this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. adults are allowed outdoors to exercise in spain for the first time in almost seven weeks as the country eases its strict lockdown rules: it feels like an historical moment, you know? with everybody out like this. so i'm very happy about this, and i think that people are respecting the rules. thousands of people sign up for trials in the uk to see if blood plasma from covid—19 survivors can help other critically ill patients. an experimental drug is authorised by us officials for emergency use on severely—ill coronavirus patients. commuters in the uk could be asked to take their temperature before leaving home. it's one of the measures being considered for when the coronavirus lockdown is eased. a smartphone app — to track coronavirus cases —

is made compulsory for all public and private sector workers in india. and uk prime minister boris johnson and his fiancee carrie symonds name their baby boy wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson. welcome to bbc news — we're bringing you all the latest coronavirus developments from the uk and around the world. we start this hour in spain where people have been allowed outside to exercise for the first time in seven weeks, after one of the strictest lockdowns in europe. they can now do any form of exercise outside, but only during set hours, as our europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports.

onto empty streets, tentatively, spaniards began emerging today, released from 48 days of confinement. then the numbers began to swell. adults first, allowed out to take a walk, to exercise for the first time in weeks. until now, the only acceptable reasons for leaving your home were to buy food or go to the chemist. this is fantastic. it's amazing. the first time i ride with my bike this morning, it was incredible, really incredible to get some fresh air in your face. i think, it is all crazy, i don't see any social distancing. i did not

think i would find 1000 people running around like nothing happened. everything does what they want, if people want to catch it, let them catch it, but this will mean in 15—20 days we will all be locked at home again. amazing, yes, the truth is i've felt this is going too fast, everything that is happening, but i must admit this is amazing. some clearly wanted to capture the moment. for others, just being out in the sunshine was a relief. then at ten in the morning, it all changed. adults back indoors so the elderly could have two hours to themselves. and, after midday, children. spain is giving different age groups specific time outdoors to limit the chances the most vulnerable can catch the virus. with this relaxation, spain's government is dipping a cautious toe in the waters to see what happens. if virus cases continue to trend downwards, there will be more easing in the coming days.

if they surge up again, well, the lockdown will come back. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. charis ramsing joins us from valencia — she's originally from the united states but is studying in spain. you are smiling, is that a smile of relief at the freedom this morning? definitely, it felt so good to be outside. what time it where you out and what did you do?” outside. what time it where you out and what did you do? i was out at 730, this is the city of running so i was running. how many others? everyone when you let everyone out of the same time, that is what is going to be expected. a euphoric feeling? definitely. were you aware of yourself and everybody else? what will you soaking in? —— were.

of yourself and everybody else? what will you soaking in? -- were. the first time i had been outside apart from supermarket trips and i was so excited to be outside. it has been hot here, in the 30s, so it felt amazing to be outside. there were a lot of people so i was trying to be conscious of staying away. runners are supposed to be ten metres away from others because we cannot wear a mask for running. that is physically impossible, but i tried to dodge as many people as i could and was trying to be very conscious, but a lot of people were out. at least you we re lot of people were out. at least you were trying to but some people have been a bit too relaxed, some have voiced a concern, but it must have been a relief after what has been a very strictly policed lockdown in spain. yes, there have been helicopters around every morning. that must have been weird. which pa rt that must have been weird. which part of the united states are you from? maryland, next to washington, dc. how long have you been in spain? since september. you had been there

through the autumn and the winter, then, you come out the other side, and then it lockdown, so what kind of space have you been living in, are you in a flat? i'm in a small flat with some roommates from my masters programme, and we have been here, thankfully we have a nice balcony, but definitely smaller. as far as the policing goes, that was pretty shocking. especially being from the states where we are proud of ourfreedom. from the states where we are proud of our freedom. having the police everywhere and drones and helicopters roaming about, that has been quite shocking to me. someone received a knock on the door at nine o'clock in the morning in the middle of spain in a tiny village and found three policemen at the door and then took their photograph and gave them a facemask. very different feeling. in countries like yours and even a

