welcome to outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. we are covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. the us navy hospital ship which is heading to dock in new york. the state's governor says these get the scale of deaths is already staggering. this conference centre in london has been transformed into a hospital in just one week. that will eventually accommodate up to 4000 patients expected to be of all ages. we have

been surprised by how many young people we are seeing and people who don't have other health conditions andi don't have other health conditions and i think the messages that are coming out from government to young people they are not invincible are really important. a minute's silence held in also live in brazil the president continues to play down the crisis and flout social distancing. we will start with the latest coronavirus to balance around the world. globally there are more than 766,000 people confirmed cases of this virus. more than 36,000 people have lost their lives to it, 160,000 have recovered. the us is the country with the most

cases 110w. the us is the country with the most cases now. 153,000 people have been infected, over 2500 people have died, more than 1000 of those just in new york state. more than 5000 people have recovered. italy remains the worst affected country in europe. the number of infected is 110w europe. the number of infected is now 100,000. more than 11,000 europe. the number of infected is now100,000. more than 11,000 people have died. in spain, a memorial has been heard —— held for the victims of covid—19. the number of people who have died in the country is now more than 7300, up by more than 800 injust the more than 7300, up by more than 800 in just the past 24 hours. spain more than 7300, up by more than 800 injust the past 24 hours. spain has recorded 812 deaths and registered more cases than china. again, 16,000 people have recovered from this virus. welcome to the programme. we will start in the united states where there are more than 150,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, and the death toll has passed 2800. more

than a third of those have been in new york state alone, now considered a global centre for this pandemic. and this is how the city is dealing with this crisis. this is a field hospital which is being set up in the city's iconic central park to help take some of the strain. and this is one of the navy's hospital ships. it's being called on to deliver humanitarian aid. it sailed past the statue of liberty on its way into new york harbor, carrying 1,200 medical personnel and medical supplies. here's new york city mayor bill de blasio on that. coming here to save the lives of new yorkers in our hour of need. we have all been through a lot in these last three weeks, and we needed this boost, we needed this hope. let's getan boost, we needed this hope. let's get an update from our world affairs

correspondent, paul adams. with america's streets deserted, the prospect to a return to normality are fading. if we could hold that down, as we are saying, to 100,000. it isa down, as we are saying, to 100,000. it is a horrible number. maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100000 and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job. as a comparison, the uk is trying to keep its death toll below 20,000. and china's death toll is currently 3,300. well, president trump says he expects the us death toll will rise significantly, with the us infection rate tipped to peak in two weeks. the president has now extended social distancing restrictions until the end of april, after initially saying he hoped america could re—open for business at easter. here's gary o'donoghue in washington.

of course, the president doesn't describe it as a u—turn, but he has absolutely changed his tune in the last 24 hours. there is no question about that. he was talking about reopening things in time for easter so reopening things in time for easter so that the pews in the churches we re so that the pews in the churches were full on easter sunday. that's gone away, and what seems to have happened, what seems to have happened, what seems to have happened is that the scientists on that task force, the now well—known faces of anthony fauci and deborah burks, seem to have got to the president, and have found a way of talking to him so that he understands the scale of it. we are told they warned him that if there wasn't proper distancing for proper length of time that more than 2 million americans could die. more than 2 million americans could die. even with the measures in place, the scientists are warning the death toll could be over 100000 and perhaps as much as 200,000, so the scale of these things i think has been taken on board to some degree

by the president. he is talking about at least the end of april for all of the measures currently in place and currently possibly the beginning ofjune. at this point in time we have no idea how long these measures will be in place. new york governor andrew cuomo says new york is the canary in the coal mine, and the situation there will be replicated across the country. here's gary again. the idea that central park is an overspill for the whole health care system, and that you have to more a 1000 bed boat off of manhattan itself so the system can cope in the most developed country in the world gives you an idea of the scale of the challenge they are facing particularly in new york, which has a quarter of all the country's cases, and they are not by any means at their worst point yet. certainly the officials there are expecting things over the next two weeks to

continue, cases will continue to rise, deaths will continue to rise. they are bracing themselves and they are giving dire warnings that they simply don't have the equipment available to keep people alive, and that people will be dying because there isn't enough ventilators, because there isn't enough protective equipment for the health ca re protective equipment for the health care workers to use to keep themselves safe and to keep other people say. extraordinary images there on central park. you'll recall, remember china went into lock down just ahead of its new year holiday, a time when millions of people would have been travelling around the country. it's a move that is credited with helping to limit a wider spread of the virus outside the worst affected areas. in the us, authorities declined to take similar measures before the spring break holiday. and here's why this matters. a company called tectonix geo mapped the locations of mobile devices on a beach in florida's fort lauderdale.

