saying there is enough for everyone if people are considerate. the foreign office advises against "all but essential travel" to the united states after president trump introduced a travel ban on the uk. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's richard. premiership rugby are considering a 12—week suspension of top—flight rugby due to the coronavirus outbreak. a special meeting will take place tomorrow when clubs will discuss a range of potential next steps, including a four—week suspension and continuing to play until government advice on mass gatherings changes. the prom competition has already been suspended ferrari has suspended it's formula one team operations and closed its car factory until the 27th march as a result of coronavirus.

in a statement the company said it's taken the decision to protect workers. ferrari is also experiencing serious issues with its supply chain which can no longer allow for continued production. other f1 teams are still working for now, despite the uncertainty over when the season will start. horse racing in england continues today with meetings at carlisle and market rasen. there were five fixtures yesterday, with the biggest at uttoxeter where a crowd of 8,400 watched 6—1 shot truckers lodge win the midlands grand national. yesterday's attendance was a little over 1,000 down from a year ago. meetings also took place at fontwell, kempton, newcastle and wolverhampton yesterday. police have this morning confirmed that jan vertonghen‘s family were held at knife—point during a burglary that took place while the player was on champions league duty with tottenham in midweek. the belgian defender was in germany

for the second leg of spurs‘ last—16 defeat against rb leipzig. men wearing balaclavas forced their way into the house while his wife and children were inside, stealing a number of items before leaving. metropolitan police are appealing for information. the wife of arsenal manager mikel arteta says he's feeling fine after contracting coronavirus. lorena bernal sympathises with people suffering from the disease and anybody who's lost their lives as a result of it, if but in a social media post she's confirmed her husband's symptoms were relatively mild. my husband is feeling fine, he is well. it is true that he had symptoms of a virus, but these symptoms would have never stopped him from going to work in a normal situation. he would have just taken ibuprofen pr paracetamol and he would have gone to work. so really, it is nothing major.

some temperature, some headache, but that's it. there isn't any elite professional football taking place in england at the moment, but some teams at the grassroots are still playing. youngsters across england have been in action over the weekend. including unsworth junior football club near bury in greater manchester, who've carried on with fixtures for their boys and girls teams. the club says they have extra precautions in place and are following guidelines. we have followed the guidance from lancashire fa and manchester fa and local league is on, we played yesterday. the schools are open and we have not been told to stop. the boys are going to school again on monday so we are going to follow that stance at the moment. as a club, we will make a decision and if the schools were to close unfortunately we would have to stop the grassroots football as well. at the moment there are the boys

enjoying themselves exercising and hopefully they will be doing that again this weekend. if they weren't doing that, what would they be doing? football carried on in brazil this weekend — with flamengo playing a league match at an emty maracana stadium. they beat portuguesa 2—1 at the iconic stadium — and despite there being no fans inside the stadium there was no holding back the commentator. excited shouting i think we can safely say he was quite excited. later on flamengo managerjorge jesus urged for a pause in brazilian football amidst the ongoing public safety concerns over the coronavirus. there is some live sport taking place this afternoon. the wbbl trophy final has just got under way with the leicester riders

taking on the durham palatinates. that's live on the bbc sport website right now. you'll also be able to watch the bbl final later between newcastle eagles and solent kestrels. that's bbc.co.uk/sport back to the coronavirus outbreak now, and as we've been reporting, the health secretary says people aged over 70 will be asked to self—isolate in the future in order to shield them from the coronavirus. matt hancock said the new measure would be introduced in the ‘coming weeks‘. it's worth listening to his appearance on the bbc‘s andrew marr show at length, he was speaking this morning. i'm joined now by the health secretary, matt hancock. welcome, matt hancock. it is good to be here. you were here two weeks ago and when we were speaking then 36 people were infected in britain and nobody had died. what do you think of

the situation two weeks hence? so far we have seen over 1000 people affected on the formal figures. we think the figure is higher than that. much higher? that is right. sadly now we have seen over 20 people have died and we are working round the clock to protect life and to keep people safe, in particular to protect the vulnerable and those who are most vulnerable to this disease, the elderly and people with pre—existing health conditions. it is a 24/7 effort. when we spoke a couple of weeks ago, some people were surprised at the extent of the measure we were saying we were prepared to take, that we set out in the action plan. no longer. now people are saying these are the sorts of measures that we need. on thursday at the press conference we were told around 10,000 people were probably infected.

