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Good afternoon. Well have the latest government briefing from downing street on the coronavirus pandemic, led today by the Health Secretary, matt hancock. That is in about half an hour. But first, ministers say theyre confident of hitting their target for the number of daily coronavirus tests, after the Prime Minister said the uk is past the peak of the outbreak. The government had pledged 100,000 tests a day by the end of april, with more than 81,000 taking place on wednesday. The target was 100,000 tests a day by the end of april. Its just under a month since the Health Secretary announced t...

Good afternoon and welcome to viewers on bbc one and the bbc news channel, ahead of todays daily Coronavirus Briefing from downing street. Thatll be taking place at five oclock, with the housing minister robertjenrick leading proceedings. First, though, borisjohnson has held his first Prime Ministers questions since recovering from coronavirus, where he faced criticism from the labour leader sir keir starmer over the governments response to the pandemic. Speaking in the commons, mrjohnson said he bitterly regretted the epidemic which has swept through care homes, after labour accused him of fa...

Of new york citys five boroughs. Were at a testing site on the campus of Lehman College here. Ill give you a sense of whats happening here. As we know now, black and latino americans dying from covid19 at much higher rates. The patients tested at this site, very diverse. Even the doctors at this site primarily immigrants themselves. This neighborhood around Lehman College, 78 latino. Unlike a lot of the testing sites weve been showing you, this one trilingual. They speak english, spanish and mandarin. Theres a substantial asian population. Every day they see somewhere around 600 people. Were t...

Been just the last hour, the governor of new jersey announcing schools in the state will stay closed for the remainder of the academic year. And jay crew has filed for bankruptcy. The first retailer to do so during this pandemic. We have our nbc news team of reporters spread across the nation, on the ground, ready to help break down todays stories. One question this month is how state leaders will continue to grapple with the mounting public pressure to reopen, particularly in this struggling economy. Warm temperatures and sup this weekend brought people from the country to come outside in man...

Theyre approaching those reopenings in different ways. Georgia has been the most impressive, as we know. Last friday they opened service industries, like bowling alleys and gyms. Then they allowed people to dine in at a restaurant and go to a Movie Theater. Lets see where this state is with the coronavirus. Youve got over 24,000 confirmed cases, and then we have 990 deaths, very likely will go over 1,000. It was on march 25th where he issued the Program Healthy at home. That was their shelter in place. That was over a week before the state of georgia implemented its program of shutting down. A...