'is ' is going to turn though the weather is going to turn a lot more settled. so a bit of raising the temperature in the week and back down a little bit as you head towards friday with a little bit of rain. goodbye.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... iii 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 underlying 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." huge queues today as supermarkets urge shoppers not to buy more than they need, saying there is enough for everyone if people are considerate. the eu warns its member states

against closing borders, saying checks at frontiers are increasing the risk of shortages. a little earlier we spoke to the gp doctor philippa kaye, who answered our viewers‘ questions on coronavirus. many questions coming into bbc news throughout the last few days about coronavirus in various forms. tonight we will answer some of those around symptoms themselves for isolation. we have gp doctor philip kin isolation. we have gp doctor philip k in north west london. —— philip we have the first question from daniel hutchence in northern ireland

who is concerned about how young babies could be affected. she has a three—month—old baby at home and is wondering if she is at higher risk for getting the virus. she has been coughing for over a week so any advice is appreciated. children seem to be doing really well with this infection. they are getting it and they will get it, but they seem to haveit they will get it, but they seem to have it really mildly or even as asymptomatic, no symptoms at all. they seem to be doing really well, which is reassuring. if it was three months ago and you were pregnant, there doesn't seem to be vertical transmission. it doesn't seem to be able to travel through the placenta to affect the baby so that is reassuring. it is not clear if you are the baby has the cough, if it is are the baby has the cough, if it is a new cough then the guidances to self—isolate with your baby seven days. kevin robinson from grimsby

says, once you have had and recovered from coronavirus, can you be infected a second time? we are not exactly sure of the answer to this. we think not but there seem to bea this. we think not but there seem to be a few cases where people have tested positive twice. but in those situations it's not clear whether or not they cleared the virus in the first place. so we think you can't get it twice but we can't promise that at the moment. chris in redcar says, when the over 70s go into isolation, as we are being warned they might have to do for weeks if not months, will i be able to go out? chris is 63 but his partner is 81. it depends on the staging of quarantine essentially. it is likely it will be done in stages. at the moment we are saying if you have symptoms then you stay at home. it is likely the next stage would be if anybody in your household has symptoms then you would have to self

quarantine for iii days. if we are quarantining the elderly, you as somebody who is under 70 wouldn't have to do, but you might choose to decrease the risk to the person you are living with by isolating with them, because the point of the isolation is to try to protect them from the viral load in the community. if you are bringing that back home with you, then essentially we are not protecting them. that might not be enforceable but it might not be enforceable but it might be something you would consider doing. liz is 57 and in south lanarkshire. consider doing. liz is 57 and in south la narkshire. she consider doing. liz is 57 and in south lanarkshire. she hasjust completed treatment for breast cancer. chemotherapy completed in early december, surgery in mid—december, and radiotherapy that ended a few days ago. she is a deputy head teacher in a local school. she has been on a phased return. 0bviously concerned about

getting the virus in school and how her immune system would cope. getting the virus in school and how her immune system would copei recommend she speak to her oncology tea m recommend she speak to her oncology team for advice on whether or not she should be in a position where she should be in a position where she can be at work or not. for people with cancer in general, if they are on active treatment and their immune systems are suppressed then they are more vulnerable. i would practice some social distancing and avoiding large gatherings, doing normal things about washing your hands. if you get about washing your hands. if you get a fever and you are somebody who is on cancer treatment, on chemotherapy, anybody on chemotherapy, anybody on chemotherapy has to ring their oncology unit because they will be called in for a blood test, this is ina called in for a blood test, this is in a normal situation come to check they have white blood cells to fight infection. you will still need to do that, but your local cancer clinic should have a protocol where you can be put in a separate place so you would not potentially infect other people. but still follow your normal protocols if you are someone on

cancer treatment. robin in sutton coldfield asks, what are the specific underlying health problems that are mentioned in connection with the coronavirus. that is a good question. we do say those with underlying health issues but we don't say which. its chronic health conditions, chronic heart disease, chronic neurological diseases, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's. chronic liver and kidney diseases and chronic respiratory diseases, things like copd or asthma that requires more than a blue inhaler. anything that is a chronic long—term condition can increase your vulnerability to the infection. martin in wellingborough asks if people in compromised health are being treated if they have the virus and how successful is it proving if they are? at the moment there is no treatment, no specific antiviral

