this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. forty five thousand people are now known to have died from coronavirus in the us as it emerges the first death occured three weeks earlier than experts previously thought the us government's daily briefing gets underway shortly — we'll take you live to the white house. here in the uk the policy of social distancing will be needed until at least the end of the year according to the british government's chief medical adviser. the world health organisation insists — they warned the world about corona virus in good time — and says the pandemic will not be over soon. and slipping backwards. why japan is facing a renewed

coronavirus outbreak. the bbc gets rare access inside a japanese hospital. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments more than forty five thousand people have died in the coronavirus outbreak in the us — with it now emerging that the first death from it was on february the 6th in california. that's three weeks earlier than had been reported. the top infectious disease expert says the second wave of infections this winter could be even worse than the first. the bbc‘s nada tawfik reports.

what on the white house lawn, the president of the first lady plant a tree gold shovels and hand for the quick celebration. before more pressing spring task awaits them. cultivating an economy withered away by the coronavirus. the hardest hit areas, the road to recovery is long. still, as the death toll surpasses 15,000 in the state of new york, there are more signs that the worst is over. the comfort hospital ship which provided relief but never reached capacity, will soon leave manhattan. on the 53rd day of lockdown, the governor said that testing interesting will need to improve before restrictions can be lifted. after a meeting at the white house on tuesday, president trump committed to helping new york double its testing capacity to 40,000 tests a day. our actions are going to

shape ourfuture, a day. our actions are going to shape our future, every decision we make is going to affect how we come out of this and how fast we come out of this. patience is running fin and other parts the country. different reactions at times a consequence of partisan division. the president has supported people protesting stay—at—home orders issued by democratic governors and he resumed his crackdown on immigration, ordering a halt on green cards for 60 days. democrats have accused the president of botching the federal response. i wish the president, instead of being an agent of distraction and frankly, it would just grow up to the fact that we have a big challenge in a country. one that will continue to plague the united states for some time and according to the director of the centers for disease control and prevention, the next few months will be critical to prepare for a potential second wave of the

coronavirus this winter. coinciding with the flu season, he warned it could be far more devastating than the current outbreak. still no sign of donald trump in the press room. we were expecting him to be there 20 minutes ago. but, we will return to their as soon as he speaks. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo has renewed his attacks on beijing questioning if there had been a cover up in the early stages of the pandemic and he accused china of censoring those who tried to warn the world. china didn't share all of the information they had. even after they did identify it, china did not share all of the information they had.

instead it covered up how dangerous the disease is. it didn't report report sustained human—to—human transmission until a month later until it was in every province inside of china. it censored those who tried to warn the world, in order to halt the testing of new samples, and it has destroyed existing samples. the ccp still has not shared the virus sample from inside of china with the outside world, making it impossible to track the disease's evolution. our correspondent barbara plett usher is in washington for us with more on mr pompeo's comments. he was defending the administration cost plus decision to suspend the world health organisation funding. the who should have gone public and it became clear that china was not complying with international regulations reporting health threats in its territory. and then he went on to strongly criticise china saying that it did not report the outbreak in a timely manner, especially the fact that he could be

transmitted from human—to—human and did not provide live virus samples to other countries. critics have set the administration probably has a case when it comes to a chinese cover—up oi’ case when it comes to a chinese cover—up or disinformation, but the fa ct cover—up or disinformation, but the fact that is focusing so much on this suggest that is trying to deflect blame from its own mistakes in handling the pandemic and trying to shift them onto china. in the world health organisation has said that he did announce the emergency at the right time and that countries had enough time to respond. the head of the world health organisation has said, that the global coranvirus pandemic will not be over soon. the director general also warned of the danger of a resurgence of the outbreak in some countries. he's been speaking at a news conference in geneva, where he also defended the organisation's handling of the crisis, after criticism by president trump that it had been slow to respond, and too supportive of china. we'll hear from us secretary

of state mike pompeo they appear to be stable or declining. although the numbers are low, we do see some upward trends in africa, central and south america and eastern europe. most countries are still in the early stages of the epidemics. and some that were affected early in the pandemic are 110w affected early in the pandemic are now starting to see a resurgence in cases. make no mistake, we have a long way to go. this virus will be with us for a long time. we triggered the highest level of emergency when the rest of the world had only 82 cases and no deaths. so looking back, ithink had only 82 cases and no deaths. so looking back, i think we declared an

emergency at the right time. and when the world had enough time to respond. the policy of social distancing, will be needed until at least the end of the year, and any thought of a return to normal in the short term, is totally unrealistic. that's the forthright warning from the uk government's chief medical adviser, who explained there was only an ‘incredibly small‘ chance of, a vaccine or treatments being ready for use this year. our science editor david shukman reports. we've been warned repeatedly of a long haul, that the momentous restrictions to try to contain the virus cannot be lifted soon. and now we're learning more about what that really means. everything hinges on a massive research effort to try to develop vaccines, to create immunity, and also drugs to manage the disease. and, at the moment,

