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in new york state, the death toll from the coronavirus surpasses 1,500 as the us overtakes china in the number of declared deaths. also on the programme — the heroes and heroines of coronavirus — we look at the huge physical and mental challenges faced by nurses. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first... the global number of deaths from covid—19 has risen to more than 40,000, with the numbers of deaths in the united states overtaking china. that is despite having a population of the third of china's. in the uk there has been

a significant increase in the daily death toll from covid—19. 381 people have died, including a 19—year—old with no underlying health conditions. this bring the total of death from coronavirus in britain to1,789. deaths from coronavirus in the united states has increase to 3,415, that's now more than china. has increased to 3,415, that's now more than china. despite its population being about a third of china. in spain, the death toll from covid—19 has risen to 8,189, that's up by 8119 in the past 2a hours. meanwhile in the netherlands, the dutch prime minister, mark rutte, has extended the country's lockdown until the end of april. and back in the uk, thousands of nhs workers still don't have the testing to allow them keep working on the frontline. we'll have reports from around the world, but we begin with a report from our health

editor, hugh pym. drive—through coronavirus testing for some nhs staff has begun in england, but this is a limited trial and it isn't clear how quickly it can be expanded. elsewhere, tests on patients are analysed in hospital and public health laboratories like this. they're based on swab samples. nhs staff are frustrated they can't be tested, which means they can't find out whether it's safe to return to work. hospitals in england have been told to test key workers if they can. doctors like chinedu, a consultant, says a lack of testing keeps staff away from work just when they're most needed. in a week or two's time, as we've seen in italy and spain, it's going to be all hands on deck. if we are losing people because they have the kind of things they experience all year round because they have a cold or something else, testing, even with the imperfect nature of those tests, has got to become readily available for health

care professionals. i raised the issue at today's downing street press conference. many nhs staff are saying that testing for them is not obviously available in their places of work, now or somewhere accessible, even after pledges made by officials and ministers in recent weeks it was a priority. what do you say to them? we want to increase the number of tests, we are increasing the number of tests. i mentioned earlier that one of the constraints on our capacity to increase testing overall is the supply of the specific chemicals that are needed in order to ensure the tests are reliable. it is also the case, as i'm sure you are aware, we have been working with the private sector and academics, and boots the chemist have increased the number of drive—in centres for nhs and front line workers to be tested. the number of people tested in the uk rose rapidly after lab capacity was expanded. it was above 8,000 a couple of days ago, but has slipped back a little.

so how does that compare with other countries? this graph shows the number of tests per 100,000 people since the first coronavirus death in each country. south korea with an extensive testing regime is well ahead of the uk and the us. i'm 39 years old. karen, who is pregnant was in hospital with covid—19 and pneumonia and was very ill. she was fighting for her baby. she is now recovering. i am very lucky. so grateful to be home and to see my family. now, it is just a case of waiting and seeing how my baby is. no one knows, no one is going to know how he is or if he is ok for sure, not until he is here. stewart is also recovering now. he says being hit by the virus was terrifying. my lungs were losing function

and they were really struggling with the disease in them. i really had to call on a lot of my reserves and prayers at that moment in time. it was really a question, i think fundamentally, do you want to live? preparations are set to begin at the principality stadium in cardiff, which will be used as an nhs field hospital. the welsh government began testing nhs staff later this month. nhs staff earlier this month. the authorities in scotland and northern ireland have also started doing that. hugh pym, bbc news. spain has recorded its worst daily figure yet for the number of fatalities from coronavirus. 8119 people have died, bringing the national death toll to over 8,000. hospitals in madrid, which are struggling to deal with the pandemic, have started transferring 1,400

patients to its conference centre which has been turned into a makeshift hospital. 0ur correspondent in madrid, guy hedgecoe, told me that the spanish government hopes that the crisis there was beginning to ease have been hit hard by today's figures. clearly these latest figures that have come out today are very disheartening. they are the highest daily death toll we have seen so far, 8119 deaths, and we have seen a jump far, 8119 deaths, and we have seen a jump in infections as well, which is disheartening news. in the days leading up to these figures being released today there has been the suggestion spain was starting to turn the corner. the number of deaths each day, it was building up, it was seeming to stabilise at the same time though with numbers not increasing at an alarming rate in recent days. the number of infections appeared to be coming

