hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. governments around the world are tightening restrictions as the coronavirus continues to spread. the uk advice — avoid social contact, don't travel, don't go to the pub. borisjohnson said the measures were tough but necessary i believe they are overwhelmingly worth it to slow the spread of the disease, to reduce the peak, to save life, minimise suffering and to give oui’ life, minimise suffering and to give our nhs the chance to cope. president macron orders the whole country to stay at home — or risk being punished. he says france is "at war" with the coronavirus. president trump tells americans not

to send their children to school — and to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people. if everybody makes this change or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation. the panic on financial markets continues unabated with the biggest fall in stocks on wall street since 1987. we'll bring you the latest on the pandemic from london, paris, washington, and wall street. there are many many elements to this current story. we start in the uk, where the death toll

from the coronavirus has gone up to 53. prime minister borisjohnson has given a press conference where he announced significant new restrictions on how people should live. now is the time for everyone to stop nonessential contact with others. and to stop all unnecessary travel. we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues. if any member of a family shows symptoms, boris johnson is also asking the entire family to self—isolate. but this is just advice — nothing is being mandated. large social gatherings are discouraged but not banned, and schools remain open. the uk's chief medical officer was also at the press conference, here he is on where the uk is at. that in this country, this disease is now accelerating up the curve and it is a low level but it will accelerate up now really quite rapidly.

so if that is the case, shouldn't the uk be following the lead of other countries and do more, including closing schools, banning social gatherings and closing borders? here's what the who said a few days ago. what we have learnt from the ebola outbreaks is that you need to react quickly, you need to go after the virus, you need to stop the chains of transmission, you need to engage with communities very deeply, community acceptance is hugely important. you need to be coordinated, you need to be coherent, you need to look at other structural impacts, schools, security and economics, so essentially, many of those same lessons but the lessons i have learnt after so many ebola outbreaks in my career are, be fast, have no regrets, you must be the first mover, the virus will always get you if you don't move quickly. vicky young is in westminster.

this is a marked shift in policy, what is your reading of the government's reasoning? they have said all along that there were a number of measures that they felt they would have to take and it was just a matter of really when the press to make those happen and they wa nted press to make those happen and they wanted it to be at the time that would have the most effect and they have now decided that this is the moment, but, just sitting in that press c0 nfe re nce moment, but, just sitting in that press conference today, was unlike anything i've ever heard and am sure that boris johnson anything i've ever heard and am sure that borisjohnson when he was re—elected in december didn't think for one moment he would be announcing what is effectively a lockdown although voluntary at the moment, which is interesting in itself, i asked moment, which is interesting in itself, iasked him moment, which is interesting in itself, i asked him about enforcement as he hasn't said that pubs and restaurants and bars have to close, he is strongly advising people not to go to them. so, there are all sorts of implications for this, it is likely to last not weeks, but months, that is a very difficult message for politicians to

give to people and, in some ways, there is no end point here and i think that will be incredibly difficult in the weeks to come as people try to come to terms with what is an enormous change to the way we live. tell us more about the a nswer way we live. tell us more about the answer you received at the press conference, as spain, italy and france are all now saying, if you don't stay at home you will be in trouble, but the prime minister didn't say that. no he didn't, he talked about having the powers to enforce it but saying he didn't think we needed them, he talked about the united kingdom being a liberal democracy, he talked about people understanding the message and i think he wants to take people with him, make people understand that he has to act in this way and then the chief scientific adviser talked about personal responsibility, with the message being, even if you are young and healthy, you have to do this to make sure that everyone else is safe as well and they have talked a lot about a national effort and

again, that was the message. it doesn't mean that further down the line there won't be curfews and things we have been seeing in other countries, but at the moment, it is not like that and i have to say that going round london, today the streets were empty, buses were empty, they were just sitting outside our office for most of the morning not going anywhere and i think what is happening in london is what has prompted them to act at this time, in london there are many more cases and i think they felt they had to act now to stop it getting even worse. stay with me please vicky, bearing in mind last thursday the uk announced it would no longer try to track and trace the contact no longer try to track and trace the co nta ct of no longer try to track and trace the contact of every suspected case of the virus, it also said it would only test people who were admitted to hospital, so that means the testing is now farfrom comprehensive and on the issue of testing, this is what the who said. test, test, test. test every suspected case.

