the united kingdom has outstripped italy in the number of coronavirus deaths, becoming the worst affected country in europe with just under 29 and a half thousand. only the united states has lost more lives to the disease. virgin atlantic is to cut three thousand jobs in the uk. the airline says, it won't restart operations at gatwick, london's second airport, which have been suspended because of the global coronavirus pandemic. a draft government report has warned the us deathtoll could reach three thousand a day injune double the current rate. but president trump says, that's without the mitigation that's happening. india has reported its biggest daily jump in coronavirus cases and deaths. there were more than four thousand new infections with the worst affected areas

in maharashtra and gujarat states. you are watching bbc news now. let's take a look back at today's downing street briefing, which was led by the foreign secretary, dominic raab and the deputy chief scientific adviser angela mclean. good afternoon. i'm joined by professor mclean chief scientific professor. first let me give an update on the latest data that we have unk rotavirus. i can report that through the governments ongoing monitoring testing problem as of today they have now been i million 83 , 842 test today they have now been i million 83,842 test for coronavirus across the uk including 85,806 test yesterday. we know that 195,900 thousand people have tested positive. that's an increase of 5506 cases sent yesterday. and of those who have tested positive 29,000 500

27 have very sadly died. and our hearts go out to everyone who was lost a loved on throughout the coronavirus challenge. we continue to see evidence of a flattening of the peak of this virus. but as the figures that i read out show it's not over yet. so, figures that i read out show it's not overyet. so, in figures that i read out show it's not over yet. so, in the coming days sage will update ministers without latest scientific advice. and as ever, we will make sure that we are continuing, continue to be guided by their advice as we take decisions on next steps in fighting this virus. alongside the advice that we get from sage ourfive alongside the advice that we get from sage our five tests remain a bsently from sage our five tests remain absently key. first we must continue to boost nhs capacities of the nhs cannot be overwhelmed. second, we need to see a sustained consistent fall in the number of deaths. thirdly we must see further reductions in the rate of infection to manageable levels across all different settings and areas.

fourth, we must be confident that the nhs will be able to cope with future demands. including as a result any changes that we made to existing measures or indeed any new measures that we went to the neck may wish to take. and fifth and above all, we need to be confident that any adjustments to the current boat risk a second peak of infections that could overwhelm the nhs. later on this week the pm will update the country on the measures and the decisions that we will need to ta ke and the decisions that we will need to take to protect the nhs to safeguard the economy and to avoid the risk of a second peak that will be damaging for both public health and also for jobs be damaging for both public health and also forjobs in the wider economy. as we consider the decisions that we will take next to protect life also to protect our way of life, it's not clear that the second phase will be different. we will need to adjust to a new normal where we as a society adapt to safety ways to work to travel, to

interact and to go about our daily lives. we've never experienced anything like this first stage of covid—19. in terms of the scale of the lives lost but also the lockdown thatis the lives lost but also the lockdown that is required. as we go forward we wa nt that is required. as we go forward we want to make sure that the next phaseis we want to make sure that the next phase is more comfortable, more sustainable and prevents lasting damage tojobs sustainable and prevents lasting damage to jobs and livelihood. but we need to be under no illusions, the next stage won't be easy. if we re the next stage won't be easy. if were going to protect lives and preserve our way of life we must continue to be guided by the scientific advice we receive and make sure the next steps that we ta ke make sure the next steps that we take are sure—footed and sustainable. before i hand over to angela to run through the data slides, i want to provide an update on one for the feature that coronavirus is a challenge has thrown up for this country and indeed for the whole world. once the

vast majority of people and countries have come together and rallied to this international mission to defeat coronavirus there will always be some who seek to exploit a crisis for their own criminaland exploit a crisis for their own criminal and hostile ends. we know that cyber criminals and other malicious groups are targeting individuals, businesses and other organisations by deploying covid—19 —related scams and phishing e—mails. and that includes groups that in the cybersecurity word but not world are known as advanced persistent threat groups. sophisticated networks or hackers who try to breach computer systems. we have clear evidence now that these can criminal gangs are actively targeting national and international organisations which are responding to the covid—19 pandemic which i have to say makes them particularly dangerous and venal at this time. so we are working with the targets of those attacks. with the potential targets

and with others to make sure that they are aware of the cyber threat and that they can take the steps necessary to protect themselves at the very least mitigate the harm that can be brought against them. so with that in mind today the uk's national cybersecurity centre and the us cyber security and infrastructure security agency have published a joint warning about these groups. we've offered some advice on the cyber criminals and other actors who are seeking to exploit covid—19 through malicious cyber activity. 0ur teams have identified campaigns targeting health care bodies, pharmaceutical companies, research organisations and also various different arms of local government. now, there are various objectives and motivations behind these attacks from fraud on the one hand to espionage. but they tend to be designed to steal bulk

