this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. the headlines... health care leaders in england are warning of "severe consequences" if a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases, isn't finalised soon. they don't know how they're going to interact with this completely separate operation that is being set up in terms of tracers, then effectively we're going to kind of miss a whole bunch of opportunities. a deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests, which will be available on the nhs, with health and care workers first in line to receive them scotland's first minister announces an easing of lockdown restrictions — but says they must be cautious. we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps and i hope

that they will bring some improvement to people's well—being and quality life start getting our economy moving again and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. borisjohnson is cleared of any criminal actions in his relationship withjennifer arcuri whilst london mayor — but a review establishes there may have been an intimate relationship. an international trial has begun to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19. the international olympic committee president says he understands why the rescheduled tokyo 2020 games would have to be cancelled, if it can't take place next summer. in the last few minutes, downing street says a deal has been

agreed on the supply of antibody tests, which will be available on the nhs, with health and care workers first in line to receive them. we're expecting to hear more details at the daily presser in a few hours‘ time and we'll be speaking to our political correspondent chris mason very shortly so stay with us for that. meanwhile the government has been warned of severe consequences for the health service in england — if its covid19 test, track and trace system isn't in place soon. the nhs confederation says any further easing of the lockdown depends on a clear strategy — and a delay will risk a second peak of the infection. the prime minister has pledged to have what he's called ‘a world—beating' contact tracing system up and running running by the 1stjune. our health correspondent lauren moss reports. test, track and trace — three words we've heard a lot during the pandemic, three words that will be key to controlling the spread of covid—19. but now those representing hospitals, health and social care members, have warned that if the system isn't ready soon,

there is a risk of a second peak. if the system isn't ready soon, if you're going to go further and you make further relaxations, then obviously the danger of the r number, which the government absolutely recognises, the danger of the r number rising becomes greater if you have not got in place effective test, track and trace processes. borisjohnson has promised a world beating tracing system will be in place by the 1st ofjune, the same day that nonessential shops and schools could gradually reopen. there will be 25,000 trackers able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day, and that is very important. so how does it work? trackers will contact people who have been in the company of someone who has the virus. they will alert them by phone call, text or e—mail and give advice. a new nhs app will notify anyone who has downloaded it that someone they have recently been near has tested positive.

the phone app is particularly advantageous in that it helps you identify, as you previously said on the news, the people you may have traillled around a supermarket with or been on public transport with, and it is looking at how long someone has been in contact with as well. but the clock is ticking. the government had hoped to roll the app out by the middle of may. it is still being piloted on the isle of wight. we are working at huge pace in relation to the app itself, and therefore having put that in place, now trialling it on the isle of wight, and whilst i am unable to give you that definitive timeline this morning, please be in no doubt as to the extent, the effort, the energy, the focus that is being put on that as well. the office for national statistics' surveillance programme suggests there may currently be around 8,700 new infections a day in england. 177,000 were provided on tuesday,

having the capacity to deliver 200,000 a day is the end of may target. but there are calls for clarity about how nhs workers will make use of the tracking system. nobody in the nhs knows how they are going to interact with this new track and trace operation, so i hear the prime minister saying the ist of june, but equally what you have heard in the last 2a hours is a whole load of behind—the—scenes briefing and individual cabinet ministers and, actually, we are not quite sure when injune. different parts of britain are easing out of lockdown at varying speeds. northern ireland, wales and scotland are trialling or implementing test, track and trace programmes. those three words pivotal to what happens next across the uk. lauren moss, bbc news. our political correspondent chris mason is in westminster. and in the last two minutes, then mod antibody test. good afternoon to

you. debriefing for westminster journalists, which is now the hookup phone affairs, with the premisesofficial he has just confirmed on that call, whether the government had done a deal over antibody testing. the answer was yes. we know that i have been negotiations going on with these pharmaceutical companies ensuring that provision could be done at a rate that was deemed acceptable in terms of the cost to the taxpayer. downing street saying the emphasis will be on medical staff in the first instance. of course, the real value of this test, and the government is clearly confident that it's up to the job, is that it tells you accurately whether you have previously had coronavirus and then the hope, this is obviously still subject to some discussion amongst the scientists, the hope that is that if you have had it, you may have a period of immunity ought certainly a lower likelihood of catching the disease again.

crucially, passing it on also. it has been long seen as an essential pa rt has been long seen as an essential part of the toolkits in terms of the next wave of taking on this virus. a pretty significant move, then, on that front. will get more details, as you are saying, from matt hancock, the health secretary for england, ina hancock, the health secretary for england, in a couple of minutes' time. there is no doubt that he will be asked about the progress about the track and testing regime, there is huge pressure to get one out there. this is absolutely key to the next stage of trying to ease the lockdown. as the number of cases goes down, the whole business of tracking and tracing becomes viable once again. what it is all about is about ensuring that's when a case p°p5 about ensuring that's when a case pops up, a test is delivered quickly, the government will need to make that is the more of a possibility, were crucially once you have identified that identified case, trying to track down who that person has been in contact with, is

quite an intensive purpose. they may have to rack their brain is if you they've been in contact with. then you have to be able to get in touch with those people and tell them to isolate as well in the hope that you put a lid on any likely second wave of cases by ensuring that those who haveit of cases by ensuring that those who have it don't give it to too many other people. a crucial part of this kit, originally, with this idea of having at. in addition to us racking oui’ having at. in addition to us racking our brains, which like mine, won't a lwa ys our brains, which like mine, won't always recall every detail, because you always bump into people on every given day, you have in the faces idea who they are. they don't know who you are either. busy, that was the hoped—for value of an app that was electronically that for you stop we know that that has been delayed, it was due to be ready by now, the middle of the month, but every time we hear from middle of the month, but every time we hearfrom government is theirs, they seem a lease on their language ina time they seem a lease on their language in a time frame. it went from in the coming weeks, which is what the security minister has been saying, but it couldn't put a timeframe on

it. the focus on the first instance is track and trace —— track and trace the manual human approach of e—mailing, pounding the streets, e—mailing. the hope is that once the app is deemed to be reliable will follow afterwards. chris, thank you very much. scotland's first minister has released a plan to release more lockdown projections. let's get more from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon, who's in glasgow. she is a details are very cautious, she says out four phases. the next phaseis she says out four phases. the next phase is due to canada next thursday, the first of the month. the next phase of the easing of the lockdown more has lockdown focus of sitting outside, in parks, outdoor

areas. you'll be able to meet people from outdoor areas, as long as it is outside and the two metre rule is maintained. visiting inside someone's house is not permitted. some leisure activities outside maybe allowed like tennis, bowling. outdoor businesses like agriculture and forestry will be able to restart, as will garden centres and recycling centres. they will be able to open as well. these phase one measures, most of which have an outdoor focus, are not in place yet, let me stress that, and they are dependent on us continuing to suppress the virus. they will also be monitored carefully as they do take effect. however, we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps, and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people's well—being and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality.

as well as announcing these new measures, some pressure on the scotland's first minister over care homes. care homes have been an area of care homes —— might have been an area of pressure, for scotland and for the government. the nicola sturgeon has said all along that m ista kes sturgeon has said all along that mistakes would be made in the way they have dealt with it, but certainly, they have come under a lot of scrutiny under our care homes have been supported for the way that patients and residents were discharged from hospital early on in this pandemic. there are questions about whether they bought the virus into ca re about whether they bought the virus into care homes, there are other questions about if there was enough ppe supplied to care homes early on, whether they were prioritised or indeed neglected when focus was on the nhs. a difficult time of the situation in care homes, so many of

those vulnerable residents, so many of those have been vulnerable residents from care homes. i think that scrutiny is not going to go away soon. lorna, thank you very much. the prime minister will not face a criminal investigation into his relationship with the american business womanjennifer arcuri while he was mayor of london. )it had been alleged borisjohnson gavejennifer arcuri preferential treatmeant involving thousands of pounds of public money and access to three foreign trade trips. but as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explained — there are still further processes looking at mrjohnson‘s conduct. he will still face an investigation by the oversight committee of the greater london authority. the allegation was that he's close relationship with the american businessman had meant that she had somehow got money and trips, access oversee trade machines because of that close relationship. and what the independent office for police conduct found is that there was no evidence that he had influence those

