this is bbc news. with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the international monetary fund warns the world is facing a recession far worse than the crisis of 2008. more than one in five deaths in england and wales is linked to coronavirus — as figures show 6,000 more people died than expected at the beginning of april polling is underway in south korea's parliamentary election — the result is expected to be influenced by the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis. and, coming up. why does covid—19 make some people much sicker than others? a new study in the uk

is trying to find out. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, the international monetary fund has warned that the coronavirus pandemic has left the world facing the worst recession since the great depression nearly a century ago. it said the pandemic represented ' a crisis like no other‘, much worse than the financial crash a decade ago. here's the imf‘s chief economist. under the assumption that the pandemic and required containment peaksin pandemic and required containment peaks in the second quarter, in most

countries in the world and then it recedes in the second half of this year, we are projecting global growth in 2020 two fall 2—3%. this makes —— —3%. assuming the pandemic fades from the second half of 2020 and that policy actions taken around the world are affected by bankruptcies, job losses and systemwide financial strength, we project global growth in 2021 to rebound to 5.8%. that was the imf‘s chief economist. our business reporter samira hussein has more on their projections.

what i was really struck by was just her sort of reactions to these staggering numbers, she called them astounding and something they had absolutely never seen before. and just pointed out thatjust absolutely never seen before. and just pointed out that just three months ago we are expecting the ecoi'ioitiy months ago we are expecting the economy the global economy to grow by 3% for now we are seeing contractions and if you just look at developed countries we are expecting them to contract by more than 6% this year. if you look ahead of time, if you look to next year to 2021 they are expecting these really big growth projections and saying that the economies are going to re cover that the economies are going to recover really quickly, and going to be able to get some kind of commerce going in order to start rebuilding these economies very quickly. in 2021, in some cases, looking at some kind of recovery at a 3% range. britain's finance minister

is warning that the uk won't be spared from the global recession. chancellor rishi sunak says the coronavirus will have serious implications for the uk economy. his comments come after britain's tax watchdog, the office for budget responsibility, warned the pandemic could see the economy shrink more than a third byjune. and the potential damage to the economy is notjust a short—term threat — there will be a longer term impact as well. 0ur economics editor faisal islam is at the uk treasury. these are staggering numbers, numbers that people who work at this institution would never have imagined seeing on the charts about the british economy in their lifetimes. two months ago if all of a third of a percent over three months would have been seen as pretty bad, this is about a third of the entire economy. yes there is a bounce back but the overall impact over the course of the year is about the seven smaller consequences for

public borrowing as well. it's important that even with these grim numbers underlying that is a strong bounce back, in order to get that you need to get the treasury rescue money out into the economy, need to get some sort of handle over the health crisis and provide confidence to workers and consumers. you want to workers and consumers. you want to get that if the lockdown is lifted prematurely. —— want to get that. —— won't. here in britain, the latest official evidence of the human cost of coronavirus shows a very sharp rise in the number of deaths per week throughout england and wales. it amounts to six thousand more than would be expected at this time of year. the figures relate to the week leading up to the 3rd april — since when the numbers have risen again. there's particular concern about the situation in care homes and in the community at large, as our health editor hugh pym reports. my mum, she was my best friend, she was kind, funny... candice remembers her mother, ann, who died with covid—19.

she last saw her when she was in an ambulance on the way to hospital where she died 11 days ago. i'm never going to see my mum again and i'd rather not see the outside again. my mum was only 58 and it just wasn't her time. this is the worst pain in the world. i think it's just not worth it, it's just not — going outside and meeting up with your friends. a tragic loss and there are many others suffered by families every day, and now new statistics reveal there are more than we thought. until very recently, all the focus on coronavirus deaths has been on those in hospitals — that's where the daily data comes from. but the latest set of stats shines some light on the spread of the virus in local communities and deaths there which might be directly or indirectly linked to covid—19. weekly deaths in england and wales were at the highest since records began in 2005, according to the office for national statistics. in the week ending april 3rd,

there were more than 16,300 deaths, that's around 6000 more than the average for this time of year. coronavirus cases contributed much of the jump, linked to nearly 3500. but it's not clear what's behind the rest, possibly some could be caused by people not seeking treatment for other conditions. it is possible that there are further deaths that relate to coronavirus that haven't been recorded as that. it is possible there are further deaths that relate to other conditions for which people perhaps have not accessed help in the way that they might have done in the past. the head of nhs england, after a big drop in a&e visits last month, has urged patients not to stay away from if you're a parent and you're worried about your child, if you're concerned about maybe having a heart attack or a stroke, any other essential need, please come forward, access the nhs — our staff