that is the image you can see in blue. and this is where all of those people then ended up. as you can see, they are spread across the east coast and central us. that is the impact that gathering on just one beach, that is one beach, could have on the virus throughout the country. here to give us her reaction to all this is donna shalala — former secretary of health in the clinton administration, now the democratic congresswoman for the city of miami. congresswoman, when it comes to the measures that the united states have bought in place, is it too little, too late? too little, too late, but we're going to catch up. we just don't have a universal health care system. we've seen the gaps in that system, but more importantly we have some of the greatest scientific agencies in the world that were not allowed to do theirjob. now they are playing catch up. they've convinced the president that this is

serious and that it's not short—term, its long—term. we don't have the hospital beds for instance that your country has, because we've had a high—tech hospital system that has moved to outpatient care, so the number of hospital beds per person is very low here, and accounting for that for people that really have to be hospitalised is one of the great challenges, in addition to all the equipment that we need. so while we have the scientific expertise, we didn't have the distribution systems 01’ didn't have the distribution systems or the production systems to catch up or the production systems to catch up with this virus, and we started late, but we will catch up and we will have the discipline to starve this virus. when you say you started late, why weren't the scientist talking to the president and getting their opinion across strongly enough to him? well, we have a president that has strong views on science and for yea rs

that has strong views on science and for years he has been cutting the budget of the scientific agencies, andi budget of the scientific agencies, and i think he simply resisted, because he cared so much about the economy and sees his re—election tied to the economy. but, you know, thatis tied to the economy. but, you know, that is in the past now. it is important for us here in this country to look forward to, to do what we need to do, whether it is washing our hands or social distancing or staying at home. even though we don't have strong leadership necessarily from our national government, many of our governors are stepping up. i wish my governors are stepping up. i wish my governor in florida was doing more than simply isolating parts of the estate. but we will get there. because at the end of the day, those of us that have some influence keep repeating pay attention to the public health people, pay attention to the scientists and the medical people in our community are saying the same thing. so starting this

virus is extremely important over the short run, and then we have to have a number of public health systems put in place so that we can follow u p systems put in place so that we can follow up on each case and make sure this is never recurring at this scale. we are always going to have some virus. the next one, i don't even know what its name is, but we better be prepared, not only in this country, but around the world, and that includes rethinking how we are organised, and making sure we have leaders that follow the science. conquest women in the city of miami, thank you so much for your time at this very busy period. i want to ta ke this very busy period. i want to take a look at how european countries are coping with this crisis. this is the moment that hungary's parliament voted to give prime minister victor orban sweeping new powers to rule by decree. this in effect allows the prime minister to bypass parliament.

victor orban's supporters say they'll help him deal with the coronavirus outbreak. but the law is controversial, it contains no time limit. the passing of the anti—coronavirus defence law means that from immediate effect, the hungarian parliament has suspended itself, with no plans for elections to be held. the law threatens jail terms of up to five years for anyone found to be spreading falsehoods about the coronavirus, or the measures taken to control them. critics have said this could lead to the imprisonment ofjournalists who criticise the government. but, according to a poll by a pro—government polling agency in hungary, 72% of the public support the bill. our correspondent, nick thorpe, is in budapest. these emergency powers seem to go further than many, perhaps any other country of europe. and the

opposition, human rights groups and some international organisations have raised their concerns. they are worried especially over the fact that the powers are for an indefinite period. the prime minister himself will decide when the emergency is actually over. they wa nted the emergency is actually over. they wanted the dash—mac of the opposition and human rights groups wa nted opposition and human rights groups wanted more controls, checks and balances. they are seen now as being far too weak, and also worrying for journalists in hungary is a change to the criminal code within this new emergency power of the government, under which those found guilty of spreading misleading orfalse information could be jailed for up to five years. that could have a chilling effect on the work of the independent media here in hungary. spains's infection rate continues to rise. 6,400 new cases were confirmed today. as this graph shows, spain is now the third nation to overtake china, in terms of the number of individuals

infected with covid—19. only italy and the us have more cases. also both spain and italy now have more coronavirus related deaths than china. these are pictures from barcelona, the usually bustling streets now deserted. the near total lockdown across the whole of spain has just become even more severe, with the nation's prime minister announcing a lockdown of all 47 million spaniards. here's guy hedgecoe in madrid. now, as of today, as you said, nonessential workers are not allowed to travel to their workplace, they also have to stay at home as well. so that is the main novelty. the government has done that because it says it wants to really make sure there is no resurgence, no increase of the spread of the virus. it believes that although the latest figures do make for rather harrowing