under control so there is concern at these latest figures but the government has insisted all through this crisis that you cannot read too much into one day's figures. you have to look at the bigger picture, and it is hoping that this is not the beginning of a trend, it is simplya the beginning of a trend, it is simply a glitch in the figures. looking at pictures as i speak to you of central madrid, empty apart from a few people and some police cars, so people are abiding by this lockdown, are they? and how many people are being picked up by police nationally? because catalonia is badly affected, isn't it? for breaching these rules? most people seem to be abiding the lockdown. the police are enforcing it very strictly. there is a heavy police presence on the streets in towns and cities and rural areas, the police are there as well, so they are

enforcing it but there seems to be a big social pressure in spain for people to abide by it. latest figures i heard were something like 100,000 people across the country had been fined for violating the terms of the state of emergency. that sounds like perhaps quite a lot but it's a population of 47 million and the police are being strict about it. as you can see, this means the streets are deserted for the most pa rt the streets are deserted for the most part and people do seem to be complying with these new rules. in the us, the governor of new york state, andrew cuomo, has made an impassioned plea for medical staff from all over the country to come to the aid of overstretched doctors and nurses there. the state has been particulary badly hit by the coronavirus, with over 900 deaths. mr cuomo said that the authorities hadn't prepared for the virus and they needed to start getting ready for the peak. we underestimated

this virus. it is more powerful, more dangerous than we expected. the third point is planned forward. get ahead of it. fight the fight today, yes, but anticipate the next battle and plan for the next battle. and the main battle is at the apex. we are still going up the mountain. the main battle is on the top of the mountain, that is where the main battle is going to be. the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. the death toll in the united states has now exceeded china. president trump said the next 30 days could be crucial in the fight against the spread of covid—19. i asked our washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue what was driving the big rise in recorded cases. i don't think so much through testing in a sense because they are

only testing people who are displaying symptoms and having to go to hospital, so this will be diagnosis in hospital largely, i think. as the governor was saying, this is because they are still going up this is because they are still going up the hill, they are still going towards the apex of the infection rates. they don't expect to get there for a couple of weeks yet. interestingly it has come very much home for the governor. his brother has been diagnosed with the disease and he is a very well—known anchor on us cable tv here. he has got the disease, so it is something that has come home forcibly to the governor himself. and he is still saying they don't have enough supplies in terms of ventilators and other medical provisions, although they are getting these large numbers of extra beds from the hospital ship in

manhattan, at least to cope with overspill from the hospitals as they try to deal with the covid—19 spread. just to put this in context, just in terms of the number of deaths so far, we are talking about more people succumbing to this virus than those killed in 9/11. it's a chilling thought. we are now into the 3000 mark and i think the us will surpass china in terms of the number of deaths. the president has expressed some scepticism about the numbers that came out of china but in official terms that will put the us in the third spot in the world, and it's already the place with the most cases. gary o'donoghue speaking to me from

washington. let's go back to me from washington. let's go back to the situation in britain, and michael gove was talking about the number of tests increasing. we can speak to number of tests increasing. we can speakto an number of tests increasing. we can speak to an intensive care nurse and programme lead at the university of east london. what sort of day have you had today? essentially today has been my day off this week. so normally in my local community hospital where i work the situation is quite frantic and chaotic. from what i heard today about the ppe equipment, we need to really establish that we do not have enough ppe from the hospital facilities. on the testing issue, have you been

tested as a front line worker? no. what about your colleagues? some of them have been tested. the critical point here is that in order to really grasp this disease, we need to stand for testing... start testing in the community. start with the primary care settings, then we can actually identify the cases and treat in the hospital. we need to establish the cases. because as it stands anyone with symptoms of covid—19 has to solve isolate so are you losing for example front line health care colleagues who are at home, not knowing whether they have got it or not? this is exactly the point. fundamentally we need to protect ourselves in order to protect ourselves in order to protect others, and my

colleagues... nurses, doctors and physios, they are currently treating patients not knowing if they are covid—19 positive or not. if one person transmit the infection to three or four people, there is a huge risk. we will shortly run out of nurses and doctors. what about the situation in intensive care itself, your speciality? do you have enough ventilators for example there at the moment? and if the numbers increased significantly or perhaps not significantly or perhaps not significantly would there be enough? in the hospital where i work, usually the ratio is one patient attached to a ventilator, that is the normal means because we need to monitor them very carefully every second, every minute, so we cannot ration the ventilators to many other patients. it is usually

one—to—one. in terms of people coming in to intensive care, they are being treated with the correct equipment? that is right, we have ventilators and medication but what we are running short of is the ppe equipment. the masks, gowns and gloves, and we are currently trying to find resources from across the hospital to make sure we have this kind of equipment both in a&e and the settings where the front line staff are working. ok, thank you very much indeed. intensive care nurse. germany's chief health adviser has warned that the rate of deaths from coronavirus is rising there, and will continue to do so. according to lothar wieler early testing has helped to keep the rate relatively low until now.

