you're watching bbc news at nine with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines. tougher advice to prevent the spread of coronavirus after the prime minister urged everyone to avoid unnecessary social contacts, to work from home where possible, and to stay away from pubs and restaurants. the advice is very real for everybody. it is strong advice for the over—70s, and there will be, in the next week or so, an announcement over people who are extremely vulnerable irrespective of their age. the government is set to announce new measures to bolster the economy during the coronavirus outbreak, after concerns that latest restrictions could put

firms out of business. eight eu countries have some form of border controls. germany closes non—essential shops, most leisure facilities and suspends religious services. france is in lockdown for the next 15 days, with people allowed to leave their homes only to shop for food, go to work, or seek medical help. under the new guidance, people who should be "particularly stringent" in minimising their social contact are — people over 70, and pregnant women. we will be speaking the age uk and the gp at 9:15am about this and other issues. and then sport the grand national is the latest major eventin grand national is the latest major event in the uk to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at nine. people around the uk are today facing tougher measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, after the prime minister urged everyone to avoid unnecessary social contacts, to work from home where possible, and to stay away from pubs and restaurants. today the government is set to announce further financial plans to help the economy during the coronavirus outbreak, as many companies warned that the latest restrictions could put them out of business. here in the newsroom we share your concerns. we are all in this together. we will be doing our very best to bring you the facts and the most important, considered advice, as we weave oui’ most important, considered advice, as we weave our way through all of this. let's begin by looking again

at those key points yesterday from borisjohnson ‘s at those key points yesterday from boris johnson ‘s first at those key points yesterday from borisjohnson ‘s first daily press conference on the outbreak yesterday when he announced the new measures that the government hopes will prevent the virus from spreading. he's urging people to avoid any unnecessary social gatherings, to work from home where it's possible and that places such as pubs, clubs, restaurants, theatres and music venues should also now be avoided. from today, if one person in a house has symptoms, including a continuous cough or fever, the whole family should stay at home for m days. the prime ministrer also said that those within at—risk groups such as the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, or pregnant women, should stay at home for 12 weeks, as of this weekend. the virus is continuing to spread, with 1,500 confirmed cases in the uk, though experts suggest that figure could be as high as 50,000. there have now been 55 coronavirus—

related deaths in the uk. charlotte gallagher reports. everyone‘s way of life in the uk is now having to change because of coronavirus. things we take for granted, like meeting friends, going out for a meal, and the theatre, we are now being told to avoid. people being aware of the symptoms of the virus, a high temperature, coughing and breathing difficulties, is key. if you or anyone in your household has one of those symptoms, you should stay—at—home come 14 days. that means that, if possible, you should not go out even to buy food or essentials, other than for exercise, and in that case at a safe distance from others. this is now the advice. avoid gatherings and crowded places. work from home, if

you can. stop unnecessary visits to friends and family in care homes. 0nly friends and family in care homes. only use the nhs when you need to. if possible avoid leaving your home. if possible avoid leaving your home. if you go out to exercise keep your distance from others. people over the age of 70, those with certain health conditions, and pregnant women, are being told that the advice is particularly important to them. infections and pregnancy are not a good combination in general and that is why we take a very precautionary measure whilst we try and find out more, to include pregnant women in the group, alongside older woman and people who have got pre—existing health conditions. in retrospect we may find that was overkill but we would rather be more cautionary now rather than looking the other way. the west end of london deserted, major theatres closing doors. the attempts to slow down the spread of coronavirus is affecting notjust

peoples health and social lives but incomes, too. many are angry that borisjohnson incomes, too. many are angry that boris johnson told incomes, too. many are angry that borisjohnson told people to stay away from venues, borisjohnson told people to stay away from venues, whilst not forcing them to close, which could have given them financial protection. this central london restaurant was opened last night, but many people stayed away. we want to support the staff, a small community of 18 people working here making a living out of the restaurant, so we want to be here for our staff and the local community as much as we can. panic buying is happening at shops across the country. these people in wales do not agree with it. coming here and finding no bread, no eggs, no toilet paper, things like that missing, does give me a lot of concern. lots of elderly people use this supermarket, and if we are greedy and take away from them, i don't think that would be showing out don't think that would be showing our community spirit. for now,

schools remain open, but this could change. the government says, by next weekend, people with the most serious health conditions must be largely shielded from social contact for around 12 weeks. more guidance may well follow. drastic measures to tackle a growing threat. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. professor jonathan van tam is the deputy chief medical 0fficerfor england. he's been giving us more detail on the government's latest advice. the advice we have given about social distancing is four key things. cut down on nonessential contact with other people. travel, work from home where possible, and do not go to pubs, bars, restaurants, cinemas and theatres. we nevertheless accept that life must go on, and the advice is very real for everybody.