decisions. however, what it did find, is that those around boris johnson believed there was a close relationship between the two, and that may have influenced how they behaved. they also found that there was definitely a close association between the two and there may have been an intimate relationship. and as they put it, it would have been wise for borisjohnson to have declared this as a conflict of interest. they went there 900 documents, eight years of e—mails as to work out whether there should be a criminal investigation, and they did make this little afterthought. some of the records, which would have assisted the review, either never existed or have been deleted. and there has been lots to say about the record—keeping at the mayor of london's office while borisjohnson was there. a spokesman for the prime minister said: "we welcome the fact that this politically motivated complaint has been thrown out. such vexatious claims of impropriety in office were untrue and unfounded. an independent review by the government internal audit agency similarly showed the claims made

by the labour party were false. this was not a policing matter, and we consider this was a waste of police time." at least eighty four people are now known to have died in one of the most powerful cyclones to hit india and bangladesh for years. cyclone amphan uprooted thousands of trees, brought down electricity and telephone lines — and flattened houses in the indian states of west bengal and odissa, and south—west bangladesh. yoghita limaye reports from mumbai. it hit west bengal on wednesday evening, and then plundered through the state for hours. in the morning, this is what the region's biggest city looked like. kolkata ravaged by what many residents say is the worst storm they have experienced. it started being really scary when these trees started cracking. they fell and we understood something big had happened.

parts of the city are underwater, including the airport. everything gone. across the border in bangladesh, more destruction. both countries have a lot of experience dealing with cyclones, they develop each year in the bay of bengal and evacuation measures save thousands of people. but it will be a while before they can build back their lives. the damage has been devastating. the scale of devastation is quite big, so i would say about 50% , 30% of the people in our working areas are not going to be back home tonight. bit by bit, relief teams are working to restore and rebuild — cyclone season has just begun. many are hoping it doesn't get any worse. bbc news, india. the founder of facebook,

mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling minsinformation during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first uk broadcast interview in five years, he said the platform removed all content which put people at "imminent risk of physical harm". mr zuckerberg's been talking to our business editor simonjack. are there some permanent changes that you perceive from this, and what do you think that your company's role has been during the crisis? we've focused on three main areas. one is responding to the acute health crisis. the second is helping people stay connected with the people they care about. and then the third area is on economic recovery. so right now we're seeing a lot of pain for small businesses. they're having a hard time staying open as a lot of people are staying home, and that means millions of people are losing jobs, and i think anything that we can do to help small businesses survive. if some crazy person decided

to start telling people to, i don't know, drink or inject bleach or saying colloidal silver would be a good way of keeping the virus at bay, what is the facebook algorithm's response to that? things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus when in fact it is not, we will take that down. another example which i know has been very prevalent in the uk has been 5g misinformation, which has led to some physical damage of 5g infrastructure. so we believe that that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm, we take down the content. there have been hundreds of thousands of pieces of content like that. we have a us election coming up, and there was a princeton university survey saying that facebook is the fastest and biggest purveyor of misinformation in the us. do you think that facebook can influence the way that people vote? we've learned a lot about how

politics works online since 2016, and there are many different threats we have worked hard to mitigate. for example, one big area that we were behind on in 2016, but now we are quite advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether it is russia or iran, or in some cases china. in 2016, this was a new kind of tactic. it's not that there aren't going to continue to be issues, countries will continue to try to interfere, we will see issues like that. it's a little bit of an arms race in that way, but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways more advanced than many other company or governments around the world, and ifeel confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. the number of coronavirus cases in the community is remaining relatively stable with one in 400 people in england infected,

the government's surveillance programme shows. the office for national statistics survey involved nearly 15,000 people. it provides an estimate for community spread between 11th and 17th may. joining me now is peter benton, director of population and public policy operations at the office for national statistics. in or peter good afternoon. what else caught your eye on these figures? to see these figures stable through time. there was ever see a new number that we publish for the first time today, which is the first number of cases in a seven—week period. this case as i was looking at about 10,000 people. we are unbuttoning them week by week. about 7000 people have been at least tested at least a week twice, at least a week apart. we are running at about 61,000 people per week. there is some uncertainty in that,

this is a savvy, but as we go through time, that confidence in those numbers will grow. the dates are important, aren't they? there seems to move fairly rapidly. something is suggested that in london, rates are dropping. this information we haven't yet produced at regional level, the government is looking at information from a range of sources, deaths, admissions from hospital. this information is different in that is taking a random sample from the country, whether or not they have coronavirus or symptoms, testing them and looking at change through time. at the moment, we haven't produced regional information, but the plan is to add 10,000 households a month, going on from here, that will enable us to get more detail about those kinds of love a lot of confirmation on a track and trace any strategy. what would you see that strategy is being? that is a policy for the

government to develop. the job for the office of national statistics is a job to help enable people to make proper decisions, whether that is a government or charities, what this information will do is to give an insight into how may people have the virus, in what different age groups, in what differentjobs people do, the government can then plan its interventions, based on information from the source and the other sources available. if you're going back and letting people again, is there any evidence of reinfection? what we are seeing is there are about 7000 people who have been sent tested twice, and we are seeing only a small number of those actually turned from a negative to positive. the numbers are quite small, so we cannot quite look at see if he would have gone from negative to positive to negative. at the moment, we can mention the people who are negative to start with and then have become positive at some point during the study. that is what this is produced with incident. that will then in time, give this advisory group sage,

to get a broader estimate, whether the estimate is going up or down in the estimate is going up or down in the population. this survey is a source that will help be alongside other sources. alongside this, what would you put the other figure at full? makes a lot more sense to pull the information about hospital admissions and deaths, and all the other testing programmes that make we are giving the information to sage and they are giving this information on a regular basis. peter benson from the office of national statistics, thank you very much. the world health organization has recorded its biggest daily spike in covid—19 cases since the start of the pandemic. 106,000 new infections have been reported in the past 2a hours. and more than two thirds of those are in just 4 countries. the united states, russia, saudi arabia and brazil. david campanale has this report.

easing restrictions on movement in the wealthy west. but the coronavirus is far from being defeated. in the last 2a hours, there have been 106,000 cases reported to the who, the most in a single day since the outbreak began. the concern is with the number of cases in low and middle income countries such as in south america, where they are seeing a sharp escalation of the pandemic. chile has had 53,000 cases and 540 deaths so far. on tuesday, soldiers and riot police clashed with demonstrators angry about food shortages and job losses. translation: while the rich were bringing in the virus from their luxurious trips, the poor had to go out and work and get infected. and now the rich are fine, the poor are infected, closed up, without work and the only thing we can do is protest. in countries like peru,

which has had around 100,000 confirmed infections and 3,000 deaths, hospital workers say they lack protective equipment. braziljust saw its highest death daily toll of 1,179. the pandemic is rapidly gaining pace in the country, the most populous in the region. it is the rate at which the virus is spreading that is accelerating. we need to track the infection, the virus itself as it spreads around the world. we need to track its transmission dynamics to ensure we understand how it is transmitting and where. it took about five months after the first infections were officially recorded in china to reach 1 million cases worldwide. it has taken less than two months for the total to approach 5 million. and it is the rapid rise in infections in poorer countries less able to cope that the world health

organization says the wealthy mustn't lose sight of, if the pandemic is to be contained. david campanale, bbc news. we're just getting the latest figures for the deaths in northern ireland. a daily update of seven more deaths linked to covid—19 in northern ireland, that is according to the figures from stormont department of national health. three have happened to today, for having earlier. the number recorded by the department is now 501 and the note says that this includes mostly deaths in hospitals, but not all just setting. that brings the total number of cases in northern ireland to 4000 481, -- 4481, in number of cases in northern ireland to 4000 481, —— 4481, in northern ireland. the latest update from there. the company working with the university of oxford

on a coronavirus vaccine says it now has the capacity to make one billion doses. )astrazeneca has also announced that it has received money to make the vaccine in the united states. the us government has ordered three hundred million doses of the potential covid—19 vaccine and is commiting over a billion dollars to help speed up the drug's development. the tokyo olympic games could be cancelled altogether — if they don't go ahead next summer. the games were re—scheduled because of the covid19 crisis. the head of the international olympic committee thomas bach says their future is in doubt — he's been speaking to our sports editor dan roan. it's known as the greatest show on earth, but four years after the baton was passed to tokyo, the city's now trying to reorganise the first ever postponed games — the most powerfulfigure in olympic sports telling me the scale of the challenge facing the hosts is daunting. it's a mammoth task, and there is no blueprint for it, so we have to reinvent the wheel day by day.

