good morning. bbc london and bbc south—east today are joining forces at breakfast to keep you up—to—date with the latest on the coronavirus good morning. welcome to breakfast, with charlie stayt in ourarea. with the latest on the coronavirus in our area. schools across london and mega munchetty. and the south—east will our headlines today: more than 65,000 retired doctors be closed today until further notice. and nurses are asked nurseries and colleges are included to return to the nhs in the shut down following to help with the fight against the spread of coronavirus. some schools coronavirus. will be kept open with skeleton and from a nurse on the front line staff or pupils with parents unable to find fresh food, a who are key workers. transport services

plea across london and the south—east are changing to accommodate reduced to demand and alterations to travel stockpilers: plans. from today, the gatwick express will be running a you're just you'rejust stripping you're just stripping the shelves of reduced off—peak nonstop service operating basic foods. you half hourly, southern and thames just need to link trains are subject to stop cancellations. stagecoach buses in it, because there's people like me the south—east will be operating a that are going to be looking after school holiday timetable from you when you're at your lowest. monday. 0n the underground currently nhs staff, teachers, police and people in the food there are minor delays on central industry are among the key workers whose children will still be allowed line after an earlier signal to go to school failure. further restrictions come into force with the restricted when they close service on the hammersmith and to all other city and circle lines and the waterloo & pupils later today. city line closes from today. there the chancellor is expected to announce new measures on employment and wages to protect will be no night millions ofjobs hit tube service or by the pandemic. there will be no football overnight from today, there will until at least the end of april also be a decrease in the number of in england and scotland, london bus routes operating. the english fa saying that the season can while parks have said they remain open be extended indefinitely due to despite the coronavirus and they are coronavirus. encouraging visitors to good morning. a chilly help start to the physical and mental well—being. they day but most places are looking at a joined the national trust and dry day with some sunshine. keeping their outdoor spaces open. hyde and regent's park are two of it will

be cloudierfor parts the green spaces that can be dry day with some sunshine. it will be cloudier for parts of southern england with the odd shower around used although facilities like playgrounds will be closed. sussex too. i'll bring you more in about resident dame ten minutes. it's friday the 20th of march. vera lynn has reduced a new our top story: video of her iconic song we will meet again more than 65,000 former nurses and doctors in england are to be to mark her 103rd contacted about returning to the nhs. birthday. let's take you through the key # we'll meet again, don't issues we will be addressing today on breakfast. know where schools will close indefinitely # later in an attempt features original archive footage of to stop the spread of coronavirus. we'll tell you who has performing the song. she's hoping to been defined as key workers, that includes health staff invoke the wartime spirit and and police officers, reassure the public although their children will continue to be cared for at many are social distancing and in self school. isolation people can't be united so far, 144 people with coronavirus have with hope, resilience and resolve. died in the uk. we'll be talking to the health secretary, let's check on the weather. matt hancock at 7:30am and find out here's nina. it is another how the nhs is coping with the outbreak. day, we are the chancellor, rishi sunak, expecting cloud, a little bit like is expected to announce measures to help workers whose jobs and wages yesterday, grey skies are for most of us it should be dry, have been hit by the economic fallout. we'll look at what those could be. just a small here's simonjones with chance of some showers scattered around. we are also staying on the the latest. chilly side as well. pretty cold air with us, we are not expecting a premature end to sunshine through the day. most of turn. schools are the shower is coming in closing today to try to halt the from the north, feeding and across essex,

spread of the virus, with the towards kent as well. at government denying it was slow to act. times drifting further west, with we've always said along this afternoon temperatures around eight terrible journey, as we've or9 we've always said along this afternoon temperatures around eight or 9 degrees, a little on the pc terriblejourney, as we've been trying to battle this disease, we side. some changes for the weekend, will do the right thing at cloud clearing away to the north, we the right time, and the decision over school will see some much brighter closures had to be made skies, because sunshine for the weekend, windy and we've got to get also on the chilly side with the virus under afternoon temperatures of around 9 control. the government has now revealed degrees. during this which key workers will be allowed to difficult and continue to send their children to school be looked uncertain time, positive news can go after. they include a long way. bbc local radio have nhs workers, nursery and launched the make a teaching staff, police armed forces difference campaign. telling good news and prison, transport were, those stories of people and organisations. involved in food production, its they will be doing this every day distribution and sale, people who work in essential financial at a quarter past the hour and a quarter to the r. services such as banks, and journalists providing public service try and tuning broadcasting. families only need one stop key worker parent to qualify. there goodbye. will also be provision for hello this is breakfast, vulnerable children. last night, with charlie stayt some of those children were and naga ranked ata some of those children were ranked munchetty. at a message at wembley stadium and now there's a plan to boost

those numbers. the nhs is gearing up for what is letters are being sent to more than 65,000 recently retired said to be a hugely challenging doctors and nurses in england, period. health regulators are asking them to return to help writing to 50,000 former the nhs, before the coronavirus nurses and 15,000 former doctors who've left outbreak reaches its peak. the profession in the past three the health secretary, matt hancock, yea rs joins us from westminster. thank you the profession in the past three years asking them to consider returning and doing their bit. for talking to this has been welcomed by the us this morning. unite union, which describes the this coronavirus threat as a call for 65,000 former nurses and doctors to help the nhs come back supreme public health battle of our to generation. for younger people work, how will that work in practice and how are you getting in touch who've been continuing their social with them and when? everyone lives as normal, the message is can see they may be more vulnerable than others this is an unprecedented crisis and we are saying to but they must follow the guidelines everybody who has on social distancing. had a recent qualification and has please think let that qualification about where you're going, lapse, a who you're mixing with and the impact doctor, a nurse, to it might come back to the have on you because it can nhs, your nhs needs lead to getting this virus, you, and they which is quite will be receiving a letter from the painful, it's quite difficult to regulator, the gmc manage and it takes everything out for doctors, the of you. mnc for nurses, those letters are

most people who get the virus going out today and the letter won't feel many symptoms, but some will will explain what they need to do, end up in hospital. in another because they may need sign of how the disease is affecting all a refresher, and we've got some online refresher aspects of life, after courses and there will be some put the closure of some underground stations in in place when they need to physically be there. and london, from monday train services across the uk will be scaled back. also, critically, making sure they are is been a drop in demand of almost trained especially in 70% on some routes. core the areas that services we need to deal with coronavirus, will be maintained to carry goods because it's a respiratory illness, and to ensure people can get to work disease, so we've talked and to ensure people can get to work and medical appointments in what a lot about rail companies are calling a time of extraordinary national challenge. the ventilators where buying, we need people trained to simonjones, bbc extraordinary national challenge. simon jones, bbc news. fit as supermarkets struggle to cope with panic buying, ventilators and to care for people competition laws have been who are on the temporarily suspended to allow rival ventilators, for chains to work together. instance. there's the letter going it's part of a package of measures which will allow out, the call to action to say, stores to keep their shops "if you are a doctor or a nurse and you staffed receive a letter, we really and stocked with food. dawn bilbrough, who's a critical care nurse, need you had this tearful message to come back to the nhs to after a tiring shift. serve your nhs in what is going to be a i'm a critical care nurse, really difficult time". i'vejust finished 48 hours of work, ijust say 1000 wa nted finished 48 hours of work, ijust wanted to get some stuff in for the respond, next week, the letter comes through on monday, the letter next 48 hours. there is no

comes fruit, there no vegetables, ijust don't through on monday, the letter comes through next week, how soon will know—how i'm supposed to those 1000 write, qualified, stay healthy. and there's those people recently qualified people, who are just how quickly will they be in the healthy. and there's those people who arejust stripping healthy. and there's those people who are just stripping the shelves of basic foods. nhs? 0ver quickly will they be in the nhs? over the next couple of weeks, so you just need to stop it, for some they will have recently because there's people like me that are going to be looking left and they can come straight back after you when you're at m, left and they can come straight back in, their annual training has been up your in, their annual training has been up to date and they can just restart. if you left at christmas, lowest. for instance, you can restart just stop it, straightaway. for others who please! after today's have been out for longer, they may need schools across the uk will only open more of a refresher, because of to children whose parents have jobs course it's vital we keep people crucial to stop safe, that's the whole point of the the spread of nhs. the letter will go out covid—19. today and then we will engage individually the majority of pupils will be taught from home. breakfast‘s john maguire with all those who respond, and i is at a primary school in bristol. very much hope many thousands will how will it worked out in practice? respond. from those i talk good morning. in the to, people can see just how important words of alice this is. the training will happen cooper, school's out and tell for those who need it over the next whenever really, nobody is quite sure. this rural private couple of weeks and at the same time

school —— we will allocate people to primary school ten miles a hospital near them, because there is south of ana hospital near them, because there is bristol has 110 pupils across the an a logistical exercise here primary school age group. as well. 0ver an a logistical exercise here as well. over the next couple of weeks parents all around this area in all sorts of well. over the next couple of weeks we will be on boarding everyone who differentjobs. i spoke to comes back and responds to this call the head teacher earlier and she was saying that the nhs needs them. i've got perhaps listening to the initial a lot to get through. group of key workers announced and doing a rough calculation it could you mention ventilators and you have mentioned be up to 25 you've been asking various pupils. what's manufacturers to help with the interesting about this school is production of ventilators, give it's part of a wider us education the timeline if you can, how soon trust, around 23 schools, so the before they are produced and trust, around 23 schools, so the trust itself will get an idea they of are then in our hospitals ready for exactly how many children across... nhs staff to use? yes, not only children of key obviously workers over the last few weeks that also enable honourable situation as well, so this also we've been buying ventilators, then we made children that need to be looked after and then they will this call last weekend for manufacturers come forward and make a plan over them because it's clear even if we the next weeks and months. buy all those available, the school has packed ready for the we will pupils, paper packs, they've had still need more, and anyway the those ready since whole world is short of ventilators. the response has been tuesday so they we re those ready since tuesday so they were ahead of the announcement at unbelievable. if you have written in an e—mailed that stage and those with access to in and haven't had a reply computers and laptops, there will be yet, that's because we've had thousands

that electronic distance working of people come forward with offers as well. as with so many aspects and therefore we have just of the coronavirus crisis, people are published in the spec online, the engineering basically trying to get on with life details of the ventilators and make the best of what is very we need, often a bad deal. so details of the ventilators we need, so you details of the ventilators we need, so you can details of the ventilators we need, so you can get on and start making john, thank you them and more than half a dozen very much. companies have already made one in wheel chat to you later on in the morning. thank you. —— prototype to check with us so we're we will. happy with the quality. there are increasing concerns about how workers' jobs and wages it is will be protected during unbelievable. in a matter of days, the economic fallout. later, the chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to make a further some of these top engineering announcement to address that. companies have already turned their ben is in the studio in london hand to this effort and already and can tell us more. got ben, what can we their prototypes out. expect certainly encouraging to hear from the chancellor something like that, once today? the this help has been announced for prototype... how quickly is businesses but there's been strong demand from all sides of the house it approved and how quickly can the and for workers to also be ventilators be in hospitals? ina protected ? ventilators be in hospitals? in a matter of days. you're right. the end of next week? i very much hope so. chancellor announcing the $350 billion to help i would be businesses, and that was in the form surprised if it was longer than of all sorts of things, but that, because we need to prove they loan guarantees, business rate relief but work as a ventilator. a lot of criticism that addresses but ventilators, the top leg the business side but doesn't is 50 years look old, so it is more complicated than

at what workers might do, workers who stand to lose their income you or i could put together, or living if the business they work for naga, but it's not that complicated for a can't operate. it doesn't qualified engineer —— address technology. those businesses that rely on thenifs qualified engineer —— technology. then it's a matter of scale and getting customers through the door getting some of these big everyday, hairdressers, coffee manufacturing plants been able to shops, cafes, hotels, travel firms, turn their hand to all of those set this to really scale up the production. to suffer as we stay—at—home and don't go out and people have asked me, "how many do you have our normal day—to—day need, matt?" the answer is we need as life. the calls now are for perhaps a system many as you can possibly make and we will like that adopted in denmark, buy them, because if we end that's up with where the government pays up to 75% too many as the of the salary of any staff who would nhs, that's a big otherwise have been laid off, —— great problem to have and other or a system in germany where the countries around the world need government steps in and tops up the ventilators. no number is too salaries for workers on big, we just want people manufacturing lower hours. according to the spec on the the problem is there isn't website. the sense of urgency and necessarily the logistical system in the need to find out timings, place to get that money to people which is why i'm asking, who need it, so one proposal because you said that's been discussed is what's known as the intensive care units are close reverse national insurance, to capacity. when you say that, how or reverse national insurance, or reverse paye, that's where the money close ? to capacity. when you say that, how close? how many beds and how much is credited to your room is left? i'm not sure

bank statement i've said that. there is a capacity in 01’ is credited to your bank statement or payslip rather than being deducted, so that could be one intensive care across the option. nonetheless, the government system. by looking at all sorts of plans to get the nature of the disease, there are money to people who need it some areas of the country where there's more of a, and we'll get more details from the chancellor in that press conference but frankly one this afternoon. we will be keeping of the massive advantages of the nhs a close eye on that. ben, as we can make sure thank you. people get car—makerjaguar land treatment wherever that's rover is to suspend production at its uk plants from next week available. because of the outbreak. at the moment we do have it hopes to reopen the sites in the west midlands and merseyside a capacity. we need to build that in four weeks time. its factories in brazil and india capacity faster than the will continue their operations. disease drives the more people have died from coronavirus in italy need up. the strategy is than in any other country in the world. really clear, which is to try to the number of deaths there rose by 427 yesterday, push down bringing the total to 3,405. the growth of the disease and push italy is now the epicentre up the growth of the disease and push up the capacity in of the outbreak as the death toll surpassed china, the nhs. that's where the virus was first detected in december. been our strategy let's speak now to our news correspondent, sima kotecha, who all along this... as this disease has is grown. the ventilators are on one side in and at rome. the same time the measures we're asking people to take to reduce the

