i think at this point i've probably done everything — medication, food, essentials. even though they didn't know each other until recently, it seems they'll be riding together long after the lockdown. after this is all over, i think we are going to go out on a ride out. i think we are one big family and we will stick together, definitely. patrick clahane, bbc news, bodmin. one of the world's best known opera singers, the italian tenor, andrea bocelli, has performed a live concert alone in the famous duomo cathedral in milan, the centre of the italian region that's been worst hit by the pandemic. his "music for hope" concert was streamed live worldwide and featured four hymns. reged ahmad reports. # ave maria...#

andrea bocelli, one of the world's most famous and enduring tenors. he sang alone in this iconic milan cathedral, save for an organist. bocelli's voice filling the cavernous, empty space. the tenor was invited to sing by the mayor of milan and the body that looks after the cathedral, streaming his performance live online for free on easter sunday. translation: first of all, i would like to specify that it is not a concert, but a prayer. that is what it is. and that is what it is meant to be. bocelli is one of a long line of musicians performing on social media during the coronavirus lockdown. many other artists have been singing and playing from their homes

at a time when they can't hold concerts in person, posting their performances on social media as a way of reaching their fans. andrea bocelli's concert was aimed at uniting people during a time of social distancing. but it had a special meaning, too. milan cathedral is in the northern lombardy region, one of the hardest hit in italy. as the tenor sang, pictures of the area on lockdown were shown on the screen. italian officials do say they hope they're over the peak of covid—i9 cases. # amazing grace # how sweet the sound...#

the tenor ended his concert outside the cathedral, singing amazing grace to an eerily empty piazza. as many in italy no doubt wait for the day it can again be filled with the sound of people. reged ahmad, bbc news. # but now i'm found...# ending ona ending on a positive good afternoon. it's just after 1:30, here are the latest sport headlines from the bbc sport centre. tottenham have reversed their decision to use the government furlough scheme and have confirmed that non—playing staff — except the board —

will receive 100% of their salaries for april and may. spurs have come under heavy criticism in recent weeks for becoming one of the first premier league sides to announce they would be using the government grants to help pay salaries of around 550 members of staff. they've said they decided against that now "given the strength of external opposition". tottenham have also insisted they won't be selling harry kane to a domestic rival — that's following interest from manchester united. the england captain admitted last month that he might leave spurs if they don't progress, because he wants to win trophies "sooner rather than later". it was suggested chairman daniel levy was open to a transfer if he could get a fee of around £200 million. the chelsea manager frank lampard says politicians "jumped the gun" for criticising premier league players for not doing enough during the coronavirus pandemic. lampard believes health secretary matt hancock was wrong to tell footballers to "play their part". they have since launched the players together initiative to help generate funds for the nhs.

lampard has also praised chelsea for letting nhs staff stay at a hotel owned by the club as part of their efforts to help. the president of italian football insists he's planning for the serie a season to resume next month. gabriele gravina says the season must be completed — warning of negative implications if it isn't. he wants testing on players to begin later this month followed by training and matches in may. but brescia president massimo chiellini said he won't let his side play again this season — regardless of any punishment the club might receive. well, the lengthy delay in finishing football seasons and postponing other major tournaments this year has big implications for 2021's sporting calendar, with uefa still yet to confirm that the women's euros — due to be played here in england next year — will have to be moved to the summer of 2022. england midfielderjade moore — who was part of the side who reached the world cup semifinals last year — fears the delay could cost some players their place at the finals.

people are two years older and that plays a massive part in selection. come the home euros, i will be 31, almost 32, and that will potentially bea almost 32, and that will potentially be a completely different question with the management. so who knows? that is probably more the side i look at it and go 0k, that is probably more the side i look at it and go ok, that could potentially be a problem of selection. hopefully age does not play a factor but that is something i look at. and i'm going, we will see what happens. plenty of sportsmen and women have been helping on the medicalfront line during the pandemic. one of them — myron rolle — was once the highest ranked high school american football player in the usa. the former tennessee titans safety is now a neurosurgery resident at harvard medical school and is also helping to treat covid—19 patients. 0ne one thing football taught me was the

