hello. a warm welcome. this is outside source on bbc news. for viewers in the uk and around the world, we are covering all the very latest coronavirus developments here in britain, and also globally. another record number of deaths in the uk from coronavirus, with 938 reported over a 2k hour period. the prime minister is facing a fourth night in hospital, still in intensive care, but the chancellor says that he's responding to

treatment. the prime minister remains in intensive care, where his condition is improving. i can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with a clinical team. the usa has also recorded the it's highest daily coronavirus death toll — more than 1,800 also in the us — bernie sanders says he's ending his bid to win the democratic party's presidential nomination, clearing the way forjoe biden. two and a half months on — people in wuhan enjoy their freedom, as china lifts travel restrictions in the city where the pandemic started. welcome. the uk government says that the health of borisjohnson is "improving". the prime minister has coronavirus, and has spent two nights in intensive care at st thomas' hopsital in london. he was taken there on sunday night — ten days after first testing positive for the virus. the chancellor rishi sunak said that mrjohnson was receiving excellent ca re.

the latest from the hospital is that the prime minister remains in intensive care, where his condition is improving. i can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team. that was from the daily briefing. we also heard the latest fatality figures from across the uk have been released. in the last twenty—four hours 938 people have died in hospitals, the country's highest daily figure so far —but that figure does not include deaths in the community or in care homes. it brings the total number of deaths in the uk so far to 7,097. let's speak to jonathan blake our political correspondent in westminster. let's first of all start with the grim figures for the uk, another difficult day. definitely. that is

the highest number of deaths recorded in a 2k hour period. it underlines the seriousness of the situation that the uk still finds itself in, tackling the spread of coronavirus. it will be a reminder for everyone as there has been talked in the last couple of days of the forthcoming review, that the government is expected to undertake into the restrictions that have been put into place to stop people moving around, and to attempt to slow the spread of the virus, but i have to say there is very little expectation at all that those measures will be relaxed or eased or indeed lifted in any form. before, as where'd from the chancellor and scientists said that briefing today, the medical advisers, that the peak of cases has been reached. i don't think it is until the evidence shows that that is the case, and we are beyond that and out the other side that there

will be relaxing the restrictions that are in play. it certainly doesn't sound like it. jonathan, there was some positive news though after the shock news on monday that the prime minister was being moved into intensive care. his condition is now improving. yes, and an encouraging update from the chancellor on this this afternoon, saying, as you pointed out, that the prime minister's condition was improving. he said also that he was sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the medical team. and we had an update of sorts from downing street in the last hour or so, just saying that the prime minister continues to make steady progress, and that he remains in intensive care. so while i say there will be encouraging news that the prime minister's condition has certainly not got any worse, and does appear to be improving steadily, nevertheless, he remains in intensive care, and is clearly still a very —— very seriously ill.

and we do all wish him a speedy recovery. jonathan, thank you so much for talking us through that and bringing us up to date on that. thank you, jonathan blake there, our correspondent in westminster. lets turn to the us, we'll bring you the latest coronavirus developments — but first i want to bring you up to date with a political development in the upcoming presidential election. bernie sanders has suspended his campaign to become us president, clearing the way for former vice—presidentjoe biden to become the democratic party's nominee. mr sanders addressed his supporters online. i want to thank all of you who spoke to your friends and neighbours, posted on social media, and worked as hard as he could to make this a better country. together, we have transformed american consciousness as to what kind of nation we can become. i'm taking this country —— i've taken this country a huge step

forward in the never ending struggle forward in the never ending struggle for economicjustice forward in the never ending struggle for economic justice social justice racial justice and for economic justice social justice racialjustice and environmental justice. so that's bernie sanders speaking to his supporters online. president trump has been tweeting about this: let's find out what all of this means from anthony zurcherjoining me from washington. of course, the president there referring back to super tuesday, which feels like some quite —— quite some time ago in march with elizabeth warren. yeah, and his assertion doesn't really have any basis. in fact, assertion doesn't really have any

basis. infact, elizabeth assertion doesn't really have any basis. in fact, elizabeth warren did perhaps take some votes away from bernie sanders come in the same way that michael bloomberg took votes away from joe biden, and to her presence on the ballot was not determinative in almost every state except for maybe minnesota or massachusetts, so for donald trump to try to say that i think is definitely a stretch, but you can see the strategy behind it here. donald trump is trying to ferment divisions within the democratic party, similar to the ones that were existent in 2016 that may have helped some of bernie sanders supporters go to third parties or back donald trump. donald trump sees 01’ back donald trump. donald trump sees or wants to see that sort of dynamic play itself out again this november, whether that will be the case are not coming up at donald trump is running as the incumbent, that remains question. clearly that will be what he tries to do. try and paint this as bernie sanders being wronged by the democratic party end by elizabeth warren. so with the focus now onjoe biden, the issue here though, anthony, is thatjoe