germany has the capacity to conduct half a million tests a week as our berlin correspondent jenny hill reports. they're working day and night in germany's laboratories. this country tested early and it tested a lot. an approach which, it's believed, has saved lives. there were many positive cases picked up early, so people were asked very early, a month ago, to remain isolated, contact people who were traced and were repeatedly isolated as well. but some say germany had luck on its side, too. europe's ski resorts — closed now — but many early german cases were skiers. young, fit, returning from their winter breaks. the average age of an infected person in germany is a7, but that is changing. this week, a care home made headlines. 17 people, elderly, vulnerable, died here. this morning, the government's health adviser acknowledged that the death rate

is rising. older and very old people did not appear in ourtests, but now we see cases in care homes and old people's homes and unfortunately we have to expect that the death rate will rise. germany's relatively low death rate has intrigued experts and politicians alike around the world. scientists here say the outbreak has yet to peak, and, whilst the suggestion is there, it's still far too soon to say whether the mass testing strategy will pay off. 0n french soil, a patient, bound for germany. medics here keen to help, and to learn too, because for germany these are still early days. the real crisis yet to arrive. jenny hill, bbc news, berlin. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... the world bank says the pandemic will wipe out any economic growth in east asia this year.

it warned the crisis will stop almost 2a million people from escaping poverty, and says economic pain will hit all countries in the region. the dutch prime minister has extended closures until april 28, and warned the measures could go on even longer, and advised people not to book easter holidays. the netherlands is running what he described as a targeted lockdown. people who are healthy and free from covid—19 symptoms can go out as long as they are socially distant. south africa has more than 1300 confirmed cases of coronavirus and is on lockdown. a police officer and a security guard are appearing in court on tuesday on murder and brutality charges. it's alleged they shot and killed a man in his backyard after accusing him of not following lockdown rules. here in the uk, one of the country's most senior

police officers has admitted that mistakes have been made by officers in their enforcement of the new emergency powers. critics say some tactics have been heavy handed. last week derbyshire police came in for criticism after using drones to film people walking in the peak district — they then posted the footage on social media. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. at what is normally a busy station in east london... you shouldn't be travelling, that is the advice from the government. ..british transport police asking passengers why they are travelling. you shouldn't be going to your girlfriend's. my advice is, go back home. using three of the four e's — engaging, explaining the new laws, encouraging... trying to avoid the fourth e — enforcement through fines. and all the time, allowing essential workers through. with such drastic laws having come in so quickly, it has inevitably led to different police forces interpreting them differently.

that has led to tensions behind the scenes, as chief constables try to work out a common approach. lancashire police has already issued more than 100 fines. the uk's largest force, the metropolitan police, has issued none. the head of the national police chief's council agreed there needs to be more consistency. we are bringing in new rules that have never been in existence before, and we're having to learn as we go along. i think people ought to accept that mistakes will be made as we work our way through that. the law says that people can only leave home for basic necessities, for medical needs, for essential work or to exercise once a day, and police can issue on the spot fines if people have no reasonable excuse to be away from home or for any social gathering of more than two people not from the same household. but derbyshire police's decision to use drones and social media

videos to shame people exercising in the peak district has worried others in policing. when i saw it on the television and i saw the footage, i have to say it was a bit of a facepalm moment for me. ifeared the kind of criticism that then ensued. but today, the chief constable of derbyshire defended the decision. the purpose of putting the video up was, the weekend after we had had the nice weather where frankly the peak district was inundated with visitors from across the whole country, putting some vulnerable communities at risk and stretching the emergency services. but in this upside—down world, where park benches are taped off for public safety and people are asked to exercise away from each other, the growing consensus among police chiefs and police and crime commissioners is that some of the strongest laws ever introduced in this country need to be used wisely and not over zealously. daniel sandford,

bbc news, east london. some breaking news now from within the prison system. pregnant women who don't pose a higher risk of harm to the public will be temporarily released in england and wales. suitable accommodation will also be found. women released will be subject to licensed conditions meaning they will have to stay at home and where a tag where appropriate. authorities will have the power to recall them to prison if conditions are breached. that news just if conditions are breached. that newsjust in, confirming if conditions are breached. that news just in, confirming what had been reported as pending or looming in the last 2a hours or so. charities are expecting to lose about four billion pounds over the next few