it is strong advice for the over—70s, and there will be in the next week 01’ so an announcement for people who are extremely vulnerable irrespective of age, where the advice is even stronger about staying in the house. what i want people to do is take away that this advice is very strong and, to the extent possible, you should ask a neighbour to do food shopping for you, or a friend, you should use online shopping as much as you are able to do so, and keep these visits to places where you can come into contact with other people as low as you can reasonably get that. there are two rules that will run together. we already announced it was important for individuals with symptoms of coronavirus to isolate, for seven days. that rule, if you like, kind of holds, but in addition

now, the first case in a household will trigger the entire household isolating, for 14 days. and it is perfectly possible. it is entirely plausible, that somebody else will develop the coronavirus during that 14 day period. and if it is on the two of the fortnight, then they, too, are likely to have recovered by the end of the fortnight. if it is on day 12 of the fortnight with two days left to run, then, of course, the chances that they will be fully recovered on day 14 are low, and that person should stay in for seven days. everybody else who is well, it leaves the house at 14 days. that was professorjonathan leaves the house at 14 days. that was professor jonathan van leaves the house at 14 days. that was professorjonathan van tam, one of england's deputy chief medical officers. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is at westminster.

everyone wants these daily briefings from senior politicians and medical advisers, but they also give rise to more questions, and one of those is about unnecessary social contacts, lots of businesses, pubs, restau ra nts, lots of businesses, pubs, restaurants, etc, saying that this is going to put us out of business. are we going to get more detail from the government today on all of this? i think we have to. the news conference today will be fronted by the chancellor. yesterday we had the package to minimise health risks, todayit package to minimise health risks, today it will be measures to keep the economy turning over, focusing on two particular sectors, travel and leisure because for them there has been a catastrophic drop off in demand. some anger in particular in the hospitality sector that they have not been ordered to close. simply, people have been advised not

to go to them, which means that it is much harderfor them to claim insurance, but bluntly, trying to kick—start demand for these sectors isn't going to work because people have been told, do not go there. so really you are looking at measures to keep them on life support, to get them through this crisis. i expect what you will see from the chancellor today will go way beyond the £12 billion package we saw in the £12 billion package we saw in the budget, things like tax relief, grants, loans, business rate holidays. i think it will be a much more dramatic and extensive package, because already we have heard from the head of carlucio's, the head of english national ballet, saying that we are going under, unless you act now. then you have the question of employees, staff, many of whom already are being laid off. how do they survive? labour has suggested

that the government should look at mortgage and rent deferrals, for those affected. back into the headlights comes the whole argument about sickness pay, which has not yet been resolved, despite some limited changes, and the danger is as we know, millions, and i mean millions, are not eligible for sickness pay because either they are self—employed or they'll earn less than £118 a week, and going onto universal credit, lots of unease about that because, although you get an advance, you cannot actually start getting the benefit for five weeks. so i suspect what we are going to get from the chancellor this afternoon, probably around for pm, will be an extensive and radical package to try and prop up the economy. let me ask you this, i'll be going to get from borisjohnson what emmanuel macron said in france,

that no business will go bust. the short answer is, i don't know. if you look at how we have followed other countries in terms of the huge acceleration and escalation in preventative measures, precautions, restrictions, we have followed countries like france and italy on the health front, and i would imagine the likelihood is we would also follow them on the financial front, where we have seen germany, france, huge financial support, front, where we have seen germany, france, huge financialsupport, i think president macron talked about 300 billion euros. this dwarfs the relatively modest fiscal stimulus we had in the budget but, frankly, such as the scale of the threat, the dangerfor the as the scale of the threat, the danger for the government is, as the scale of the threat, the dangerfor the government is, if they come forward with a fairly modest package, it won't be enough, then there is a real danger of

economic collapse, companies going under and spiralling into a very serious economic situations. we will hear more from the government later. norman, thank you very much. all the latest detailed government advice can be found at the gov.uk website. just follow the coronavirus link. let's develop some of those points we we re let's develop some of those points we were just discussing. with me now is our business presenter dominic 0'connell. many businesses are concerned that what the prime minister said yesterday was not explicit enough to allow them to perhaps claim under their insurance for business disruption. what have they been saying to you? a lot of contrast with what the president of france emmanuel macron said, no business will go on there. nothing like that from the government so far and we are looking for rishi sunak to say something similar today. very few

small companies actually will have business interruption insurance and normally it is designed to cope with things like fire and floods, natural disasters that. cash coming in. i've been doing some reading on this this morning. with a government order to close, would it covered by the average business interruption insurance? norman was talking about an interview with the boss of carlucioi's, and he did not think that they would be covered even if the government ordered them to close their doors. so it is not clear if they will have a claim under their insurance policies. in extraordinary times one wonders what the government is going to say to the insurance industry, and what banks will do, following measures by the bank of england last week to help businesses, whether small, medium or large, to cope with this period. businesses, whether small, medium or large, to cope with this periodm you use the bank network to try to

