hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. a quarter of the world's population is now in lockdown — as the death toll from coronavirus goes over 20,000. another dramatic rise in the number of corona virus deaths in spain. it's now overtaken china, and is second only to italy. india shuts down as a three—week lockdown begins. 1.3 billion people are told to stay at home. "testing is vital" says borisjohnson. we ask why frontline doctors and nurses are finding it so hard to establish if they have the disease, or have recovered from it. and the heir to the british throne — prince charles has had a test — and its positive for coronavirus. we have the latest.

-- it is —— it is positive for the virus. a quarter of the world's population is now living under some form of lockdown. more than three billion people in almost 70 countries and territories have been asked to stay home. there are now more than 450,000 recorded cases of the virus globally, but we know testing is not readily available in many places so that number is likely to be much higher. let's look at the situation around the world. spain has now recorded more coronavirus deaths than china. 738 people have died in the past day, taking the total death toll to more than 3a00. close to 50,000 people

have fallen ill. more than 2,500 of them are in a serious or critical state. damian grammaticas reports from madrid. on a dark day for spain, a sobering site, van after van carrying bodies of virus victims. this is madrid's biggest ice rink. it's been requisitioned to hold the dead, they need it, there are so many now. arriving at spanish hospitals are more and more cases, infections here leaping every day. more than 5,000 medical staff have fallen sick as well. so part of spain's urgent efforts are these new rampant testing services, specifically for those on the front line. tonya, a nurse, fears she has the virus. a colleague has it. the swabs are invasive, unpleasant, handled with extreme care in case they've picked up the pathogen. trasnlation: i'm very

worried, especially for my family and my patients. at home, i am staying in one room isolated treating myself or my symptoms alone. the spanish government has asked the eu for protective equipment for its medical workers. gavin lee has more. what we are talking about is 1.5 million face masks, 500,000 respirators, 500,000 fast emergency testing kits, hundreds of ventilators. this will have to go to eu countries and elsewhere, possibly china, to see what comes back. and the eu are going through a procurement programme at the moment and it is in its early stages and there are reports that at the moment countries combined could only provide around 10% of what's needed around the eu. so that's something that may take some time. but worrying for spain today. going across to italy where that figure is still the highest anywhere in terms of the death toll in the world — 70,000 cases, 7000 deaths, giuseppe conte, the prime minister there, saying that they will look

to increase now the penalties of people violating the strict lockdown there, up to 4000 euros, and if you are in quarantine and you therefore breach that quarantine, you are looking at a possible five—year jail sentence. so, that's the severity that italy is taking it with now. this italian patient is one of many who has been transferred to a hospital in germany, because italian hospitals are overrun. mark lowen has tweeted the latest figures... as he ends that hashtag hope.

we've also heard the head of civil protection has a mild fever. here's mark tweeting again... we will keep you abreast of the situation there. a lockdown remains in place in italy. authorities are continuing to use drones to check people are adhering to the rules. and in france, which has recorded more than 20,000 cases, president emmanuel macron has visited a field hospital in the eastern city of mulhouse. in india it's the first day of a three—week nationwide lockdown. this is injammu, police officers forcing people to crouch inside a marked circle to maintain

a minimum social distance after they allegedly broke a rule prohibiting gatherings of more than three people. the country has seen a sharp increase in cases in recent days. arunoday mukharji has more from delhi. translation: a message for all indian citizens, stay indoors and stay safe, or else face not only health but legal consequences. 0nce bustling cities turned into ghost towns overnight, as the country observes a complete lockdown. only those doing the most essential jobs allowed on the streets. we came across this family of four who failed to get home before the lockdown. translation: no one is helping us. people are scared to give us a ride because of the virus. the police are also asking for our identity cards.

desperate and worried for their children, they are having to cycle nearly 15 miles to get home. these were the scenes in old delhi, as hundreds of homeless gathered, demanding food from authorities. some fear hunger will kill them before coronavirus does. others who were out to buy medicines and groceries told us the situation was challenging, but agreed a complete lockdown was needed to beat the virus. there is no stock, no vegetables, nothing, our baby needs are also not getting met. milk, i didn't find milk. bread for my people at home. translation: this is good that prime minister modi has enforced a lockdown. it's the only way forward. these are unprecedented scenes in a country of 1.3 billion people. unimaginable before this crisis.

many observers say that only a politician like modi could take and implement such a drastic step. india has tested fewer people than most other countries, the virus is already likely to have spread in far greater number than officially recognised. for the world's most second populace country, disaster could still be ahead. we're also getting reports that deliveries of food and medicine and being hampered by police. this tweet is from the editor of the economic times... and this editor has attached these photos, driver who has been beaten by local authorities.