biden, we have not seen much of him recently. know, we happen. you have to remember in a normal presidential election campaign cycle, this is kind of a downtime have concluded. —— no, we have been. presumptive nominee would spend a lot of time fundraising and organising, finding difficulty getting out into the spotlight anyway against an incumbent. that has made —— made all the harder wherejoe incumbent. that has made —— made all the harder where joe biden incumbent. that has made —— made all the harder wherejoe biden has been essentially confined to his house in delaware and can only communicate with the media with supporters with fundraisers via video conferences and the like. it's going to be very real challenge for him to try break through. particularly when donald trump has this national platform with his daily press conferences where he's on television every single day. it's a strange sort of campaign to be in, at least at the moment. but there are months to go before november, and biden will have his chance to try to rest that spotlight back from the president.

i'm sure he will do. anthony, don't go away, because i want to also not bring everyone up to date when it comes to the actual figures relating to coronavirus in the us, because the country has also recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day. more than 1800 deaths were reported on tuesday. it brings the total number of fatalities in the country to over 13,000. the us has more than 402,000 confirmed cases, the highest number in the world. new york remains the epicentre of the country's outbreak with more than 4,000 deaths. that's in new york state alone. the state's healthcare system is at maximum capacity — which is why authorities have started building a temporary hospital at this university campus east of new york city. it will provide over a thousand extra beds. here's new york governor

andrew cuomo on the latest numbers. the bad news isn'tjust bad, the bad news is actually terrible. the highest single day death toll yet, 779 people. when you look at the numbers on the death toll, it has been going steadily up, and it reached a new height yesterday. another difficult day for new york. in washingon last night, president trump had harsh words for the world health organisation accusing it of beng too close to china, and at one point threatening to cut its funding. today, the who responded. the issues targeted at me a personally, i don't mind. i prefer to really focus on saving lives. i said it many times. we are losing

people. why would i care about being attacked when people are dying? the director general has also urged the us and china to come together and not to "politicise" the virus. we will have many body bags in front of us. if we don't behave. when there are cracks at the national level and global level, that's when the virus succeeds. for god sake, we have lost, we have lost more than 60,000 citizens of the world. let's cross back to anthony, who is monitoring this for us. anthony, that kind of imagery, many body bags, what is the president doing getting into an argument with the

who? well, i thank you have to see it in the long line of donald trump's response to this viral outbreak, and that is finding other people to blame, otherfactors beyond his control that are responsible for this growing death toll. he pointed at democratic governors, such as the governor of michigan, and the governor of new york as not responding fast enough. of course, for a while, he was blaming china, saying that they did not control the outbreak in the early stages, now it's turning to the united nations and the who as being responsible. so, it is an attempt to offer the american public attempt to offer the american public at least someone else to look at as far as the blame goes. but in the end, it is going to be on donald trump's shoulders whether the us succeeds or fails trump's shoulders whether the us succeeds orfails in trump's shoulders whether the us succeeds or fails in combating the virus. anthony, thank you so much. anthony their monitoring all the events in the united states for us on that scream day when it comes to the figures coming out of the us.

the world health organisation's regional director for europe says now is not the time to relax measures designed to restrict the spread of coronavirus. despite indications that the pandemic is slowing in italy and spain, the who says progress across europe is fragile, and efforts to suppress the virus had to be redoubled. we are now staring in the face of the pandemic, so this is not a time to come back on funding. the possibility of the national who is there to further step up all supports, which, definitely in my life, i would describe as unprecedented. so, let's bring you up unprecedented. so, let's bring you up to date with some of the figures across europe. spain's daily death toll has risen for the second day in a row. 757 people lost their lives in just one day. that's an increase of 1a on the previous day.

it's far lower than the record 950 deaths reported on two april , but shows the crisis is far from over. almost 15,000 people have died in spain and the country has more confirmed cases than any other in europe. however, the rate of new infections does appear to be stabilising and so far at least 118,000 people have recovered from the virus. police checks have intensified across the country to ensure spaniards respect the lockdown ahead of easter holiday. that's coming up this weekend. this is aerial footage showing empty streets and only a few cars circulating the spanish capital madrid. and here you can see police carrying out patrols in helicopters over the canary islands to make sure people were not outside their homes for "nonessential" reasons. some people in tenerife and fuerteventura were caught outside their homes or sunbathing on the beach.