influence the economy, to get commercial banks to forbear on loa ns, commercial banks to forbear on loans, you are relying on individual members of credit committees and bank but that might bank managers, to ta ke bank but that might bank managers, to take action is in line with government policy which is difficult to ensure that all those people in that chain will make the right kind of decisions. the loan scheme announced in the budget last week by rishi sunak, the £1 billion loan scheme was going to be administered by the british business bank. on their website this morning they say that they are still in the process of setting up the scheme, they do not have the terms and conditions here to apply, so the emergency scheme is not yet working so we'll have to see something a lot bigger and faster this afternoon. lots of people looking out for the detail this afternoon. talk to us about marketing. it is losing a big chunk

of its high street estate. all 431 stand—alone carphone warehouse stores will close. it is not to do with coronavirus, the retail mobile phone operation is losing £90 million a year. 2900 staff are going to be made redundant, the stores closing on a poor third, so it was already a grim week for the high street without all of the uncertainty of the future of pubs, restau ra nts a nd cafe uncertainty of the future of pubs, restaurants and cafe is, and now this. dominic, thank you very much. let's get more now on the prime minister's call for at—risk groups — such as the eldlerly — to begin self isolating for up to 12 weeks from this weekend. caroline abra hams is charity director at age uk and joins me now. as does dr ben shankland, gp and partner of the hurley group which runs gp surgeries with 112,000 patients and also run urgent care centres. good morning to you both. thank you for joining good morning to you both. thank you forjoining us to answer questions.

everyone is very concerned, very worried, i'm trying to understand exactly what these measures announced yesterday mean for them. broadly, doctor shankland, we are talking about a real change in mentality. exactly, it is a real shift for the population. lots of conversations i've had with my patients, my teams, are about people getting their heads around this. everything has changed incredibly over the last couple of weeks and change significantly yesterday in terms of what we are asking people to do. the measures of self—isolation and social distancing are unprecedented. and we have a role to play in giving an assured message to patients and help them understand why those things are important, and we need to do that safely and let them know how they can safely and let them know how they ca n a ccess safely and let them know how they can access services. caroline, do you think people over 70 are clear

on what the message is, because there's still a distinction between those in good health, and those who have other underlying health conditions, aren't there? people of any age with one of a number of serious conditions will be contacted by the nhs and instructed to be very, very careful indeed. whereas the advice to people over 70 is to be careful, more careful than you have been, but it is not quite the blanket ban that has been discussed at the weekend. people can go out, a bit, as long as they are very careful, for example to walk the dog and that sort of thing. i fear that, because the message has been moving around a bit in recent days, there will be a lot of people rather confused by it. absolutely. clarity of message is one of the key considerations. we have a few questions that have been coming in, doctor shankland. i will try to put

a few of them to you. richard asks, this weekend sees the country celebrate mother's day. families will be travelling to be together, go to restaurants, eat together, will the government let this happen, and should people be doing that irrespective of what the government says? in terms of letting it happen, the advice is clear about social distancing. at the moment we are in a voluntary stage. we are relying on the understanding of the population for the greater good stock that is an important point. actually, when we think about the context of our own families it is about protecting loved ones and those that are vulnerable. so certainly in terms of my family, we will be celebrating mother's day remotely with our older, more vulnerable mothers and it is about how we manage that, and keep everyone safe, really. to help

eve ryo ne keep everyone safe, really. to help everyone understand, but that is going to be quite difficult for people. the advice is about social distancing, which is particularly important. social distancing for everyone, but it is particularly important for those who are in those at risk groups you have been mentioning this morning. people over 70, but also people with long—term health conditions, people on immunosuppressant medicine, now included pregnant women in that, so understanding those groups and understanding those groups and understanding how we, as their families and loved ones, and we as a wider society, help those people, is really important. picking up on that, lots of people will be doing mother's day remotely. when you consider older people and the sense of social isolation that they might have to go through, what that is going to do to them, what advice,

what strategies can you recommend to cope with this unprecedented move? you are right. it is unprecedented. it is important that we keep contact with those people, family, neighbours, friends, and there are a range of things we can do, the old traditional things like the letter. letter writing might come back into its own for older people who might, find using the phone difficult, or who are not online, and some older people it will be using skype and facetime and all of that, but the majority of older people, once you get beyond the age of 75, are not digital users. so there's traditional methods are going to come swinging right back. and we can still talk to older people, as long as we keep a distance. so it is going to be things like people ringing the bell, stepping back to the other side of the front gate, to check that someone is ok, and say