in china, we're seeing some of the lockdown measures being eased. in wuhan, the city where the outbreak began, it will be partially lifted in two weeks' time. travel restrictions in the rest of hubei province have just been lifted for residents who are healthy. steve mcdonell is in beijing. here at beijing west, train station it isa here at beijing west, train station it is a highly symbolic day as travellers from hubei arrive in the chinese capital. a province where this global emergencies started has lifted its lockdown mp but there are 110w lifted its lockdown mp but there are now able to travel to other parts of the country. as you look around here you can see all these buses have been party to receive passengers as they come in. that is because you still have to do quarantine when you get into beijing for some that might seem like a hassle but for these people who have been cooped up for months it is another step towards

normality, a couple weeks of quarantine and they can go back to work here. there has been a lot of debate about the figures here and whether or not the official count can be trusted in terms of how many people are actually infected in china. there is a feeling that the national government wouldn't be allowing travellers to arrive unless they felt that this emergencies was pretty much under control. when it comes to those figures we have more

on our website but i want to go to russia because under that mask, that is vladimir putin. vladimir putin has announced next week will be in russia, except for key services. he's also postponed a nationwide vote on constitutional changes, which would allow him to extend his rule, because of the worsening situation. russia's total number of cases has passed 600, with a record daily rise. steve rosenberg is in moscow. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is relatively low. it is in the hundreds compared with tens of thousands in italy which is really surprising when you consider that russia is a massive country. but they are preparing for an influx of patients going here at the city upon said main emergency hospital where they have converted a whole section to the battle against covid—19. this is the green zone, the safe area. it is the green zone, the safe area. it is the green zone, the safe area. it is the icardi logical department of the hospital. but because of the pandemic what they have done here is to repurpose one of the units for coronavirus patients. what they say here is that they have all the facilities and equipment they need to treat people. —— it is the cardio logical department. if we look over here, this is where the patients who

have suspected covid—19 are brought in as you can see have suspected covid—19 are brought in as you can see everyone have suspected covid—19 are brought in as you can see everyone is in protective gear. it took them three days to set up this area and they have put in 80 beds, and you can see some of the beds here. and they are all full. this is a serious but it is not a catastrophic situation. why do you think the official figures are quite low in russia for people with coronavirus? if all people who have mild signs of infection cough, may be a running nose are going to make may be a running nose are going to ma ke tests, may be a running nose are going to make tests, the number carrying the virus would be much more. the message from this hospital at least is everything is under control. but russia is the largest country in the world with a health care system which for years has been underfunded

and under in norma's pressure. coronavirus is a huge challenge for eve ryo ne coronavirus is a huge challenge for everyone including russia. —— under in norma's pressure. it certainly is. the united nations has launched a humanitarian response plan. the un secretary—general antonio guterres says the world is only as strong as its weakest health system, and the developing world will need more support to prevent infections spiralling out of control. be responsible, be smart, but above all understand that only with solidarity can we defeat this disease. stay with us on outside source — still to come... congress and the white house agree the biggest bail out in history — to protect the american economy from the effects of coronavirus. the two main symptoms of coronavirus

work out for our continuous dry cough and ora work out for our continuous dry cough and or a fever. if you are sneezing a lot, got a runny nose or a headache, you may be ill but you probably have not got coronavirus. so how high fever is a one? it has to be coughing regularly for no reason other than just clearing your throat or smoking. how high a fever is a coronavirus fever? if you have one you will know about it. it isa have one you will know about it. it is a body temperature of more than... but if you have not got a thermometer basically you will feel hot and your chest and back would be hot.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... a quarter of the world's population is now in lockdown — as the deathtoll from coronavirus, goes past 20,000. with the uk under a nationwide lockdown, the focus on fighting the coronavirus outbreak here has shifted to testing. there are now over 8,000 confirmed cases in the uk, this graph shows the rapid increase, but it is widely believed that there are many more cases going unreported, due to a lack of testing. today at the prime minister's briefing the two experts in charge of the uk's response to the outbreak explained their plans to expand testing for the virus. here is chief medical adviser, professor chris whitty. we initially were using that to

screen people who came from high risk countries. when that ceased to bea risk countries. when that ceased to be a sensible policy, we moved on to testing people in intensive care is and hospitals and we have sufficient tests for that. at the moment the system for that is working fine and being scaled up. that side of testing is in place and working well. if the patient gets as far as a hospital, we are confident on the testing and the scaler. this is the government guidance for doctors working for the national health service in england, it says the main criteria for covid—19 testing is "admission to hospital" — if you are not hospitalised nhs england doctors aren't allowed to test you for the virus. another concern, is the doctors themselves aren't allowed to get tested either. there has been a lot of response and criticism for that. labour mp david lammy says...