that's against the spirit of the guidelines. a senior world health organization adviser who's been visiting spain gave us this update earlier. i don't want to use the word optimism, because in the face of such devastation and destruction and illness in a country, that is a small word, frankly. but there is hope at least, and evidence that this outbreak is definitely slowing down. so the situation in spain, let's turn to friends now, which has gone into recession after its worst economic contraction since the second world war. official figures show the economy shrank by six percent in the first quarter, because of the coronavirus outbreak. almost 11,000 people have died from covid—19 in france. stricter measures were introduced on wednesday on taking outdoor exercise and the authorities have announced that a nationwide lockdown is being extended. president macron is due to address the nation on monday.

in germany, researchers there are predicting that the economy could contract there, nearly 10% this quarter. of the german government has said that it will extend 50 migrant children from camps on greek islands, and you can see the conditions that some child migrants are living in on the island of less posts. there are obvious concerns over the health situation in these overcrowded ca m ps over the health situation in these overcrowded camps due to this pandemic. now, in italy, there has been further evidence that the pandemic is slowing, italy recorded another 600 coronavirus related deaths on tuesday, so this brings the death toll to more than 17,000, but the number of infections rose by less tha n but the number of infections rose by less than 1%. meanwhile, road bridge has collapsed in the north of the country, but thanks to restrictions on movement, only two people were injured. welcome you can see the aftermath of the incident. this is over the river east of... with the bridge broken into several sections. the road is normally extremely busy, but traffic in italy is of course

greatly reduced because of the pandemic. 43 people died back in 2018 when a motorway bridge collapsed in the same area. remarkable pictures, thank goodness that only a few people were hurt. stay with us on 0ustide source, still to come: after two and a half months in lockdown — people in wuhan enjoy their freedom again, as china lifts travel restrictions in the city where the pandemic started. the sickest patients in any hospital are in the intensive care unit or the i see you. you could end up here if you need particular treatment or need to be watched closely. many people here have serious problems with one or more of their organs, so things like the longs or the hearts or the kidneys. coronavirus patients

are nicu because they are having trouble breathing. each i see you bed comes with a lot of equipment, which can help the body and organs recover, for instance, ventilators help us to breathe. patients in icu will be connected to lots of different machines via tubes, wires and cables, the team in the i see highly specialised, and there is usually one nurse for every patient. they will be moved to another hospital ward once well, this can be a matter of days, weeks, it depends on the patient. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. the uk has seen a record number of deaths coronavirus with 938 reported over a 24—hour period.

prime minister boris johnson remains in intensive care. now, we know that older people and those with underlying conditions are becoming very seriously ill from this virus, but statistics from all over the world are showing men are also dying from the illness in higher numbers. here's a breakdown of age and gender from england and wales — it shows that the number of men who have died had outstripped women in every age group. scientists say there might be a number of biological and behavioural factors responsible. let's talk them through with professor sarah hawkes from the global health 50—50 initiative. it's pretty obvious that there is a huge difference, it can'tjust be a flu ke huge difference, it can'tjust be a fluke in the stats, what other reasons do you think, cultural reasons, or are they biological reasons? that's a very good

question. the honest answer is i can't give you a definitive answer. but like every disease, this is likely to be driven by a mixture of both biology and that makes of those kinds of differences that we are seeing are replicating symptoms across the world. so when you say diseases, what are we talking about here when it comes to the kind of conditions that men perhaps are more prone to? so, that is one of the reasons that we think that behaviour and gender is playing a role along with the biology and differences between men and women, so if we cut look under those other underlying conditions that people in icu are likely to be suffering with, people who are likely —— more likely to die from coronavirus are suffering from heart disease or lung disease. it may be diabetes. we know that those conditions at a global level are

more common in men than women. and we think that a large part of that difference in those underlying conditions is driven by behavioural differences between men and women in terms of things like exposure through occupation to unhealthy environments, smoking differences, alcohol consumption differences in many parts of the world. so, it's the thing the some of the behaviour that men perhaps are more prone to that men perhaps are more prone to that then lead to these biological differences, so things like just box standard washing your hands, do you think women arejust standard washing your hands, do you think women are just perhaps a little more hygienic than men? anecdotally, many people have told me that women are indeed more hygienic in terms of handwashing, compared to men. but the reality is that in terms of rates of infection between men and women, our global