hello to them on the doorstep, two or three metres away. we will have to learn new techniques for doing this over the next days and weeks. natter on the doorstep, but at a safe distance, absolutely. we are going to hearfrom a pregnant mum. pregnant women are one of the other groups who have to take extra special care. so the advice at the moment is for all pregnant women to start social distancing, and avoid nonessential social contact. now, i think that when we take the pregnant group, they are very vulnerable from the whole category. as a woman at the moment who is due to give birth, i don't understand logistically how this is possible. many pregnant women across the globe have got other children so, at the moment whilst i get the logic behind why schools are not closed, i am an nhs

worker, my husband also works in the nhs, he is also a doctor, we are passionate to continue our work, but at the same time, how do i socially distance myself whilst i have to drop off my son at school? my elderly parents are no longer my support system. it's really scary. that is interesting, doctor shankland, a doctor who is eight months pregnant. she feels unsure about this situation. what is your advice? she is a key worker in terms of dealing with this illness although would be going on maternity leave soon. what is your broader advice to pregnant women in all of this? it is an incredibly difficult situation for lots of pregnant women who commonly will find themselves with other children and children who are currently going to school, and having to trade off and manage that with other elderly relatives who might also provide childcare, and you could hear the worry. ifind lots of similar conversations with

patients and staff members, who are working on the front line. the advice in terms of pregnant women has changed. that seems to be because there is some concern about what that might mean for the unborn baby rather than a specific risk to pregnant women, which we might see with something like flu, for example. it is important to acknowledge this is causing huge anxiety. it is important to have a conversation with those expectant mothers, help them understand what the risks are, and to give them some sensible advice. also, that is going to be dependent on their individual circumstances. some of them may be ina circumstances. some of them may be in a situation where they have people who are able to help out and reduce their risk while they are socially isolated but for others, it will be much more difficult, as we have heard. back to caroline

abrahams from age uk. we were talking about older people having contact with family members. what about older members of the community who do not have family who perhaps suffer from quite who do not have family who perhaps sufferfrom quite a degree of isolation already? we are hoping that in this situation, communities will give an extra thought to people like this and rally around them. if they need to go out and do a bit of food shopping, for example, what is the advice? as of today you can still do that if you are very careful. don't go to the supermarket on saturday morning when it is packed. you might go down the road when it is much quieter. go to your local shop and pick up a few things, and don't get too close to other people. older people are not being told not to do that yet. but not to stop any of those things, but just to be very careful. realistically, one could expect, in time, the

advice might be tightened but we don't have to look i of where we are now, meanwhile, charities and music groups and faith groups are looking to put in place a local infrastructure that can help you identify people who might need extra help, and give it to them. this is a real—time thing that is going on today. there are national conversations going on about it right round the country, literally, councils and local voluntary groups are putting together their own strategies. we will get there, but it is an enormous task. obviously it is something we have never had to do are quite at this speed or under this sort of pressure before. other things important to mention, the ca re things important to mention, the care system, and many of the people you're talking about will be in receipt of care. so making sure that the care sector keeps operating and that carers can keep coming to those sort of people is going to be

important. new advice came outjust the other day for them.|j important. new advice came outjust the other day for them. i am going to try to squeeze in, and ask you both to give me a brief answer, to squeeze in a couple more thoughts. eric asks, can i go for a drive, if iam over eric asks, can i go for a drive, if i am over 70? yes. that is a clear yes. and the question from helen who says i have asthma, i have displayed some symptoms, i have also dated, but i am some symptoms, i have also dated, butiama some symptoms, i have also dated, but i am a chef in a pub, i need to know what i need to be doing in regards to going to work. know what i need to be doing in regards to going to workm know what i need to be doing in regards to going to work. if she lives alone she should be self—isolating for seven days, and ina shared self—isolating for seven days, and in a shared household, 14 days, and obviously it depends on how she is, in herself. if she continues to improve and get well and she is fit to go back to work, then she should go back to work, but talk to her employer about how they manage that, along with any other risks. we

appreciate both of you being here to talk to us. thank you both so much. and i do hope, as ever, with the sessions, that that has helped to clear up some details and to allay some of your concerns. coming up, we will be answering more questions on to runa will be answering more questions on to run a virus at 12:30pm, looking at symptoms and outs of isolation. you can get in touch... and you can find out more about the symptoms of coronavirus and how to protect yourself on the bbc news app and on our website — bbc.co.uk/news let's ta ke let's take a look at europe. governments there have been introducing extra restrictions and

