hello. this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. more beds, ventilators and thousands of extra staff will be made available from next week — after a deal between nhs england and the nation's independent hospitals. another 56 people with coronavirus have died in the uk, bringing the total of deaths in the country to 233. the death toll in italy has seen another dramatic rise — nearly eight hundred people have died in the last 2a hours from coronavirus — the highest total anywhere in the world since the outbreak began. there's been a dramatic rise in the number of deaths in spain too — an increase of more than 300 — bringing the total to more than 1300.

a senior british government minister has appealed for people to be responsible when shopping — it's estimated £1 billion worth of extra food has been stockpiled. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. i'll be joined by the political commentator, jo phillips and nigel nelson, political editor at people & the sunday mirror... they are with me virtually today. because of social distancing. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily telegraph carries a warning from the prime minister that the nhs could be "overwhelmed" — like the italian health system — in just a fortnight as official guidance paved the way for british doctors to prioritise the coronavirus patients

who are most likely to survive. the sunday times reports that more than a million people — most at risk from the coronavirus — are being told to live in isolation at home for three months. the mail on sunday reports the borisjohnson is urging britons to celebrate mother's day remotely by usingvideo calls. the sunday people has a picture of a stern—looking borisjohnson — saying don't go and visit your mum. the sunday mirror carries the same story — and adds there is an appeal for 50,000 nurses — to help fight coronavirus. the sunday express quotes the prime minister saying the threat now facing britain "cannot be sugar coated." it also reports the queen will address the nation in a tv speech. hello to both of you. thank you for

joining me. give us a night if you can both hear me. i can foster absolutely. —— give us a nod. can both hear me. i can foster absolutely. -- give us a nod. should we start in the mirror? yes. this is cove red we start in the mirror? yes. this is covered in all the papers. an open letter to all of us to the general public from boris johnson some letter to all of us to the general public from borisjohnson some of the prime minister, basically saying stay away from mum. it is mother's day tomorrow. a lot of people will be planning to visit mums and grand itiuitis be planning to visit mums and grand mums and everything else. he is warning it is absolutely do not. it is not religious about people who are elderly. it is this whole thing thatis are elderly. it is this whole thing that is the threat to our all the papers. you have got to stay away from people. —— it is not about people. as hard as it is, as eddie isaac as so many appear to be behaving, that is the message and it cannot be stronger. you're putting your itiuiti or cannot be stronger. you're putting your mum or your grandmother at risk. that is the clear message in

the mirror and light of the other papers. nigel, what do you make of that emotional language? papers. nigel, what do you make of that emotional language ?|j papers. nigel, what do you make of that emotional language? i think it is the right thing to do but really on the basis of he has got the popular approach, mother's day tomorrow, the idea of keeping away from elderly or vulnerable relatives isa from elderly or vulnerable relatives is a good one and what i understand from number ten itself is that this was boris johnson's idea from number ten itself is that this was borisjohnson‘s idea come he wrote the whole thing himself, no speech writers for him. i think it is an important message to get across as you can see it appears on the front of every single sunday paper tomorrow morning. the front of every single sunday paper tomorrow morningm the front of every single sunday paper tomorrow morning. it is certainly had the desired effect i'm sure and will have tomorrow as people look at that. should we get onto some more the technical ends in out? let's look at the sunday telegraph. the headline the nhs facing italian style crisis. if we do not stay at home. that was

actually in his open letter to the nation as well. what he is saying is that we are about to come he reckons now come up between two and three weeks behind italy. and we have all seen some really appalling footage come out of italy of hospitals com pletely come out of italy of hospitals completely overwhelmed, patients ending up in covert doors and dying there, so what the prime minister is saying is if you do not want to end up saying is if you do not want to end up in the same situation, the only way is to stay indoors, keep the social distancing, and obviously for vulnerable people, this looks like something they will have to do for the next three months. also on the front page there, one of the lines, something we have been warned about repeatedly, there are, we are two weeks possibly three weeks behind italy here which is quite a haunting thought. yes. i think it is absolutely the most shocking of all

of the front pages that we have got in so far. ijust do not quite understand why people are not taking it seriously. i live in kent. i am lucky. it is a lovely place. but you would think it would be a week and back holiday. the number of people sitting on the seawall, drinking close together, wandering around and you just think, not listening to the news, are they not watching it because i was watching the news earlier and hearing those interviews with people in italy, the most poignant one really talking about, they could hear the sound of birds because there was no traffic. but the only other sound they heard with sirens and the bells tolling for the dead. there is no doubt that the nhs is absolutely struggling. i have a son who is a paramedic with the london ambulance service. and they are absolutely on their knees. and whatever measures are being taken,

