daily tests for coronavirus. the health secretary says it's been a national effort. it helps remove the worry, it helps keep people safe, and it will help us keep people safe, and it will help us to unlock the lockdown. tens of thousands ofjob cuts are looming —in what's been called "the worst crisis in the history of aviation". the island window seat or two and half feet away from each of them, not two metres, there is no way you can have social distancing in an aeroplane tube. a three kilometre queue for food. as india extends its lockdown for another two weeks. and in the uk, risk of death from coronavirus is twice as likely if you're from a poorer urban area, say new official figures. as we've been hearing the government's reached its target of testing 100,000 per day,

on the last day of april. but efforts to increase testing will continue. labour's shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth has welcomed the news but says testing is only part of the solution. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk it part of the solution. is welcome that testing has and around the world. increased, it is welcome that testing has increased, but testing, the testing tens of thousands ofjob cuts figure in itself is not a strategy, are looming in what's been called "the worst crisis what we need is a proper contact in the history of aviation". i think we can be sure facing strategy, that's what we have that there will be more big been calling for, that is going to announcements to come in terms been calling for, that is going to be crucial in breaking the chains of of cuts and i also don't think any airline is really safe at the moment. transmission, so, testing, yes. you the uk government announces it has also need to find people with the exceeded its target of 100,000 virus, isolate them commit and do daily tests for coronavirus. the health secretary says it's contract tracing. and we need that been a national effort. integrated strategy, we need to use it helps remove the worry, oui’ integrated strategy, we need to use our expertise and local governments, it helps keep people safe, and it they should be mobilised to him and will help us to unlock the lockdown. perhaps we should use some of the 750,000 volunteers which signed up us presidential contenderjoe biden to help the nhs in this process, but makes his first public remarks on a claim of sexual assault nearly a lot of them have not yet been 30 years ago, saying the alleged mobilised, so we are urging the incident never happened. government to put in place a testing spain's beaches are empty and it's a bleak outlook

isolation and tracing strategy, because that's how we will get over for its vital tourism industry — this virus in the future. we'll take a look at if mass tourism we can now speak to dr bharat pankhania from the university of exeter medical school. he's a former infectious disease doctor for public health england. dr pankhania joins us now from bath. doctor, is the uk now testing properly? no, no. no, not at all. i'm so sorry to be saying that in such blunt terms, we cannot test without contact tracing, and the two have to be conducted together. furthermore, we need a strategy of who you are going to test, and how you are going to test. so there are a numberof you are going to test. so there are a number of hurdles. furthermore, to say that we are testing, when actually, the tests have gone out in the post, is not the same as having tests in the laboratory done today. they are in the post. that's not testing. so, the attention on the figure of 100,000 is not worth it? it's not. because what we need to do is horses for courses. in other words, we need to test where needed,

and as much is needed, rather than have an arbitrary figure of 100,000, and we need to identify who are the highest risk people, and test them first. test them properly. contact trace all of those positive results. the government present a defence to that would be that it has identified a number of criteria for testing, people who have symptoms, older people, key workers, care home workers, people in hospitals, that this isn't simply random, there is a thought behind it, and that contact tracing has already been scheduled. good. and we need to have a larger contract traces, and furthermore, as we know, the tests have a 30% error rate. in other words commit 30% of cases, their answers are falsely negative. so what we need to do is combine the test results together with the signs and symptoms, and then gets a case, not the case, idea of individuals. and then identify their contacts, and pull both the

contacts and the cases out of circulation. there is a lot of work to do. for those of our reviewers who do not follow the medicine in the science everyday, can you explain from the beginning what contact tracing is? yes, it was very much in art and craft. you have got to meticulously identify from the case where they have been during the period when they were most infectious. and what i would do well when i used to do these things, is break the day up for that person into little quadrants, so i would say things like what were you doing at breakfast? which cafe did you go to? where did you have lunch? which office did you go to? by asking those questions in quadrants, you get a pretty good idea of where they've been, who they have been in contact with, and then do the necessary. 0f contact with, and then do the necessary. of course, when they have been on tubes, buses, trains, etc, we cannot identify those contracts, but, maybe technology will help in those areas where we cannot identify