if they test positive, isolate them and find out who they have been in close contact with up to two days before they develop symptoms and test those people too. just as in every country, the uk government wants to flatten the curve. in other words — delay infections as much as possible so that cases occur over a longer period of time and health systems aren't suddenly overwhelmed. almost every country is trying to achieve this goal, through restrictive social measures as well as testing people and tracing contacts. but different countries are going about its different ways. here is professor whitty on the strategy. continue to scale up testing,

but i think it is important to realise the scale of uk testing which has been substantial. and just to give some numbers on that, over a4,000 tests conducted, of which over 42,000 were negative and we will continue to scale up the testing every single week from here on out. vicky young is in westminster. then reminisce to say that all his consolations were made on scientific advice and i don't doubt that, but there are political calculation is as well, do you think there is political pressure around the issue of testing and the difference between the uk and other eu countries? it is difficult, ithink on some of the other questions of making a political decision to lock a country down, that seems like there may be politics in it, but when it comes to testing, that really is much more based on the science and what they were saying is that they are scaling it up, at the beginning, watch the uk were very good at was finding those initial sources, so you good at was finding those initial sources, so you will remember that we had what was known as a super spreader, the poor guy who

eventually did come out in public, they knew he had it and that he had spread it to a certain number of people, they were chased very quickly and put into isolation, they felt that that is what has kept the uk behind the curve compared to other countries at the moment, but the testing changing from being people who had come from countries like italy, changing to only those in hospital presenting with respiratory conditions, now that is more controversial and that was the other question i ask them today was, how do you know and how can you track the spread of this pandemic in this country if you are not testing people? they say they have models which show them they can look at what is happening in hospitals and work back, if you like, and work out what is going on there, there is no doubt that last week they told us that the actual number of cases compared to what was being confirmed publicly, the actual number of cases was five to 10,000, that was last thursday and i think it is probably doubling every four days, so you can

make your own calculations about that and they think that, in the end, it doesn't matter, they have done it this way but they are going to up that and it was interesting today talking about general practitioners, that they would start testing, that is something new. thank you very much vicky. so if the uk government has ratcheted up its advice, so has france. in the last hour, the french president, emmanuel macron has addressed the nation on the coronavirus pandemic. he has said france is in a state of war against the virus. he addressed the nation from the elysee palace. he's enforced a lockdown from tuesday midday saying all residents have been ordered to stay at home, and can only leave for essential reasons, orface punishment. movements will be very severely limited. additionally, france has closed its borders in agreement

with other european union countries for 30 days. there was plenty of speculation all day that this was coming, after italy and spain, france is now a country going into lockdown. the president went on television again because the situation is getting worse, it is palpably getting worse and the measures have been announced already, that is the closure of schools and then on saturday evening, the closure of bars and cafe is in restaurants and all these dramatic changes to regular life, they haven't been enough and he made specific reference in his address to the scenes at the weekend in paris of people mingling quite promiscuously in the non—rude sense of the word, outside, in parks and

on the banks of the senn and this clearly shocks him and made it clear that too many people in france were just not getting the measure of how serious it is. so, at that point, it became inevitable that something far more dramatic would have to be put in place, the medical profession have been furious with what they seem as the nonchalance of the french public that seems to think that if they are not ill, it doesn't matter and it was the message that, it does matter, even if you don't feel you are infected, you can still infect, that president mccrone feldt has not got through and hence, his very new stringent new rules will come in tomorrow and will make paris very airy.

and the difference is that there is not a mandate in the uk, but in france you could be punished. yes, as in france and spain and italy, it is being enforced here, i doubt very much that they will be fines issued, i suspect there will be police out telling people to go home in no uncertain terms, but i doubt that there will be punishments issued, but there is there potential, this isa but there is there potential, this is a compulsory measure which is coming in and all i can say about a comparison of britain is, that is fairenough, comparison of britain is, that is fair enough, but so far, france has started off in a position which is much nearer britain is in terms of the response of the coronavirus, a week ago... it is change very fast here and one wonders whether this is the sort of thing that will eventually arrive in britain as

well. let us have a look at some of the best—known cities and attractions in the world. this is the champs elysees in paris. usually this area is heaving with people, tourists in particular. streets are empty. this is disney world in florida. it closed on sunday night, as well as other disney parks around the world. times square today. on a normal day, 330,000 people pass through it. it's one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. today — it's virtually empty. and this is barcelona. quiet streets and transport system in spain's second largest city. shops have been shut in a majority of cities in spain. there are some people out but not very many at all. the european union proposing

a 30—day restriction on nonessential travel into the bloc. this would include the schengen zone, that contains 22 eu states which have no border controls at all. all other eu states will be invited to take part too. here's european commission president ursula von der leyen. i think of the utmost importance is that neighbouring countries harmonise their measures, so that this is the same, strong message to the people, that the member states are conveying, because here, this increases then the certainty for people to know that it is, yes difficult at the moment, but it is for the best of their health and, for the moment, this is necessary. this still needs to be approved by eu member states. their leaders meeting tomorrow. katya adler has more on the proposals.

