We have been surprised by how many young people we are seeing, and people who dont have other health conditions, and i think the messages that are coming out from government to young people that they are not invincible are really, really important. A minutes silence is held in madrid, as spain becomes the third nation in the world to confirm more coronavirus cases than china. Well also be live in brazil, as president bolsonaro continues to play down the crisis, and flout social distancing. Welcome to outside source. Lets start by bringing you up to date with the latest coronavirus developments around the world. Globally, there are more than 766,000 confirmed cases of the virus. More than 36,000 people have lost their lives to it. 160,000 have recovered. Italy remains the worst affected country in europe. The number of those infected is now more than 100,000. But theres been a sharp fall in new coronavirus cases, with 1,648 new patients diagnosed in the latest daily tally thats less than half of sundays figure. However, more than 11,000 people have died. In spain, a memorial has been held for victims of covid 19. The number of people who have died in the country is now more than 7,300 up by more than 800 in the past 2a hours, with more registered cases than china. But 16,000 people have recovered from the virus. And the us is the country with the most cases now with 153,000 people infected. Almost 3,000 people have died more than 1,000 of those in new york state. More than 5000 people have recovered. Were starting in the us, where there are more than 150,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, and the death toll has passed 2,800. More than a third of the deaths have been in new york state, which is now considered a Global Center of the pandemic. This is how the city is dealing with this crisis. This is a Field Hospital, which is being set up in the citys iconic central park to help take some of the strain. And this is one of the navys hospital ships. Its being called on to deliver humanitarian aid. It sailed past the statue of liberty on its way into new york harbour, carrying 1,200 medical personnel and medical supplies. Heres new york city mayor bill de blasio on that. Coming here to save the lives of new yorkers in our hour of need. We have all been through a lot in these last three weeks, and we needed this boost, we needed this hope. Heres our World Affairs correspondent, paul adams. With americas city streets deserted, the prospect to a return to normality are fading. 0fficials officials are now warning of as many as 200,000 american fatalities. If we could hold that down, as we are saying, to 100,000. It is 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. Staggering figures. As a comparison, the uk is trying to keep its death toll below 20,000. And chinas death toll is currently 3,300. Well, President Trump says he expects the us death toll will rise significantly, with the us infection rate tipped to peak in two weeks. The president has now extended social distancing restrictions until the end of april, after initially saying he hoped america could re open for business at easter. Heres gary 0donoghue in washington. Of course, the president doesnt describe it as a u turn, but he has absolutely changed his tune in the last 2a hours. There is no question about that. He was talking about reopening things in time for easter so that the pews in the churches were full on easter sunday. Thats gone away, and what seems to have happened, what seems to have happened is that the scientists on that task force, the now well known faces of Anthony Fauci and deborah burks, seem to have got to the president , and have found a way of talking to him so that he understands the scale of it. We are told they warned him that if there wasnt proper distancing for proper length of time that more than 2 million americans could die. More than two million americans could die. Even with the measures in place, the scientists are warning the death toll could be over 100,000 and perhaps as much as 200,000, so the scale of these things i think has been taken on board to some degree by the president. He is talking about at least the end of april for all of the measures currently in place and currently possibly the beginning ofjune. At this point in time, we have no idea how long these measures will be in place. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says new york is the canary in the coal mine, and the situation there will be replicated across the country. Heres gary again. The idea that central park is an overspill for the whole health care system, and that you have to moor a 1,000 bed boat off of manhattan itself so the system can cope in the most developed country in the world gives you an idea of the scale of the challenge they are facing, particularly in new york, which has a quarter of all the countrys cases, and they are not by any means at their worst point yet. Certainly, the officials there are expecting things over the next two weeks to continue, cases will continue to rise, deaths will continue to rise. They are bracing themselves and they are giving dire warnings that they simply dont have the equipment available to keep people alive, and that people will be dying, because there isnt enough ventilators, because there isnt enough protective equipment for the Health Care Workers to use to keep themselves safe and to keep other people say. Youll recall, china went into lock down just ahead of its new year holiday, a time when millions of people would have been travelling around the country. Its a move that is credited with helping to limit a wider spread of the virus outside the worst affected areas. In the us, authorities declined to take