treatment, no specific antiviral treatment available for covid—i9. the treatment out there if you need it is supportive treatment, things like oxygen, medication to open your airways. and if needs be, ventilating you until your body recovers. i have ventilating you until your body recovers. l have seen ventilating you until your body recovers. l have seen a ventilating you until your body recovers. i have seen a lot on social media about concerns for people where if they already have a condition, whether or not they would get that treatment. right now treatment is being offered to absolutely everybody that needs it. we have the capacity to do so right now. philip in swindon says her husband has a cough and is self isolating. but their daughter has slept in the same bed as him recently. if he is self isolating now, if he is in that seven days and it is possible not to sleep in the same bed then i recommend they do that. at the moment the guidance is that. at the moment the guidance is that if somebody in your house is

affected with symptoms like a fever oi’ affected with symptoms like a fever or cough, then you do not have to quarantine yourself. i think that is likely to change in the next few days or weeks and it's possible you will be advised to self quarantine for iii days in case you develop the infection. at the moment that is not the advice so you can carry on but i recommend that you try to separate, and if it is possible where you live, that he is one room and sleeping in one room and you are not in the same room as him. therese in sheffield says, will people still be able to go running if there is a lockdown? if there is a true lockdown, no. that essentially means you can't go to the park and you can't run in the streets and you would be leaving your house only for essential travel, so that might be to the supermarket, the pharmacy, or if you are in a profession that is considered essential like the health services. i know that is worrying for people who exercise for physical and mental health. there are a lot

of workouts available on youtube and you might have another way around it. but we are not in lockdown yet. ruthin it. but we are not in lockdown yet. ruth in hertfordshire so she is a breast—feeding mother with a six—week—old baby. what should she do if she gets the virus? the good news is that the evidence from china is that the virus does not transfer through breast milk. if you were to become unwell, actually some of the antibodies you are developing might be transferred through the breast milk to protect your baby. there is some evidence to suggest that if you have symptoms then that potentially if you were wearing a mask during feeding, that is an option, or you could express your and give it to someone could express your and give it to someone to feed your baby. those are things to consider. but self isolation and isolating yourself are important but we understand entirely if you are a single mother with three children or you have a newborn baby, there has to be close contact. ruth does make the point that it is

difficult to get hold of face mask so are difficult to get hold of face mask so are there any good alternatives? for most people, they do not need to use a face mask. there is not evidence they are helpful for most people. if you are a front line health worker then yes, you need to use protection because they are in a very different situation but for most people an ill fitting facemask is unhelpful because you end up touching your face is unhelpful because you end up touching yourface more because is unhelpful because you end up touching your face more because you are fiddling with it all the time and they have to be changed very often. for most people, they do not need it. the kind of things we are seeing on the tube, they are not effective and you end up touching your face effective and you end up touching yourface a effective and you end up touching your face a lot more. effective and you end up touching yourface a lot more. so i wouldn't recommend that at the moment. the other thing i have to say, my collea g u es other thing i have to say, my colleagues and a&e are saying that u nfortu nately colleagues and a&e are saying that unfortunately supplies like things like aprons, face masks, gloves and hand gel, that people are going into a&e units to take them. please don't do that. we have medical

professionals on the front line and they need to be well to look after people. we need to take social responsibility about what works for us, and also protect other people as well. finally, kumar in leeds asks, what are the symptoms of full—blown coronavirus. a fever of over 37.8 degrees. the most common symptom after that is a cough. it is actually really quite rare in coronavirus to get a stuffy knows and sneezing. you can also get aches and sneezing. you can also get aches and pains and tiredness, but generally the symptoms are fever and a cough. we have got through quite a few of them but there are still many more. we will have you back again, but for now, thank you for answering those questions and thank you to you for joining those questions and thank you to you forjoining us and sending those questions for this edition of your questions for this edition of your questions answered.

throughout the day, here on bbc news we've been hearing from those working to ensure our daily lives continue, with the fewest hindrances possible during the coronavirus pandemic. we'll bring you a selection of those voices now. supermarkets are urging people not to buy more than they need as concern grows over stockpiling. in a joint letter — 12 large food retailers said they were working night and day to keep the nation fed and asked customers not to panic buy. shaun ley has been speaking to the chief executive of the british retail consortium, helen dickinson. whether it's everything from toilet paper to pasta, rice and long life goods. i think the reason behind the letter that a number of them have signed today, it's firstly to give that level of reassurance to the public that the businesses themselves and all the colleagues that work within them are working