the commission is one thing so of course the proposal has come from the commission president, she has proposed this measure, but it is the individual eu national leaders that then have to sign up to it. now, you could ask why she has proposed it because from a public health perspective, coronavirus is already well and truly here in europe, the world health organization already described europe as the epicentre right now of the pandemic, travel restrictions, scientists say have a limited value in preventing the spread of the virus, certainly they would help european citizens feel they were being protected, but the number of exceptions that would go into this band mean that, for many of the countries that compose their own unilateral border measures, like germany, like the czech republic like poland, this fortress europe

idea is unlikely to really go far enough and they are likely to insist on wanting to keep their own travel bans in place, and that goes against one of the real reasons behind the commission proposal, and that is to provide a europe—wide response to the coronavirus, also for public relations reason is because many of those right now say, look, here is another crisis like the migration crisis where it turns out, your opinion? not really, it is every country for itself and the commission want to say, no we really do want to act together and there is no need to propose these border restrictions. there is also concern for the impact on the euro zone, huge pressures on big economies like italy, spain and france, but also the fact that as individual countries inside the european union imposed those border restrictions, you have lorries blocking at the border and slowing down the free movement of goods that are so important inside the single market so, it is also these political

reasons and economic reasons that are pushing for this travel ban, and that list of exceptions is just going to improve too long for certain member states to lift their own restrictions are in place. we have seen the federal reserve in the us take drastic action in behalf of the american economy, can we expect the american economy, can we expect the european central bank to turn to this issue again, in order to provide some more stability for the eurozone? well the former president of the ecb, the markets reacted quickly when he said, we will do whatever it takes. the markets haven't really heard that message loud enough, the ecb did come out of a whole package of measures last week but some countries like france said it wasn't enough and he wants more and when you look at the euro zone, it is going to need help,

traditionally when you look at italy, italy was always judged too big to fail, well it is groaning already under the strain of the coronavirus, it is going to need help, the euro zone is going to need help, the euro zone is going to need help and so we are expecting to hear more measures that will be taken. it is one of those situations where the european union is an artificial construct, it is something that many in the eu really believe in, but of course for political leaders, they are putting their own nations first, but it doesn't mean they are turning their back on the eu as a whole. one example is that sharing between the member states of protective clothing, like facemasks for example, or ventilators, which eu leaders have after a little bit of disagreement at the beginning but they have agreed to share amongst themselves, so we have seen 1 million facemasks arriving in italy, today for example through germany, so it is too early to write off the european union over the coronavirus,

but strains and pressures, there certainly are. to be clear, individual european countries have either competely or partially closed their borders. that includes russia, georgia, serbia, hungary, spain and germany. jenny hill is in berlin. the border closures the government would argue, are partial, these are the borders with france, switzerland and austria and long queues have built up at the land borders this morning after those controls were introduced. put simply, anybody without a valid reason for travelling will be turned away. exemptions are for goods, vehicles, people bringing freight backwards and forwards and also for commuters who will, we are told, have to prove that they are going to and from their place of work. spain has imposed a partial lockdown on its 47 million inhabitants. this is part of 15—day state of emergency. people are barred from leaving home except in certain circumstances.

this was earlier as military disinfected train stations and supermarkets. its also patrolling the streets, telling people to stay at home. well, spain's outbreak is centred on madrid. damian grammaticas is there. anyone who was out, the police have been circulating in cars here madrid and elsewhere, spotting anyone who is out, telling them to go back home if they don't have a good reason and those reasons, you are allowed to be out for are limited. they are to go to work, so if people are able to continue working but many people should be doing that from home, they are able to go out to buy food, but only one at a time from a household, they are able to go out for emergencies and other than that, only people providing basic services and important services, who should be out and about. spain's hospitals have told patients with coronavirus they can't be admitted unless their symptoms are very serious.