eight european countries have reintroduced some form of border controls. the european union is proposing closing its external borders for 30 days to try to prevent the spread of the virus. 0ur correspondent in brussels, adam fleming, has more. good morning. this sounds like an enormous project to try to achieve this. is it going to happen? we will find out this afternoon, because there will be a teleconference this afternoon with eu leaders. this is not actually an eu wide thing, it's down to individual member states to sign up and implement it themselves. so there has been a bit of confusion, because for example emmanuel macron last night said that this would happen at midday french time, 11am uk time, he meant that france will do its bit of the ban at that point today. i think we will

see throughout the day different member states at different times of saying that they are going to implement the ban as well. there are lots of exemptions to this. first and foremost, the uk. even though the uk left the eu at the start of this year, it in the transition period where it is still treated like a member state so british citizens still have the right to travel around the eu. there will also be exemptions for people from outside the eu who have the right to live here and their family members, and also people who work in essential services, delivering goods or health care or working on vaccines. there might be some exemptions for people coming in for important personal reasons. we still have to see a bit of the detail about how those exemptions will work and just how many countries will sign up to it. one of the big objectives of this at the eu level is by introducing an eu ban all around, that might encourage some eu

countries that have put internal bands on their neighbours to drop those bands so that the schengen passport free zone and the eu freedom of moment can be re—established so there is a big political goal here as well. thank you very much for that update. something else to watch out for later on today. it's exactly a week since stringent measures were put in place across italy to tackle the spread of coronavirus. more than 2000 people there have now died, that's more than in any other country after china. 0ur correspondent sima kotecha is in rome. bring us up to date with the situation there. around 6pm every evening, it really does feel like this country stands still as the government announces the new death toll of the coronavirus figures. as you say, more than 2000 people have died, almost 28,000 cases and

primarily, they are in the north of the country. there are concerns that that outbreak could move from the north to the south because people have been travelling a lot from that pa rt have been travelling a lot from that part of the country, the country's hospitals are not as well—equipped in the south. the management have been put in place where week and people are still adjusting. a display of resilience and solidarity. locals in rome feeling optimistic about what lies ahead as the country tackles the worst health crisis in a generation. how do you feel the government is doing? sorry? the prime minister, do you agree with what is happening? yes, i do. why? because it's the right thing to do, i think. i've never seen rome in this situation. popular streets, empty. no tourists, nothing open. orlando is a taxi driver. he tells us the soul has been

ripped out of italy. i'm not busy because there are no people. only to the hospital, some tourists, but very, very dull. the country has enforced rules preventing people from moving around. stay indoors, especially if you're older, they're told. but some are choosing to rebel. we try not to meet people, not the family, not friends, nothing. and the advice for people who are older is to stay indoors? yes, yes we know. you are not staying indoors? np, because we think we have to walk a little bit. every two days we take a walk. the contrast is stark. we are in the centre of rome and usually these steps are packed with tourists. men are selling roses but today. . .this. bell tolls completely deserted.

a week on from when the measures were first announced, and churches are providing a place of solace for worshippers. the pope recently said he wanted clergymen to give those infected comfort. it's a place to have contact with some — to get socialisation — not to be alone, not to stay alone in a place in a room. the government has put 25 billion euros into the economy to give it a cash boost, as many businesses remain closed. but everyone has to eat. and on some corners in rome, takeaway places remain open. translation: it's a special emergency situation. everyone has a responsibility to do our bit. you mustn't approach each other, everyone must stand at least a metre apart. the world is watching italy closely to see whether what it's doing

succeeds in killing this virus. sima kotecha, bbc news, rome. the eldest people to have died from this virus here were 95, the youngest 39. most of those cases and fatalities have been in the north of the country. the prime minister has said the worst is yet to come. italy has not even reached its peak yet and hospitals, especially in the north, are running out of essential kit such as face and ventilators. situation is going to get worse and the sense of trepidation around those figures that will be released this evening again. some unemployment figures just released, unemployment has released by5000 released, unemployment has released by 5000 to 1.34 million in the three

months to january. there is of the official figures just into us. good morning. today we will be helping you get the information you need on coronavirus. we have a panel of experts to answer your questions, and we will be focusing particularly on pregnant women and the precautions they should be taking, and we will be looking at how people can claim benefits if your livelihood is decimated. we will have an official from the department for work and pensions to explain what is available and how you apply. let me know, how are you adapting to this dramatic new way of living? send me an e—mail. and just is live at 10am send me an e—mail. and just is live at10am and send me an e—mail. and just is live at 10am and bbc two. time now for the morning briefing,

where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. let's recap the latest government advice on coronavirus. everyone should now avoid social contact with others and unnecessary travel. that means you should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other social venues. you should also start working from home where you possibly can. anyone who lives with someone who has a cough or a temperature should stay at home for 14 days. and you should only use the nhs if you really need to. from tomorrow the government will no longer be supporting mass gatherings using emergency workers. and on schools, the chief scientific adviser said that it "may be necessary" to think about school closures but only "at the right stage" of the outbreak. the hashtag #schoolclosureuk on twitter is full of people questioning that decision to keep schools open for now. it's been used in more than 7000 tweets this morning as students,