sima, people will have seen some of spread of the those images of how things are disease. staying at unfolding in italy. give us a home saves lives because it slows sense of what it's the spread, giving us the time to like there today. build the nhs capacity to what is well, some people are calling needed. let's talk about capacity it the and let's talk about what facilities 9/11 of italy, and if you look at are being provided to nhs nurses the population difference of china as well. lots of our and italy, it's alarming, it's incredibly alarming that italy has viewers have been surpassed its death in touch, hopefully we can get through as many questions as we can toll. china, 1.4 stop itjustin billion. italy, 64 million. through as many questions as we can stop it justin has through as many questions as we can stop itjustin has asked me to ask so you why i've had to buy my something has gone significantly wrong here. we know the nurse partner and team masks, aprons and outbreak is face shields because there are none primarily in the north of the at the hospital. where country ‘s. hospital is is the incredibly stretched. doctors saying they can't stockpile boris johnson at the hospital. where is the stockpile borisjohnson boasts we have? will i be reimbursed cope, they're running out of essential kit and these measures in due that have been put course? i will look into in place across the reimbursement, i haven't been asked the country preventing people from moving around freely, now the that question before, but in terms government is saying they prepared of getting the protective equipment for them to be even more out, the masks strict, and the protective they might even ban things like jogging they might even ban things like jogging because when you look equipment, that's a massive operation ongoing right around in rome, people are going for walks now. overnight, 150 lorries took and jogging on the streets and

making the shortjourney to kit from the warehouse we supermarkets. there's a possibility have with all the government might say the no, stop. stockpiles to 150 hospitals, that's in places like lombardy, where about half the hospitals in the it is country. the rest will get particularly bad, they are saying if their people don't stop moving lorry load by the end around there, hospitals could get to the of the weekend. at the same time, we've point where they can't treat people because they just don't provided a equipment, point where they can't treat people because theyjust don't have the this capacity. sima, for the moment, thank protective equipment, to gps you very and to much. pharmacists, and we're currently the time is 6:11am. rolling it out let speak to kat as well every and find out what isn't happening in the sport —— let's single social care setting, 25,000 of them, speak. i sound social care setting, 25,000 of them, social care setting, 25,000 of them, like a broken record but we know social care homes or people who look there is no football until at least after people in people's april the homes. we 30th. have the kit, we're the football league, the fa, the getting it premier league met yesterday to distributed at pace, and we discuss what to do next. know we were obviously that there is demand meant to football may be starting for it. we are going to also... around the beginning of april but they've decided to push it back until at least the end of april, so we are also buying more and we're going to no real surprise there. why need of the protected kit, but at the moment that the end of april? hope is if isn't the it did start

then they would have made and june bottleneck, the bottleneck is getting the stuff out of where we've to finish the season and start got it in storage. looking ahead to next season and your saying every give the players a bit of a hospital by the end of this weekend break, but nobody really knows if april will have enough masks for the 30th is a feasible date to restart their workers to use? excuse professionals anyway. that's how my ignorance, it i don't know if a lorry load is sta rts professionals anyway. that's how it starts at the moment, no football enough for a until april the 30th. hospital. this includes yes, what we're doing is getting a the premier league, the efl, lorry load out to each the scottish premiership and the women's super league. and then, of the fa has also agreed that the current season can be course, we've got to get it out according to need. but extended indefinitely meaning that there isn't now a deadline in the first to get it completed. instance, we're just distributing still very fluid in the world of a package to each hospital. football. as many clubs face financial uncertainty, manchester united are the latest is that enough, is a lorry load club to announce that all casual staff will receive pay regardless enough for a of whether the remaining premier hospital? it will be enough for a league games go ahead. it's expected to cover over 3,000 short while, then we've got you staff members and will cost obviously do the around £1 million. the organisers of the monaco grand same again. to prix have announced that the race has been all cancelled, and notjust postponed. it means that it's the first time the doctors, nurses, paramedics, to all the nhs staff who are watching, since 1954 that no race will take i totally understand that you place at the famous course. meanwhile the races in the netherlands and spain need protective equipment. of have been course you posponed. do because you are literally the frontline in what we have rightly

and the olympic flame has arrived injapan called a war against this on a flight from athens. there are growing doubts virus, and we will do everything in our power that the tokyo games can go ahead as scheduled because to keep you safe and to protect you. of the coronavirus that means of course getting the protective equipment out, but it pandemic. quite bizarre watching the flame also means getting hold of more of it so we being lit for a games in so much doubt, seems a bit have this continuous flow funny, but the of protective equipment so people ceremony was scaled back, so not the can be kept as safe as big fanfare they had planned. could possible when, in the nhs and in social have almost passed us by! care, people are doing what is the exactly! here's sarah with a right thing to save people's lives look at this morning's weather. and to stop and slow the spread of this good morning, what's happening? virus. i get the importance of that, good morning. it is the honestly. there are wide reaching spring equinox today and we've got settled effects to this, as you're well spring weather on the cards over the aware, matt hancock. next few days. largely dry this morning today, sunny spells with quite a chilly we've been playing a video clip wind. we still have a weather of a nurse, her name is dawn, she is front lingering over the past few days in from york. i'm going to play this, i hope the south, still with us today, so southern england will be a bit you can hear it if not see it. this cloudier due to that front but this is what frontline nhs big high pressure area has been workers are building and that will dominate dealing with

today and the next few days in everyday as well. a lot of dry weather and after a chilly start, thrust around. life. this i'm a critical care nurse, cloud will linger anywhere from i've just finished 48 hours of work, norwich to cardiff, and further i just wanted to get some stuff south will keep the cloud and to in for the next 48 hours. the north of that, clearer and perhaps there's no fruit, there's no vegetables, ijust don't know how more clouds drifting in around the i'm supposed to stay healthy. east coast. temperatures not great and there's people who are just for the time of year, stripping the shelves of basic foods. you just need to stop it, eight to ten because there's people like me that for the time of year, eight to ten for most, and feeling colder, are going to be looking especially in the south, where you after you when you're have the cloud and breeze. also at your lowest. just stop a few shower around through the enlist it, please! channel, affecting the channel islands through the day, they should ease through the evening and overnight. 0vernight, clear skies imean, i mean, what that obviously shows us and quitea overnight. 0vernight, clear skies and quite a chilly night ahead. is someone who is very close to the temperatures are below freezing for end of their tether and many northern parts, whereas further exhausted. we know that's the situation, has south we still have a bit of a been for the nhs before breeze and cloud lingering, coronavirus even hit, but here dawn so temperatures just about above freezing first thing tomorrow but is saintly through the weekend, high pressure doesn't know how to stay healthy because of the situation when it dominates, shifting to the east a comes to the supermarkets. bit, sitting across scandinavia so the winds rotating around the what can you do? she's completely area of high pressure. the weekend will right, i've be dry for most places but variable seen you do? she's completely right, i've seen that video on social media and its incredibly moving and amounts of cloud, some sunshine on

offer but you'll notice the fairly i hope the video shows people the consequences chilly wind coming from the east, of being irresponsible with particularly breezy in parts of southern england during what you buy. we've talked about the saturday. saturday, a lot of dry weather after supply of protective equipment, there's a chilly morning. you'll notice perfectly adequate food supply in the easterly wind, especially if you're exposed the east coast and blustery this country and it's not a problem and it's not going to be with the english channel a problem. with the but people think it is so what can cloud, so clouds drifting around here and there but most you do as a government about this? places generally largely dry with blue sky there's perfectly adequate food supply in this country, we've got to and sunshine. temperature is around make sure that people buy what they seven to nine if you're exposed need and not more than what they the easterly wind, but away from that, need. how? it started with ten or loo roll 11. and it's now with food, so people easterly wind, but away from that, ten or11. similaron easterly wind, but away from that, ten or 11. similar on sunday, high need to be responsible. of pressure dominating so lots of dry weather. less of a breeze on sunday course we're working with the supermarkets, but still a bit blustery through the we're working with the supermarkets, we have four weeks, and many are english channel and around the introducing the sorts of arrangements where, for instance, east coast. could be the odd shower into you can only buy one of the western isles and northern something ireland, but most other places and some of them are also looking dry on sunday. introducing this what's called... not they're calling it a silver 0ur particularly warm, only around seven or eight, but in the morning after they've stocked ten or 11 the morning after they've stocked the shelves, allowing only elsewhere.

looking ahead, generally dry and older settled into the new working week, a people who are themselves bit of rain in the north—west self isolating and vulnerable people to through the middle part of the week but most having a fairly dry if come in. i think we should look somewhat dearly for the time of year at doing that for key workers outlook for the next couple as well like dawn, in the same way as we're of days. —— somewhat chilly. keeping schools open for outlook for the next couple of days. -- somewhat chilly. at least it's brightening up! key workers' children, these are the thanks, sarah! people that are working 24/7 in at least let's take a look at today's papers. keeping people safe and responding to the virus. that is the times says that the prime minister is expected something that to reveal an "unprecedented package" we will take away to see what of tax cuts to help workers more who will be affected by coronavirus. we will take away to see what more we can do. we've already the paper suggests it will include reductions to income tax and national insurance. got a huge the sun sees a parallel effort with the supermarkets to try between messages from the monarch to make sure that the and the food, vegetables, fresh fruit, as prime minister, dawn was saying, is fairly distributed. urging people it is to unite something we are absolutely working on to try to make sure it and behave responsibly to beat the virus. is done as possible. "calling time" is the headline you're well aware time is limited on its front page, which also but i've got a couple more carries the government's appeal for people to stop going to the pub. questions for you if you would. the world meanwhile, the guardian has more health organization had a simple detail on the attempts to develop a vaccine for the virus. message this week, test, test,

the paper says a "massive effort" test, but it's not a mantra followed by is under way to develop a uk vaccine the uk because the majority "within months" and make it available to save lives before of the end of the year. patients showing symptoms in the uk and on the bbc news website, are going without a parents are being offered tips on how to help their children test. no, it's absolutely the mantra we to cope for life without school. are following. we are it suggests making sure they have a routine and some time rapidly increasing the amount of out of the house, if possible. tests available, up from around 5000 last the back pages, most of them focusing on the fact that week to 10000 and then up to 25,000. the premier league has decided to extend the challenge is the number of the ban on people who have the disease has gone football until april up people who have the disease has gone up faster, so we 30. are now looking to the band could last test and by the new technology, into next season and united's pledge, they the new test that's just become available in the last will carry you days that on playing their casual staff while the shutdown is on. this can... where you don't have to take picture of the test and take it to a lab the shutdown is on. this picture of the olympic flame on the back with of the all of the time involved in the times arriving in the potential current technology, the current opening ceremony in test, and instead one where tokyo onjuly you can 24, but willing to go ahead? that is test, and instead one where you can test at home and get the a really interesting one that we result straightaway. then we can expand will be wallowing over the coming testing and get that week and then this one caught my eye growth and the on the telegraph. the massive number of new tests. i'm open they go working very hard on that.

ahead behind closed doors. i've been working very hard on that. i've been working on it before i came on there holding a meeting to discuss every feasible scenario. ploughing the programme this morning, so we very ahead strongly agree with the who with plans to hold to test, test, test. this is how the open but they we get ahead are having a meeting to discuss of the virus, and i'm really glad this new test has been invented and postponement, cancellation or whether they could hold the tournament or not have bands, we're getting given that the masters and uspga are our hands both been cancelled and held it. the latest figure from off and postponed so they are definitely italy, now not happening. they made the epicentre. 3405 deaths. that is more than in china. what can you say the decision to reassure people who are watching not to have galleryless you now, the health secretary, greens and courses. golf, wooded that the uk will not be an epicentre of this virus. well, what i work without bands? golf, it's funny. can say is that if people follow it is one of those the advice, sportswear you stay home, which saves can play lives, and if in they keep apart from others, more isolation. there are than two metres, still issues more than six about caddies being with players foot, then we can tackle this and we can and proximity. and issue national turn the tide and the scientists

travel as well. the interesting advise we can turn the point you tide in 12 pick up, about casual weeks if people follow the advice. staff still being paid because a lot of the club if people don't follow the advice, is now looking at thenit if people don't follow the advice, then it will be longer and we might ways, given the have to ring in football business of playing matches more and tougher has stopped, what can measures. if people are still seen they do? there not to follow the advice, area has stopped, what can they do? there are a lot of stories emerging about doing rather than what they are what point do you not doing. exactly. there are some bring those good stories coming out of all. measures in. for i don't italy, to be the epicentre, you're think they've been trying to avoid that in the uk. we entirely idle. have put these measures in earlier the chancellor is expected than italy did in to make the announcement about detecting terms of where wages and jobs, people they are up to in a number of cases. but we are absolutely who are at risk. a few moments clear that if we need to, we have the in our coverage worth mentioning, england's chief powers. we have a bill in front nursing officer. talking to of parliament now as well, to strengthen those her later on this morning about issues powers further. i think it's far particularly for nurses. there better if people follow the advice. is the call for more medical staff have all the signs are the vast majority been retired to come back into the of people are following that

fold. and we have matt hancock, advice and that is the best way forward for the health secretary. that key workers people to follow listed in been the advice, to published. we're stay home, to keep people going to talking to safe. when you matt hancock about the key workers, how the nhs say stay at home, is that official? is coping, issues about do you want people to ventilators stay at home? being produced by factories we wa nt do you want people to stay at home? we want people to avoid all but and also essential social contact. people a call now for need to go to work and if they former nhs workers to can't work from home, come back to the nhs to that's necessary. 0f help in the battle. there was a course, people need to go picture that and shop caught your eye? it's for essentials. you can just worth do that saying in relation to both those without getting into close contact without getting into close contact interviews, either things you want us to pick up on with those with others. it's people. they are the key players. do let us very, very clear. know this morning. we'll pass it's just interesting with how them people are feeling on your behalf. there will in society and be a lot while we all try to hold onto of families working out what to do about their loved ones. youngsters society and keep community spirit, who want to see their there will be people who have been grandparents. in this case, great—grandparents. it told you must was picked up on social distance. one of the itv someone goes out today, they are well and healthy, they are not