months because of coronavirus. with large scale events like the london marathon — which raises more than 60 million a year — being postponed, fundraising has been hit hard. and charity shops have also had to close their doors. officials say many charities are now facing imminent collapse and they're now calling on the government for urgent help as michael buchanan reports. good afternoon, is that marion? a human voice to break the loneliness of the lockdown. at this age uk centre in north london, they're getting 500 calls a week asking for help, five times the usual demand. although they've never been busier, they estimate their income will be down by as much as 50% over the coming months. the furlough situation does not apply to us. we have too much work and people are working long hours and everybody is working, and infact, i'm having to pay for more hours. so you have increasing costs and reducing income? yes, exactly, and i think that's a very typical picture across the country.

lift off for the london marathon. with most majorfundraising events like the london marathon either postponed or cancelled, the pandemic is fast becoming a threat to the very existence of some organisations. while others are scaling back on their core activities. cancer research uk says the fall in donations means they will have to cut back on research, which they say could well delay new breakthrough treatments against the disease. each charity is affected in a different way. but all of them are saying that they need government help. during a virtual meeting, mps examine the problems. we are estimating based on a mix of survey data and data we collect on charity accounts that you would expect in the next quarter charities to generate income of about 12 and a half billion pounds, and we are expecting the loss in the next quarter to be

in the region of £4 billion. charities want ministers to either divide emergency grants or speed up payments from the gift aid scheme. discussions are said to be ongoing. emma cantrell currently runs an emergency food bank, having been forced to virtually mothball her charity. we are back in a few minutes' time answering questions you want a response to about the pandemic. hope to see you then. that evening. more of the country had a dry day today with showers affecting the northern half of scotland, but there is more cloud heading south overnight which could bring showers further south as well. we will have clear skies for much of the night across southern england and fora the night across southern england and for a while across south wales, the south midlands and east anglia. some places by the end of night having a touch of frost. where we have the cloud moving in and the chance of a shower, temperatures

nearer 5 degrees. the cloud will move down from the north bringing showers, mainly feeding in of the irish sea. rain moving southwards across scotland, eventually arriving in northern ireland. it will be brighterfor in northern ireland. it will be brighter for eastern scotland, then we get sunshine for the northern half of the country. temperatures 9 degrees typically, similar to what we had today, and for many places again the winds will be light. they start to pick up in scotland after the rain moves through and we get into colder air behind the weather front. the weather front is important because whilst it's only bringing patchy rain, behind it the winds start to pick up. we draw down colder air and the shells that follow will be turning increasingly wintry. we start with patchy rain and drizzle across southern scotland and drizzle across southern scotland and northern ireland on that weather front, that will sink down into northern england and wales. following that, sunshine and showers, those turning increasingly wintry in scotland with snow over

the hills, and the winds will be stronger everywhere by thursday. may be touching gale force in northern scotland, adding to the chill with temperatures only 6 degrees. decent temperatures only 6 degrees. decent temperatures across southern and eastern parts of england, reaching 14, and staying generally dry. the winds will be lighter on friday, with plenty of sunshine, clouding over more, and some wintry showers across the northern half of scotland in particular where it is still quite cold. even further south the temperatures are down a bit. we have high pressure building in during friday, hence the lighter winds. the high pressure will move its way into continental europe which is significant because it allows us to change the wind direction to more of a southerly which will strengthen during the weekend, but at least it will mean the temperatures are rising and it will be turning warmer by sunday.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk records its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day. 381 people have died. spain also records its biggest daily rise in coronavirus deaths. the number there has passed 8000. in new york state, the death toll from the coronavirus surpasses 1500 as the us overtakes china in the number of declared deaths. the world bank says the coronavirus

pandemic will cause significant pain across asia as economies contract. it also warned the crisis will stop almost 24 million people from escaping poverty. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. you've been contacting us in your thousands with questions about practical advice and support on covid—19. we're going to do our best now to answer some of them now on the bbc‘s your questions answered.