personal data, intellectual property and wider information that supports those aims and they are often linked with other state actors. we expect this kind of predatory, criminal behaviour to continue to evolve over the coming weeks and months ahead. and we are taking a range of measures to tackle that threat. so as we done today we will share advice on the nature of those threats to enable businesses, citizens and our international partners to better defend themselves against the full range of cyber attack from hostile states to criminal gangs. preventative action is often the very best way to deny attackers the opportunities that they're looking for. the national cybersecurity office offers a range of practical advice to advise against cyber attacks. for things like the use of online passwords to guidance on what are they trusted sources of online information related to covid—19. like the government or uk sites or public

health england. as well as providing practical advice, the uk will continue to counter those who conduct cyber attacks was up and we are working very closely with our international partners to respond to the threat but also to deter the gangs and the arms of state who lie behind them. we are absolutely determined to defeat coronavirus and also to defeat those trying to exploit the situation for their own nefarious ends. and with that i'll pass over to professor mclean to give us the latest update on data. thank you. if i can have the first lie please. so the first slide reminds us what are the five tests for adjusting lockdown. number one is that we should always ensure that the nhs has enough capacity that it's april to provide critical care and specialist treatment right across the uk. the second is that we should see a sustained and consistent fall in daily deaths from

coronavirus. in the third is that there must be reliable data to show that the rate of infection is decreasing to manageable levels right across the board. fourth, is that operational challenges including testing and ppe must be in hand with supply able to meet future demand. and fast, is that we should be confident that any adjustments that are made to current measures will not risk a second peak of infections that overwhelm the nhs. this is a slide about transport use and how it's changed in great britain. since february. so those percentages are relative to normal use during february for top and the vertical dotted line is the date when lockdown started. and what you see when lockdown started. and what you see is that for public transport

there has been a very smart and very persistent fall for bus, for two, for a national rail and also in great in the back for buses in london. for motor vehicles that's the top dark blue line, what you see isa the top dark blue line, what you see is a pattern that looks a bit like commuting because it's slow every weekend and we do worry about that creeping up. i think all of us remember that what was done together which is to stay home has worked to protect the nhs and save lives. and as one of the people who looks at this data and thinks about how it fits into how we think about the future, it doesn't trouble me that the dark blue line is creeping up again. this is the number of tests that have occurred every day in the uk since the 6th of april up until the most recent data which is from

yesterday. and what you see is a very dramatic rise that happened during april so that now we do have a lot of tests available that allows to design the kinds of testing strategies that we are going to need in the future. one of the ways we have a how many people in the uk are infected. so in colours here are people who have tested positive in dark blue people who are tested by the nhs and in orange are people whose tests were performed by universities, research institutes and private companies. so most of the people in the dark blue pill as there are either patients or nhs staff. whereas most of the people in the orange pillars are other key workers. and this data is extremely interesting but it is quite susceptible to the fact that the numberof susceptible to the fact that the number of tests and has been increasing and who's allowed to have

a test has also been changing. i find the next slide a lot more informative. what this is is the numberof informative. what this is is the number of new patients in hospitals in england with covert. this is every day since the 20th of march. either in dark blue and inpatient who was in hospital and got back because covert positive test. in gold somebody who arrived at hospital having tested positive. so, it's always the same kind of people and these people will always, the top priority to get a test. in some sense this is a much more pure data stream from you when i showed you before. in fact to my mind at least, it makes much more sense. what you see is that number rising from the 20th of march until it peaks on the 2nd of april. the 2nd of april is about when we would have expected it to peak. at about ten days after the

23rd of march. when lockdown came in. and then from the 2nd of april it falls away pretty rapidly. what this is is the inflow into the hospital system of people who were cove rt hospital system of people who were covert positive. we watched this number with great care every day. if that was the inflow into the hospital system this is the total numberof hospital system this is the total number of people in hospital with cove rt. number of people in hospital with covert. on any given day. that's really the balance between people who came in and people who left. that has a rather smoother pattern and a much slower fall. what you see is that peaked around about the tenth or so of april in london. that the peak and london which much higher than everywhere else. perhaps very slightly earlier in the fall in the numberof very slightly earlier in the fall in the number of people in hospital in

london has fallen faster than everywhere else. so much so now actually that in the last couple of days the number of people in london, sorry, in london now exceeds numbers in hospitals in the northwest. this keeps track of the proportion of critical care beds that are occupied by patients with covid—19. and what you see is that also has fallen from its peak in early april now down to less then a third of all critical ca re less then a third of all critical care beds being occupied by covid—19 patients. it's been decreasing for most of the uk over the last two weeks and is beginning to come down to what we might define as more manageable levels. these are