country like the uk, not used to this level of intensive and direct blues influence on their daily lives. —— direct influence. blues influence on their daily lives. -- direct influence. yes, in spain as well, they are not happy with it. is it ten times harder to go back in after being out? with it. is it ten times harder to go back in after being ounm with it. is it ten times harder to go back in after being out? it is hard, of course, but having the freedom to go outside, running and walking, that is hugely important. so many people have said back home they can still go outside, but i'm sitting here thinking, i can't go outside, so it feels wonderful to go outside, so it feels wonderful to go outside, even if it isjust outside, so it feels wonderful to go outside, even if it is just for outside, so it feels wonderful to go outside, even if it isjust for a short time once a day, i'm thankful for that. you will be out again tomorrow? definitely. every day. thanks forjoining us. you and thousands of others around spain would have enjoyed this morning and we hope they will be many more to come. thousands of people have registered to take part in a trial — that uses blood plasma from people

who have had coronavirus, and since recovered, to treat sick patients. it's one of the latest trials in progress aimed at tackling the virus. meanwhile, in the united states, emergency approval has been given for an experimental drug that was used for treating ebola. it comes as ministers here prepare to announce plans for lifting some of the restrictions in place across the uk. laura foster reports. every day, scientists around the world are getting closer to finding a solution to the coronavirus pandemic. here in the uk, it's hoped this golden liquid could mean victory. this is blood plasma, and donations are now being collected from people who have had covid—i9. hospital doctor zahid safas is one of them. every step we are taking right now at a government level, hospital level is to find a cure for this disease, which has affected millions of people around the world, so i feel really privileged

and excited that i am playing a role in that. when somebody becomes ill, their immune system produces antibodies to fight the virus. the idea is, if these can be given to someone else, it will help them recover more quickly. an important treatment for hospitalised coronavirus patients... meanwhile, in the united states, the drug remdesivir has received emergency approval — not full approval, but a trial has shown it reduced the time people spent in hospital with covid—i9. but experts warn it isn't a magic bullet. remdesivir was developed as a treatment for ebola and despite showing very high promise in laboratory studies it failed to show any real effect when used in the field. the british government says the peak of infections is now behind us. one way to avoid a second peak involves following the movements of millions of people in the uk, a process called test, track and trace. when somebody develops a new infection, we immediately try and assess them, get them tested, find out

where they got the infection from, who they were in touch with and who they've been in touch with, and contact their contacts to give them advice and, by doing that, you can control the spread of the infection quite quickly. but that alone will not be enough to get us out of lockdown. now the government has to work out a way to get the country and economy moving again while still keeping the population safe. laura foster, bbc news. the indian government has made it compulsory for all public and private sector employees to use a smartphone app designed to trace people who may have been infected with coronavirus. the move comes as delhi starts to ease some of its lock down measures in lower—risk areas. the app, called ‘bridge to healthcare', was launched last month. it alerts users who have come in contact with people later found to be positive for covid—i9. privacy campaigners are concerned about how the collected data might infringe people's privacy.

while the world races to find a vaccine for covid—i9, many countries are using contact tracing to help reduce the spread of the virus. it involves tracking down anyone that somebody with an infection may have had contact with in the days before they became ill. it's being used extensively by countries including singapore and germany, and the uk is planning to roll out its contact tracing app later this month. to discuss this subject we're joined by mike beck, global head of threat analysis at the cyber defence company darktrace. dr linda bauld is professor of public health, at the university of edinburgh. mike, let me ask you about the india example, it is quite a good one because we have a situation where india is saying everybody has got to use this and everybody who is a private or public sector employee has got to use it and presumably it has got to use it and presumably it has the potential to be universal or at least much more significant in terms of the portion of the

population who could be covered by it. absolutely. the news today from india has been very interesting. it is one of those things where from a privacy perspective it sends a shiver because actually the government are forcing people to run this app they are taking that data and it means they get very good penetration —— and they are taking that data. they are getting good penetration of the population, but from a privacy perspective, as is —— a citizen, the government is clearly watching my movements. whether it is done automatically or people have follow—up data, or whether the data is automated and anonymized as presumably it would be in many