their near contacts. can i give you an example to see if we can do it that way. lets go for a walk in high park, a huge part, of course, and thenl park, a huge part, of course, and then i later take a test that day to find out that i've been infected. would contact tracing then need to track down everyone who was in the park that day, or those i physically brushed past? how would that work? so we would have a criteria. some people you were in close proximity to over a people you were in close proximity to overa ten people you were in close proximity to over a ten minute period. so close proximity within two metres or three metres, that sort of boundary, so three metres, that sort of boundary, so close proximity, and a prolonged period of time, ten minutes, so, of course, period of time, ten minutes, so, of course , we period of time, ten minutes, so, of course, we don't want to test the whole of hyde park, only the close proximity. so, even if i accidentally touch someone from i could've left the virus on them, but contact tracing would not count that, because that wasn't a ten minute long contact. indeed. we really need that prolonged contact, and we have got to draw a line

somewhere, and ten minutes sounds like a reasonable length of time to get infected from an infectious person. and what i've read on the bbc website, phone tracing is incredibly labour—intensive, sometimes there are a0 phone calls per infected person. there is going to be tech involved, a mobile phone app, buti to be tech involved, a mobile phone app, but i can only work if vast numbers of smartphone users, 80% of users, take part, would that happen? this is the point. and this is why people like myself have been very concerned about the software being used. so we had the apple slash google venture, which, unfortunately, the government has turned down, and google and apple have got a track record on getting things right, and i can't understand why the uk government decided to have centralised data collection and inve nt have centralised data collection and invent a new application when we have got world leading companies with an out already in place, which other countries have also adapted. what's wrong with a central system?

with a central system, there is a lot of data plus your location data of where you have been in one central place. so there is an issue around people saying "i don't want all of my data to go to one central place for the government. " all of my data to go to one central place for the government." because there is a lot of anxiety, especially around what happened during brexit and analytically using a lot of data. so there is, as we say, loss of faith. and that's why it's important to take people with us it's important to take people with us and use an application that won't be due —— will be doing that centralised collection of data. 0ther centralised collection of data. other countries have engaged in contact tracing, singapore, germany, hong kong. what have you learned from what they have done? they have done a marvellousjob. they have unleashed an army of people, contract traces, well—trained, to meticulously identify a lot of their contacts thoroughly and in good time, record time, and pull everybody out of circulation. interestingly enough, the south

koreans used both technology and shoe leather, and we mustn'tjust rely on technology all stopped shoe leather is important. doctor, really interesting to talk to you. thank you so much. thank you. people living in more deprived areas of england and wales are more than twice as likely to die if they become infected with coronavirus than those living in more affluent areas, that's according to the office for national statistics, as our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan explained. if we look at this graph, which shows all deaths in england in the six weeks since the 1st of march, you will see that on the right—hand side, that's the pooer areas of the country, and you will see that they have the most deaths with the richer areas on the left—hand side. if we now add in deaths that are covid—19 related, then you can see the difference, you can see that people in poor communities are dying disproportionately. now, we think of london, for instance, it has seen the highest levels of deaths, but the city has not suffered equally.

all deaths in an area like this, which is quite poor, is about one half times higher than they are in a richer area or like bromley. but if you add in covid—related deaths, then they are two and a half times higher, and that gives an indication of what's going on. public health officials will want to examine the data closely, but they will certainly be looking at certain things, such as underlying health conditions, cardiovascular disease, obesity, they are worse in poor areas. they will be looking at how close people live together, notjust in blocks or flats, but in households. levels of overcrowding, and we will also be looking at economic things, like can people who live in poor areas, is it harderfor them to actually work from home? it's an ongoing situation, but it seems that we went into this crisis unequally, and we are going to exit it unequally as well. michael buchanan there. there've been tributes paid to two members of the yorkshire ambulance service, who've died after contracting coronavirus. the role of paramedics has become increasingly dangerous in recent months —

they're the first point of contact for patients that have become seriously ill with the disease. 0ur correspondent emma vardy has spent a day with paramedics in northern ireland, where many are now living in hotels to keep their families safe. covid positive. in the battle against the virus, these are the emergency responders when symptoms become too much. they never know quite what they are heading towards and saving lives now carries its own risk. the first call is to a care home. it is a rush to put on protective equipment when every second counts. we know it is a 93—year—old male who has taken unwell. he is covid positive. that is really, unfortunately, all we know right now until we go in. every day, paramedics have to make difficult decisions about who they take to hospital. this time, the patient remains at the home. he is nine days positive.