health 50—50 data is not actually showing much of a difference in terms of who gets —— who is diagnosed with an infection. so i can tell you whether there's actually a difference in handwashing rates between men and women. but what we do know is that once people are infected, we are seeing a much greater likelihood of men progressing to severe infection and a much greater likelihood of death across all the countries where we have that data available to us. and the data is start, and i'm sorry for all our gentlemen viewers, of course you are washing your hands, it's absolutely crucial at this time, but when we look at those stats for china and france and italy, south korea, male mortality rates, more than 50% greater than the female rates, so there is something here there is definitely a trend, and it looks pretty bleak, actually, pretty stark. it is very start, when we first saw it from you quite rightly pointed out, it was, you know, was this an artefact? we weren't sure.

the longer we looked at the data, the more country data that's available to us, now that we are able to look at data disaggregated not just by sex able to look at data disaggregated notjust by sex but able to look at data disaggregated not just by sex but also able to look at data disaggregated notjust by sex but also by age, we are able to get a better handle on what the data is actually telling us from every country. and it's very clear that there is a stark mortality difference between men and women. so amongst some age groups in italy, for example, what we are seeing amongst men in their 70s and 80s who have died is that those differences, the risk of death was three times higher amongst men compared to women in those older age groups. and that comes back, we think, notjust to underlying biological differences, but to the existence of these other conditions associated with the risk of death from covid—19. associated with the risk of death from covid-19. professor, fascinating speak with you. good

luck with the research command we hope to get some more conclusive findings on this, a fascinating subject, global health 50—50 initiative, keep up the good work, thank you. thank you. so let's look a little bit forward. we need a little bit of positivity. let's have a look at the tens of thousands of people who have been streaming out of the chinese city of wuhan on wednesday after the lock down there at the birthplace of this virus was partially lifted. there were cues outside the main train station, some travellers choosing to wear full protective clothing, as well as masks, to make theirjourney. passengers had their temperature checked before being allowed into the station. 0n the roads there was a steady flow of cars passing through a motorway checkpoint, after barricades which had been standing on the outskirts of the city for more two months were taken down. despite my freedom to travel, people there are still living under strict controls, with many not yet allowed to return to work. stephen mcdonald

reports. that city has been cut off for the rest of the world for more than ten weeks. so just starting that process of people being able to leave there, you know, you can imagine what that is like, or, for that matter, for others to be able to return to wuhan if that is their hometown. now, there is a lot of debate about the extent to which we should trust the official statistics in china, but a nalysts official statistics in china, but analysts would say don't worry about the numbers, watch with the government does. and they, many of them argue, that the senior leadership of the communist party wouldn't be reestablishing transport links with wuhan unless there —— they are reasonably sure that they are bringing this emergency under control. let's hope so. a little bit of positivity, we are seeing wuhan slowly get back into some form of normality there, thanks to stephen mcdonald who was reporting with the update, of course, steve, one of the first

journalists to bring us news of coronavirus. for me and from the outside sourcing, thanks for watching. don't forget, you can get in touch via twitter. bye—bye. hello. it was a very warm day across some parts of the uk and incest sex it was a very warm day across some parts of the uk and in sussex temperatures got up to 23.9 degrees according to the met office and as far as the rest of the week is concerned looking at the uk as a whole, it is going to stay settled and one but not absolutely everywhere, because it is still very cloudy and cool across parts of scotland. in fact, you can see the over tasks guys. that is with us through wednesday and thursday but to the south of that high—pressure dominating the weather so that means settled conditions. and often sunny and clear at night. variable amounts of cloud

across the uk but here is the weather front slicing scotland in half and cloud into the low lands and to the south around 9 degrees and 9 degrees in birmingham first thing in the morning on thursday, it will be colder out of the country side. tomorrow variable amounts of cloud. southern and southwestern areas and the north sea coast may end up being pretty cloudy. anywhere from edinburgh down to hull it could be overcast and cool the temperature is averaging around 10 degrees. in cardiff we had sunshine and up around 22. weather fronts to the west democrats spent the night. increasing in cloud and on the western fringes of the uk. also possibility of the few spots of rain. i think the sunniest and warmest part will be across the south and southeast and temperatures up to 2a degrees and by being low 20s as far north as north as yorkshire as well. that is good friday

and how about saturday and the rest of the weekend? these weather fronts are still flirting with the uk and you can see there is a fair bit of cloud here and we will see settled changes there is a fair bit of cloud here and we will see subtle changes in the wind direction over the back holiday of the easter weekend and that means temperatures will be changing as well. look at london, by the time we get to monday, temperatures will be dipping down to 13 degrees and them a big dipcomes the start of the week. it looks as though it will be turning cooler through the easter weekend but only gradually. that is it from me, by. that is it from me, bye—bye.