reading, we had over 800 people who died over the last 24 hours because of the virus, despite those figures, the government says the virus is coming to the end of its upward curve, so the figures are starting to flatten out. the situation there in spain. stay with us on oustide source, still to come: we'll be live in brazil as president bolsonaro continues to play down the crisis — and flout social distancing. there's been a sharp increase in the number of deaths from coronavirus in france. authorities say more than three thousand have now died in hospital. it comes as a crisis is emerging in care homes across the country especially amongst the vulnerabe. lucy williamson reports.

21 people have died at this home in those, but while hospital deaths are recorded in the daily toll of coronavirus, deaths in care homes are not. translation: there was a cluster of about 50 people with fever over five days, followed by symptoms of severe pneumonia, so we have to use oxygen. at the height of the epidemic here there must have been 25 or 30 patients on oxygen. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. a us navy hospital ship has docked in new york as the city's mayor calls for more help to tackle the coronavirus. here in the uk, the number of deaths has fallen for the second day running. 180 people died over the past day,

bringing the total death toll in britain to more than 1,400. the number of confirmed cases stands atjust over 22,000. here's our health correspondent nick triggle. now what is interesting is if you look back at this time last week, the number of daily deaths were doubling every two days. over the last three days, we have seen 260 deaths announced on saturday, 209 on sunday, and then of course 180 today. so it is an early encouraging sign that maybe things are going in the right direction, but i would add in italy that have seen the most deaths across the world, they saw the numbers jump around deaths across the world, they saw the numbersjump around a little bit before they have started to plateau. the prime minister borisjohnson is still in self—isolation after testing positive for covid—19. his closest advisor dominic cummings is also in self—isolation now, after experiencing symptoms. but the prime minister is still holding meetings via video conference. this is a tweet of his

from earlier today. it looks like people are generally listening to this. the uk is now in its second week of severe restrictions. here's the government's chief scientific advisor. actually, this has been successful, in terms of the behaviour changes, andl in terms of the behaviour changes, and i want to thank everybody for the way in which everyone is adhering to the measures that have been put in place. during today's daily briefing, the government produced figures showing just how much life has come to a standstill in britain. let me show you the graph. it shows the change in transport use over the past month. you can see a huge drop—off in the number of trips taken since the end of february. that dark blue line shows the use of all motor vehicles is down by nearly two thirds. travel on the london tube has seen

an even bigger fall. that aquamarine line shows its down by 95% compared to a month ago. here's sir patrick vallance again. so, the measures are in place, they are making a difference, they are decreasing the contact, which is so important, to spread the disease, and we are doing a good job at cutting that down. now, the reason thatis cutting that down. now, the reason that is important is because it then prevents the number of cases, you reduce the number of cases. the government says despite the reduction in contact, it still expects to see a spike in hospital admissions over the next two—to—three weeks. 20,000 former staff members have now returned to the national health service. and london's biggest convention centre has just been transformed into a temporary hospital. hugh pym has more. just a week ago it was a giant

conference hall, with room for a dozen football pitches. now it's a hospital, with intensive care beds and ventilators, and ready in a few days' time to receive the first patients. the capacity eventually will be 4,000. and if those beds are used, it'll be the biggest hospital in the world. simon stevens, head of nhs england, toured the site at london's excel centre today and met some of those who are making things happen. today, there are over 9,000 positive coronavirus patients in hospitals across england. and we know that number is only going to increase. that's why what you see here is a mass mobilisation, taking place right across the country, but also at these new nightingale hospitals. this has been an extraordinary team effort on the part of nurses and doctors, therapists and pharmacists across london, but also volunteers, paramedics and people returning to help. the first staff were applauded in today, volunteers from other hospitals and recently retired doctors and nurses will be caring here for seriously ill covid—19

patients at what's now called the nightingale hospital. there were artic lorries here, last tuesday and wednesday when i was first here, and now we have it fully ready to take some patients. there is still a lot more work to be done. but huge progress, building a hospital in london, nightingale london, in just less than two weeks. it is unbelievable. it's in the heart of london's docklands, with business hotels all around. the fact they have transformed this conference centre into a giant hospital so quickly shows how serious they think the pressure on the nhs could be. birmingham's national exhibition centre will house a nightingale hospital, so too the central convention centre in manchester. the sec in glasgow will also become a temporary hospital in two weeks' time, with space for up to 1,000 patients. the principality stadium