here's proffessor whitty explaining why. the thing we would like to do next which would certainly make a difference less to the disease but definitely to the nhs is being able to test nhs and other critical workers who are self isolating who currently a re workers who are self isolating who currently are not being tested because we do not have sufficient testing, this is a global problem because basically every country is wanting this new test for a disease that wasn't being tested for anywhere three months ago. everybody wa nts anywhere three months ago. everybody wants this. there is a global storage and that is a bottleneck for us storage and that is a bottleneck for us but the next party is to get critical workers back to work and to

make sure if you have this. we would like that not to fight the disease but to support the nhs. the guardian reported today that public health england says a 15 minute home test kit will be released, that can tell you if you've had the disease. this will be available to health workers and the public. this article says the uk government have already bought 3.5m tests. here's a bit more from professor whitty on that. there are the tests which we will wa nt to there are the tests which we will want to have which are not yet absolutely evaluated but are going to be critical once you got them that can tell someone whether they had the virus, this is the antibody test. you can't do that in the first few days after someone has had a fever but after a few weeks possibly oi’ fever but after a few weeks possibly 01’ as fever but after a few weeks possibly or as short as one week and that will allow us to say to nhs workers and other workers you have had this infection for the short—term and possibly for quite a long time. it

is likely you are protected against this and you can go back to work and be confident not to get a —— if you get another cover fever that is not coronavirus. telling someone inaccurately either they have had it oi’ inaccurately either they have had it or not had it could lead to dangerous mistakes being made. we don't want to go ahead with testing until we are confident of the technology. you may have seen articles like this one in the financial times, quoting an oxford university study which suggestes as many as 50% of people in the uk could have already had the virus. this is the study, it has yet to be published or scrutinised by other scientists, and it contains a number of hypothetical situations about how far the virus has already spread. while some are hospitalised by coronavirus, many people will have mild symptoms, or none at all. here's the uk's chief scientific

adviser, sir patrick vallance. we simply don't know at the moment and that is why the antibody test is so important. so there are estimates up so important. so there are estimates up to 80% or more people in wuhan weren't detected. there estimates that of those who are positive, a small percentage of the population who have tested positive, quite a number of them were asymptomatic in a town in italy but we don't know at a town in italy but we don't know at a general population of old which is why it is so important to get this testing in place. one person who has been tested for the virus is prince charles, he tested positive while in scotland. the nhs in scotland have their own criteria for testing, as our royal correspondent nicholas witchell explains. the nhs in scotland is making it clear that he qualified under the clinical criteria to be tested, he is of course 71 and he was

exhibiting symptoms. he and the duchess of cornwall travelled up to aberdeen on sunday not on a scheduled flight presumably on an raffight scheduled flight presumably on an raf fight and i think by than some of the symptoms must have been evident so he was tested or they we re evident so he was tested or they were both tested on monday. the test results came back late last night, his were positive, hers were negative so they are both self isolating at burke hall, a not unsubsta ntial house on isolating at burke hall, a not unsubstantial house on the bow moral estate. we a re unsubstantial house on the bow moral estate. we are told he is in good spirits and up and about and working a bit sci—fi setting. spirits and up and about and working a bit sci-fi setting. we wish prince charles all the best. in the us, democrats in the senate have reached agreement with the white house on a stimulus package worth $2 trillion. it'll be the largest bailout programme in history, and includes sending cheques of $1,200 to every adult, except high—earners. there's also hundreds of billions of dollars in loans for businesses and even for state governments if they need a bailout too. anthony zurcher is in washington.

he is also self isolating and you have been across this for us finally agreement on this stimulus package. finally, they have been battling over this for days now. they had to extend the voting deadline several times but it looks like we are getting close to the final stretch here. there is a little bit of objections coming from some republican senators over the size of the unappointed pay—out that could be going towards individuals but i imagine that will be worked out fairly soon. the senate will pass this first and then it will be passed by the house of representatives. all of which the members of congress are scattered across the country. they will either have to do this by a unanimous consent have to do this by a unanimous co nse nt vote have to do this by a unanimous consent vote or fight back into dc and vote on a for some it will be probably towards the end of the week before this could be approved by congress and at that point it will end up on donald trump's desk for his signature. anthony don't go away because we want to talk to about the

situation in new york but ijust wa nt to situation in new york but ijust want to add that all countries controlled by president trump and his kids are banned from receiving any his kids are banned from receiving a ny loa ns his kids are banned from receiving any loans or investments from this huge stimulus package. that's designed to make it impossible for the president to channel any of this taxpayer money into trump—branded resorts and hotels. there are questions whether this — and the fact he's hinged his re—election in november on a booming economy — could be a factor in him calling for the lockdown to end afterjust 15 days. here he is. easter is a special day for many reasons, for me, for a lot of our friends it's a very special day. and what a great timeline this would be. easter as our timeline. what a great timeline that would be. this despite the fact there are more than 55,000 cases in the us with the number of deaths at almost 900. the who has warned the us could become the virus‘s next epicentre and new york's governor warned the illness is spreading faster than "a bullet train".

