this is bbc news. the headlines at 5pm: 1a more patients who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the number of deaths in the uk to 35. the health secretary 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 tojoin 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. the foreign office advises against "all but essential travel" to the united states after president trump introduced a travel

ban on the uk. and spanish police use drones with loudspeakers to tell people to go home. the foreign office advises against all but essential travel there too. the department of health says 1a more people across britain have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths here in the uk to 35. the health secretary matt hancock has warned that the measures the government will take to combat the coronavirus will disrupt the ordinary lives of almost everybody in the country. he confirmed that in the coming weeks, people over 70 and vulnerable

people would be asked to self—isolate, staying at home and cutting down contacts. the department of health says they will put out more guidance tomorrow on what social—distancing measures elderly and at risk people should take. here are the day's other main developments... in total 1,372 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the uk. over 40,000 people have been tested. matt hancock said ministers would ask the nation's manufacturers to switch to the production of ventilators needed to treat people who develop severe symptoms — more doctors would be trained in their use. the chair of the construction companyjcb said he had been approached to help by ministers. supermarkets in the uk are urging customers not to panic buy during the outbreak. and the foreign office has advised against all but essential travel to the united states following the us government imposing restrictions on travel from the uk. the foreign office is also advising

against all but essential travel to spain, and the balearic and canary islands — easyjet is the latest airline to cancel all flights to spain, beginning tuesday. ryanair is also limiting the number of flights to the country. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. for weeks now we have all been told to wash our hands more, but the government is increasing its response to coronavirus. already, if you have a persistent cough or fever you are to stay at home and new measures could be coming soon. many of them will be focused on those most at risk, in particular the elderly. they could soon be asked to shield themselves from the virus by staying away from other people for months. 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, and the reason for that is simply this length of time that they would need to stay

self isolated, stay at home, to protect themselves, it is a very big ask. it is a very long time. the scottish government says its plans for the elderly focus on reducing contact rather than complete isolation but soon families are likely to be asked to isolate together, too, if someone in the household show symptoms. engineers will be asked to produce as many ventilators as possible. the government needs more and has said it will buy as many as can be produced. there are also plans to take over beds in private hospitals if the nhs comes under too much pressure. i think this response is going to be one of the biggest challenges that our generation faces. some questions are being asked about the response, though, including about the idea immunity can be built up by protecting the most vulnerable while others get a mild illness. ministers say that is not the plan, despite the government's chief scientist suggesting it was part

of the approach. labour wants more information about how decisions are being reached. we do that not to undermine the government, because we want the government's strategy to succeed, but it is important we can all reassure ourselves the government is taking the right approach. the prime minister is holding talks with officials this afternoon. emergency legislation will be published in the coming days and new measures are likely to be introduced soon. one of the 3a people in the uk to die from coronavirus has been confirmed as nick matthews from nailsea in north somerset. the 59—year—old died at the bristol royal infimary yesteday. in a statement his wife mary said... "nick was my soulmate and best friend. charlotte, ben and i are beyond proud to have had such a big character in our lives." the family also confirmed they were currently in self—isolation until they got the all clear.

our the all clear. best wishes to them at this difficult our best wishes to them at this difficult time. we are not making choices about who we name, the family has decided they want their loved one to be named because they wa nted loved one to be named because they wanted to let other people know. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent, jessica parker. she explained the difference between social distancing and self—isolation. i think it is important to talk about the difference between social distancing and self isolation. obviously, we have heard from the health secretary matt hancock that this idea the over 70s and the vulnerable that within weeks we would be asking them to self—isolate. social distancing is a less radical step, but it is about reducing your contact of day—to—day to reduce your chance

of getting the virus. there is a cobra meeting tomorrow going to be chaired by the prime minister. i think we will expect some communication, may be some further guidance out of that. broadly, looking at what has happened over the weekend, and i have been dribs and drabs of information, accusations it has caused confusion. i think pressure is building on downing street to maybe take a bit more control of the communication. to make it more structured and predictable when you are going to hear things? yes, to stop speculation because people are feeling very worried and very scared. and understandably so. we have seen the death toll going up again. it is what was predicted and there is no great surprise in the numbers but everything is an individual case, everyone is a family who have lost someone they would not be expecting to lose, especially in these circumstances. there is an incredible knock cons