whether it is ventilations and oxyge n whether it is ventilations and oxygen or private hospitals making beds available, many of the measures being talked about the papers we have got to somehow or other slow down perhaps what is inevitable because otherwise the health service just will not be able to cope and thatis just will not be able to cope and that is the clear message. let's go to the front of the daily mail. nigel, just following up on what she was talking about, the front page boris nhs is on the brink. it is on the brink. we know that. 0bviously this is the whole message about italy. if we are not careful, will end up in the same situation as them. the kind of tactic at the moment for the government is to do as much as they can to try and delay the peak of the virus actually heading, and what they think they can do is if they can suppress it,

that way, the nhs will be able to cope. at the moment, we know they don't not have enough ventilators or i see you beds, so the best advice must be committed, since, itjo is astonishing that people are debating it. the obvious, since approach is that stay inside as much as you possibly can come if you're in a high risk category, whatever you do, don't go out it all. that is the message they are putting across most of it seemed to make sense. in fairness to him i had to go to work today canary fairness to him i had to go to work today ca nary wharf fairness to him i had to go to work today canary wharf us up in the place was empty. it does seem to me that most people are actually listening to that advice. no, they are all here nigel. i can assure you. they have all come. this is the problem. we have seen reported in the during the week. places like cornwall, where people have got second homes in the highlands of scotland. and local people are

saying please don't come here. we canjust saying please don't come here. we can just about cope with the local people, we don't want everybody treating it like it is a jolly bank holiday to come down here and hunker down and then i'll say close together on the sea wall. it is nuts. —— and then sit close together. let's move onto the sunday express. we have seen the headline come up for your mother sick stay at home, a sentiment echoed right across the papers tomorrow morning but i want to focus in on the picture at the top. in the little headline there, selfish shoppers told you should be ashamed. pictures which we are used to now empty shelves, nigel, what is going on with this selfish shoppers? this was a scary stuff coming out of the number ten press conference today. and we had the environment secretary and also the chief executive of the retail consortium, what is right to be going on as we are going out

there and everybody seems to be panicking. we have spent £1 billion a p pa re ntly panicking. we have spent £1 billion apparently extra over the last three weeks. so what that means is £1 billion worth of groceries and food are in peoples fridges and cupboards. and quite clearly they don't need it. and what is scary about that, we also have the nhs medical director of this press conference and what he is saying is that if you have a nurse come again after a really long, exhausting shift, and she goes to a supermarket and cannot get anything, that is appalling. same thing for pensioners, they cannot afford to stockpile. they are not orders. all they could do is go to the supermarket and get what they need. and that is why ordinary people are going out there should invite more than they can need. i want to finish

up. afew than they can need. i want to finish up. a few minutes left. let's finish it with the set a time. talk us through this story on the front page. not the main headline. expose the doctor who got £2.5 million in a week from virus test. yes. just in case people did it quite get what you just said, that is £2.5 million in one week. selling dodgy coronavirus test kits. we are not going to name him here on air obviously, but he was using a harley street sort of moniker if you like them even though he was based somewhere completely different. he apparently had hidden away in one of the gave an interview to another paper earlier the gave an interview to another paperearlier in the the gave an interview to another paper earlier in the week at which point these testing kits were just flying off of the shelf. and we talk about the greed of people going out

and bulk buying toilet rolls or tens of beings. there are other people also making a shed load of money and it is quite disgusting. we have all said it before. we will keep saying it. this will bring up the worst of humanity and he should certainly be in that latter category. we don't have any independent evidence on the adequacy of the test or not so we won't make any further comment on that. nigel, to sum up before we go, we got this emotion on the front page appealing to don't go and see your mum and don't go to stockpiling, what influence do you think these newspaper front pages can happen on a nation like this at a time like this? it is a matter of getting their message across. and the majority of people and fairness would seem to be a bank in fairness would seem to be a bank in fairness would seem to be a blanket. and then we have the idiots going to outcome either panic buying or friday night. —— would seem to be obeying it. or

drinking the pub dry on friday. i think the fact that something like this has got onto every sunday next ina this has got onto every sunday next in a newspaper front page tomorrow morning does help to get that message across. brilliant stuff. we believe it there for the moment. thank you both are you. do come back and chat more than half an hour or so. see you then. and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you again tojo and nigel. we will see again. now it's time for your questions answered here on bbc news. a little earlier my colleague