countries... linda, can i ask you, from your perspective, what is the value of contact tracing in terms of its public health use? it is very current and all over the newspapers but this is something we have used in public health over many years. in sexual health, for example, when somebody has developed a condition we need to trace their contacts or indeedin we need to trace their contacts or indeed in previous epidemics it's been used in other countries. it is a basic principle and essentially the old—fashioned approach is using a workforce, so volunteers or trained people, and the training is not complex, overseen by people with clinical skills who will identify if someone has symptoms or if they have had a positive test, and they will follow u p had a positive test, and they will follow up systematically of the contacts they have been in touch with stop in terms of this virus, what we are looking for is people who have been in contact with within two metres for at least 15 minutes

and all those people then given advice to stay at home at least for seven days. you are making the point that it seven days. you are making the point thatitis seven days. you are making the point that it is at least 15 minutes and this increases the chances that these are contacts known to the person who has become ill, whether it is family, work colleagues, people they socialise with, and presumably, though, when you are dealing with something on an epidemic proportion, especially in senses if there was another surge of the infection, it would be useful to have this kind of automated data which would allow you to scoop up people who you might not have been aware you had been in contact with but the evidence would show, yes, you had been in close proximity with them for long enough to have given them for long enough to have given them potentially the virus? there is a very good modelling paper from my colleagues in oxford which are modelled and showed that the app will be much quicker. it will be able to respond immediately in terms of someone has symptoms and getting

in touch with people who have been close to, but as you point out, if there is contact with others, for example, ina there is contact with others, for example, in a retail outlet or in a market, the app can send the alert to people who were in that area potentially, and the old—fashioned example, people would not realise who they have come into contact with. technology allows us to do these things potentially instantaneously when you have the structure and the phone is in receipt of the data and can transmit the data, but presumably to reach some parts of the population that don't have smartphone technology, they may have mobile phones but not they may have mobile phones but not the kind that have apps on them, that raises practical difficulties about how comprehensive the system can be? it does, and the first thing

to say is that the government are probably looking at this because it gives them an immense amount of scale. it is incredible, the number of data points they can get from the population accessing the smartphone market but there are still huge parts of the uk that still don't see smartphone usage and when you look at the comparison of some of the very popular apps out there, we are still not seeing the comparison levels that we would need to make this work. in technical terms, levels that we would need to make this work. in technicalterms, is it all very doable? is some of this pioneering work? it is all very doable in technical terms, and there are essentially a couple of approaches out there and different nations are looking at these. one is the centralised approach where you ta ke the centralised approach where you take in the data points you need and process the data centrally. the other approach is to decentralise

and have handsets talk to nearby handsets. the approaches are well trodden and would kind of work technically. from your perspective, linda, is a public health specialist, this would have been especially useful at the start of the outbreak, so can it still be a valuable tool at this stage when we are talking about having potentially reached the peak and hoping to look toa reached the peak and hoping to look to a declined but obviously fearful ofa to a declined but obviously fearful of a second wave or at least hotspots of infection? this approach will be central, contract tracing to get through this, so as you know, they set up an initial contract tracing early in the epidemic and then basically stopped building the infrastructure which many of us have said was a mistake. it is only going to be feasible when cases are lower

in the system can be managed. it will be able to tell us very quickly if cases are rising especially in geographical areas, it is not a popular concept to think about more restrictions, but that is what is happening in other parts of the world. india has green, orange and red zones in terms of cases so everyone needs to recognise that although there are concerns around privacy, the key thing is for me are upscaling the public health workforce and also reassuring people, getting the governance of the technology right. so people are comfortable using it. presumably the apps could be used for any public health emergency? sadly, we may be in this situation again, although hopefully not with the virus we are dealing with now, but countries like singapore and south korea and hong kong, the reason they have the infrastructure especially for the old—fashioned contract tracing its because they have seen similar epidemics before on a smaller scale,