hello you're watching bbc world news. a record number of deaths in the uk from coronavirus with 938 reported over the past 2a hours. it is a third night in hospitalfor the prime minister. who is still in intensive care. downing street says tonight that mrjohnson is making steady progress. government says they're giving more than £750 million to charities, many who have warned they are on the brink of collapse, and the wto boards that global trade could fall by as much asa global trade could fall by as much as a third because of the coronavirus is trigger a deep recession. and bernie sanders says he's ending his bid to win the democratic party's presidential nomination and thus clearing the way forjill biden.

——joe —— joe biden. you are watching bbc news. earlier, the chancellor rishi sunak led the daily downing street briefing on the coronavirus crisis. let's take a listen to what was said. there to what was said. are nearly 170,000 charities there are nearly 170,000 charities in this country, and the truth is we will not be able to match every pound of funding that they would have received this year. charities can already use many of our existing schemes to support people and protect their staff. all charities are eligible for thejob protect their staff. all charities are eligible for the job retention scheme, and in line with medical advice just like scheme, and in line with medical advicejust like any scheme, and in line with medical advice just like any other employer the right answer for many charities will be two furlough their employees. but some charities are on the front line of fighting the coronavirus, and others provide critical services and support to vulnerable people and communities. for them shutting up shop at this moment would be to contravene their very purpose, their entire reason to

exist. those charities have never been more needed than they are now and they have never faced such a sudden fall in their funding. so today i am announcing £750 million of funding for the charity sector, £370 million of that funding will support small, local charities working with vulnerable people. we all know who they are, though small charities in our villages come our market towns, and pockets of our cities, the unsung heroes looking after the vulnerable and holding together our social fabric. in england, the support would be so provided through organisations like the national lottery communities fund. and we will allocate £60 million of this funding for the barnett formula to scotland, wales and northern ireland. uk will also provide £360 million directly to

charities providing essential services and supporting vulnerable people as we battle the coronavirus. after £200 million of those grants will support hospices with the rest going to organisations like st. john's ambulance of the citizens advice bureau. as well as supporting vulnerable children with victims of domestic abuse, or disabled people. and last night the bbc announced their big night income it charity appeal on april 23. and today i can confirm that the government will match pound for pound whatever the public decides to donate. starting with at least £20 million to the national emergencies trust appeal. two short weeks ago i spoke of the need for kindness, decency and the sort of neighbourliness that is at the heart of these charitable and community efforts. the normally

invisible connections between us have come in recent weeks, become more apparent. for most of us who spend our lives oblivious to these connections, these bonds and how are our behaviours, however small can have a dramatic effect on others, but these bonds are not invisible for our local charities. for the volunteer keeping victims of domestic violence safe, for the outreach worker helping a rough sleeper find a bed, outreach worker helping a rough sleeperfind a bed, orfor the support worker manning the phones to help stave off the heart wrenching loneliness so many of our elderly relatives and friends will be experiencing right now. these connections might be hard to see, but they are there and they are strengthened by our compassion for others. charities embody this like no other organisation. in their lesson is that the simplest acts have the potential to change lives.

at this time, when many are hurting and tired and confined we need the ge ntle ness and tired and confined we need the gentleness of charities in our lives. it gives us hope, it makes a stronger and it reminds us we depend on each other. thank you. if we could now take some questions. were you going to present your slides first with blue if i may. i wa nted slides first with blue if i may. i wanted to start by showing this data which is a record of how much we've acted together to reduce how much we contact each other. what is shown here is footfall at 17 stations across the country counting how many people pass through those stations at different times through the month of march. and what you see is that at the end of march footfall was

down 94% compared to the first week of march. and in the next slide what you can see is that that has worked ina sense you can see is that that has worked in a sense that this count of new cases in the uk, day by day of the la st cases in the uk, day by day of the last few weeks is not accelerating out of control. yesterday, there we re 5492 out of control. yesterday, there were 5492 new cases, and the spread of this virus is not accelerating, and that is good news. if i could have the next slide please. what is recorded here is people in hospital beds with covert 19. —— coated. this is a slower at responding record of new infections because once people are in hospital some of them will have to stay there for