there are some very distressing case — like this one illustrated in a bbc report. this spanish woman lost her husband to coronavirus. she is also infected, but doctors have told her to go home and rest. she's not sick enough to be admitted to hospital. you can see her children surrounding her — they're at serious risk of contracting the disease. of course, that illustrates the huge difficulties people are having to make. italy remains the worst—affected nation outside china. it has over 20,000 cases and more than 1,800 deaths. sima kotecha is in rome. the prime minister says one of his priorities is to make sure that doctors and nurses are protected from the virus, so that they can

continue working. another concern for the government is that the virus could move in bulk from the north to the south of the country, because thousands of people have moved from the north to the south in recent weeks. the south is a lot poorer, hospitals are not as well—equipped and today, the newspapers are reporting that the prime minister has said that the peak of the cases has said that the peak of the cases has not been reached yet, so it is going to get a lot before it gets better. let's move the the us now. president trump has just announced his administration is issuing guidelines to — in his words "blunt" the spread of infection. he's been speaking from the white house we wa nt we want to be ahead of the curve and therefore my administration is recommending that schooling happens

at home, avoid discretionary travel, gathering in groups of more than ten and eating and drinking in bars, restau ra nts a nd and eating and drinking in bars, restaurants and public food courts. if everybody makes this change all these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus and we will have a big celebration altogether. here's aleem maqbool on president trump's announcement. he still rates his response to all of this as ten out of ten and he is still saying he is ahead of the curve, for a lot of people he is following the lead of governors for example, around this country who are imposing restrictions on the kind of advice he's been giving today, there are some cities that are going much further than this, this isjust advice that donald trump is given

today about staying away from gatherings of more than ten people, although he was on there with more than ten people and of course, in a packed briefing room, but also advising people to home school where possible and not to go to bars and restau ra nts. possible and not to go to bars and restaurants. there are other cities that are closing bars and restau ra nts, sa n that are closing bars and restaurants, san francisco is doing much more than that saying from midnight tonight, there should be no travel unless it is essential. the sense that while he is coming on board, there is still much more to be done and there is still lots of questions about the testing regime across this country, we were hearing in that news conference that a million test kits are now available but that is in terms of being available to ultimately dispense around the country, but a lot of people around this country are reporting they can't get tested when they need to. i will be back with

you ina they need to. i will be back with you in a few minutes with more coronavirus coverage, but now for the weather. we begin in north america, two things i want to point out, an area of low pressure out to the west, bringing some very heavy rain to parts of california and snow on its northern edge. the other thing to point out is this feature, bringing some thunderstorms to parts of texas, torrential rain and gusty winds and perhaps in tornadoes as well. a real contrast in temperatures, if you look at montreal and miami on monday, a real contrast in temperatures there, but that cold air in the north is going to spill further south as we move through the next few days and the temperatures are going to really dip. the potentialfor some late winter storms later in the week and we could seize the return of some snow, you can see the dip in temperatures as we look at the city outlooks in new york, 2a to 11

celsius from friday to saturday. over in africa, storms have brought wet weather to madagascar, that is pulling away now though so should become drier here, some unsettled weather for eastern parts of south africa, but that is certainly not the case in cape town, where we will see lots of sunshine over the coming five days with temperatures starting to pick up here as well. over to new zealand and australia, storm gretel is set to bring some unsettled weather, strong winds and rough seas to the north island, high pressure spelling in behind that so something dry in midweek and high pressure tending to dominate across much of australia on wednesday, perhaps the odd shower towards the south and west. temperatures in the. if we ta ke west. temperatures in the. if we take a look at the city outlooks we can see for sydney and melbourne, temperatures will pick up through the second half of the week before dipping away into the weekend. now,

let's ta ke dipping away into the weekend. now, let's take a look at europe where, on the pressure chart you can see isobars showing something fairly windy in the north but tightly packed, it is here you will find the windiest of the weather, fairly u nsettled windiest of the weather, fairly unsettled the parts of scandinavia with rain and snow on high also quite wet in the north—west of the uk, but elsewhere high tending to dominate, is no exception we have some wet weather in parts of spain and portugal. that will clear as we move into mid week and let's look at the temperatures, 17 celsius in paris, 16 in berlin, temperatures above where we would expect for the time of year. colder conditions will spelling from the north, so we take a look at the city outlooks we can see that as a dip in temperatures to come for stockholm and moscow. that is it from me, a full look at the weather for the weekend for the uk in halfan weather for the weekend for the uk in half an hour.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. governments around the world are tightening restrictions as the coronavirus contiues to spread. the uk advice — avoid social contact, don't travel, don't go to the pub. borisjohnson said the measures were tough but necessary. i believe they are overwhelmingly worth it to slow the spread of the disease, to reduce the peak, to save life, minimise suffering and to give our nhs the chance to cope. president macron orders the whole country to stay at home — or risk being punished. he says france is "at war" with the coronavirus. president trump tells americans not to send their children to school — and to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people. if everyone makes this change or