with dementia, it is hard, as well. because they don't understand. what is covid to a 93—year—old? paramedics now carry a heavier burden than ever. because of the pandemic, they are often the last people families see when loved ones are taken away. a sad situation. no matter what you go into hospital with, you are going in on your own. it may be covid, it may be a heart attack, a stroke, may be an accident. you are going in on your own. in northern ireland alone, the ambulance service is receiving up to 300 covid related calls each day. your chest and your breathing. a lady with covid symptoms, managing at home. just felt this morning may be a wee bit short of breath.

while our health services attempt to weather the storm of coronavirus, other hazards in life continue. we are going to a 25—year—old rtc down a ditch. it makes it a wee bit different. you are actually happy to see a different type of call, compared to... bear with me, we are around here somewhere. here we go, we are right on it. wow. i was slamming on the horn and shouting and nobody can hear me. darling, you are very lucky to have got out. she somehow managed to crawl out through the front windscreen and got herself to the verge. she is very settled, honestly she is. normally, family would travel in the ambulance. but, despite the ordeal, they must go home. unfortunately, you cannot go to the hospital. it is hard. i appreciate it is hard. 0k?

listen, take care, all right? her phone is in that car, so even she is anxious. she is down here on her own. being strapped up, it gets scary. the virus is an ever present fear. 27 front line ambulance staff in northern ireland have tested positive for coronavirus and hundreds more of work with suspected cases across the uk. i think they are absolutely amazing. i do not know how they do it. especially now more than ever, putting their own health at risk and their family's health at risk. for today, the pa ramedics' work is over. it is draining, a 12—hour shift. what is striking is the personal sacrifices many are making to keep going. to protect her family, tina has moved into a hotel. i miss my daughter.

and i miss my parents who live across the street. i miss home. yeah. that report was by emma vardy. the uk government has scrapped sales tax on purchases of personal protective equipment for the next three months — in a bid to help care homes, charities and businesses which rely on it. but buying and sourcing ppe still remains a huge challenge, with some companies paying thousands of pounds for orders that never arrive. 0ur north of england correspondent judith moritz has more. we go and we do all personal care, meal preparation, medication. we go in to everybody and treat everybody as an individual. every day, vulnerable people depend on tracy and home carers like her. their visits are vital, giving care in the community, but the risk of covid—19 is high, so she has to wear ppe. us going in protecting

ourselves is one thing, but we need to protect our clients. it's their lives we are protecting, so we need to be geared up and prepared to protect them. but this is where tracy gets her ppe, and the stocks are running perilously low. the agency which employs her has almost run out. these are the surgical masks, so we've got 300 left in stock for this branch. how long will that last you? they will last us half a day. the agency's normal supplier can't get hold of stock, so they've had to look elsewhere, and that's meant buying from the internet. it's like the wild west. we are in a situation where we don't know who we are dealing with. and you had yourfingers burned? yeah, absolutely. we've put orders in for 100,000 masks. we had to pay upfront, as we are required with all suppliers at the moment, and the stock's never come. and this isn't small change. no. £60,000. do you think you will run out? and what happens then?

will you have to withdraw care? withdrawing care, for us, is the very, very, very last resort, and we hope we don't get to that situation. websites like this have sprung up in response to the demand for ppe, but they are not responsible for the deals which are listed on them. separately, there has also been a boom in spam e—mails offering ppe. i probably get between ten and 20 e—mails every single day offering all sorts of ppe that actually i know isn't available. nhs managers are being offered stock at exorbitant prices. even from reputable suppliers, what are the sorts of price hikes you are seeing? i was recently approached by a company that we've previously used offering coveralls for £16.50. because we've used them before, i was able to look at their previous catalogue, and in january, they were selling them for £2. now, there's no amount of supply chain issues or demand and supply that could demand that sort of pay rise, and this, to me,