many days, some of them for some weeks. but again we see is that the rate at which this is rising is definitely getting slower and it looks like we are beginning to get towards a flat curve there which is of course what we have all wanted to stop our overall aim has always been to make sure that everybody can have access to critical care if they need it. and that's what is shown on the next slide is covid patients in critical care back one, please. and igo critical care back one, please. and i go back one please? this one here. thank you. we can see encouraging news that at least some parts of the country this really has started to flatten, across the country in the la st 24 flatten, across the country in the last 24 hours this has increased by just 4%. and again that is good news because this is our most limiting

resource at the moment. so finally i have data on the sad statistic about people who have died from covid. this is an international comparison across different countries showing how that number accumulates in different countries. and the uk is the dark blue line somewhere in the middle there. this data has long reporting lags and even after the numberof reporting lags and even after the number of people in critical care stabilises or even maybe begins to fall this number will rise because sometimes deaths are reported, many many days or even a week or so after sadly somebody has died. we expect this number to keep rising even after the curve has flattened thank you. maybe a word on charities? the nhs will work very closely with our partners the charitable section. we

are not only supporting them in this difficult time but it's also important to recognise the support that they are giving everybody to help them through the time we are asking people to stay at home and ta ke asking people to stay at home and take the measures that we have indicated. i have the real privilege at nhs england of leading the cardiovascular, that's heart attacks and strokes strategy, to charities or work very closely with the british heart foundation and stroke association at i know they would wa nt association at i know they would want me to say today to remind everybody that the nhs has worked a night and day to manage coronavirus. but also there for you if you have symptoms of a stroke, symptoms a heart attack. if you have any emergency conditions whether it's a sick child or a mother or pregnant mother in pregnancy who is worried about the movement of the baby. you should be seeking emergency services. just as you always have

done. although we are focusing on coronavirus it's important we also continue to focus on other emergency conditions. if we take some questions i think first is laura from bbc. you keep saying whatever it takes to help people through this time at her with support from the economy, but do you accept, chancellor, under the locked there's a trade—off between protecting people public health and protecting people public health and protecting people public health and protecting people public jobs —— jobs. people public health and protecting people publicjobs -- jobs. our priority is to protect their lives and health and well—being. that's our party but alongside that of the coordinated and consistent fashion we have also put in place unprecedented and significant measures to protect people's lives. the incomes of the businesses that employ them. at the right approach and what it does is mean we can

mitigate as much of the economic impact as possible and ensure that as soon as we can get through this we can bounce back as quickly as possible. was there anything you wa nted possible. was there anything you wanted to follow—up on for either anyone else? you accept that some people are falling through the cracks in the treasury select committee this afternoon said that you need to take urgent action for some people who are not covered by your very extensive scheme? you think the public should be prepared for a serious downturn, maybe even a recession? i've been very clear and honest that this will have a significant impact on our economy, that's not uncommon with every other major country that's grappling with this, we will all see it with a significant impact on the economy. in spite of what our unprecedented measures in scale and scope i cannot stand here and say that i can save every singlejob or stand here and say that i can save every single job or protect every business or every single charity,

the focus of the announcements today. it's not possible but what we can do is put in place but i think it's an enormous amount of support ina it's an enormous amount of support in a targeted fashion as best as possible to help as many people as possible to help as many people as possible get through this so that we can emerge on the other side of it strongly united and hopefully able to bounce back as quickly as possible. i think if we turn next to tom clark from itv. yes i am here. the question relates to testing, yesterday's briefing the chief medical officer made the honest admission that germany's lower death toll in their pandemic is due to their ability to test more people come more quickly, given their death toll is three times lower than ours is at now time for the government to, and admit that thousands of people have died and more will die in this country as a result of our failure to test more people more

rapidly? to be honest i don't think thatis rapidly? to be honest i don't think that is what the chief medical officer did say i think he said that testing was one of many factors in the chief scientific adviser spoke about this and won't a range of things in germany, and i think it's difficult at this stage to say what range of factors has contributed to what, i think the chief medical officer was also making clear that it's important that all countries learn from each other, and i have no doubt the other countries will want to learn from our experience and some of the things that we have done in the united kingdom, for instance the work on modelling and predicting with the epidemic might do, i think the point he was making yesterday was the everybody should be learning from each other and indeed that is what we are doing. angela might have more to say on that. i would have thought the point would be that the rate of deaths of course appears much lower if you can count many