in cardiff is set to be used as an nhs field hospital. northern ireland too is creating dedicated facilities for coronavirus patients. as countries around the world are closing their land and air borders to contain the spread of the coronavirus, thousands of people are also stuck out at sea on cruiseships as vessels are denied permission to dock. this cruise ship, called the zaandam, has been carrying more than 1,800 people off the coast of panama. it's begun moving healthy passengers onto another ship after four people died and two others tested positive for coronavirus. its owners, holland america, said that more than 130 people on board had reported suffering "flu—like symptoms" and respiratory issues. meanwhile, two flights bringing british tourists home from peru have arrived back in the uk. the uk government has chartered a further three british airways flights, to rescue those still stuck in the country's lockdown.

as concern grows around the world, in brazil president bolsonaro has been doing his best to play down the situation. here he is, visiting a market on sunday, on the outskirts of brasilia ignoring social distancing measures. in a televised address last week, he blamed the media for creating hysteria and panic over covid—19. mr bolsonaro has been campaigning to ban lockdown measures, saying the country's economy can't stop. translation: if there is total isolation goes on like this, we will have a serious problem with a brutal amount of unemployment. it would ta ke yea rs amount of unemployment. it would take years to resolve. a couple of tweets by president bolsonaro in which he questioned quarantine measures were removed for violating the social network's rules. our south america correspondent katy

watson is in sao paulo. so let's start with these tweets, that have since been removed from twitter. what did they say? he put up twitter. what did they say? he put upa twitter. what did they say? he put up a series of tweets on sunday, as you pointed out, showing him com pletely you pointed out, showing him completely flouting the rules, the guidelines relate, the world guidelines relate, the world guidelines about how to interact at the moment, with distance. he seems to be completely ignoring this. certain tweets that were pulled down contravened the rules of twitter, thought to be obviously of the rules around public health at the moment because of coronavirus. but this is a president who calls coronavirus the sniffles. he goes on tv telling people that if he was to get it, he wouldn't really be effected, it wouldn't really be effected, it wouldn't really be effected, it wouldn't really impact him at all and it is really the older generation who will be impacted and they need to be protected, but everybody else effectively should get back to work and the economy

should start running again, that is really his message, the economy matters is his big concern. when it comes to the economy, because he is concerned about it but is the getting across? what are measures like in brazil the moment? getting across? what are measures like in brazilthe moment? there is a bit ofa like in brazilthe moment? there is a bit of a face—off really between the federal government, bolsonaro and the state governors, pretty much all of the state governors have got together, they have had virtual meetings, they have written a letter to the president, saying that we need to have backing for isolation measures was top here in sao paulo, sao paulo state is responsible for about 30% of brazil's wealth, here all the shops are shut, schools are shut, public spaces, businesses have been told to stop work, so it is incredibly quiet. it is very much a very different world here in brazil, but of course bolsonaro wants to try and stop this and wants things to reopen again. katie, thank you so much in sao paulo. we have much more on our website but for the time

being here from outside source, thank you forjoining us for this global snapshot of the coronavirus crisis. we will be back soon, goodbye for now. hello. lighter winds for many today and as a consequence not quite as cold, but it has been a showery story for some, and that has meant scenes like this with some threatening looking cloud across barnsley over the reservoir. we also had some pretty stubborn cloud to the north and west. generally speaking, a lot of cloud around through the course of the dead today, particularly into the dead today, particularly into the afternoon and the showers have been through northern and eastern scotland, eastern england, stretching down to the midlands and a little bit further south as we went through the afternoon. now one of the reasons we have had lighter winds is the high pressure is sinking down to the south—west and the isobars are opening up, so the

winds will continue to slacken off through the evening and overnight, with the showers fading away as well and some clear skies developing, we can see some breaks and a chilly night to follow. low single figures where we get some breaks in the cloud. it will be a chilly start to tuesday morning. but again, we will see plenty of cloud developing as we go through the day and it will be a fairly overcast story. the winds will change direction in a subtle way really. they are coming in from the north—west, which will feed more cloud and showers into scotland and across to northern england. temperatures a little disappointing for the beginning of april, highs of nine to 11 degrees. now, the high will continue to drift south—west and eventually will start to see a weather front starting to threaten into the far north. it will take its time in arriving on wednesday but it will start to bring a change to the story for much of scotland. so, clouding over, outbreaks of rain to the north—west of the great glen and the north—west of the great glen and the winds will strengthen here. quite a cloudy day generally here on

wednesday, temperatures struggling a little again, nine to 12 celsius the higher. is that front pushes through it will introduce colder air into scotla nd it will introduce colder air into scotland as the winds reverse to more of a northerly direction and we could see some showers tied into that low pressure turning wintry to the tops of the hills across the north and the west. there we stay slightly milder across the south of that northerly flow into scotland, it means a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather. turning increasingly windy with girls to the north but a little bit milder across the south and hopefully a little more sunshine coming through. that's it, take care.