geeta guru—murthy put your questions about the coronavirus pandemic — as well as the impact on health services — to a london based gp and clinician... i'm joined by i'mjoined by an i'm joined by an nhs gp working in global health at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. many thanks to you forjoining us, lots of questions coming in, if i could start with one for someone who asks is a mask helpful in preventing coronavirus? well, masks, there are different types of masks, that is the first thing to say, the kind that are commonly available, simple surgical masks is what i would call them, they certainly help if someone is coughing and someone in other words has coronavirus, if they were to wear that, they would at least prevent the droplets that might otherwise disperse when they cough

from reaching as far if you like. what they won't do is prevent the finer aerosol spreads or at least to a much lesser extent, importantly, it doesn't really go very far in terms of helping someone acquire covid—19, so if you are trying to stop yourself getting it, then actually, the suggestion is that it ends up quite possibly being counter—productive because what happens is, it is irritating, it makes you sweaty, it itches, people then end up touching their face and touching the areas that actually it is inadvisable to do, so the advice is we don't want anybody, if they can help it, touching anything from the neck up is what i say. and masks can have the opposite effect.

can ijust ask, before you get symptoms of coughing, if you don't know you have a mask, if you are wearing a mask, would it stop you breathing out some of the virus in your breath, or are you saying it doesn't? i think it probably would, like i say, it will prevent bigger droplets but it won't go all the way because the spread of coronavirus is what we refer to as droplets and aerosol spreads, and from contact with the actual bodily fluids, and so whilst the bigger droplets might be prevented from a mask or from a cloth over your mouth, it is not going to stop the finer particles and finer airborne stuff that would come through the mask. right, 0k. let's move onto another question from leila ahmed who says "i am 19 and quite severely asthmatic, if i contracted coronavirus, what are the chances it would kill me?"

firstly to say, there are many elements to that question, the anxiety about whether coronavirus will kill you is obviously is going to be quite worrying for you, i think the thing to say is that you are 19, that is in yourfavour, the fact that you have asthma and if you are affected quite severely by it, that is going to, that does unfortunately make you, put you in a high—risk group. i can't answer that question about how likely that is to have a particular effect on an individual patient, we never do but not least because i don't have the full picture and whatever else your situation might be, and of course, this whole thing with covid—19 is that there are so many factors going on which we are just learning about so the health system that

somebody is in will make a big difference about how they will be treated if they do get it and the supportive measures they receive such that then they can pull through it even if they get a severe form of covid—19. here in the uk, assuming that we don't reach such a saturation point that we don't have intensive care beds to treat people and then i would hope that all the support is there to have a good outcome, but further than that, obviously nobody can predict individual outcomes. i can only reassure you that the most important thing you can do is listen to that advice in terms of stopping yourself getting it, keeping safe, staying within the social distancing measures and indeed if you are isolating, if you are that worried and in that at—risk group. just important to check if i may, anybody who is young, nobody can guarantee that they are not going to be hit by this can they, in a severe way,

even if they don't have known underlying conditions, there is no guarantee? that is a very good point because there is no room for complacency in this, it is very clear that this condition adversely affects older people and people with underlying health conditions, it can potentially affect anybody and there are other subtle factors, if people are exhausted, we know that health care workers have been affected by the virus in a way that is disproportionate to the other risk factors of age and underlying health conditions, and we don't fully know but it is a combination of factors, probably the level of viral exposure, so if you are in contact with someone who is coughing a lot and throwing out a lot of the virus, if it is a heavy load, then that might affect whoever the recipient is on the extent

to which they get it but also, the fact that a lot of these health care workers have been in very difficult circumstances in terms of how hard they have been pushing themselves and their immune systems and actually, similar could apply to a young person who is badly hung over or is exhausted for example, so young people, there is no room for complacency here really, anybody should be on their guard and taking all the advice very seriously. immunity and staying well is as important as possible. stacy melling says i am 32 weeks pregnant and i am in self isolation and my son had high temperature, please advise if i should be going back to work after 1a days or whether i should just self isolating. so, she is 32 weeks pregnant. there are several elements, she has mentioned her son who has