very ha rd to that work within them are working very hard to make sure that we have got what we all need, and to ask eve ryo ne got what we all need, and to ask everyone to really be considerate and only to buy what it is that we do actually need. because that will ensure that there is enough for everyone. in terms of the practicalities in the weeks ahead, you have to maintain supply chains and you don't know and no other part of the economy knows how many people working in retail will be affected and the number of people who might be affected in terms of being able to get replacement supplies into shops and restaurants and so on. in those circumstances, it's not entirely irrational what people are doing, because you can give us the assurance now to say everything is fine, but you don't know any more than we do what health consequences will be and what the knock—on effect will be and what the knock—on effect will be and what the knock—on effect will be on retailers. for example, we are hearing retailers say they can't meet home delivery schedules because there has been an uptick in demand. if you reduce that it makes sense but it is a dilemma for you

and for customers. it is, but i guess the reason for doing what has been done today, it's to request, let's not make that situation any worse potentially than it could be. certainly at the moment, while there are shortages of some products, there is plenty of food in the supply chain across businesses. what retailers have been doing over the last few days and the last couple of weeks is to bring more supply in. it is feeding through into the warehouses and into distribution networks. those shortages are just in certain goods that we are seeing across some stores in some areas, in particular categories. but there is still fresh food, the supply is good. there are lots of other things available even if there is a shortage of some things. that's the

point worth making, there are alternative product lines people can use to stop their favourite of this or that won't be available at there should be something else. to ask you, and this is an area that might not be a specialism for you and i appreciate that, but your thoughts will be interesting given the range of members you have. a lot of products now are aerated in, rather than brought in by sea. what concerns from your members point of view with regards the problems the airline industry is facing? most of the food we eat is actually grown and produced in this country. so again, ithink and produced in this country. so again, i think it's worth remembering that. it might be that certain products that are not grown or produced here will see a shorter supply of some of those, but we just need to recognise that most of what we eat in this country is actually grown and developed here. one of the big questions that came out of the

interview today with health secretary matt hancock on the andrew marr show, was mr hancock saying he would ask nations manufacturers to switch to producing ventilators which are not currently made in this country because they will be needed to help treat people with severe symptoms of coronavirus. we have a doctor who is a consultant at the university of southampton hospital. we spoke to him by phone early and asked him to explain the importance of ventilators. about one in 20 people infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced or critical care. some of those will need help breathing. that is where the ventilator comes in. a ventilator is an assisting device for helping gas get into the lungs and for it to get out too. are you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that at present the uk has around 5000 ventilators available? it doesn't surprise me.

we have not been in this situation before. 5000, for what we would be currently using them for is probably a surplus. but of course the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks the respiratory system and people who need intensive care. so we are short and will need to do something about that. i don't know if you can answer this, but i will put it to you and you can tell me if you can't. is it possible for manufacturers of other goods of this kind, which are basically electronically operated, but also have a certain number of moving and specialist parts, is it possible for them to turn to the production of this? my understanding is, and you can correct me if i am wrong, that there isn't a domestic manufacture of ventilators. there is not a domestic manufacture, but i am sure there are many factors in the uk that make parts. i have been to several production lines are

ventilators, they are built on production lines in germany, switzerland and america, and they have parts from other countries that are bolted in on the production line. the important thing is to go back to the 1940s and 50s. bits of equipment were developed,, the uk led the way, including the radcliffe ventilator, which employed bicycle gears at one point. so you can innovate. looking at manufacturers quoted like rolls—royce, jcb, rolls—royce makes systems for delivering gas into aeroplanes. that's how we fly at 30,000 feet, so they have experience. i'm hoping given blueprints they can produce something useful, as canjcb, and the luxurious rolls—royce. something useful, as canjcb, and the luxurious rolls-royce. it is a good combination if they get it that way round. can you talk a little bit about the management issues from

hospitals in particular, and for gps surgeries' point of view, dealing with what is likely to be an excess number of cases compared to what would seasonably be the case just with flu. i think everyone has pointed out that it is difficult to predict. from a human race perspective, we are naive to this. we haven't seen this before so the systems a re we haven't seen this before so the systems are not there for it. the important thing in all of this, and i know there are political aspects and lots of other people are saying different things, but we need one clear voice. my confidence is the fa ct clear voice. my confidence is the fact that chris whitty is an epidemiologist, used to dealing with infectious disease. i think he will be taught by history, but he is thinking very carefully and i think we couldn't be in better hands if we are to get it right. that's the first thing. we also have to recognise the nhs is only part of the issue. it's also down to the population who rely on the nhs, but

