facing its darkest winter in decades unless it develops a better plan to fight coronavirus. rick bright told congress that failing to improve the strategy would result in unprecedented illness and death. the first known cases of coronavirus have reached the world's largest refugee camp, cox's bazar in bangladesh. the settlements are home to more than 800,000 rohingyas who fled persecution in myanmar. there's been a big drop in the number of visits to emergency departments in england's hospitals. they're down by more than a half since the coronavirus outbreak began, leading to fears people are not seeking help. 140 world leaders, past and present, have signed a letter calling for universal access to any potential covid—19 vaccine. a french drug company, sanofi, has reversed its decision to give the us priority to any vaccine it developed.

hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate proctor, political correspondent for the guardian, and martin bentham, the home affairs editor for evening standard. let's begin with the express. the paper leads with hopes for a vaccine for coronavirus. it says british experts say scientists in oxford are on track to produce one this summer. just 2a cases of the virus a day in london is the telegraph's headline. it says the figures make the case for easing the lockdown restrictions in the capital. the daily mirror says scientists believe 19 million brits may have already had the virus and recovered. the metro carries a picture

of the prime minister and his partner carrie clapping for the nhs. "a game changer" is how it describes the government—approved antibody test. the daily mail leads with the row between the government and teaching unions over whether children should begin returning to primary schools in england next month. the financial times has some good news. it reports car maker nissan is in talks to shift production of two renault models from spain to sunderland. the times says the prime minister plans to tackle obesity as a way of fighting coronavirus. it comes as research shows you are twice as likely to be hospitalised if you are obese. the guardian has a story on the private firm running the government's stockpile of ppe. it says alleged poor organisation may have resulted in delays in deploying vital supplies to health care workers. with me is kate proctor, political correspondent for the guardian,

and martin bentham, the home affairs editor for evening standard. thank you very much for your company this evening. let's start with the front page of the times with boris johnson to launch a war on fat after virus scare. apparently he said according to the times it is all right you thin as he accepts the obesity increases the risk from covid—19. what do you make of that? interesting story on covid—i9. what do you make of that? interesting story on this one. so the prime minister is very frank and what he says here. he thinks that he ended up in hospital because he is obese. and he obviously has looked at some of the modelling and research out there which has shown that you are overweight you are likely to need hospital treatment because of coronavirus. some really personal details here with the prime minister being 59" tall and he has

a bmi of 36 which would put him in the overweight category and actually he would be classed as obese. these are the kind and private details that he has clearly volunteered to the newspaper to let that message be now that he is really serious about trying to fight this and get the nation healthier. we know from the times and his time as the mayor of london that he is very keen on getting people cycling and it sounds like we might end up getting that same message again from boris johnson as he tries to look at ways to improve the public health. and as we go through this crisis. the prime minister weighs 17 and a half stones are quite personal private details about his weight. do you think it is over him things by saying if you are obese and you are morphing to get coronavirus because ultimately there

are other underlying factors also play a part. many that play a part. we don't know precisely what the factors all are but one of the things that has been talked about by the doctors involved is exactly that problem that there is a link between obesity and the risk of getting coronavirus and it becoming a severe problem for you. an aggravating feature also that seem to be the medical evidence. i don't think it is wrong to think about that as a problem that needs to be addressed. and of course leaving us of this particular health problem, serious though it is, clearly obesity is linked to all sorts of other health problems and so it is known to be back people in general and all sorts of ways with heart problems and so oi'i. of ways with heart problems and so on. so the desire to make people fitter and try to reduce those who can obesity is a good thing no

doubt. it sits rather uncomfortably at the moment as we are all sitting cooped up in our houses and he has got sports and is closed and pools closed and the head of the leisure operator was only complaining yesterday about pools being closed even though the water is chlorinated and you can manage to change the i’ooitis so and you can manage to change the rooms so golf clubs are open but pools are close even though it is safer to be in the water because of the chlorine. and the only issue is managing the to—and—fro of people going in and out. sol managing the to—and—fro of people going in and out. so i think there needs to be more thanjust cycling although i am very much in favour of cycling myself and i enjoy it. not everybody is going to do that and you also need to encourage other sports and actually other point to make is that leisure centres in general will face a tremendous financial challenge with the result of what has happened in many of them are counsel run or supported by councils. there needs to be some