two months have passed since the games were put back a year because of the coronavirus crisis. with billions of pounds more being spent on rescheduling a scaled—back event, organisers have suggested next summer is tokyo's last chance. you cannot forever employ 3,000 or 5,000 people in an organising committee. you cannot every year change the entire sports schedule worldwide of all the major federations. you cannot have the athletes being in uncertainty, you cannot have so much overlapping with the future olympic games. the olympics have seen many iconic moments, and all have been enjoyed in packed stadia, but amid concerns tokyo depends on a vaccine being found, bach did not rule out the possibility of an olympics behind closed doors. it's very much a speculation now.

hmm. i think we will need a lot of consultation in this respect. of course, this is not what we want, because the olympic spirit is about also uniting the fans, and it is what makes the games so unique. six months ago, we spent time with british canoeists as they visited the host city. what kind of games awaits them next year and whether such venues are ever used for olympic competition remains uncertain. dan roan, bbc news. 0k, ok, we have now brought you the northern ireland figures, we now have the uk death toll figures. this is how the figures have been published. this is coming out on social media. as you can see, a rise of 338 in the last 24 hours. the total death toll now at 36,000 and

42. -- 30 6042. there total death toll now at 36,000 and 42. —— 30 6042. there is a rise of... with 908 total. 908 positive test results. a rise of 338. we'll be looking more at those figures and the trends a little later. you're watching bbc news, you're watching now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. it is some rain coming that's pushing into the western side of the uk during the latter part of this evening and overnight. as the winds pick up, we see the rain is pushing into scotland. still dry across the south and across a spangly, and for these areas, we still properly won't see a great deal of rain because the wetter weather is further north across scotland. the rain across eastern england coming lighter as it ru ns eastern england coming lighter as it runs eastward through the morning. once light goes, the sunshine comes

out and show was continued in scotla nd out and show was continued in scotland and northern ireland. it is fed by some strong winds of 50 or 60 miles an hour. that will of course make it feel a bit cooler than recently, but still 17 or 18 degrees. we are back down to 22 or 23 degrees for the eastern side of england. probably a bit cooler on saturday. some more rain and some strong wins on the northern side of the uk, but it should be largely dry for the rest. some sunshine at times. hello this is bbc news with simon mccoy. the headlines... health care leaders are warning of ‘severe consequences‘ if a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases, isn‘t finalised soon. they don‘t know how they are going to interact with this

completely separate operation that is being set up in terms of tracers, and effectively, we kind of miss a whole bunch of opportunities. a deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests, which will be available on the nhs, with health and care workers first in line to receive them. scotland‘s first minister announces an easing of lockdown restrictions, but says they must be cautious. we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people‘s well—being and quality of life start getting our economy moving again and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. borisjohnson is cleared of any criminal actions in his relationship withjennifer arcuri whilst london mayor, but a review establishes there may have been an intimate relationship. an international trial has begun to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19.

sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. it‘s been revealed that promotion and releagtion will remain in the english football league season if the season can‘t be played to a conclusion because of the coronavirus outbreak. 51% of clubs in the championship and league one need to agree for a campaign to finish early. clubs in league two had already voted to end the season but proposed there should be no relegation to the national league. the bbc‘s football correspondent ian dennisjoins us now. is this what we were expecting? maintaining as close to a traditioanl and normal outcome to a league in abnornaml circumtances? leak lea k to leak to reach an agreement last week but league1 has been a lot more come to get it with proposals and counterproposals, there has been talk of an extended play out system. but they have decided today is a sensually a framework in ——

essentially a framework in place to decide whether they finish the season i would go into the playoffs. and that will be based on points in previous games to decide that, and they want consistency across the leagues, they want the leagues to try and follow the path that was sent last friday. what was interesting about the statement today that they linked to clubs last week had actually voted against regulation. what they tfl has had todayis regulation. what they tfl has had today is that they want to —— efl once to maintain relegation. the clu bs once to maintain relegation. the clubs have obviously voted saying that they do not want to see any relegated from league 2, what will be the outcome there? many people see this as a reprieve, but i think there could be a twist at the bottom

of league 2, because there is still an outstanding charge for nonpayment of wages. should there be a points deduction? i think that could actually place medical field deduction? i think that could actually place medicalfield in jeopardy with relation to the leak. the caveat to the national league, now with the possibility of two teams getting promoted to the elf allsop but the elf still once the leagues to get their assurances that there season will start when it needs to and there‘s relation to be able to play football. many thanks for that, so much at stake for players. the premier league has been warned that players who opt against a return to action could prevent football‘s top flight from restarting this season — that‘s according to one former player. non—contact training‘s resumed with players from clubs working

together in small groups with a view to the league restarting onjune 12th. but watford‘s troy deeney and chelsea‘s n‘golo kante arejust two players who have opted against a return due to fears over coronavirus. data from the office of national statistics found those from a bame background are twice as likely to die from covid—19 and marvin sordell says their concerns need to be taken seriously. i think that is something that cannot be ignored and i think that is why the players have been a part of the consultation as well as doctors. i think that is a big factor, because at the end of the day everything can say yes that is ok, but if the players are not comfortable they do not want to play. nobody wants a situation where things are set up to start and somebody comes down the line and says, i am not quite comfortable with this. some of england‘s cricketers are back in training this afternoon.

that is stuart broad, one of 18 bowlers, taking part in sessions this week across seven grounds. he tweeted these pictures today. players will social distance, with temprature checks in place and strict rules over cleaning equipment. batsmen and wicketkeepers will return next month. that‘s all the sport for now. today on bbc news, it‘s your questions answered, we‘re looking at how the global travel industry has been affected by the pandemic. you‘ve been sending in your questions about how coronavirus will impact your travel plans. with me to answer some of those is our personal finance correspondent, simon gompertz, and our business correspondent, ben thompson. then, let‘s start with you. what changes are heathrow airport making to accommodate passengers? yes, all

sorts of changes are being introduced by airports and airlines, heathrow is just the latest and it is going to introduce thermal scanners, cameras basically to check your temperature. it said it will be able to do that from about eight feet, so when you are passing through the terminal it will test your temperature. the idea that is to check if you have any fevered symptoms that are associated with covid—19. on the idea of that would be potentially to avoid that 14 day quarantine that is being suggested for anyone arriving in the uk from overseas. there are very few details about that quarantine plan at the moment, all we know is that it will be for 14 days, you will have to self—isolate. be for 14 days, you will have to self-isolate. we have a problem with his line, we were returned to him and just a moment. sorry, his line, we were returned to him andjusta moment. sorry, ben? we lost you there, that last bit. so

pick up from 30 seconds ago.|j lost you there, that last bit. so pick up from 30 seconds ago. i was just saying that the idea of having the cameras, that might avoid the idea of having to 14 day quarantine period, and the travel industry is pointing out that 14 days could actually be much more than your holiday in the first place, set out basically ruins the entire point of trying to go on holiday if you are having to self—isolate and take another two weeks off of yourjob just to go away. various airlines, the industry that represent them, said that that will kill off air travel because there will be no point. bearing in mind as well that is airports are putting in procedures, screenings, check—in, requiring to wear a mask, on the plane itself you might also need some changes also. so we are seeing that you might not be able to take hand luggage with you, there will be no in—flight service, the crew might

be wearing personal protective equipment, so they will be serving you with all of that on, and you might be wearing a mask also. so the airlines are saying that it is really difficult to work out how they will make it work because social distancing on a plane is very difficult. so all of those airlines right now will be trying, i think, to do all of the mass and work out how many people they need on a plane to fly to make sure that it is financially viable for them. the local airlines can be on pretty thin margins, they need a place to be full, packed them full and sell the tickets quite cheap, i think the data that could be long gone. we might see prices starting to go up. let‘s bring in simon, we have this question. i have a two week holiday book from the 17th ofjune, a flight from bournemouth, they won‘t tell me yet if my holiday is cancelled, i will not cancel myself as i paid in full and i will lose money. should i not be informed by now? hello, tui