so we epidemics before on a smaller scale, so we need to put it in place and recognise it is probably going to be here to stay. to both of you, thanks for joining here to stay. to both of you, thanks forjoining us. fascinating topic. the healthcare service in england is urging parents not to avoid routine vaccination appointments for their children. there are fears that diseases like measles and mumps could make a return if immunisations fall because patients are scared of catching coronavirus when they visit a health centre or gp surgery. anna collinson reports. the idea has been likened to a fast—food drive through. you pull up, and you get yourjab. hello, beautiful. in this case, an mmr vaccine to protect i3—month—old safah from measles and mumps. well done. this drive—through may not be as fun, but doctors say a few tears are worth it for essential vaccinations. three weeks ago, this surgery saw

a big drop in vaccinations. patients said they were scared they would come into contact with coronavirus in the waiting rooms. hello, daddy. how are you? so, they started vaccinating outside the surgery, and people can come by car or on foot. perfect, thank you, so much. so, the first part where there would be a verbal explanation is done on the telephone and the nurse comes outjust to give the injection, so the face—to—face contact is only two minutes, not ten minutes, and goes back in and all the records are written up without the patient there. despite pressures from covid—i9, medical officials in england, wales and scotland all agree essential vaccinations need to continue, unless a person is experiencing symptoms. they say it's essential in preventing outbreaks of diseases. if you are due a routine immunisation, so it's either your baby or child or if you are pregnant, please get in touch with your surgery and keep your appointment. there are going to be

people watching, saying, even though you've got this new set—up, coming to the doctors is just too risky because of coronavirus, what would you say to them? please come and protect your children. life is all about risks and benefits. the benefits of having your children vaccinated is so much greater. it would be a tragedy, and i feel i would have failed, if we saw measles or diphtheria make a comeback. thank you so much, daddy! 0k. anna collinson, bbc news. bars, shops and restaurants have been closed for weeks here in the uk — but advance orders they made months ago have still been coming into warehouses — but those goods have nowhere to go. that's causing problems for the companies which run the warehouses, as they make profit from the movement of items through their premises. it means morejobs on the line, as katy austin reports. it's —18 degrees inside this redditch cold store, and business as usual is also on ice. frozen fish and puddings that

would usually go out to pub kitchens or restaurants are stuck here instead. it's mainly destined for pubs, restaurants, cafes. all of which now are obviously closed, so deliveries out of our cold store have come to rather an abrupt standstill. industries that serve food have all but shut down, but goods are still coming in because they've been ordered weeks or months before, and that means that cold stores like this one are pretty much full. that's a problem, because this place makes most of its money from moving stock in and out. freezers being full is nowhere near enough to cover all our costs. most companies like ourselves work on fairly tight margins and high fixed costs. staff have been furloughed in an effort to make ends meet, but sarah says she'll need further support in coming months. even this vast chilled warehouse in wakefield has furloughed some staff. ice cream and chips

are going out to supermarkets but not to fast food chains like mcdonald's. we think the changes we've made will see us through the foreseeable future but until the hospitality industry picks up, nobody can say for sure. but there's concern whether all the cold stores can survive until that time comes. we're effectively working in emergency mode, right now. we're not serving at the right capacity and the network's got holes in it. i guess the concern is that when we project forward a number of weeks, that's not sustainable and what worries me is in the recovery not having the network there to actually service the ongoing needs in the medium term. non—food warehouses are full, too. this one in birmingham is stacked floor—to—ceiling with home furniture, stairlift parts and much more. e—commerce is still flowing, albeit at a reduced rate. however, with the retailers, because their distribution centres aren't open, we're actually still holding a lot of the stock here. examples of that could be john lewis or tk maxx. there would normally be lots of hustle and

bustle in this location from all the outbound orders. however, because we have 50% of our staff on furlough due to the lack of activity at this site, that's why it's so quiet. it's still not known when the lockdown will thaw so things can get moving again. for now, the future for warehouses and their staff is uncertain. katy austin, bbc news. figures now for fatalities figures now forfatalities in england that have been announced by the british government. just to confirm, 20,853 deaths so far in hospitals in england since the outbreak of covid—i9 and the figure rose by 370 in the 2a hours to saturday and 25 of those did not have underlying health conditions, so that is a category which causes concern for doctors, no reason why