weather people, chris page, a friend of his sent this at risk. at the picture, his family moment, orfeel they in norfolk, taking the are ata great—grandchildren to see their risk. at the moment, orfeel they are at a high risk category. they great—grandparents great—grandchildren to see their passed their local business, the great—grandpa rents and what great—grandchildren to see their great—grandparents and what cafe is open, they see simply, they wa nt to you do? cafe is open, they see simply, they want to local business. pop in a lot of people are expecting babies for a over the next few weeks. but their cow, want to local business. pop in for a copy, they are not there parents aren't going to be able to anyone, as come and meet them. socially distancing, are they doing the wrong thing? so and it's mother's day. we were talking about long as you are that this morning. it's mother's staying away from people further than two metres or six foot, that's day this sunday and lots of people would fine. we want to encourage be sending flowers or cards people to but lots go out and take exercises of people can't see their parents if well, do they are over the age walk the dog of 70. when we but the overriding next going to see our mums? message is the more that people can a feeling of avoid social contact, the quicker we are going to get on top of distance and this. stay at home to isolation. save lives, it's with video calling, at least we can see each other's absolutely the key message. and i faces. glastonbury festival and eurovision are among the high—profile events know the consequences to be cancelled this week and entertainment venues of this. it's across the uk have also been forced to shut their doors. with so many people been terrible seeing some brilliant in the sector working businesses under enormous pressure on short—term freelance contacts, thousands are now looking

for alternative jobs and that's why the chancellor this at the same time. afternoon is going to take further here's our action to support people entertainment correspondent, colin into support businesses, to keep their staff employed. i've seen paterson. so this is the main auditorium we're the consequences but yes, unfortunately heading into. this is the main there is no, we haven't venue. heading into. this is the main venue. how many people can get in had any choice because the only way to deal here? for a standard show, with this virus is to get on top of about 350. band on the wall, it and to stop the normally one of manchester ‘s busiest music spread, to venues but its shut. flatten the curve, to protect the normally people nhs and to protect are people in the venue would have been full of flight cases others and that is what we are imploring people to in everybody working really hard. for do because it is the best way the staff of 40, it's a through this is a worrying time. don't have any shows to go country. matt hancock, thank you very much for on, we don't have any ship to give to talking to us on breakfast those people so yes, this morning. the time now is it's incredibly worrying and heartbreaking. have you 750. for the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak, had to make some difficult phone including what symptoms to look for, how to reduce your risk calls this week? yes, of becoming infected, really difficult phone calls. when and advice for those with underlying health conditions, just a band visit our website or go to the bbc contour, it means no work there news app. all the latest detailed government behind—the—scenes team. advice can also be found at the gov.uk website. just bombay bicycle club have

follow cancelled their gigs so melanie nott will not the be running her merchandise stall. social media as a stream of people losing work and losing work. we coronavirus don't get paid if a gig doesn't happen. people really link. struggling? absolutely. everyone from top to emergency legislation giving bottom is losing out. ministers greater powers to deal with the covid—19 crisis will be the music goes pushed through the commons next away and everyone —— week. the measures could see airports closed and people detained everything just on public health grounds, while immigration officials disappears. with glastonbury gone could also place another festivals following, those people in isolation. we're joined now by the shadow chancellor, john normally work at them having to be creative to find employment. mcdonnell in my experience, there's a lot of logistics so delivery drivers for from grocery companies, supermarkets, would be ideal, actually but his i quite like my fitness so i'm considering home going with maybe like something along the in lines of hayes. deliveroo. going with maybe like something along the lines of deliveroom what are you saying in relation to going with maybe like something along the lines of deliveroo. it is also shot around the country that? i've been talking to the from london's shaftesbury avenue to small chancellor. the last couple of weeks independent venues. we've been trying hope mill to urge him theatre in manchester was set to

act. quicker than up 4.5 yea rs theatre in manchester was set up 4.5 years ago on a £10,000 bank loan. us to be their musicals have won awards and honest and also, we transferred to london but the success story could be about to end. are saying to how worried are you? him, we've urged him to oh, it's say wages will be been, um, it's tough, it's really tough. protected and the government will contribute up to 90% of those it's our livelihood, it's all we know now and we certainly have not wages so contribute up to 90% of those wages so that companies, we will have slept at all. we to contribute, could probably stay dark tilljune 10% slept at all. we could probably stay dark till june but slept at all. we could probably stay dark tilljune but if anything else happens it's a further delay, for for us, that would mean we lower probably would never reopen. the reality paid is that i think we all the know inevitably that i think we all know inevitably that a lot of businesses and job will be protected and we will individuals aren't going to protect the second wave of the survive this. however, there are recession. if people lose their signs of jobs, they don't you to trying to fight back. tonight, the musical have their wages. then you really have a recession. eugenius will then you really have a recession. the lycian in past crises be streaming on line viewers is act asked fast and act big. that is to donate to acting for others, why we are

a charity those in saying the government should step in. we will cover the industry fighting financial hardship. and 90% of your wages. comedians are getting creative as some of those well. addie anholt has were most concerned had next six of that structure. they are not months of gigs wiped out and employed, lost £50,000 in sponsorship for the show are at edinburgh. to try and recoup losses, she is doing virtual self—employed. tutoring. one of my most popular that structure. they are not employed, are self-employed. people who have to self courses is screenwriting an kind of to myself, hold on a minute, i can isolate or sick, do this one on line, probably more they shouldn't have access to a than an acting class statutory sickbay right now. they and they are should make sure it's a real living wage level. there going really well. i don't think i'll be able to get back what i've lost but i can at least live and i'm has to be kind of just direct lost but i can at least live and i'm kind ofjust doing it month by support for them to maintain month. i know that i'm 0k kind ofjust doing it month by month. i know that i'm ok for the their next two months and i don't know incomes. i'm hoping the government what's going to happen after that. is saying by unit that's a feeling was —— universal shared back at credit credit, it's not band on the mall whether hope is that satisfactory, it's not too low. at audiences will in time be allowed to the same time, it takes five weeks return and here live to administer. once more. it's been colin patterson, bbc paid straightaway. if there is an issue news, manchester. a lot of about offering loans at the moment,

freelance, we believe there should be grants on particularly in the entertainment those loans. it will industry. rishi sunak be covered in is making an all respects. just to be clear, if announcement that we don't know. someone all respects. just to be clear, if someone is self—employed, and the we will also speak to the shadow workers dried up through no point of chancellorjohn mcdonald. their own. where do they get and other money from? we want them workers whose jobs who are at risk. to have money all the latest developments on support, that's the first thing that the we also want them, coronavirus outbreak including what to ensure they symptoms to look out for, some of can have statutory sick pay with our those basics. self isolating. we believe for the latest developments now that on the coronavirus outbreak, also the business support that is including what symptoms to look for, how to reduce your risk gone out from the government, we of becoming infected, and advice for those with underlying would welcome that. it doesn't extend far enough. they're health conditions, just visit our website or go to the bbc news app. in large all the latest detailed government numbers, particularly self—employed advice can also be found actually don't operate at the gov.uk website. just follow the coronavirus link. from the time now to get the news, travel and weather where government's rateable value you properties. at the moment, are. the gra nts we are doing things a bit properties. at the moment, the grants might differently due to the coronavirus

be the so here is a joint individuals, programme for again, micro businesses so what london and the south—east. schools across london in the south—east will we're saying to the government, they need to do is explore be closed after today until further notice. nurseries and colleges are how they can included in the shut get those grants more down following the spread of coronavirus. some schools will be kept open with quickly. more skeleton staff or pupils with people will be covered. pa rents were is the skeleton staff or pupils with parents were key workers. it's unknown whether they will be labour party position getting close to the suggestion, and it's been open for the summer. transport services suggested in other countries, of a across london in the south—east universal payment to people in are immediate terms to deal changing to accommodate reduced demand and alterations travel with households now they plans. today, the gatwick express will be have no income. running the reduced what was said to the government, off—peak first of all, protect people in non—stop service operating half hourly. meanwhile in the south—east, theirjobs and wages. make sure if stage coats —— they go sick or they self isolate, stagecoach buses they go sick or they self isolate, they get statutory sickbay in our operating school holiday timetable for monday. further restrictions cupboard. those people who depend on universal credit or other benefits, on the underground is waterloo & city make sure they get those line closes from today. no benefits fast. it should be night tube service or all—night overground from tonight. it's part increased to £100. in that way we can of a support reduction to protect critical people immediately. but also same workers. there will also be a to

decrease in the number of bus routes the government, make sure you've also got the powers in the operating. and there is also next few a restricted service on the weeks and hammersmith & city and circle lines and the central line is currently is this pa rt and the central line is currently part suspended due to a sick failure crisis develops. at white city. now a couple who have just returned from morocco safe more that might take some time in done to help people who are designing and stranded abroad. paul and ruth some time wadsworth from use the tonbridge in kent were able to get ona tonbridge in kent were able to get on a rescue flight out of morocco mechanism to exist. to just before border restrictions came make sure into place to live they are in movement and supported. there halt the spread of coronavirus. they is john said was disorganised and chaotic trying to get back to the uk. mcdonald, the shadow chancellor speaking to us and headed the you are ina announcement today from the trying to get back to the uk. you are in a foreign country, different chancellor. we don't know the detail language, it's very scary, of those of them you feel moment. we'll keep very helpless and the severity you of the situation, it's an unknown updated situation with the disease problem and we don't know what's going of to happen. it's unprecedented. i mean, i've been in lots of difficult course. travel situations before but this good morning. bbc london and bbc was something quite different. south east today are joining

royal forces at breakfast to keep you up parks have said they remain open to date with the latest despite the coronavirus and they are on the coronavirus in our area. encouraging visitors to schools across london and the south east will be closed help after today until further physical and mental well—being. they join the national trust and keeping notice. their outdoor spaces open. hyden nurseries and colleges are included in the shut down regents park to the green spaces following the spread of coronavirus. some schools will be kept open which can be used although some with skeleton staff for pupils facilities like playgrounds will be with parents who are key workers. it's unknown whether closed. let's get the weather now with nina. it is another day, they'll reopen for the we are expecting lots of cloud around, summer. transport services across a little bit like yesterday, grey london and the south east skies but the most of us, it are changing to accommodate reduced demand and alterations to travel should at least be dry. as the small plans. from today the gatwick chance of perhaps a few showers are express will be running scattered around but we're staying a reduced off—peak non—stop service, operating half—hourly. southern and thameslink trains on the chilly side as well, some are subject to cancellations. critical there with us and that's and stagecoach buses in the south east will be operating because we're not expecting any sunshine through the day. most of a school holiday timetable from monday.(back in vis) a school holiday timetable from monday. those showers really coming in from 0n the underground, currently there are minor delays the north—east, feeding and across on the central line after an earlier signal failure. parts of essex towards kent as well. and further restrictions come at times they will drip their way into force with a restricted service further west. temperature is on the hammersmith and city and circle lines and the waterloo around and eight or nine degrees and it's a bit city on the breezy side but there are some changes for the weekend, the line cloud will clear away to the north closes and we will see some much brighter skies, sunshine for the weekend from

but today. windy and also on the chilly side there will be no with those afternoon temperatures around nine degrees. that is night tube service or all night 0verg round from tonight. it from it's part of a reduction us for now. we will be to protect critical workers. there will also be a decrease back with an in the number of bus routes update in 30 minutes. royal parks have said they remain open despite the coronavirus and are encouraging visitors to help physical and mental wellbeing, hello, this is breakfast theyjoin the national trust with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. in keeping their we'll bring you all the latest news outdoor spaces open. hyde and regents park are two and sport in a moment, of the green spaces that can be but also on breakfast this morning: used, although some facilities like playgrounds will be they say love conquers all, closed. but after months of planning sussex resident dame vera lynn has released would you still tie the knot a new video of her iconic song in front ‘we'll meet again' to mark her one ofjust two it features original archive footage guests? 103rd birthday. it features original archive footage of dame vera performing the song. that's the reality facing couples who want to get married she's hoping to evoke the war time in the church of england spirit and reassure the public that amid the coronavirus outbreak. we'll speak to reverend even though many are ‘social sally hitchiner. distancing' and in self—isolation, after 40 yea rs of friendship these isolating people can be ‘united with hope, grandmas are preparing to resilience and resolve'. let's get a check move on the weather in now with nina together. ridge. it is another day, we are expecting we'll catch up with doreen, lots of cloud around, carol and dotty and find out a little bit like yesterday, what life has been like for them. grey skies but the most of us, the green goddess will lift our spirits it should at least be dry. with another workout, as the small chance of perhaps a few showing us how to remain fit showers are scattered around and healthy while we're staying

at home. but we're staying on the chilly side as well, some critical there with us and that's because we're not expecting any sunshine good morning, here's a summary through of today's main stories from bbc news: letters are being sent to more than 65,000 recently retired the doctors and nurses in england, asking them to return to help day. the nhs, before the coronavirus outbreak reaches its peak. senior officials say the former temperature is around eight or nine employees are needed to bolster frontline services and they could be degrees and it's a bit on the breezy side but there offered roles in patient care are some changes for the weekend, or providing advice the cloud will clear away to the north to callers and we will see some much brighter skies, on the sunshine for the weekend but windy and also on the chilly side nhs111 helpline. with those final year medical students and student nurses will also be afternoon temperatures offered the chance to around nine take temporary roles. degrees. frontline health and good morning, join me again social care staff, people involved in food at nine production and delivery o'clock today for coronavirus, and those employed in key public services are among a list of workers your questions answered, we explain the deemed essential to difference between social isolation the coronavirus response. and social distancing, how long the government has identified key should stay indoors, if you live on your own with other people. workers, whose children give me a call and we will finish the week will continue to be cared for at school, despite the closure by saying thank you to our nhs of classrooms across the uk.