with us over the next few minutes, we have professor david alexander from the institute for risk and disaster reduction at university college london. hejoins us now from florence, where he's on lockdown. and i'm alsojoined by paul kellam, who is professor of virus genomics at imperial college london. ifi if i could start with you first, lots of questions coming in about the testing process. most to do with what is happening in the uk but also internationally. i don't know if you caught the government press conference a couple of hours ago saying we would be testing 25,000 people a day well saying le a day well before the end of march, yet we struggled to get to 10,000. why? the testing that i think has been referred to herein as the virus detection test is the one where if you are infected

and cinematic. 0verexposed in incubating then you have the ability to detect the presence of the virus. now this is an enormous undertaking to scale up. what you require is a law of traded people, equipment and reagents and the scale to than a sample and move samples around where the plates where testing is. that reallyjust ta kes a where testing is. that reallyjust takes a while to scale. i think we are doing quite well i can always be doing better. but it is really the time delay in getting things to work and scaled that means the numbers are not as high as we want them to be. and there seems to be an admission from government today that there was a supply—chain issue in terms of getting the right chemicals through. to open up a bit, the testing process is not completely 100% accurate in some cases, is a? can you explain to our viewers about that? there are tests that are about 98% accurate. the problem however is

the fact that they are having to improvise all of this rather at the la st improvise all of this rather at the last moment rather than having planet before hand. and last moment rather than having planet beforehand. and to be honest we have known the scenario for this pandemic now for a very long time. i would say at least 15 years and in fa ct would say at least 15 years and in fact i have been teaching at for the la st fact i have been teaching at for the last 12 years and it really has turned out exactly as tall and there is something very magical about that because it was well known in the entire emergency management community. when you look at health services and lack of funding and austerity and europe and elsewhere following the financial crisis, i suppose a lot of countries would say this is something they could not have afforded to have done. but i just wondered a country like south korea for example is way ahead in terms of testing and keeping the numbers down. have they spent more significantly on their health systems in keeping these tests up today or has itjust

been more luck? i don't know about the level of spending specifically in south korea but i think there is always the ability to bring new tests online, new kit and new equipment and sometimes that is not a scale and the capacity to scale up much quicker the newer it is. when we run things in the uk with public health england labs and other hospital laboratories, there is a certain in—built way of doing things and it has not been able to scale as quickly as he wanted to. you have taught this for many years, what is your analysis of how, south korea, germany and others seem to have done so much better? i think it is a question of how you prepare it that the first place. there are three elements to emergency preparedness, there are plans, procedures and improvisation. you cannot roll out improvisation. you cannot roll out improvisation but you need to minimise it because improvisation where you should have planned and had the foresight is really a form of negligence. we have to ensure

that we have prepared beforehand because of the time it takes and the way that resources have to be requisitioned. i was in saint georges hospital not long ago and i was told by a surgeon that this is a westminster that it was working normally at 106% of capacity. this means that it has no surge capacity or no inherent surge capacity. surge capacity has to be invented and that really is really difficult and also requires time and a great deal of expertise and therefore effort to create the surge capacity and we need massive surge capacity right now. if someone is tested today and is clear, they could still catch the virus the following day, so what does the testing do to improve the situation? that from mike pattison. the person who asked the question is right. the testing we are doing at the moment detect the presence of the moment detect the presence of the virus on the day of

the test and provided that person is maintaining the social distancing and all of the procedures that we have in place now, then it is a test informing on the individual but it should not be a case where if that person is positive that they then pass it on others because they should be quarantining within their house with the symptoms they are suffering from. so it tells you you have coronavirus if you have the symptoms over it tells you the symptoms are not coronavirus if that if the gates and you can then return you are a key worker to what you were doing before. do you want to add to that? it seems from some of the front line medical workers we have is speaking to, they have not even had the test despite some of them thinking that perhaps they might have a mild form of the virus? one thing is that hospitals are a place where coronavirus really cover gates because of course it is where all the patients go. there is an interesting article published overnight signed by a group of

hospital doctors from northern italy which is probably the most affected hospital in europe. and they made a heartfelt plea to turn over some of the care and the cure and the testing to the community. this of course is what was done in a much less effective way during the pandemic of 19 18—1920, which went on for almost two years exactly. and the second wave was more deadly than the second wave was more deadly than the first as well. if we could move on with some more questions here, if i could comment to you, on the anti—body testing, will that help with the progress for a vaccine west yes ina with the progress for a vaccine west yes in a way. first of all it will tell us the level. the level of the people in the uk that have been

exposed infected and it converted raised antibodies to the virus. those should be protected for at least a period of time and would not really be the ones that are in line or need a vaccine as we start to roll it out. you will also identify people that are vulnerable because they have not been exposed, infected or raise an antibiotic response to those of the ones we would like to target with a vaccine. it also would tell us about the extent of the infection throughout the uk and that helps us to understand and model where we will be best placed to deploy vaccines effectively for the maximum effect. this question from peter, it looks as if he is of italian descent, where are you at the moment and it where are we on the moment and it where are we on the progress on a vaccine? governments had said these been tested already but where are we? governments had said these been tested already but where are we ?|j am tested already but where are we?” am not an epidemiologist but an emergency planner but one thing that is very clear in the scenario for

