atjust five months old, amelia is one of the youngest patients to be treated for covid—19. now safely home, her mother has thanked the team for all their support at such a worrying time. we were shocked. i knew before the doctor walked in, cos of what he was wearing... he had all his ppe on, so i had prepared myself. but i was very shocked, you never think it's going to happen to you or your family. i can't tell you what this feels like. it's amazing. i want to thank everybody for keeping me going over the last ten days — i really appreciated it. alison woolford was treated with oxygen and also recovered. here, smiling on hearing that she was going home. the number of nurses and health care assistants who came in to me and said, "my goodness, isn't it fantastic?

"you're looking so much better, because you were so ill." i think it was good for them to have some people who were recovering well. paul nicholls is still on his journey towards a full recovery but, every day, gains more strength. it's definitely a life changer. i'm not going to forget this. it makes you very thankful for your family and your friends. it makes you realise that things that you thought were very important, nice holidays, a nice car, they're just trinkets, really. the most important thing, of course, is your life, is your health, and that's something that will definitely stay with me for the rest of my life. some people who've made a recovery from covid—i9 after being seriously ill talking to our correspondent sian lloyd. scientists are working on a major study to try to understand why the severity of symptoms for coronavirus can be so varied. a vast store of dna is being

analysed at uk biobank — a major national and international health resource which contains samples from 500,000 volunteers and is now adding covid—i9 data. it's thought that genetic differences might explain why some people with no underlying health conditions can develop severe illness. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. it's a big mystery — why coronavirus can strike different people in so many ways. with the lockdown, our streets are empty, so we've had to recreate a crowd. some people who are infected have no symptoms, or geta mild to moderate disease. about one in five people have a much more severe illness and can go on to need hospital treatment. a small number will die. scientists think the answer could be in our dna. what looks like an ordinary warehouse could, in fact, hold the key.

inside is genetic materialfrom half a million volunteers donated to uk biobank. it's followed their health for more than a decade and now it will also track those with covid—i9. we're looking at the data in uk biobank to understand the differences between those individuals. what are the differences in their genetics? are there differences in the genes related to their immune response? are there differences in their underlying health? so, it is a uniquely rich set of data, and i think we could go very quickly into getting some very, very important discoveries. scientists are looking for tiny variations in patients' genetic material. they will be examining genes like the ones involved in making a structure on the outside of cells in ourairways. it acts as a docking site for the virus, allowing it to enter and infect the cell.

it could be that differences in people's dna changes this, making it easier for the virus to lock on, resulting in a more severe illness. and we are not at the peak, yet. intensive care units are filling up. and some patients are younger, with no underlying health issues. they're now the focus of a new study starting in new york. for diseases like flu and herpes, some people carry genetic variations that make them seriously ill, and this could be the case with coronavirus. it was discovered by our group, and other groups that there were surprisingly inborn areas of immunity that made people, that render human beings especially vulnerable to one microbe, and this inborn immunity can be silent, latent, for decades until infection by that particular microbe. so, what our programme does is essentially testing whether this idea also applies to covid.

the rapid spread of coronavirus means there's no shortage of patients to study. it's hoped this work could identify those most at risk and help in the hunt for new treatments. rebecca morelle, bbc news. finally tonight, a tribute to the 99—year—old army veteran who pledged to walk 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of this month, to raise money for the nhs. captain tom moore from bedfordshire has now raised nearly £4 million and he's promised to keep going, saying the nhs deserved every penny for what it was doing for the people of the united kingdom. i will, i'll keep on going whilst people are still contributing to the national health service. nothing's going to stop you? well, i hope not! i hope nothing will stop them. maybe i might get a bit worn out but at the moment, i'm not, i'm doing fine.

captain tom moore with his remarkable fundraising effort. that's it from us. newsnight starts on bbc two shortly but now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are.

hello, you are watching bbc news with me, tim willcox. we'll be having a look at some of the national and international press coverage of the last 2a hours before we go to washington, dc where president trump is due to speak in the rose garden. this is the scene live following that meltdown as it has been described by president trump yesterday with personal attacks on the press for criticising his response to the pandemic. before we go to the white house, let's have a look at the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us.