marrying of government rhetoric there with actual proper support and make sure that these businesses or at least the operators are able to continue properly. it is at the end of the article, in the middle of it sorry that he believes the pandemic provides a chance of the government to reinforce the message to lead a healthy lifestyle. he is successful in encouraging people to get cycle to work and get britain on its bikes. you can encourage people admitted to libel without a proper infrastructure to help cyclists cycle more readily and easily around big cities in particular, how will that happen? that is true. and the chatsworth or terry today in the dentistry briefing was talking about the investments they are making and public transport. —— the transport secretary. part of that was to look at cycling and also there have been some plans to close some roast amber that ultimately relies on local authorities being able to give into

this plan to make those changes. and local authorities then would say they are strapped financially and will welcome more investorfor cycling but it is biggerfor them will welcome more investorfor cycling but it is bigger for them to make these changes happen. we also have from the prime minister that we should if we can also take journeys by carand should if we can also take journeys by car and avoid public transport so it is basically cycle or be in a car. and itjust is not quite fit together. but those two messages are so together. but those two messages are so different and i note it is about bringing public health but yes we might have a strange scenario where we have an increase in car use and an increase in cycling at the same time. difficult to that going well together. let's go on to the metro. this is a story about the antibody test which we have reported the last 24 test which we have reported the last 2a hours. the metro calling this a game changer. it is 100% accurate apparently. made by a swiss drug

company. they could make a huge difference to the way that we can try and follow this disease and try and work out who has had a even those who have had it and did not have any symptoms. the idea is if you have a antibody test across population and you were able to get some certainty if they have or have not had coronavirus and therefore if they have had it they may have some immunity and therefore might be able to go back to work. but also some difficulty around this is knowing how long you might have immunity for and this virus is so novel, it is so new that we really don't know the full extent of that yet. so whether it is immunity for three months or ready for a year. and then there is still the very bottom of figuring if you could actually have this twice. so what is tricky but it is part of the government is saying is its arsenal inviting coronavirus through testing. but we are still hearing that people are having difficulty

getting the swab test and that is a test which tells you whether you have coronavirus right now. so we have coronavirus right now. so we have a very mixed picture in terms of testing but undoubtedly it is a step forward. let's move onto the daily express because we talked about antibody tests in this article in the front page of the express talks about the vaccine. now a p pa re ntly talks about the vaccine. now apparently experts have said that there could be a vaccine, a virus jab of the summer but that does not seem jab of the summer but that does not seem real because it takes months to get through the trials and test to go through to get to a viable vaccine. i think you are entirely correct. the reality is it may be possible to have created something which in the test tube and laboratory situation will work by the end of the summer, that might be possible but getting it into a position where it can be given to the general population, can be used to go through all the testing procedures that are needed and the

regulatory procedures attached to that, they will be speeded up to make sure that all that does not get tied down and delayed what is essential to get this type of vaccine in public use. but you cannot short—circuit those things completely. you've got to make sure that it completely. you've got to make sure thatitis completely. you've got to make sure that it is safe also there's a point in having a vaccine if it works on people in one respect but if it will cause all sorts of side effects or new medical service had to go through a fairly rigorous process. to make sure that they are actually safe to unleash in population. so while i can be speeded up to a degree and it will be be suited up too much so i think the chief medical officer and the chief scientific officer have been very clear that it is very unlikely we will have some sort of vaccine at least until next year. very lucky if we have anything sooner and tha n kfu lly we have anything sooner and thankfully not by the end of the summer. thankfully not by the end of the summer. that will be a miracle. this