what is your guess about that number now? it will be a little higher than that. we can see the number of infections is rising and that is why we are moving through the action plan to take the further steps that are needed. we have always said that we will do the right thing at the right time and guided by the very best science. they are the bedrock of the whole response and to do so as transparently as possible, answering whatever questions people have. in transparency terms, is it accelerating now? are we heading towards an exponential part of the growth? on thursday they were saying we were four weeks behind italy. is that the case? we do think it is accelerating and we expect the numbers to rise. thankfully that rise so far has been slower than in other places in europe. that is in large part

down to the amazing work of public health england and the contact tracing. but of course we want to beat this virus and stopping it would take some quite extraordinary interventions that you don't normally have in peacetime. i think this response is going to be one of the biggest challenges that our generation faces. the sorts of measures that are needed are simply not the sorts of things that you normally have to contemplate. let me ask you about some of them. there has been a lot of talk, and you mentioned the elderly earlier on, and quite soon anybody over the age of 70 will be asked to stay inside their house for up to four months. is that a realistic thing to do? the protection of the vulnerable and elderly, by asking them to stay away, to stay at home, that is in our action plan. but we do not want formally to say

yet that people should do that. the reason for that is simply this length of time that they would need to stay self—isolated, stay at home, to protect themselves, is a very big ask. it is a very long time. we do know that if you ask people to do this sort of thing, then they can tire of it. we know it has negative impacts and real negative impacts. sorry tojump in, it is notjust all of those millions of people staying inside their houses, it is also presumably anybody who is caring for them. there are five million carers in this country, 600,000 people caring for someone with dementia, but there is no point asking them to stay inside their houses, unless they are taking the same measures for those bringing in food and help them change their beds and so forth and bring in other people. you have got to make sure that if people stay at home they get the help they need. that will notjust be

the social care system, we are putting a huge amount more extra cash into the social care system, but it is not so much about the money it is about having the people. we will have a massive community response. lots of others will have to shield themselves as well. millions of us will have to stay inside our houses for four months. how long before you say this has to happen? that will be in the coming weeks. next week possibly? i will not go into any more detail on the timings because we want to be ready to say that when we judge, based on the scientific advice, that the time has come. but we will be taking further measures. really the plan is to try to bring the number of infections down and try to bring the nhs capacity up. the nhs capacity that we need is very specific. i know there is a debate about

the funding of the nhs in the past. frankly, the fact we have got the most numbers of doctors and nurses at the start of this is a good thing, but the nhs capacity that is needed is very specific because this is a respiratory illness and we need ventilators and we need the people who can operate them. we have been buying up ventilators since this started. just before i come to ventilators, on older people, a lot of people will be watching this programme wondering, should i visit my elderly relatives, my parents, my grandparents, and a lot of carers wondering for how long can i visit these people in this house? what is your advice? they cannot wait for ever, they need to know what to do. our advice is very clearly if you have a symptom, no matter how mild, then you must stay at home, both to protect yourself, but also to protect others. this is the central message, alongside the message of washing your hands.

those are the two things that right now we are asking people to do. who will look after these people? who will look after sick people, particularly older people staying at home? this is what we need, both the formal social care system and the whole community to do. getting through this will be a national effort. i don't mean those words lightly. every single person in this country will be affected, they will have to do things. this is a great dilemma. say there is somebody living in the same street as me and they are elderly and isolated, and they need care and help. do i go in to help them or not? if you are healthy, yes. risk in getting the disease myself? and then spreading it? sorry, if you are healthy and they are healthy, please go and help them. there are ways you can help without yourself getting infected.

the infection comes if you are within two metres of somebody, but making sure that they are ok, making sure that they have got the food they need if they cannot go out shopping, these things are critical, and you can do that without risking infection yourself. are you going to ban mass gatherings? clearly, in our action plan, that is one of the steps we can take. the government said on thursday this was not necessary and could be counter—productive, talking about football matches and so forth. the fa went ahead and pulled them anyway, and lots of people are wondering should they go to a local club, gym or pub or whatever, and people are looking for advice from the government about what kind of gatherings they should now avoid. yes, i understand that and we will do the right thing at the right time. what we are doing is changing the law and we will publish the bill this week coming. we will change the law so that we take the power to be able

to close mass gatherings if we need to and take other action that you just normally would not, but we might have to in order to respond to this virus. do you foresee a time when we will follow france or spain and close all restaurants, bars and other shops beyond pharmacies and supermarkets? we have not ruled that out. we will do what is necessary, because the top priority is to protect life and you do that by protecting the vulnerable and protecting the nhs. that is the goal. we have got our plan, we set it out in public a couple of weeks ago. we are approaching this with the maximum possible transparency, including there is now a website and where all the infections we know of have been. the really difficult decision is to what extent you try to control the spread of the disease, allowing it to spread but at the rate that the nhs