with me are the columnist for the daily mirror, susie boniface, and the deputy editor of the daily express, michael booker. thanks so much to both of you forjoining me. just to warn you that we will go to the white house in a few minutes when president trump start speaking but let's just look through the papers we have so far. the ft says coronavirus will hit the uk economy harder than the spanish flu epidemic and the first world war. the new york times's international edition tells the stories of priests and nuns in italy who are putting themselves at risk in order to visit coronavirus patients. here, the metro describes british care home staff as the "forgotten front line" as they speak out over a lack of personal protective equipment and testing kits. the straits times in singapore reports that everyone will be

required to wear a face mask when they leave their homes as part of stricter measures to curb the spread of the virus. the uk's daily express leads with comments from the country's chancellor rishi sunak — who says the economy will bounce back from the crisis. that's a v shape, he suggests. the business standard in india reports that the country's lockdown has been extended until the 3rd may. and the times says two million jobs in the uk could be lost during the current lockdown. so, let's start, and susie, let's look at the telegraph first of all, a picture of rishi sunak, the chancellor, and that ominous graph showing that big red crash right at the end but then a v shape. what do

you make of their coverage? it's much the same as lots of other papers which is reporting these figures that came out today predicting what the recession will look like in the telegraph says it will be the worst since 1709, the worst winter for will be the worst since 1709, the worst winterfor 500 will be the worst since 1709, the worst winter for 500 years was followed by floods, flu and crop failures. sound familiar? all these predictions depend on the unknown, we don't know how bad or how long a recession will be because we don't know when you lift lockdown how it will work, whether it will have to be locked down again later, whether there will be a recurrence of the pandemic or vaccines or treatment, whether it will spread worldwide, whether it will spread worldwide, whether treatments will spread as far as the flute so it's all guesswork so all we know is that it will be severe and the telegraph and other papers have had to spin a lot

of guesswork into a front page lead. the imf and the 0br have putting out that they thought the recovery would be the shade, it was interesting what rishi sunak had to say about that debate we all believe is going on inside the uk government contrasting what you should do without lockdown versus the economic consequences of keeping it in place. it's a change of the front pages this morning and we have been concentrating on the death in care homes in the last few days, now we have moved on the economy, which seems to be a debate we need to have an one that is going on in cabinet. we are told there are hawks and doves in there, certain ministers wa nt doves in there, certain ministers want the lockdown lifted sooner rather than later but at the moment when we also have deaths at a height, we are still told we are not quite at the peak and most people

will still think as the said today, a lot of people are still concerned with the fact they don't really want to go back to work yet, they want don't want to go back out there... sorry to cut across you, it seems according to public opinion polls the public art supportive of this lockdown. to pick up on your title, you have harder times ahead but we will bounce back, didn't quite go back to 1709 but he also picked up on the fact the chancellor is troubled over warnings of the economy shrinking by 35%. he wouldn't say whether he was personally shocked by those figures. i think he said, if he said he was shot we would be shocked and lose confidence in him but we hope it will bounce back and fingers crossed that once the main peak is over people will have the confidence to

get back and we can get the economy up get back and we can get the economy up and running because we have consequences of up and running because we have consequences of this, other deaths from other causes that seem to be going up at the moment and if we have more jobless then we will have more social problems and it will be a huge problem next year. susie onto the japan times, a huge problem next year. susie onto thejapan times,japan a huge problem next year. susie onto thejapan times, japan came a huge problem next year. susie onto the japan times, japan came very late to this, if you were injapan a few weeks ago you would have no idea in terms of social distancing and how bad the pandemic was and their lead, untraceable covid—19 infections on the rise, the key to all this is that you have to test and trace where people picked it up and trace where people picked it up and it seems a lot of japanese aren't saying to the authorities quite where they did pick it up. no, it seems they have issues and there are concerns here in the japan times to do with the fact they may have been visiting places of

entertainment, late euphemistically call it, bars, nightclubs, possibly at places where sex was for sale and don't feel like telling people where they have been. further down the story it says you may have further issues because finding out where someone issues because finding out where someone has been is notjust asking them to fill in a list of places but a long—term epidemiological thing, you have to go back and ask them many things and extrapolate that out so they have a slight issue with how to do it and the logistics and the fa ct to do it and the logistics and the fact there are social concerns about things they might have to say but it's the tracing that seems to be the international gold standard for keeping the dale steyn. germany, which went into lockdown 48 days after its first case, has reported, i don't know the exact number but i think its 3000 deaths but many fewer than us. we took 54 days, 53 days

for the uk from its first case for us for the uk from its first case for us to go into lockdown and we are now predicted to be one of the worst hit countries in europe. italy took 35 days, spain took 40 days and those are the countries that have had the biggest number of cases because of the exponential rise so if japan because of the exponential rise so ifjapan can get on top of its testing, then in theory the length of lockdown may not to beat so drastic, something we missed out on. the key thing is, certain countries have done this differently, not least in europe, denmark one of the first to go into lockdown. back to japan, and the criticism that the authorities there are facing, coronavirus cases doubling since the emergency was declared but the m ista kes emergency was declared but the mistakes that were made, i'm not sure if our viewers can remember this but the diamond princess, we

remember that