people are dying and suffering! lagos state government says that their strategy is working, people are listening and they're staying indoors, so these next two weeks are crucial when it comes to trying to contain the spread of covid—19. but the big question remains, what happens after 1a days when you allow africa's most populated city back on the streets? here, coronavirus is a virus for the privilege — for those who can afford a home to self—isolate in and have an ability to buy and stockpile food. the worry is that millions who can't afford the basic advice in the lockdown will be the worst off. chi chi izundu, bbc news. and finally some good news for you about someone who has had coronavirus and recovered. george alagiah, as many of you will know, has stage iv cancer. he has undergone more than 60 rounds of chemotherapy and is still having treatment. it puts him, of course, at a much higher risk than most people. two weeks ago he went into hospital and tested positive.

thankfully, he's now back home, and this afternoon i spoke to him about his experience. they did loads and loads of tests for all kinds of things, one of which was covid—19, coronavirus, and a few days later, i think three, four, five days later, my oncologist phoned up and said, "well, you're fine as far as the chemo side effects are concerned, but you do have covid—19." and actually my first reaction was, "well, actually, if that was it, then i've got away with it," because i had a temperature, but i didn't have all those other really nasty things that people talk about. right now, the last couple of days, i feel...not back to normal, but i certainly feel well. but you were one of the people we were most worried about when all this began. you've got stage iv cancer. i've had numerous conversations with you here in the newsroom, and we were really worried about you. it seemed a very anxious time. actually, my friends, like you,

were getting more anxious, i think, than i was. to be honest, if you have been living, as i have for six years, with scans every three months and the whole uncertainty, and sometimes in a very life—threatening way, this didn't seem so bad to me. and there was almost a part of me that thought, "well, maybe i could get it and if i could get what the chief medical officer talks of as being a mild or moderate case of it, then i can actually get it out of the way." the thing with you is you obviously are... you've got cancer, you've been treated for cancer, and there are a lot of people out there who will be watching you now who are really frightened of getting this thing. what is your message to them? for all those people out there living with cancer, my message is firstly we all know what uncertainty is about, we all know what being in a life—threatening situation is about, and this needn't be like that. i don't want to trivialise it, simply because i seem to have had a mild or moderate case of covid—i9,

but actually the very fact that we're living with cancer, i think, gives us an edge. we have confronted those kind of difficult, dark moments in our lives, and in some ways i think that we, those of us living with cancer, are stronger because we kind of know what it is like to go into something where the outcomes are uncertain. and i certainly feel that, having had that experience, in my case six years as a cancer patient, i went into this feeling actually quite strong. if i can live with cancer, then i can certainly live with covid—i9 — i kept telling myself that. and yes, ok, i'm lucky, sophie. i've had it in a mild way, but lots and lots of other people are going to have it in a mild way, too. george alagiah speaking to me earlier, great to see him looking so well. newsnight is starting over

on bbc two in ten minutes at 22:45. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is your latest sports news. football clubs are meeting tomorrow to discuss what wage sacrifices the game's top players should make, to help sides cope in the coronavirus pandemic. matches across the premier league and the efl have been postponed until at least 30 april. non—playing staff at some teams have already had their pay cut, as they fight to protect jobs through the crisis. joe lynsky reports. it's the multi—billion pound industry that gets richer every year, but even premier league finances will be affected in a pandemic. the matches are off and supporters are at home, so now two top—flight clubs have cut down their staff. at mike ashley's newcastle, those behind the scenes have been put on leave. now tottenham, too, say they have to adapt.

in a statement, theirchairman said... spurs are the eighth—richest club in the world, but now non—playing employees could go on the government's furlough scheme. for now, the players are still paid in full. footballers tend to get paid those multi—million—pound—a—year contracts, so it's easier in some ways to furlough your non—playing staff because their monthly takehomes are going to be much more in line with what we might consider to be average salaries, which means those government schemes can meet those requirements of non—playing staff much more easily. i think what we're seeing from ashley and daniel levy is some really good business acumen — "let's try and deal with the problem as and when they arise." and particularly, i like the fact that those footballing authorities are meeting to discuss how best to try and proceed with the season. right now, just like all of us, the top players are at home. tomorrow, english clubs will discuss

deferring wages to get clubs through the crisis. possible solutions have come from elsewhere. already, one scottish premiership club's offered all staff a pay cut — and at some of europe's elite, the resources are being shared around. barcelona's players are making contributions so those behind the scenes get full pay. and juventus‘s squad will miss out on four months‘ wage. i think the most sensible way is to have a football—wide solution to this. the premier league, as the governing body, needs to take hold of the situation and lobby its member clubs to make sure that they do the right thing. you need a whole footballing system approach to this and it shouldn't be reliant on one or two wealthy clubs to support the rest. normally, this sport thrives on the inevitable. now, like so many other businesses, football, too, is working out how to survive. joe lynsky, bbc news. the england and wales cricket board

is making more than £60 million available to support all levels of the game. it includes £40 million which is being made available immediately to help with cash flow. and more than £20 million is to be made available in interest—free loans and grants, to help amateur clubs. all cricket has been postponed until 28 may. options to start the delayed season in june, july or august are being considered. the future of this summer's wimbledon championships is in the balance. meetings are taking place over whether they will go ahead as planned this june. the all england club, who run the championships, are yet to make a final decision. 0ur tennis correspondent russell fuller feels it would be a big call from the organisers. i think those who are coming to a formal decision after a series of virtual emergency meetings today, which may will continue into tomorrow, have known for a while it is not feasible to stage the championships this year because of the fight and i think what is happening is also notjust people at wimbledon are involved but people from the lta, which runs events like the queen's club in eastbourne,

