you set up an on line support i imagine those are all issues that system for people in wuhan who were people under lockdown. president trump says the us is passing the peak he was calling and what people need to discuss. of new coronavirus infections, did they tell you? and that many parts of the country for example, it depends on different groups. for example, medics were in a strong position because they are exhausted, this is the first pandemic to re—open the economy. they watched their colleagues in the year of social media. he's been at odds with state impacted and even lose their lives does that help? governors about the timing it is more difficult in china, for easing restrictions. and they watched patients dying his plans to suspend funding before them and struggling to fight of course, because there is not free for the world health organization with the disease and it is a very have also been criticised. social media but what about the rest of the world? a lack of accurate figures social media is a two—edged sword. about the deaths in uk care homes is emerging as one of the hidden it can bring people together and provide support, issues when counting the true cost but then it also exposes of the pandemic. hard for them to tolerate that, people to fake news, a new testing regime to exaggerated risks and so forth. is promised by the government. school children up to 11 years old are returning to their classrooms in denmark as more european countries so some medic stuff rang our hotline relax their lockdowns. and we listened to them the european union has been but it perhaps provides us discussing how to co—ordinate and try to make then with a tool for reaching out strategy among member states have the confidence and helping people. that they are not struggling alone, my concern is we're not prepared that all society is supporting them for the mental health and we try to connect fallout from covid—19. all the protection material and all the outside news to help them, for relaxing restrictions. and also the isolated persons and people isolated in the home, when they felt helpless and when they felt too much painful 00:00:51,549 --> 2147483051:37:10,489 to tolerate an anger 2147483051:37:10,489 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 which reached down... i really like the approach used in wuhan, the online support system and we are going to be looking to wuhan to learn how to best manage anxiety and depression and so forth now on bbc news — with more in the western world.

than a third of the global do you think we need to understand that better population confined to their homes — because, if we have as we suspect the world is going through an unprecedented social experiment. we might have, rolling lockdowns, here's annita mcveigh with stories where we have to sort of lock it down again later in the year of life in lockdown. because there are more cases of the virus, we need to understand how people react to that and whether they will observe the rules that are set down? absolutely, that is essential. we have research under way trying and understand that an understanding is going to provides us with the information about hello and welcome to this special how we can better help people. dr banerjee, there's been a lot programme on the world in lockdown. of stigmatising of different groups i'm annita mcveigh. through the course of the last few weeks, and that is a dangerous development coronavirus has now infected more in a country like yours, in india, where there is a caste thani million people worldwide, but its impact extends far system and where there is already beyond those who've had the illness. a tense divide between by the end of march, hindus and muslims? well over 100 countries worldwide yeah, stigma itself or any form had instituted either a full of marginalisation is itself or partial lockdown affecting a disorder, a social the lives of billions of us. lever in any country. especially as i was mentioning in a country like ours where there are already so many diversions and divisions. people from a particular state orfrom a particular area or even as medical professionals, against doctors because they are now in contact with hospitals, they have seen cases. john owen reports now so there are many people, on the potential medical solutions that might ultimately help many of my colleagues bring this to a close. have reported that the landlords across the globe once bustling

cities are eerily quiet. i must give the british people a very simple instruction — you must stay—at—home. really want to evict them every decision that we're making or neighbours do not come and talk is made to save lives. to them because they have a fear of contracting infection. people who are from the border governments have imposed historic area of india and china, restrictions on our freedoms and have brought economic they are stigmatised. if the first outbreak was in kerala activity to a sudden halt. so a lot of people who come we're talking about a multitrillion—dollar effect from that southern part of india, on the global economy, probably. southern—most state, so people who have a travel history from there are stigmatised. i don't see lockdown they are marginalised, especially when billions as being a sustainable solution are isolated — india is the world's largest democracy — especially when people are isolated, and we have to find a better way. over and above that stigma can but how and when will be really, really cause chaos. eventually return to some semblance of normality? what we can't do is walk blindly into large group gatherings again injune and july as if this never happened. people need to realise that this eventually it is not the virus that virus is going to be with us for a very long time. takes the toll on the mental health this is not going to be solved but it is public health, in a matter of weeks in a matter of months. it's the chaos and the mayhem that stay that way so, with much of the globe‘s scientific community focused

on solving this problem, what are the medical solutions that might ultimately help bring this crisis to a close? the ideal thing we would have, in a perfect world, can be caused overburdening would be a vaccine. of public health system. vaccines are basically way of giving and as rightly said, you a jab into your arm, we need to take lessons from wuhan as to how effectively your body triggers an immune sensitise people response, which means you develop to the need of mental health, not antibodies, which means just us but also other specialities. when you are finally exposed to the virus you actually don't ok, dr banerjee, dr liu and dr steven taylor, contract a serious version of it. very interesting to hear your unfortunately, most scientists thoughts on mental health. believe that an effective vaccine it is an important issue, could be as much of course, going forward. as 12—18 months away. thank you very much to all of you. that is it for now, before we go, because you cannot, physically, here are some of the latest striking do the weeks and weeks and weeks of consecutive experiments images from the last few days as the coronavirus and testing, particularly the safety continues to affect so many of us. aspects of the vaccine. you just have to give it time to test the safety and then it has to be efficacious, it has to work. so what looks more realistic in the short time as some kind of antiviral. while antivirals won't stop people contracting the illness, they could help to significantly reduce the number of people who die or become seriously ill as a result, which might, in turn, reduce pressure on our health services and help us to reopen our economies. and i think there's a lot of hope there because of the repurposing being done about medications

