The head of hmrc, how it will work, when businesses will see their cash. Watford are set to become the Third Premier League club to agree wage deferrals because of the coronavirus pandemic. Youll never walk alone. As if raising £26 million wasnt astonishin enough, captain tom moores Charity Single with michael ball and an nhs choir is on course to top the charts. Good morning. Today dry and sunny with a spot of rain across the south west of england and the Channel Islands and a cool westerly wind. Its monday the 20th of april. Our top story after a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. An organisation representing hospital bosses says ministers should stop making promises they cant keep. John mcmanus reports. Its the issue that wont go away. Can the government guarantee the safety of both nhs and care workers by providing them with enough supplies of personal protective equipment, ppe . Despite initial assurances that there was enough ppe to go around, ministers have since admitted that in england that hasnt always been the case and there were fears that essential supplies would run out over the weekend. This consignment ppe arrived at Glasgow Prestwick airport from china on saturday. But a flight on sunday containing supplies from turkey, destined for the nhs in england, never made it to the uk. It was supposed to contain 400,000 badly needed hospital gowns. The British Medical Association has described the delay as a matter of life and death. And the organisation representing nhs trusts says promises about individual consignments arent always fulfilled. Bitter experience over the last few weeks has demonstrated that, because of the erratic nature of the supply, you cant really count on gowns being ready to be distributed to the frontline until theyve actually arrived in this country, youve opened up the boxes and checked that actually they are the gowns they say they were and the numbers that are meant to be there. Across the uk, more than 16,000 people have now died in hospital from coronavirus. Thats up by 596 on the previous 2a hours and its the smallest rise in nearly two weeks, but it doesnt include deaths in care homes. 0ne industry body has estimated they run into thousands. Across the country, the lockdown continues. Today would have been the first day back at school for most pupils after easter. At sundays downing street press c0 nfe re nce the education secretary poured cold water on the newspaper reported that schools in england would reopen in the middle of next month. I want nothing more to see schools back, get them back to normal, make sure that children are sat around learning and experiencing the joy of being at school. But i cant give you a date. Meanwhile, evidence that the hard work and skill of nhs staff is paying off. The first patient to be successfully treated at the new nightingale facility in london was able to transfer to another hospital as his condition had improved. Applause. Applause for him, but for the government the questions about its response to the pandemic continue. John mcmanus, bbc news. Downing street has rejected a report in the sunday times that borisjohnson and his team dragged theirfeet in the run up to the outbreak. Lets go to to our political correspondent, iain watson, who joins us from westminster. Many might not have seen the government response . It is a very detailed response. The sunday times made serious allegations that effectively the government had ignored dire warnings on the spread of the virus and missed five weeks at the beginning of the year in preparing their response. The government lost no time in preparing the response to the allegations saying it contained a number of falsehoods. For example, one of the claims they wanted to knock on the head quite quickly was the idea that the Prime Minister was missing in action in the five meetings of the Emergency Committee, cobra in january but it is far more relevant for the secretary of health to chair the meeting and discussed the crisis in the january seven with the Prime Minister and had begun to put in place to tell operations. They also argued it is ridiculous the spread of the virus came to britain because the minister was in charge rather than the Prime Minister. We were sending some protective equipment to china but that was at the height of their crisis and they are reciprocating. They say things will be made in advance. Preparations. But it is not about what the government did right or wrong in the past few months but what it is doing now, for example the delivery of the consignment of protective equipment from turkey, for example, and what more they are doing to meet demands for hospitals. Thank you very much and we will be speaking to the culture secretary 0liver down at 7 30am stop 0liver dowden, at around 7. 30. Tens of thousands of temporary mortuary spaces have been prepared across the uk in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Ministers have described it as a precaution rather than a prediction, and say they hope the extra capacity of around 30,000 spaces wont be needed. In the last hour, new zealands Prime Minister has said the countrys lockdown will start to ease from next week. It means some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will stay in place. We can speak now to our correspondent, shaimaa khalil, who is in sydney for us. The lockdown in new zealand has been one of the strictest if not the strictest self isolation measures in the world. Schools and businesses we re the world. Schools and businesses were close, and people were told to stay home to break the circle of transmission. This lockdown was meant to be lifted later this week but was extended to night on a monday. And if a student relaxed rules, a partial opening of the schools will take place, a partial opening of businesses but no direct contact with customers but the Prime Minister has said this was not a return to normality even though the movement, the restriction of movement, the restriction of movement