a minute's silence — as the country remembers the key workers — including health and care staff — who have died during the coronavirus pandemic across the united kingdom — from the royal gloucester hospital... to the airambulance station in glasgow. from the streets of belfast... to laboratory workers in milton keynes. from a supermarket in chorley... to downing street — those who have died were remembered. i think it's important for us to remember people who are no longer with us because they are the innocent, they came to work to do a good job, to care. we'll bring you more images of the moment we remembered those we've lost.

also this lunchtime... new figures show that covid—19 related deaths in care homes in england and wales trebled in the space of three weeks — while deaths in hospitals are beginning to fall scotland's first minister recommends wearing face coverings — but only in certain circumstances pressure to resume planned operations — including cancer treatments and heart procedures — which were put on hold as the nhs focussed on coronavirus. back in business — hundreds of thousands return to work in new zealand — as the country begins to relax its month—long lockdown and the british firm which says it's on the brink of mass—producing simple tests for the virus, that we could all — potentially — do at home. and in sport, after arsenal, west ham and brighton, tottenham are the latest premier league club to return to training today as teams prepare for a possible return injune.

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the uk fell silent for a moment this morning to remember key workers — including more than 100 health and care staff — who have died with coronavirus. we're getting used to hearing relentlessly—increasing numbers but every death represents untold grief for families and friends of those who have succumbed to covid—19. the minute's silence, a moment to reflect on some of those lost — a pregnant nurse who died before she could meet her daughter; a father—of—seven whose family say he was let down over a lack of personal protective equipment; and a grandmother who colleagues say was one the unsung heroes of the nhs. duncan kennedy reports. it didn't need the rain to make this

a sombre moment. this was a pause for reflection for absent colleagues, taken for reflection for absent colleagues, ta ken by for reflection for absent colleagues, taken by the virus. this was a nation taking a minute to remember their lifetimes. at 11am, many student hospitals, supermarkets, testing labs and in downing street. this was the day a disease brought much of britain to a standstill. more than 100 nhs and care staff have now died with the coronavirus. among the first was a nurse, a man

whose family said he was a good man. is hea whose family said he was a good man. is he a hero? like every doctor, like every worker in the nhs, ijust cannot my heart goes out to anyone who has also lost someone because of this virus. margaret to pleat was 84, thought to be one of the oldest nurses in britain. herfamily have shared their pride in the comfort that she gave to her patients. very caring woman, she loved herjob. loved animals. always had someone to talk to. i remember i used to live in london, she would talk to eve ryo ne in london, she would talk to everyone on the tube. a day of reflection, a day of memories for those who cared for us.” reflection, a day of memories for those who cared for us. i think for all of our health care staff, working today, whatever professional group they sit in, they wanted an opportunity to pause, take time to reflect about these difficult times that we are working in and in

particular, about colleagues that we know of in other organisations who are sadly no longer with us because u nfortu nately are sadly no longer with us because unfortunately they have lost their lives while coming into work and delivering care. political leaders in allfour delivering care. political leaders in all four nations joined members of the public and others in today ‘s act of remembrance. 0n of the public and others in today ‘s act of remembrance. on thursday, we cla p act of remembrance. on thursday, we clap for them, today we fell silent. noisy or still, these key workers and their singular response to this crisis, today nested in the nationpos macro thoughts. duncan kennedy, bbc news. there have been more than 5,000 coronavirus—related deaths in care homes in england — that's according to figures released today. new data suggests the epidemic is growing much faster in care homes than in the rest of the country. 0ur health correspondent

richard galpin reports. 96—year—old barbara wells had been fit and well, living here in the sta nley fit and well, living here in the stanley park care home in county durham. until she was hit by coronavirus. herfuneral durham. until she was hit by coronavirus. her funeral is tomorrow. 14 other residents have died here. across the country, there are around 20,000 care homes looking after more than half a million elderly and disabled people. and it seems they are now facing the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak here. the care home sector is clearly now the most hit area of society because these are small communities of the most vulnerable people and that is a situation we have not got to the bottom of yet in terms of adequate testing or the consistency of the ppe that we need to make sure we are providing the right levels of care