care will also be available workers were coming under increasing for children considered pressure. join me on your to be vulnerable. concerns aboutjobs and wages radio. and you can keep right up—to—date on the during the economic fallout of the pandemic are expected to latest developments on the be coronavirus out addressed by the chancellor today. it's thought rishi sunak will announce an emergency package to help those facing hardship in the fight against coronavirus. good morning. the government has come under welcome to breakfast pressure from labour, with charlie stayt unions and senior conservatives and naga munchetty. to do more to help people who are 0ur headlines today... more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses are asked struggling. to return to car—makerjaguar land the nhs to rover is to suspend production at its uk plants from next week help because of the outbreak. with the fight it hopes to reopen the sites in the west midlands and merseyside against coronavirus. in four weeks time. its factories in brazil and india two other doctors, nurses, will continue their paramedics, nhs staff that are operations. watching, i totally understand that train services across the uk you need protective equipment, of are to be reduced gradually from monday after a drop in demand course you do, because you are literally the front line of up to 69% drop on some routes in what due to covid—19. the department for transport we've rightly called out war says core services will be maintained to carry against this virus. and we will do goods everything in our power to keep you and ensure people can get to safe and to protect you. work and to medical appointments. it says cutting some services nhs staff, teachers, will also help to protect police and people in the food the welfare of railway industry are among the ‘key workers' whose children will still be allowed

staff. to go to school when they close to all other pupils later today. the chancellor is expected to announce new measures on employment and wages to protect millions ofjobs hit by let's go back to our coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. the there's a warning from england's chief medical officer for young people not to be complacent about pandemic. the coronavirus. good morning. in sport professor chris whitty the olympic flame arrives says the vast majority of people in all age groups injapan as doubts grow over the viability of this summer's will recover but it's a mistake games in toyko. for young people who are healthy forget gym equipment or fancy trainers — to think they would alljust breeze the green goddess will be bringing through the us another workout showing us how she stays fit and pandemic. healthy without leaving the they do risk of spreading the virus house. to more vulnerable groups. good morning. many of us waking we're joined now from windsor by gp dr radha modgil, up toa and also good morning. many of us waking up to a cold and frosty start. dry weather in the forecast. work from central camphor southern england with some london by epidemiologist showers. i'll bring you more in about ten minutes. dr guy harling. good morning and thank you for your time. doctor harling, picking up on good morning. those messages we've been hearing, it's friday 20th march. possibly in the past we've our top story. in the last few minutes, thought younger people aren't so at risk the health secretary has saught

to reassure nhs staff and social and that remains the case largely but care providers that they will receive the protective equipment this is a slightly more they need to fight the coronavirus nuanced message? absolutely, outbreak. it comes as health workers thank you. expressed fears that a shortage of masks will put them the at risk in their duties. key message, as professor whitty has matt hancock told us he is committed been saying, the risk even if to making sure staff have everything they you are young is low, there are great deals of benefits need. of avoiding overnight, 150 lorries took getting the infection yourself, not supplies only for yourself and the risk to to 150 hospitals, that's over half your health, but the members of your the hospitals in the country, the rest will get their lorry load by household and others around you that the end of the weekend. and at the may be at risk. the great benefit of same time, we have preventing infections in general is by doing that you provided equipment, this protective lower the risk... equipment, this protective equipment, to gps and the burden on the nhs at this pharmacists and we are currently rolling it out difficult time. i suppose, so every doctor harling, is when you are young you and we are currently rolling it out so every single social care setting, think you're a bit invincible, so 25,000 different social care settings, whether that's care homes that plays into some of or people who go out and look the behaviour? absolutely. i after people in their homes. that was think at matt the moment not everybody in the hancock speaking on this programme earlier. you also heard in the community has... knows of someone who has been sick headlines we were saying more than

or seriously ill 65,000 retired doctors and nurses have been asked to return to the with coronavirus, and as a result you may not be aware of the effect nhs. but hancock told us letters are it might have. as people going out today, they should arrive start to on doorsteps early next week. and see that unfortunately they will hopefully start to take on board. it's almost a call to action, and he i think we are asking people to start did say come back. come back to think about this for to the nhs to help the nhs, if you receive they see the impact. a letter and we asked him how long the process would take in terms of doctor radha modgil, of course, there is criticism of younger training and how quickly they would be on the front line and he said people perhaps feeling they are invincible, within a matter of two weeks. let's but there is also concern about pick up on a couple more points he how they are coping when they do have addressed this morning just a few to isolate or when they simply see here minutes ago. on the issue of or read what's going on. intensive care beds. what the mental health is becoming a capacity is. the health secretary saying at the moment we real concern? yeah, absolutely, and what this do have capacity. the virus has shown us, it has shown us overwhelming message many lessons, but one of these in relation to ventilators, lessons is we need to look after questions about ventilators, he said everyone. it's difficult to hear all new ventilators being made by the headlines and see what's going companies who are turning their on and not be concerned skills to making new ventilators and not have will be in the system anxiety and fear and problems within days. overwhelmingly his message to people sleeping. really at this time todayis it is overwhelmingly his message to people today is stay home. to about recognising how it can help all of us, weather we are isolating save lives.

that is the official message from or not, we are all meant to the government which is the be social distancing, but how we can people, all help each other, especially with u nless the government which is the people, unless they have reasons to be young people and the outside, they should stay at home. news about and we did put questions that many exams and school closures, managing of you have been asking us as well anxiety and staying healthy through to put to the health secretary. 0ne this period because when you look at of them was about kit, which he it we have all the ingredients answered. and i should also put the that are rife for mental other side, someone has been in health, lack of touch saying the kids he spoke about are arriving. this person says my control, uncertainty and evolving situation is constantly changing day—to—day and when you put that all wife manages special care units in the private sector and they receive in the mix, it isn't surprising their kits from the people are suffering at the moment. nhs on thursday, indeed, it can be overwhelming for he said 150 lorry loads had gone out all, especially for younger people and they will reach 150 hospitals who've never seen all, especially for younger people who've never seen anything like this and they will reach 150 hospitals and by the end of the or heard anything like this. weekend the i know health secretary says all hospitals present a programme on radio1 and social care settings will have or heard anything like this. i know present a programme on radio 1 and young people have been getting in the equipment, the first tranche of touch, what kind of advice are they equipment they are looking for? we do so desperate for. a radio 1 show nhs workers facing increasing and we've been focused on supporting pressure as they try to cope with covid—19 are being offered our people through this issue, giving clarity around factual accommodation, drinks and discounted information and we've had lots of food as companies across the uk young people discussing try to support them. for example as supermarkets struggle to cope with panic buying, how i manage my anxiety about other competition laws have been

people, how do i stop myself temporarily suspended to help stores worrying about other people i care to keep their shops staffed and stocked with food. about getting ill? how do health worker dawn bilbrough, has this tearful message i manage after a tiring ifi about getting ill? how do i manage if i have two self—isolate and i don't see my friends? how shift. do i iama manage the uncertainty about exams i am a critical care nurse, just and my careerand finished 48 hours of work, wanted to get some stop in for the next 48 manage the uncertainty about exams and my career and schooling? those are the kinds of things. hours. there is no fruit, also things like panic attacks and anxiety vegetables, i don't know how i'm supposed to stay and sleeping and how to gain continuity healthy. and those in your day—to—day life. sleeping and how to gain continuity people, people who are just in your day-to-day life. doctor stripping the shelves harling, if we go back to the virus of basic itself and how it is spreading, foods, you just need to stop people are obviously watching the numbers very carefully and the it! because it's people like numbers very carefully and the numbers testing positive is rising me that are dramatically day by day at the going to be looking after you moment. to what extent is that what when you are at your lowest, just we we re moment. to what extent is that what stop we were expecting? it! please! we i think it is fair to say this is have had a what we were expecting. it huge reaction to people who have seen comes down to the reality that as we start that, we will pick up on some of to ramp your thoughts on panic buying and how it's affecting people. it's five up efforts minutes past eight. to control the government has revealed this which key workers will be allowed virus, there's just a to ramp up efforts to control this to continue to send their children virus, there'sjust a certain, sort to school to be looked after. of, the pathway of the epidemic more they include nhs workers; nursery

and teaching staff; the police, or less keeps on rolling armed forces and prison officers; transport workers; those forwards. involved in food production, the key thing is we saw yesterday its distribution and sale; people the numbers were just over who work in essential financial services, such as banks; and journalists providing 3000 people who've tested positive but public—service broadcasting. families need only one there's obviously a lot more people key—worker parent to qualify. out there who have become there will also be provision for vulnerable children. infected but are not yet symptomatic. but each person and those who will never become symptomatic, but each of those people is potentially passing it on to other people, two or three, and then the mathematics of it really is just... it just and then the mathematics of it really is just... itjust rolls i know lots of people have been forward and less we take getting in touch, confused about serious measures to try to control the that so if there's one key worker epidemic. doctor harling, it in the family, children to is naga remain at school. john maguire is here. we've seen the number in at school in italy hit 3405, and that is more than bristol this morning for us. john, very interesting time, schools the... the number of deaths, that is more than in china. how having to deal with the practical reality of what it will be like can we assure people here or can we, or can from monday. i think it was around you, midnight, the key worker list that we are better equipped than emerged. head teachers everywhere italy to avoid are trying to work out what it will becoming the next look like next epicentre? it's week. quite right.

a very what i'm being told this morning is good the list is a little bit more question. i'm not able extensive than they were anticipating, everybody of course to say... i'm not involved in government might have thought about the blue policy so light emergency services, nhs i don't know how well—equipped we workers, of course but far more are. we have the benefit extensive than was anticipated. at this school for example, of hindsight... you could look at it around ten thinking of the measures we've been miles south of the city advised to take and how the of bristol, government and how we are reacting 110 pupils, they think it might be something in the region of in society? i think the key about 20-25 something in the region of about message there would be the measures that have been recommended are 20—25 pupils. something like 20, measures 20 we should be looking to follow at 596 20—25 pupils. something like 20, 20 5% that they will need to think about accommodating not just for the this point, and the benefits aren't next two weeks, the normal end of just to you but to the people the term up to the easter holidays around you. really the sooner we but through the easter holidays as well. and then you will have to start to do those things, the better the factor in some of the vulnerable outcomes are likely pupils as well, for whatever to be. doctor reason they are classified as vulnerable. modgil, a last thought from this school is part of a you, wider educational trust, 23 schools. they talking about behavioural practices, that's the emphasis for those of all have got a much bigger action plan ages, and young people as well, but it's based upon making sure about what we're doing on that the children can be looked after in a safe and secure environment, a daily basis? absolutely, another lesson this virus is bringing up is making sure their education continues and also crucially, making

as individuals we all have a sure they are fed and for those responsibility in our society to each other and what we do now will children that qualify for free school meals, to make sure they get determine how this virus goes in at least a meal a day and our country. what we can do now is focus also in some cases, something like a packed on that advice and follow that lunch that they can take home with them at the end of the day. major advice, we're talking about mother's logistical undertaking. john, day this sunday and talking about how we love our parents and the thank people around us and the best thing you so you can do if you love someone and much, we if you care about the will see society we are you later. in is to follow the guidelines there are increasing concerns around social distancing and about how workers' jobs self—isolation, it will make a and wages will be protected during the economic fallout. massive difference. it's really later, the chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to make a further a call to action to be compassionate announcement to address that. to others. thank you ben is in our business newsroom in london very much, and can tell us more. doctor modgil, and doctor harling, ben what can we thank you to as expect from the chancellor today? well. we keep reminding you this morning we've heard about how businesses are we are speaking to health secretary going to be helped, but what matt hancock at 7:30am, less about individuals, people whosejobs than an going to be helped, but what about individuals, people whose jobs are not secure? you're hour, all your thoughts welcome as to what you would like to know. do absolutely right, get in touch. the chancellor outlined a we are going to talk about planned to have businesses, loan guarantees, sport and what's not happening, kat? but what rate relief, but questions about is happening! those who work in businesses that

rely on customers coming into their we've seen these pictures of the stores every day, i'm 0lympic we've seen these pictures of the olympic flame arriving in tokyo on a talking about plane from athens. in pubs, hotels, hairdressers, coffee shops, those sorts of things, but a normal 0lympic year, that would be a help will be available to them? lots moment of huge excitement but it seems of questions about what the so chancellor may announce at the press incredibly incongruous given everything we are seeing in this conference later. he might look to a country, everything going on system that is in place in denmark. the government steps in and pays up in japan as well, to to three quarters of your salary if forge ahead with you lose yourjob. 0r the olympics and this big symbol of to three quarters of your salary if you lose yourjob. or maybe a system thatis the olympics and this big symbol of the start of the olympics, this big you lose yourjob. or maybe a system that is currently in place in germany. if you are asked to festival of sport which should work reduced hours than the government be lifting the spirits of the entire will top up the extra earnings to world, and wouldn't it be incredible mean that you don't see a dip in if it could go ahead? that's what your wages. and there is a organisers are saying, wouldn't it proposal to make sure the welfare system a be amazing? it is a symbol bit more generous. of hope and global celebration if basic universal income, that would be a cash lump it goes sum paid to workers affected to ahead, and that's why they're not willing to abandon the plans yet. cover their day—to—day expenses. but that means there is also big the olympic flame has arrived injapan on a questions about how it would be flight from athens. paid. perhaps it might be what there was a scaled—down is known as reverse national insurance, ceremony at an airbase in the north of the country. rather than deducting that from your there are growing doubts pay slip they add it instead but that the tokyo games can start lots of questions for the chancellor

as scheduled onjuly the 24th about what he will do, how it will because of the coronavirus pandemic, be paid and who it will be paid but british sprinter richard kilty doesn't think that pushing to. the olympics back we should get details at the press a year is the answer. conference this afternoon. thanks very much. i think it should be pushed back to maybe september, and i don't think train services across having it next year is the answer the uk are to be reduced gradually from monday, because we have the world after a drop in demand of up to 69 championships next year, the world per cent on some routes in championships has already been due to covid-19. pushed back to next year, we don't the department for transport says core services know where the europeans stand, so will be maintained to carry goods to have these five or six and ensure people can get to work and to medical appointments. major athletics championships in 2021 just doesn't make sense, so i think it says cutting some services will also help to protect the the welfare of railway staff. best option would be to push it more people have died back to september/ october time if they from coronavirus in italy than in any other country can do that, but again in the world. the number of deaths i don't know what their plans, what their there rose by 427 yesterday, thoughts... strategically how that bringing the total to 3,405. would work, i don't know. italy is now the epicentre doubts over the olympics continue. of the outbreak as the death toll surpassed china, football in england and scotland will be suspended where the virus was first until the 30th of april detected in december. at the very least because of the coronavirus. let's speak now to our this includes the premier league, news correspondent sima the efl, the scottish premiership kotecha who and the women's super league. the fa has also agreed is in that the current season can be extended indefinitely meaning that there isn't now a deadline rome. to get you have followed this story over