any pandemic, be it influenza or a sars pandemic like this, is it takes a considerable amount of time to produce a vaccine. 0nce a considerable amount of time to produce a vaccine. once you have it, you have the question then of medical ethics, namely who gets it first? we all believe of course of the medical profession, the doctors, nurses, the hospital cleaners and all the rest you are working in the hospitals should get it first with and there are questions of how to roll out the vaccine to the rest of the population and the amount of time that that would take. so unfortunately it is unlikely that most people i think will get vaccines this year. goodness. this year, when we could all then be looking at a second winter wave november and december.” looking at a second winter wave november and december. i hope i'm wrong about that anyway. to answer your question, yes, the model suggest a second winter wave and the moment we don't know that for sure. and ina moment we don't know that for sure. and in a way, the antibody testing that we need to do at

scale and as quickly as possible will start to help to inform us as to if that second wave is likely and the number of people in the population that remain susceptible to infection. let's stay with you, you may know the answer to this or may not but i'll ask anyway. are the many british people arriving from abroad being put straight into isolation and/or being tested for covid—19? that from sharon knowles. look at people flying in even in the last week or so, i hear from family that they are not being tested when they arrive in the uk. i must admit that i don't know the answer that question and i am not aware of any change in government policy or an infection control policy at airports but the action to answer that i don't know. professor alexander, i don't know. professor alexander, i don't know. professor alexander, i don't know if you do or you think it should be imposed.” don't know if you do or you think it should be imposed. i made the difficult and possibly slightly dangerous journey from heathrow and

then to rome and into florence and into mandatory quarantine for two weeks as of last sunday. and there was no testing or temperature testing at rome airport. i did not see any sign at heathrow airport of anyone being tested for anything but on the other hand i was largely on the departures rather than the arrivals side. some i ask he was such a high rate of coronavirus, why did you make that decision to go and leave the uk? the principal reason is my main family home is here and a small town outside of florence and my wife is here who needs my support quite desperately. the problem at the moment is she cannot get it because i am in isolation from her as well as from everyone else and thatis as well as from everyone else and that is a legal requirement that will be checked upon by the health authorities here. let's move on. lesley green here.

would it not be possible to use all drive—through outlets as possible coronavirus testing stations? so, yes, and some of that was put in place early on in the epidemic. i think a whole variety of things are going to be considered for how we obtain samples or people in the community or keep workers from drive—through use, the self sampling and collection of samples, these are all part of government planning at the moment. to dovetail then into the moment. to dovetail then into the capacity for testing both for the capacity for testing both for the virus and for antibodies so i'm sure all of these things are being considered. the safety and logistics of people involved in it must be very high on that consideration as well. a final thought from you, you said you had been teaching this for 12 years and modelling for the last 15 years. how accurate is it according to your

models and where without being too bleak are we adding do you think? let me specify that i am not modelling the medical side of it but the point is to create scenarios for emergency response and emergency management and the scenarios would then go into emergency plans. in 2005, there was awha emergency plans. in 2005, there was a wh a report on pandemics it really sounded the alarm and in 2007, congress began to produce their own reports including the uk in the us. thereafter, that began a period of fairly intense pandemic emergency planning. the volume of the uk national risk register of civil emergencies, page nine, there is a diagram of the 94 main sources of risk in the uk and pandemics are right at the top right—hand corner. most likely and dangerous

of all. and however it what then happened was the counterterrorism plenty took over for a while and it was followed by planning for the supply chain disaster of brexit which for the la st disaster of brexit which for the last 2—3 years has taken up all emergency planning resources also on the other hand, it is at the moment rather difficult to see where the plans that were made before have actually gone because there is such an enormous amount of improvisation going on, frantically to close the gaps where plans have failed and plans of investment have failed to provide. unfortunately we needed a syste m provide. unfortunately we needed a system with redundancy and did not get it. ok, thank you professors. before answering just some of our questions today. thank you. around the world, health care workers are becoming overwhelmed as they battle