the covid figures would have happened like that. we will hope to get the uk wide figure in due course. but for now, you are watching, bbc news. borisjohnson and his fiance carrie symonds have announced the name of their baby boy. our political correspondent jonathan blake has been giving me all the details. the news has come from carrie symond's instagram account this afternoon and she has posted a picture of herself and the baby.. the caption tells the name and a few details about the little boy and it says she is introducing wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson who was born on the 29th of april at nine o'clock in the morning. those names, she explains, wilfred is after boris's grandfather,

lawrie after her grandfather, and nicholas after the two doctors who saved boris's life last month. she goes on to thank the incredible nhs maternity team at university college london that looked after them so well. we were not sure which hospital the baby was born in but that has now confirmed it. ucl hospital. she ends the post by saying she could not be happier and her heart is full. we can only see the top half but he has a fine head of hair. that is the one thing you can notice. he will take after his father in terms of his hair, it is fair to say. and his grandfather stanley, although he was born in 1940, is over 80 now, and has a fine head of hair to this day. wilfred was an adopted name apparently because stanley's father

had a different name originally because he was of turkish descent. wilfred was his adopted name. boris has spoken about his turkish roots but nothing too extravagant in the naming for baby wilf there. it is interesting they have taken the name nicholas from those two doctors. they say they saved his life last month which is an insight into how serious things work for the prime minister. he said himself it could have gone either way when he was in intensive care and the couple clearly paying tribute to the doctors and nurses who looked after borisjohnson when he was in hospital. what a tumultuous few weeks it has been for both of them. yes, possibly nearly losing his life and then the joy of the birth of his new baby son and then the instant family unit created. a real seesaw of emotions. he's now back in charge, doing the job he wanted all of his life,

to be prime minister, in the middle, perhaps, the biggest crisis we have faced for decades. what a time for baby wilfred to arrive. he's not going to take paternity leave anytime soon, maybe later in the year, but there are pressing matters at hand for him to get a grip of and take care of and that is why he is back at work full—time. he was there for the birth, we were told, on wednesday morning, but very soon after that back in downing street and getting on with things. the family will live above no ten, or the flat above no 11, actually. is there enough room for a new baby in that? i'm not had a look round, so i'm not entirely sure! other prime ministerial families have lived in there. david cameron and tony blair both famously said it was not ideal for family life when you have several children running around but i think the three of them will find enough space. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett.

hello again. much of the country will end the day dry with some sunshine but we've still got a few showers into the evening, running down across scotland into north—east england, towards lincolnshire by this stage and one or two still for northern ireland. those showers will fade away and overnight we will see the cloud increasing in the south—west of england and wales, thickening up to give a little light rain or drizzle. pretty mild here, elsewhere i think it's going to be a cool but probably frost free night. i think it will probably dry off through today in the south—west of england and wales but stay quite cloudy. some of the cloud affecting south—east england. quickly, we'll see showers developing in northern scotland, a few arriving in northern ireland, northern england, and then this time eventually across the midlands towards east anglia as well. those showers could be heavy and possibly thundery. and on the whole, it will be a bit cooler than today although still 18 degrees in the brighter skies in the south—east. into the beginning of next week, may be some showers on monday for eastern parts of england but some wetter weather coming into the more southern parts of england and wales on tuesday and some stronger winds.

hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: adults are allowed outdoors to exercise in spain for the first time in almost seven weeks as the country eases its strict lockdown rules. thousands of people sign up for trials in the uk to see if blood plasma from covid—19 survivors can help other critically ill patients. an experimental drug is authorised by us officials for emergency use on severely—ill coronavirus patients. commuters in the uk could be asked to take their temperature before leaving home. it's one of the measures being considered for when the coronavirus lockdown is eased. and uk prime minister boris johnson and his fiancee carrie symonds name their baby son wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson. as we've been hearing — an experimental drug has been authorised for emergency use on coronavirus patients