all the debt 140 leaders have written open letter saying that if there is a vaccine it needs to be made available globally in a fair manner. is that possible, do you think? well, it's possible. if every country puts aside its national interests and also the manufacturers without any profit in mind. of course that is possible but it seems like a huge proposition and i'm not entirely sure that you will get that kind of cooperation. i went to the briefings that donald trump has been giving against china and it will be very difficult to imagine that those two would be able to work together and sharea two would be able to work together and share a vaccine. let's move onto the daily telegraph front page and this is interesting because what they talk about is the number of new cases in coronavirus per day in london and apparently public england forecasts are showing new modelling

that just 24 new cases forecasts are showing new modelling thatjust 24 new cases of the virus in london per day because of that is a huge drop from the height of the coronavirus outbreak in the capital. absolutely. this is a really small figure ofjust 24 people per day and it just seems to figure ofjust 24 people per day and itjust seems to be a really big achievement on what the lockdown has been able to provide. 0bviously achievement on what the lockdown has been able to provide. obviously we are hearing this lockdown cannot go on forever so there would be a fear of course that as we will move around again and people back to work that that figure could possibly increase but this article actually suggests that he could be wiped out relatively soon in london. but of course the problem is london is ahead of the rest of the country after killing some areas in the north of england, cumbria and the northeast, that rate of infection is still very high. 0.8%1 northeast, that rate of infection is still very high. 0.8% i think is what the telegraph reports whereas

london is down to 0.4. so a big regional discrepancy and it might be the case really where things are dealt with on a more regional basis andi dealt with on a more regional basis and i think this is what this article is arguing for really. that there is a case to say if things are looking better in london perhaps real people in london to move around a lot more and eat some of the distancing whereas in the north and i had to be more restrictive for longer. what do you think in my? is there a case to be made to ease restrictions region by and in particular more quickly in london? there might be a case but i think the only caveat on that would be that obviously in a place like london and any other big city, if you ease it and then there is some reinfection going on, and will most likely multiply more quickly than in a ruralera likely multiply more quickly than in a rural era people are not quite so much on top of each other for obvious reasons. sol much on top of each other for obvious reasons. so i think that is something that would hold the government back in the public health officials advising just because of

that risk of the multiplier effect ina big that risk of the multiplier effect in a big city. sol that risk of the multiplier effect in a big city. so i think it makes sense to look at patterns in different areas and to respond according to that but you do have to balance all the factors and including as i said the multiplier effect of infection hitting somewhere again and returning. and how that would then spread more quickly in an urban area. i'm not sure if either of you are home schooling children are anything but the front page of the guardian talks about the return to school. teachers can refuse to go back says the union. that is a leading teaching union. that is a leading teaching union that has worn teachers can actually say we not going to go back to school whatever the government might say. this is your paper, kate. what do you reckon? it is interesting because the teachers are on the same legal footing in terms of protection as nhs staff and care worker should receive. so in effect this would mean that you would be

able to take your local authority or government to court and carry on legal proceedings if a teacher felt was not properly protected. with the article does not quite explain fully is what affected is that teachers are wanting. it does not say... it does ppe some of that means masks, gowns, and i'm not quite sure what they are asking for exactly but they certainly want distancing and they will walk away being able really to monitor and keep track of how many people are in the school or any one time. but the teachers are very, very frustrated in decided that they are going back in a couple of weeks' time and their buildings are not secure and it is not safe i think it will be a really dominant theme in these terms over the next couple of weeks. what do you think? some argue that think about the mental health of these kids who are stuck at home

and educational needs. we have to weigh everything up ultimately to feel what is best for the kids as well as obscene what is best for the teachers. i think so and i actually think so and if there are teachers and a particular risk group that is and a particular risk group that is a different matter but beyond that i do think they have got a duty to be frank to the children and of course it has been documented and people made this point that it is all well for the children of educated middle—class parents who have the ability to spend some time with their children and do things with them and nice property for children to spend their time so on. facilities, books, allthe to spend their time so on. facilities, books, all the time of stuff. not quite so easy if a child is cooped up in a small flat with no outside space on their own and the educational impact on that for those above children, those with difficult background that they do face, the education detriment to them is going to be severe. and i think there is a