is blatant profiteering. completely unacceptable. i'm just going to pop the hood on now. but back at the home care company, staff are still being fitted for ppe while stocks last. all the way round the edges. but they worry that when lockdown eventually eases, the demand for face masks will surge, making them even harder to get hold of. judith moritz, bbc news, crewe. social care workers in wales will be given a one—off payment of 500 pounds in recognition for their work. it will be available to nearly 65,000 care home workers and home—ca re assistants across the country. the first minister of wales, mark drakeford said the payment was to recognise the greater degree of risk these workers were exposed to. an appeal for seasonal workers to help pick crops has seen a boost in domestic workers applying for thejobs. britons who've found themselves out of work are responding to industry appeals — as coronavirus continues to cut off the usual flow of european labour.

the sector says there's a shortage of 70—thousand workers needed to deliver this season's harvest. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent sarah corker reports. they answered the call from farmers for a modern—day land army. laid—off and furloughed staff up at dawn picking vegetables near thirsk in north yorkshire. in this group, there is a cleaner, a landscape gardener, an outdoor sports teacher, and nathan, a ski instructor, all out of work. it is physical, it hurts your back. i think you get used to it the more you do it. i mean, i definitely recommend it to anyone sitting at home watching netflix. this is nathanjust six weeks ago in the alps. when the ski resorts closed, his income disappeared. he was forced to swap his skis for this. if someone had told you that you'd be in a field in yorkshire picking asparagus, what would you have said to them? iwould have said, no, thanks. he laughs. but no, honestly, it's fine.

it's probably one of the best things going right now. coronavirus restrictions have almost cut off the supply of workers from eastern europe, and most brits haven't previously wanted to do this tough work. but, for sixth—former charles, this is his firstjob. it's a huge difference — to go just from having easy school life, straight into this sort of work. it's definitely a lot more difficult. i prefer this to working in a shop or something, because it's more active, obviously. across the uk, there is an acute shortage of more than 70,000 farm workers, and some of those who are packing asparagus here in north yorkshire responded to a post on social media. i quite enjoy it, coming out of the house to a different place, a different environment that is not with my brothers and sisters and just at home fighting. so far, recruiters say the appeal for workers has only resulted in hundreds ofjobs rather than the thousands needed later in the season.

many more must sign up to stop the crops rotting in the field. sarah corker, bbc news, north yorkshire. we will soon be entering our seventh week of lockdown, in the greatest restriction on daily life since world war two. the vast majority of people in the uk are obeying the lockdown rules — and new research suggests many would be uncomfortable leaving home, even if the government ordered an easing of restrictions in a months time. our home editor mark easton reports. has anyone had any symptoms yet? in a warehouse in north london, a group of 20 young people have been documenting their lives in lockdown. this whole crisis right now is quite stressful. surveys show younger people are struggling with the restriction much more than older people. just been trying to self—isolate. a2% of 18—2a—year—olds say they are not coping — more than twice the proportion of the over 65s. younger people are less likely to have secure employment or accommodation. many have been furloughed or made unemployed.

busy social lives put on hold. they have just cancelled glastonbury. that is in june. i don't have any money. the warehouse community tell me they feel lucky to have each other, but there is still a sense of lost opportunities. i am, like, 23. and trying to like plan my next steps. feeling for a moment that it was like 0k, i could literally choose anything, there are so many different paths you can take. and then those all sort of being closed in. i think that's quite hard to deal with. i'm worried about what happens once the furlough stops. we have assembled a cross—section of 18—2a year olds from around britain to get a sense of how younger people are coping. me and my partner have isolated separately, because we are both still living at home. itjust puts a massive strain on just your mental wellbeing. it sounds horrible, but we have kind of run out of things to talk about. without a routine, i do not have that drive to do things that other people do and that is what i am finding quite hard, just having something to get up for every day. how hard has it been having been furloughed or lost your jobs,

