in the the women's super league in the women's championship, and outlined all the various options that are in front of them, one of which was to void the season from here onwards, to cancel the season, as we have seenin to cancel the season, as we have seen in lower levels of the women's game, but it emerged that was not the option the fa or the majority of clu bs the option the fa or the majority of clubs preferred, and the women's super league are determined to try if they can to complete the season stopped but they also admit that the decision may be taken out of their hands depending on the severity of the virus and how this pandemic progresses over the coming weeks. they know that if they are to finish it, if it is safe and the conditions are safe to do so, they need to do so are safe to do so, they need to do so by early august. that's what we understand to be the final possible end date for the season. so in order to do that, we are between six and nine matches left depending on the club, they need to resume the season byjuly at the latest and ideally in

june at some stage, otherwise they will run out of time to play the remaining matches. england rugby union head coach eddiejones took a 25% pay cut earlier this week as the sport looks to save money during the pandemic. but he's still scouting for talent, he says — and encouraging young players to keep training at home. you can still improve your game at this time. you can set up a gym at home. you can do some training in the backyard. you can practice your skills, get your parents to help you. and the parents, i know how hard this is on you. i was down in horsham last week and a father was saying that he had to tell his son that rugby training is no longer on. so it's a difficult time, but keep positive, because we will get out of this, we will beat this virus, and rugby will commence. keep your spirits up. england women's cricket captain heather knight has signed up for the national health service volunteer scheme to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. knight returned to england from australia ten days ago, after the t20 world cup.

she's nowjoined over 700,000 people who've signed up following an appeal by the uk government for volunteers to help with tasks like driving patients to and from hospital and phoning people that are self—isolating. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories — and the latest on how the coronavirus is affecting sport around the world — on the bbc sport website. from you and the team, for now, thanks for watching. goodbye. from you and the team, for now, thanks forwatching. goodbye. —— from me and the team. some breaking news on the coronavirus coming from italy. we are seeing that the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in italy has now risen to 92,472, that's cases in italy has now risen to 92,102, that's from cases in italy has now risen to 92,472, that's from 86,498 on friday, so another significant jump there. as you know, italy, very hard hit by the coronavirus, and those

figures coming out showing the jump again from friday into today. now, you might not be able to go out this weekend, but that doesn't mean that you can't still have fun. over the past week, millions of people have been taking part in virtual parties, online quiz nights and stay—at—home concerts, as rianna croxfrod has been finding out. not your average night out. these people on the app tiktok are not letting the news get them down. it's the first weekend since we were all told to stay indoors. 0ur usual events and hobbies might be out the window but that's not stopping people finding new ways to socialise. good evening, everybody. cheers to you. welcome to tonight's quiz. 0nce hosted at your local, the battle of wits are now finding a new lease of life online. question two — what is the name of the third instalment of the harry potter books? quizzes seem to be the go—to game

for those stuck indoors. comedians like mo gilligan are drawing in big audiences on instagram. welcome, everyone, to toilet roll trivia episode 7. it's my third week in self—isolation. ijumped at the chance to get involved. hi. where are you playing from? from my bedroom in north west london. not all prizes are that glamorous. you have done extremely well, rianna. i can tell you this, you're going to get a signed piece of this, right? this is worth more than a signature from the queen at the moment. and it's not all fun and games. others are using their time to stay fit and healthy. i think it's a great thing to be working out during this isolation because for one, it makes you feel good, it really steps up the endorphins and i'm so happy i get to do it with all my friends around the world right here in my living room with all the things that i need

because all you really need is your body, that's all you need. they might not be heading out but it's not stopping them from having a good time. djs are streaming their sets online with people trading the dance floor for the kitchen floor. people are certainly getting creative. and on that theme, the royal mint is to manufacture up to 4000 medical visors per day to help protect nhs staff from coronavirus. engineers who are used to working on coins and related machinery developed a successful prototype in just 48 hours. the first visors are already in use at a hospital in wales. i'm pleased to say we can cross live now to the director of operations at the royal mint. what made you think this could be a new line for you? i think, like everyone run the country, we all want to help. we have been racking our brains on how to do this, we registered for the ventilated scheme, but obviously that is not