recorded deaths from covid—19. the blue bars are the actual numbers reported each day. today being the 5th of may, we've got monday's figures in and you can see there's a very regular pattern that numbers at the weekend are always lower than the weekend are always lower than the days subsequently stop that jumped from the 4th of may to the 5th of may is something that we would expect. because this data has such a strong pattern across different days of the week it make sense to look at a seven day rolling average. that's what the orange line is. when you can see from the orange line is that the number of co—vid recorded deaths is falling and has been falling steadily since the middle of april. this records registered deaths from covid—19 by the place where that death occurred. we got it for five different weeks

and the most recent week for which we and the most recent week for which we have this data is the week of the 24th of april. the grey bars are deaths in hospital. the dark grey bars are dust in care homes, pale blue is deaths in 1's own home and dark blue is other places. what you see is whilst deaths in hospital have been falling, dust and care homes in the week to the 24th of april were still rising. to the extent that in that week deaths and ca re extent that in that week deaths and care homes were about half as many as all deaths in hospitals. i think that what shows us that there is a real issue that we need to get to grips with about what is happening in care homes. the final site for todayis in care homes. the final site for today is a compound of numbers of deaths for different countries. the uk which is covered deaths in all

settings is the great line in the middle. and what you see is deaths in the uk is still continuing to climb and is higher than we would wish for top is all i can say. without i'll end the data slides for today. angela, thank you very much. we will now take some questions starlings with questions from members of the public. brian from gloucestershire there? my name is fred mcinerney and i volunteer in the local community in gloucester gloucestershire. my question is as we come through the tough times of coded how can we embed our reflected learning so as to ensure we address inequalities across community and neighbours? and continue to invest and empower local communities to

thrive with mac thank you. thank you very much. i want to pay tribute to eve ryo ne very much. i want to pay tribute to everyone in gloucester share from the key workers like nhs staff to all those in care homes to all those doing criticaljobs and supermarkets are running deliveries which of the lifeblood of our communities going. i think you're absolutely right to say particularly after a pretty unique pandemic something i've never seen before in my lifetime, we will all want to learn lessons in this country and across the world. and i think one of the things that we found with coronavirus as it hasn't discriminated. we've got a prime minister has been laid low with it. we've got people all across the country, no one has been impervious to this virus. i think it's also taught us to appreciate those key workers that i mentioned. notjust those in the nhs and care homes who obviously doing an amazing job but also those keeping our supermarkets

running, keeping deliveries flowing and up and down the country. and as you will probably remember from the general election the prime minister is big overarching goal is to level up is big overarching goal is to level up right across the country. i think this crisis has been a tiny reminder how important that agenda and political agenda is going to be. first things first we've got to get through this crisis, recover, bounce back if we can come of the economy make sure those small businesses and employers are fit and we provide them with a bridge through the current set of challenges. i make sure i think we come together as one country as i think we've seen in this national mission to i think there are lessons to be learned and their opportunities to learn those lessons in a really positive way when we come through the immediate crisis. i think he raised an incredibly important question.

infectious diseases always do and always will target the disadvantage. and i think one of the things that we fairas we and i think one of the things that we fair as we hopefully, bring the incidence of infections and the numberof incidence of infections and the number of people infected every day right down to very low levels is that infection is a pair into parts of our communities that are really, really ha rd of our communities that are really, really hard to reach. i think it's incumbent on all of us including our scientists to find ways that we can make sure that we can track the ongoing spread of infection amongst every part of our society. thanks, angela. next up is jane from west york shire. she asked, in respect of the track and trace app, is this something that will work worldwide once travel can begin again and if not, why was this not embarked on as a global initiative? i think the reality is we want the app to be focused on the uk. and we want the

technology to be tailored to make sure we can deal with the specific challenges that we've got in this country. we've worked with the experts, was at the national cybersecurity centre to make sure we got the greatest protections on things like privacy. and we got very high standards both professionalism but privacy as we embark on what will be an unprecedented it project. and not everyone and not all countries around the world will have the same standards. whether their text standards or privacy standards. i think it's right to say we should learn internationally about the tech innovation that's going on but we wa nt to innovation that's going on but we want to make sure that we've got something tailored to uk needs and applying the very high uk standards. art, thank you jane for that question. david shuman from the bbc? thank you very much indeed. a question about the death toll,