it completed. the past weeks and months in italy. give us the situation as despite the announcement, there are still fears that the league won't get you see it finished at all this year, today? charlie, some but bournemouth captain simon francis, whose team currently lie in the relegation zone, people are says that he isn't worried calling it the 9/11 of about the league ending as it stands. italy. compare china to italy, china has a i don't think we'll be in that population of 1.4 situation. i think the remaining billion people, italy 64 million, questions games of the season have to be this played, we have to give ourselves morning as to why and how the best chance we can prove we can italy has stay in the premier league and i'm had such a big death toll. the prime sure the other teams around us in minister says the situation is going the bottom three will feel the to get worse before it gets same. i think it will open up to many better, particularly bad in the north of problems in football to end the the country, the hospitals are season like that, however, i think the whole season being stretched, we saw some very disturbing footage yesterday of the null and void military moving conference across is still a possibility unfortunately the longer this goes on and the fact a city in the north because the we're waiting so long to play games crematorium could not cope with the again. the england and wales cricket board death toll. are meeting later today the stringent to dicuss how the season will be rescheduled following the coronavirus outbreak. measures many county sides that are in place across are worried about the potential of losing their season italy because of the restrictions on sport preventing people from moving around from city to city without good in light of the pandemic, and the implications that this reason, there is talk today could have for the future of the domestic game. of those paul horton is the captain stringent measures being made even of division two side leicestershire, more strict. at the moment you can

and he says go more strict. at the moment you can aviogging more strict. at the moment you can gojogging if you want, you can go that the worries to the shops, you can walk your dog but as i said, there is talk of that goes far beyond the being banned as well. people field of play. here, even though it's been 11 days since stringent measures have been put in there's careers, livelihoods, where we're going to be, is there going to place, they are still adjusting to them ona place, they are still adjusting to them on a be any loss of earnings? how daily basis. thank are they going to be financially you. affected by this moving let's ta ke them on a daily basis. thank you. let's take a moment, it's 12 minutes forward? first and foremost, how are our past eight. let's look at the weather. sarah with the details. current contracts going to be good morning. good affected at all, because we are not morning to you. playing, we're cricketers, we get spring equinox today, played play in cricket games, so how will that affect us? for some fairly settled weather in the forecast. the guys most of us seeing some sunshine out of contract in six months time, today, quite a chilly wind around, the future is a scary thought for a lot of people. quite a cold and frosty started the a scary thought for day across northern and central a lot of people. parts of the uk. further south you can see the satellite this band of working from home has proven harder cloud, quite stopping for the past for some than others. few days, still with us today how can you be productive with producing some showers. particularly family around, we were talking about down towards the channel islands, that earlier. some of the shower is heavy with a chelsea women's maria thorisdottir shared rumble of thunder. most a video of her training at home, as you can see she's other places having a bit of trouble, are looking trite with some sunshine in the end she had to use her dog on offer. the breeze coming from the

as part of the workout. how familiar is theirs for people east, making things feel quite chilly particularly in the south and watching at home? so familiar! people have posted in of their caps those temperatures, not great for going to sleep on their the time of year, between eight and laptop. 0k, 11 degrees but if we fine, you are part of the look at this workout and you canjoin in and look how afternoon, starting across scotland. delighted that dog is! a big dog generally dry, we mightjust see an to isolated shower but most people be lifted! very avoiding them, light winds. pleasant strong! all pets enough afternoon. as we move 00:46:20,1000 --> 00:46:21,471 further love working out, when i do south, similar picture across the yoga, my catsjoin in and they midlands, into wells, bit of a love working out, when i do yoga, my cats join in and they show me love working out, when i do yoga, my catsjoin in and they show me how love working out, when i do yoga, my cats join in and they show me how to breeze further south, making things do pose better. humiliating!m feel chilly. claudia at skies, great conditions lasting throughout the cats join in and they show me how to do pose better. humiliating! if you have got images or pictures of how it is working out... day. particularly along the english that is the channel with some showers. —— pun! how it's working at cloudy skies. elsewhere we home, these things are giving other people have clear comfort because it's a shared experience so let us skies, temperatures falling quickly tonight, chilly night with know this morning. send them in. temperatures below freezing in the sarah might bring countryside. for northern parts of usjoy nojoy with the uk. further south temperatures the weather because it looks like a things are brightening few degrees above freezing. chilly start to saturday, largely dry up? say no and settled weekend. some sunshine. not we particularly warm for the time of got some dry settled weather on the year. still the cards, it is the spring

equinox but sun is shining. there will be a bit of cloud there and also quite a chilly we wind around. will take that, sarah? yes, indeed. high pressure very much dominating it's things, not just today high pressure very much dominating 14 things, notjust today but it's really sticking minutes with us. we've got past this stubborn eight. doctors, ambulance one. particularly workers and those caring for the most vulnerable, are on the frontline of dealing across southern england. with the impact of the pandemic. let's find out now how some the lee of them are feeling, particularly down towards the we're joined by michael crowther channel islands. who is the chief executive of kirkwood hospice in huddersfield and mark ainsworth is the director a frosty of operations at south central ambulance service and joins us start of from winchester. the day. it's looking decent out thank you both so much for your time there, temperatures only about 8— this morning, we appreciate you are so this morning, we appreciate you are so busy. what is the picture you can 10 degrees. moving into paint for so busy. what is the picture you can this evening paintfor us? and tonight, a bit of cloud so busy. what is the picture you can paint for us? let's start with mark. we've already seen the and breeze across southern 111 calls nationally about 15%, we are parts of england. temperatures dipping starting to see 999 calls increasing as well, the challenge for us is not down below freezing. only the call volume going up, staff are being affected as well, like all what about providers we are starting to see the the number of staff self isolating

weekend. high—pressure dominating. increasing, it's starting to it is shifting off towards the decrease the number of ambulances out on the road so it's getting very east. the winds around that. busy for staff who are still continuing to do an excellentjob quite a brisk under extreme pressure. can you easterly wind as well. a lot of dry weather on the cards through the break that down for us a little? course of the it's really concerning for you. are you still able to operate the same weekend. variable amounts of cloud, some sunshine. service, are you able to increase the service given the problems also a fairly chilly wind through the weekend as well. you're facing in terms staffing saturday starts levels ? up you're facing in terms staffing levels? we are still attending all the weekend as well. saturday starts up on that cold frosty note. again, of the patients who call the breeze coming in from 999, we are the west however taking longer to get some of —— beast will be quite noticeable the lower great calls, still but a lot of dry weather achieving to get to with sunshine, ground starting to dry the life out. a bit cloudy through the threatening and saving emergencies english channel on as quickly as we can but some patients are having to wait longer saturday. not than we would normally like them to. great. 0nly around about 7—9d on the cani than we would normally like them to. can i ask you in relation east coast but away to we we re from the east can i ask you in relation to we were talking to the health secretary earlier, a lot of people in the coast, temperatures around about 11 or10 coast, temperatures around about 11 or 10 degrees on saturday as we health industry are concerned generally about how they are equip had to enter sunday, a similar sort themselves with personal protection of day again, some sunshine around, equipment. and the like. how is mostly dry. i will be that affecting the ambulance service? so back in about half—an—hour and apologies from far we've had a really good supply microphone problems. a of protective equipment to our little bit of

staff, we a re of protective equipment to our staff, we are getting regular rustling but we got it all. deliveries currently, we are they say love conquers all, increasing our stock levels to cope but after months of planning with increasing demand but the staff would you tie the knot in front ofjust two guests? are following the guidelines and church of england weddings during the coronavirus outbreak wearing appropriate masks and are to be limited to five people — equipment that they need to wear for the priest, the bride and groom the patients they are attending. michael, let's pick this and two witnesses. the church said important life up with events can go ahead but must be you, good morning and thank you for "very significantly scaled back", so people can follow joining us, the chief executive of social distancing advice. we'rejoined now kirkwood hospice and at the hospice you provide end—of—life care. in the from central home or out in the community and i london by reverend wa nt to home or out in the community and i want to pick up on what mark has been saying, what is the situation sally hitchiner. you've been binding in terms of equipment and a very good morning to workers? equipment you. just ta ke a very good morning to you. just take us through how you see is these new guidelines, these new an issue, actually, for hospices up and down the country we want to make instructions. we've been really sure we are still in the thoughts of surprised how many couples wanted the nhs when it comes to the supply chain and equipment we need. staff to carry on with their plans. i was expecting to be 50% who want to have got what they need at the moment, they are postpone and have a massive wedding working safely with with a big party but actually what we've found is that lots of couples, moving compromised patients but we need to make sure we are still in the plans of the nhs. what in fact all the couples would been in contact with that scent monitors about in are terms of workers. 0ne in contact with that scent monitors a re really in contact with that scent monitors are really keen to carry on even if the plans of the nhs. what about in terms of workers. one of our top stories today is that there has been it's with a couple of guests. a call for those

have you got weddings coming up very who recently worked and left the nhs, 65,000, soon? the beginning of april so to come definitely within the timeframe we back, come back and help those who are looking it. it will are working at the moment. would be a very that help you different sort of wedding but we're in your industry? very keen where couples do want to get married, we don't want this absolutely. as a hospice we rely pandemic to stop them. really heavily on volunteers anyway, how did this the majority of the workforce. but work? did you actively at the moment we are in contact them? unprecedented times, aren't we? for what do you the first time in a long think? how that time we need to as a society concentrate on conversation went? we've been the needs of the most vulnerable contacted conversation went? we've been co nta cted by conversation went? we've been contacted by them as well. we have which is why hospices are set up so we are which is why hospices are set up so we a re really active brides and grooms which is why hospices are set up so we are really fortunate in that we've got volunteers as well as who are employees but any help that the keen that their winnings take local community can give to focus on place. thinking to not say no wherever we the needs of those most vulnerable can. we were contacted by would be most welcome.” the needs of those most vulnerable would be most welcome. ijust want all of the to ask it as well about couples who have weddings what you are coming up witnessing when it comes to personal but we also proactively contacting relationships. we've been hearing people as well and saying, many stories from people who are this is very concerned about not being able what we have got to do. it's only to see unwell family members or because of health advice from the elderly people, those who are over church and from the government the age of 70, members, and from experts, we want to make sure or those who

that everyone is healthy. the last are having to self—isolate and they thing we want is for someone to get are having to self—isolate and they are concerned about that lack of sick from the wedding and social contact. how are you dealing potentially dangerously sick. so we with that? it's another layer in the level of care that needs to be we re potentially dangerously sick. so we were looking at how we can either offered, surely? really postpone and couples could hold important one. people who have got most their weddings in six months or longer if they needed to and compromised health issues are the we do ones going to be most affected by everything we can to minimise the the virus and didn't last thing we cost for them in wa nt the virus and didn't last thing we want is for people who are doing that. but approaching the end of their lives most couples actually said they want to be cut off from people that to continue. that's lovely. are most important to them. after all, i suppose you've got to smile a little we need to focus on what matters bit in these situations but it's to individuals. we are working hard to going to make them scratch their heads a bit about who are the two try and balance risk because they've only got two to our employees and our professionals guests, two witnesses. that narrows it down with the needs of patients so we are quite a bit. it trying to do that in really does. we are a very sensible way. mark, if we can go trying to look at live streaming options. we then live back to you. the ambulance service, we were streaming speaking to the health secretary a services and getting about 1000 moment ago and people will be well views for our regular services aware of this by now, this call to every day so i think, why don't we look at arms for people who used to live streaming weddings. gatherings, work within the nhs, i'm curious, given small gatherings in homes. people what you said about how your raising a glass to the teams could be affected themselves by happy couple their own circumstances, is that evenif raising a glass to the happy couple even if they can't

something that could work for you as be there in well? the notion of people who person. are you are recently retired from the ambulance getting many people service coming back into the watching? we have over 1000 system? yes and we've already started doing that, we contacted employees that people just for morning prayer and a lunchtime services. we can't left recently to see if they can come back and support us, even get a thousand people we also have a wide range of volunteers in our church. who respond to 99 calls for us, they are people have spoken to, not not attending on those patients but even we are looking at where else they church—goers, a lot of people are might be able to move looking for sources of comfort and kindness at times like equipment orders, provide staffing support and this and the ten patients were waiting for an regularity of a real ambulance to arrive so we are very much looking at how we boost that person, proclaiming words of hope and love workforce is quickly and robustly as every morning and every lunchtime is we can. and just a something a lot of people are final thought, joining into. an morale? you'd know by smaller churches now the public is very much worried about the are finding people in their community are tuning in to morale of people working in the roles you are working on. how are stay linked in and you trying to keep connect with messages. people going? the it's lovely speaking crews a re you trying to keep people going? the crews are working exceptionally hard to you. that out there, contact centres, i've never seen volumes out there, contact centres, i've never seen volumes coming in through the call centre is we have. message. a lot of people are seeking morale is still really high, lots of

a bit of comfort in one way or concerns around the crews going into another, orjust patient‘s houses but we are a bit of comfort in one way or another, or just some, a bit of comfort in one way or another, orjust some, rivalry. good luck to those people. it will doing all we can, be a there are goodwill story to tell. gestures from companies and people it won't last supporting them, companies making discounts available to forever. nhs workers, earlier this week, we met doreen, carol and dotty, changing things, and that's helping three best friends in their 70s to keep and 80s who can't bear staff going. to self—isolate alone, so they have decided to move in together. i'm curious since their first appearance, now, those goodwill gestures. what the internet has exploded with love are they doing? we've for the trio. breakfast‘s jayne mccubbin has been speaking to them as they had food delivered to some of the control make their rooms. food liver to stations. the public really are aware of the tough final arrangements before job the staff are doing out on the the big road. —— food move. delivered to stations. it's the wrong choice of words for this time but you thank you both, i know the front line is under huge stress. good have gone viral. luck like a virus! so many fell in love with all the days ahead. some lovely with them and their spirit, their m essa g es with all the days ahead. some lovely messages coming through. belief that friendship would help pull them through. doreen people saying thank you to the emergency was services and it's good to be able to talking to me on the phone and i said to her, if we all have to go talk to them. it's and lock down, as i call it, for 20 past eight. of course for most 12 people who fall ill, weeks, they will find me their first contact with the health