and said that they have cancelled all holidays up until the 11th of june, this family going on holiday on the oven team, —— holiday on the 17th, so that is after the time that they have said what they will do, and it is probable that he will be told quite soon. but what this points out is the mismatch between what the foreign office is saying, which is that you should not be travelling overseas, and that is open—ended, and what the holiday companies face is thinking about a couple of weeks ahead and thinking if the advice changes, then they will be able to get you off on holiday, which will be great for you, but also great for them because then they would not have to cancel and pay out another load of refunds

for holidays that have not been able to go ahead. so that is a problem, and at that particular time, the middle ofjune, and at that particular time, the middle of june, i and at that particular time, the middle ofjune, i think is quite an important one because it is about the time where it could be that some european countries start to open up a bit more. so there might be room for holidays to start happening, but in any case, i don't think tui are going to say until a little bit closer to the time, and it is probable that that is what is happening out there. not surprising that you have not heard yet. happening out there. not surprising that you have not heard yetlj happening out there. not surprising that you have not heard yet. i will stay with you, this man says who is liable for my cancelled flight, the airlines or the booking agents? interesting one, because the airline is basically supposed to pay for the cancelled flights, so everyone should get a refund. but that is

primarily if you booked directly with them, if you booked through a travel agent, then it is the agent who has paid and booked a flight. so it could be that the airline will say to you, if you're trying to get the money back, that they pay up to the money back, that they pay up to the agent and it is up to them to refund you. and this has created a huge amount of problems, because people who are booked through agents, and traditionally that was secure, find that they are, first of all, subject to the problems of the airlines taking ages to pay out refunds, and secondly, to the problems of travel agents who themselves are in deep financial trouble. and so you are two places removed from the airline, and that's why these difficulties are happening. airline is responsible for paying, but not necessarily directly to you. then, similar question to the one earlier. i have a holiday booked the 20th ofjuly to

spain, when will we be able to hear if it will go ahead, and if it does go ahead, will we have to go into quarantine when we return smack i am hoping you... go back ten seconds, we miss everything. it is worth waiting for stop what is not clear enough question is where she is actually hoping to go, because i think it is fair to say that trips... i'm giving up with ben, simon, rescue me, i‘m going to move onto the next question. we booked a holiday for the second week ofjuly, 2020, this was for myself and my husband together with our daughter

and son—in—law and her two grandchildren. we paid a deposit, we are due to pay a balance in the second week ofjune, should we go ahead and pay that? yes, well, i think a lot of people facing this question, and if you pay the full amount, then hopefully you will go on holiday, you will have a great holiday. if it has to be counseled, there is potentially a problem because people have been having some difficulties getting money back during the lockdown from agencies and cottage owners. some of been very happily doing it, but others have had difficulties in them had money taken off that. the other side of this is that if you do not pay the extra amount, then you lose your deposit. so you definitely will lose financially. it is a difficult one to decide, i think one thing to bear

in mind is that amongst the sort of holidays that the government might give the green light to happen, going to privately owned accommodation, like a cottage, ease likely to be amongst the earliest things that are opened up. so maybe camping, private accommodation earlier on, but things like hotels will perhaps take longer to open up because of the possibility of contact within them. so that might be one thing could encourage you to carry on. right, and while you are there and i am not impressed with ben‘s line. can i cancel my holiday abroad and get a full refund because i don‘t feel that the airline can keep the booking? no, i do not think so, because the likelihood is that the two metre rule, then touched on the two metre rule, then touched on the ace before —— been talked about

this before. within the body of an airline, social distancing is just not possible, we have all sorts of measures to reduce the risk of men's mission, but you will get closer than that. that would long as the airline is abiding by the rules, thenit airline is abiding by the rules, then it has no obligation to pay you a refund if you decide to cancel. it is really only if the airline cancels that you have some recourse against them, not if you just do not feel like flying, but i do understand that a lot of people are going to be worried about this. we are told to be so careful, just in our normal life, and then when it comes to travelling, necessarily things get a little bit closer. 0k, iam going things get a little bit closer. 0k, i am going to stick with you. my wife and i have a climbing trip in the french swiss alps booked, if cancelled i reschedule for 2021? the

insurance was £500, i do not want to buy that again, note covid disruption on the insurance. interesting, if it suits you, then it is going to suit the providers for you to change the booking to see her, they will be happy about that and hopefully will have a fantastic holiday when you can actually go there. the insurance side is an interesting one, it is absolutely vital to have if you're going on a climbing holiday, i know that from personal experience having had an accident of that sort. you need to have that very expensive coverage. one thing that is worth checking out these that some insurance companies are paying people money back because erin is no way in which they can use their travel policies. it is happening with car insurance as well, and the regulators and

insurance bodies are pressuring companies to do that. so you should check and see if you can get any money back if you decide to postpone until next year. the other thing to bearin until next year. the other thing to bear in mind is that where you renew an annual insurance policy, although overall insurers are not covering coronavirus risks any more, if you booked something after i became a thing, but if you renew an annual policy, some of them will extend the cove rage. policy, some of them will extend the coverage. so you could find that the coverage. so you could find that the cover is you even next year if you have a good insurer. only the card, which you tend to have in your pocket at the moment if you go on holiday in europe, and it covers your treatment if you need it, there is no guarantee that that will be there from the beginning ofjanuary next year when we are fully disconnected from that you. it could be, but we do not know what the

terms will be, so the card for the european union, which is fantastic and make things easier, might not be covering you, you would have to fall back completely on insurance and the cost of insurance will go up because of that. thank you for that. let's try with ben, i never thought i would miss you in the studio, but i actually do. this man says that i would like to know where and when i would like to know where and when i would be able to go on holiday this summer was up which countries are going to be open injune? and i simple question. —— a nice, simple question. not a simple answer, it is not so much about where you can go, but there is open, where your travel insurance will cover you, i know that simon was talking about that issue, currently the advice is only essential travel. you might find that you cannot go to some of the places or be able to book a hotel. what i was touching on earlier about

spain, the spanish islands might open before the mainland because of the relative low rates of infection on the islands versus in places like barcelona and madrid. the quarantine issue will still be a problem, so when you are returning over the quarantine issue might mean that you have to take extra time off in addition to your holiday in order to isolate for that period of time. but there is an idea of air bridges, that has been talked about a lot, the idea that countries with relatively low rates connect themselves. so essentially travel from one country with a low rate to another, and that keeps the risk down. that idea has gaining some traction, but there is no detail on any change of the foreign and commonwealth office advice, there is very little information on where and when you might be able to quarantine and where those air bridges might be. very difficult to know where might be worth going. one thing that

is certain, we might think about saying more to home this year, so staycation, that is a huge industry because there will not be many foreign tour is coming to the uk, but it is bearing in mind if you‘re in england, travelling with an inkling, silly advice not to travel to wales, scotland or to the public of ireland, but at the same time it is worth bearing in mind that travelling in the uk might be a good option if you want to get away, but wa nt to option if you want to get away, but want to avoid airlines. good to see you at last, ben. simon, thank you so much. plans are under way to allow more children to return to schools and nurseries in england from the first ofjune, but not everyone is happy at the prospect — raising questions such as how do you ensure young children stick to new safety rules? tim muffett has been to one nursery for children of key workers

to see how they are coping. a fresh start, adapting a nursery to cater for a pandemic. the children have to wash their hands on arrival. we also have parents drop off at the front door, so a staff member will come and collect them rather than going into the nursery. this nursery has stayed open for the children of key workers. staff hope lessons learned here could be useful for other nurseries. so far, we haven‘t really been focused on social distancing between the children, and we have just allowed them to play, because one of the main things children learn in nurseries is to play with other children. but we have been looking at staff contact, so if staff can space themselves out, listen to the two metre rule, and we think adult—to—adult transmission might be kept down. this nursery have found that if staff wear face masks, it does not work. the children do not like them, they pull them down because they want to see how we are speaking.