and isolation that we need to. today ‘s figures from the office for national statistics in the care quality commission show how deaths in care homes in england and wales have shot up. by april the 10th, there were 1043 deaths. by the following week it had almost tripled to more than 3000. and by april the 24th, the number of deaths in england alone reached approximately 5500. the rain the whole care home in nottinghamshire has lost a quarter of its residents to the coronavirus. as a team, we are still mourning the people that we have lost, there a of grieving for their families and also, we are grieving for what life used to be like. there is anger at the government that it didn't prioritise the care home sector much earlier on to save lives. even now, there is

frustration that key steps such as testing for the virus in care homes has still not been implemented properly. some care homes are getting some testing but we are not getting some testing but we are not getting it in the volumes that's required, were still struggling and although they've set up the mobile testing unit which is of course good news we are hearing stories that on average people are having to travel 60 miles to get to one of those in some instances. so it'sjust not 60 miles to get to one of those in some instances. so it's just not out there in the volume that is needed, ca re there in the volume that is needed, care homes arejust there in the volume that is needed, care homes are just not able to get testing in the way that they need to. and while some care homes have now got supplies are protective equipment or ppe, others say they are having to buy their own equipment because the government supply is not enough. the crisis in these care homes is getting increasingly serious. with thousands of people now known to have died. richard galpin, bbc news. 0ur head of statistics robert cuffe is here. now we have these figures on care homes, what do they actually tell

us? maybe that the truth is even worse than the numbers that richard was describing a second ago. if we pull up all of the deaths that have happened in care homes over the last few weeks, and we look at that and compare it to the long run average which is shown by the horizontal line across the graph we can see they have really spiked over the course of the last few weeks. the red parts of the bar at the numbers that richard was talking about, the deaths that mentioned covid—19 on the death certificate but that only accou nts the death certificate but that only accounts for some of the spikes that we have seen, there is more going on and it could be deaths due to other causes, people did not seek care or get care because of the crisis but the suspicion is that a lot of it is unregistered covid—19 deaths so the figures are pretty bad and the figures are pretty bad and the figures that have come from the care quality commission today but england at least suggest that trend will keep on going. what about the trend generally, what are the biggest telling us? we are starting to get a picture of print epidemics, take a look at the figures from hospitals

in england, hospitals account for most of the deaths outside the care home setting, these are plotted by the date people actually died and we can see they piqued just a little bit before easter, around the 8th of april and they have been coming down since then. the most recent figures will be revised upwards but this trend is pretty clear and you can see it in the data from wales as well, data from scotland is due tomorrow, looks like it might show the same thing as well and so we have a picture of coming down in the rest of the country but in care homes, probably on the way up. robert, thank you. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. at the start of this epidemic the political focus at least was on the nhs and not care homes? that's true andi nhs and not care homes? that's true and i think there are now some very serious political questions to a nswer serious political questions to answer about how this has been allowed to happen. part of the a nswer allowed to happen. part of the answer i think is there's just been answer i think is there's just been a lack of focus on care homes, in the media and in politics generally because we've not had the numbers come to date data, to know what is going on in our care homes in the

same way that we've had daily death toll is in hospital. part it frankly also is a failure of testing in care homes. we were promised that it would be rolled out more than two weeks ago but it's only now really being rolled out for all residents, just 4000 tests today. part of it is that care homes have just had just 4000 tests today. part of it is that care homes havejust had no grip, they've not known who to turn to because they've fallen between the department of health, public health england, local authorities, the care quality commission, very often, care home bosses simply don't know who they should turn to for help but the biggest question of all, as you intimated, is whether the government took their eye off the government took their eye off the ball through their determination to focus on the nhs and making sure that hospitals were not overwhelmed. but it is striking, look at the numbers today, many of them, yes they are moving in the right direction, we do appear to be passing through the peak of the

virus. hospital deaths are down dramatically, just over 300 yesterday, new infections also down, the one set of figures, the one set of figures moving in the wrong direction our care home deaths. norman, thank you. first minister nicola sturgeon has advised the scottish public to wear face coverings in enclosed public spaces such as supermarkets or when using public transport. she said it would not be mandatory or enforced at this stage but said that would be kept under review. she's been speaking in the past half hour. the guidance also makes clear that the evidence on use of face coverings is still limited, however it recognises that there may be some benefit in wearing a face covering, if you leave the house and enter an enclosed space, where you will come into contact with multiple people and safe social distancing is difficult. for example, on public transport, or in shops. of course, just now most shops are closed so, right now this would apply in particular