dead, cold services will be with gps. on the floor and many surgeries are moving to protect patients and staff a notice on me, against coronavirus by reducing face to face vists and switching i have died of loneliness. to telephone and video appointments wherever they can. on the floor and a notice on me, i have died of lonelinesslj on the floor and a notice on me, i have died of loneliness. i said, well, you won't be on your own 0ur reporter jim reed spent the day at a gp practice near watford, because come and be with us, we will to see how doctors on the front line because come and be with us, we will are dealing with the outbreak. be on our own together and dottie said we could do that.|j be on our own together and dottie said we could do that. i don't know do you want to come over to what i do without my friends, all of the them. friendship is a window? i will hand you the mask, if wonderful you put the mask on i will come and thing. this is get you. across the country gps have me with dark had to change the way they hair and young. i work. here, a patient with possible virus symptoms is passed mask through the would say, window. if you pop that on i will 28, 29. come round the front. without a testing which they can't do in gp they've surgeries we cannot know if she has the virus. each surgery has been firm friends forever 40 years, a different way of working. seeing each other through births, deaths, divorce and cancer, this here, virus would keep them apart. she patients are told to self—isolate and go to the nhs website. they need never liked kids but now and go to the nhs website. they need an appointment, it's limited to five she invites everybody. we always have a party. minutes. last thing we to how are you going to pass the time, do is test your blood what are you going to be doing?” thought about this. we need an pressure. your heart itinerary. we've rate is quite fast as

well, done an actually. have you felt like your heart is racing? yes. trying not to itinerary. cough as well. we'll get some word search. i will ok. i think go to we'll get some word search. i will gotoa we'll get some word search. i will go to a charity shop maybe i'm going this afternoon. maybe this afternoon to get you some of the medical team and get from the hospital. this may or may not be coronavirus, we cannot say artisanjigsaws. for certain. you've got underlying asthma, it makes things quite afternoon. maybe this afternoon and get artisan difficult, you don't sound very queasy at the moment but quite short jigsaws. get of breath, i want to excited. get you seen, they tell me that over home bakes, just for observations, i'm slightly worried, they are not normal so i toa wa nt worried, they are not normal so i want the medical team to see you. they tell me that over home bakes, to a soundtrack of dusty springfield, rod stewart and jean the patient is sent to hospital. pitney, they are going to keep each she other safe. are you scared? was later given a blood test and a little, maybe. it is an x—ray, no test for the virus. she was sent home quite frightening if you are on your to recover. while own. but you're not on your own. no, no. some other gps have stopped face to we are not. face as long as were, this large practice has split itself into three floors. 0n the we do as ground floor, in the so—called we're told look hubs own a small team sees patients after other and only with coughs, fever, and a shortage ourselves, we are all in of breath. we are it together. we must never working downstairs

here, treating this almost like underestimate the value of friendship. you can have as an a&e department, we are seeing the much money or anything, there is nothing patients with fever, coughs, like a friend. i mean, my flu—like illnesses and we have a mother used to say, if she was talking second team of doctors, we are about something, it's a shame for trying to keep them clean, they are them, you know, all they've got ona trying to keep them clean, they are on a separate floor and they are his seeing all the normal money. you know, when things are bad bread—and—butter gp stuff day in and and you got a friend day out that we see, lumps, bumps, therefore you, back pain. the staff you can't make it any in this section better. it is the pain. expect to get the virus at this point, the idea is do they replace their message, pick up them with clean doctors from the cold zone upstairs or those working the phone, get back in touch, checking from home? the message they on neighbours. you're going past want to get across to the public is to stay somebody‘s house and you know there calm, foremost, this virus, if on your own, give them away, you catch it, is mild and recovery just to let them know they are not be straightforward. people need to alone in the world. i wish you well, i wish you well, i really look outside themselves, think about their sick neighbour next door, see do. and you, if your local neighbourhood needs jane. let's hope you'll looking after, if they have dementia, they are on their own. if stay safe. i'm sure you will. everyone ever there was a time for the big society surely it is now, we can do is thinking of you. thank you. something together. defeating this thank you for cheering us up! we needed outbreak will take from all sides, to deal with what has been called a bit of you in

the biggest challenge to the health our lives. i could service in its 70 have sat there and just... you know when you watch gogglebox year history. that was just a snapshot are something like that. we should just of the measures one gp surgery have a video camera and listen to is taking to cope under the conversations. and i'm liking increasing pressure. let's speak now the conversations. and i'm liking to doctor siema iqbal, the look of those scones. i who is a gp from manchester. think they were scones that came out of we are asking everyone the same question this morning, you're they were scones that came out of the plate. one of them was working on the front line, you are saying, i a might go to the charity human being with family, what's shop later. the situation? before we go headlines at seven o'clock. time now to get the any further, i have a chronic cough so you will news, travel and weather where you see me coughing. my situation is i are. have elderly parents and i have self isolated them, ask them to good morning. stay indoors. they we're doing things struggle especially a bit differently due to the coronavirus, so here's a joint programme for london they are quite active normally. i have a husband who is currently self and the south isolating, he is a surgeon and he is east. having to take schools across london and the south east will be closed time off work. after today until further notice. nurseries and colleges children are self isolating. because of the guidance around the household are included in the shut down having to self—isolate for 14 following the spread of coronavirus. some schools will be kept open days. are you in self isolating yourself

with skeleton staff for pupils now? i am not at with parents who the moment, i have are key workers. totally separated myself from eve ryo ne totally separated myself from everyone so totally separated myself from everyone so i totally separated myself from everyone so i can totally separated myself from transport services across everyone so i can get to work. at london and the south east the practice i also have are changing to accommodate reduced demand and alterations to travel a partner plans. who is self isolating. in order to keep the practice going we had from today, the gatwick to ta ke keep the practice going we had to take measures that we normally would express will be running a reduced not. tell us about how it's working, off—peak non—stop imean, your not. tell us about how it's working, i mean, your day—to—day, how is that service, going to work on a practical sense, operating seeing patients, dealing with half—hourly. patients? day-to-day at the practice southern and thameslink trains has completely changed. are subject to short—notice cancellations. meanwhile, in the south east, we didn't do stagecoach buses will be operating a school holiday telephone consultations before so timetable from monday. meanwhile further restrictions come the changes we had to implement in into force on the underground as the waterloo and city line the changes we had to implement in the last couple of days is something closes from today. we would have done over a couple of there will be no yea rs. we would have done over a couple of night tube service or all—night 0verg round from tonight. years. we've changed so that we there will also be a decrease offer telephone triage to patients in the number of bus routes operating. that need advice. if and there's also a restricted service on the hammersmith and they need a city and circle lines and the central line is currently face—to—face consultation they are triage to buy a doctor first and part suspended due to a signal thenif failure at white city. triage to buy a doctor first and then if they need to be seen a couple who've just returned face—to—face they are brought to from morroco say more needs to be the done to help people practice, it's a difficult situation who are stranded abroad. because we are trying to find health paul and ruth wadsworth from tonbridge in kent were able ca re because we are trying to find health care for because we are trying to find health ca re for everyone because we are trying to find health care for everyone that needs it but

to get on a rescue flight out at the same time, ensuring that of morocco just before border restrictions came into place other doctors and staff at the to limit movement and halt practice are safe so we can continue the spread of coronavirus. they say it was disorganised to provide a service. and and chaotic trying to get back also to create an environment that a site for patients that need to be seen the so that they can come to the practice uk. and be seen. as things are you're in a foreign progressing, we are being country, different language, it's very scary, you feel very helpless informed that things are going to change, we and the severity of will be seeing more patients with the situation, it's an unknown respiratory symptoms. which is going situation with the disease problem to put a lot more pressure on us and we don't know what's going to happen. as a practice and the staff. i it's unprecedented. have to say, the staff and patients have so i mean, i've been been amazing at a in lots of difficult time that everyone travel situations before but this was something quite different. is under immense pressure and royal parks have said anxiety, both on a personal level they remain open despite the coronavirus and a professional level. and are encouraging visitors to help physical and mental wellbeing. just a couple of practical things i'm theyjoin the national trust curious about, we were speaking to in keeping their the health secretary some moments outdoor spaces open. hyde and regents park are two ago, talking about protective of the green spaces that can be equipment for people in gp used, although some facilities like playgrounds will be surgeries, and hospitals of course closed. first, but also for you. how is that for your practice? we have been let's get a check on the weather provided with what we call pp now with nina ridge. it is another day, we are equipment, we have masks, aprons and

gloves. we had a little bit of a expecting lots of cloud around, scare earlier this week where a little bit like yesterday, we grey skies but for most of us, discovered if we remove the expiry dates on the packet of masks, it should at least be they dry. had a new sticker put on but i there's just the small chance of perhaps a few showers think that's been clarified that the masks around but we're staying have been tested and they are safe to use. there is on the chilly side as well, evidence that this some cold air there with us protective equipment works in 80% of and that's because we're not expecting any sunshine cases but when i hear through the day. most of those showers of colleagues, really coming in from my age, gps, currently the north east, feeding and across parts of essex nicu, it is towards kent as well. at times they will very frightening, if drift the pp their way further equipment, if we run out, is west. there temperatures around 8 any more available? or 9degrees and it's a bit on the breezy side but there we absolutely are some changes for the weekend, understand, you are under so much the cloud will clear away to the north professional pressure and personal and we will see some pressure as well with your much brighter skies, some sunshine for the weekend circumstances that you have but windy and also on the chilly described. we wish you well in the coming days, thank you so much for side, with those afternoon temperatures of around 9 degrees. your time this morning. it's 8:27am a reminder that for the latest developments on the coronavirus this morning. outbreak in your area, do visit the bbc website. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt

and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses are asked to return to the nhs to help with the fight against coronavirus. and from a nurse on the front line after today unable to find fresh food, until further a plea notice. to stockpilers... nurseries and colleges are included in the shutdown following the spread of coronavirus. there's those people just some schools will be kept open with skeleton staff for pupils stripping the shelves of basic with parents who are key foods. workers. transport services across you just need to stop it, london and the south east because there's people like me that are changing to accommodate restrictions and reduced demand. are going to be looking after you when you're gatwick express, southern at your lowest. and thameslink trains are running fewer services, nhs staff, teachers, police and people in the food as well as eurostar. industry are among the key workers and stagecoach buses whose children will still be allowed in the south east will be operating to go to school when a school holiday they close timetable from to all other pupils monday. later today. the chancellor is expected 0n the underground, there's to announce new measures on employment and wages to protect a restricted service millions ofjobs hit by the pandemic. on the hammersmith and city and circle lines. good the waterloo and city line is closed from today. there will be no night tube morning. service or all night 0verg round from tonight. there will also be fewer london in sport, the olympic flame arrives in japan, bus routes operating. as doubts grow royal parks have said

over the viability of this they remain open summer's games in toyko. good morning. the sun despite the coronavirus and are encouraging visitors to help has risen on physical and mental wellbeing. the spring equinox and we're looking theyjoin the national trust ata the spring equinox and we're looking at a fairly chilly start to the day, in keeping their of sunshine for most of us but more outdoor spaces open. cloud and a breeze in the south as hyde and regents parks are two of the green spaces that can be used, well. i'll bring you more details in although some facilities about ten minutes. like playgrounds will be closed. sussex resident dame it's friday the 20th of march. our top story: vera lynn has more than 65,000 former nurses and doctors in england are to be released a new video of her contacted about returning to the nhs. let's take you through the key issues we will be addressing iconic song we'll meet today on breakfast. again schools will close indefinitely to mark her 103rd later in an attempt birthday. it features original archive footage to stop the spread of coronavirus. of dame vera performing the song. we'll tell you who has been defined as key workers, she's hoping to evoke the their children will continue to be wartime spirit and reassure the public cared for at school. that so far, 144 people even though many are social with coronavirus have distancing and in self—isolation, died in the uk. people can be "united with hope, resilience and resolve". we'll be talking to lets get a check the health secretary, on the weather matt hancock, in the next half—hour, now with and find out how the nhs is coping with the outbreak. nina ridge. the chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to announce measures it is another day, we are expecting to help workers whose jobs and wages lots of cloud around, have been hit by the

economic fallout. a little bit like yesterday, we'll look at what those could be. grey skies but the most of us, here's simonjones with the latest. it should at least be dry. as the small chance of perhaps a few a premature end showers are scattered around to term. but we're staying on the chilly side as well, some schools are closing today cold air with us and that's to try to halt the spread because we're not expecting any of the virus, with the sunshine through the day. most of those showers government denying it was slow to really coming in from the north—east, feeding act. we've always said along in across parts of essex towards kent as well. this terrible journey, at times they will drift as we've been trying to battle this disease, their way further west. temperature is around eight or nine we will do the right degrees and it's a bit on the breezy side but there thing at the right time, and the decision over school are some changes for the weekend, closures had to be made the cloud will clear away to the north because we've got to and we will see some much brighter skies, get the virus under sunshine for the weekend but windy and also on the chilly side control. the government has now with those afternoon temperatures around nine degrees. from 9 on bbc radio kent revealed which key workers will be lembit 0pik is talking allowed about coronavirus to continue to send their children to school to be looked after. and your they include rights. a lot of people will be nhs workers, waiting for nursery and the announcement from the chancellor about what support can be expected teaching staff, for those facing an uncertain the police, armed forces employment future. we will and prison officers, be talking to some lawyers about your transport workers, those rights, and about how you can involved in food production, its distribution and sale, people who work in essential cope with the pressures which we financial services such as banks, and journalists providing public will be

service broadcasting. based on your family. families need only one key with the pressures which we will be based on yourfamily. call me with the pressures which we will be worker parent to qualify. based on your family. call me with your questions. there will also be give me provision for vulnerable a call children. now. last night, some of those that's it from us, we wish you all a workers were thanked in a very good morning. join us again at message displayed lunchtime. goodbye. at wembley stadium and now there's a plan to boost those numbers. the nhs is gearing up for what is set to be a hugely challenging period. hello, this is health regulators are writing breakfast with to 30,000 former nurses and 15,000 former doctors who've left charlie stayt and the profession in the past three naga munchetty. years asking them to consider it's returning and doing their bit. this has been welcomed by the unite union, which describes the coronavirus threat as a supreme 8:31. public health battle of our generation. we spoke to the health secretary for younger people who've matt hancock earlier. he had a been continuing their social number of things to say. he said lives as normal, the message is they may that 150 lorries of be less vulnerable than others protective equipment will be delivered but they to 150 must follow hospitals. he said by this weekend all of the hospitals will the guidelines have had a on first tranche of emergency protective clothing. ventilators social are distancing. a big issue. more than tamor taqiq, who's 30 and