is able to cope with. or, as some other countries have done, the exponential rise is so great, throw everything at it, close all the schools and gatherings, close the tube and transport system, close the borders. you have not taken that decision, but that in itself is a bit of a risk, isn't it? the goal is to protect life and the measures we take have to be sustainable and making sure they are sustainable is a critical part of deciding when you bring them in. but we will stop at nothing to fight this virus. i think people have got the impression otherwise, we will stop at nothing to fight this virus. like many other countries in the world, and i am talking to other health ministers and medical officers around the world, we are taking the steps that we think are necessary for our country right now. i welcome the debate. i don't mind having a debate

about it because every time i hear somebody talking about it, i listen and i try to find out if there is something we have not thought of and something that we need to consider. all that matters, all that matters, is getting this response right. and you talk about extraordinary measures we would not normally be discussing, you said that several times. are we talking about the police on the streets? soldiers on the streets? arresting people who are sick and not self isolating? are we talking about closing borders and the airports? we will take the powers to make sure we can quarantine people if they are a risk to public health, yes. that is important. i doubt that actually we will need to use it much because people are being very responsible. people need to be responsible. there are some areas where i think people really need to think about the impact on others of what they are doing,

making sure that if you are buying food and loo roll you buy what you need because there is an impact on others. you don't hoard. the food supply and security, we are confident that is strong. but we have got to make sure that everybody acts responsibly. one of the great controversies has been the so—called herd immunity issue. sir patrick vallance, the chief scientific adviser said on thursday, that you want some immunity in the population, we need immunity to protect ourselves from this in the future. a lot of people can understand that, but is allowing this to spread to achieve herd immunity in any way government policy? herd immunity is not our policy, it is not our goal. our goal is to protect life and our policy is to fight the virus and protect the vulnerable and protect the nhs. that is what we are doing. of course there is a scientific

debate around scientific concepts, but i want to be absolutely crystal clear that we will do what is necessary to protect life. sure. some people heard this idea of herd immunity and thought, it is ok for young people to get this disease and pass it on and become immune. no, the consequence of the infection rate rising to fast is very clear and that is why we need to bring the infection rate down at the same time as doing the work to increase the nhs capacity especially in the areas of most need like ventilators. let's talk about these ventilators, who will build them? are you talking to carmi chris, military engineers? car—makers will be asked to make them, for instance? yes, and specialist engineering. we have high quality engineering in this country and we want anyone

with the manufacturing capability to turn to manufacture ventilators to do that. that in itself is like a wartime measure, certainly turning over all manufacturers to specific things. i suppose even if you get tens of thousands of new ventilators around the country, you still need lots of new nurses, i think five nurses per ventilator plus doctors who take eight years to be trained. do we have anything like the medical staff of any kind to run this? yes. they say you don't. i was going to explain how because of course we have the number of doctors we have, we want to bring people who are recently retired back into service and for instance release doctors from some other duties and get them back into the health service, but also the clinical needs that people have when they are suffering

from coronavirus are very specific. it's about ventilation because it is a respiratory disease, so we will be stopping some other activity and asking doctors who normally do other things to read trained to use the ventilators. and you can do that quickly enough to have effect? we would do it as fast as we can. a bit like the manufacturer ventilators. we are not saying there is a maximum amount we want to do because if we have enough ventilators for the uk, other places around the world need them too. is it possible some elective surgery will have to be cancelled? yes, of course. and is the nhs going to open other facilities, like lombardy in italy? they are looking at hotels and putting in effect emergency hospitals. yes, some people are saying should you build a hospital.

actually we have seen many hotels are empty so we have ready built facilities for looking after people, but the critical thing is they need oxygen supply and the ventilation equipment, whether it is invasive ventilation orjust the mask on your face. so what matters is notjust the space, it is making sure the equipment and the trained staff are there as well. there is a massive effort going on to make sure that capacity is as much as possible. what about army field hospitals? i am open to all options, but the current plan, the current area where we need most people is actually the people and the equipment. the physical buildings are there. many hotels around the country are currently empty, and we have hospital buildings.

so for instance one of the first things we will do is turn operating theatres that normally would be doing the sorts of operations that in this emergency can be delayed like hip operations. they have oxygen supplies in them because they are operating theatres, and they can be turned into wards. that's one of the examples of the ways we can change the nhs because the specific needs of this disease are now clear. that was the health secretary matt hancock speaking to andrew marr. well let's turn to south korea now, because they have seen a slowdown in the number of cases, and may now be over the worst. how have they done it? andrew spoke to south korea's foreign minister gang kyung—wha. thank you forjoining us, you have asa thank you forjoining us, you have as a country adopted a particular... thank you for having me. you have adopted a particular strategy, explain to us the basis of your