is going to bec, people will be able to extend the circle of movement, she urge people to stay home and save lives and to work from home and save lives and to work from home where they can. The lockdown has really paid off for new zealand because it happened in strict matter and ina because it happened in strict matter and in a timely manner, a key, which has enabled services to ramp up testing and contact tracings which they still want to keep going. The premise that has been praised for the way she is handle this, notjust in new zealand but really keeping empathetic messages saying, be strong, be kind and urging new zealanders to keep up the work they have started four weeks ago. Thank you very much for keeping us up to date. An aggressive Antibody Testing campaign is to begin in new york next week to see how many people have had the virus. The state accounts for nearly half of the 40,000 deaths from coronavirus across the united states, but Officials Say the outbreak is now on the descent. In other parts of the us, hundreds of people gathered for new anti lockdown demonstrations. In denver, protestors the State Capitol to demand the end to colorados shutdown. As protesters clogged streets with cars, healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood in the road in counterprotest. Scientists around the world are working hard to find an effective treatment for covid i9, but its a long process that could take many months or even years. Here in the uk, a team is already carrying out some human trials, with a technique which uses the blood from survivors to treat those who are ill. 0ur science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle explains. Its a race to save lives, and in the hunt for new treatments, blood may hold the key. The nhs is reaching out to people who have recovered from covid i9. Their blood contains antibodies, which are produced by the immune system and destroy the virus. The hope is to start a Clinical Trial to see if these antibodies can help patients who are currently ill. Scientists have welcomed the move but say the uk has been too slow. In terms of the uk, i think there are many aspects of this pandemic we will look back on and say, i wonder why we didnt move a little bit faster . My hope would be that, within two weeks, we would see the first patients in the uk treated with convalescent plasma, having jumped over the various hurdles that need to bejumped in order to clear the path to do this. The technology for this treatment is straightforward. Someone whos had coronavirus needs to have fully recovered. Their blood is then collected and the red and white blood cells are removed. Whats left behind is called plasma, and this contains the antibodies theyve built up while fighting the virus. This is then given to someone who has covid i9. The hope is that the donors antibodies could help the patient to attack the virus. 0ne persons plasma can be given to up to three other people. Plasma therapy isnt new. Plasma therapy wont be a magic bullet, and scientists still need to assess how effective it is. But, with no current treatments for covid i9, this could help until a vaccine is found. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. At least 16 people, including a policewoman, have been shot dead by a gunman in canada. The suspect dressed as a Police Officer during a 12 hour rampage. Its thought to be one of the deadliest Mass Shootings in the countrys history. Matt graveling has more. Dressed as a Police Officer, he posed as a protector, even driving around in a marked car. But instead, 51 year old Gabriel Wortman took a gun and started killing innocent people. His 12 hour rampage began on saturday night, leaving bodies at a number of different locations across nova scotia. Police first became aware of the shootings after reports of firearms being used. Tragically, one of those sent to help became a victim of the attack. Its with tremendous sadness that i share with you that weve lost constable heidi stevenson, a 23 year veteran of the force, who was killed this morning while responding to an active shooter incident. Heidi answered the call of duty and lost her life while protecting those she served. Police were first called to a residence in the rural town of portapique. They located several casualties, but not the suspect, Gabriel Wortman. An overnight search for wortman led police to a number of areas, including some where structures were on fire. They asked people to stay indoors, posted the gunmans believed location online and said he may be wearing a Royal Canadian mounted police uniform, despite not being employed by the service. The canadian Prime Minister began his regular briefing on coronavirus to focus on the shooting. Before we get started, i want to touch briefly on the unfolding events in portapique, nova scotia. I know weve been watching this on the news. My hearts go out to everyone affected in what is a terrible situation. I want to thank the police for their hard work and people for cooperating with authorities. Police said the suspect was driving what appeared to be a police car before changing to another vehicle. On twitter, they notified people of the cars registration. And then, just before midday on sunday, police informed people that following a car chase, Gabriel Wortman was dead. They added, as his victims were killed across nova scotia, authorities were still trying to establish the final death toll. Matt graveling, bbc news. The duke and duchess of sussex have told four of britains most popular newspapers that theyre ending all cooperation with them. The couple have sent a letter to the sun, the mail, the mirror and the express saying they will no longer engage with them because of what they feel has been unfair and inaccurate treatment. Heres our media correspondent, david sillito. It is no secret that duke and duchess of sussex have had a difficult relationship with large pa rt difficult relationship with large part of the press. They have already withdrawn from the