you are watching bbc world news. i made news this hour. coming in the other end, so we have to make some in the uk, bring the hospital has been opened in the centre, the nightingale hospital will be ready forup to nightingale hospital will be ready for up to 500 patients this week raising eventually to 4000 of all ages. prices of fall into their lowest levels in nearly 20 years. it fell

let us return back to the latest developments on coronavirus, the news co nfe re nce developments on coronavirus, the news conference took place earlier. the prime minister is still self isolating after testing positive for covid—19, so the foreign secretary led to today's update if you're the main developments. they have struck a deal with major airlines to help bring home stranded britons. the £75 million will be spent on flights and there could be as many as a million britons stuck overseas due to the lock downs introduced by other countries. the scientific adviser told the conference that social distancing is having an effect of reducing the number of contacts between us all in the last few weeks and we have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of people using public transport. we still expect the number of infections to rise over the next two to three

weeks and will hear more on that briefing and more details. the uk bus bus to secretary. thereby protecting the nhs capacity. at each point, we have been following the advice that have been very deliberate in our actions, taking the right steps at the right moment. we are also taking unprecedented actions to increase nhs capacity by dramatically expanding the numbers of beds, key staff, life—saving equipment so we can give people the care they need when they need it most. we are instructing people to stay at home so we can protect our nhs and save lives. and i can report from the ongoing monitoring and testing

programmes, as of today, 134,946 people have not been tested for the virus and 112,805 have tested negative. 22,141 have tested positive. those of contracted the virus, 1408 have very sadly died. we express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who passed away in those figures are a powerful reminder to us all of the importance of following the government's guidelines. we must stay—at—home to protect our nhs and save lives. and i would like to thank all of those involved in the front lines in particular, all of those in the nhs for their battle against this virus and the amazing doctors, the amazing nurses work day and night, and the other key workers from her teachers to the supermarket

workers, to our fantastic diplomatic network were all as a team working around the clock to get us through this unprecedented coronavirus challenge. this is a united national effort in the spirit of selflessness shown by so many is an inspiration. they now want to turn to but we are doing to support british people travelling around the world. coronavirus does notjust challenges at home, it is the greatest global challenge in a generation. as the country's work to secure their borders in prevent the spread of this virus, an unprecedented number of uk travellers are trying to get home and we're not talking a few hundred or even a few thousands, we re hundred or even a few thousands, were talking about hundreds of thousands of people travelling around the world. so that in mind, the 17th of march, we advise people against all nonessential travel around the world. and since the 23rd of march, we advise that all uk residents who are currently

travelling abroad, hundreds of thousands of already done so. but many travellers have not yet managed to get back home. from young backpackers, to retired couples on cruises and we appreciate the difficult predicament that they find themselves in. we also recognise the anxiety of families here in the uk we re anxiety of families here in the uk were concerned to get their loved ones home. it is a worrying time for all of those who have been affected. they want to assure them that this government, their government is working around the clock to support, advice and help british travellers get home. i've spoken to many around the world to support this effort to keep airports and ports open in facilitate access to them by british travellers. over the weekend, facilitate access to them by british travellers. overthe weekend, i spoke to foreign ministers from australia, new zealand, india and

brazil and pakistan. it also i also given the scale and complexity of this challenge, it inevitably requires a team effort. there a particular focus on transit and we are working with the airlines to keep as many flights running as possible. we got a lot more to do but we have already helped hundreds of thousands of britons get home. the first priority is to keep as many commercial flights running as we can and that is based on, purely the scale and the number of people who want to come home and as a result of those efforts, and the corporation the river —— the cooperation we have received, we have many coming back from spain and other commercial routes that have come under pressure with

partner governments and airlines to get back 8500 uk travellers from morocco and run 5000 uk nationals from cyprus. it gives you a sense of the scale of the challenge and the numbers of british travellers. in circumstances or commercial flights cannot operate, we have already chartered flights which prove necessary to return 1400 uk nationals on flights from china on the outset of this crisis and recently from peru. we have not faced challenges like this and getting people home from abroad on the scale in recent memory. airports are closing down or preventing airlines from operating on a commercial basis and local authorities of placed restrictions on movement that prevent people from getting to the airport in the critical transit hubs that we rely on for long haul flights are also shutting down or in some cases limiting theirflights.