to food shops. to be clear, the benefit comes mainly in places where someone might have the virus but isn't aware of that because they are not experiencing any symptoms and therefore, not isolating completely in line with the rules. so wearing a face covering in these circumstances may reduce the chance of that person transmitting the virus onto others. so the scottish government is now recommending the use of face coverings in these limited circumstances as a precautionary measure. given that the evidence is relatively weak, we are not at this stage making this mandatory or it suggesting that it will be enforced though we will be keeping that under review as we go into future phases of managing and tackling the pandemic. nicola sturgeon. as the world tries to move out of lockdowns — mass testing will be crucial to help

track and trace outbreaks and prevent further peaks. currently, most testing uses specialist machines in laboratories — and the results can take a few days. now a british firm says it's on the brink of mass—producing simple tests for coronavirus, that we could all, potentially, do at home. richard westcott reports. in a biotech lab in cambridge, these brothers have developed a small device that has the potential to be an important tool in helping to ease lockdown and get a grip on coronavirus. for the past six years they've spent millions of pounds developing a home testing kit for flu. now they've adapted it to see if you've got covid—19. so it could be used in the workplace to screen employees to allow them to know if they can safely go back to work or even one day, it could go out to mass consumer use. normally you'd need large machines and a lab to perform covid tests but they say their technology does the same job and you can use it at home. it's designed to be as simple to use

as a pregnancy test, so you would take a swab, put that up your nose, i'm not going to do that, then you put the swab into this little test tube which will be full of chemicals, swish it around, they give you a pipette, you take some of that solution out and put it into the device. close it up. and you get a result in ten minutes. it's been crazy times but really positive. everyone is really engaged and people have been doing incredibly long hours to try and push forward this programme at probably quadruple the speed we were running at on our flu programme. using a fast track system they hope to get the device validated and approved by us authorities in the next few months. and a big american manufacturer is lined up to make them. they say that should pave the way for uk approval too. we are really looking to ramp up volume over the next few months. and we'll be in the millions of tests in the next 12 months. there is no quick fix to this crisis but simple mass testing could be one way to get the world back up

and running again. it is just after a quarter past one. our top story this lunchtime... a minute's silence as the country remembers the key workers, including health and care staff, who have died during the coronavirus pandemic. and coming up... a shortage of flour on supermarket shelves as the nation turns to baking in isolation. and in sport, further doubts over the already delayed 0lympics, with japan's medical chief saying the games can't go ahead unless there's a vaccine for coronavirus. there is some good news in the story of the global pandemic. new zealand has begun easing its month—long lockdown, allowing hundreds of thousands of people back to work. the country has had one of the strictest lockdowns in the world — but factories, building sites and

some restaurants have now reopened. prime ministerjacinda ardern said the transmission of covid—19 had been "eliminated", but warned the country was not yet "out of the woods" and must stick to some social distancing. shaimaa khalil reports. together again after weeks apart. these children had been staying with her grandparents because their mother, a police officer, was at work during new zealand's lockdown. these were among the toughest self isolation measures in the world, and despite the high compliance, many families are glad it is over. for this couple, it means they can hold their grandchild for the first time. traffic is flowing across new zealand for the first time in more than a month as almost 400,000 people return to work. for many, it was clear what they missed the most

during lockdown. my chicken burger. nuggets. under the slightly relaxed rules, cafes and takeaways have been allowed to operate but without direct person—to—person contact. looking for the two having some good business, and start over, because the hospitality business has suffered a lot. despite the success here in eliminating covid—19, the prime minister urged people to remain vigilant and prevent a second wave of the virus. no one wants a second wave in new zealand and we must guard against it, so we are moving cautiously through the alert levels so we do not have to go backwards. that would be terrible for new zealanders' help, but also the economy. in australia, the famous bondi beach has reopened. swimmers and surfers rushed for the first dip after a five—week ban.