which will also be affected by the cancellation, and the men's atp tour and the women's wta tour, all getting together, and i think what is going to happen is sometime in the latter half of wednesday, we will have a series of coordinated announcements saying there will be no grass court tennis in 2020. and that's likely to mean no professional tennis anywhere in the world before at least the middle ofjuly. looking at the us open, flushing meadows, less major of the year. still on for now, but there are plans for that site to be used right now. yes, that's going to be used this week but not for tennis. they're going to try and convert parts of the billiejean king national tennis centre intuit ten perry hospital. my understanding that will be for non—covid—i9 patients but trying to relieve some of the stress on the health services in new york at the moment, whether

the tournament can go ahead at the end of august or meant to be seen. they are planning to go ahead to but they will have to consulate whether it will have to go ahead later in the year. russell fuller. that's all the sport from us for now. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are claire cohen, women's editor for the daily telegraph, and political strategist jo tanner. tomorrow's front pages. starting with the daily mail, whose headline is "fix testing fiasco now". it calls on ministers to —

in its words — "get a grip" on testing after britain faces its worst day of deaths so far. the metro leads on that figure, citing that deaths leapt by 381 in just one day. the i says that medics are still in need of safety kits, suggesting that distribution problems means protective clothing is still not reaching front line nhs workers. the express leads on comments from the medical director of nhs england, who says there are "green shoots" of hope in the coronavirus battle as the number of new cases seem to plateau. the mirror tells the tragic story of an otherwise healthy 13—year—old boy who has died at a london hospital after contracting covid—i9. the financial times leads on an admission from michael gove that the government is having trouble acquiring coronavirus testing kits. the guardian says care home staff are warning that the virus is pushing them to breaking point. so let's begin. first, we do our traditional line test. claire cohen, if you can do a wave or a nod, brilliant. jo tanner with your

fabulous drinks counter behind you, which i am desperate use but virtually, we cannot. we are good as her with the financial times. it is interesting different papers using different headlines, gove admits problems obtaining kits to test medical staff or virus. claire cohen from the telegraph, this becoming a issue. this is summing up the epidemic in the country at the moment. they have to the word admits. michael gove today, i think the first admission from a cabinet minister there is a holdup in testing. some might say that had we got our plans into gear sooner when it comes to testing, we would not be scrabbling around with the rest of the globe in order to try and get hold of these chemicals. michael gove was saying the targeted 10,000 tests a day had been met at the

weekend. new figures in the papers tomorrow show that the latest are only that 82110 were done yesterday. we are not even hitting that 10,000 a target it seems really unlikely whereunto had that 25,000 a day by mid april —— we are going to hit. whereunto had that 25,000 a day by mid april -- we are going to hit. as you say, a massive issue. what are your thoughts? i think it's absolutely right that the press co nfe re nce absolutely right that the press conference today definitely told us something that has been a suspicion about, andl something that has been a suspicion about, and i work in communications, and we always talk about that you are not planned for the crisis but your blimp for the you're handling. and there is definitely a sense that journalists in those briefings now are starting to really hone in on what is going on with regards to testing about because it does seem just bizarre that the numbers that have been quoted in terms of the game and what appears to be really be happening on the ground, there is such a huge void between those two numbers now, that there is concern —

and quite rightly so, when we have got the situation where one in four doctors are not able to work because they are unable to show whether or not they have had the virus and therefore are fit to work. i think therefore are fit to work. i think there is quite rightly a concern about this and i think this is the first sign the government are admitting there is a problem. let's look at the headline of the daily mail. it's on the same subject. it is really campaigning as opposed to reporting. it says, fixed testing fiasco now. are we getting straight a nswe i’s fiasco now. are we getting straight answers from the government when you watch? you must be, like all of us, watching all of this government press conferences? obviously, we had this press conference today, but their layers to this. they are these la bs we their layers to this. they are these labs we heard about, which i think only one of them is used for testing, and there is reporting on a super lab tomorrow which could test thousands of nhs front line workers and yet it is still in the trial period. there were some of these

details coming out that are painting a picture of not all of our resources being used to their fullest capacity, some not in their minimal capacity, so i'm not sure we are getting the clear picture but details are slowly coming out. jo, you have worked advising people on pr. if the government getting its message right? if we are not able to understand them, surely as something is wrong in the way they're to us?|j think in the beginning, there was some concern. think in the beginning, there was some concern. the idea that when people were advised to stay home, that did not work, and having to go into lockdown as it is commonly being called was the approach that had to be taken. there is the sense if you tell people don't do things, you have behavioural sciences looking at people because behaviours asa looking at people because behaviours as a result of subject requests, but we are sinkable not abiding by what actually the rules are —— we are not seeing people abiding by. people

confused. i think the government are doing their best, i don't think it is easy. i thing this is an ever moving picture. however, while i think all of us work and clean occasions —— who work and medications would admit, we do or her. we worse different scenarios. governments themselves will have plan for major incidences but pandemics have been planned and the response has been planned before, but i'm not really sure how extensive the planning really has been when we see the sort of holes that we are seeing. some of the mistakes even cabinet ministers have made, getting tied up in knots in media interviews and had to unravel... it also turns out we know there zoom addresses! ijust want unravel... it also turns out we know there zoom addresses! i just want to look at the i. a