and of course, they are learning to speak, so we have piloted them, but we are not wearing them with the children. some of the local secondary schools have used their 3d modelling to make visors, and it does mean that if a child starts to cough and have a temperature in front of you, you could put this on and then protect yourself from the cough. if we could let these be in the environment so they can see them, then they won‘t be so frightened if they actually have to see a member of staff using them. you are not going to use these routinely, but you are getting them used to them? exactly, so if a child does start to cough and feel ill, then we can take the child to a side room and they won‘t be frightened of some new kit they have never seen before. this nursery has been looking after around 30 children per day, typically it is 90, lower numbers have meant it is easier to keep children in informal groups. that might get trickier. we have put the yellow tape down just in the last couple of days, planning ahead to if we are going to have to encourage children to separate out a bit more once we are 70% occupied rather than 20% occupied.

so now we are being far more frequent with cleaning, and even if a child has handled a cuddly toy, once they put it down and they are finished with it, we whip it away to the laundry. more of the cleaning is focused on door handles and tablets that staff manage, those kinds of things because i think those are where the adults are going to keep touching the same thing. although this nursery has been caring for far fewer children than normal, it has at least had a taste of the challenges ahead. for those that have been closed completely, reopening will mean a whole new rethink. tim muffet, bbc news. eight inspirational young people from across the uk are being recognised with rotary young citizen awards. throughout the week we‘ve been talking to the winners, all of whom are under 25 and have been singled out for their outstanding contribution to their communities. one of those winners is 17—year—old jess elmore — she‘sjoint president of the interact club at the queen elizabeth sixth form college in darlington.

shejoins me now. congratulations on this award. i want to know what drives you, why it is an important? because i think you got involved with your community particularly during the pandemic. with your community particularly during the pandemiclj with your community particularly during the pandemic. i think it is important to help people within this time, because it gives people a bit of happiness in this whole pandemic. and this was important to help those in need, because i feel gratefulfor what i have and i‘m sure other people within the club do as well. what are the problems in your community that you particularly want to address? we are aiming to focus on social isolation, so we have been visiting care homes, but because of coronavirus we have not been able to do that, so we have been sending letters to the care homes that we would visit stop so currently we have sent 1200 letters to those who are self isolating. we started

originally with care homes, but we moved on to bigger areas. what is it that you want to... you were the first to get to coach at your school, and you coach martial arts to kids at your school, what sort of youngsters are you helping their? idon‘t do that. youngsters are you helping their? idon't do that. sorry, just, we are getting a lot of weird communication. what is this award mean to you. ? we do not set out to getan award, mean to you. ? we do not set out to get an award, when we were told about it, we did not know about it, as we are grateful and thankful, we

did not set out to win an award. tell me about the i promise campaign. this was about promises, so for example, i wanted to raise dementia awareness, so i went for a dementia awareness, so i went for a dementia awareness, so i went for a dementia awareness trip and we raised over £300 for dementia awareness. and you have also been helping the local hospital. yes, in this pandemic we have made 100 bags for the local hospitals, and in these bags we have put cards of thanks and we have been putting in chocolate brownies and other things. you are clearly inspirational, and i‘ve spoken all week to similar people, and i just i‘ve spoken all week to similar people, and ijust wonder what it is that drives you. because when an award like this, you may not accept

it, but you were rather special. yes, just wanting to help people and just seeing the impact that we have on people is very inspirational. do you think you are inspirational? not personally, but i feel like us as a group, what we do can inspire people. i think you are inspirational, and i know are dealing with some communication problems, but it was so nice to talk to you and congratulations, i‘m sure we will hear of you plenty of times in the future. thank you. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with darren. hello there, very warm today. it will cool off further over the next few days but there is due windy weather and some rain as well. that rain starts pushing into the western side of the uk during the last part of this and overnight and, as the winds pick up, we see the rain heading into scotland. still dry across east anglia

and the south—east of england and warm here overnight as well. for these areas, we won‘t see a great deal of rain. the wetter weather is further north across scotland, the rain across eastern england is coming more lightly. once that goes, the sunshine is out, showers continue, into scotland and northern ireland. some strong and gusty winds, gusts of 50 or 60 miles an hour. that will make it feel a bit cooler than recently, still 17 or 18 degrees. we‘re back to 22 or 23 degrees on the eastern side. probably a bit cooler on saturday as well. more rain and some strong winds for the northern half of the uk, over the weekend, further south, it should be largely dry with some sunshine at times.

this is bbc news. the headlines — health care leaders in england are warning of "severe consequences" if a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases isn‘t finalised soon. they don‘t know how they‘re going to interact with this completely separate operation that is being set up in terms of tracers, then effectively, we‘re going to kind of miss a whole bunch of opportunities. a uk—wide deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests — which will be available on the nhs — with health and care workers first in line to receive them. scotland‘s first minister announces an easing of lockdown restrictions, but says they must be cautious. we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps, and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people‘s well—being and quality of life,

start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. borisjohnson is cleared of any criminal actions in his relationship withjennifer arcuri whilst london mayor, but a review establishes there may have been an intimate relationship. an international trial has begun to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19. the international olympic committee president says he understands why the rescheduled tokyo 2020 games would have to be cancelled, if it can‘t take place next summer. downing street says a deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests, which will be available on the nhs, with health and care workers first in line to receive them.

we‘re expecting to hear more details at the daily presser in a few hours time. meanwhile, the government has been warned of severe consequences for the health service in england if its covid19 test, track and trace system isn‘t in place soon. the nhs confederation says any further easing of the lockdown depends on a clear strategy, and a delay will risk a second peak of the infection. the prime minister has pledged to have what he‘s called "a world—beating" contact tracing system up and running by the 1st ofjune. in other developments, the world health organisation has warned that the pandemic is far from over after recording the biggest global daily increase in cases — 106,000. a global trial to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19 has begun. and how is the global travel industry coping and adapting? we‘ll have more on that later. our first report from our health correspondent lauren moss. test, track and trace — three words we‘ve heard a lot during the pandemic, three words that will

be key to controlling the spread of covid—19. but now those representing hospitals, health and social care members, have warned that if the system isn‘t ready soon, there is a risk of a second peak. if you were going to go further and you make further relaxations, then obviously the danger of the r number, which the government absolutely recognises, the danger of the r number rising becomes greater if you have not got in place effective test, track and trace processes. borisjohnson has promised a world—beating tracing system will be in place by the 1st ofjune, the same day that nonessential shops and schools could gradually reopen. there will be 25,000 trackers able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day, and that is very important. so how does it work? trackers will contact people who have been in the company of someone who has the virus.

they will alert them by phone call, text or e—mail and give advice. the new nhs app will notify anyone who has downloaded it that someone they have recently been near has tested positive. the phone app is particularly advantageous is that it helps you identify, as you previously said on the news, the people you may have trailed around a supermarket with or been on public transport with, and it is looking at how long someone has been in contact with as well. but the clock is ticking. the government had hoped to roll the app out by the middle of may. it‘s still being piloted on the isle of wight. we are working at huge pace in relation to the app itself, and therefore, having put that in place, now trialling it in the isle of wight, and whilst i am unable to give you that definitive timeline this morning, please be in no doubt as to the extent, the effort, the energy, the focus that is being put on that as well.

the office for national statistics‘ surveillance programme suggests there may currently be 8,700 new infections a day in england. 177,000 tests were provided on tuesday, having the capacity to deliver 200,000 a day is the end of may target. but there are calls for clarity about how nhs workers will make use of the tracking system. nobody in the nhs knows how they are going to interact with this new track and trace operation, so i hear the prime minister saying the 1st of june, but equally what you have heard in the last 24 hours is a whole load of behind—the—scenes briefing and individual cabinet ministers saying, "actually, we are not "quite sure when injune." different parts of britain are easing out of lockdown at varying speeds. northern ireland, wales and scotland are trialling or implementing test, track and trace programmes. those three words pivotal to what happens next across the uk. lauren moss, bbc news.