these critical changes, and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation. the panic on financial markets continues unabated with the biggest fall in stocks on wall street since 1987. we'll bring you the latest on the pandemic from london, paris, washington, and wall street. even by the standards of recent weeks today's falls on stock markets were extraordinary. here's new york at the close. the dow jones industrial average ended down nearly 13%, that's the biggest one—day fall for more than thirty years. shares dropped steeply in the latter part of the day after president trump said it could bejuly or august before the virus is beaten. but they were already dropping before that, and that's despite sunday night's

move by the us federal reserve. it cut interest rates to almost zero and launched a $700bn stimulus programme. even that didn't calm the markets. the central bank has come in for some criticism for the way its handled things. mohammed el erian is a leading voice on wall street. so when you're in a crisis, even when it is this type of situation, rule number one is not using too much of your ammunition, if it is not going to be effective. so what the fed should have done is focus like a laser on market malfunction, but instead, once again, a hundred basis points cut and went right down to zero, that does not help. this is the ftse100 in london. what a day to have as your first day in the job, if yourjob swipe what a day to have as your first day in the job, if yourjob happens to be the new governor

of the bank of england. here's the new man in charge andrew bailey. the economic effects that have materialised during this have been extended on birds by virtue of effectively the damage that is done to the economy and that is something that we want to minimise and that is why you solve prompt action last week and again, and you can be assured of that. samira hussain joins me now in new york for the latest. iam i am interested to hear criticism of the feds saying that they could have done other things, but what other things could do that would calm them down? i think it is more a criticism that they did too much too quickly, to make you understand just the kind of moves that the fed made on

sunday, that massive cut interest rates and pumping of $700 billion into the economy, if you look back at the financial crisis, that is stuff that it took them several months to institute so when offer little bit so in this instance, the reserve just came out and did this very quickly. so markets were really rattled by that because there is very little left in terms of what kind of monetary policy the federal reserve cannot implement to help the markets going further. so that is one of the biggest criticisms for the fed right now. looking a political policy, it is interesting to see the falls continuing after president trump is spoken. there are a few things that came out during the press conference that i think really rattled wall street, as you already pointed out, the fact that we might see this continue on until july or august and we saw some big

falls after that but rarely do you see a big drop on markets, but when we heard from the president to said yes, we may in fact be heading towards a recession. it is a pretty dramatic about face because on sunday, we heard that the treasury secretary who went on some of the sunday morning programmes and said no, we are not in any recession, but now we're shooting from the president speaking from the white house that in fact we are probably headed that way. as result, markets absolutely dropped massive fall on the dowjones absolutely dropped massive fall on the dow jones and absolutely dropped massive fall on the dowjones and almost 13%. absolutely dropped massive fall on the dow jones and almost 13%. in right outside the stock exchange in manhattan, i'm just curious as to what it is like on the street, presumably it is not busy at all.m is really incredible and i'm just going to take a look around, there are so few people, it is half five in the evening and this is a pretty

rush—hour and the financial epicentre of new york and normally you will see teams of tourists and business people walking around and you do not see that kind of activity and it is just the same scene that is being repeated over and over in different parts of new york and the mayor said the new york city bars and mayor said the new york city bars a nd restau ra nts mayor said the new york city bars and restaurants need to close their doors, schools are shut and it is really, new york city is going on lockdown. those are some of the economic reproduction. let us deal with the travellers and tourism industry. needless to say, these extensive travel restrictions are disastrous for airlines. air france—klm and british airways both said today they will ground the vast majority of their flights in april and may. another airline virgin atlantic — founded by sir richard branson has asked staff to take eight weeks unpaid leave. labour's angela rayner who is standing for the deputy leadership tweeted.