parents and teachers were getting ready for the school day, with several reporting staff absence and challenging conditions. headteacher simon smith has tweeted: "so lots of schools, struggling to staff, some i know have shut down a key stage due to staffing issues. and matt rose from bromley has tweeted: security experts say there's been a spike in email scams linked to coronavirus with cyber—criminals targeting individuals as well as industries. the bbc‘s cyber security reporterjoe tidy has been looking into this, and we can talk to him now.(0s

been looking into this, and we can talk to him now. so what are these hackers sending? they are sending is really, they look great, these e—mails, very legitimate, for example from the world health organization, or the centers for disease control and prevention but they are not, these are hackers who are preying on the fear and chaos and confusion because they are preying on people looking for the latest advice in this crisis. they have chosen to latch onto this topic and they send all sorts of e—mails. we have been tracking five of the biggest one is said to us by cybersecurity experts, i will show you the first one. this one says, click here for a cure. it says that there is a conspiracy theory going around about a potential vaccine which is being hoarded and kept secret by the government. it says, if you click here, you can get the cure but of course, you cannot, you are clicking

through to a phishing website, which looks legitimate, you are just giving them your e—mail and password. another one which is from hmrc, it looks like, a tax refund saying that everyone is getting a refund, just give us your financial details. of course you are giving them to hackers, not the government. this one is particularly nasty, this safety document going around saying, this is the one thing that will save you. it looks like it is from the world health organization and if you download the document, the security experts tell me that you are downloading something called agent tesla keylogger, a malicious piece of software which logs every single keystroke that you make on your computer so whatever you do on the internet, bank details, anything like that, it'll get sent back to the hackers and they have access to everything you have access to. as

you say, these all look very convincing, how can we spot them and not be fooled? very difficult because they are getting very good at disguising the reality of the truth of what they are. the first thing is to check the e—mail address. is it legitimate? if it looks not legitimate, bin it and it it is legitimate, that could be, if it is legitimate, that could be, if it is, say, official at who don't come, there is a way that they can spoof that, —— at who.com. the second thing is to check the spelling and grammar, if certain words are not said right of their own spelling mistakes, a lot of these hackers don't have english as a first language so that's often a big giveaway. the final thing is that when it says, click here and it gives you a blue url saying, for example, advice dot—com, whatever,

that may not be where you are going. the way to check that without clicking on it because you should not click on anything without doing it, hover your mouse cursor over the lake, give it a couple of seconds and the real true url will pop up and the real true url will pop up and that can often save you. if it isn't what it says it is, delete it. bea isn't what it says it is, delete it. be a bit more suspicious than usual perhaps. it's not all bad, corona kindness is an honour of trend that we are seeing —— a kind of trend we area we are seeing —— a kind of trend we are a single social media? yes, a lot of really lovely stuff about people printing off getting kids to write notes for their local community and putting it through the door, if people need help for the time, elderly neighbours, we will go to the supermarket or pharmacy for them. some very heart—warming stuff and also we have seen some nasty stuff coming from the supermarkets, in terms of the stockpiling, but there is this one here that someone p°pped

there is this one here that someone p°pp9d up, there is this one here that someone popped up, a lovely story, i will read it to you. a little girl at my job, she works at a supermarket, was one of two customers buying the last six hand sanitisers, . .. i think that is lovely, we are seeing this sort of thing on social media, and under this hashtag corona kindness, a bit of light in the darkness with all of the social media nastiness. we need an antidote to the gloom and that story is lovely. another trend on twitter which is showing a sense of humour about this is with the hashtag stay at home challenge, what is that all about? particularly strong on

tiktok, people doing all sorts of dances and mucking around and trying to basically build a community around the fact that so many people are going through the same experience of being locked in their homes. 0ne experience of being locked in their homes. one video which we will show you, which pops up which made us laugh. someone who was trying to pass the hours in the day, this person may be doesn't have a job or is being a little bit more relaxed, with a hand puppet, and computer game sounds. we have seen some really good creativity around this topic of this hashtag, stay—at—home challenge. it's a very nice part of this virus. we haven't had a lot of nice things happen so it's nice to stay across these trends. are we able to show it, i don't know? we got permission from the person who posted it because we are up in the air because sometimes they say yes, then they say, actually, it's not mine! maybe the producer has said... i mine! maybe the producer has said... ,we can! mine! maybe the producer has said... , we can! i have seen this one, yes.