our political correspondent jonathan blake is in westminster. more details front man —— matt hancock later on, but as far as an antibody test goes, they have found something reliable. two different antibody tests were accredited by the uk authorities in the last week orso, and the uk authorities in the last week or so, and now, the uk authorities in the last week orso, and now, we are the uk authorities in the last week or so, and now, we are told by downing street that the government has done a deal with a swiss drug manufacturer to provide antibody tests to people in the uk. that is an important development, those tests will be administered, we are told, to nhs and key health care workers in the first instance, and they will be provided for free. beyond that, we don‘t really know about the scale and way in which these tests will be offered or administered. it is important because an antibody test can show whether you have had coronavirus, not only at that time, but

previously, which is obviously different from the current tests that are in place. what we don‘t know on the basis of this test is how far it will be able to be determined, whether that leaves somebody immune to the virus in future, or whether even if they had had it in the past, they are able to catch it again. ok, now the track and trace system, it has been delayed, and we still do not know when it‘ll be introduced. where are we on that? because a lot of people are saying we are running out of time. yes, that is hugely important because it is, with a test, track and trace system, or test and trace system which the government is now describing it as, essentially the same thing, being able to identify specific outbreaks of the coronavirus, specific cases of it, and to determine who those people have come into contact with. as you we re have come into contact with. as you were feeling in the report is just now, the app was at first touted as a key pa rt now, the app was at first touted as a key part of that, which people

would be encouraged to download, which they would put certain limited details onto, and then notify the nhs and the authorities if they were suffering from symptoms, and it could then be determined through the use of bluetooth technology who you had come into contact with if you had come into contact with if you had contracted the virus. the schedule for the app being rolled out nationally is clearly slipping, it has been trialled on the isle of wight, which the government says is ongoing. the health secretary matt hancock repeatedly said it was going to be mid may, but now we do not have a date for that at all. but you have a date for that at all. but you have the prime minister said yesterday that by the beginning of june, there would be what he described as a world leading track and trace system in place. but the schedule, it seems, is fluid. the people who are going to run that are currently being trained, and it remains to be seen as to whether thatis remains to be seen as to whether that is a specific date in terms of when it‘ll be up and running, because there have clearly been problems in putting the scheme in place and training those individuals

who are going to do the work. jonathan, thank you very much. jonathan, thank you very much. jonathan blake in westminster. scotland‘s first minister nicola sturgeon has outlined a plan for exiting lockdown. from next week, restrictions around some outdoor activities will be relaxed. let‘s get more from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon, who‘s in glasgow. it isa it is a softly softly approach? yes, softly softly, cautious, gradual, four phases to it. scotland‘s first minister nicola sturgeon said there is no risk free way of lifting the lockdown because the virus has not gone away. but she did set out this route map, if you like, for how she sees life going back to some semblance of normal in the weeks and months ahead. this first phase, as you said, from next thursday onwards, will involve primarily outdoor activities, people being able to see others from another household, as long as it‘s outside, and as long as social distancing is

maintained. some outdoor sports being able to resume, like tennis, bowling, fishing, and golf, and outdoor businesses like agriculture and forestry able to resume as well. also garden centres will be able to reopen, as will recycling facilities as well. these phase one measures, most of which have an outdoor focus, are not in place yet, let me stress that, and they are dependent on us continuing to suppress the virus. they will also be monitored carefully as they do take effect. however, we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps, and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people‘s well—being and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. lorna, a lot of questions in scotla nd lorna, a lot of questions in scotland about care homes and social ca re scotland about care homes and social care generally. yeah, i think the government at westminster and the

government at westminster and the government here in scotland has come under a lot of scrutiny for the way that the situation in care homes and coronavirus has been handled throughout. there have been increasing questions over the last few weeks here in scotland about initially the question of ppe being provided to care homes, then the testing of both residents and staff in care homes, and most recently, the question of people who were discharged from hospital in a hurry when at this pandemic started to hit. and put back into care homes, or placed in care homes. nicola sturgeon touched upon that in her comments today in parliament. she said they were trying to act on the best scientific advice they had available at the time. but there

have been difficult questions both here in scotland and indeed at westminster, not least because of the fact that so very many of those people who have died from this disease have been care home residents. lorna, thank you very much. lorna gordon there. the prime minister will not face a criminal investigation into his relationship with the american businesswoman jennifer arcuri while he was mayor of london. it had been alleged borisjohnson gavejennifer arcuri preferential treatmea nt involving thousands of pounds of public money and access to three foreign trade trips. but as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explained, there are still further processes looking at mrjohnson‘s conduct. he will still face an investigation by the oversight committee of the greater london authority. the allegation was that his close relationship with the american businesswoman jennifer arcuri meant that she had somehow got money and trips, access to overseas trades missions, because of that close relationship. and what the independent office for police conduct found was that there was no evidence that he had influenced those decisions.

however, what it did find was that those around borisjohnson believed that there was a close relationship between the two, and that may have influenced how they behaved, and the independent office for police conduct also found that there was definitely a close association between boris johnson and jennifer arcuri, and there may have been an intimate relationship. and as they put it, it would have been wise for borisjohnson to have declared this is a conflict of interest. they went through 900 documents, eight years of e—mails, to work out whether there should be a criminal investigation, and they did make this little afterthought. "some of the records which would have assisted "the review either never existed or have been deleted," and they had lots to say about the record—keeping at the mayor of london‘s office while borisjohnson was there. a spokesman for the prime minister said, "we welcome the fact that this "politically—motivated complaint has been thrown out. "such vexatious claims of impropriety in office "were untrue and unfounded. "an independent review by the government internal audit agency

"similarly showed the claims made by the labour party were false. "this was not a policing matter, "and we consider this was a waste of police time." official estimates suggest more than 400,000 people from countries outside the eu moved to the uk last year the highest figure since records began. net migration — the gap between the number of people leaving and entering the country — hit 282,000 in 2019. at the same time, net migration from within the eu fell to around 49,000 — a quarter of the figure for 2015. the company working with the university of oxford on a coronavirus vaccine says it now has the capacity to make one billion doses. astrazeneca has also announced that it has received money to make the vaccine in the united states. the us government has ordered 300 million doses of the potential covid—19 vaccine and is commiting over $1 billion to help speed up the drug‘s development. more than 300 emergency workers have been assaulted across england and wales in cases linked

to the coronavirus, it‘s emerged. the director of public prosecutions said they were among 660 covid—related offences dealt with by the crown prosecution service in april, during the lockdown. max hill qc described the attacks on police, paramedics and nurses as "particularly appalling". the older people‘s commissioner in wales says she has "serious concerns the fundamental human rights of older people "in wales may have been breached" over the welsh government‘s coronavirus testing policy. helena herklots said that blanket testing was not in place across care homes as quickly as it needed to be, and that lives could have been saved. the bbc has also heard details of how care homes were pressured into taking coivd—19 patients from hospitals, often without testing, and that may have contributed to the spread of the disease in the care sector. wyre davies reports. there is my mother. the middle of the photo... 82-year-old joyce love

life but died in a cardiff care home at the height of the crisis after being transferred from hospital where she had been treated for an unrelated condition. on the 10th of april, my brother received a phone call from the care home to say that my mother, basically, was very unwell, that she was displaying all the symptoms of covid—19. you can imagine if we had heard that covid—19 had been in that care home, we would not have allowed her to be transported to that home. days before joyce died, transported to that home. days beforejoyce died, the welsh government had issued guidance saying that hospitals could discharge covid—19 patients to care homes, and outpatient clinic without common symptoms did not have to be tested before they were moved. —— and that patients without common symptoms. it is an absolute disgrace, because it is basically throwing sheep to the wolves, it is as simple as that. we have heard from several care homes across wales, in putting this one in port talbot. staff moved in to try to

keep themselves and patients isolated, but we could not get testing for weeks, and we felt pressured into taking in hospital patients who were either covid—19 positive or were untested. they would ring every day to ask what vacancies were in the home, if we had vacancies, we told them why we could not take people on, and when i spoke to the hospital, she says she would go to the care inspectorates to ensure i had to start ticking people into this care home if they have no tests or not. the older people‘s commissioner in wales says she is concerned the welsh government‘s policy on the testing in care homes may have amounted to a breach of older people‘s fundamental human rights. the fact that testing wasn‘t in place as quickly as it needed to be for every resident and every member of staff, and that‘s why i believe the inequality in human rights commission it needs to investigate how older people have