ability to adjust and adapt and i see this now, having to go into a hospital and change your whole perspective, go into my days thinking i am working on the brain and spine but now dealing with a vulnerable population as being drastically affected by this virus. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website, we'll have more for you throughout the afternoon. now on bbc news, it's time for your questions answered. viewers have been sending in their questions on the coronavirus and, earlier, joanna gosling put them to dr elisabetta groppelli, a virologist at st george's university london, and dr fiona kinnon, an nhs gp in glasgow. we will start with steve hall from 0xfordshire who says he is a uk

seafarer travelling home to his wife from a virus—free ship. "she has asthma, how long should i isolate from her, seven or 1a days?" fiona. hi. there are a number of variables. we do not know how severe her asthma is, and if it is severe and she is in the shielding category, he should minimise nonessential contact with her in the house for a period of 12 weeks. if she has less severe asthma, the advice is different. although steve has been on a virus—free ship, he may have come into contact with someone with the virus during his travels. the advice is not currently that he must completely self—isolate or stay away from his wife for 1h days. the 1a days is the period someone would most likely to become symptomatic,

but that would only work if he was not leaving the house at all in that time to make sure, fairly sure, he was virus free, but instead he should follow the appropriate hygiene and social distance measures. making sure he regularly washes his hands, and if his wife's asthma is pretty bad, he might consider having separate bathroom, bedroom, towels, crockery, from her. if he becomes symptomatic, he must maintain distance. they are tough measures and they are not alone. many people will live in environments where they cannot follow those procedures. yes. again, the most vulnerable are those being asked to shield. for their household contacts, we ask every contact to minimise nonessential contact and that means trying to stay at least two metres away from that person at all times.

even those not in the high—risk shielding category can still be vulnerable, because of other underlying health conditions. phil baldry from pembrokeshire says, what checks for coronavirus are made on visitors to the uk from abroad and is there any compulsion for quarantine? some countries do have measures in place where anybody going to a country has to quarantine. what are the rules here? here forthe uk, things have changed. earlier in the outbreak, some countries had been selected, including italy. if you were travelling from those high—risk countries, you had to self—isolate. most recently, because the virus is circulating a lot in our own community, the advice for travellers now is the same as for anybody already in the country, which is do not travel

unless it is strictly necessary, which in the case of travellers means going straight home from the airport, avoiding public transport where possible. and then staying at home and going outside only under those circumstances where we are allowed. the idea is that, unfortunately, there is quite a lot of transmission already within the community and we should all behave in the same way. another question from tim in derbyshire. are the equipment and resources required for the mass production of a vaccine already available so there is no delay once we have one? this is a fantastic question. it depends on which vaccine will be the one that is safer and the right one. when vaccines are developed, there are different phases, but also different aspects,

and one is clinical and one is preclinical and another is manufacturing. all of these aspects are taken care of as the development of the vaccines occur and so the manufacturing aspect is something put in place quite early in the development, specifically because we need to know how to manufacture. and so the individual groups developing the vaccines will have looked at that. obviously, everything is fast—tracked and so to make it safe and efficient, the manufacturing is looked at. peterfrom preston asks, how is it spain has 10 million masks to give out and we have a shortage here? fiona? i hear different stories and my understanding is there is plenty of ppe available, but there have been issues getting it distributed.

the issue also is it is not clear still whether people not working in the health service should wear them. the advice is seems mixed. at the moment, the evidence for people wearing masks generally to prevent against infection, spreading it or picking it up, is not great, if they are not advised to do it. there is no official advice for non—nhs workers to wear face masks. i do not think it would do any great harm if people wear one, but if you wear a cloth one, make sure you wash it properly when you get home. linda from merseyside asks, if i have isolated four weeks and so have my granddaughter and grandson, can we visit each other? that is something many people are wondering about.