shutting down or in some cases limiting their flights. some of these restrictions have been done with very little or no notice at all which makes it difficult to respond. the international collaboration is absolutely vital. as i said, it is a tea m absolutely vital. as i said, it is a team effort and requires working with other governments in the airlines. with that in mind, i can today announce a new arrangement between the government and airlines to fly home tens of thousands of stranded british travellers for commercialflights stranded british travellers for commercial flights are no longer possible. airlines include british airlines, virgin, eg teddy make easy jet and tighten and this list can be expanded will target flights from a range of priority countries starting this week. let me explain a little bit about how this will work in practice. when commercial roots remain an option, airlines will be responsible for getting passengers

on. offering alternative flights at little to no cost where roots of been cancelled. and it means that allowing passengers to change tickets, including between carriages. for those still in countries where commercial options are still available, do not wait. do not run the risk of being stranded, the airlines are standing by to help you, please book your tickets as soon as possible when commercial flights are no longer running, there will be special charter flights to bring uk nationals back home. once special charter flights have been arranged, will promote them through the government's travel advice. british travellers who want to sit on those flights will pay directly through a dedicated travel management company. we have designated £75 million to support those flights in the airlines to

keep the costs down and affordable for those returning to the uk. and ina for those returning to the uk. and in a these flights from the priority will be the elderly or those with particularly pressing medical needs and looking particularly at countries where you have large numbers of uk tourists struggling to get home. uk travellers if they have not already done so, should check the foreign office and that is under co nsta nt the foreign office and that is under constant review and can help travellers find out more details about how to access the flights under this arrangement. this should also follow the social media of the uk high commission so that they can be directed to accurate, real—time information from the local authorities. for any questions that cannot be answered in the travel advice, or by the uk embassies or high commission, we will also have the call centre working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. i know it has been difficult to get through for some travellers, just to give

you since the sheer volume, on average we normally receive a thousand calls a day to that call centre. last tuesday, we had nearly 15,000. the highest on record. so we boosted our resources, we redeployed people to assist in the call centre and we tripled our capacity. yesterday, the call centre answered many british travellers to get the a nswe rs many british travellers to get the answers that they need. so those who are nervously waiting and waiting to see their loved ones, we are doing everything we can. we have improved the call centre so they can get swifter information, we put together this arrangement with the airlines we can reach more british citizens invulnerable circumstances where commercialflights invulnerable circumstances where commercial flights are not running and we are working intensively around the clock with all of our partner countries and governments around the world to keep open the

airports in the flights to bring people home. we have not faced an international challenge quite like this before, but together, we are going to rise to it. and of course here at home, we can all support our nhs by continuing to follow the guidelines, to stay at home, nhs and save lives. the chief scientific adviser says that measures being put in place are making a difference. and the idea, as we have said repeatedly as a traitor break and slow transmission of the virus that is to stink at home and keeping this and this is been successful in terms of the behaviour changes they want to think everybody in the way in which everyone is adhering to the measures that have been put in place and this shows the use of transport over time from the end of february two now and falloff in the use of

the few percent of what it was at the few percent of what it was at the end of february. an increase in bus use in a decrease in national railand bus use in a decrease in national rail and the decrease of all motor vehicles, the measures in place, they are making a difference in their not decreasing the contact, which is so important to spread the disease and we are doing a good job at cutting that down. the reason thatis at cutting that down. the reason that is important is because it then prevents the number of cases to reduce the number of cases. and this shows the number of new uk cases and i will repeat what i said before. this is an underestimate of the total number of cases and it is those cases that have been tested because what you can see is that there is been an increase in the numberof there is been an increase in the number of cases since the middle of march through to today and we expect that the measures that are in place,

because of that social distancing is the stay—at—home message and will be reducing the number of cases of transmission and the community and decreasing the number of cases overall. as the cases flat enough, we should not be taking too much to day today variation, we need to look over time to see what is happening and we will expect that in turn to decrease the number of people needing admission to hospitals. this shows the total number of people admitted to hospital since the middle of march which is now 8000 people with coronavirus and that is gone up pretty much the same amount for the past few days and that shows that it for the past few days and that shows thatitis for the past few days and that shows that it is going up not edited and increasing amount but in a constant amount which may suggest that we are already beginning to see some effects through. about half of those cases, slightly under half in