been treated throughout this pandemic. the welsh government has now updated its testing policy to cover a ll now updated its testing policy to cover all care homes, and refute accusations that delays in testing cost lives. what i do accept is that, in some parts of wales, there are examples of where some care homes were wrongly refused tests at that point in time. it took much longer than i would want to to see my very clear policy choice and commented across wales. throughout this crisis, the government says it has followed scientific advice, but there is no doubt that many in the ca re there is no doubt that many in the care sector so that has made them feel completely undervalued. today on bbc news, we‘re looking at how the global travel industry has been affected by the pandemic. we‘ll be asking when and where tourism may be able to resume, and what your rights are as a consumer. several european countries have revealed plans to kick—start their tourism industries, while others are holding back. greece is planning to allow

international charter flights in, and aims to start its tourism season from mid june. at the moment, france allows only essential travel from abroad. it hasn‘t said when its foreign tourist ban will be lifted. spain has started loosening restrictions, but the beaches will be open to tourists before barcelona or madrid. italy eased its lockdown restrictions this week, with bars and restaurants open again, and st peter‘s basilica available to visitors. while here in the uk, the government said this week that holidays within the country could return as early as the beginning ofjuly. tourism bosses are calling on ministers to announce an october bank holiday to help rescue the industry from a £37 billion black hole. the extra national holiday would coincide with the autumn half term and encourage trips to the countryside and coast. we can speak now to bernard donoghue, who is the director of leading visitor attractions. they‘re one of the organisations backing the proposals. bernard, first of all, give me an assessment of how badly hit the

industry has been so far. we will significantly hit. all of my attractions have been closed now since the middle of march —— really significantly hit. and depending on whether they are indoor or outdoor, they are not likely to reopen until possibly mid june or earlyjuly. some may not be open until the end of this year. so if they are highly dependent or solely dependent on generating income from ticket sales, they are in a very precarious financial situation. can you put a financial situation. can you put a financial cost on this? it is in the region of about 35 billion. and that is particularly significant, because tourism is worth 157 billion in a normal year to the uk economy. it is one of the fifth largest industries in the uk, third largest employer, and it is one of the most important employers in every constituency in every pa rt employers in every constituency in every part of the country. so it has a seismic effect across all local, regional and national economies. whilst not wanting people to take risks, you must look at a bright

blue sky, look at pictures of the beaches around the country, and wring your hands. yes, one of the great ironies of all of this is that we have had an unprecedented period of really good weather when our attractions would be making a huge amount of money. we‘ve lost out on easter, we have lost out on a two bank holidays, and that is when our seasonal businesses would have made much of their revenues for the entire year. they wouldn‘t have made much in winter, and want in the forthcoming winter. so this unprecedented time for visitor attractions mean we are experiencing essentially three winters this year. —— the won‘t in the forthcoming winter. and only a relatively small window postjuly until winter. and only a relatively small window post july until about winter. and only a relatively small window postjuly until about the end of september. but some of those seasonal businesses, like theme parks, will have to make up as much money as possible in that time. parks, will have to make up as much money as possible in that timelj was interested to see lots of people parking their cars outside leading tourist attractions, because they had donned their hoping to be allowed inside. do you think the guidance is clear enough? should

have said they had gone there. we are asking public health england to come out with specific guidance for visitor attractions. if you are an outdoor attraction, one of the things we are arguing is that, if you can go to a garden centre, you can absolutely go to a safari park. safari parks are almost at the very definition of social distancing. you are ina definition of social distancing. you are in a car to protect you from lions and tigers, so actually, we can manage social distancing, physical distancing in gardens and parks and park lands and theme parks now. so we would like really clear guidance from the government about when outdoor attractions can open, when outdoor attractions can open, when indoor attractions can open, but for those attractions you cannot economically violate open, because it is impossible to adhere to social distancing measures, we may require additional following support from government for those attractions purely to survive the year. —— we may require additional furlough support. particularly as many

foreign tourists will be quarantined as soon as they get into the country at the moment. yes, that is particularly alarming. if quarantine was going to take place, we would have liked to see us take place about two months ago. 90% of all inbound visitors to the uk, people coming from around the world into the uk, spent less than two weeks there. so having a quarantine period of 14 days essentially removes 90% of 14 days essentially removes 90% of the inbound tourism market to the uk. so if you are a visitor attraction and most of europe ticket buying customers are from overseas, thatis buying customers are from overseas, that is effectively wiped out your customer base for the year. so we would like to government to be really clear on the clinical and medical justification for quarantine so that when ultimately it is listed, we have a good idea of why it is being lifted. and a new bank holiday? we would love a new bank holiday. not just for the holiday? we would love a new bank holiday. notjust for the sake of it, we have lost easter and two bank

holidays when much of our attractions would make most of their money, and whilst a new bank holiday in september or october would not compensate for that, it would help the industry get back on its feet just that it a time, october half term, when we would appreciate it, andi term, when we would appreciate it, and i think people would, to, having fought through and battled their way through a tough summer. bernard, good to talk to you, thank you very much for your time this afternoon. thank you. the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling minsinformation during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first uk broadcast interview in five years, he said the platform removed all content which put people at "imminent risk of physical harm". mr zuckerberg‘s been talking to our business editor simonjack. are there some permanent changes that you perceive from this, and what do you think that your company‘s role has been during the crisis? we‘ve focused on three main areas. one is responding to the acute health crisis. the second is helping people stay connected

with the people they care about. and then the third area is on economic recovery. so right now we‘re seeing a lot of pain for small businesses. they‘re having a hard time staying open as a lot of people are staying home, and that means millions of people are losing jobs, and i think anything that we can do to help small businesses survive. if some crazy person decided to start telling people to, i don‘t know, drink or inject bleach or saying colloidal silver would be a good way of keeping the virus at bay, what is the facebook algorithm‘s response to that? things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus when in fact it is not, we will take that down. another example which i know has been very prevalent in the uk has been 5g misinformation, which has led to some physical damage of 5g infrastructure.

so we believe that that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm, we take down the content. there have been hundreds of thousands of pieces of content like that. we have a us election coming up, and there was a princeton university survey saying that facebook is the fastest and biggest purveyor of misinformation in the us. do you think that facebook can influence the way that people vote? we‘ve learned a lot about how politics works online since 2016, and there are many different threats we have worked hard to mitigate. for example, one big area that we were behind on in 2016, but now we are quite advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether it is russia or iran, or, in some cases, china. in 2016, this was a new kind of tactic. it‘s not that there aren‘t going to continue to be issues, countries will continue to try to interfere, we will see issues like that.

so it‘s a little bit of an arms race in that way, but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways, more advanced than any other company or a lot of governments around the world, and ifeel confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. the tokyo olympic games could be cancelled altogether if they don‘t go ahead next summer. the games were rescheduled because of the covid19 crisis. the head of the international olympic committee thomas bach says their future is in doubt. he‘s been speaking to our sports editor dan roan. it‘s known as the greatest show on earth, but four years after the baton was passed to tokyo, the city‘s now trying to reorganise the first ever postponed games? —. the most powerfulfigure in olympic sports telling me the scale of the challenge facing the hosts is daunting. it‘s a mammoth task, and there is no blueprint for it, so we have to reinvent the wheel

day by day. two months have passed since the games were put back a year because of the coronavirus crisis. with billions of pounds more being spent on rescheduling a scaled—back event, organisers have suggested next summer is tokyo‘s last chance. you cannot forever employ 3,000 or 5,000 people in an organising committee. you cannot every year change the entire sports schedule worldwide of all the major federations. you cannot have the athletes being in uncertainty, you cannot have so much overlapping with the future olympic games. the olympics have seen many iconic moments, and all have been enjoyed in packed stadia, but amid concerns tokyo depends on a vaccine being found, bach did not rule out the possibility of an olympics behind closed doors.