many more of the cases, that is certainly one of the things you see if you see different case fatality rates in countries that could be because you are counting many more of the people who should be on the bottom of that fraction. in terms of modelling that is something that we are really very happy in this country to offer a few other countries and that's one of the things we can contribute to the international effort. i hope that mac ijust sat international effort. i hope that mac i just sat through the select committee hearing in which you were a witness and we heard from the evil in charge of testing in south korea and in hong kong and made it abundantly clear that testing has reduced the numbers of cases of coronavirus and his countries, and they said yesterday it was in fact they said yesterday it was in fact the lower death rates... it did not dispute that it's about testing, can you tell me whether there inability

to test will lead to greater mortality here and can i also follow—up how dependent is the uk on a testing regime for us to be able to lift lockdown restrictions, are wea to lift lockdown restrictions, are we a course to have sufficient levels of testing in the community to allow us to do that and be anything like the next three or four weeks? i think we all agree that testing is important, that is not theissue testing is important, that is not the issue at all. the point i was making is that testing is one part ofa making is that testing is one part of a set of different things. that will need to be considered in any country's strategy. that is the case here and is the case in germany, and i have spoken to chief medical office rs i have spoken to chief medical officers today and another point he was making yesterday. he's a part of the overall strategy and it's almost certainly too early in all countries experience to know exactly which components are strategies have been the most effective for most

important. it's highly likely is the combination of these things rather than an individual part of an approach. can we turn to andy bell from channel five? went to follow-up partly on the question of the locked up partly on the question of the locked up at partly on the question of the locked upata partly on the question of the locked up at a different context, the first minister well said today that as far as he is concerned the lockdown was going to continue beyond next week in wales, so can you level with us now and just except that the lockdown is going to continue across the uk through next week, and from a scientific and medical point of view asa scientific and medical point of view as a possible or even desirable that different parts of the country could come out of lockdown at different speeds was yellow let me address that before handing over. there will bea that before handing over. there will be a cobra meeting tomorrow chaired by the first secretary of state involving the devolved administrations, the talk about the approach to the review, we committed

that there would be a review in the around three weeks, that review will be based on the evidence and the data provided by sage which will only be available next week, and i think rather than speculate about the future i think we should focus very seriously on the here and now and the present, and i think the message is unequivocal, from our priority right now is to stop the spread of this virus to get the other side of the p and the best way is to follow the advice which is to stay at home, protect lives and protect the nhs. in terms of messaging i would want to be absolutely unequivocal about that, that's where we are now, that's the advice people should be following, that the best thing we can all do to help get through this as quickly as possible. i don't know if you wanted to add anything. we have always said that we would need to be able to see what impact the whole suite of interventions are brought into place on the 23rd of march are having. before we can make any

evidence—based decision on what to do next. this week it's a really important week, we are all watching what happens, i guess from a purely scientific point of view more data is better for us, but i completely agree with the chancellor that what really matters is that people stay home, protect lives and save the nhs. does that answer your question? i like to come back to the idea of whether different parts of the country could theoretically emerge at different times from lockdown, and whether that's first of all politically possible and secondly in any way scientific or medically desirable succulent what i would probably say beforehand is that i don't want to speculate about the future, i think that's not helpful at thisjuncture, future, i think that's not helpful at this juncture, the thing now is for people to focus unequivocally on the advice, we are where we are in this process and the advice is

clear, people should follow the advice is the best thing anyone could do whatever they live in this country at the moment and i think angela would echo that.|j country at the moment and i think angela would echo that. i would echo that i don't want to get into hypotheticals about what the better one way or another and i suspect that simple strategies might well turn out to be the best to use but we will see. and i'm going to get it right this time, the advice is for easter weekend to stay home from a protect the nhs and save lives. i will be having my easter at home. thank you. gary from channel 4. thank you. gary from channel 4. thank you. gary from channel 4. thank you. chancellor, can i ask you we have had unemployment figures from one european country so far norway, unemployment well over 10% and from the data we look at in the treasury we will not see something like that here? i will be honest,

this will have a significant impact on the economy and not an abstract way. it will have an impact on jobs and the livelihoods of that's what we've taken the actions that we have. in order to help mitigate some of that. i believe that the example the child's retention scheme, the further scheme which we've never had anything like and it's there when i stood here to announce it the government is stepping in to help people and pay their wages so that they are not laid off so they don't end up being unemployed that they remain attached to the company with a very significant safety net behind them that helps the company, that helps the person and their family finances, and i think that to can buy with all the other measures we have taken will buy with all the other measures we have ta ken will significantly buy with all the other measures we have taken will significantly help mitigate some of the impact and i think that's what other commentators have said as well. we were not doing all the things that we were doing, we re all the things that we were doing, were not put in place these measures and it would certainly be worse. we doing the right things and i cannot say they will not be hardship he had