i think it might have started on tiktok, facebook and twitter as well. some really good creativity around this idea of people stuck indoors, what are you going to do? make people laugh! people will be raiding their sock drawers to make sock puppets! thank you so much, good advice. the actor idris elba has revealed that he has tested positive for coronavirus. the "luther" star said he doesn't have any symptoms but was tested after coming into contact with someone who had the virus. in a message on twitter, he urged fans to take precautions. now is the time for solidarity, now is the time for thinking about each other. so many people whose lives have been affected, from those who have lost people that they love, to people that don't even have it and have lost their livelihoods. this is real, all right?

we do need a little bit of light to go with the shade, so let's have a look at this! many tourist attractions are closed as a result of coronavirus, but in once case, it's given a couple a special opportunity to enjoy the visitor experience. when this aquarium in chicago was closed to the public, its rock hopper penguins were allowed to go on a field trip of their own. the staff supervised as the birds called annie and edward wandered around the exhibits and looked at the other animals. the pair, who are together for nesting season, were said to have enjoyed the experience. we need more of that! that's it for today's morning briefing. sport now. so many impacted by coronavirus. the grand national, olympics, lots to talk about?

uefa are holding a video conference with representatives of its 55 associations, leagues and players‘ union to discuss football's response to the coronavirus outbreak. it's expected that euro 2020 will be postponed for a year and we may find out how they plan to resolve the champions league and europa league competitions. it sounds simple to postpone the yearfor it sounds simple to postpone the year for over a it sounds simple to postpone the yearfor over a year but it sounds simple to postpone the year for over a year but it is it sounds simple to postpone the yearfor over a year but it is more, located in that? it would be a very difficult decision for uefa to make and it is not easy. that seems the most likely announcement following the meeting today, because the euros is due to be held across 12 cities included seven games at wembley. with so much of europe shut down, it's looking less and less feasible that i can continue but also uefa have other competitions they are concerned about. they want to try and finish the champions league and the europa league. with so many members involved, they are aware

that lots of domestic leagues are affected. we had last week that the premier league is off until the beginning of april at the earliest. there is a feeling that they need to cooperate and do something to try and help european football as a whole. but moving the euros to next summer will not solve everything. certainly not, the women's euros is due to be here in england next summerand due to be here in england next summer and that might have to be rescheduled, we don't know. clearly there is a huge amount of disruption across european football, and today's meeting will try and find some kind of solution and with the players union morning ofjob losses, if there isn't that level of cooperation, that is clearly the priority of the meeting today to try and establish sums form of next step. thank you so much, laura. olympic games organisers will also be holding a teleconference today with international sports federations. the main focus of the meeting is to discuss disruption

to qualifying events for the games. that's increased with the european boxing qualifying event in london now suspended. it had been held behind closed doors since sunday and was due to run until the 24th march. two british boxers have managed to secure their places at the tokyo 0lympics if they happen. i think what we all need to just do is settle down a bit and understand better what decisions the international federations that control the convocation events, how they are planning for the athletes. it may be some time before we are knowing of the outcome of that. there is a meeting this week for all of the continental qualification but we need to see how it plays out for the athletes. it's a very difficult time and a very worrying time, not just for our athletes, but it's a worrying time in general. britain's biggest horse race, the grand national

has been cancelled. the festival of racing at aintree was due to get under way on the second of april. it attracts a worldwide audience of around 500 million people and bookmakers say around 150 million pounds is bet on the race. well, racing features on several of the morning's back pages. times has a photo of a meet at southwell yesterday with a handful of spectators. as we mentioned the grand national scheduled for the fourth april is off. the mirror has the headline ghost nation and reports that the england football team are likely to be out of action for a year, with the european championship likely to be postponed until 2021. and the daily star also covers that story with the headline ‘gareth‘s lions caged' in the midst of sport being affected by the coronavirus across the globe tiger woods took to social media overnight. woods of course won't be defending his masters title in april, with the tournament postponed indefinitely. in a twitter post, he said...

as you already know, all of the county's football has been cancelled for the foreseeable future. so how are footballers staying sharp during self—isolation? i bring you the ‘stay at home top bin' challenge'. here is derby county's martin waghorn. stuck at home with no football doing his challenge. fa ncy fancy footwork, quite outer space to do that, —— a lot of space, a cheeky back heel into the back —— hoop! he has nominated other footballers to ta ke has nominated other footballers to take on the challenge. that is all of this portfolio. —— the sport for now. in seattle testing has begun in humans for a potential vaccine against the covid—19 coronavirus. dr dena grayson is an

infectious disease expert and viral pandemic doctor. she warned that we are still a long way off finding a way i think it's certainly very promising, and we have a number of vaccine candidates. but i also want to caution that this is just the first step in a relatively, unfortunately, long process. so this first test to determine whether or not this first vaccine candidate is safe and then after that, it will be seen if it's actually efficacious, if its effective and able to generate protective antibodies that can protect against potential infection. but having said that, it's certainly a really important first step and all of us are anxiously awaiting and cheering this on. a lot of adults will be working from home today as the uk steps up the fight against coronavirus. most children and young people, however, will be off to lessons as usual. nurseries, schools and universities have been putting new measures in place to try to limit the spread of coronavirus and to protect their staff and students.

