weather warnings. Cancelled after one round. Here is at the moment, no weather warnings. A bit concerned about the amount of our golf correspondent. Rain we will have during the course of saturday night and sunday but this follows the decision to cancel england and wales given there are the pga tour leading up to their still 30 or so flood warnings in force. A detailed forecastjust masters so Augusta National are before half past. Also coming up. Following suit in a sense by postponing rather than cancelling their masters sol a report into a green Energy Schemes postponing rather than cancelling their masters so i think that is that contributed to the collapse of worth stressing. There is still the hope that somewhere in 2020, the Northern Irelands government in 2017 finds mistakes were made but first mens major of the year will not corruption. Be played, but who knows when that might be. It is a very fluid and dynamic situation at the moment and the organisers face huge headaches across the entire sport to work out across the entire sport to work out a schedule as and when it becomes good afternoon and welcome apparent that it is safe to continue to afternoon live. Playing golf. As sporting events around the world are suspended rugby, and it has been confirmed by because of coronavirus, officials here have in a dramatic the organisers of the six nations move stopped all english and scottish football matches including the premier league. That the game between wales and no games will now be played scotla nd that the game between wales and scotland has also been postponed. We until at least april 3rd. Officials made the annnouncement had anticipated this might happen after several clubs reported players and staff having to be isolated because of the other matches, italy against england and france against because of the illness. The westminster government hasnt ireland, were already postponed, so banned large gatherings. Affecting rugby hugely. But scotland is to cancel events with crowds of more in cricket, englands test series than 500 from monday. Against sri lanka has been postponed with our first report, here is our with all players and staff returning sports correspondentjoe wilson. To the uk as soon as possible. The this all seems to matter so much ecb said the decision was taken in and it all seems so routine. Unprecedented times. It had been due whatever else occurred, there would be champions, there would be football, to the game next thursday. There would be sport. Well, today, englands football and in formula 1, their season has authorities announced a suspension of games until april the 3rd been suspended until may. The at the earliest. Australian grand prix and also the the statement read. Bahrain grand prix and the Vietnam Grand Prix all called off and that joins the china grand prix, which was already cancelled. It is probably easier to ask which sporting events are going ahead. In the midst of all these cancellations and postponements, one event is going on today and that is the Cheltenham Festival with the gold cup. Lets start with to be clear, this goes coronavirus because it is on through the professional game, the Football League is off, the Womens Super League everybodys mines. Thousands in and championship is off. Attendance today and they have not been put off by the virus. scottish football quickly followed attendance today and they have not suit, from the champions down been put off by the virus. I have talked to lots of people, not just to everywhere, all domestic professional and Grassroots Football racegoers but people working in under thejurisdiction hospitality and the shops and of the scottish fa suspended generally the feeling is that they until further notice. Are pleased it is going ahead. Their numbers are pretty good. We have had the reaction . An unofficial figure of around well, Gary Linekers tweet probably summed it up, 70,000, so slightly down on the norm inevitable and unprecedented in our lifetime. He said it. But generally pretty good. It is a huge relief because the first golf and here are some examples that major has now been postponed and forced the decision. This is the major ofjump racing and arsenals manager mikel arteta positive for covid 19 it is going ahead. We have had three and chelseas Callum Hudson odoi confirmed he had tested positive and spoke about it on a video races so it is going ahead. We have had three races so far today and they have all posted on social media. Been won by will he mullins, who hi, guys, as you may be aware, when the gold cup last year. The i had the virus for the last couple of days which i have recovered from. I followed the Health Guidelines and self isolated myself odds for the favourite, who won four from everyone for the week. Hope to see everybody soon will he mullins last year, and hopefully be back on the pitch very soon. Plummeted, but he has had three take care. Runners already. The big race, the around the world, sport is closing down. Australias formula 1 grand prix was cancelled with doubts growing over the whole season. Gold cup, going on as i speak. It is in the usa, golfs immaculate fairways will see no play the one Everyone Wants to win. Until april at the earliest. Englands cricketers, meanwhile, are being sent home from sri lanka. The governing body says the well being of players thank you. The cheltenham gold cup and support teams is paramount in what it calls completely unprecedented times. Is under way right now. You can but at horse racings follow commentary upon five live. Cheltenham festival today, life continued. The