"richard flog yr private island and pay yr staff, we are in unprecedented times here. now is the time yr staff need support. and it's notjust the airlines cutting back. the group that owns peugeot, citroen and vauxhall says its closing all of its european plants for at least a week — with all the inevitable consequences for both the companies and their staff. investors are betting on a major and sustained drop in demand for the world's most traded commodity. for example, here's the oil price over the last 12 months. today the price of a barrel of crude oil fell below 30 dollars — it's lost half its value since the start of the year. that's one of many examples i could show you. and increasing number of economists think the world economy will start to shrink because of this outbreak.

this is kevin hassett who used to be chief economic advisor to the trump administration: "i think that the odds of a global recession are close to 100 percent right now". many would agree. during the last global recession the financial crisis left the economy seriously damaged and unable to recover quickly. optimists say, that won't be the case this time. here's the uk prime minister. if we can get the disease under control in the way that it can be flattened, flattened that peak and sta rts flattened, flattened that peak and starts eventually to decline and at the crosswalk, there's absolutely no reason why economies worldwide cannot come roaring back. here's economic correspodent andrew walker on the sweeping

intervetion by the fed. i think the markets did well commit after a fashion company highlighted something else which is the concern they had for some time about how much ammunition central banks have left. we now have interest rates in most left. we now have interest rates in m ost pla ces left. we now have interest rates in most places that are just about as low as they can go and it could go below zero, some banks have done it, but not very far in their real concerns of how effective it is going to be. so one of the concerns is that what can they do next, if things get any worse, there are some options and buying financial assets with newly created money, but again, there are certain amounts of skepticism is about how effective they can be. the other thing worth mentioning over the weekend is that there were other elements in terms of the health crisis itself and more

shutdowns more borders being closed which in themselves suggest the possibility of more economic damage and correspondingly, more damage to the markets. the federal reserve is looking at this crisis to the prism of america and to protect the american economy, what about the global institutions, what role can they play, do they skill of individual banks like the federal reserve? the thing to look for in terms of big financial packages, the multitrillion dollar programmes and quantity, that the fed did in the aftermath of the financial crisis but he does have a total lending capacity of $1 trillion which can be deployed to help countries find a financing shortfall if their health services are really under pressure and there's also the royal bank that can do things by way of providing more targeted programmes to try and

help key services, and yes, there are options of the must be said that just in terms of very crude firepower, it is the big central banks, the european central bank, the bank of japan banks, the european central bank, the bank ofjapan in england benefit at the very big ammunition, but as i say, there's this real about how effective that ammunition is in its target. to south america next. some countries have announced border closures — argentina, chile, peru and ecuador. cases in chile have doubled in the last 2a hours to over 150. brazil currently has over

200 confirmed cases — a 65 per cent increase over the last 2a hours. now remember that brazil's president bolsonaro is supposed to be self—isolating because one of his advisors tested positive. but that's not the right term for this. here is hisjoining supporters at a march in brasilia — shaking their hands and bumping fists too. katy watson in sao paolo. help me understand the brazilian policy on coronavirus, where have they gone with the restrictions? policy on coronavirus, where have they gone with the restrictions7m depends on who you're going by. if you're going by both sonora, you have one idea of what they're wanting, but if you're the health ministry, they are telling people to limit public gatherings and it depends on the state that you are m, depends on the state that you are in, saw apollo was the biggest city in their tort schools, nurseries, universities to start closing down this week by next monday in they all need to be closed in the same thing is happening in rio dejaneiro, so the health ministry is certainly on top of it every day, they're giving press co nfe re nces top of it every day, they're giving press conferences about those numbers, the number in the last hour

so it's 234 cases and nearly 2000 suspected cases, just over 2000 suspected cases, just over 2000 suspected cases, just over 2000 suspected cases, so the numbers are going up. i talked to a public health expert just about an hour going up. i talked to a public health expertjust about an hour ago who said that the health ministry and few we need to need to listen to in terms of this into the president, asa in terms of this into the president, as a completely different case the thing that they have ministries doing its best at telling people about the risks and we are talking earlier about on your bomb and let “ were -- were tied by europe on one level doing the best they can to mitigate this. they did apparently have a conversation about it. but brazil is the biggest country that we're seeing the biggest numbers in chile had a massive search over the weekend and they‘ re had a massive search over the weekend and they're doing what a tan and doing can very quickly, we are seeing as you mentioned, —— what

they can. but at the moment, we are not at the levels of europe and we're wondering if it is too early in the concern is they have seen what is happened in europe and china and they have seen what is happened in south korea and they're very concerned, especially if you're hit the public sector and spread very quickly, the resources in these parts of the world where there are heavenly heavily under resourced and the health services and will they be able to cope, they're doing things quite early on, whether it is too early some of speculated how long you like to be in lockdown if they do impose quarantine across countries. and a calculation that the governments are going to have to make around the world. does temperature impact this virus? these are figures from earlier today. europe has seen a significant rise in the number of infections. compare that to africa