we don't have either. so, at today's government briefing, the chief medical officer for england said that social distancing would have to continue while we wait for those vaccines and treatments. until we have those, and the probability of having those any time in the next calendar year is incredibly small, and i think we should be realistic about that, we will have to rely on other social measures, which of course are very socially disruptive, as everybody is finding at the moment but, until that point, that is what we will have to do, and it will have to be the best combination that maximises the outlook, but it's going to take a long time and we need to be aware of that. professor whitty pointed to this graph to show that even though the rate of deaths is falling in britain, and in other countries, it's a very slow process. this disease is not going to be eradicated or disappear so we have to accept that we are working with a disease that we will be with globally for the foreseeable future.

if people are hoping that it's suddenly going to move from where we are now, in lockdown, suddenly into everything is gone, that is wholly unrealistic. we will have to do a lot of things for really quite a long period of time. the question is, what is the best package, and that is what we are trying to work out fell. what that means is learning to cope with the disease, rather than trying to beat it. and mass testing is a vital step to doing that, to know who's got it, and where it's spread. using apps to track people's contacts will help work out how the virus is being transmitted, so any future outbreaks let's cross live now to the white house in washington, where president trump is giving his daily briefing on the coronavirus outbreak. a lot of tremendous things are happening. the number of new

positive cases continue to decline nationwide. recent hotspots appeared to be stabilising. the hotspots are in some places it is very interesting and there going down and going in the right direction. cases in the boston area are now declining, the chicago curve appears to have flattened, which is terrific in detroit is past its peak. these trends demonstrate that our aggressive strategy to battle the virus is working and that more states will soon be, it was exciting today watching and seeing what is happened and people are getting ready and they're all excited. i do want to mention that they have done a good job for us, doctor robert redfield was misquoted in the media on the statement about the fall season and the virus. completely misquoted. i spoke to me said it was ridiculous.

he was talking about the flu and coronavirus coming together at the same time. and the coronavirus could bea same time. and the coronavirus could be a little bit of flare—ups that we will take care of them will not get out fast. that is what he was referring to, coming together at the same timei referring to, coming together at the same time i think rather than waiting, i would ask doctor redfield to say a couple of words just to straighten that up now because he did not say it was a big explosion. the headline in the washington post was completely inaccurate. the headline was ridiculous and as i say, that is fake news and cnn is fa ke say, that is fake news and cnn is fake news and the have the wrong story. which they knew. they were asked to change it and they would not do that. it was false. so i will ask doctor redfield who is a real professional to come up and explain, please. thank you, mr president. i

do believe it is important to clarify this as we build the confidence of the american people. when i commented yesterday that there was a possibility of a fall winter, next fall and winter could be more difficult, more complicated than we had two respiratory illnesses circulating at the same time. influencing the coronavirus 19. but what i think it's really important to emphasise is what i did not say. i did not say this was going to be worse. i said it was going to be worse. i said it was going to be more complicated, more difficult because would have the flu and coronavirus circulating at the same time. i want to emphasise that we continue to build the nations public health infrastructure to ensure that we have the capacity to stay in the containment mode. those who offered me talk before, that in january and february, from we had 14 cases. we are in the containment

mode and then unfortunately, the virus overwhelmed we regard to extreme mitigation. we are building that public— health capacity now to make sure that we stay in the containment mode for the fall and winter season, so we will not need to resort to the kind of mitigation that we had to the spring. we had confidence that the response of early case recognition that we talked about and isolation in contact tracing combined with our plans for increased surveillance, particularly for the most vulnerable will be an effective public health strategies so our nation will be able to maintain itself in the containment mode. again, that will be supported by the american public's continued cooperation. in the areas of personal hygiene and the areas of personal hygiene and the types of social distancing strategies that may be appropriate. the key to my comments and the reason why i really wanted to stress

them was to appeal to the american public to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence. one of the greatest tools we have is that we go to the fall winter season that we're into and get the american public to embrace the influenza vaccine and thereby minimise the impact of the flu to be the co—respiratory disease. thank you very much. he was misquoted, totally misquoted. he said they could come together, they did not talk about that. and his whole purpose of making the statement was to get a flu shot so that next fall, we do not have such a big season of flu. we possibly want. but it is possible that if the coronavirus comes back and he does not know if it is going to or not. he spoke at great length and i think the doctor will speak, if you would like to continue. but we may have