are here to look after you. sir simon, who revealed he himself had had coronavirus and self—isolated forjust over a week, was meeting student nurses and doctors who volunteered for front line work. is it a bit daunting when you think about it? yes, it is daunting. obviously i have family and friends that i care about. and my health too, as well. but... ..it‘s an important time for everyone, to be part of it. boosting testing of patients and nhs staff wanting to return to work is an urgent priority and the government set an ambitious target of 100,000 a day by the end of this month — up from about 15,000 now. and the big pharmaceutical companies say they can help. we'll be fully operational at the end of the month, the beginning of may, and by then, i think that lab‘s going to be contributing around 30,000 of the target. we're delighted to participate, we've got many of our scientists

who are very engaged in that and keen to support that aspect of solutions. but supplies of personal protective equipment are still tight and there has been an urgent appeal to businesses to produce whatever they can for front line staff, to help save lives for the carers, as well as the patients they look after. hugh pym, bbc news. one of the most troubling elements of the new british figures is that around 1 in 10 of all deaths linked to coronavirus happened outside hospital. they includes at least 217 in care homes — and those figures are already 11 days out of date. the government has already confirmed that there have been outbreaks of covid—19 in more than 2 thousand homes in england — as our correspondent alex forsyth reports. my mum was a people's person. she told everyone she loved them and everyone loved her. rose mitchell was a familiar face on her street in south—west london. so much so, her neighbours stood

outside to pay their respects on hearing that she'd died. at 81, she passed away in her care home after contracting coronavirus. her daughter and the rest of her family on the end of the phone. they held the phone to her ear, we could hear herjust breathing. and we played her danny boy, her favourite song. and we all told her we loved her and, um, we said goodbye. karen says what is happening in care homes can't be overlooked, praising carers like those who were with her mum until the end. i can only say to them thank you, because over the last week they have brought us incredible comfort, to know that she wasn't alone. care homes across the country are reporting a rising number of deaths. here in liverpool 15 residents, a further 13 people at this home in county durham, and here, near bristol, a significant number are said to have died.

at this home not far from wolverhampton staff are frightened. under that you will a lwa ys always be with us in our hearts and you have helped make so full of love and happy memories for us to treasure forever. good night and sleep well. she is scary because they said it's going to get worse so when you keep thinking of what's the next going to be like, was going to happen on the shift. what is going to happen on my shift? it's mentally and physically draining. yeah. the staff are quite worried because when we have ambulances coming, they've got the full—on gear

on and we haven't got a lot of ppe and you feel vulnerable. yeah. it's worrying as well because we are going back to our loved ones as well. the government says it is delivering millions of items or protective kit and increasing testing capacity, but managers here say it's not enough. they're not testing, they're not testing. we've had residents come back who have been to a&e and they come back and they are not testing them. do you feel like you are getting the support you need? not particularly, no. some residents are staying positive even while separated from family. nobody knows how quick it is going to go away and i think it's going to take a long time. what's your plan when you finally get to see your family? to have several gin and tonics and say hurray. 0ptimism despite real concern for society's most vulnerable and those who are trying to protect them. alex forsyth, bbc news. the death toll from coronavirus in the united states has risen past 25,000 today, which marks a doubling injust one week.

president donald trump has told journalists he has ‘total‘ power — to lift the nationwide lockdown — despite the insistence of state governors and legal experts — that he has no such authority. the president rejected suggestions that his response to the crisis had been inept — the us remains the epicentre of the pandemic — as our north america editor jon sopel reports. america is hurting. the coronavirus has now claimed over 23,000 lives. nearly 600,000 people have been infected. the economy is reeling, with 17 million made unemployed injust three weeks. and schools are closed. but at last night's white house briefing, the president spent the first 45 minutes railing at the media for being unfairto him. was the timing of your travel ban botched ? a lot, we did a lot. look, look. you know you're a fake. you know that. your whole network, the way