swimmers and surfers rushed for the first dip after a five-week ban. we can exercise and do the stuff we love, it is ok waves but it is fun to get in the water. more than 2 million australians have downloaded the government covid—19 contact tracing app. the government needs ten people to sign up for it to work effectively —— 10 million people. people may have returned to the beachin people may have returned to the beach in australia and neighbouring new zealand, but for both countries to keep cases low, life is not expected to go back to normal anytime soon. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, sydney. hundreds of thousands of planned operations, including cancer treatments and heart procedures, have been put on hold as the nhs focuses on coronavirus. more than 700,000 people a month have a planned procedure and with the waiting list already standing at four million, there are growing concerns about a backlog of cases. the royal college of surgeons says it will take years for the health service to catch up. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. michelle gray is living with constant pain. a slipped disc means she relies

on powerful painkillers. a simple operation to correct it was cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis. now this previously fit 73—year—old is struggling. i can't go anywhere, i can't do anything. ijust feel as if i'm losing muscle power and things like that. things that you like to keep up, especially at my age. you don't have many opportunities, and... i just feel that one small operation would change all of that. visits from her son alistair help... i've got the shopping for you. ..but he's noticed a big difference in how his mum is coping. thank you! she's now got, like, more of a grey, gaunt look about her. that the sparkle is not there. i think psychologically it's kind of affected her. also physically, the pain, it's very difficult when you're in pain to be happy and smiling as you normally are. the cancellation of operations and procedures has affected thousands of people who might have been waiting for anything from a hip operation to cancer treatment,

even heart surgery. now, it's not that they don't appreciate that the fight against covid—19 needs to be prioritised, but it's still having a very real impact on their lives. i think that it will take us many years to get back to, as it were, a good position. we need staff to remain in the health service who have rejoined, we need more operating table facilities, we need more beds, we've got to keep the independent sector going. we may need to rely on keeping some of the nightingale hospitals open. nhs bosses have insisted the health service remains open for those who need urgent treatment, for example stroke or heart attacks. but over a three—month period, in england alone, the nhs would normally carry out around two million planned operations and investigations. there were already four million people on the waiting list, so how can the health service possibly catch up? i suspect we'll have to see

a similar sort of exceptional effort on the elective and planned side of the nhs that we've seen on the emergency side over the last two or three months. one method of dealing with it is to create hospitals that just do investigations and surgery, which will be covid—free, patients and staff will be tested there and no covid patients would go there. it would need some very careful management and it would need really rigorous testing and precautions to make sure that they didn't become contaminated. michelle is one of tens of thousands who simply don't know when they'll get the help they need. as long as the nhs is battling coronavirus, they are unlikely to get an answer. dominic hughes, bbc news. people have reverted to shopping the way they did a decade ago by making one big weekly trip to the supermarket, according to the boss of tesco. chief executive dave lewis told the bbc that social distancing measures mean consumers are shopping less frequently. he was speaking to our business correspondent emma simpson.

0nline deliveries. we all want one now. tesco has taken on thousands of new temporary workers to help. like peter, he's used to flying 747s with ba until he was furloughed. 0bviously with a much reduced flying programme at the moment and increased demand here at tesco i've started driving delivery vans for tesco. extraordinary times and supermarkets have been in the thick of it. we follow a dedicated sequence of one way. the boss told me everything in his business had changed, including the ramping up of online slots. we used to, before this crisis, deliver about 600,000 deliveries to home, last week it was a million, in two weeks' time it will be 1.2 million. we would want to do more, people are still, there's still more demand than we're able to supply and it is important therefore that we keep stores as safe

as we possibly can. like other big grocers, elderly and vulnerable customers get their own time to shop. we are all adapting to the new retail rules, so are we changing how we buy? it's really very interesting. before this crisis people were looking more for unpackaged, loose produce. interestingly people are now going back to pre—packaged produce because they believe that it's a safer purchase, so it'll be interesting to see whether those sorts of trends continue after the crisis. we've also gone back to some old habits. the number of transactions in our stores has reduced significantly but the size of the basket has increased also, so people are shopping once a week, a little bit like they did ten or 15 years ago, rather than two, three or four times a week which was happening before the crisis. what do you think the impact of coronavirus will be on retail more broadly? on our high streets? i think again it's very difficult to say, obviously retail outside of food is pretty much

