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tv   Coronavirus  BBC News  April 21, 2020 4:30am-5:01am BST

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this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has tweeted that he is to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the united states. he said the decision was taken in light of the attack from what he called the "invisible enemy" and in order to protect thejobs of american citizens. the price of us oil has turned negative for the first time in history, with the main benchmark price closing at minus $37 a barrel. president trump said the us would add 75 million barrels to the national reserve. global demand for oil has all but dried due to the lockdowns. an raf plane has flown to turkey to pick up a delayed delivery of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. the government said it was working "around the clock" to address the lack of protective gear. a delivery of gowns was expected to arrive on monday. now on bbc news, with more
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than a third of the global population confined to their homes because of covid—19, the world is going through an unprecedented social experiment. here's martine croxall with stories of life in lockdown. hello, and welcome to this special programme on the world in lockdown. i'm martine croxall. we start this week in new york, one of the places the world hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, notjust the city itself, but new york state has recorded more than 10,000 deaths from covid—19. anna and jango, who live in brooklyn, are engaged and were planning on going to venice to get married, but unfortunately, jango fell ill. here's what happened next.
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clapping and cheering so, that's anna and jango‘s story of life in lockdown in new york, but for other couples, especially those in new relationships, the experience can be slightly bewildering. we asked three couples, including kellyn who's been quarantining with
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a man she's just met. what living circumstances look like for them during lockdown? this is day 25 of living together. and we have known each other for 33 days. we had a conversation and decided that we both wanted to, like, take it slow. and then coronavirus happened. yeah! we have not killed each other yet! i currently am living with a guy i met on bumble after two dates. i was here in malaga, spain, i was supposed to go back to madrid, but it turned into a coronavirus hotspot. he was moving into a new apartment and i moved in with him. we were both in between places in london, so we decided the best place for us to be was... at my parents'. ..at his parents' house. we've been seeing each other on, like, quite a casual basis. i really like her,
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and i want it to continue. while we both said that we wanted to take it slow, it's now going so slowly that it's not going at all. so, it's been very sunny today, and it's like 22 degrees. so we are out in the garden playing a game called finska which is i think is swedish. it's finnish. finnish? finnish. hohoho! i feel confident, still. not started well, this round, but, 1—1. we played it a lot when we were back in new zealand with my family, so it kind of makes me feel a little bit closer to them in a way. we've not really had any major problems. your incessant need to shop for "essentials". my parents still like you. yeah. they don't hate me yet. yeah. and his dad laughs at my jokes, so that helps! bells toll we're building out the first month of a relationship,
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that feels like the first three years of a relationship. spend our time like most people do. we go to the grocery, we cook food, we try to keep each other accountable for working out, it seems that we are a bit more accountable on helping each open bottles of wine. as soon as quarantine happened, we got stuck in this weird limbo place of like, not being in the relationship but we like, we're still messaging a lot and i can't see her at all, which sucks. there are some things that we do on our own. one of which is dance routine or exercise. just a normal weekend here. we decided to go for a walk because it's such a lovely day and stu's parents live really close to, like, the forest.
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which is nice, very different to london. we've got his parents in front of us and we're just lagging behind. me and my brother watched some saturday morning cartoons, which is actually really nice. we don't normally get to do that because he's normally at uni. we are having some common fights that both of our parents who have been married for over 40 years can give us advice on how tojust get through things. and sometimes it involves biting your tongue, other times it involves setting boundaries. so we are working on that, too. sending voice notes has been one of the loveliest things about it. obviously the challenges, like, i haven't physically seen herfor over a month. which is really sad. guys, what are we doing tonight? doing a football pub quiz. well, it's really nice to have his family unit. it definitely sort of sucks having my family so far away.