london, we can see in the lower lines of this graph if that we are also seeing that there are cases in the uk. protecting lives is true everywhere in the uk and we all need to do this in order to break and slow the transmission of this virus and decrease the number of cases and in turn, decrease the number of people coming into hospital. what i said recently is that we expect this to get worse over the next couple of weeks because there is a phase between people turning up in hospital so we can see the continuation of this for two or three weeks and the stabilisation and the gradual decrease thereafter. the number of hospital admissions has gone up roughly the same amount each day, suggesting that we are not ona each day, suggesting that we are not on a fast acceleration at the moment. all of this is about

preventing deaths and preventing the nhs from becoming overwhelmed in the intensive care use of ventilators. on this graph, it checks the deaths that have occurred globally across some of the countries, not all of the countries, but it shows that there is a pattern of increasing deaths which you would expect to reach a plateau to come down eventually and you can see in the uk here, which is in the purple line, we are tracking roughly along the same path as france and we are behind italy, and you can see that spain isa behind italy, and you can see that spain is a higher number than italy at the moment in terms of its trajectory, not in terms of the total number but the direction with which it's going. the uk's tracking alongside france and this in the measures we are taking. the transmission, delay the transmission, delay the transmission, reduce the number of cases and reduce the number of people who have become infected in

the community, reduce the number of people were there for the need to go wa nt people were there for the need to go want to ventilators and therefore, reduce the number of people also that might die or will die from this infection. i want to thank all of the people in the nhs for working unbelievably well on the front lines. 0r unbelievably well on the front lines. or we could do is make sure that we heed the advice to stay at home, to reduce those contacts so that we ultimately decrease the numberof that we ultimately decrease the number of people of the seriously ill or dying from this infection. the sub patrick, based on what you know now, are the restrictions working and can we avoid the nhs being overwhelmed with the trajectory continuing like this? you're asking a huge amount, is of the government's view that we need to be doing these restrictions for as long as six months? what we know is that

measures are being taken and they're having a very big effect on contacts they should shoo the transport is a dramatic reduction in the amount of transport being used and is a dramatic reduction in footfall, we know things like restaurants and pubs which are places for people aggregate and they have been closed and so we are seeing a big change in contact and that is predicted to have a very significant effect on the so—called arc. the value is the numberof the so—called arc. the value is the number of people on average infected by one infected person and the ideas to get that number below one with which the epidemic stops and starts to go down on the basis of the contacts, you would expect that value now in terms of the early phases of transmission and the community to be coming down or below one so we think that has happened as

desired and that takes two or three weeks to feed through in the number of people who will be appearing in hospital a little longer in terms of those who are seriously ill and those who are seriously ill and those that might die. so we expect to see a lag phase before you really see these changing. i was make a comment about the duration. it is important —— i will also. the absolute priority at the moment. once that is achieved, once we know that we have got this curve below theice that we have got this curve below the ice you capacity and stable, then of course we can start asking then of course we can start asking the questions which are being asked across the road at the moment. how do we release those measures and manage this going forward. i think it is premature to put an absolute time and how long this goes on for, we need to do phase one in the many to think about how we release these in the right way and the right

approach in order to allow the curve to stay below the ice you capacity. and i think the only thing i would add is there following following this guidelines, whether and how there any easing of those restrictions. more than hundred and ten countries around the world have not put in place widespread restrictions on the movement of their citizens. schools of close, businesses are forced to stop working and there is large differences in the persian some countries have been taking asjim read reports. what stay-at-home, it will break the chain of transmission it will save lives. a quarter

the world is living under lockdown. and most of europe, day today life is stopped. in the north of italy, hospitals are still struggling to cope. it is three weeks now since the start of the royal's first national lockdown. the streets are completely deserted. on a sunday afternoon, there would be certainly lots of people. it is a special emergency situation, everyone of us has a responsibility to do our bit, so must not approach each other. in northern europe, similar measures are not in force. in the united kingdom, any social gathering is not bad in the public this is what a lockdown looks like. you are not to go out for essential needs.