where nearly 350 people have been diagnosed with it. there haven't been any major outbreaks in the southern hemisphere. could there be a link between heat, humidity and the spread of the virus? stefan baral is from johns hopkins school of public health, baltimore. this is an envelope that historically, the types of viruses and its family, as well as related families that cause the common cold and ammonia is, associated with the common cold or seasonal in nature. and i do think there is a relationship that we will understood these viruses for a long period of time for many, many years. and as such, do you believe this virus will potentially fall back a little in terms of the speed at which it is

spreading through the summer before picking up again? the seasonal dynamics of a virus do not change its day—to—day transmission. these are the expected patterns over the coming weeks in the coming months and at least the northern hemisphere. and i think and that, one students to practice the preventative measures that are being undertaken, but is also the case that historically these are viruses that historically these are viruses that are seasonal in nature and that there's an expectation related to there's an expectation related to the intersectional dynamics that the individual level in our society functions and is the environment will likely aid and decrease transmission from the summer months and you may see a resurgence again in the winter months. seasonal dynamic can also talk about a geographical dynamic were countries with hotter climates would be expected to see less prevalent?‘ few things to note and this is been the best example in italy is that a country that is not equally affected

by this virus. italy, the people of italy are very different risk depending on where they live and we had to think about transmission that is happening at a local level and then move up from there. and we need to look at the historical data of coronavirus and common colds and community acquired pneumonia some country, it is a part of the prediction pathway in order to understand how this virus may play out. many terms are being used in a lot of us have probably never used it all into a couple of months ago and quitea it all into a couple of months ago and quite a lot of misunderstandings around them. first let's go through some of them. first — ‘self—isolating'. according to us authorities that is "separating sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick". some countries have treated self—isolation as an instruction to go home.

but actually when done properly, this means staying in a well ventilated room with meals left outside the door. and it means staying at least 2 metres from other people. and using a separate bathroom if possible. if that's not possible, using the bathroom after everyone else and cleaning thoroughly afterwards. the next phrase is ouarantining. that's defined as a measure that "separates and restricts the movement of people who may have been exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick". in other words, this is a precautionary measure for people without symptoms but who may have been infected. and lastly, there's ‘social distancing'. that means minimising direct contact with people. to do that people should avoid public transportation where possible, should limit nonessential travel, work from home and staying away from any crowded places like bars and sports arenas. this measure is designed to protect more vulnerable members of the community — and slow infection rates. here's the who on this.

the purpose of social distancing is only to slightly slowed on the virus so your health system can cope. the objectives are different and i think we have to be clear that social distancing measures are not they're not going to stop this pandemic in their own right. now let's talk about panic buying. uk supermarkets have called on customers to be "considerate in the way they shop". adding that "buying more than is needed can sometimes mean others will be left without." in australia, one supermarket announced it was: that's after scenes like this. people jostling for toilet paper at a supermarket in sydney.

all of the advice is to have enough food and supplies for 7 days. but many people aren't listening. and the panic buying has ironically caused a more real need to panic buy. supply chains are under pressure. you'll see some campaigns using hashtags like #viralkindess. that's led to campaigns like this — facilitating offers to help people who can't leave their homes. but make no mistake, they can't mitigate the hoarding that is going on — it's having consequences. actor idris elba says he's tested positive. the star of bbc drama luther tweeted

good evening. latest sports news. more sporting events have been cancelled or suspended in light of the coronavirus pandemic. in the last couple of hours, the racecourses announced that the grand national dolls do to take place in april has been cancelled, an estimated £150 million is bad on the race which is attracting a worldwide audience of 500 million people, there'd been looking for a third consecutive victory but as we mentioned, it has been suspended. in the premiership in england, has been

suspended due to the pandemic, this will include four scheduled routes with games due to resume on the weekends of the 24th of april, the quarterfinals of the european champions cup and challenge cup scheduled for early in the month has also been postponed. also suspended his rugby league super league into the 3rd of april with the fear among many that some clubs could go out of business completely. the suspension applies to the men's, women's and community game. the chief officer has said that any cut to the money that the super league is paid could threaten clubs in the communication between clubs and the government was essential in order to avoid this.|j think we need to keep talking with them, we need to keep talking with them, we need to keep talking with the government and others might be able to help us through these next few weeks and months and i think communication is the key part of all of this as we have started over the last couple of weeks with all of our contingency planning and all of her