coronavirus. there was already a global shortage of around 6 million nurses before this pandemic started. the international council of nurses, which represents 20 million globally, has told the bbc their members are facing unprecedented physical and psychological challenges. our global health correspondent tulip mazumdar reports. the women and the men on the front—line of this global battle. all over the world, they are putting their lives at risk to protect ours. china was the first country to face the full force of covid—19. south korea followed soon after. health workers have been sending us videos from their clinics from all over the world. translation: when caring for patients, we must wear full body protection, two layers of overshoes, gloves, masks and

goggles. in five minutes, the whole body is drenched in sweat. it becomes hard to care for patients. the us is the latest country to be hit hard by this pandemic, with more cases now than anywhere else in the world. europe has been at the epicentre of this outbreak for more than two weeks now. here in eastern france, the military have set up makeshift critical care facilities. the italian health system is overwhelmed. patients now being admitted into massive tents. translation: we are at war with a totally invisible enemy. we are fighting for everyone and trying not to get hurt ourselves. we feel like we are the spearhead in this battle. our efforts are not awarded with a positive outcome sometimes. another issue is in connection with the family member. the contact is made by phone and often we receive calls asking

for updates. they never can see their relatives and we can hear the voices on the other side of the phone. all this as the world faces a chronic shortage of crucial personal protective equipment for health workers. the world health organization estimates that globally the response requires around 89 million medical masks and 76 million gloves each month. as always, nurses are stepping up, they're saving lives, but they're putting themselves, often sacrificing themselves ahead of other people. that is not possible to continue in the long—term. and if we don't properly look after our health workforce, after our nurses, if we exhaust them, my fear is that this will make the virus worse. there is no global tally of the number of infected health care workers. in china, the government says more

than 3000 have been infected and at least 22 medics have died. spanish officials say around 13% of all those infected are health care workers, which would mean more than 10,000 have caught the virus there. in italy, the infection rate is at around 9%. the death toll among doctors stands at at least 61. no—one can predict how long this pandemic will last. but it's the efforts of health care workers all around the world that all of us are relying on. translation: it's really painstaking and energy—consuming work, but every day we are hoping for people's recovery. following in the footsteps of florence nightingale, we will fulfil our mission. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. efforts are continuing to bring back tens of thousands of britons stranded abroad.

ba, easyjet and virgin atlantic are among airlines working with the government to fly britons back to the uk. the government has also pledged £75 million for charter flights. caroline hawley has more. i've left three children behind. two children are asthmatic. i should've been home, that's the bottom line. i should have been home. tabassum is one of hundreds of thousands of british people stuck around the world right now. pakistan is in lockdown. there've been no flights out for two weeks, and there are many others in this country alone desperate to get back to the uk, some with pressing medical needs. my mum is a diabetic so medication is low, it's hard to get hold of. we just need some intervention, to be honest. but how to get people back when the world is closing down. this is 0rly airport in paris. today, it is shutting indefinitely

to commercial flights, just one illustration of the vast logistical challenge of getting people home. this is tom on holiday in morocco. the foreign office says it's helped to get more than 8000 travellers home on commercial flights after travel restrictions came into force, but tom is still stranded. we were only booked here for four days, and now we have been here 17 and now we've got no idea when we are getting home. 0urfamilies have got no idea. i don't know how i'm going to pay for it, and, yes, it's extremely stressful times. tyne's trip to south africa has also turned into a nightmare. she came to volunteer, now she can't get out and she says the british government has been slow to respond. it's nerve—racking, it's very scary. i live next door to a supermarket, and for two days running,

we've had riots. i can see on facebook there are people throwing bricks at the staff that work in the supermarket, so itjust kind of makes me feel unsafe. i don't know, being so close to it as well. safely back in the uk, a planeload of british travellers arrived at gatwick from peru this morning on a special charter. the government is urging people to take commercial flights where they can, and it's promised to organise more charters in the coming days and weeks to bring people home. caroline hawley, bbc news. as ever during a crisis of this scale, it can seem that the news is all doom and gloom. however, in every crisis, there are people who are instrumental in ensuring every person who needs it is getting the support they need. one of them is emma miller, who a few weeks ago set up a gofundme page aimed at raising money to deliver care packages to the needy and

vulnerable. it's now raised more than £60,000. love you to speak to you. this idea came out of it sadness from losing a member of your family but not to coronavirus. this was the catalyst, so what have you done? so sadly we lost my grandfather three weeks ago, not of coronavirus. and basically it started as a family discussion with me, my sister, my cousins, my dad, my stepmum, my uncle and aunt and we have been talking and itjust sort of said let's do something. and we set upa of said let's do something. and we set up a good funding page and set up set up a good funding page and set upa set up a good funding page and set up a facebook group and we started going shopping and delivering care package to the elderly, vulnerable who were unable to get out and expose themselves. so we were doing amazon shopping and going to supermarkets before the lockdown started. then it sort of snowballed