close enough to our confidence, so i was talking to my sister on tuesday, we know there's a big pressure on personal protective equipment, we mentioned visors. so on wednesday morning we came into work, but 15 engineers together, they gave them a challenge of 24 hours to come up with a prototype, in the seven, they created one, which is absolutely fantastic. and 50% of them were in the house. congratulations. in terms of the kind of kid you have that makes it possible, many people will be surprised at what you got to do with coins and so on apply so easily to something that seems so different. —— the kind of a kit you have. what we have done is utilise oui’ have. what we have done is utilise our engineering talent to create the designs, then put our partners enforce up our expertise is really in the assembly products. to our partners are delivering to us. we have converted our tourist attraction, the royal mint experience, from this morning and

devise a manufacturing facility. we have now ramped up at a rate which is around 2000 visors a day after about five hours. —— we converted it to eat visor manufacturing facility. we delivered masks to a hospital in cardiff. we are seeing pictures of the visors in question, which look brilliant. what kind of mood did it create in the workplace, seeing that you could have this new role and play a vital role in the effort? it's just been phenomenal. play a vital role in the effort? it'sjust been phenomenal. we've had people turning up today who weren't supposed to be working, just wanting to get involved. we've got one of oui’ ex to get involved. we've got one of our ex employees who came in today, he does a greatjob on the production line, designing lines, he helped us with that. it's absolutely fantastic for us to do this in this difficult time for the nation. and how easy do you think it is for engineers of all different kinds, working in different places, to turn their hands to what seem to be totally new ideas? i think great

britain is full of fantastic engineers. we've got opportunities to add value. i was on the phone today with another company where we we re today with another company where we were trying to create a kind of consortium now where they can start producing as well, down in kent, which would be fantastic. will be open sourcing this design at the end of the week so anyone can kind of design it, we're just of the week so anyone can kind of design it, we'rejust refining that, sorry, manufacture it. ithink design it, we'rejust refining that, sorry, manufacture it. i think we've got fantastic opportunities and eve ryo ne got fantastic opportunities and everyone needs to kind of step up and see what we can do. absolutely, great sentiment there. we need to speak to you, and congratulations again to you and the team there at royal mint. thank you. with demand for food, especially home delivery high, many of england's small fishermen are taking to the waters earlier than usual in the year to try and help. most of their catch would normally be sold to france and spain but export markets have dried up. lucie fisher reports from st ives, in cornwall in southwest england. this man has fished these waters all his working life. today is a first.

this is the first time ever and i've been doing it for 31 years. this is the first time selling fish on the quay. crab and lobster you are bringing in, it is all food, there is big demand at the moment, isn't there? well, everybody has to eat and fish is one of the main diets for people. people go mad for it. but at the moment, we can't export it anywhere. keeping a strict two metres distance, stewart and his son are selling fish from behind a cordon. i think it's great that they can still supply the locals and anyone else that is here. it gives us an opportunity to buy good, fresh fish and it is good for them. good all round. there's lots of people who can't come out, so i am going to drop it on their doorstop so they get fresh fish today from isolation, which i think is a nice thing to do in these difficult times. the harbour and beaches in st ives are normally teeming at this time of year, like everywhere else, they are deserted.

lifeguards absent from duty, so as not to give the impression that beaches are open for play. they are not. i grew up here and fishing, for so long a squeezed industry, now the only industry in town. up the hill, at matthew stevens fish supplier, restaurant orders have collapsed. they are now selling door to door. people are desperate to be able to receive food deliveries, notjust fish, food in general, to their door. we are here to hopefully provide that service. more boats will be going out next week and the plan then is to increase the sales from door—to—door. lucy fisher, bbc news. don't forget, you can find much more information on coronavirus on our website, including this look at how

a cruise ship near panama is trying to tra nsfer a cruise ship near panama is trying to transfer healthy passengers to another vessel after an outbreak on board. the bbc news website or app. we say goodbye now to our viewers on bbc world. but for those of you staying with us here on the bbc news, a treat, the weather! hello. sunshine harder to see out there this weekend, cloud increasing from the north, but the more significant thing about this weekend's weather is how much colder it's turning, and the colder feel enhanced by a stronger wind. we've got high pressure close by, so that would suggest a lot of dry weather, and a bar a few showers, that's the case. around the area of high pressure, though, the area's coming in from a cold direction, from the north or north—east, so that is introducing the cold air and the wind is quite strong, as well, particularly gusty towards the east and south of the uk, adding a wind chill factor here, as well. so overnight, a mixture of cloud and clear spells, cloud increasing again from the north later in the night. there's a chance