let's go back to anthony. it seems the president is incredibly optimistic given what we are seeing in reality the figures coming especially from new york state. in reality the figures coming especially from new york statem doesn't seem very optimistic and the administration walked back those comments a little bit yesterday evening, donald trump on—site medical adviser saying that was a goal but not necessarily was a flexible kind of deadline looking at and you have to mention new york governor andrew cuomo, the governors will be the ones who have the final say in this. conceivably if donald trump keeps pushing to have businesses reopen, he could be in direct conflict with governors all of this country who have decided in theirjudgement to keep business close. that puts donald trump in a position of saying if there are economic consequences from these closures, he is the one train to open things up and get american

business is booming and not take quite as much the blame as governors might. that is a position he could conceivably campaign on. you have to remember of the past year, year and a half, donald trump has been talking about this great economy as his big accomplishment and what makes them deserving of reelection. he has to bang on a recalibration of his message or the economy back to back quickly if he wants to keep that message going into the general election in november. in a sentence when it comes to how the mood is, what are people thinking about the way donald trump is reacting to all of this very briefly? if you look at the polls donald trump has seen his highest approval rating. people seem to be rallying around him at the moment. the question is will they continue if the negative consequences continue to drag on for the weeks and months ahead. anthony, thank you so much. he was speak to him later. he is a self isolating in washington. a lot more on our

website including details of the restrictions of movement in the uk before the time being thanks for much returning us here in outside source. good evening it has been a day of split weather fortunes across the uk. sunny skies for some but very grey skies for others. this is the satellite picture, a stark difference between england and wales with sunny skies but across a good pa rt with sunny skies but across a good part of scotland and northern ireland this cloud has just been sitting in place and will continue to do so over the next couple of days still producing the odd spot of rain as to go through this evening and tonight but where you are underneath this band of crowd ca ptu res underneath this band of crowd captures will not drop too far. glasgow, aberdeen, belfast holding up glasgow, aberdeen, belfast holding up around six or 7 degrees but colder across the far north of scotla nd colder across the far north of scotland and certainly colder further south or crossing that and wales, some spots in the midlands, east wales, could get down to write

is four or east wales, could get down to write is fouror minus east wales, could get down to write is four or minus five degrees a chilly start but a bright one tomorrow for some brighter prospects for england and wales, a stripe of crowd affecting northern ireland and good part of scotland although northern scotland is likely to have a bright day if a rather cold one with one or two showers. temperatures across the board a little bit lower than they have been over the last couple of days. also a noticeable breeze for some of these north sea coast. light winds on friday for many, lots of sunshine for england and wales, a stripe of crowd affecting northern ireland and scotland, the far north will see sunshine and those temperatures a little bit lower than they have been. that cloud will move southwards, this frontal system associated with the cloud will be pushing its way southwards into the start of the weekend and as it clears, it opens the door to some cold air which is going to point its way down from the north. a really

chilly feel to things this weekend particularly when you consider the strength of the wind that willjust accentuate that cold feel. saturday virtually with sunny spells... again patchy crowd and sunny spells but slightly greater chance we will see wintry showers of in from the northeast later in the day. on the thermometer, temperatures will reap between six and 9 degrees which is below par for the time of year but when we factor in the strength of when, this is what it will feel like. for some it will not feel much better than freezing.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. frontline doctors need more masks, visors and surgical gowns to protect them from coronavirus warns the doctor's union, otherwise some may die. and the nhs army of volunteers — more than 400 thousand people sign up to help in just 24 hours. under pressure — nearly half a million people have filed welfare benefit claims since last week, with more than a hundred—thousand applications made yesterday alone. prince charles tests positive for the virus, displaying mild symptoms. he's self isolating at balmoral with the duchess of cornwall who tested negative. an ice rink in madrid becomes a temporary mortuary as spain's death toll overtakes china's. and the us sees a increase in its coronavirus death toll to 737, as the number of confirmed cases rises to over 54,000.

the british medical association say there's growing evidence that thousands of front line doctors are still not getting the personal protection equipment they need to treat patients with coronavirus. the doctor's union says it means some medics are likely to become very ill and some may die. some doctors have resorted to taking their own eye protection goggles to work because there aren't enough visors. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have stepped forward to volunteer in the fight against the virus. at a briefing earlier this evening, borisjohnson said 405,000 people have signed up to act as nhs volunteers following the request from the government. the government's chief medical adviser chris whitty says there is a global shortage of testing equipment, causing a "bottleneck" for the uk. and he also said that the modelling of the lockdown is based on the idea