looking at the initial figures that you just an ounce and comparing them with figures announced this evening by italy. it does not seem that the uk has had more deaths from covid—19 than any other country in europe. if it does not does turn out that we are the country that's hardest hit in europe what's your reaction to that? well thanks, david. you're asking me to speculate. first of all 29,527 lives lost his a massive tragedy. something in this country and this scale in a way we've never seen before. and i said before, my heart goes out to anyone that's lost a loved one. in terms of the comparison that you're suggesting. asa comparison that you're suggesting. as a scientist have all said, i can remember patrick vallance and chris whitty talked about this. i don't think will get a real verdict on how our countries have done until the pandemic is done. and particularly until we've got comprehensive international data on all cause

mortality for subtype there is two points to make about uk has approach things. there are different ways of counting deaths as we know we had that debate in this country. we now publish data that includes all deaths in all settings. and not all countries do that. so i'm not sure whether the international comparison works unless you reliably know that all countries are measuring the same way. and also depends on how good frankly, countries are in their statistics. in our own office of national statistics is widely acknowledged to be a world leader. one of the reasons we've embraced thatis one of the reasons we've embraced that is we want transparency. we are confident, we believe it's only we get the full transparency will be the best way to tackle this virus. i think it is important but i don't think it is important but i don't think you can make the international comparisons you're suggesting at this stage. i don't think you can make them reliably. i wouldjust reiterate, i think we have decided that our measure of how things have gone will be age—adjusted or cause

mortality. because that will capture all kinds of impacts of coded, not just the cova dance. and clearly we re just the cova dance. and clearly were employed to do what we can for national comparisons. everybody knows that making international comparisons and statistics can be difficult. and it may be that that will take some time to sort out. and this isn't over yet. did you want to come back on any of that? another topic if i may. last week the prime minister suggested there may be situations where there could be benefits from the public wearing masks. does that mean that uk government policy on this has changed? and if it hasn't changed might the public be forgiven for being a bit confused? of course, you're always trying to tempt us to get one of two or two steps ahead of the game. the reality is we are considering sage advice. that advice has be nuanced if i can say it like that. the evidence is ratherfinely

balanced. it will make sure we consider it very carefully. one of the things we don't want to do is give people inaccurate advice or confidence or comfort in mask. also there is a key difference in mask for example, the self—made mouse that some people around the world have been encouraged to use in the clinical mask that we need for the nhs. we do not want to detract from the supplies of masks and other ppe going to the front line of the nhs or care workers. the wider advice will consider and shortly be seeing more of. hello. will be taking a bit of a roller coaster ride as far as temperatures are concerned over the next few days. initially they will be heading upwards because of this weather pattern. low pressure to the less high—pressure to the east, gentle southerly flow tapping into some warmth that's been affecting parts of spain and france. some of these areas actually broke temperature records for the time of year earlier on this week. but from that once we had into the weekend

and a different pattern with high—pressure building down to the west and low pressure to the east this time. it will be feeding in a northerly wind from this direction. we say farewell to that walk. something much, much colder, unusually cold for this time of year is on the way. more on that in the moment. let's start with the here and now. through tonight rain from today continuing to fizzle across the southwest and southern wales. low cloud just lapping onto the coast of york shire and lincolnshire. temperatures of the night but we keep clear skies will dip down to around freezing or a touch of a loaf in some spots. a tickly and scotland. as we go on into tomorrow and expect a lot of fine weather. spells of sunshine again early low cloud against the east coast tend to burn back out to sea. i think it will stay quite grey across albany and shetland. clipping intercon while in hamburg later in the day. temperatures just a bit higher than they were today. generally between 15 and 18 degrees. one or two spots likely to get to 19 or20. similar one or two spots likely to get to 19 or 20. similar story on thursday, turns warmerfor many

or 20. similar story on thursday, turns warmer for many of us. good smell of sunshine bit of a misting this for some western coast. shower in the last, certainly as showers for northern ireland and scotland for northern ireland and scotland for them could be heavy and fundraisers those temperatures climbing 18 degrees in glasgow, 22 in london and friday likely to be warmer still down towards the southeast with a high of 25 expected. more cloud for northern ireland and scotland with some outbreaks of shower refrain and present northern scotland. and here a much cooler field to the weather as these northerly winds start to set in. as we move out of friday and into the weekend, we push this frontal system southwards it's a cold front that will bring some shower refrain not enough a lot. but it will introduce this much, much colder air and the speckles of light indicating just a suggestion of one or two wintry showers. still a fare of dry weather around but it's chilly in the north on saturday. much clout do not colder for all of us much clout do not colder for all of us and we need to for the second half of the weekend.

this is outside source on bbc news for viewers in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. the uk has overtaken italy's coronavirus death toll — and is now reporting the second highest deaths from covid—19 in the world, behind the us. but ministers says it's too early to compare. iam not i am not sure that the international comparison works unless you are reliably sure that all countries are measuring at the same way it it also

depends on how good, quite frankly, countries are