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i don't know what's going to happen. i mean, having said that, we were also talking about going to berlin together, which i feel like is a very classic female—female relationship move. '0h, we're gonna take things slow, but also, let's go on a holiday!‘ a european island off the coast of estonia has been labelled by locals as corona island after being a hotspot for the virus and being placed into strict quarantine. the first covid—i9 cases on the island of saaremaa emerged a month ago after a sports event was held there with a team from italy. now health officials estimate that of the island's population has contracted the virus. gavin lee reports. no—one can leave for the mainland and no—one can come in. approximately one half of the island population is infected. the infection rate per capita is one of the highest in europe, if not in the world. what's it like to be
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on the corona island? this is saaremaa, an island off the coast of estonia and about 33,000 people live there. what happened a month ago, a team from milan flew to play volleyball on the island and now it's the country's coronavirus hotspot. we can't get there. so some of the islanders filmed on their mobiles what it's like coping there now. so the covid—19 infection situation here in saaremaa and kuressaare is quite serious. we might have 1000 hospitalisations by april 20th. so we need help. in our hospital we have 147 beds. this is not enough for 1,000 patients. with the high number of cases, some patients are now being flown to the mainland for treatment. elsewhere on the island, people are adapting quickly. hundreds of companies are finding ways to survive online. hello, world.
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susan here from saaremaa. susan reinholm used to work in an office for a cooperative selling the island's produce. now, she's delivering door—to—door. the pile of things you see behind there, these are the home deliveries that i have to go and deliver today. so, we are now in one of the neighbourhoods here, in kuressaare, saaremaa's capital, as we can say. and i'm waiting for our client to come downstairs and then i'll leave the groceries to her, safely without any contact. with all non—essential business shut, many of susan's friends lost work after the outbreak, but quickly found it elsewhere. and people adapt to change. for example, my hairdresser is now the one labelling the packages in a local meat factory and nobody is sitting
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at home and thinking that, ok, let's see what tomorrow will bring. people are taking actions. anu vares is part of the island's crisis centre. they're considering the next steps in a video conference. anu tells us they've been through isolation like this before. for the very first time since soviet occupation, people need permits to enter. but this time, it is because of our free will to protect our people and their health. it is difficult to tell how the coronavirus first came to the island. there were two volleyball matches with an italian team that brought together more than 1,000 local people as well as visitors from the mainland, estonia. local officials also say a second big social gathering, this champagne festival, may have further quickened the spread. another islander, tarmo virki,
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films for us how his home town has changed. in the background is the main square of kuressaare. which is usually buzzing around midday like now. today there are, of course, nobody. people are at their homes. they're working online. i'm a bit worried about the longer term implications, of course. and what i've seen so far, how the people are getting together to kind of work for the future of the island, i' m really, really positively surprised. the chinese city of wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic originated, has lifted its 11—week quarantine as infections and deaths tail off. and as they emerge from lockdown, residents have been sharing the lessons they've learned from the outbreak.
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a group of bikers from bodmin in cornwall in england have been helping vulnerable people by delivering essential shopping and medication to those who are stuck in their homes and can't make it to the shops. the idea began withjust one man and his motorbike, but as demand grew, so did the number of willing volunteers. patrick clahane has more.
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travelling on cornwall‘s now empty roads, these bikers are on a mission. i'm kye, i work in the emergency services and iformed bodmin bikers. bodmin bikers is a delivery team for medication from doctor's surgeries to pharmacies. we're also a food delivery, so if you need your essentials — bread, milk. do you know what? we haven't had any had any pastie deliveries yet. the group don't charge for delivery and was set up to help vulnerable people stuck at home, unable to get essentials. we've been trying to self—isolate as much as possible and go out as little as possible. and sarah, my partner, she suffers quite badly with asthma as well. so, as a family, we'vejust, yeah — try to keep ourselves to ourselves as much as possible. and these gentlemen make it so much easier. it goes to show that in this community and, well, in cornwall
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in general people, do help each other as much as they can and do what they can for one another. since starting just a couple of weeks ago, 18 people have now volunteered, including a chef, plumber and supermarket worker. i'm brandon, aka spider—man. i'm part of the bodmin bikers. people see us riding around, they wave at us and it was really nice to see — you know, to go out and make people happy and make them laugh and just give people some happiness while we're in this pandemic at the moment. the gang are a mix of ages, including one who's onlyjust got his bike licence. i'm dan, i'm 16 and i'm part of bodmin bikers. 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 all gonna go on a ride out. i think we are one big family and we'll stick together, definitely. patrick clahane, bbc news, bodmin.