communications to the clubs in the government and to others that are involved in the sport and in implication, these clubs so you talk about a really important parts of their level communities and they do such a greatjobs in those lower communities and it is important that thatjob communities and it is important that that job continues communities and it is important that thatjob continues for many more yea rs. thatjob continues for many more years. the boat race also been cancelled, it was due to take place on the 29th of march. additional events have been taking place since 1829, but in a statement, the organisers said their concern was with the health of crews, spectator and staff and that their thoughts with the athletes worked so hard and made immense sacrifices. following the impact of coronavirus, decisions on what will happen to the champions league and the european championships will be taken at an emergency meeting held by ua for tomorrow. the italian football federations are those calling for euro 2020 to be postponed in order to allow league seasons to be completed. the first match of the te na nt completed. the first match of the tenant was supposed to be in rome on

june the 12th at a football reporter explains. apart from five countries, all 55 ua for nations did not play football at the weekend. there's no realistic possibility of any of them restarting and how do you finish these seasons. the only way realistically that the seasons are going to come to a conclusion is by creating space and the only way of creating space and the only way of creating space and the only way of creating space is to get rid of the euros from the calendar. the boxing qualifying event in london that started on saturday went behind closed doors on sunday and it will not be suspended following tonight's session. he has become the first british boxer to secure his place for the tokyo games after beating the russian contender on a points decision. also booking his place after he beat czech republic by a

unanimous decision in the featherweight class. the question is, when the rest of the olympic qualifying bouts will take place. that is it for now, the latest details on cancellations and postponements for the coronavirus are on the bbc website, bye for now. this week is long been signalled as one that brings the arrival of high—pressure settling our weather down but we are being made to wait and even when it comes, there will bea and even when it comes, there will be a chilly breeze for many of us monday did at least with some sunshine but how it changed when this weather system moved into initially scotland and northern ireland with some heavy rain and places and continued edging its way southwards in that it will push back north with another spell of rain as we go into tuesday. so clog your day for invented wells and some patching mostly light rain to the west, some mist and fog around with the coast in the hills here, but that rain coming in from northern ireland into scotland. it will be a breezy day across the uk with an average speed

with a wind gust being a bit higher but actually cloud, the chance for rain in the breeze, it will be a modern day more widely and for many of us, it will be a double figure. it will have a goal of moving south tuesday and will be a wet and for some of us but then the rain will clear through, scotland and northern ireland with a few showers following behind and that rain pushes into england and wales. he very slowly edging southwards on wednesday, so on wednesday, there will be some cloud, some rain pushing further south across england and wales and the rain will become increasingly light as that happens. blustery showers in northern scotland with gusty winds and showers wintry on the hills but from northern ireland, there be some sunny spells but single figure temperature away from the further south you are in england and wells. the weather for entrance to clear away but as we look at the picture going into thursday, there may be another bit of energy running along it so it holds on them he

think across parts of southern england in south wales. and lots of uncertainty about how much rain will be in that weather front, but the potential still for some rain further south on thursday and elsewhere, barring if few wintry showers still with us in northern scotla nd showers still with us in northern scotland and at least the winds will be easing. on friday it is still close by comes of the idea that there is still potential for seeing a bit of rain, maybe more so focused on southwest england and south wells, but it may look exactly like this by the time you get a friday but the chances still there and elsewhere, high pressure is finally building in there does appear to be afairamount of building in there does appear to be a fair amount of weather but there a catch with this area of high pressure as it becomes fully established and begins to drift towards scandinavia but around that, coming in from the east. so it does meanafairly coming in from the east. so it does mean a fairly chilly breeze but it does shunt a way that weather system across southwest england and wales,

may be a bit of early rain still with us but a lot of that fine weather because it is high pressure settling things down but a chilly breeze already with temperatures for the most part in single figures. and thatis the most part in single figures. and that is how we look going into sunday and monday, high—pressure generally controlled but look the event tickets trying to bring weather fronts back towards at least scotla nd weather fronts back towards at least scotland and northern ireland. so a bit of a battle going on in to the start of next week, who will win? the high pressure settling things down, the low pressure trying to settle things —— unsubtle things. and it looks like this weekend will be mainly dry and we have not seen that very much on the weekends but frosty nights.

tonight at ten, a sharp escalation in the response to coronavirus, as the government urges people to make drastic changes to their day—to—day lives. many of the uk's city centres are virtually deserted tonight, after advice to avoid all nonessential contact and all nonessential travel. the advice, a stark contrast to what the government was saying a few days ago, was delivered by the prime minister and his chief medical and scientific experts. we are asking people to do something that is difficult and disruptive of their lives. and the right moment, as we've always said, is to do it when it is most effective. the new measures are particularly important for anyone over the age of 70, for pregnant women,