duty of care ultimately upon teachers to balance their own concerns with those and the needs of their children and that peoples they are teaching. and it seems to be disappointed they're not even wanting to engage at all and try to find a way forward. i mean masks would be a practical —— incredible because how can a teacher communicate to a class to a mask but obviously some type of distancing for older peoples is possible and for older peoples is possible and for younger once again that seems impossible pretty much because they don't sit still in quite the way that you might want them to at the age of four or five. but i think it definitely is necessary for efforts to be made to try and do the best we can to get children back into school for their own benefit. let's move on and ashley back to the telegraph and other story on the front page here with business travellers to britain could be spared the 14 day quarantine under shake—up of rules. getting a bit confusing as to who is

going to be spared this 14 day quarantine and who is not. and what exactly it means in turn people coming into the uk because of course we have been doing things very differently from other countries and that we have been allowing people to enter this country and the government has said there is a reason for that as of this because the number of cases in the uk were so high that they were waiting for the cases to diminish to then stop people coming into the country but it isa people coming into the country but it is a different method to other countries. so while some countries put this kind of quarantine system in place in the very beginning like australia and new zealand, we appear to be putting this and as we try and navigate our way out of the lockdown situation. so the idea that people who work in business would be exempt from a 40 day quarantine period is quite a controversial position. i think that will make people unhappy because we are saying that people who are abroad and then try to

return to their country, they actually have to go through this 14 day period but if you are here on business and you can almost rush straight through the airport and onto your next destination. and i know is about you and the economy going but i think that you cannot really have a two—tiered system. i said that that is unfair of people have to live under such restrictions that you have one class of people who were able to navigate these rules. what i don't understand is which people are actually travelling right now for business? surely we are all doing zoom meetings and other meetings and whatnot? that might be some who want to travel if they can and is one of those things has been talked about for many years of how people would do all their business online over video co nfe re nce business online over video conference and every thing else and never quite happen. people do travel for business or have done previously so it may well start to revive if it is possible for that to happen but i'd rather agree with kate that it does not seem right to pick out

businesspeople and let them be exempt from any procedures not least because being here on business does not mean to say you are unlucky to be caring and affection. there is no impact on it also where you're coming from potentially that is more releva nt coming from potentially that is more relevant to that factor. so it seems odd to me incidentally what level of force or there is on the quarantine thatis force or there is on the quarantine that is introduced, we've not had any details on how long it will be as gap no proper company fell from the government but i asked metropolitan police commissioner yesterday whether the police would be enforcing it and she in essence said it was a job for the people and she saw no substantial role for the police in doing it. so who actually would enforce it is a whole different question anyway? michael o'leary the boss that ryanair seems to think nobody will be enforcing in our country and he will be impossible to enforce and ten minutes to actually agree with him. interesting. listen to very briefly

to the story in the guardian again with the premier league clubs asking for a nswers with the premier league clubs asking for answers from the premier league over the proposed return of the leak. i don't know if you're a massive football fan but it is controversial. should it return before the end of the season that someone but others are worried? but really is what is fair on the players and i had an interesting report today about black and ethnic minorities players who feel that they don't quite know how it fully affects them yet but the thought is that it has an adverse effect if you are black and from that background. but... martin, you are a leeds united fan so... desperate for a restart. thank you very much indeed for joining restart. thank you very much indeed forjoining us this evening to look at the papers. and thank you for you

at the papers. and thank you for you at home for taking the time to watch us. now the latest on sports. stay with us. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is your latest sport news. the uk government have called again for the english premier league to allow more games to be watched by a wider audience if season starts again. after speaking with the game's bosses, the culture secretary, 0liver dowden, said they all agreed they'd only go ahead when it was safe for players, coaches and staff. in a statement, they said they'd be... well, the english premier league is aiming for a restart onjune the 12th, but england's deputy chief medical officer said on thursday that there is still a lot of work to be done before players can even start full training.