to every decision the government takes. like ireland, as the pressure is coming from sinn fein and the pressure is coming from sinn fein in northern ireland, close the schools. you have those kids who have somewhere. that is probably at home, mum and dad are working and the grandparents are looking after them and then you increase the vulnerability. there are no easy a nswe i’s. vulnerability. there are no easy answers. if mum and dad are working and there aren't any grandparents or it is not practical for health reasons, mum and dad have to stop working. if mum and dad are working in the health service, what impact does that have? there are a huge number of knock—on effects and ramifications going forward. northern ireland, a particular case as you say, a meeting yesterday between politicians in northern ireland and the irish government about cross—border cooperation and the difference in opinion in northern ireland when colleges and schools should close, given that is already happening in the republic. family down the road, their kids

are not going to school, but then the kids are going to school. that is theissue kids are going to school. that is the issue playing out in the republic of ireland as well. where some of the stuff started overnight in terms of isolation for the over 70s and vulnerable people, was advised that came out from the scientific advisory group for emergencies. this group, attended by the chief scientific advisor, they released information yesterday saying they thought the government would soon move towards two things, shielding, the term that covers social distancing and people staying at home on a more radical step, also household isolation. if one person in the household starts to show symptoms of the coronavirus, the whole household then stays at home and self isolates for a time. there isa and self isolates for a time. there is a sort of logic to that but it has a huge impact. exactly. maybe we will hear more from the government this week as to what extent

they are moving towards that emergency legislation. it is expected to be published as well. i think there will be more clarity but also there is pressure for there to be more clarity. jessica parker, a political correspondent. train companies havejoined airlines today in calling for government support as passenger numbers plummet because of coronavirus. it's thought the numbers using some lines could have fallen by up to 18% last week. as airlines continue to struggle easyjet today said it will stop all flights in and out of spain from tuesday following the state of emergency declared there. our transport correspondent tom burridge is here with me now. how big a change is discoursing in the travel industry right now?m how big a change is discoursing in the travel industry right now? it is vast and unprecedented. we could go on with the adjectives. it is far—reaching in the respect that if you look at the railways at the moment, one of the contingencies ra i lwa ys moment, one of the contingencies railways are looking at is if the government starts to limit public

transport. we are not there yet, but the financial position of train companies. a lot of train companies in britain have been losing money before this outbreak. now the outbreak has hit and passenger numbers have dropped significantly and the true figure is probably more than 18% because the data takes a while to sift through the system, if you like. therefore, train companies are effectively in trouble. they are negotiating with the government and they are looking for the government to give them more wriggle room around the payments which they make to the government for running franchises. those negotiations are ongoing. so effectively a holiday just to help? yes, some form of wriggle room, call it a bailout, whatever you call it, but they need some kind of exceptional measures if some kind of exceptional measures if some of them are going to survive. some kind of exceptional measures if some of them are going to survivelj notice the scandinavian airlines said the demand has fallen off a cliff. that hasjust said the demand has fallen off a cliff. that has just come said the demand has fallen off a cliff. that hasjust come in and it is incredible. they said they will cut 90% of their workforce. it

effectively feels like the company is staying in existence in name only, but in terms of the flights, we will see a drastic cut to their schedule. 9096 of their staff will be laid off, hopefully temporarily? yes, they employ 10,000 people. so thatis yes, they employ 10,000 people. so that is a significant number. british airways has told its traffic may have to lay off some temporarily. the question i suppose, and it has been a question with a couple of airlines going under in recent months, whether there was going to be some reconfiguration of the airlines anyway, presumably coronavirus could be the catalyst that forces this to happen more quickly? it is very fast-moving, every airline is affected and some airlines are in a more precarious position in terms of their liquidity and their debt before this crisis. the name that jumps and their debt before this crisis. the name thatjumps to mind is norwegian air. they are taking measures and everyone else is taking measures, they are cutting their schedules and passenger numbers have fallen off a cliff. we are in uncharted territory and it is hard

to imagine that the whole airline industry is going to survive and after this outbreak, when it eventually is over, that the airline industry is in exactly the same shape as it was before. that was the message that came from airlines uk, the body representing airlines in the body representing airlines in the uk, late last night. they effectively put the stark warning out to the government and said, you need to step in and we want exceptional, financial measures. otherwise, some degree of the industry is going to go under. that isa industry is going to go under. that is a worrying warning, isn't it from the airline industry. tom burridge, thank you very much. the eu has imposed restrictions on exports of masks and other medical equipment, as it seeks to ensure it has enough of its own supplies for the fight