half a dozen companies have made prototypes and has a weak immune switch production lines. they hope system, to have those approved by the end of had this to say: please next week. he think about where you're going, who you're mixing with also spoke about and the impact it might have the on you because it can lead call to arms, almost, to getting this virus, which is quite painful, the government it's quite difficult to manage asking 65,000 people who have and it takes everything out of you. recently retired from the nhs, most people who get the virus won't feel many symptoms, doctors and nurses, asking them to but some will end up in hospital. come back to work, in another sign of how the disease and the letters is affecting all aspects of life, have been sent out, the after the closure of some underground stations in london, nhs needs you is the message. here's a clip of from monday train services what he had to across the uk will be scaled back. there's been a drop in demand of almost 70% on some routes. say. overnight, 150 core services will be maintained lorries took kit from the warehouse to carry goods and to ensure people we have with all can get to work and medical appointments in what rail companies of the stockpiles are calling a time of extraordinary to 150 hospitals, about half of the national challenge. simon jones, hospitals in the country. the bbc news. rest will get their lobby lured by the end of the weekend. nhs workers facing increasing pressure as they try to cope at the same with covid—19 are being offered accommodation, drinks and discounted time, we have food as companies across the uk provided equipment, try to support them. as supermarkets struggle this protective equipment, to gps to cope with panic buying, competition laws have been and pharmacists and we temporarily suspended to help stores to keep their shops staffed are currently and stocked with food. rolling it out to every single health worker dawn bilbrough has social care this tearful message

after setting. there a are tiring 25,000 different social care settings, care homes, or people going out to look after people in shift. their homes. i'm a critical care nurse, i've just finished 48 hours of work, we're joined now from i just wanted to london by ruth may, chief nursing get some stuff officerfor england. in for the next 48 hours. let's talk about that call to arms there's no fruit, there's no as he called vegetables, ijust don't know how i'm supposed to stay it. writing to healthy. and there's people who are just 65,000 stripping the shelves of basic recently retired doctors and nurses foods. asking them to come back to work. can you talk about how that will work in practice? you just need to stop it, because there's people like me let me first that of are going to be looking all say thank you to all of the after you when you're staff in every corner at your lowest. of the uk just stop coming to work, working so hard for so coming to work, working so hard for so many hours to it, please! care for patients and the patients that we are going a message after a shift of work that to see. we are facing the people could certainly take home. greatest there are increasing concerns global health challenge we have about how workers' jobs and wages will be protected during ever faced and arguably for the the economic fallout. later, the chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to make a further whole of

the nhs, so today, we are announcement to address that. ben is in our business writing to newsroom in london and can former doctors and nurses asking tell us them to come back and support the more. nhs. how long do they we've seen help for businesses but have to be retired that they are still eligible there have been calls from all sides to come back and how quickly, that the government now needs to provide help to workers whose jobs crucially, you say that you are are at risk? good morning to you writing to them, you write to them, both. you're absolutely they write back, how quickly can right. that they write back, how quickly can they be in they package of measures earlier this week, the £350 billion, the system, in was practice? aimed at business so the many people have already contacted me. we have lots of people attention has turned to the staff working wanting there who rely on customers coming to support us and come back. we through the doors every day to are writing to them. they will get pay those bills and wages. back this morning. we make sure they are hairdressers, coffee shops, theatres and hotels, able to complete the necessary forms to get them back on our the staff who work there may have seen a register. we will invite them back into hospitals the staff who work there may have seen a big in their income or no income at all. what we are expecting in the next few weeks. it is to hear from the chancellor later is important when people come back to a package of measures designed to hospitals, really important. not help those workers just our staff, all of us have a specifically. there are calls for maybe the uk to pa rt just our staff, all of us have a part to play, all of the public, adopt a system that already operates please make sure that you in places like denmark, that is wash your

where if firms have to lay hands, stay—at—home and use the off staff, the state will pay up to nhs responsibly. take the advice of three quarters of the salary to tide our those workers over. in germany professionals, please. are there there isa those workers over. in germany there is a system whereby if people are particular areas of nursing which asked to work fewer hours, the state are most required? we will top up the amount of money they would otherwise have got know that critical care nurses will be in paid. there's all sorts of different most methods the government could put in demand, but we will want to encourage all former nurses place but there's concerns about how they will get the money to the and people that need it. there's doctors to come back because you will be part of our team. we will been talk of this reverse make sure that you are trained and you work in areas where national insurance, or reverse paye, so normally you would pay that through you feel co mforta ble. your payslip every month as a you work in areas where you feel comfortable. your nhs needs you, so please, come back tax, the government they be able to reimburse you by crediting your and support us. payslip about that assumes there has been concern about nursing you're paying it in the first staff. you may have seen a video place. there's talk of a cash handout, clip of a nurse what's known as universal bakers about the practical income, a lump sum pay to everyone problems they are facing, working at risk or suffering from a fall in long hours, then needing food, and income —— universal basic panic buying is causing them real income. but that's very difficult to set up concern. there are real pressures on nursing staff working in the nhs quickly. we will get further details right now. absolutely. from the chancellor at that press conference this afternoon. people are working very long hours. you would ben, thanks very much.

have seen the clip of someone car—makerjaguar land working as a critical care rover is to suspend production at its uk nurse for plants from next week the last 48 hours wanting to get because of the outbreak. the move completes the temporary some food and vegetables and the shutdown of the uk car industry, with honda, toyota, bmw, like. we know that some supermarkets nissan and vauxhall all making the similar moves in are opening very early in the the last few weeks. more people have died morning to allow nhs staff and care from coronavirus in italy than in any other workers to have access to the country in the world. supermarkets ahead of everyone the number of deaths there rose by 427 yesterday, else. bringing the total to 3,405. iam pleading supermarkets ahead of everyone else. i am pleading with all supermarkets to do this so that italy is now the epicentre of the outbreak as the death all of our nhs toll surpassed china, where the virus was first staff have the ability to detected in december. europe reporter access a feud the like, at a time gavin lee of their convenience. we are going to is in play a clip. 0ne convenience. we are going to play a clip. one of those people who has brussels for been affected so far. us. have a look. the things that i have seen in the so, gavin, inevitably there's a lot la st the things that i have seen in the of attention on italy and the last couple of days are problems there, but take us appalling. we've seen surgeries having those through hand sanitiser because people are europe and what stealing from reception desks. i the situation is. worked with a lovely lady who is well, the cases across europe have struggling to find something to eat risen by 15,024 hours and for herand herfamily. 20,000 in the 24 hours before all struggling to find something to eat for her and her family. all i'm asking for is please, can you help that —— 15,000 us, so we asking for is please, can you help us, so we can

in 24 hours. there are asking for is please, can you help us, so we can help you, because if we can't eat and we can't many countries with a similar number. drink, we can't get anything, we can't there's a spike of about... italy help you. that was dave have 40,000, then spain holt, who works with 18,000, at frimley park hospital sharing the french with 15,000 some of the impact. when you see and germany that, i wonder what your with 11,000. other countries thoughts are. we have seen the french with 15,000 and germany with 11 , 000. other countries like the uk, here in belgium and the dutch believe that they are on that it all over twitter, midwives and care staff curve and here in belgium, for being spat at and abused by example, i've spoken to doctors in members of the public. please, be very one hospital where everything has kind been closed apart from urgent to your nurses and midwives because you may need them very cancer, trauma care and also soon. but all pregnancy and maternity of us have a duty. please make wards, sure you wash your hands, stay—at—home, gynaecologist, skin specialist, dermatologist or being trained and take nhs advice. we all for the icu units and they are told to have a duty to do expect an explosion of cases in the that. ruth may, next three to five days and they are being a dilemma where chief nursing officerfor duty to do that. ruth may, chief nursing officer for england, duty to do that. ruth may, chief nursing officerfor england, thank you very much. talking if it comes to about some of the point, it's unprecedented in the practical ways in belgium after the second world war, that there is an explosion and the which those hospitals can't cope and they're estimated 65,000 doctors and nurses really looking at whether they can could come back into the system, being written to now, if at the moment, they have to look at the ethics and their creating a they get the right response they could be in

triage guide where three doctors the right response they could be in the system very quickly. we will have to decide who to keep in are going to keep and who to turn away. they're saying you up—to—date with it's not necessarily age. if someone is 18 and in good health they might everything that is coronavirus linked. we are going to talk about be prioritised over someone sport now. kat, 60 and there was a in worse health, these are the difficult decisions ahead and these time are the planning situations many when a huge sporting event when it countries are in as they look at the was opened there would be fancier curve going forward. and huge crowds, but not this time gavin, thank you. with the olympics. it australia and new zealand are banning entry to all seems like the non—residents from today, 0lympic with the olympics. it seems like the in an attempt to limit olympic flame has kind of snuck into the spread of coronavirus. japan under the radar. 0nly citizens and permanent residents will be allowed in and even then, they will be required there was a to self—isolate for 14 days on arrival. scaled—back ceremony in an air base shaimaa khaliljoins in the north of the country with some press and photographers, but us from who knows whether there will be this parade of the olympic torch around sydney. shaimaa, i suppose this has been on japan in the way that we saw it the cards and now it coming around the uk when the olympics came to is happening? that's right, naga, this is the latest and strictest string of britain. it seems measures the government has been fairly incongruous to be celebrating putting in place in australia something like the olympics at a this time when countries around the world last week. earlier in the seem week, all visitors to the country were told time when countries around the world seem to be locking down and advising they had to quarantine no against mass gatherings. and we exception. don't know if it is going to be australians were then told not to

travel abroad and then overseas happening. let's talk to our correspondent in tokyo, and to come back home as soon rupert as they wingfield hayes. we saw can. qantas, the australian the olympic airline, plane arriving on a plane has grounded all international flights, with the exception of a from few, and that's to bring those home athens, a kind of who want to come back and this is scaled down leading up to what we have now, ceremony for the arrival of a the flame. what would be your assessment blanket ban on all foreigners coming m, blanket ban on all foreigners coming in, with the exception from tokyo as to the likelihood of these games of citizens and permanent residents, but even going ahead? when they come back they will have there were to quarantine for 14 days. the prime supposed to be hundreds of children there to welcome back plane as minister said this was happening in co—ordination with new zealand, it landed with the flame, and of course they've already started their travel ban and within a few they were told to stay at home hours no for their own safety, because of the foreigners will be allowed global coronavirus pandemic which in to japan has been affected by, not as australia, essentially the country will close its borders as they try to contain the virus. we had badly as europe at the moment. but it is those spreading around japan a surge in cases overnight. ata it is those spreading around japan at a much slower rate. in the last we have under 24 1000 recorded cases so far. japan hours, 75 more cases, bringing the total in australia to more than 700, seems to be doing quite a good job with seven deaths. the of controlling the epidemic here. prime minister has called on people to because of that the japanese government is saying we are still social distance and stay at home full steam ahead for the 24th

when they can, as this number of july. the torch relay will is likely to rise begin as it is supposed to, next week, here. shaimaa, thanks and it very much from sydney. will go on this 121 here's sarah with a look day relay around at this morning's weather. the whole of japan. good morning. i'm guessing will go on this 121 day relay around the whole ofjapan. they are still planning for all of this to a glorious sunrise? it sounds go ahead like but there are many other voices we've got a bit of sun coming our here, people i've spoken to, way? that's right, good morning. experts, former government officials, the former governor of the sunrise on the spring equinox tokyo who have said they think there's very little chance that it in bridlington, east yorkshire. many can go ahead as scheduled waking up to clear skies and on 24th of sunshine but a chilly start to the july, because even if everything is day and largely dry and fairly under control here, bright ahead for most, but a chilly even if the wind and a third bit of cloud around still lingering in southern pandemic locally is over, what about england. this is the satellite and radar for the rest of the road? how can you the past few hours, the band pull the olympics when it is still going on elsewhere? we don't of cloud is fairly slow—moving and a know. few showers, especially in the there is a huge amount of english channel and the channel uncertainty. we are waiting on the islands, but away from southern ioc and the matter to you england, blue skies for the rest and the of japanese government to make a the country, lot of sunshine, light decision but they say at the moment winds to the north and west but it is too early to make that we've got this cool easterly decision and they are going full steam ahead for the breeze around east coast and english

channel, so temperatures only opening ceremony. as rupert between eight and 11, was saying, huge but feeling uncertainty over the olympics, and cooler if you're exposed to the easterly wind. this what a massive knock—on effect that is having across the globe afternoon, for the starting in scotland, patchy cloud athletes and supporting businesses for the northern isles but for the involved, spectators, volunteers, bulk of scotland, clear skies, perhaps a bit of cloud drifting in the olympics, such an enormous part around some east coast. of global culture, and hanging in the balance at northern ireland and northern england looking largely dry and sunny, not the moment. one particularly warm. further south, we of the balance at the moment. one of have this stubborn cloud and this the things you have been picking up afternoon it will set from kent to on, there was a clip of a cornwall and wales will see showers nurse at the end of a long shift who went quite heavy with the odd rumble of thunder towards the channel to buy some food, nothing on the shelves, and just saying in a very islands. emotional moment, do not this evening and overnight, the cloud lingers for parts of cornwall panic by. and perhaps kent, but for the rest we are being left in a difficult of the country, clear skies and situation. lots of you getting in quite a chilly night stop attempt touch about that below freezing in the countryside, this morning. the especially in the supermarkets are putting special opening hours in place for the north ——. temperatures below freezing... we elderly. there has been lots start saturday on that she and of bright note. through the weekend the demand for people who are vulnerable weather is looking to have access to food. harry has pretty decent, got in touch, a 72 high pressure still in charge so with diabetes,

his wife is 68, and largely dry, sunshine on offer, not especially warm for the time of year asthmatic. we cannot get a delivery slot for food, and you'll notice there's quite a chilly so we cannot get a delivery slot for food, so we went to tesco this morning at easterly 5:30am and 500 other people had done the same. rachel says, breeze. ordinary shopping, the state of the shelves in my local tesco, the shelves are for many parents, the prospect stripped, with people panic buying of having their children off school while they are still at work, and travelling in and out of the is a difficultjuggling act.however, area. this is those in jobs which the government says are vital to fighting about key workers. the coronavirus pandemic, will be able to send their children this nurse who was very distraught, to school, despite closures across the uk from today. another viewer said her nice —— her but there are still many unanswered questions about how daughter is a nurse who works 12 classrooms will be staffed and organised on monday. hour shifts, whose winding the same we'rejoined now from sheffield problem, when she can manage to get by headteacher, james handley and suzanne harrison is to the stores you cannot get anything. she is also trying a senior nurse from to manage work as well. something needs to happen soon for key workers, manchester. ifi bearing in mind that they if i can start work shifts. some have suggested with you, james, you that the are first and foremost, you got kids supermarkets could, and matt hancock said he was working yourself as well as being a head with the teacher. can you give us a sense supermarkets, that they could your circumstance. how is perhaps if it is feasible have special delivery slots to deliver, this going for key workers. paul to work with