strategy. yes, well, the basic principle is openness, transparency and fully keeping the public informed. this is paying off, we have a very good health care system to begin with, we have a system that is highly wired, as you can imagine, and fully utilising that we have dealt this outbreak from the very beginning with full transparency and thatis beginning with full transparency and that is the way we have won the public trust and support with this. we are seeing a stabilising trend, for three days in a row, the number of newly confirmed positive cases is smaller than the number of those fully cured and released. you also got the most extraordinary testing system, you are testing 20,000 people a day which is far more than any other country of your site, how have you managed to achieve this and why is testing central to what you

are doing? well, first of all testing is central because that leads to early detection, it minimises further spread and it quickly treats those found with the virus. that is the key behind our very low fertility rate as well. our system quickly approved the testing system quickly approved the testing system after the chinese authorities released the genetic sequence of the virus in mid—january. our health authorities conferred with the research institutions here and shared that result with the pharmaceutical companies who produced the reagent and the equipment is needed for the testing. i think equipment is needed for the testing. ithink our equipment is needed for the testing. i think our testing is nearly a quarter of a million at this point,

as of today. that is remarkable, the other thing you are doing is monitoring people afterwards. you are not going down into the same kind of lockdown, the social exclusion that european countries are, but you are monitoring people by phone app. can you explain what you are doing that are not closing down large chunks of your country?” think this is being faithful to the value of our very vibrant democracy, which is open, the government fully in the service of the people. i have to say our public is very demanding, and expect the highest standards in government services. i think this is the key, the drive of our response. we are now monitoring very closely the inbound traffic, we have also put in place venting of outbound traffic so we minimise the risk

coming in from the inbound traffic, but also make sure we do our very best to contain the spread within the country, but also taking steps to vet those with possible symptoms among those who are leaving the country. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. what is occurring? good afternoon, while it is a mixed picture over the week ahead that we have got to look forward to, if those are the right words. what we are seeing today is cooler air coming across the uk, coming in behind these weather fronts, so basically we are changing from a south—westerly wind that we had yesterday to more of a north—westerly today, for many of us through the afternoon we will have skies like this, a hint of sunshine but some showers never far away. we have wetter weather at the moment moving through the midlands, heading to east anglia and the south—east. elsewhere, gradually brightening up

as you head further north with sunshine at times, but showers as well, especially in scotland and those temperatures typically back down to eight or 9 degrees during the last part of the afternoon. we see the back of the rain in the south—east this evening, the showers in the north move away southwards, mostly in the north move away southwards, m ostly fa d e in the north move away southwards, mostly fade away but we will see more cloud heading in the northern and eastern parts of england. that should help to keep the temperatures for the most part just should help to keep the temperatures for the most partjust above freezing but elsewhere, clear skies, light winds, there will be a frost, cold stubble in for many we start with sunshine tomorrow, the cloud in northern and eastern england will break up but the cloud will increase through the day in scotland and northern ireland as the wind picks up northern ireland as the wind picks up and we blow in some rain, for england and wales though it is likely to stay dry, after that chilly start, plenty of sunshine with temperatures up as high as 12 01’ with temperatures up as high as 12 or 13. over the coming days we will have this weather front on the scene, bringing the rain into the north—west on monday. head further south, stops then you get a wave on the weather front that brings the rain back in again. we may well see

more cloud heading down was parts of england and wales, may be a little rain and drizzle here and there but the main rain comes in again to northern ireland and western parts of scotland. eastern areas of english should be largely dry, there may well be sunshine. we have mild south—westerly winds arriving to the south—westerly winds arriving to the south of the weather front which is bringing rain overnight into scotla nd bringing rain overnight into scotland and northern ireland, that will move its way southwards on wednesday, allowing the cooler air to follow in its wake. as you can see here, there may not be enough a lot of rain left on that weather front into england and wales, more areas of cloud, colder air across northern half of the uk, some wintry showers in northern scotland, but ahead of that cloud and patchy rain, the temperatures in the south—east could reach around 16 degrees in those south—westerly winds. later on in the week it cools off once again. it isa in the week it cools off once again. it is a week where we see some outbreaks of heading southwards in a staggering sort of way, ahead of it, it's a mild air, around the middle pa rt it's a mild air, around the middle part of the week and then we all get

into the colder air by the end of the week.

this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 2: the health secretary, matt hancock, warns that measures to combat coronavirus will disrupt the lives of everybody and older people and those with health conditions will be asked to stay at home. the protection of the vulnerable and elderly by asking them to stay away, to stay at home, that is in our action plan, but we do not want formally to say yet that people should do that. british companies are urged to join a "national effort" to produce more ventilators and other medical equipment "at speed". supermarkets urge shoppers not to buy more than they need, saying there is enough for everyone if people are considerate.