it comes down to if you are leaving the same household, yes, obviously, you can be in contact, but if you are not living in the same household, no. unless it is essential travel, you need to care for someone, in that case it is betterjust to stay at home. fiona you were shaking your head when i asked that question, why is it so clear—cut that people should not see each other, if they have not seen anyone else out side their house can't they be sure they are all clear? no, you can only leave your house forfood, health—care purposes, work where you cannot work at home, for exercise with other members of your household, or alone, and you should not meet others, including friends and family. you have to travel to get there and back. there are risks everywhere. there are potential asymptomatic viral shedders everywhere and you should not take that risk. simon asks is the greatest risk

being in contact with someone who does not have the virus and has not shown symptoms and hence is not isolating. what would you say to simon? my advice is for everybody to act as if they are vulnerable to picking up the virus and for everybody to act as if they have the virus and we should follow social distancing because you could come into contact with an asymptomatic carrier of the virus in your supermarket, walking past in the street, in your workplace. colleen from stoke poges said she is unable to source official uk government advice on the effective cleaning of surfaces. is bleach effective? yes, bleach absolutely. generally, the usual household cleaning products will absolutely kill the virus, because they will break it apart and break the fatty layer that is part of the virus. we do not need to find

anything specific. soap for hands, household cleaning products for surfaces and frequent hand washing. what regime should we be in. if you say washing surfaces frequently. how often? it depends how often they are touched and if someone is symptomatic or not, within the household, and so if someone had symptoms like cough, temperature, then it is a good idea to wipe handles. 0r clean the bathroom, especially if it has been used and you know a few times during the day after it has been used. linda from the east midlands says, do people who carry the virus with no symptoms usually succumb in the end or could they come out of isolation and start re—infecting? i think elisabetta might be better placed to answer that. i think the answer is

we just do not know. i would echo what dr fiona said. asymptomatic does not mean the infection is not there, but also it means once the infection is finished, we sort of can equate it to a symptomatic infection — one that gives us the cough and those nasty symptoms. the immunity, our ability to fight the virus, again it would be the same, but again we need to have a little bit more data on how strong our immunity is, regardless of the severity of the symptoms. the testing to see if we have antibodies potentially after an infection, it is some way off, because the testing so far has not proved to be as efficient and effective as it needs to be. are we going to end up

in a position where we never know if some of us have had it? what is the long—term, when so many out there who have no idea whether they have had it or not? there is a test we can use to check for antibodies in the blood of people. however, it is not a rapid test, not something that can be scaled up to test all the people we need to do. potentially, we could fall back onto this a little bit laborious method to do things. but we are working towards the validation of the rapid test and it looks like we will be able to have a product that will give us some answers, which are important. we need to remember the virus will stay with us most likely for future seasons. and for the near future. so a few of us will develop

antibodies all the time. time, again, is one of those important aspects we need to take into consideration. lesley from hertfordshire said her husband has had a sore throat, a dry cough and felt fatigued but no fever or other symptoms. she asks if this is just a cold or covid—19? the answer is it could be covid—19, because you can have the new continuous coughing without the fever. i would advise that lesley and her husband, he should self—isolate seven days or until at least 48 hours fever—free, and household contacts should remain in isolation 1a days from the first day of symptoms. if you become more unwell, especially breathless, seek advice from the gp or phoning 111. it is frightening when you hear people like dominic minghella, who described how for a week he had mild symptoms and then things

escalated to the point he was in hospital and in intensive care. that is a story we keep hearing. what is the point at which somebody needs to start thinking that this is becoming something that needs closer attention? if you have not got better at a week, seek advice from a health care professional, because we know those who become more unwell tend to do so at the 7—10 days of illness, but especially if you are breathless, that would be a red flag symptom. and you don't have to wait for the full week. if you feel too unwell to look after yourself at home, there is a 21w, so please call 111. dale evans from wales said, is it ok for family to visit in our garden using social distancing? you are both shaking your head! i think dr fiona spelt out pretty well in answering the question before. do not go to another household.

if you have a garden, absolutely, enjoy it, but only with members of your household. what is the difference, if it is a front garden compared to going to your local park and having a socially distanced walk for exercise? i think because you have more chances of encountering someone if you start travelling, move away from your household. and so we all come to the conclusion that it is a matter of trying to compromise, allowing us as human beings to have a breath of fresh air, especially if we do not have a garden, but only because it is for physical exercise and mental wellbeing. for anything else, stay at home. sally in surrey asks if volunteers are handling covid—19 corpses, should they isolate from their household ?