there are differences though, and sweden, schools, cafes and bars of state open, at least for the moment. the united states, some individual states are moving faster. time so the queue to get in goes round there. and finishes there. there are differences, though. in sweden, schools, cafes and bars have stayed open, at least for the moment. in the united states, meanwhile, some individual states are moving faster than others. the sooner we get back to normal, the better, but obviously that's up to the experts. even the president has to listen to those people and hopefully he'll do that. new york state still makes up around half of all cases nationally. broadway theatres and schools have been shut, residents have been ordered to stay at home. in asia, 1.3 billion indians have been told to stay indoors for 21 days. the government is desperate to stop the virus spreading in its huge cities. 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. in other countries, though, rigorous infection tracking has allowed life to go on. in singapore, the streets are busy and the shops open. it's closed its borders but there is no lockdown. here, a heat sensitive camera takes your temperature before you are allowed to enter an apartment building or restaurant. i have been very fortunate, we're living in a place like this. in this moment. because most of my friends and family members, they don't have the luxury to contemplate the idea of going out for a drink. in china, meanwhile, the number of new hospital infections in the city where the outbreak began has slowed to a trickle. and the residents of wuhan are now being allowed to walk the streets again. translation: for us, the news about lifting the lockdown is like the biggest recognition for us staying at home for more than two months. it's a positive sign, a relaxation of restrictions in a world that elsewhere has been shutting itself down.

social media has never been more important, given millions of people are in self isolation at the moment, not just for information on are in self isolation at the moment, notjust for information on news, but it is frustrated sports commentators getting creative with a whole new audience. this can be quick and they are off to an absolute blinder. who says sports and lockdown? 0h absolute blinder. who says sports and lockdown? oh my goodness me, pictures of his grandchildren in the back working. they will be so proud of grandpa tonight. this is about making people laugh, it is about realising that being stuck at home doesn't have to be an awful experience. we've all got to get to this together and with a sense of humourand a this together and with a sense of humour and a little twist on traditional sport, we can do that. being raised by two of the greats and this is alex. he has even rubbed in some former olympians for his new show. the battle of breakfast. rugby

commentator was one of the first a few weeks ago to make the every day exhilarating. and they're going to get there. she does begin, three titles in three days. commentator and his daughter are delivering a daily dose of the iconic moments. what can you tell us about this young man? it is actually quite a lot of fun and i think it is going to be. i think she is enjoying it a bit more now than when we started because i think, really, she did it to keep daddy amused when we first started in debt he was feeling a bit sad about not having any work like a lot of people. so it's been putting smiles on peoples faces and that's most important thing in a pink will be doing when every day until we all come out the other side of this crisis at the moment. earlier this

month, andrew was trying to stay impartial a scotland beat france in the six nations stop. now he is doing this. you see the contrast in styles, happy to be alive, everything is amazing. sport is still out there jesus out to find it. hello there. laterwinston is still out there jesus out to find it. hello there. later winston is a consequence and not quite as cold but that is meant seems like threatening cloud across barnsley over the reservoir, we have also had some pretty stubborn cloud to the northwest as you can see with this weather watcher, there has been a lot of cloud around through the course today. eastern scotland,

eastern england, stretching into the mittens and further south as we went through the afternoon. later winds as the high—pressure is sinking down to the southwest of the isobars opening up and so the winds are going to continue to go off through the evening. and we could see some brea ks the evening. and we could see some breaks and a chilly night to follow, low single figures we get some brea ks low single figures we get some breaks in the cloud and a chilly start to tuesday morning but again, we will see plenty of cloud developing as we go through the day and it will be a fairly overcast story, the winds would change direction and a subtle way and we are coming in from the northwest and i will feed more cloud and a few showers in the scotland and across the northern england. temperatures a little disappointing for the beginning of april, heights of nine to 11 degrees. the high will continue to drift southwest and eventually will start to see a weather front starting to threaten into the far north and they will

ta ke into the far north and they will take its time and arrive on wednesday. but it will start to bring a change to the story for much of scotland. clouding over, outbreaks of rent to the northwest and the winds will strengthen here. a cloudy day generally on wednesday in temperatures struggling a little again, nine to 12 celsius the high. is that from pushes through, it is going to introduce colder air across scotla nd going to introduce colder air across scotland as the wind is reverting back to the northerly direction we could see some showers tied into that low pressure, turning wintry to the top of the hills across the north and west. so we state mild with that northerly flow, it means a notable difference to the feel of the weather. turning increasingly windy with scales to the north and a little bit milder across the south and hopefully a little more sunshine coming through. that is it. take care.

this is outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. this us navy hospital ship is heading to dock in new york. the state's governor says the scale of coronavirus deaths is already ‘staggering'. and this conference centre in london has been transformed into a hospital in just one week. it will eventually accommodate up to 4,000 patients,