plans are taking place at quite some depth to be ready to do that. and that will be a stepwise thing. we will have to see how that goes before it is time to move on or even think about moving on to the return of competitive football matches, as you have outlined in your question. so, ithink, you know, we have to be slow, we have to be measured. england captain harry kane has joined forces with the league two side leyton orient by sponsoring their shirts next season and donating the space to three good causes. kane made his senior debut for 0rient in 2011 while on loan from tottenham. the club's home strip will carry a message of thanks to front line supporters, front line workers even, tackling the coronavirus pandemic. obviously, i had spurs as a team growing up, but i think everyone has that kind of local team, you know, that they look at and kind of keep their eye on, and leyton orient were mine.

so, like i said, it's a great opportunity for me to help them, especially in a time like this as well, where there's a lot of uncertainty with the teams lower down the leagues on whether financially how it's going to affect them, and obviously if the league don't finish the season and everything like that. so, ijust thought it was a really good way to help them out. england's bowlers will return to training next week as the men's cricket team tries to get ready should international cricket begin again injuly. they will be training as individuals, though, rather than with team—mates, and it'll be just centrally contracted players at venues across the country. batsmen are not expected to start their training for another two weeks. the women's team could follow injune. any return to cricket has to be safe. you know, this first phase, step one as the government have called it themselves, is very clear that this is individual— based training. so, in many ways, we should be able to get the control of the environments right that it's safer to go back to practice

than it is to go down to the supermarket. the men's tour of britain cycling race, which had been due to be held in september, has been cancelled for this year. organisers have admitted it was impractical to stage the race amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. the women's race had already been called off. the eight—day event was due to start in penzance and finish in aberdeen. that route will be followed next yea r. professional golf has returned with south korean lpga tour resuming today. the klpga championship is taking place at the lakewood country club in yangju. three of the world's top ten, including major champions park sung—hyun and jeoungeun lee6, are involved. this is the first golf event to played worldwide since march. daniel ricciardo is leaving renault at the end of the year to replace carlos sainz at mclaren. sainz is moving to ferrari. the spaniard has recorded this message to his team explaining he'll miss them.

best of luck to him. that is all the sport from us for now. hello. well, it's fairly chilly out there at the moment, but nowhere near as cold as the last couple of nights. last night in northern ireland, it was down to minus six degrees celsius, the coldest may night there in nearly 40 years. this morning, most major towns and cities will be generally above zero, but it is cold air that's sitting on top of us at the moment. you can see the pale blue colours there. the really cold air‘s to the north of us, but we're certainly in that chilly air mass. we'll have to wait before the warmer air from the southern climes arrives, and that's not going to happen for a few more days. so, the forecast for friday morning, well, early hours of the morning

shows some clear weather, but also patchy cloud. temperatures in norwich close to freezing. that does mean a ground frost outside of town, but more generally speaking, we're talking around 4—6 degrees. so, a bright start to the day. i wouldn't go as far as saying it's going to be a sunny day on friday, but it is going to be a bright one. there'll be some scattered clouds, and actually in the north of the country at times, it will cloud over and there will be a little bit of fleeting rain. now, temperatures are just starting to rise a little bit now. in fact, we're expecting around 17 degrees in the south of the country and around 13 degrees for our northern towns and cities. and friday and towards the weekend, we'll start to see high pressure building in from the south. this is actually going to help to introduce some slightly warmer air from the southern climes, so day—by—day those temperatures will be creeping up just that little bit. saturday's actually going to be very similar to friday, so sunny spells across the uk and some spots of rain in the very far north of scotland and the northern isles and the northern highlands. so, temperatures around 17

degrees again in london, but perhaps rising a little bit across the north of england there, 16 for yorkshire, 14 for glasgow and edinburgh. and then saturday night into sunday, we are going to see a change in western scotland and northern ireland. in fact, southwesterly winds will blow in cloud, moisture and a fair bit of rain, so it could be quite wet here second half of the weekend. around 15 degrees expected in the lowlands and in belfast, but to the south of that in london, those milder southwesterlies, temperatures will get up to around 20 degrees. and indeed, you can see those temperatures climbing as we head into next week. in fact, next week, the indication is that temperatures could hit the mid—20s, so again it's going to feel more like june. that's it from me. bye— bye.

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