the nhs has to rely on the population. because actually, they have got to do the things that will make it safer. isolate if you have symptoms. wash your hands. all those things that are being communicated ona things that are being communicated on a daily basis. the other things, i think we will see how it develops, but i am hopeful, if the strategies that chris whitty and his team have sorted out, that we will be able to decrease the peaks to this out. uber volu nteers decrease the peaks to this out. uber volunteers is on a mission to ensure elderly people are not left in isolation completely. madeleine moon isolation completely. madeleine moon is one of those volunteers and she joins us by webcam. thanks for speaking to us. you are probably looking forward to a long and peaceful retirement. now you have done your time as an mp. where did this idea come from? to people had

the same idea at the same time. i was thinking of this because i have done a lot of work when i worked in defence, around resilience planning. kerry marlow, who is a local retired police officer, and a community activist, had been thinking of it two streets away. we came together and we have had a fantastic response from meetings at the surgery and talking to church representatives, talking to church representatives, talking to church representatives, talking to the local veterans' hub. everybody is keen to do this. one of the things we can do is take some of the things we can do is take some of the pressure off those supermarkets, because we can have local volunteers, perhaps some of the younger sisters and is —— younger citizens in the town, going to supermarkets, picking up orders and delivering them. we are setting up the system, and we are trying to make it absolutely safe and secure for people, so that scammers can't

get in. of course, a lot of people knocking on doors, because it is a volunteer scheme, they will be strangers, people they haven't met, and there is the potential for that to be exploited. their areas. we are saying no money will be transferred between volunteers and the people we are supporting. we will not be, for example, touching any of the restricted drugs. any pharmacy visits where we pick up the medication, it will be medication that it medication, it will be medication thatitis medication, it will be medication that it is safe for a volunteer to walk through the streets with and leave outside someone's house. we will not be doing interaction on a personal basis. it will be a case of knocking on the door, confirming the food is here, the medication is here, and then the person will back away while they watch and see the person receiving it to pick it up. so we know it has gone inside and will not be stolen. it sounds like a

great idea. presumably you are encouraging things like phone contact encouraging things like phone co nta ct if encouraging things like phone contact if people are isolating and things like that. it can be hard enough living on your own when you are elderly but this will be that much harder with all the uncertainty and potential panic and people's general unease, a natural reaction to an unpredictable situation like this. the important thing about this is that it is not one person doing it. kerry is doing amazing things, he has the technical expertise and has people working with him doing that. we have people organising on award basis, so volunteers will not be roaming all across porthcawl. they will be working from the political award basis, so they are more likely to be people you know anyway. here's the good news. we've got some fine weather on the way for monday. a lot of crisp sunshine on the way. still a bit of cloud around

across the country at the moment, giving some pockets of rain, but that should move out of the way and we are seeing high pressure building in from the southern climes. it's this azores high that will be building in and will lead to the clear skies overnight, and that sunny start to monday. it looks like that high will continue to build in across the uk through the week ahead. this is what it looks like early monday morning. not everywhere will see a touch of frost. across parts of north and east england it could end up being frost free as a result of a bank of cloud sitting across this part of the uk. that should fizzle away and then it's mostly sunny skies across england and wales during the course of monday. temperatures around 13 degrees. a different story across northern ireland and western scotland. rain on the way for the lowlands of scotland on monday afternoon. blustery weather in the western isles on monday. on tuesday, the weather front sinks further south into central parts of the uk. that means cloud amounts across the country during the course of tuesday will increase.

so after that beautiful sunny monday, tuesday will end up being a good deal cloudier across parts of the uk and in fact a return to wet weather later in the day to some northwest parts of the uk. temperatures of 13, 1a, wind blowing in from the south—west. that south—westerly wind will continue into wednesday. yes, there's some cloud and rain, at least a little bit to talk about during wednesday, but notice this mild south—westerly wind coming in and affecting southern and some eastern areas of the uk. a different story in scotland, and here it'll be a lot fresher because of those north atlantic winds. temperatures into single figures whereas in london and east anglia we might hit around 16 on wednesday. on thursday, a question over what will happen from thursday into friday and onwards. this weather front is a fly in the ointment into friday and may bring some rain so the end of the week across the country might end up being pretty unsettled.

but next week it should start settling down with high pressure building in. goodbye.

this is bbc world news today. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories... in spain, a near—total lockdown has begun with strict rules on who can leave their homes. there's been a spike in deaths from the virus. france has also reported a jump in coronavirus deaths, but local elections still went ahead. we'll report from paris. elsewhere in europe, the largest economy, germany, announces border controls with its neighbours to try to stop the virus taking hold. and as lebanon announces coronavirus restrictions, we'll ask how countries in the middle east are dealing with their outbreaks.