of catching a shower. most places will avoid them and stay dry. temperatures dipping away to a degree or so either side of freezing, so colder than this in the countryside, that does mean a frost for many of us going into the morning. now, clocks go forward overnight, to mark the arrival of british summer time. it's got nothing to do with the weather but very noticeably, tomorrow evening, sunset will be an hour later compared with this evening. let's take a look at a sunday's weather, then. a lot of cloud, as you can see. a few showers dotted about through northern and eastern scotland, north—east england, running down across east anglia toward south—east england. showers could be heavy, could have some hail, wintry on hills, perhaps at times to lower levels in scotland. and these are your wind gusts for sunday afternoon. particularly across eastern areas of england, southern england, through the english channel, could be gusting near 50 mph in places. it's already cold in the flow of air coming down from the north or north—east, but when you factor in that wind, and particularly again where its strongest for some of us, it's going to feel like it's not too far away from freezing if you are outside.

now, as we go on into monday, still a few showers running down towards northern scotland, across eastern areas of england, one or two may filter a little bit further west during the day. actually, the wind isn't quite as strong on monday. it's changed direction a little bit, not going to be quite as chilly. temperatures head up a little bit as we go into the week, and as the week goes on, high—pressure squeezed away a little bit, low pressure developing near iceland, and that will start to bring in a few showers again across the north west. and if anything, that'll bring another shot of cold air later in the week. so a few locations, this is how your week is shaping up, and bar a few showers, a lot of dry weather out there.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the number of deaths in the uk from the coronavirus rises to 1,019, with another 260 people dying in a single day, officials warn that social distancing restrictions must be kept in place. if we can keep deaths below 20,000 we will have done very well in this epidemic. the uk business secretary announces new economic measures, including changes to the insolvency rules and improvements to the nhs supply system we are also introducing a range of

measures to boost the supply of personal protective equipment such as face masks to protect nhs staff on the front lines. tests for frontline health service staff begin in england this weekend — 10 days after wales started theirs — following heavy criticism over a lack of testing for health workers. the english cities of birmingham and manchester join london with plans to open more temporary hospitals to help cope with the outbreak in the uk. the total death toll in italy as a result of the coronavirus has now risen to over 10,000 that brings the total number of people across europe killed by covid—19 to more than 20,000. the number of people to have died with coronavirus in the uk has reached 1,019. there have been a further 260 deaths since figures were released yesterday. in downing street's daily news briefing, the business secretary, alok sharma,

announced changes to insolvency rules to allow firms "greater flexibility" as they face the current crisis. he was joined by the medical director of nhs england professor stephen powis who said the figures of those likely to die from coronavirus will continue to rise but restrictions will help to limit numbers he was also asked about testing for nhs staff and how full intensive care beds around the uk currently are. as you know the nhs has been working very ha rd to as you know the nhs has been working very hard to increase the capacity beyond the 4000 or so bad that we typically have and that has been pursued firstly in london, although work is going on all over the country because, as you are also aware, the infection has spread a bit quicker in london. so, we are

not at capacity yet within london, but beds are being opened all the time to produce that extra capacity. so in the first instance, we are using theatres and recovery areas, those are areas in hospitals where anaesthetic machines, ventilators are already used for surgery and can be readily adapted to take critically ill patients, and that has already occurred, you may have seen some has already occurred, you may have seen some of that in london hospitals. that is almost doubling the capacity that we have already, we are not using it at the moment but clearly the number of patients is increasing each day and so we are expanding that capacity and advance. you will have also seen the plans at nhs nightingale in east london to initially bring on another 500 beds if they are needed and we aim to get that up and ready for patients next week. so, at the moment, i am confident the capacity is there, we have not reached capacity and i am confident that capacity is expanding, particularly in london so that we keep ahead of increased