just thinking about money and indeed your careers? the pay i get now is like nothing compared to what i've been getting. it is so hard now. i don't like being stuck at home. you don't know if you are going to get a job. are going to be able to afford your accommodation. so, at the moment, i'vejust got really bad anxiety. can i ask, have any of you being tempted to break the rules, to think, oh, to hell with this? quite a few of you. sometimes, when they say don't go and meet your friends, i stilljust go. because sometimes when you are stuck in your house, you feel like, not necessarily trapped, but you want to go and do certain stuff. across the wider population, many people will be uncomfortable leaving home, even if the restrictions ended in the next month. more than 60% say they would be nervous about going to bars or restaurants, or using public transport. 0ver a0% would be uncomfortable about going shopping, or sending children to school. and more than 30% will be worried about going to work or meeting friends. coming out of lockdown will bring its own pressures,

especially if partial relaxation undermines the sense of collective effort. the next weeks and months will be a test of our nation's character and resolve. mark easton, bbc news, north london. over the past month, we've heard from many people who've pulled through after contracting covid—19. this week, stephen parker, a former member of the armed forces, left critical care at poole hospital to a round of applause from staff after 35 days with coronavirus. he's been speaking to duncan kennedy about his ordeal. we clap for them, but they also clap for us. hard not to, when it is this man, steve parker, who has just come out of intensive care after five weeks. there cannot be many people who survived 35 days in intensive care and in a coma? i don't know. people were probably happy i was asleep! when steve finally woke up, he had no idea where he was.

i actually thought i was in new zealand, when i woke up. one of the nurses came in. i said, what time did the boat arrive? she said, you are in poole harbour. he fought in the first gulf war and knows his is a remarkable story of recovery. apparently, i died three times. i'm alive. i've been shot at, i've been blown up, all sorts of things. but that, that is scary. steve was poole hospital's first ever covid patient. no wonder they are proud. it has been an unbelievably busy time both in preparation and treating the patients and actually to see our first patient survive and come out in good spirits has been a huge morale boost for the whole team. steve's gratitude for the nhs is now matched only by the love for his favourite beverage. the nhs, it gets

knocked, it gets hit. it is probably the best thing we have in this country. i am not a student, i am nothing like that. i am just a normal bloke. i want to see people be happy, people do well. oh, and drink tea. duncan kennedy, bbc news. stephen parker, what a survivor. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good evening. we've seen plenty of turbulent skylines throughout the last couple of days and some hefty downpours to go with them, but, equally, a little bit of sunshine in between. however, those hefty showers will continue to keep coming, as we go through the rest of this evening, and it's all down to this area of low pressure. now, that will meander a little bit further eastwards, away from the british isles through the weekend, allowing a decrease in the activity, the shower activity, but, certainly, some torrential downpours this evening, with hail and thunder.

and the heavy downpours prolonged in the north will continue elsewhere. these showers will become less frequent. and under the starry skies, it will turn quite chilly once again. which means that saturday morning will dawn on a cool but quite bright night, and we are hopeful that this weekend, we will see fewer showers, the winds will be later, so a little bit more sunshine around, it will feel warmer. but it won't be completely dry, certainly not closer to the area of low pressure. so for those areas of northern scotland, across northern england, probably with the northwesterly breeze coming down through the cheshire gap, there will be showers around, i wouldn't like to roll them out. it's a northerly breeze as well, despite being lighter across the north of scotland, it will limit the temperature to about 9—10d. so quite a few heavy showers around still into the afternoon across the scottish hills, into the north of england. 1—2 elsewhere can't be ruled, out northern island, for example, but by and large, there will be fewer than there have been in recent days, and it will feel a little bit warmer, but you can still see those

showers continuing into the evening. and overnight, into sunday morning, again, under the starry sky, it will turn chilly. we could be close to price levels in the glens of scotland, for example, with a little bit of mist and fog around, but what we will find on sunday is, again, there is a risk of a few showers, a chance of a few showers, not as many as recent days. and probably a little bit more cloud coming into the south and west as well, so hazy rather than sunny here, still, with light winds, temperatures should get into the mid to high teens. there could just be a few outbreaks of rain tied in with that week weather front that's coming in, it's trying to come in from the southwest, it's coming into high—pressure. now, that high—pressure will move in across many northern areas, keeping the rain or the weather fronts at bay, but in the south, it does look as if we are in for some more rain on tuesday, but it looks then to clear away by wednesday. as ever, there's more on the website. 00:27:47,492 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 bye— bye.