some embers and were going to put them out of the coronavirus. we may have a big difference, the flu is different from the coronavirus. doctor redfield, the washington post quoted dressing there's a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will be much more difficult than the one we just went through and when i've said this to others, they put their head down and say they don't understand what i mean. we could have both epidemics at the same time as that which is said to the washington post? yes, that is without trying to say to you. the issue about it being more difficult issue about it being more difficult is that we are going to have to viruses circulating at the same time. this spring that we just went through, february. get the benefit of having the flu season ending. so we could use all of our flu surveillance systems to say, this is coronavirus, we need to focus. next fall and winter, we are going to

have to viruses circulating will have to viruses circulating will have to viruses circulating will have to distinguish between which one is the flu and which ones the coronavirus. so the comment i made us more coronavirus. so the comment i made us more difficult. it does not mean it is going to be more impossible. it does not mean it is going to be worse, itjust it does not mean it is going to be worse, it just means it does not mean it is going to be worse, itjust means it's going to bea worse, itjust means it's going to be a bit more difficult because they have to distinguish between the two in what i want to do again here is the p0 to the american public to recognise that they can help like they do with mitigation, which they really helped. i need them to help now to best prepare us for getting the flu vaccine in taking the flu out of the picture. that quote will ijust read was accurate. that is the quote from the washington post. i was accurately quoted in the washington post as difficult, but the headline was. the headline says

based the second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating. i actually think it is going to be, i think the american public is going to heed the request to look at their vaccine hesitancy for the flu and i'm confident that the public health infrastructure that we are putting together now across this country so that we can early case diagnosis and isolate and contact trace, block and tackle, that system is going to be there and we are going to contain this virus. we talked about this yesterday and someone we talked about this yesterday and someone used the word devastating andl someone used the word devastating and i want to really begin emphasise the american public that when we first interact with this virus for

the first time in february or march timeframe, we did not have or understand its transmissibility, all of its symptoms. we do now and i think we are building together when we talk about the public health infrastructure is very much working on the surveillance piece. but i think we also know the strength of the american people and their ability to immediately understand how to protect themselves by not touching their face, making sure that their washing their hands. but the other piece of wanted to talk about we mentioned it yesterday. we have the summer with flu surveillance that we can utilise, we have all of that time to prepare clearly the testing algorithm that you would need in a flu potentially if covid—19 came back. and so, we are preparing for that right now and we spoke to you all about that and

talked about how we are not only preparing for today and tomorrow, we are preparing for six months from now, three months from now being sure that all of these pieces are in place. i think with doctor redfield was asking for, just as we ask of every american to follow the guidelines. he is saying please add for the guidelines in getting your flu shot and making sure you are protected. and the chances of covid—19. the great thing is. protected. and the chances of covid-19. the great thing is. that will be able to find it earlier this time andl will be able to find it earlier this time and i think that is what we're talking about. you'll find those cases earlier in what doctor said is that talking about this about four or five weeks ago and hoping that the flu infections also go down because people are aware of respiratory illness and how to

protect themselves. i want to get the vaccine but we also want to protect individuals from getting the flu because of the vulnerability we know in certain populations to flu in the devastating outcomes to flu. we could prevent and decrease both of those things. sol we could prevent and decrease both of those things. so i think we are assured that the cdc is putting in place today but we are going to need in the fall so that we can stay in containment if potentially, the virus comes back. it if it comes back, it will not be coming back in the form that it was. it will be coming back and smothered doses that we can contain. but what the doctor was saying and he spoke to him at great length. he was saying that if it should come back, you have booked the flu and the embers of coronavirus. from everything i've seen, it can never be like any think that we have witnessed right now. would you say that is a correct

statement. but we havejust would you say that is a correct statement. but we have just gone through, we will not go through. you have embers of coronavirus and a big flu system and if they combined, if they come together, if they come together, it is not great. but we will not go through but we went through for the last two months. will not go through but we went through for the last two monthslj understand that the united states to be more prepared in the fall, but how can you say that you know it won't come back in the same level that it has today? it might not come back at all. he is talking about a worse case scenario we back at all. he is talking about a worse case scenario we have a big flu in some coronavirus. if it does come back, and it's not going to come back, and it's not going to come back, and it's not going to come back, spoken to ten different people. it will not be like it was. we also have much better containment, before, no one had any prepare and make preparation about it. another we have a little pocket there and will put it out fast. we will be watching for it. but it is also possible that he does not come

back at all. i do not understand how you know it won't come back at a big scale. it's not going to come back on anything near what we went through. but you could have a mess where they come at the same time. and if they come in the same time, the flu is not the greatest thing of the flu is not the greatest thing of the world. it's not the greatest thing either, but if they come at the same time it will not be good. embers of coronavirus with the flu will not be pleasant, but it will not be but we have gone through in any way shape or form. if you do not think it's going to come back and same severity, why you still spending tens of thousands for the ventilators? something else could come. we did not know about coronavirus. now we know about the coronavirus. now we know about the coronavirus. but look at what happened and we did have the h1n1 swine flu, we had that. we do have