patient numbers. 0n the testing, as their chief executive of the nhs said yesterday, it is absolutely critical that we now begin to introduce testing for staff, and i said before, it is very important for two reasons. firstly because if we have staff at home, either self isolating or in quarantine because a member of their family has symptoms, if it turns out that it is not because of coronavirus we can bring that staff member back, that is very important for the workforce, particularly in critical areas such as critical care clinicians or emergency department clinicians, and those are the groups, paramedics as well i should say, that we will be focusing on first. secondly, because ofa focusing on first. secondly, because of a positive, when they come back, they can be confident they have some immunity and that will be very important going forward as we understand which parts of the workforce have had this virus and are therefore likely to be immune. so, as simon stephens said

yesterday, as we ramp up testing as we are doing all the time, to use that extra capacity, over and above that extra capacity, over and above that which we need to use for patients, to test nhs staff, we are working with nhs organisations as i speak to ensure that that testing will be available over the next few days for their critical staff. as well as announcing changes to insolvency rules to allow firms "greater flexibility" as they face the current crisis, the business secretary, alok sharma, also said steps were being taken to get more supplies to healthcare workers. we will introduce measures to improve the insolvency system that provides the legal options for companies running into major difficulties. 0ur overriding objective is to help uk companies that need to undergo a financial rescue or restructuring to keep trading. these measures will give those firms extra time and space to weather the storm and be ready when the crisis ends

whilst ensuring that creditors get the best return possible in the circumstances. the changes to the insolvency regime will include new rules to make sure companies undergoing restructuring can continue to get hold of supplies and raw materials and there will be a temporary suspension of wrongful trading provisions for company directors to remove the threat of personal liability during the pandemic. this provision will have retrospective effect from the 1st of march. however, to be clear, all of the other checks and balances that help to ensure directors fulfil their duties properly will remain in force. we will bring forward legislation in these areas at the earliest opportunity. we will put in place measures to ensure companies required to hold annual meetings can do so flexibly in a manner compatible with the best

public health guidance. this might include postponing or holding the agm online or by phone using only proxy voting. in addition, we are also introducing a range of measures to boost the supply of personal protective equipment such as face masks to protect front line nhs staff, and we are removing administrative barriers to the production of hand sanitiser by reducing red tape. new suppliers and businesses that produce ingredients for safe hand sanitiser will be able to bring their products to market in a matter of days. the business secretary alloc sharma. you've been contacting us in your thousands with questions about practical advice and support on covid—19. kate silverton was joined a short while ago by some experts who attempted to answer some

of those — on your questions answered. we can speak to doctor philip k who isagp we can speak to doctor philip k who isa gp in we can speak to doctor philip k who is a gp in north—west and mark harris is a professor of virology at the university of leeds. thank you for joining the university of leeds. thank you forjoining us. philippa, let us start with you, a question from heather. when the prime minister and others test positive with mild symptoms, what are these mild symptoms? is there a danger that the carry on as usual attitude, albeit in isolation, diminishes the seriousness of the situation?” think there is always a balance to be drawn between emphasising how serious this is without inducing panic. is without inducing panic and for most, they will have

mild symptoms, about 80% and we mean a fever, feeling unwell and coughing. that might last a few days up to a week. the coughing can persist. they might be able to potter around at home and work from home, like the prime minister. if symptoms are more severe with shortness of breath and dizziness, no matter where you are, you must call 111 to get medical treatment. on that, i wonder if there is an element of reassurance that comes with seeing high profile people saying they are at home, pottering, albeit i am sure the prime minister is more than pottering! is there a sense of reassurance that might come sometimes with hearing people carry on albeit in isolation? yes, until people know someone in their family, orfriends who have had it, there is a great amount of fear because some people will become more

unwell so to hear somebody is managing and has a temperature and is managing with paracetamol and fluid can be reassuring. mark, that leads me to this question from debbie who is fearful. she said, should people who have tested positive stay inside? are they allowed to be out in the garden? she is worried about catching it from her neighbour, she says the gardens are close together and she has tested positive. people who are isolated are allowed to go into the garden. the same rule applies as if you went for a walk. you must remain two metres apart from each other, so unless you are leaning over the fence talking to each other, you are ok. the rule is two metres. two metres is the minimum so you should be further away from each other, if possible. one can understand the social compromise this can bring sometimes if you are worried about the neighbour

who has tested positive. that is right. in our everyday lives we have to maintain distance from people, so we can talk to neighbours but maintain a distance from them. it is tough, but we have to abide by that in order to prevent transmission of the virus, particularly if you know your neighbour has tested positive. you should be mindful. philippa, my 89—year—old father thinks it is ok to go shopping because supermarkets have special slots for the elderly. can he go shopping, or should he stay at home? we are saying the over 70s should stay at home as much as possible which means if someone else could go shopping, an online delivery, i would advise that, especially as he is quite away over 70 and the older you are, the more serious the infection can be.