we already have so we don't need to check for safety. i think these drugs could well be the key to ensuring there is no more mass isolation lockdown and huge economic losses. but even if breakthroughs are made quickly, the challenge of getting drugs produced and distributed is formidable. so in the meantime many experts believe the solution or at least a big part of it lies in testing. antigen testing to find out who currently has the virus and antibody testing to find out who has had it in the past. a reminder that you can always keep up to date on the bbc news website. so antigen testing is incredibly useful because you can stop thank you for watching. transmission, if you know who has it or who's carrying the virus then you can make sure they are put into quarantine for two or three weeks. the antibody test we've talked a lot for the economic reasons because it hello there. could be we have had a lot of people yesterday was a warmer kind of day. who've been exposed to the virus again, plenty of sunshine for most and actually have developed of us, withjust a little bit a protective capacity, of high cloud crossing which means we could put them the skies. back into the workforce. we had some rather dramatic and in conjunction with testing, skylines, for example, many people think that deploying in the shropshire area. technological solutions could help us ease the current lockdowns by automatically alerting people that they've been in contact with someone who's tested

positive for coronavirus, rather than locking down entire populations. so this is what we've seen from singapore, south korea, even from china, because they're using different apps that tell you you're in an area now, it was the north—east where there's many other people of the uk that had the day's who have the virus. highest temperatures. durham and parts of aberdeenshire seeing highs of 21 degrees, but look at this drop and i think in high income countries in temperatures on the way this is much more feasible. through thursday. for some, it's going to be around but the huge challenges going to be 10 or 11 degrees cooler. in low income countries, which have, you know, the cooler weather is arriving with a cold front. large slum populations and how do it's this stripe of cloud that's you do something like that in there? sinking its way southwards so i think that's going to be where across scotland right now, leaving the clearest this kind of model will struggle. of the skies and the lowest temperatures further while many societies remain south across england and wales, under strict constraints, where there could just be it is that we might already be a few patches of frost seeing some return to normal life. in the countryside. for thursday, well, wuhan in china, the virus‘s original it gets a little epicentre, is gradually returning warmer across england and wales, to normal and some countries but across the far in europe have announced some north of scotland relaxation of the restrictions, and increasingly into eastern scotland and north—east but there are questions over england, we've got the colder air what will follow. the concern is that as society setting its way in. now, into the afternoon, begins to open up and more people we may well see a few brighter come in contact with each other spells for orkney and shetland, but otherwise for much we will again have transmission, of scotland, it's a cloudy day. and so there is going to be this the cloud could be thick enough for an occasional spot of rain. not amounting to too starting and stopping of opening much, mind you. for most, it will stay just about dry. it's going to feel a lot colder, though. temperatures 9—11 degrees, things up and then closing them down 11 degrees the high and durham rather than the 21 we had on wednesday. with varying degrees further southward across england and wales, again most

in different countries. areas so while there is room for optimism will have lots of dry weather and sunshine. that extensive testing, there'll be a little bit technological innovation, and antiviral medicines more in the way of high will help to gradually reduce cloud moving in, and, the restrictions until a vaccine yes, we could see just finally arrives, we may need a few isolated showers to return for a final return across south—west england, southern wales, but even to normality to be some here the majority will months or years away. probably stay dry. john owen, bbc news. a little warmer, temperatures into the low 20s more widely. these feel like unprecedented times. for friday, an area of low pressure that's been affecting spain and they are. and portugal wobbles a little bit close to our shores, and it looks increasingly likely that we'll see some rain arriving. although the amount of rain you see from place to place but irina sedunova, a russian across parts filmmaker in kaliningrad explores of england and wales the unexpected similarities is going to vary significantly. between life at the time still mild, but those of coronavirus and her family's temperatures are falling back a little bit. highs of 17 in london, the cold air in scotland tending to seep down memories of the soviet era. some of these eastern areas of england, knocking the temperatures back in norwich to just 12 degrees. now, the weekend, scotland stays fine and dry throughout, but it looks like we could see a little bit of patchy rain still left over across parts of england, wales and maybe northern ireland on saturday. sunday, for all of us, looks like the driest day of the weekend. that's your latest weather.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm mike embley. president trump says the us is passing the peak of new coronavirus infections — despite the number of deaths doubling in a week. the emerging crisis of the hidden pandemic deaths in care homes. the uk government pledges a new coronavirus testing regime. back to school for danish children, as more european countries relax their lockdowns. and the impersonator in isolation whose impressions of new zealand's prime minister are entertaining the world.