john maguire has been to a nursery in north wales where teaching children about the virus is part of the school day. this is why we need to wash our hands, let me give you some soap. washing hands is a game, a song and more important than ever here at this nursery near malton, north wales. this close to the border, they sing in both english. # happy birthday to you # and welsh. # penblwydd hapus i ti # ising happy birthday to nursery and then i wash my hands. why is it important to keep your hands clean? because we might spread when we cough in our hands. do you know what to do when you cough, what do you do if you cough? why are you washing your hands? because you get germs. got to keep them clean, haven't you? the children don't seem to have a care in the world. but it's very different for the adults.

very worried, you know, play centres, places like that, we won't be going anywhere unnecessarily. stick to the park, stick to the outdoors. 0ur three—year—old, she's been teaching us how to wash our hands so that's new. but otherwise, it's just trying to be sensible, really, not doing anything, not going anywhere that we don't need to go. i'm actually staying away from my mum at the moment because she's got a sore throat and a cold, butjust in case, i'm not going near her. my little girl is only three, so she hasn't asked too much. but she just says, do i have to wash my hands, now, mummy? yes, wash your hands. the nursery has more than 270 children on its books, and around 40 staff. of course, this isn't the sort ofjob where people can work from home. and as the virus spreads, then so does the uncertainty. 0ften grandparents are involved with childcare. but if they self—isolate, then that help disappears.

a lot of our children share, you know, parents, their grandparents looking after them, then coming to the nursery on the other days. so, yes, i think it is going to have an impact, certainly. we haven't got any germs any more, have we? can you see in the water? just as the coronavirus is no respecter of age or international borders, it will effect and infect varying aspects of our lives, presenting many challenges and making everyday normal life anything but. john maguire, bbc news, north wales. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon. thank you. i want to start with some positive news because today is the spring equinox, not to be —— the equilux, not to be confused with the

equinox. so we have equal son. —— sunshine and night. we will see some rain moving its way into northern ireland and scotland, a very wet end to the day. keep a bit of sunshine down to the south—east of england, thatis down to the south—east of england, that is where it will turn quite mild if not very warm, temperatures 15 to 16 degrees. elsewhere quite cloudy, breezy conditions especially in the north. we could see some gusts up to 40 or 45 miles an hour. these are the temperatures, mild for england and wales, 13 to 15, 16 in the south—east, more chilly for scotla nd the south—east, more chilly for scotland and northern ireland as the afternoon goes on. through tonight, the area of rain will move its way south and east, there will be heavy bursts of rain on that as it pushes south—eastward. it's all linked to the weather front which makes gradual progress towards the south—east. during wednesday morning, it will park across wales,

the midlands and eastern areas of england and it is the boundary, the border between milder air to the south and colder air filtering border between milder air to the south and colder airfiltering into the north. it will bring some sunny spells across scotland, northern ireland and northern england on wednesday, despite lower temperatures. still have that rain making slow progress south—east, will not reaching the south—east of england, just a few glimmers of brightness, 15 degrees, but elsewhere it will be chillier as the temperatures go into single figures. into thursday, the weather front continues to move south. eventually it will clear away so all of us will have a chilly day, even in the south. quite a bit of cloud across southern parts near that weather front. further north, sunny spells in scotland, northern ireland, the far north of england for a time on thursday before the cloud thickens up thursday before the cloud thickens up here. there's temperatures, eight, nine or 10 degrees. up here. there's temperatures, eight, nine or10 degrees. into friday, the weather front still across southern areas. some

uncertainty as to how far north it might come back and that will bring some outbreaks of rain across outbreaks of rain whereas further north, high pressure dominating the scene so dry and bright here.

hello it's tuesday, it's 10 o'clock, i'm victoria derbyshire, and we're live from new broadcasting house. new financial help for businesses will be announced today after the hospitality industry warned that measures to tackle coronavirus are catastrophic for its members. health experts say they warned ministers what had been the worst case scenario, with up to 250,000 deaths, had become the most likely scenario before yesterday's emergency measures. also pregnant women are included in the groups considered most vulnerable. if that is you, we will bring you guidance in the next hour. i wasjust wondering if i needed to be self—isolating, if it is ok needed to be self—isolating, if it is 0kfor needed to be self—isolating, if it is ok for me to go to work,