against coronavirus. european commission president ursula von der leyen has also warned that eu countries imposing border checks were threatening supply chains and increasing the risks of shortages. germany has become the latest eu country to close its borders in a bid to slow the spread of covid—19. thousands of bus drivers are stranded in parking lots, creating more health risks and disrupting our supply chain. if we don't take action now, shops will start facing difficulties in filling their shelves from products coming from the single market. in this crisis, it is of the utmost importance to keep our internal market going. in general, decisions taken at national level ca n general, decisions taken at national level can only be effective if they are coordinated with neighbouring countries, in particular in border regions. the european commission is working around the clock with the national governments on all these fronts. that was the eu commission president speaking in brussels earlier. just an update for you on the death toll from coronavirus. italy is now

reporting it has risen from 1000, risen to 1809, to 14111. that was yesterday. so the new figure is 1809 deaths. the number of cases in all has reached 25,000, almost 25,000. in ireland, republicans in the temple bar area of dublin, a popular tourist destination have announced a com plete destination have announced a complete closure of their bar and nig htclu bs complete closure of their bar and nightclubs with immediate effect. it means the area, which takes in 20 million euros a week on business will be close for saint patrick's day on tuesday. france has announced the closure of all public places that are nonessential to public life. this includes restaurants, cafe is in cinemas. long—distance train, plane and bus travel will be reduced over the coming days. local elections have taken place

across the country, although turnout appears down significantly. germany is to close its borders with france, austria and switzerland tomorrow and goods and commuters will be able to cross between the countries. in austria, where 800 cases have been reported, gatherings of more than five people have been banned. and the netherlands is to close all its schools, bars and restaurants until the 6th of april as it steps up its anti—coronavirus measures. in spain, where nearly 300 people have now died, and a state of emergency is in force. for the next 15 days, people will be confined to their homes — apart from going to work or shopping forfood or medicines. kathryn stanczyszyn reports. another european capital city almost deserted. spain has declared a lockdown, meaning people are banned from leaving home except for buying essential supplies and medicine, orfor work if they can't do so remotely. authorities have decided to use drones to encourage those out on the streets to return to their houses.

schools are shut, museums and sports venues closed, and restaurants and cafes can only do home deliveries, a huge adjustment for society. a week ago, we were fine. we were all dancing, partying, out on the streets, and within seven days, we are now confined to our homes. so this is something very serious to consider, and the spanish culture is to be outside, so it's very hard for people. the uk has advised against all but essential travel to spain, but british citizens there already are being allowed to fly home. with 191 deaths, spain is europe's worst—hit country after italy, with confirmed cases rising by 1,500 injust 2a hours. italy has now recorded more than 1,400 deaths. it began a nationwide lockdown almost a week ago. yesterday, there were coordinated outpourings of gratitude across spain and italy for health professionals battling

the coronavirus. the state of emergency in spain will last for two weeks. it could be extended as the spread of coronavirus continues. kathryn stanczyszyn, bbc news. away from spain, other european countries are bringing in new restictions to combat the spread of the virus. we have told you about temple bar and the death toll in italy. we are going to move on to another place thatis going to move on to another place that is affected. several cruise ships are reported to have cases of suspected coronavirus. more than 600 british passengers are on board the braemar, which is off the coast of the bahamas. 20 guests are in isolation, having shown flu—like symptoms, after five people tested positive for covid—19. there are also 20 crew members who are isolated, including a doctor. the foreign office is working with fred olsen cruise lines to help

bring uk citizens home from the vessel. i should say one of the strange things about this job is you are reading the same story every hour, but not in the same bulletin. hopefully that will not happen again. us airports have been thrown into chaos as new coronavirus health screening measures for people returning from mainland europe come into force. long queues formed as travellers waited for hours for the screenings before passing through customs. the uk government is advising against all but essential travel to the united states president trump has tested negative for the coronavirus, the white house says. mr trump underwent a test days after hosting a meeting at his florida resort with a brazilian delegation, some of whom had the virus. let's speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes, who's in los angeles. peter, thank you

for being with us at at different time wires to the uk. tell us what we know about the status of this cruise ship? is there any indication of any move to bring the passengers out? not at the moment. to be honest, i don't have many details, i have been focusing on the situation at the us airports, which has been causing a tremendous amount of concern. a lot of americans attempting to come home. travel is the issue for everyone right now and the focus is on getting home if you can, safely can. but that is causing chaos around the country. it is mostly students, a lot of students trying to get back home as opposed to potentially being stranded a long way from home. what measures than are people having to undergo, are they physical checks of temperature? that is the kind of