and we were contacted by some of the nhs hospitals and we are now working with 14 nhs hospitals. that's extraordinary so the national health service is using you because they cannot get supplies and. what are you taking into the hospitals? is it food or a mixture of stuff? we are sitting at food banks whereby the doctors and nurses and staff after their ships can then get supplies because they are going to through markets and the shelves are empty. we are also providing hot meals to them. my cousin has a restaurant. so her restaurant is providing hot meals to them with daily deliveries at lunch time and in the evening. so we are doing that for the nhs and then delivering care packages to individuals between 50 and hundred a day. goodness. how many people are working with you alongside this? you make the appeal and money comes in and that goes to a central back

account and then you guys, how many are there of you and what is a division of labour? there is making my my sister and my two first cousins and our aunt and basically we deal with the packing of the care packages and we arranged everything that goes to the food banks at the hospitals. and then my cousins who are creating the hot meals and we have delivery drivers who are collecting and i've got loads of people in my community who are contacting me saying please let me help. they are coming in and collecting and delivering so it's a bit of a team effort with everyone. it sounds fantastic. it might go on for some time actually as well so i hope you are prepared for that. emma, thank you and great to have you on the programme. the streets may not have many people in them these days, but in one town in wales, they've been packed with goats.

this herd of wild mountain goats has taken over the town of llandudno, eating hedges and flowers from gardens. usually they only venture into the town during bad weather, but in recent days they have been wandering the deserted streets as people stay indoors. that is quite annoying if you have some prize flowers in the garden. running around, having a whale of a time. thank you for watching and we are back again, see you. hello, good evening. more of the country had a dry day today. most of the showers were affecting the northern half of scotland, but there is more cloud heading southwards overnight and that could bring a few showers further south as well. but we will have clear skies for much of the night across southern england and for a while across south wales, the south midlands and east anglia. some places still by the end of the night having a touch of frost. where we have the cloud moving in, a chance of a shower with temperatures at four or five degrees. some early sunshine tomorrow

across southern england, but it will not last. the cloud moves in from the north bringing with it a few showers and mainly feeding in across the irish sea. some rain moving south across scotland, eventually arriving in northern ireland, and most of the rain in western scotland. brighter for eastern scotland and then we get some sunshine for the northern half of the country. temperatures of nine or ten degrees, similar to what we had today. for many places, again the winds will be light. they start to pick up in scotland after that rain moves through. then we get into some colder air behind that weather front. that front is important because while it certainly brings patches of rain southwards across the uk, behind it, the winds start to pick up and we draw down colder air and those showers that follow will be turning increasingly wintry as well. so, we start with some patchy rain and drizzle across southern scotland and northern ireland on that weather front. that will sink its way down towards northern england and wales and perhaps the midlands later on and then following that, some sunshine and showers and those turning increasingly wintry in scotland and some snow over the hills. and the winds will be stronger everywhere i think by thursday and may be touching gale force

in northern scotland. adding to the chill, with temperatures of only 6 degrees or so, but decent across southern and eastern parts of england, 13 or 14, where it should stay generally dry. the winds lighter on friday and it will be a chilly start with plenty of sunshine, tending to cloud over more with some wintry showers over the northern half of scotland in particular, where it is still quite cold. even further south, the temperatures are down a bit. typically ten or 11 degrees. we have high pressure building in for friday, so hence lighter winds, and that pressure will move its way into continental europe, which is quite significant because it allows us to change the wind direction to more of a southerly. that will strengthen during the weekend but at least it will mean those temperatures are going to be rising and it will be turning warmer by sunday.

this is 0utside 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. the us has now overtaking china in the number of declared deaths from coronavirus. and as the death toll in new york state alone surpasses 1,500 — the governor has this warning. this virus is more powerful, it's

more dangerous than we expected. spain records its biggest daily rise in coronavirus deaths, the number there passes 8,000. the uk also records its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day as the infection rate gathers pace — 381 people die. and we'll go to a refugee camp in greece to find out how people are dealing with the threat of coronavirus. welcome to outside source. let's start in the us, where the death toll from the coronavirus has now passed china's. more than 3,400 people have died, and there are now almost 175,000 confirmed cases. three out of four americans are now — or about to be — under some form of lockdown, as more states tighten measures to fight the coronavirus.