had a fever and i'm assuming he is a child so obviously a child with a fever, there are many explanations for the fever, and i think it is not unreasonable to seek medical advice, gps are taking phone calls to advise people on the likely cause of a fever, it is probably important to establish what her son has got but let us assume that if it is a mild form of covid—19, she should be following the 1a day self isolation given that she has been in close contact with him, that certainly applies, the other half of the question is the fact that she is pregnant and is then concerned about exposing herself further when she goes back to work. now, the guidance, as she properly realises when asking that question is that pregnant women

are in the high—risk group and so at this point, she should be self isolating anyway. i just want to try and squeeze in two more questions, another one is, have all urgent cancer operations been put on hold due to the virus? i don't think so, medical care is going on for all urgent conditions that people need treating for and, to my knowledge, urgent operations have not been cancelled, it is routine operations that have been cancelled because, in the event that somebody may need to get an intensive care bed, we don't want to unnecessarily, we could prevent it, if it is a routine operation, those are the ones to have been cancelled. quite a few questions coming in on funerals. here we have a question, my daughter's funeral is due

to take place next week, what are the restrictions on numbers and those travelling? firstly, my condolences, obviously this is a very difficult time because in the bereavement process, the support that we get from friends and family are so important. but, at this point there are two directions really with all of this that we need to think about and that is for any given individual, what risk they want to expose themselves to and the other way is that for any given individual who may be in the asymptomatic phase of the infection already or have mild symptoms and don't realise it yet, what is the danger that they will pass it other people? and so any congregation of people, to my knowledge there is no lockdown from the government, forbidding bylaw yet, but the advice is clear that

if we come in close contact with lots of people, then we are exposing ourselves and we are exposing them. understood, i just want to squeeze in a last question there. joanna asks, if you and your loved ones isolate for seven days, is it safe tojump in a car and see each other? there are so many other factors attached to that question, technically i suppose it would be 1a days, assuming that they were completely on their own because within seven days they may still be in that stage where they haven't yet manifested any symptoms, it is a lot to do with the age, the likelihood that if they did get it, if they were carrying it, whether they would want to pass it on to someone else, so there are many unknowns to that. ultimately, any contact means an increased risk of acquisition or transmission. thank you so much for going through those questions, we're so grateful for your time today.

good evening. if you have been following the weather forecast for the last few days you would know we have been talking about a lot of dry weather over the weekend. and that certainly is true and has been true today and it will continue tomorrow with high pressure around. in fact, for many this week but for the northwest in particular some very wet and windy weather. the gales is due in for the start of the new week and we could have as much as three to four inches of rain. but elsewhere, for most of us, this should be dry weather with plenty of sunshine but we will pay with some frosty nights and hopefully however we will lose the chilly wind in the next 2a hours. that's been quite keen today, limiting our temperatures in the east coast, and the north sea is at its coldest this time of the year. the result will probably pick up in some parts of england and scotland and we still have our weekend parts and we still have our weak weather

front passing close by to the western northern isles, perhaps giving us a little bit a drizzly rain here and preventing a frost but for most, it is a cold night. a widely frosty night, —5, —6 in scotland. under that ridge of high pressure. through the course of sunday, hopefully that slips a little bit further southwards we replace that easterly wind and gradually for a southeasterly. so it may not feel quite great out and about to be caught in that wind, but what it will feel like winter first thing in the morning with that frost. hopefully that low cloud will lift and break through the day to reveal sunshine. more sunshine for scotland hopefully then today and northern ireland. 0ur weather front is moving away for a time. more sunshine and slightly less when hopefully a equates with feeling warmer if you are out. 0vernight, into monday, it turns bitter again. very little cloud to prevent the temperatures from plummeting in a widespread frost. again it will be a sharp frost in the glens of scotland and —6 and minus seven celsius.

the nights are still quite long despite having gone through the spring equinox. a little bit of frost around. possibly increasing amounts of mist and fog as well as we lose those winds. but by monday, you can see the rain arriving for the highlands and the island. coupled with the strong gale force winds. a very different day here but for the vast majority, a lot of fine and dry weather and we will see more cloud coming in across northern ireland and scotland and eventually some rain working its way to these parts by mid—week.

this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. the headlines: the death toll in italy has seen another dramatic rise — nearly 800 people have died in the last 2a hours from coronavirus — the highest total anywhere in the world since the outbreak began. nobody was prepared for a tragedy of this magnitude. and in spain, there's been a big rise too — an increase of more than 300 people, bringing the total number of deaths there to more than 1,300. in the uk more beds, ventilators and thousands of extra staff will be made available from next week after a deal between nhs england and the nation's independent hospitals. the total of dead