if there is someone else who can do that, i would recommend that. if there is not, no other options, which is unusual because a lot of things are set up to help people, yes, if he was well, technically he could go but i would advise going in the special hours and maintaining two metres apart if possible. it is difficult for people with elderly parents who still like to have independence. mark, can the virus survive on newspapers and is it risky to read a paper handled by someone who is infected, from linda. a study looked at how the virus persisted and if it is on a hard surface, such as metal, plastic, it can survive up to 72 hours. the study looked on paper and showed the virus could not be detected after as little as an hour or so after putting onto paper,

so you are pretty safe with paper. if you are concerned, after you have read the paper, wash your hands before touching your face. that is a rule we should all follow. the same with the post, for people? absolutely, if it is paper it is unlikely to be contaminated but you should be careful. if you have brought anything in from outside, when you come back from your walk, you should wash your hands. it should be the first thing you do when you get back in the house. what about clothes? people are saying they would have a shower when they come in if they feel they were exposed. shower, washing clothes, would you advise that? as much as you can do to avoid any potential contamination. it might be excessive to wash your clothes every time you come in from going out for a walk. if you maintained a good distance and are not aware of touching anyone else,

you are unlikely to be contaminated with virus so washing hands is the most important because that is the most likely where you will transmit the virus. you have to touch your mouth, nose, eyes, that is most likely that would come from your hands. philippa, i am on my seventh day of self isolation after displaying symptoms and now my daughter displays symptoms. can i go out to get food and paracetamol, as we are running low? can i be around her as she is ill, to help her recover. just to clarify on the question before, if you are a health care professional, nurse, doctor and working for example in scrubs, those i would change when i got home because that is not the same as a normal hour of exercise. on this question, if you are on the seventh day of infection,

you, as the person infecting the house, as long as you do not have a fever, can go out from day eight to get supplies. even if you are on day eight, ten, you still have a fever, you have to stay at home. the only symptom we say you can go out with if it persists after a week is coughing because that can stay around another three, four weeks. she can go out from tomorrow on day eight is longer she is well but everybody else in the house has to stay in 14 days from the day she started her symptoms. if they get symptoms on top, so if i had a child who got symptoms on day 13, it is another seven days for that person from then. she can go out after seven days as long as she has no temperature. everybody else stays in for the 14 and if they develop symptoms, another seven. thank you.

mark, a big question. with different countries infected at different times, who will decide, and how, when global travel can start up again? from bob carter. i think the answer is the world will decide and it will be a gradual process. like we saw the lockdown in various countries, closing borders, flights from various countries being stopped in a piecemeal fashion, i guess when we come out the other side, the same will happen in reverse and gradually we will start to see flights resuming to other countries. it will be a slow process, i think, because we want to make sure we do not transmit the virus to other countries. in china they have had cases coming back in from people coming into china, but that is a concern. i think a gradual process. it will not be one day

we cannot travel and the next wherever we want. it will be gradual. maybe bob was asking the question in hope! philippa, i am 77 with a lung disease but i have not received the government letter to say i am in a high—risk category. should i self—isolate says michael richardson. there is a difference between self isolation which we advise for over 70s and almost a complete quarantine which we advise for people in high—risk groups which include people with blood cancers and those with an organ transplant. for those people, they do not leave the house, not to get groceries, groceries should be left, not even for a walk. for those self isolating, over 70s can go for a walk. he should definitely be self isolating. whether or not he would be counted

as a high—risk vulnerable group, if he has not had a letter, that would suggest he does not have to. you can have asthma that is not severe enough to make us think you are considered to be high risk. if he is not sure, ring the gp on monday and they will discuss with you further. mark, cana mark, can a virus be passed by stroking pets? it is unlikely. if you have gone out for a walk with your dog and someone who was infected sneeze into their hand and stroked your dog, that would be a potential transmission but of course thatis potential transmission but of course that is highly unlikely because he would be maintaining your two metres of distance. we cannot make a zero risk, risks are never zero, there of distance. we cannot make a zero risk, risks are neverzero, there is always a very small risk, if you are