closed down through the crisis. the interesting thing will be to see how much of that is rebuilt when the market opens up again. i think what this crisis has shown is the importance of food retail. i think in the past perhaps a little bit we may have taken that for granted, i think during the crisis people appreciate much more how important it is so i hope that as a nation we will think carefully about food, food strategy, food distribution. after that surge in panic buying he says the food supply chain is now back in shape but nobody knows how long it will be before shopping returns to normal in the supermarket aisles. emma simpson, bbc news. with the nation confined to their homes amid the coronavirus lockdown — a rise in home baking appears to be contributing to shortages of flour on supermarket shelves. grocery sales of flour were up 92% in march — and they continue to rise. ben sidwell has been investigating. a warning, his report does contain

some flash photography they've been producing flour here at charlecote mill in hampton lucy in warwickshire since the early 1700s. but it's unlikely that any miller here has ever seen the increase in demand that they have over the past few weeks. it's just gone from being busy to being just snowed under with orders. so i'm usually milling ten tonnes about every eight weeks and at the moment i'm milling ten tonnes in about three weeks, so the demand has just grown far beyond the capacity of the building and the mill. carl's had enquiries from as far afield as turkey but says he's only supplying his flour to locals in warwickshire, although there is currently a seven week waiting list for orders. a couple of miles away in wellsborne, this bakery is not just selling bread and cakes, they are also helping keep the village supply of flour.

the only things we find difficult with are the odd pre—packaged small bags of flour, the one and a half kilo ones but as far as the big bags go, we can get as much as we want, which, if we're running out of the small ones, we individually weigh off ourselves. and loads of people are buying it because they've suddenly take up baking again, which is great. so if millers are making plenty of it and bakeries like this can get it easily and are selling flour, why are our supermarket shelves empty? well, according to the milling industry, it's not flour causing the shortage. the packing lines that we use to back those small bags of flour are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and simply cannot run any more. and they are doing that and producing twice as much flour in small bags as normal, but that's still struggling to keep pace with the level of demand. with home baking on the rise during lockdown, places like this can't produce flour quick enough. they arejust hoping the demand will remain when things eventually return to normal.

ben sidwell, bbc news. a return to normal life may be some way off — but already museums are looking at how history will look back at this lockdown period of our lives. and they want suggestions — and video images — of how you would capture this moment. and they don't want to see nice tidy rooms. they want the reality of living at home in lockdown. david sillito has more. # where have all the flowers gone? # long time passing...# so, this is a song that we did right at the beginning of the lockdown. we have singers from the royal opera house, we have singers from italy, from america, but we also have neighbours, friends, kids, all mixed together. # when will they ever learn?# where have all the flowers gone? a video made to raise money for unemployed musicians is being preserved for the nation. this is a moment in history that's unique because ofjust how much

of it has been filmed. this incredible insight into the state of mind of the nation, often within their own homes — the boredom, the frustration, the difficulty, the highs and the lows — they're all being captured on video. the fact that i can hear birdsong this loud in what is the middle of the city, the quietness, the new daily habits, there's so much to remember. and the issue for museums is — how do you capture what it feels like? how do you capture emotions? i've gotten really good at call of duty. the museum of the home, for instance, wants to hear home life has been changed... i really miss my football. ..by quarantine. we are at the beach! yeah, the beach! and they want photos. we'd like to see photographs of people's homes and, crucially, we're asking people not to tidy up. this isn't an instagram version of how people are living, we want the real deal,

we're delving deep. i mean, we want people to really dig in and tell us what they're feeling. this is our family lockdownjigsaw — 1,000 pieces looking at the world of william shakespeare — fiendishly difficult, but surprisingly addictive. maybe it's the things that have kept you going. the two most memorable things have happened in the lockdown. 0ne, my mohawk — i'd never be able to have that at school. and, two, this chicken. an object that is really important to me and means a lot to me is my wool and my yarn. 0r sights like the amazing night skies. but now is the time to think about just how we'll remember this moment. i've been playing bug bingo a lot. david sillito, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. thank you, simon. today in england and wales is a bit of a shock to the system. good news for gardeners,

growers and maybe