you cover it, is fake. the big issue is how to reopen the economy. 0n whose say—so, and how quickly. we want to be very, very safe. at the same time, we got to get our country open... do you think there is a possibility, then, that what you do is, you open it incrementally? do you think people go back to restaurants, concerts, the cinema ? i think we are going to boom, i think it's going to go quickly. our people want to get back to work, and i think there is a pent—up demand like there hasn't been in a long time. as part of reopening america, do you want to reopen the borders so that people from europe and the uk... at the right time. very good question, actually. well, i'm going to have to take a look. the president says he has total power to decide on ordering the restart of business. the individual states say donald trump doesn't have that power, we do. is giving his latest response to the coronavirus pandemic. resident trump in the roaster at the white house and speaking to reporters now. steve manucho and

with the major airlines, and the payroll support programme, this agreement will fully support airline industry workers, preserve the vital role airlines play in our economy and protect taxpayers are now in good shape. and it will get over a very tough period of time not caused by them. the united states is continuing to make substantial progress in our war against the virus. we grieve at every precious life that has been lost. to the invisible enemy, but through the darkness we can see the rays of light, we see that tunnel and at the end of that tunnel we see light, we are starting to see it more than ever before. we have held our... the numbers, everything we have done.

there very strong run and very powerful on it. look at what's happening in other countries, spain, italy can the united kingdom, working with them and tried to help them especially with ventilators than calling a lot, the need ventilators so badly. 15% of counties within the united states have zero cases and many counties within the united states have a very small number of cases. large sections of our country are really looking at other sections and saying, well, that looks bad but they don't have the problem. i salute the american people for following our guidelines on social distancing even you people so different looking out there when i look at you. their devotion, your devotion is saving lives. today i'm instructing my administration to help the world health organisation while a review is conducted to

assess the world health organisation's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus. everybody knows what's going on there. american taxpayers provide between 400 million and 500 million per dollars per year and china provides a $40 million a year and the united states has a duty to insist on full accountability. 0ne states has a duty to insist on full accountability. one of the most interesting because the decisions from the who was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from china and other nations. they were very much opposed to what we did, fortunately i was not convinced and distended travel from china saving untold numbers of lives. —— suspended. thousands of people would have died. at other nations suspended travel countless

more lives would have been saved and instead look at the rest of the world, look at parts of europe. 0ther world, look at parts of europe. other nations and regions who followed, who guidelines and kept their borders open to china accelerated the many countries said they are going to listen to the who and have problems the likes of which they cannot believe it. nobody can believe it. the decision of major countries to keep travel open is one of the great tragedies and missed opportunities from the early days. the attack on travel restrictions of political correctness above life—saving measures. travel bands work for the same reason that quarantines work. it depends on human—to—human transmission, border

control is fundamental to virus control. since the establishment in 1948 the american people have generously supported the world health organisation to provide better health outcomes for the world and most importantly to help prevent global health crisis. with the outbreak of the covered 19 pandemic —— covid—19 pandemic. the reality is that the who failed to adequately eat obtain an vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. their worlds depends on the who to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health rights is shared in a timely manner. if it's not too indifferently tell the world the truth about what is happening, the who failed at this basic duty and must be held accountable. it's time,

after all of these decades. the who failed to investigate credible reports from sources in china that conflicted directly with the chinese government official accounts. there was credible information to suspect human—to—human transmission in december 2019 which should have spurred them to investigate and investigate immediately. through the middle ofjanuary investigate immediately. through the middle of january it investigate immediately. through the middle ofjanuary it parachuted and publicly endorsed there was not human—to—human transmission happening despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary. the delays the who experienced in declaring a public health emergency caused valuable time, tremendous amounts of time. more time is lost in the delay it took to get a team of international experts into examine

the outbreak, which we wanted to do which is what they should have done. the inability of the who to obtain virus samples to the state has deprived the scientific community of essential data. new data that emerges across the world on a daily basis points to the unreliability of the initial reports and the world received all sorts of false information about transmission and mortality. the silence of the who on the disappearance of scientific research and doctors and our new restrictions on the sharing of research into the origins of covid—19 and the country of origin is deeply concerning. especially will be put up, by far, the largest amount of money. not even close. had

to the who done itsjob amount of money. not even close. had to the who done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground, and to call out china's lack of transparency of the outbreak could have been contained at a source with very little death, very little death and certainly very little death and certainly very little death and certainly very little death by comparison. this would have saved thousands of lives and avoided worldwide economic damage, instead the who willingly took china's assurances at face value and took it just at face value and defended the actions of the chinese government even praising china for its so—called transparency. i don't think so. the who pushed china's misinformation about the virus saying he was not communicable and there was no need for travel bands. —— communicable and there was no need fortravel bands. —— bans. they communicable and there was no need for travel bands. —— bans. they said