is and that's why going through this together as one society united understanding that everyone has got a role to play with her that government, business, charities or your next—door neighbour, that's the best approach this and i'm confident we will get through it. if some of that data from surveys already coming in outstripping your expectations? you mentioned the furlough scheme and some suggestion that there could be people applying for that at businesses applying for that weight in excess and maybe treasury expectations, did you ever think you would be forking out 40 billion over three months which could be the number? we have not put out a specific projection or an estimate of the take—up of that scheme, i think there was some reporting that we might we have not done that. for the simple reason that it's an unprecedented situation so of course we will have a range of scenarios that might come away. there's not a precise lesson thereof with the scheme might do. would it

would say is there's other data we can look at and others and myself of talked about universal credit claims which have come down from where they we re which have come down from where they were ten days ago. they are so very elevated relative to what normal levels might be some four or five times higher. that's obviously something we look at and not only strengthen the safety net and put extra money to the tune of £7 billion plus into the welfare system for those accessing universal credit we've also provided more funding to help them process those claims and make sure people get the support as quickly as they need. when it comes to thejob retention quickly as they need. when it comes to the job retention scheme people we re to the job retention scheme people were put on that scheme at whatever scale is the scheme working. the ideas that we did that so people we re ideas that we did that so people were not laid off or unemployed, they had a good income to get them through this and remain attached to their company and employer. if it

into being use double view that as a success. if it ends up being we get through this he can bounce back quickly we can provide security to those people. pippa at the daily mirror? we all know that the focus now is currently on following the advice and parents and mps were very keen to open schools as soon the scientific advice suggested safe to do so. can i ask professor mclean whether despite the focus on the advice now and she give us any indication of whether schools might reopen before the summer holidays which after all are three months away, and the chancellor if i can ask you how significant a factor or schools in your discussions about

getting the economy back on its feet once we are through the other side of this? i'm happy to answer that by saying is very intensive work to go on and think about also two different things that we might do in the next stage. will be completely premature for me to give a yes or no answer that question because so much depends on this question of how well have the measures put in on march 23 worked, and we cannot know that this week until we see a longer run of infections that have happened since that time. but please be assured that time. but please be assured that people are working incredibly ha rd that people are working incredibly hard to explore those sorts of questions. i cannot add much to what angela said, and all the senses as we are driven in basing our decisions on the science and what is best for controlling the spread of this virus and getting that number down. that's been our approach all along and will continue to be our

approach. i pay tribute to those who are helping keep our schools open for the children of key workers, that's valuable and the work they are doing is well supported, but on the education but they're also owed thanks for doing that because that's vital at this time. hello. it was a very warm day across some parts of the uk and in sussex temperatures got up to 23.9 degrees according to the met office and as far as the rest of the week is concerned looking at the uk as a whole, it is going to stay settled and one but not absolutely everywhere, because it is still very cloudy and cool across parts of scotland. in fact, you can see the over tasks guys. that is with us through wednesday and thursday but to the south of that high—pressure dominating the weather so that means settled conditions. and often sunny and clear at night. variable amounts of cloud across the uk but here is the weather front slicing

scotland in half and cloud into the low lands and to the south around 9 degrees and 9 degrees in birmingham first thing in the morning on thursday, it will be colder out of the country side. tomorrow variable amounts of cloud. southern and southwestern areas and the north sea coast may end up being pretty cloudy. anywhere from edinburgh down to hull it could be overcast and cool the temperature is averaging around 10 degrees. in cardiff we had sunshine and up around 22. weather fronts to the west democrats spent the night. increasing in cloud and on the western fringes of the uk. also possibility of the few spots of rain. i think the sunniest and warmest part will be across the south and southeast and temperatures up to 24 degrees and by being low 20s as far north

as north as yorkshire as well. that is good friday and how about saturday and the rest of the weekend? these weather fronts are still flirting with the uk and you can see there is a fair bit of cloud here and we will see subtle changes in the wind direction over the back holiday of the easter weekend and that means temperatures will be changing as well. look at london, by the time we get to monday, temperatures will be dipping down to 13 degrees and them a big dipcomes the start of the week. it looks as though it will be turning cooler through the easter weekend but only gradually. that is it from me, bye—bye.

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