you on a got in touch family level. to say supermarkets should use we have a strong network of friends delivery services to supply doctors and family. they and nurses separately. asked if i matt hancock reassuring people this morning. 0n was a the question of panic buying, he key worker, at my children's school, said there is perfectly adequate and are putting in provision for food supply, by what you need. my children should i require it is a very clear it. that's food supply, by what you need. it is a very clear message. good. just complete food supply, by what you need. it is a very clear message. if people just buy what they need there is no issue the picture. we with the food getting into supermarkets. a couple of people can see when your car on the talking about way to work. how do you see next week logistics, anne at your school? yesterday, i wrote and a letter to the parents of nick looking at designating a supermarket in each town for only my school, those who we knew to be on the key key workers. not convinced worker how practical that might be list. but the that those key workers, we are all relying on able them, without them having to face to them, without them having to face the extra stress of express searching for the news overnight would supplies. thank you for your be further comments. the message is hopefully details of those who are on the key getting through to a lot of worker list. we will be contacting people. what's coming up on the pa rents worker list. we will be contacting programme. after 40 yea rs parents on those close family

lists of what's coming up on the programme. after 40 years of friendship, these of circumstances have changed that's isolating grandmothers are preparing to move the case, will be opening on in together. some level. opening pa rents a re parents are trying to work was up potentially, looking after children face a to difficult juggling looking after children face a help other children around the difficultjuggling act as schools across the uk prepare to close, from locality as well. today. we will hear from them and the challenges they are suzanne, let's talk to you. you are a senior nurse. facing. and the challenges they are facing. and the green goddess will lift our your husband works for the water spirits with another work—out showing how she remains fit and force. you have to children. what is going to happen healthy, whilst with you. it's staying at all a home. bit of a mystery that looks like still. both walking while children schools have sitting. enthusiastic walking while been good. sitting. enthusiastic walking while sitting. good on pumping. there isjust children schools have been good. there is just uncertainty because we just don't know sarah, does that take your fancy? it is one what is going way to stay fit. if you to happen. we can get out for a walk, the have just weather is looking got the decent. it is the spring list overnight as well. equinox today. so as we

myself and my step forward into husband to fall into that category. astronomical spring, there is some blue sky and fussed around this just the uncertainty alan the morning. most of us will school was able to keep some sunshine through the day. not quite be open for. everywhere. quite a chilly wind, so we both not feeling particularly warm and have unwell parents which we just for the next couple of days, we can't go have high pressure that to. we has been building. that will dominate the just try weather. we have a stubborn, to change slow—moving front in the south. shifts and accommodate other teams. how are you coping that is bringing cloud to the south—east, with that? east anglia, south wales, with some swapping shifts, chips through the heavy showers for the english night as well as looking after family life in straitened channel and channel islands. further north, most sing a dry times. it's difficult, but you've just got day with to do it at the minute. plenty of sunshine. generally light with myself and my team. wejust winds, but breezy conditions further south and east. temperatures to do it at the minute. with myself and my team. we just have at best to get to around 8—11 celsius, so work. we just have it will heal to isolate and quite cool with the breeze down staff have provision, who towards the south. this are unable to stay at work. it provides their evening and tonight, most seeing it dry and own problems. if settled. some cloud in i'm well, and the far south, but clear skies elsewhere, so

potentially i will have to go to be we are looking at a cold night able to stay in. to help the to come. temperatures again a little team as below freezing in the well because we have got countryside. a people at touch of frost across northern and the moment, and just western parts whereas further south to keep people and east a few degrees above in so we have mission avoidance so freezing. high pressure still we are doing our best to work with us for the weekend, sitting across with services to prevent patients going into hospital. in about parts of scandinavia. the winds, ten minutes, rotating around that area of high i'm going to be talking pressure. what's of dry to matt hancock, the health secretary. is weather through the weekend. some sunshine, the reading particularly you as some patchy cloud here and someone the reading particularly you as someone working on the nhs on the there and front line, as a team, you are quite a chilly winter. as that breeze comes in from the east, we dealing with issues, what would you like to ask him? just about where aren't likely to see a breeze developing along the east we go from here. coast. and what kind temperatures on saturday of services will potentially have to between 7—9 close and what impact that is going celsius, further west, up to have on the nhs in general. to 11 we celsius. another dry day. are doing our sunday, a best to stay similar picture. blue skies and sunshine. less breezy on sunday open but for staff, it might not allow it for compared to saturday. you so it's how they are going temperatures, not great for the time of to protect the nhs during this time and year, 7—8 on the east coast but what happens next. james, he head further west, around 10—11 celsius. further

teacher, i see you are nodding with a lot of that. you've got air next week, high pressure remains it team of with us. a largely dry, people as well. and they too are settled picture with some sunshine on facing the issues of self isolation offer. if they need to. and temperatures creeping up a little potentially, bite tuesday then we could see rain your numbers could dwindle. these issues you have to look at closely across north—western parts of the uk as well. through the middle part of the week but generally, for the next few absolutely. we days, lots of dry, settled weather have a out there. back memberof as well. absolutely. we have a member of staff who is self isolating at the moment. they to the studio. fall into the high risk category but when the school bell rings this afternoon, it will mark the end of normal what i'm seeing, the teachers, notjust lessons in classrooms across the uk. in my area but all over the country closures coming in next igoto in my area but all over the country i go to extraordinary lengths to week. john work together to see how maguire is at a primary school in they can bristol. everyone is having volunteer to perhaps work and other to reject, teachers will be carrying on working to a degree and you schools. across different parts of have pa rents working to a degree and you have the city in a wide area. parents and the kids themselves looking at how it supporting will be next week those children and —— rejig. families. looking at how it will be next week -- rejig. it is only overnight last suzanne, just another thought for night head teachers and people you, in amongst a organising schools got an idea of exactly how many pupils they would lot of other things going need to look after over the next couple of weeks and in the easter on, and

school holidays, another big i know difference that perhaps people are not aware of. getting an idea of how you work many children will be involved they ina things going on, and i know you work will need to look after. an idea of in what schools have been a like, kerry, a member of staff here, good to see crisis you, what has been the mood light? response what have the children been saying? scheme the children are quite excited, we so have been keeping things generally as normal as we can over the you last couple of days, while in are working the background preparing for tomorrow, out in for today, sorry. i background preparing for tomorrow, fortoday, sorry. lam background preparing for tomorrow, for today, sorry. lam not sure how much the children comprehend of what the community. it means. they are in good we spirits. are hearing quite a we have an age range from four to bit from nurses 11, this lovely phrase, circle time, particularly in you have been talking to the the front younger children about that. we spend every line about day taking a small amount of time to sit together and allow the children the problems to share concerns and ask questions people are and giving them time to facing on air anything very practical levels. they need to talk about. a couple of pa rents you might they need to talk about. a couple of parents here as well who will be at home over the next couple

have seen a of weeks, clip of one jenny, working from home for the next couple of weeks, what will of your it be like? what plans have you fellow nurses saying made so far? it is fitting and everything, about getting really. we have packed together a the shops schedule to enable and finding nothing they us to do can buy. schoolwork, do in amongst the packs what is schools have sent home, and do my work and a allow my husband to do his work difficult as well. a busy time. the house will seem very well. a busy time. the house will seem very full. spin around, you have got your lever‘s switch on, managed to get those done ahead of we'll be talking time, you are missing out on school to the health camp —— secretary in ten sweatshirt. minutes. 0n the time, you are missing out on school camp -- sweatshirt. i am sad about that because i did really want to brea kfast secretary in ten minutes. 0n the breakfast social media go. you would have had a great time account on with all of your friends. lindsay twitter, we and her family, you with all of your friends. lindsay and herfamily, you will be with all of your friends. lindsay have twittered and her family, you will be working out the from home, what are things going to list of be like? different

times, obviously, key workers. myself and my husband both work from if you home and we will have to try to are on home—school their children as well the list so home—school their children as well so it is different but everyone is really supportive and we live in a or not, little village and everyone has rallied around to help each other, if there we have set up what such groups are the children can stay in touch. they is all have e—mails now so they confusion, how will can e—mail each it affect other —— children? as we've been hearing, james, good luck. when the school bell rings this whatsapp afternoon it will mark the end of normal groups. so they can carry on lessons in contact. grace, you will be doing a classrooms lot of your work on a across the uk. breakfast‘s john maguire computer, what is at a primary school in bristol for us this morning. do you think about that? it is going john, how are teachers feeling? it can be really to be different. it nerve—racking at is going to be this time, a bit strange not seen my friends however. you every day. being at home are right. all the time. not seen your friends i couldn't will be tough. james, you have already seen the school were very well prepared, agree they gave you your packs on more. tuesday, have you finished them when yet? well, we things got them yesterday

and we made get uncertain, it them on wednesday to take home yesterday. can be busy times ahead. thank you very unsettling. much. all the best for the next couple of weeks, maybe even the around ten miles next south, the couple of weeks, maybe even the next couple of weeks, maybe even the next couple of months, who knows. last day of school is across the rest playground ending. of the uk, fingers crossed they will be 0ne around ten miles south, the back at school before too long playground ending. one of the anyway. back to you. thank magical sounds 01:24:25,1000 --> 01:24:28,552 in the you. interesting to see people adjusting to the new normal, that is what is world, the going on, all different stages of sounds of life. absolutely. from the young at school the school to some slightly older three playground, best friends taking advantage of the children running current situation, turning staying around. the at home into a positive experience. historic belltower you are about to will ring and it meet doreen, carol will and dotty. in the 70s and 805, they and dotty. in the 705 and 805, they have decided to move in together. we held have decided to move in together. we have been speaking to them from an appropriate social distance as they the make final arrangements before the big move. start it's the wrong choice of words for this time,

but you have gone viral. of so many fell in love with them and their spirit, their the belief that friendship would help pull them through. last doreen was talking to me on the phone and i said to her, if we all have to go in lockdown, as i school call it, for 12 weeks, they will day find me dead, on the floor, for and a notice saying, i have died of a loneliness. while. jenny campbell, i said, well, you won't be on your own because, come and be us, we will be on our own together. and then dotty said, we could do that. i don't know what i would have done without my friends. the all of them. friendship is a wonderful thing. this is me with dark hair and young and that is dot, whatever‘s going on with dot‘s hair there! i would say we were 28, 29. they have been a firm friends for over 40 years. seeing each other through births, big deaths, divorces, cancer, this virus

won't keep them apart. logistical 01:26:22,690 --> 1431655368:42:04,938 you 1431655368:42:04,938 --> 2863310735:57:47,184 only 2863310735:57:47,184 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 now we always have parties. kids now invite everybody. we always have a party. how will you pass the time? what will you be doing? we are doing an itinerary. i have got the chase and tipping point. we are going to go to the charity shop may be this afternoon, maybe, and getjigsaws i am not selling this very well! it sounds like a laugh and hour. that exciting. they tell me over handbags toa exciting. they tell me over handbags to a soundtrack of dusty springfield, rod stewart, they are going to keep each other say. are you scared? a little, maybe. it is quite frightening, if you are

on your own. but you are not on your own. no. you are not, kid. as long as we do as we are told and we look after each other and ourselves... we are all in it together. we must never underestimate the value of friendship because i think you can have as much money... there is nothing like a friend. my mother used to say, if she was talking about something, it is a shame for them, all they have is money. when things are bad and you have got a friend for you, they cannot make it any better, but it eases the pain. their message, pick up the phone, get back in touch, check in on neighbours. if you are going past somebody‘s house, you know they are on their own, give them a wave, just to let them know you know they are

alive in the world. i wish you well. i really do. look after yourself. let's hope we all stay safe.” i really do. look after yourself. let's hope we all stay safe. i am sure you will and everyone is thinking of you. thank you for cheering us up. we needed a bit of yourjoyin cheering us up. we needed a bit of yourjoy in our lives. so much to love about that setup. i notice cream, jam on top. all in the detail. got to be the other way round. if they need a bit of a work—out perhaps, check out diana moran, the green goddess. she has been showing us how she has been keeping fit without leaving the house. well, good morning, and here we go again. yes, we are keeping fit to carry on. so, let's begin byjust warming up our bodies. just stamp your feet. now, you can be standing up or sitting down to do this exercise. stamp away. now, the arms. it's a little bit

like going for a very brisk walk. and what we're trying to do here is warm up our bodies ready to go on to do a few more exercises. when your body is warm, it is safe to move the muscles. that's it. go on. just a tiny bit more. that will do. calm down. just slowly, slowly, slowly. good. let's work the arms a little bit. grasp your arms together and, first of all, we're going to twist from the waist. keep the hips steady. back to centre. and twist again. that's working the spine, loosening our bodies that are now warm because of the warm up. and round again. good. stretch as far as you can. look as far as you can. back to centre. and round again. good. come back to centre.

now, there is a very good exercise for us ladies here. it's what we call an isometric exercise. just grasp your wrists together and pretend to push up imaginary cuffs. now, you will feel your boobs jumping. and also, the underarms will tighten up a bit. let's do a few more. isometric exercise. let's do it. 0k. now, to keep us physically active as the years go on, we do need strong thighs, so let's work those in a fairly easy way. helps to have a bit of music, i have to tell you. either push yourself up, not really to stand, and down again. push. and down again. but really, the trick is to put your hands on your thighs and to use your thighs to take you up and down. good.

up and down. this will mean that you will be able to continue walking, go up and down stairs, get in and out of those chairs when you want to. that's good. now, down and relax. and our final is a stretch. let's stretch out the chest. so, either put your hands on your bottom or you could hold onto the chair behind you, pull your shoulders back, lift your head up, and really pull, pull, pull back. feel the stretch all across your chest. and hold it forfive. one, two, three, four, five. there you are. you've finished your work—out for today, so keep fit and carry on. keep fit and carry on. green goddess message. we will be back tomorrow from six. have a lovely day.

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