volunteers handling corpses would fall into the same category as health care workers dealing with patients with coronavirus daily. the advice is take a separate change of clothes to work so before you leave work, shower ideally and change. there is advice for when you come home if you can disinfect the surfaces of the car you have touched, get someone else to answer the door and wash your hands and you might choose to shower again and mechanisms for making sure your laundry is put straight into the machine without anyone else touching it. i would follow the same processes as for nhs workers. jeff callaghan in sunderland asks why there are so many deaths in the uk compared with germany. i think that is something to do with the data,

how it has been handled and counted, but also one of the few things we know about the virus. and germany seems to have had quite a lot of infections in younger age groups and we know that younger age groups might only have mild infections, or be asymptomatic. some experts in germany were saying this coronavirus was an infection of young skiers, because they had travelled to the alps, picked up infection and came home and were detected. the number of cases therefore in germany's high, but in a different age group, and this is different to italy, spain and the uk, for example, and we know if you are older, especially over 65, you are more vulnerable to the infection and to the severity of the infection and this is something we need to consider when we look

at the total number. fiona, roy said he developed cough and isolated seven days and his partner isolated for 1h days. he said he has had no further symptoms and his partner has not shown symptoms. as he does not know whether or not he has had covid—19, and he has started with the same cough, do they restart quarantine or wait to see if further symptoms develop? the advice would be you have to go back to day one. you should self—isolate. there are a lot of viruses out there that can cause cough and fever and maybe it was covid—19 and maybe it was not, but treat each individual isolated episode on its own merit and follow the advice. can you answer hazel, who says, i got tested positive with covid—19 two weeks ago and still have the symptoms. how long does it last? i want to go back to work. most people will start to feel

better by this stage, but it can go on weeks, especially the coughing and fatigue. thank you both for sharing your expertise and knowledge. good to get through a lot of questions. still so many pertinent questions coming through every day. we will ask the experts on your behalf to get answers for you. the headlines coming up at tpm and if you want to know what's going on outside, the forecast. hello. a real chill in the air out there today, and some of us are stuck underneath the grey sky, a bit of light rain and drizzle here and there as well and easter monday is going to be the coldest day of the week. and then from tomorrow, it will feel a little less cold. this is what happens when a cold front sweeps across the uk

and in fact the northerly winds have brought cold air all the way from the subarctic regions and on top of that, a fair amount of cloud as well, you can see shrouding northern and eastern scotland, counties east of the pennines and down to the south—east. many western and south—western areas though, wales, cornwall, devon, actually enjoying plenty of sunshine here so this is where we will see the highest temperatures, 1a in plymouth, 13 or 1a in cardiff, but only 6 degrees in newcastle. tonight, it is going to be cold, a widespread air frost develops, that is where the blue colours are and these are the temperatures in some city centres, so that means in rural spots it will be two or three degrees lower than that so a widespread frost on the way. i mentioned that tuesday will feel a little less cold and the reason for that is because we are going to be in the middle of the high pressure, and when you are in the middle of the high pressure, the winds don't tend to be a strong, in fact the winds are usually quite strong around the area of the high pressure so inside it,

it is going to be sunny, windless in places and actually it won't feel too bad at all, so in liverpool, sunshine and 13 degrees, it is going to feel quite pleasant if you are out in the garden or going out for your daily walk. now wednesday, we are still in the middle of high pressure so that means the winds will be light, it will be sunny as well across most of the uk, a pleasant day if you are out, and in fact temperatures could pick up to around 18 degrees across parts of the midlands, but still nippy across parts of western scotland. towards the end of the week, we will see some changes developing to the south—west of the uk. you can see clouds gathering, and these are weather fronts and they are expected to bring some rainfall as we head into friday and the weekend, but before that, on thursday, quite a warm day in southerly winds, temperatures in london could get up to around 21 degrees. but this is the outlook for the week ahead, you can see that by the time we get to friday, it is increasing amounts of cloud and i think friday, saturday and sunday, there is a chance of a few spots of rain.

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this is bbc news. the headlines... as spain and italy begin to relax coronavirus restrictions, the uk faces its fourth week in lockdown, with the government set to assess how social distancing measures are working. the mother of one of the nurses praised by borisjohnson for helping save his life says she's "exceptionally proud" of her daughter. it doesn't matter what patient she's looking after. this is what she does. and ijust find it incredible. any nurses can do this. the prime minister is recuperating at chequers, after leaving hospital yesterday. with millions of people continuing to work in essential services, we'll see how britain's electricity companies are keeping the lights on. and revving up to help, the bikers from cornwall who've been helping vulnerable people by delivering essential