horses arrived on gold cup day and everything that goes that is all this sport for now. With them, including tens of thousands of spectators. Elderly people are among those most i was pretty shocked at risk from coronavirus. That this was going ahead, being a big event forfour days, our correspondent tim muffett has but i suppose we are all glad been looking at how care homes that it was not cancelled. Are dealing with the outbreak. Any concerns about coming . Absolutely none at all, we are in the open air and as long as people take precautions, which we will do, obviously, it should be fine. Looking ahead, what of cared for but cut off. This care the olympics and paralympics . Home is no longer allowing visitors tokyo presented a video inside, and that includes us. Of its mascots happily touring the world and japans olympic minister insists there is no intention of cancelling or even the bbc year. Hi, my, how are you postponing the summer games. Well, one thing we have learned doing . Today is how quickly it is the hardest decision the owner everything can change. Joe wilson, bbc news. Has ever faced. We came to the conclusion that we cut the visitors figures released in the last few down dramatically and unfortunately minutes say 798 people have now that has to include families and tested positive for the virus friends. Its really tough. It does in the uk up more than 200 from yesterdays figure. Impinge on the quality of our residents lives. I would much rather kick myself in a couple of at nine oclock yesterday morning there were 590 cases. Weeks for overreacting than not the official advice is that anyone doing anything and having dreadful with a persistent cough or High Temperature should isolate themselves for a week. Consequences as a result. This is a the governments chief scientific life and death staff. So this is now adviser has defended the strategy against criticism that more stringent measures havent been imposed. The only way heather can see and Catherine Burns reports. Speak to her mum valerie. We are very sad we cant come and see you this is the front line but you do understand why, dont of the governments latest stage in the fight against coronavirus, you . What do you make of the staying at home. Officials are clear situation at the moment, whereby families are being asked not to anyone with a temperature visit their relatives . It has to be or a new and persistent cough needs done, i think. To self isolate for a week. Visit their relatives . It has to be done, ithink. It is visit their relatives . It has to be done, i think. It is regrettable. This is such a big move they all have Underlying Health because it is asking people to stay at home. Conditions. Valeries grand daughter some will have coronavirus, probably a minority at the moment. Jill had come down from leicester especially to visit her. It has been some will have the common cold. Some may have Something Else. Difficult because im not very good but this is the type of measure we need to make which is why with technology so communication is it is quite a big change, difficult. There are just under half in order to try to reduce the speed of transmission. A Million People living in care here is why that is so important. Homes in the uk. For residents, this is what the peak number of cases could look like without these new steps. Family and staff, coronavirus is posing an enormous challenge. Its instead, the idea is to spread the cases out, to help really difficult to try and get the nhs cope better. Supplies into the home. We had to the government is planning for try and get some hand soap because our normal suppliers unfortunately a reasonable worst case scenario, where 80 of us get infected. They think and hope that the real are out of stock because people are level will be lower. Bulk buying. What impact will it but if it got to that point, the Health Service would come have on residents, the fact that visitors wont be able to come in in under extreme pressure. At the worst case scenario, person to see them . A huge impact. The nhs would not cope with the number of ventilator beds their emotional well being is that that were required, nor they are able to see their families, could any health care system. Especially dementia, they might not take some soap. Recognise their Family Member but they recognise that they face and washing our hands well and often is still the most useful thing most not being able to see that face to face is a very difficult of us can do to slow down the spread. Challenge for them. Its just it might sound strange but the aim ensuring their virus doesnt get is not to stop it entirely. Into that home. The situation is evolving but as things stand it is we need enough people to get it to build up herd immunity. Up evolving but as things stand it is up to the care home with themselves the point when it becomes whether or not to allow visitors. Difficult for the disease to carry on spreading. Ourcare the government says whether or not to allow visitors. Our care homes getting enough official guidance . No. I went there steps will do this, while protecting vulnerable people. Residents cant go anywhere. If they are illand residents cant go anywhere. If they are ill and dying and if our staff the main strategy right now is that focus on people who have got a cough are ill and dying and if our staff are ill and dying and if our staff are ill or significant numbers are or temperature self isolating. Ill, we need help. It is the worst that really means staying at home. Public Health Crisis in a if possible, sleep