worried then after you have stroked your cat or dog, wash your hands. that is the mantra, wash your hands. philippa, what defines a persistent cough and how can i tell of i have a dry cough? a dry cough is one that doesn't really produce mucus, we have all had that fruity, hacking cough at some point but a dry cough doesn't produce that. by persistent, what we mean is a cough that is happening for let us say it half a day or you are coughing for an hour maybe three times a day and that is new for you and i would say that thatis new for you and i would say that that is persistent. if you are somebody that has a cough anyway, for example a smokers cough, and your coffers got significantly worse for about half a day or feels different. a smokers cough in the morning does sound rather wet or googly, and a dry cough doesn't, so if you have a cough normally and you see a change in that, then you need

to stay at home. do we know the proportion of people presenting with a cough? we know some people are asymptomatic, the cough seems to be the one thing that is definitive but you don't necessarily need to have had a cough to have the virus. so, until we roll out testing and by testing in this case i mean antibody testing in this case i mean antibody testing to say whether or not a person has had it, we don't know the percentage of people who have had it asymptomatic lay, which means that it is not then possible to say what percentage had it asymptomatic lay 01’ percentage had it asymptomatic lay or had it with a cough or a fever. it is something that we will be studying for a long time to come as those antibody tests come out in the future. right now, we don't know. in the same way that i have a lot of patience wringing my surgery saying, i know it is not a coronavirus cough. we don't know that. the likelihood is that if you have a

fever or a cough at the moment, it is related to coronavirus and you must stay at home. yes, the season for traditional seasonal flu has actually passed and so echoing what you have just said, actually passed and so echoing what you havejust said, it actually passed and so echoing what you have just said, it is actually passed and so echoing what you havejust said, it is more likely to be coronavirus. absolutely, the seasonal flu season tends to end at the end of march, the only other thing to say is that patients are ringing up saying, i am sneezing but i think it is hay fever, and that can be a bit difficult to differentiate. apart from the fact that coronavirus doesn't tend to cause sneezing, if you are somebody who is sneezing and you are somebody who is sneezing and you have itchy eyes that are associated with it and are coughing occasionally, if you have all of those symptoms together, it is more likely to be hay fever, it is having a persistent cough that i described having it for an hour a few times a day, that is when i would self—isolate. day, that is when i would self-isolate. it is just worth clarifying again, talking about

testing, nhs workers will start to be tested this weekend, the difference between the antibody antigen test, i think it is worth clarifying again. and antigen test tells you that you have it now. we are testing a part of the virus and the one that we are thinking about doing will be a swab that you insert in the back of your throat and that tells you if you have the virus now and therefore could infect somebody and therefore could infect somebody and therefore could infect somebody and the reason to do that is that if you have, a child at home who may be coughing or have a temperature for another reason, then we want to know which of our health care professionals a re which of our health care professionals are shedding and have the virus and therefore can't go to work and which ones can. and antibody test, which will be rolled out in the future and they are starting to test them right now, tells you whether or not you have had the infection, not whether or not you have it now and if you know you've had the infection and are therefore immune, as a health care professional it makes you into

something of a superhero comic gives you a superpower because we know that you won't necessarily get it again and therefore you can go to work. mark, do we know for absolutely certain that if you have had it you will now be safe? that is a good question. if you had any virus infection and you clear that virus infection and you clear that virus and that virus goes away, it may be the common cold or flu or any other of virus, your body will raise an immune response to that virus and that immune response will enable your body to clear the virus from the body. after that, that immune response will persist so that if you become exposed to that virus again, that immune response will counteract the virus very rapidly so you should be immune to any subsequent infection with the same virus. that is why we think that it is very important to have an antibody test just to make sure that you have an

immune response to this virus, and thenif immune response to this virus, and then if you have that immune response, you will be resistant to subsequent infection and you can go and work with people who are infected with the reinsurance that you won't be able to be reinfected. which is precisely why there has been so much angst and dare i say, anger in some quarters that we haven't had the testing sooner because it would help tremendously, it would be a game changer. that is true but of course, it takes a little longer to develop that test, as soon as the virus was identified injanuary, we as soon as the virus was identified in january, we knew as soon as the virus was identified injanuary, we knew what as soon as the virus was identified in january, we knew what the as soon as the virus was identified injanuary, we knew what the genetic sequence injanuary, we knew what the genetic sequence of the virus was and that meant that we could devise a test, a very sensitive test, called a q meant that we could devise a test, a very sensitive test, called a 0 pcr test that would allow us to test the presence of the virus. but to allow us to detect antibodies, you have to have a test which resembles the