similar measures before the spring break holiday. And heres why this matters. A Company Called tectonix geo mapped the locations of mobile devices on a beach in floridas fort lauderdale. And heres where they ended up. As you can see, theyre spread across the east coast and central us. Thats the impact that gathering on just one beach could have on the spread of the virus throughout the country. For more, i spoke to Donna Shalala the former secretary of health in the clinton administration, now the democratic congresswoman for the city of miami. Too little, too late, but were going to catch up. We just dont have a universal health care system. Weve seen the gaps in that system, but more importantly we have some of the greatest scientific agencies in the world that were not allowed to do theirjob. Now they are playing catch up. Theyve convinced the president that this is serious and that its not short term, its long term. Not short term, its long term. We dont have the hospital beds for instance that your country has, because weve had a high tech Hospital System that has moved to outpatient care, so the number of hospital beds per person is very low here, and accounting for that for people that really have to be hospitalised is one of the great challenges, in addition to all the equipment that we need. So while we have the scientific expertise, we didnt have the Distribution Systems or the Production Systems to catch up with this virus, and we started late, but we will catch up and we will have the discipline to starve this virus. When you say you started late, why werent the scientists talking to the president and getting their opinion across strongly enough to him . Well, we have a president that has strong views on science and for years he has been cutting the budget of the scientific agencies, and i think he simply resisted, because he cared so much about the economy and sees his re election tied to the economy. But, you know, that is in the past now. It is important for us here in this country to look forward to, to do what we need to do, whether it is washing our hands or social distancing or staying at home. Even though we dont have strong leadership necessarily from our national government, many of oui governors are stepping up. I wish my governor in florida was doing more than simply isolating parts of the state. But we will get there. Because at the end of the day, those of us that have some influence keep repeating, Pay Attention to the Public Health people, Pay Attention to the scientists, and the medical people in ourcommunity are saying the same thing. So starving this virus is extremely important over the short run, and then we have to have a number of Public Health systems put in place so that we can follow up on each case and make sure this is never recurring at this scale. We are always going to have some virus. The next one, i dont even know what its name is, but we better be prepared, not only in this country, but around the world, and that includes rethinking how we are organised, and making sure we have leaders that follow the science. Congresswoman Donna Shalala in the city of miami. Here in the uk, the number of deaths has fallen for the second day running. 180 people died over the past day, bringing the total death toll in britain to more than 1,400. The number of confirmed cases stands atjust over 22,000. Heres our Health Correspondent nick triggle. Now, what is interesting is, if you look back at this time last week, the number of daily deaths were doubling every two days. Over the last three days, we have seen 260 deaths announced on saturday, 209 on sunday, and then of course 180 today. So it is an early encouraging sign that maybe things are going in the right direction, but i would add in italy that have seen the most deaths across the world, they saw the numbers jump around a little bit before they have started to plateau. The Prime Minister borisjohnson is still in self isolation, after testing positive for covid 19. His closest advisor Dominic Cummings is also in self isolation now, after experiencing symptoms. But the Prime Minister is Still Holding meetings via video conference. This is a tweet of his from earlier today. Ive been working from home and continuing to lead the governments response to coronavirus. Stay at home, protect the nhs, and save lives. It looks like people are generally listening to this. The uk is now in its second week of severe restrictions. Heres the governments chief scientific advisor. Actually, this has been successful, in terms of the behaviour changes andl in terms of the behaviour changes and i want to thank everybody for the way in which everyone is adhering to the measures that have been put in place. During todays Daily Briefing the Government Produced figures, showing just how much life has come to a standstill in britain. Let me show you the graph. It shows the change in transport use over the past month. You can see a huge drop off in the number of trips taken since the end of february. That dark blue line shows the use of all Motor Vehicles is down by nearly two thirds. The images our website. Travel on the london tube has seen an even bigger fall. That aquamarine line shows its down by 95 compared to a month ago. Heres sir Patrick Vallance again. Of the graph is on our website. So people are overall listening to those appeals not to travel, to stay at home if they can. So, the measures are in place, they are making a difference, they are decreasing the contact, which is so important, to spread the disease, and we are doing a good job at cutting that down. Now, the reason that is important is because it then prevents the number of cases, you reduce the number of cases. The government says despite the reduction in contact, it still expects to see a spike in hospital admissions over the next 2 3 weeks. 