three weeks ago schools in britain closed their doors to most children. many parents began with strict timetables and ambitious targets. but, as reality kicks in, how are they really getting on? frankie mccamley has been finding out. hello, everybody, this is mrs sock here. we're bored! want to do some maths, guys? no! we're going crazy! this morning i've been called a doughnut, a loser. tell me a tough time in your life? what's for tea? they're just basically rampaging around the house. mr edwards has taken leave of his senses. # this isolation and this homeschooling is driving me crazy... sound familiar?

when schools across the uk closed their doors, kitchens became the new classrooms. if you think that's incorrect, how do you spell it correctly then? parents became the new teachers. do you think russell can draw you a fraction? learning from home the new norm. ooh, i love fractions! some are having more fun than others. trying to work from home and home school is, i would say, nearly impossible. i'm not convinced that we're really achieving very much. children came home with textbooks and links to online learning. others brought back practice papers for exams. parents, though, are finding each school's approach is different, as are the kids. one came back from school with a complete itinerary of what his school day is — from english, maths, science, minute by minute. it was fantastic. the other child tried to convince us that they had done four hours

of pe every day. so it's life lessons today. with holidays cancelled and staycations on the cards, parents are being more imaginative. a field trip... are you having fun, boys? ..to the garden. a pe lesson. and a music class. the advice is to do what you can and have fun. finally, the economic shock waves from the coronavirus pandemic are grim, with millions of people around the world losing theirjobs. but what will life look like after the lockdown is lifted? christian fraser spoke to three experts about the impact the pandemic would have on our mental health. i'm joined now from vancouver by professor and clinical psychologist steven taylor, who wrote the psychology of pandemics, from bangalore by dr debanja banerjee, a psychiatrist at the national institute of mental health and neurological sciences, and finally, from wuhan, by dr liu lim, a psychotherapist to helped establish an online

support system during lockdown. steven taylor, if i could maybe staffed with you. the virus is spread or it is contained according to what we do. how strongly we adhere to social distancing guidelines. and so it would seem to me this is as much a psychological phenomenon as a physical one? very much so. people's decisions to adhere to social distancing is critical in managing this pandemic. and the longer the lockdown drags out i would expect the poorer the adherence. but staying indoors for weeks on end with all the anxieties is a real mental battle, even more so if we are facing months of these lockdowns. exactly. we know that people are generally resilient, but a fraction of people are going to experience severe stressors during this pandemic. in addition to lockdown, people lose jobs, finances, lose houses, businesses go bankrupt,

marriages crumble, and so we ‘d expect that a fraction of the population will develop severe mental disorders such as depression or post—traumatic stress disorder. and even if that was one % of people that amounts to many millions of individuals. so the mental health fallout could be catastrophic. dr banerjee, in india there are tens of thousands of migrant workers right now who are destitute, they're facing huge insecurity, there's panic, there's loneliness. all of which takes its toll. what you think the long—term effect is going to be on indian society? i think the majority of that depends on where it leaves us, finally. what landscape we see after the pandemic goes off. as you have rightly said, there have been huge, millions of people who are homeless, migrant populations,

daily wage workers, and they have been stranded, so social distancing does not mean much for them. and you cannot really think about even the precautionary measures of hand hygiene. so i think chronic stress reactions, post—traumatic stress, bereavement for people who are losing their loved ones and that is going to be very different amongst, different social classes considering we are socio—politically and economically quite diverse. i think it's going to have a long and chronic tone. many of these migrant populations and homeless individuals already have pre—existing mental disorders so probably the next six months to one year will be very crucial for them

after the pandemic leaves us. we expect the increase and exacerbation of symptoms like depression, specially offsets of compulsive disorders and anxiety disorders in the next six months, and that will be in huge numbers. that is fascinating. you're not talking about one or two isolated cases, you're talking about a societal impact of this crisis. it's going to have an effect on the thousands of people. do you think that that mental health issue, ptsd, is that well understood in india? it is difficult for me to speak for all over india but, in general, i guess people do not really appreciate or understand the symptoms. so many times it is just considered under the common rubric of depression or anxiety, or sometimes even normalised — so it's most of the time normalised after grief or after a death. so understanding wellness, what we call kap — knowledge, attitude and practice — towards a particular syndrome is probably lacking and it is probably our duty, as mental health professionals, to be sensitive and identify cases, especially at times

of crisis like this. i am fascinated by the work you have been doing in wuhan, where there has been a more oppressive lockdown, even people with the mildest symptoms have been quarantined. so is it is impossible to say what sort of impact that has had on society in wuhan or is that disguised at the moment? yeah and i think wuhan is the first city to be locked down, so we suffered a lot because at the beginning, we estimate about the gravity about the coronavirus so we suffer more. but the first 20 days, because everyone did not know much about the gravity of this coronavirus, so we had very severe chaotic and very difficult 20 days but 00:18:43,168 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 the government and everyone...