testing, screening. they not being tested for the virus but it is screening and so many people around the world been tested for the temperature, going into meetings at the white house or arriving into the united states. it is causing a tremendous amount of congestion. huge crowds and people have been complaining about the seemingly almost 30 conditions at some of these airports, with people in very close quarters. it is something the president has responded to just in the last hour. the alarm overcrowding at airports, he said we are doing precise medical screenings at our airports and he says pardon the interruptions and delays, we are moving as quickly as possible, but it is very important we are vigilant and careful. we must get it right, says the president. safety first. there have been some criticism of the amount of testing that america was carrying out, compared to other countries with significant rates of infection. is that situation

improving, what is the federal government doing to try and ensure testing facilities are available? government doing to try and ensure testing facilities are available7m is improving, but the problem, which can't be rectified now, was one of a month ago when those testing kits should have been getting out to the districts that needed them. as every day passes, the us administration says millions more testing kits are being made available around the country. clearly, it is not necessary for every individual to be tested, especially if you don't have any symptoms. what they are doing at the moment is focusing on those people, especially those people who are taken to hospital with their symptoms, they are first in the queue to be tested. peter bowes in los angeles, thank you. the health secretary has said the government will ask the nation's manufacturers to switch to the production of ventilators needed to treat

people who develop severe symptoms. dr maxjonas is a consultant in intensive care medicine at the university hospital of southampton. earlier i spoke to him by phone and i asked him to explain the importance of a ventilator. about one in 20 people who are infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced critical care, and some of those will need help breathing and that is where the ventilator comes in. the ventilator is just a sophisticated device for helping gas getting into the lungs and helping it to get out as well. were you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that, at present, the uk has about 5,000 ventilators available? it does not surprise me. we have not been in this situation before. 5,000, for what we would be currently using them for, would probably be a surplus but of course the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks the respiratory system in people that need intensive care,

so we are short and we will need to do something about that. i do not know if you can answer this question but i will put it to you and you can tell me pretty sharply if you cannot. is it possible for manufacturers of other goods of this kind, basically electronically operated, but have a certain number of moving specialist parts, is it possible for them to turn to production of this because my understanding is, and correct me if i'm wrong on this, that there is not a domestic manufacturer of ventilators? there is not a domestic manufacturer but i imagine that certain manufacturers in the uk can make parts. all the ventilators that i know, and i have been to several production lines, they are built on a production line in germany, switzerland and america and they have parts from other countries that are bolted in in a production line fashion. the important thing is to go back to the 1940s, the 1950s, the uk led the way in creating bits of equipment, including the east radcliffe ventilator, and they got round

problems by putting sturmey—archer bicycle gears into ventilators. there is innovation. you can do that. if you look at the manufacturers quoted, rolls—royce, jbc, etc, they make systems for delivering gas into aeroplanes, which is how we fly at 30,000 feet, so they have experience and hopefully, given the blueprint, they can produce something that is as rugged as a jcb and as luxurious as a rolls—royce. that would be a good combination if they get it that way round! can you talk about management issues in terms of hospitals and gp surgeries in particular, for dealing with what is likely to be an excess number of cases, rather than what would be the case forjust flu? everybody has pointed out that this is very different to flu because, from a human race perspective,

we are naive to this. we have not seen it before so our immune systems aren't there for it. i think the important thing about all of this, and i know that there are political aspects and people saying other things, it is to have one clear voice. my confidence comes from the fact that chris whitty is a genealogist used to dealing with infectious diseases. he will be told by history but he's thinking very carefully and we could not be in better hands if we are going to get it right. that is the first thing. we have got to recognise also the nhs is only part of the issue. it is also down to the population not only relying on the nhs, but the nhs will rely on the population. they have got to do the things that make it safer — isolating if they have symptoms and washing their hands, and all the things that have been communicated on a daily basis. the other things, we will have to see how it develops but i am hopeful, if the strategies