alone. Generation, according to the Prime Minister, and in care homes, difficult decisions will have to be if you do live with other people, try to keep two metres away from them, made. That is about three steps away. And you dont need to tell medics Helen Buckingham is the director of you are doing this unless you become more ill or havent recovered strategy for the nuffield trust. In a week. Other countries like italy have gone into lockdown. Thank you forjoining us. We have to many others are closing schools recognise that the Health Service is or banning large gatherings. One thing, social care system is we are not doing any of that yet. Another. What sort of shape is the nhs in as we head into this period i think it is surprising and concerning that we are not where we start approaching the doing any of it at all, increase in coronavirus cases . When we have just four people across the nhs are working weeks before we get really ha rd as to the stage that italy is at. People across the nhs are working really hard as we speak to create you would have thought that every the capacity they need to be able to single thing we do in that four ca re weeks would be designed to slow the capacity they need to be able to care for people both in hospitals the spread of people and in the community who have catching the virus. I think we are doing coronavirus because we know that while some people sadly will be too little, too late. But the other big thing is that this very, very ill with coronavirus, quite a number of people will be is basically a Community Emergency mildly ill, but if there was people are with other health conditions, and the brunt of this will fall on families and on communities. They may well still need the support there has been precious little discussion about that. Of the nhs in their own homes, so if these videos of usually busy morning commutes the nhs is working really hard to are anything to go by, make sure that people in hospital it seems that some people have already decided to stay at home. Are only there if they absolutely the government isnt ruling out have to be there. If they can get stricter controls soon, but says it is starting with the measures that will have the biggest impact now. People discharge to their own homes, this illness can have thatis people discharge to their own homes, that is much betterfor the nhs, but serious consequences, they are also looking to see what but for most people, they are also looking to see what they can do to build up capacity in it will probably mean a week at home recovering. They can do to build up capacity in the community so they continue to Catherine Burns, bbc news. Support people in their own homes. This new £5 billion Emergency Fund for coronavirus, how should that we have been talking about the most effectively be spent . Most of number of sporting events that are being affected by the coronavirus. What the nhs spends its money on at we arejust being affected by the coronavirus. We are just hearing that the six any timea what the nhs spends its money on at any time a staff and it is a staff nations match between wales and that we are going to need to take us through the next three weeks and scotla nd nations match between wales and scotland is off, being postponed. Months. We are going to need staff the Welsh Rugby Union have said they with the right training in hospitals think it is in the best interests of and in the community and that players and staff to fall in line obviously is about freeing people we with recent measures taken across have already got but it may be about the uk and elsewhere in the world. Bringing in more people. It may be about paying the people we have got at the moment over time, it may be, also in golf, the masters which brings together golfers in april for the years first major tournament has been postponed because of concerns about the coronavirus, the as the secretary of state and the Augusta National golf club saying government have talked about, bringing back people who have that this years events was due to recently retired and who are willing be scheduled to be applied between to work. It may be about the third the ninth and 12th of april, but the chairman has said we hope this puts us chairman has said we hope this puts us in the best position to safely year nursing trainees that the host the tournament and our amateur secretary of state announced earlier this week would be able to practice. Events at some later date. We have all those people, quite rightly, need to be paid, so there is money just had the latest figures of confirmed coronavirus cases in this to be spent on people. And then we need to look at equipment. If we are country. Lets talk about those now. Going to set up more Critical Care our science correspondent beds, which the nhs is working very pallab ghoshjoins me now. Ha rd to beds, which the nhs is working very hard to do now, we need the right talk to us about the numbers as they kind of environment, the right kind stand today. They have exceeded 700 of staff and the right kind of which is a big jump from 590 equipment, so one thing we know the nhs and department of health is doing is looking to see how it can purchase more equipment to support something we had before yesterday. It is quite a big jump. On the other the establishment of more critical ca re the establishment of more critical hand it is what we expect. This is care beds. How could the nhs most an epidemic. It is coming out and so effectively use that period of time . What we are trying to do at the day on day these figures are going to r