virus, it can detect whether the immune response is and that has takena immune response is and that has ta ken a little immune response is and that has taken a little bit longer to develop, i understand there are no tests available and i think the government is buying three and a half million of those test over the next few weeks and hopefully they will be able to be used for front—line workers to test if they have been infected. maybe we will hear more. another quick one for you mark, how long after having had the virus is someone still infectious? well we heard from philippa earlier about the time in which you are supposed to stay indoors and quarantined after you have developed symptoms so certainly after you have been infected, you should be looking at 14 days before you really feel that you would be clear of any virus and after the symptoms have gone, there may be some residual infectivity but it won't last very long and i think that the government advice on that is a maximum 14 days

you should be in quarantine. final question, philippa, it is one that struck me, i saw this morning somebody was saying, this isn't about social distancing, it should be called physical distancing, let us not forget that we can still talk to each other, human beings are very sociable and we mustn't forget that in the current time. i have seen a lot of people with their heads down and standing the two metres apart, but i just wondered and standing the two metres apart, but ijust wondered as a gp, what would you say on that, maybe we should consider it physical distancing but let us not forget that we still need each other. humans are pack animals and we need contact with each other, and that is why we are saying please check on your neighbours, telephone or elderly relatives, make sure that you are having regular contact. my personal experience walking outside with my children is that whilst we might be swerving off the pavements to keep that two metres, actually everybody is saying good morning in

a rather wonderful way and yes, we absolutely can do that. if you are dropping shopping at somebody elderly down the road, you can stand at the bottom of their garden when they open the door and say hello as long as you are maintaining that distance. if you can't, for whatever reason, please keep in touch whether thatis reason, please keep in touch whether that is by phone or technology. that isa that is by phone or technology. that is a lovely thought to end on. thank you so much for your time. hello. sunshine harder to see out there this weekend, cloud increasing from the north, but the more significant thing about this weekend's weather is how much colder it's turning, and the colder feel enhanced by a stronger wind. we've got high pressure close by, so that would suggest a lot of dry weather, and bar a few showers, that's the case. around the area of high pressure,

though, the area's coming in from a cold direction, from the north or north—east, so that is introducing the cold air and the wind is quite strong, as well, particularly gusty towards the east and south of the uk, adding a wind chill factor here, as well. so overnight, a mixture of cloud and clear spells, cloud increasing again from the north later in the night. there's a chance of catching a shower. most places will avoid them and stay dry. temperatures dipping away to a degree or so either side of freezing, so colder than this in the countryside, that does mean a frost for many of us going into the morning. now, clocks go forward overnight, to mark the arrival of british summer time. it's got nothing to do with the weather but very noticeably, tomorrow evening, sunset will be an hour later compared with this evening. let's take a look at a sunday's weather, then. a lot of cloud, as you can see. a few showers dotted about through northern and eastern scotland, north—east england, running down across east anglia toward south—east england. showers could be heavy, could have some hail, wintry on hills, perhaps at times to lower levels in scotland. and these are your wind gusts

for sunday afternoon. particularly across eastern areas of england, southern england, through the english channel, could be gusting near 50 mph in places. it's already cold in the flow of air coming down from the north or north—east, but when you factor in that wind, and particularly again where its strongest for some of us, it's going to feel like it's not too far away from freezing if you are outside. now, as we go on into monday, still a few showers running down towards northern scotland, across eastern areas of england, one or two may filter a little bit further west during the day. actually, the wind isn't quite as strong on monday. it's changed direction a little bit, not going to be quite as chilly. temperatures head up a little bit as we go into the week, and as the week goes on, high—pressure squeezed away a little bit, low pressure developing near iceland, and that will start to bring in a few showers again across the north west. and if anything, that'll bring another shot of cold air later in the week. so a few locations, this is how your week is shaping up, and bar a few showers,

a lot of dry weather out there.

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