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finally, across the us, the coronavirus has closed many schools for the rest of the academic year, meaning hundreds of thousands in their senior year are missing out on big events like their prom and graduation. but one student in indiana decided to use his video skills to give graduating seniors the opportunity to share a message with their peers. we arrived in this world after 9/11 happened. we will be graduating during a global pandemic. dear class of 2020. though this time sucks, and though it's awful, i think it's our duty to try to at least look on the bright side and recognise that we all have this special bond and love for each other that nobody else will ever have. dear class of 2020.
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i can't put on a mask and go help, you know, save lives. but i can do this and lift some spirits during this dark time in our country. i never imagined it going this big. i looked at this as, like, one of those experiences i'll tell my kids and i'll live through it and i'll be fine. but these seniors, i mean, they got their last moments of high school taken away from them. we can look towards the memories that we will make in college. we've got this, guys. this is our year and we're going to make it the best year of our lives. this does not change the memories that we have already made that will last a lifetime. we all have different stories from around the country. this is a similarity we would never have predicted for the end of our high school careers. i made sure that i hit every box i kind of had set up in my mind, that the seniors would get something out of it, that the underclassmen
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would get something out of it, parents, grandparents, everyone in the spectrum can get something out of it, and i hope i did that. i hope i did. through a hard year, and ending with coronavirus is not a really good match for a senior year. i want my fellow seniors to know that they are all loved. i wish each and every senior the best of luck wherever your future takes you. that's it for now. a reminder, you can always keep up to date with the bbc news website or get in touch with me on twitter at any time — i'm @martinebbc. thanks for watching. hello. through our window on the weather, it's nothing but blue sky at the moment. and a few more days of that to come. but there is that complication of the brisk easterly wind. it does make it feel rather cool, especially along the north sea coasts. it will ease down later in the week
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and then all parts will turn a bit warmer. but the isobars still squeeze together as we look at the big picture for tuesday around that area of high pressure close to scandinavia. we start tuesday fairly chilly, but particularly in scotland where there will be sheltered glens here that have dropped a few degrees below freezing. so frosty start to tuesday in scotland, and a bit of cloud for the channel islands, south devon, cornwall, the isles of scilly may produce a bit of rain for a time. that isn't going to last long before it clears to allow the sunshine, plenty of it across the uk, these are the wind speeds, gusts around 30—a0mph in places. just as we saw on monday, that has an impact on the temperature along north sea coasts, some spots just around ten degrees or so, whereas most areas are in the mid—to—high teens, near 20 degrees celsius in the warm spots. now, overnight and into wednesday morning, a bit of patchy cloud here and there. the breeze stays up, though,
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and that means we're going to avoid a frost again, barjust one or two spots in scotland getting close to maybe a little bit below freezing. now, there may be a bit more cloud around on wednesday for northern ireland, parts of western scotland, north—west scotland, the outside chance of catching a shower. but if you want some rain on the garden, you'll be disappointed because much of the uk, nearly all of the uk will stay dry. some sunshine, maybe not quite as breezy, a little bit warmer by a degree or two. but moreso by the time we get to thursday, the isobars opening up, and that means the wind is going to be easing. could be one or two mist and fog patches to start the day, but actually more especially on friday morning in parts for most, thursday will be another day of clear skies. the wind isn't as strong, even along north sea coasts it's a bit warmer, but the warmest parts of england and wales will be approaching the mid—20s. just a few subtle changes going into the weekend, perhaps a bit more cloud around.
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the slight chance of a shower, a little bit cooler by then.
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this is bbc news. i'm sally bundock with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. president trump says he'll sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the united states, a decision made in light of what he calls the coronavirus invisible enemy. the price of us oil goes negative, as demand dries up and producers sell rather than store their supplies. healthcare trusts in england warn that the health service's supply of face masks could be jeopardised if the government begins advising the public to wear them. the number of people currently confirmed to have the coronavirus in italy falls for the first time. and we meet the army of volunteers making much

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