royal rotor system. And having now stepped back from royal duties, this letter lays out the new rules of engagement. They will no longer deal in any way with the mail, the sun, the mirror and the express newspapers. This is, they says, not a blanket policy as they says, not a blanket policy as they will continue to work with a White Variety of media but it means they will be in their words, zero engagement with papers accused of distorted, false and invasive coverage. The statement comes before a schedule hearing at the duchess of success ongoing case against associated newspapers, the daily mailand mail on associated newspapers, the daily mail and mail on line. David sillito, bbc news. After raising more than £26 million for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden, captain tom is now on course for another remarkable achievement. Youll never walk alone. After first performing with michael ball on our programme last week, their version of youll never walk alone, together with an nhs choir, is now on course to top the uk singles chart. Nearly 36,000copies have been sold in 48 hours. Lets take a look at how the charts it puts captain toms single ahead of popstars the weekend and drake. Well know by friday whether it makes it to number one. It is just incredible. It isjust incredible. We will know by friday whether it makes it to number one. And heres a look at the live funraising total for captain toms walk for the nhs. Its now standing at more than £26. 4 million. Remember, it was a good friday when he first appeared on deviously brea kfast he first appeared on deviously breakfast and his target was £1000. I know you have been part of that, everybody watching on breakfast and thank you. We have to stop reading out the numbers because they go like that. Amazing. Well done. For many pupils and students, today should have been the start of a new school term. Instead, millions of parents are once again getting to grips with homeschooling. So, what can we do to make sure children get the right education . Breakfasts john maguire has been finding out. It is back to school but not as we know it. Our children are fred and lara. It is a learning curve for us. It is tough. Every day is a school day for you and the children . Absolutely. We are learning. Dad and mum have been juggling absolutely. We are learning. Dad and mum have beenjuggling running a business, a household and a home school. How have you found it . Harder . It is really hard. It is not just the teaching. It is the juggfing just the teaching. It is the juggling of work and life with that. And obviously the boys think we are off school and we can do what we want, lay around and watch telly date but they are not to be off school so we have to teach them. Many children of key workers have remained at school over the easter holidays are today may not prove that different. For the staff, keeping school of varying ages engaged in simulated is a challenge. We started off focusing on the childrens well being we started off focusing on the child rens well being and we started off focusing on the childrens well being and their social and emotional Mental Health. Lots of activities, as we move forward , lots of activities, as we move forward, the staff are planning weeks, linking it to more curriculum based projects. But too much feeder play, loose work and the children need to benefit from a close structure. Only once the skills reopened will start have a chance to assess the impact. It is feared children from disadvantaged progress will be affected most so a clear plan to catch up. We know that nothing can compensate for those relationships between teachers and their pupils so, again, planning from when school happens and how the catch up will be achieved. Technology and resources can help like never before. Today, the bbc is enhancing its on line educational content and, when the school bell is ring once again, whenever that be, we are not just ring once again, whenever that be, we are notjust getting back to school but also back to normality. Lets take a look at todays front pages. The daily mail reports that some hospitals could run out of protective gowns today, and that some doctors are now warning they will stop treating coronavirus patients in a bid to protect their own lives. Meanwhile, the times quotes the governments chief scientific advisor, sir patrick vallance, who has warned that a vaccine could take time. Sorry that is so tiny for you. After 7am, well be speaking to one of the Oxford University researchers looking for a vaccine. And the duke and duchess of sussex have told some uk tabloids that they will no longer work with them. Prince harry and meghan accused the outlets of running stories that are distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason. They sent letters to the sun, daily mail, the mirror and the express. And now for something more heartwarming a taxi driver in spain, who has been taking patients to their local Hospital Free of charge, was met with a standing ovation when he turned up to the main entrance. Staff clapped and then handed him an envelope full of money as a thank you for his help. Go on social media and have a watch, you know when you cry ugly, i guarantee you add ugly cry because it is just beautiful. Guarantee you add ugly cry because it isjust beautiful. It is adorable. So david attenborough, an interview with andrew barr yesterday and he was talking about the environment. A lovely interview about realising what an incredibly wonderful life he has a lead and telling us all about our environment 01 telling us all about our environment or the animals and then he was asked at the end what is it we could all do and he said stop all waste stop not just plastic, stop do and he said stop all waste stop notjust plastic, stop waste of any kind, stop wasting power, food, do not waste. This is a precious world, celebrate and cherish. We showed you some of the front pages. Pubs could remain close until christmas in a devastating blow to