which chris whitty and his team have sorted out, we will be able to decrease the peaks to allow us to spread this out. that is sketching out to some extent where we might be going. the journey we are on is one that lots of people would find difficult to grasp because we do not get these kinds of major public health emergencies in this country that often. what sort of advice are you offering friends, patients, about how to mentally deal with what is going to be a long period of heightened stress? that is a really good question. i find it difficult. i am over 60 and i have other issues so i am in a higher risk group myself. my view on this is, if we are sensible and we work together and a lot of people have compared this to world war ii and the blackouts, we need to work together as a country, which is really important, we need to help ourselves and help others, but what i think is important

is you socially distance yourself if you're worried about contact and you are in a higher risk group, and by that i mean more than two metres. you wash your hands frequently if you touch things which you have picked up, and just the basics like that will reduce the number of transmissions. we are still not entirely clear about this virus and its transmission mode, but i believe that if we are sensible as a population and actually work together and do not panic buy and do all the things which are inevitable because of the anxiety raised by the communications to date, i think we will get through it, and i really feel that the message, especially to the elderly because i have seen publications out there, the nhs will do everything we can to adapt and overcome and have a bed for any patient that comes through and i think if chris whitty gets it right and we follow his advice and do not have political sort of interference, actually we will

get through this. supermarkets are urging shoppers to stop stockpiling during the coronavirus outbreak. the british retail consortium is asking customers not to buy more than they need as our business correspondent katy austin reports. queues outside supermarkets and shelves emptied of essentials like loo roll, hand wash and long—life foods show many shoppers have not heeded the official advice that there is no need to stockpile. people at this store in london felt there had been an overreaction. there's no nappies, toilet paper, nothing, nothing. so it's going to be a struggle. i think that somebody needs to put kind of a cosh on it and say, you can only take so much. it's a little bit over the top, frankly. one of my friends said, like, you've got to get bog roll, tea bags, and i was like, why?

so now, she's frightened me, so i've come out to get it all. supermarkets have had to adapt quickly by speeding up supplies, increasing warehouse space and they're running online delivery services at full capacity. they are also being allowed to extend their delivery hours, but still many shops are limiting the purchases of the most in—demand products. here at aldi, customers are being asked not to buy more than four of anything. now they've written to customers, asking them to be considerate in the way they shop, telling them that buying more than is needed can sometimes mean others will be left without. shoppers are reassured, though, there is enough for everyone if we all work together. the risk is that we alljust buy that little bit more than we actually need, and, if we all did that, then that would cause more of a problem in terms of making sure that we've got the right supplies coming through the system. today's letter is a plea to all customers to stop panic buying for fear of overstretching the system and leaving the most vulnerable without what they need. katy austin, bbc news. italians are embracing life under lockdown by taking to their windows, balconies and terraces,

from where they've played instruments and burst into song. some breaking news coming in, suggesting that singing from your window might be the only option in ireland this evening because the government there has announced that all pubs are to close from midnight tonight until at least the 29th of march, that is a two—week closure of ireland ‘s pubs and hostelries. if you want to raise a glass to saint patrick a couple of days early, it will be the nearest you can get to a st patrick's day celebration involving a significant number of people. ireland shutting all pubs in the republic from midnight tonight until at least the 29th of march. let's return to italy,

to those serenades coming from the balconies of people's homes in rome. # volare #. this latest neighbourhood performance was in the borgo area of central rome. a great choice of song, volare, because it is about flying with your loved one to new opportunities and new hopes. opportunities to travel will be limited in

the coming weeks. in the meantime, let's hear from limited in the coming weeks. in the meantime, let's hearfrom darren. hello there. as skies clear and winds drop there is a frost on the way for many parts of the country tonight. we have still got some rain to clear away from southeast parts this evening. the showers that are following tend to die out, but the cloud will probably move south away from scotland into northern england and eastern england and that should keep temperatures above freezing but a frost more likely elsewhere with the lowest temperatures in scotland. many will start dry and sunny on monday. the cloud even breaking up across northern and eastern england but the cloud will increase in scotland and northern ireland as the wind picks up and we see some rain moving in during the afternoon but still dry in the afternoon for england and wales after that cold start with some sunshine during the day. temperatures up to around 11—12 degrees. we move the story onto tuesday and the rain that was in the north will be much lighter as it heads into england and wales but it returns as some heavier and steadier rain

into northern ireland and western scotland. for eastern parts of england, thanks to a south—westerly wind, temperatures could be as high as 16 or 15. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: 16 more patients who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the number of deaths in the uk to 35. the health secretary 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. 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, we go over to the bbc sport centre. certainly been an unprecedented weekend for sport with most professional sport called off. premiership rugby is now 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. the pro 16 and the french top 16 have already made a call to