20,000 former Staff Members have now returned to the National Health service. And londons Biggest Convention centre has just been transformed into a temporary hospital. Hugh pym has more. Just a week ago, it was a giant conference hall, with room for a dozen football pitches. Now its a hospital, with intensive care beds and ventilators, and ready in a few days time to receive the first patients. The capacity, eventually, will be 4,000. And if those beds are used, itll be the biggest hospital in the world. Simon stevens, head of nhs england, toured the site at Londons Excel Centre today and met some of those who are making things happen. Today, there are over 9,000 positive coronavirus patients in hospitals across england. And we know that number is only going to increase. Thats why what you see here is a mass mobilisation taking place right across the country, but also at these new nightingale hospitals. This has been an Extraordinary Team effort on the part of nurses and doctors and therapists and pharmacists across london, but also volunteers, paramedics and people returning to help. The first staff were applauded in today. Volunteers from other hospitals and recently retired doctors and nurses will be caring here for seriously ill covid 19 patients at whats now called the nightingale hospital. There were artic lorries here, last tuesday and wednesday there were artic lorries here last tuesday, wednesday to take some patients. There is still a lot more work to be done. But huge progress, building a hospital in london, nightingale london, in just less than two weeks. It is unbelievable. Its in the heart of londons docklands, with Business Hotels all around. The fact that theyve transformed this Conference Centre into a giant hospital so quickly shows how serious they think the pressure on the nhs could be. Birminghams National Exhibition centre will house a nightingale hospital. So, too, the central Convention Centre in manchester. The sec in glasgow will also a become a temporary hospital in two weeks time with space for up to 1000 patients. Weeks time with space for up to 1,000 patients. The principality stadium in cardiff is set to be used as an nhs Field Hospital. Northern ireland, too, is creating dedicated facilities for coronavirus patients. Its notjust a matter of getting enough beds, but having the right equipment as well. A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in just a few days by engineers at University College london. Theyve been working with clinicians and the mercedes formula 1 team to develop the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator. If it passes clinical trials, it could be used in hospitals by next week. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh reports on how it might reduce the need for ventilators. For the very sickest covid 19 patients, as in this intensive care unit in italy, a mechanical ventilator offers the best chance of survival. It takes over the job of breathing, giving the lungs a chance to recover. Patients on ventilators need to be sedated, and they require expert staff. The nhs has around 8,000 of them. Its planning to acquire another 8,000 from suppliers in the coming weeks. But its estimated up to 30,000 could be needed at the peak of any outbreak here. I think its encouraging from the government that they have said they were trying to find 30,000 ventilators. I think it looks as if less than a third of those might be available within the next few weeks, when i think the epidemic will peak in the uk. The government admitted a communication confusion after the uk failed tojoin a eu scheme to source extra ventilators, but denied the nhs had been disadvantaged. By contrast, this new device has been approved. Known as Continuous Positive Airway pressure, or cpap, theyre already used by the nhs, but are in short supply. So a team at University College london, working with mercedes formula one, devised a new one. Normally, medical Device Development would take years. In this instance we have been able to do it in days. University College London hospital, which demonstrated the device, is now using it to treat patients with coronavirus. I sincerely think it may save many lives by preventing patients from needing to go on to a ventilator, and saving that vital resource for the very, very severely ill. 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 one says it can produce up to a thousand of these a day. In italy, around half of covid 19 patients on cpap did not need intensive care. So the new device could greatly ease pressure on the nhs. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Stay with us on 0ustide source, still to come well be live in brazil as president bolsonaro continues to play down the crisis and flout social distancing. Theres been a surge in new cases of coronavirus injapan, amid fears so, these new measures the japanese government has brought in are really, i think, in response to a significant pick up in the number of confirmed Coronavirus Infections injapan over the last week or so. And weve seen a particular rise, a particularly large rise here in tokyo over the last few days. So, on saturday and sunday, we saw more than 60 new cases on both days. Thats much higher than weve seen in previous weeks. And really, japan looked like it had this epidemic well under control for most of the last month. The figures have been going up, but theyve been going up very, very slowly. And then suddenly in the middle of last week, it started to look like there was an acceleration. And on saturday evening, Prime Minister shinzo abe came out this