other things that have happened. we had various forms of flu, but nothing like what we have had here. not with this type of virus. but something could happen i think that the stockpiles, we can make hundreds of thousands of ventilators. but the one time, all they talked about was ventilators because we do not think it was possible for me to solve that problem and i solved it and no one can believe it. i spoke to world leaders today who desperately need ventilators said thejob leaders today who desperately need ventilators said the job you have done and we were sending 500 to mexico and another 500 to france, we are sending some to spain, were sending some to italy. they are being made by the thousands and world leaders, i spoke to prime ministers and they went through a lot of different cost today, i won't even tell you. but i can give you a list everyone. but i went through a lot of leaders, i spoke with pakistan, they would like to have

some ventilators and we are going to get them some ventilators. but they've also said one thing. it was incredible that you of the ventilator problem because i was a big problem. the testing problem, we have done more than any other nation in the world. go a step further. if you added up the testing of every nation in the world, put them together, we've done substantially more than them. you people are not satisfied. so let us say we had to wrench 50 million people in united states. let's say that if he gave every single one of them the testing times. drenched 50 people are testing times and the fake news media would say where is the 11th time? he did not do hisjob. donald trump did not do hisjob. because of a lot of bad reporting out there and it is so bad. you are by the leaders. that is not true. i wanted that to be cleared up, if you want i can get onto that later. i want the

vice president to speak. in you want to get the news accurately, if you wa nt to ta ke to get the news accurately, if you want to take a look at what you wrote about the ventilators, and will be between the king of ventilators different factors all over, and mike got back from wisconsin. the first thing you did, he called up and i said how's it going? and he just he called up and i said how's it going? and hejust saw he called up and i said how's it going? and he just saw a he called up and i said how's it going? and hejust saw a plant, a factory where they're making ventilators and he said was unbelievable. when he saw the quality of the equipment, the professionalism, a tremendous number of how many workers are just they we re of how many workers are just they were there? 550, they double production or about to triplet. know about this could be done. the fake news was very unhappy that it was done. but you guys do not ask me about ventilators. who was unhappy? you never mentioned. what a great job we have done the ventilators. we are not supplying ventilators all over the world because no other

country could have done what we did. and you could say that it's a great story but instead you states donald trump was slow. plus you put the ban on so trump was slow. plus you put the ban on so much earlier when nancy pelosi, you do not save us, when she is having her rally in san francisco and chinatown in san francisco, no way he wants to say that. if the doctor said that, if we did not close our country to china, we would've been so infected, like knowing one is ever seen. we saw the chart and we are at the top of the list in terms of success, and no way, it was emma going to use that chart in terms of mortality. you saw that. nobody wrote it. germany and our country, the most successful in terms of mortality, but nobody wrote it. it'll be great if you wrote the truth because i want mike to speak, let's get on with her. on the assumption that i think he probably will end it is been encouraging to watch the states begin to open up as

it has been, it is a beautiful thing to see as the restrictions are lifted and we must maintain vigilance and continue practising social distancing. i encourage governors to follow a careful phased approach in a want to remind all americans to adhere to our guidelines very important. the governor's are going to eat here, hopefully and hopefully do what they think is best. we want them to do what they think is best but we hope they adhere. wash your hands, avoid close physical contact is much as possible, wearing face coverings and distancing is impracticable. reflecting the curve and made tremendous progress, but we must guard against a dangerous rebound. we do not a rebound. this rubber reduce talking about. we do not want to rebound, the doctor doesn't want to rebound, the doctor doesn't want to rebound, the doctor doesn't want to rebound, these people definitely don't want to rebound. i do not think you want one. you especially.

we do not want rebounds after all of this death that we have suffered. not work, death. that was unnecessary and it should have never left that little area where it started. you know it and i know it and they know it. in her all—out war against the virus, we continue to make great strides on testing, famous testing, doing more than anyone else. nothing funny about that, john. most of the governors have never faced a situation like this before, but we're helping them find unused testing capacity within their states. tremendous testing capacity that the governess did not know they had. and additional capabilities are coming online every day and we are coming up with new equipment like the new laboratory equipment like the new laboratory equipment on—site, five minutes, great success. everybody wants it. we can only make so many of those

machines, so we have many other forms of testing and many other forms of testing and many other forms of testing and many other forms of machines that do it very quickly and by the millions, by the millions. our task force issued its reopening guidelines earlier than april 30 to give governors the time that they needed to develop testing capability and capacity and customise plans for their states. which many of them did, we have had some governors who have done a fantastic job some governors who have done a fantasticjob on testing and all of other things. i spoke to the governor, we had a great conversation on testing yesterday and they are doing a really good job in new york. we are working very closely with each of the states to help them succeed. i spoke earlier today with governor of california and that was all about testing in the conversation. he has been scaling up really well. really good job. to make use of the tremendous

capacity that