indefinitely suspend their matches, andi indefinitely suspend their matches, and i understand the premiership clu bs and i understand the premiership clubs will also make this decision in the next day or two, to postpone matches for the foreseeable future. for how long is up in the air. it will be discussed on monday. it could be four weeks or as many as ten. the feeling is that to continue to play in the current climate is simply unfeasible. that call will be made in the next day or two, and i am hearing that european cup rugby will also be postponed. the quarter final weekend is scheduled for the first weekend of april, and that won't be happening. they will put their rugby on hold for the foreseeable future as well. ferrari has suspended its formula one team operations and closed its road carfactory in italy until the 27th march as a result of coronavirus. (00v)in a statement the company said it has taken the decision to protect its workers. other f1 teams are still working for now, despite the uncertainty over when the season will start. netball‘s superleague is the latest league to postpone fixtures due to

the pandemic. matches were played yesterday but the three remaining games due to be played tomorrow have been called off. the league's board and all clubs will meet on tuesday to consider options for the rest of the season. super league champions st helens have suffered back to back defeats — after losing 28—14 at castleford. the home side were in control from the start — leading 14—0 at one stage — derrell olpherts with two of their tries. they ran in five tries in total, jake trueman with the last of them. the win moves castleford up to second, level on points with leaders wigan. the chief executive of the rugby football league, ralf rimmer, says leeds could face punishment for cancelling their game at catalans dragons after one of their players showed symptoms of coronavirus — which subsequesntly was shown to be a negative

test: yes, it's a possibility. we spoke with leeds at some length this week on that issue. we have applied guidelines that the government have asked us to observe and we took a unilateral decision not to travel to that —— leeds took a unilateral decision not to travel to that fixture. a nick rawsthorne try seven seconds from full time prevented a shock in the fifth round of rugby league's challenge cup, as hull kingston rovers squeezed past leigh centurions 22 leicester riders have won the women's british basketball league trophy for the third year in a row. they beat durham by 70 points to 66 in a replay of last year's final, thanks to a game high 23 points by match mvp sara hinriksdottir. it is finals day at the all england badminton championships in birmingham and it is viktor axelsen of denmark

who has been crowned champion for the first time in the men's singles. axelsen, who is the world number seven, beat the top seed in birmingham, chou tien chen in straight sets to become the first danish winner of the men's title since 1999. in the women's final, tai tzu—ying won her third all england title in four years with a straight sets victory over the world number one chen yu fei, from china. you can watch the rest of today's finals on the bbc sport website right now. that's all the sport for now. 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 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 will be 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. risking 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 a 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 think that is strong. but we have got to make sure that everybody at 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. 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 fans 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? 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 manufacture of 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. some fine weather on the way for monday, crisp sunshine on the way. still cloud around across the country at the moment, giving pockets of rain, but that should move out of the way, and we see high pressure building in from the southern climes. this

will build in and lead to clear skies over night and lead to clear skies over night and a sunny start to monday. it looks as though the high will continue to build in across the uk through the week ahead. early on monday morning, not everywhere will see a touch of frost. parts of northern and eastern england could be frost free as a result of a bank of cloud sitting across this part of the uk, that will fizzle away, and thenit the uk, that will fizzle away, and then it is mostly sunny skies across england and wales during the course of monday, temperatures around 13 celsius. a different story across northern ireland in western scotland, rain on the way come monday afternoon. very blustery weather in the western isles on monday, too. on tuesday, the weather front sinks further south into central parts of the uk, meaning that cloud amounts across the country during the course of tuesday will increase. after that beautiful,

sunny monday, tuesday will be a great deal cloudier. a return of wet weather later in the data some north—western parts of the uk. at the temperatures, 13—14dc. there is some cloud and rain, at least a little bit to talk about during wednesday, but notice mild south—westerly winds coming in here, affecting southern and eastern parts of the uk. it will be fresher because of the north atlantic winds. temperatures into single figures in the north, whereas in london and east anglia, we might hit 16 celsius on wednesday. this weather front is a fly on wednesday. this weather front is afly in on wednesday. this weather front is a fly in the ointment onto friday and may bring some rain. the end of the week across the country may end up the week across the country may end up being pretty unsettled. but next week, it should start settling down, with high building.

goodbye. —— with high pressure building. this is bbc news i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 18:00...

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