there was no need to do it, don't do it, the actually fought us. the who's reliance on disclosures likely caused a 20 fold increase in cases worldwide and missed beat much more than that. they have not addressed a single one of these concerns nor fighting a serious explanation. that acknowledges its own mistakes of which there were many. america, the world have chosen to rely on the who for accurate, timely and interdependent information to make important public health recommendations and decisions. if we cannot trust that this is what we will receive from the who come our country be forced to find other ways to work with other nations to achieve public health goals. we have i'io achieve public health goals. we have no choice but to do that. our countries are now experiencing... you look all over the world

tremendous death and economic devastation, because those test with protecting us by being truthful and transparent failed to do so. it would have been so easy to be truthful. and so much death has been caused by their mistakes. we will continue to engage with the who to see if it can make meaningful reforms. for the time being we will redirect global health and directly work with others. all of the aid that we sent will be discussed at very, very powerful letters and with very, very powerful letters and with very powerful and influential groups and smart groups. medically, politically and every other way. and we will be discussing it with other countries and global health partners what we do with all of that money that goes to who. and maybe who will

reform and maybe they won't. but we will be able to see, as you know, other countries hit hard by the virus, hospitals have been tragically forced to ration medical ca re tragically forced to ration medical care and the use of ventilators. , but due to our early and aggressive action the skill of our health care workers and the resilience of our health care system no hospital in america has been forced to deny any patient access to a ventilator, with all of the talk you have heard where some states wanted 40,000 ventilators, i said, that doesn't work. 40,000? and they ended up with seven or 8000 and they had no problem. 40,000 ventilators for one state is ridiculous. this karius day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings my

team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators, that we we re be needing 130,000 ventilators, that we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators. this is the system we inherited. i had governors requesting unreasonable sums at the federal governmentjust requesting unreasonable sums at the federal government just did not requesting unreasonable sums at the federal governmentjust did not have it. and you look at the states of the states did not have it. the states were not prepared. under the every person who needed a ventilator did not get them would die. and that's what we were told. they would die. in other countries doctors having to make decisions on who got a ventilator and who didn't. i knew that this would be a defining challenge of the crisis, those that did not get them were said to be in a position only of one alternative,

and that was death. would we be able to prevent americans from dying because we could get ventilators? and the ventilators that they needed and they needed immediately. i instructed my team to move heaven and earth to make sure that this did not happen. we started to smartly ration and distribute the ventilators that we had, and that others had, and i got daily updates oi'i others had, and i got daily updates on the supply we had from requests coming in, and people wanting to have updates. we had a great group of people working on it, and church my team to use the defence protection act, and the defence production act was used very powerfully. more powerfully than anybody would know. so powerfully that for the most part we did not have to officially take it out. it

was a have to officially take it out. it wasa hammer, have to officially take it out. it was a hammer, it was a very powerful hammer. in orderto was a hammer, it was a very powerful hammer. in order to manufacture as many ventilators as possible. last year america manufactured from a dead start, 30,000 ventilators. and this year the number will be over 150,000 ventilators, could be as high as 200,000. ‘ new

inaw a n?% a if? fantasticjob, a young man who works 24 hours a day on handling the situation, and i would just like to have adam, wherever he may be come up have adam, wherever he may be come up and say a few words. adam, please. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, mr president. at your direction this country has worked hard over the past few weeks to ramp up ventilator production through all means possible. thousands of ventilators are coming in now monthly with over 100,000 by the end ofjune. at the same time there over 60,000 ventilators in our hospitals right now that are not use. knowing this, and at your direction, we reached out to the american hospital association to design a system that allows

hospitals to lend ventilators to other hospitals right when they need it. within the past week alone 20 top health systems have signed up with this dynamic ventilator reserve representing over 4000 ventilators. not only do we have the top academic systems like the cleveland clinic but we also have top health systems from new york city, new orleans, washington state and california. 0ver washington state and california. over a week ago these places would have needed help, but now they are here to help. there's been no american that has needed a ventilator that has not received one. this dynamic virtual reserve combined with our strategic stockpile will ensure that this is a lwa ys stockpile will ensure that this is always the case. i would like to thank the president for his leadership and directive to focus on public and private partnerships like this one, i would also like to thank sam hayes and for hga but lloyd dean

from common spirit, for leading this effort with the aha and federation of american hospitals. his have been difficult times, a few weeks ago the vice president came into my office and