it‘s very much a speculation now. hmm. i think we will need a lot of consultation in this respect. of course, this is not what we want, because the olympic spirit is about also uniting the fans, and it is what makes the games so unique. six months ago, we spent time with british canoeists as they visited the host city. what kind of games awaits them next year and whether such venues are ever used for olympic competition remains uncertain. dan roan, bbc news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather forecast. hello there. very warm today, it will cool off further over the next few days, mind you, and there is some windy weather, and for some, some rain as well. and that rain starts to push in to the western side of the uk during the latter part of this evening and overnight, and as the winds pick up, we see the rain heading into scotland. still dry across east anglia and the south—east of england,

and particularly warm here overnight as well. and for these areas, we probably won‘t see a great deal of rain, because the wetter weather is further north across scotland. the rain across eastern england becoming lighter and more patchy as it runs eastwards during the morning. and once that goes, sunshine is out, showers continue, particularly into scotland and northern ireland, fed on by some strong and gusty winds, gusts of 50 or 60 mph. that of course will make it feel a bit cooler than it has of late, but still 17 or 18 celsius. we are back down to 22 or 23 for the eastern side of england, probably a little bit cooler on saturday as well. more rain and some stronger winds for the northern half of the uk over the weekend. further south, should be largely dry, with some sunshine at times. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... health care leaders in england are warning of ‘severe consequences‘ if a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases, isn‘t finalised soon. a uk—wide deal has been agreed

on the supply of antibody tests — which will be available on the nhs — with health and care workers first in line to receive them. scotland‘s first minister announces an easing of lockdown restrictions — but says they must be cautious. the uk‘s death toll from confirmed cases of covid—19 in all settings, has risen by 338 in the last 24 hours. borisjohnson is cleared of any criminal actions in his relationship withjennifer arcuri whilst london mayor — but a review establishes there may have been an intimate relationship. an international trial has begun to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19. sport, and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, john watson. good afternoon. amid so much talk surrounding project restart and a return of football — organisers are giving

detail on how they plan to see things concluded. we‘ve heard this afternoon clubs will still be promoted and relegated from the english football league if the season cannot be completed because of the coronavirus outbreak. championship and league one sides are yet to decide if the league will finish early following the outbreak, whilst clubs in league two voted to end the current campaign. here‘s the bbc‘s senior football reporter ian dennis. the thing is with league 2 as they had reached an agreement last week, john, but league1 had reached an agreement last week, john, but league 1 was a lot more complicated and there were lots of proposals and counter proposals put forward. even the an extended play—off season. what the efl had decided today is essentially a framework in place another other clu bs framework in place another other clubs basically have to decide whether they want to continue with the season or decide that they would finish the season now and then go on to the play—offs, and that would be with an unweighted points per game formula to decide that. so they basically want consistency across the league. they are looking for the

league1 the league. they are looking for the league 1 club is now to try and follow the paths that were set by the league 2 club last friday, but what was interested about the statement today was that the league 2 clubs last week had voted against relegation from the efl to the national league but what the efl have said is that they want to retain as you say promotion and relegation across the board, so that was an interesting development. we know that some players in the premier league have made a return to training in small groups. some of england‘s cricketers are back in training this afternoon. that is stuart broad, one of 18 bowlers, taking part in sessions this week across seven grounds. he tweeted these pictures today. players still social distancing with temperature checks in place and strict rules over cleaning equipment, but i am in sure he enjoyed being out there in the middle. for the muslim community, it‘s the holy month of ramadan and many who are fasting under lockdown face new challenges. but imagine if you‘re an athlete in training who‘s burning up to 6,000 calories a day. olympic champion moe sbihi is doing just that, as he aims to defend his title at the now postponed games in tokyo. he spoke to our

reporter rhia chohan. so you are allowed to drink water, right? it‘s like, well, iwish! so you are allowed to drink water, right? it's like, well, iwish! for a huge portion of the uk‘s muslim community, ramadan has looked a little different during lockdown, especially for olympic rowing champion most of the he, who is not normally able to take part in training camps. people have been losing their lives. it is nice to be able to connect with my face, too fast and also train. that means no eating or drinking during daylight, which in britain can be up to 19 hours, and even bigger test for moe sbihi because he burns anywhere up to 6000 calories a day. the biggest loss has been five kilos. what is your typical routine at the moment?

lack of sleep! i wake up at half past two at the moment, have a massive bowl of cereal, a massive smoothie, just trying to get as calorific food in as possible. then i try to get back to sleep. last night was a bit of a nightmare. i felt like my internal organs were about to explode. i think i may overdid the amount of food i ate. about to explode. i think i may overdid the amount of food i atem is almost sunset, which means those taking part shortly will be able to break theirfast, taking part shortly will be able to break their fast, what is known as ifta r, break their fast, what is known as iftar, and under normal circumstances something that would be quite sociable and done as a community. the whole joy of iftar as well is going to different families, or going to different houses, a time to go and celebrate with your loved ones and give family members a massive hug. this is also a month of self reflection, and mentally it has had a positive effect on moe, who aims to defend his olympic title.

had a positive effect on moe, who aims to defend his olympic titlem has reinvigorated my whole lockdown period, and yes, it is very tough, and very isolated when you go through the rowing machine on yourself, through those dark times, that‘s when you know the goal is to theirfull that‘s when you know the goal is to their full stop ramadan is about more than abstaining from food, it is also about faith and dedication and it might just is also about faith and dedication and it mightjust power moe to another podium. absolutely, all that training at home, he will be hoping it would drive him towards that olympic gold potentially in it next year. that‘s all the sport for now. i‘ll have more for you in the next hour. today on bbc news we‘re looking at how the global travel industry has been affected by the pandemic. we‘ll be asking when and where tourism may be able to resume, and what your rights are as a consumer. in normal times — tomorrow would have been one of the busiest days for british airports, as families head to the sun for may half term. but with most flights grounded —

the airline industry is looking at ways to allow flights to resume. heathrow — the uk‘s busiest airport — will introduce temperature checks for travellers at one of the airport‘s terminals. jon donnison reports. if people are going to be flying again this summer, this will be the new normal. he threw the latest uk airport to be trialling body temperature scanners. as you come into the departures area, we will have a thermal scanner which will pick up if you have a heightened temperature, and if you do, we will ta ke temperature, and if you do, we will take you to one side, and then there will be a series of questions and tests to see whether you are fit to fly, tests to see whether you are fit to fly, and if you are not, then depending on the circumstances, either we will work with public health england to make sure you are looked after, or you mightjust go home and quarantine, as we all are doing at the moment. but then there is the issue of quarantine, which the government says will be introduced next month. anyone returning to the uk or visiting from abroad will have to self—isolate for two weeks, and provide their address. there will be an exemption for the republic of ireland, but not

for the republic of ireland, but not for france, as the government had first suggested. the boss of ryanair who wanted to resume 40% of flights injuly has who wanted to resume 40% of flights in july has called who wanted to resume 40% of flights injuly has called the quarantine policy laughable and unenforceable. the boss of heathrow is not far behind. well, the current plan is that everyone would be quarantined, and that effectively would mean nobody is flying for the foreseeable future, so this can‘t be a solution for more than a few weeks while we get the crisis in health under control, but with —— we do need a plan to open up a borders again, allowing people from countries that have very low risk of infection to come to the uk and for people from the uk to go to those countries. but will do world‘s tourist resorts want visitors from britain, which has had the highest number of coronavirus deaths in europe? spain opened up some of its beaches for locals this week, but says anyone visiting from overseas will have to undergo two weeks quarantine. greece with its

idyllic islands also has a currently a two—week quarantine in place. it says it wants to open up its tourism sector from next month, says it wants to open up its tourism sectorfrom next month, as says it wants to open up its tourism sector from next month, as does italy. from june three, the country will be open again to travellers coming from the uk, from the european union countries and the schengen countries. and we are going to do that also together with some measure to make sure that when people come they feel in a sort of safe environment. flights have now been grounded for almost two months, and while uncertainty about quarantines here and while uncertainty about quara ntines here and and while uncertainty about quarantines here and abroad remain, the summer holiday season seems most likely to be a domestic one. jon donnison, bbc news. irving ribot lopez is the manager of the rosamar hotel 4—star hotel in benidorm. hejoins me now. what is benidorm like at the moment? well, it is really decimated. in a

dorm has never been seen like this, but we will get back on our feet, that‘s no problem. but we will get back on our feet, that's no problem. you have just been through a refurbishment. you we re been through a refurbishment. you were scheduled to open on the 1st of may, but when do you think things will get back to normal? we are going to be ready in a few days, the hotel will be ready in a few days, but it all depends on the authorities and the measures they are taking to prevent all this pandemic from spreading any more. i think it all depends on the government and the local authorities allowing little by little getting backin allowing little by little getting back in the business that we used to have before. you are remarkably optimistic but you must have staffing issues, the whole issue of social distancing, how will things change? it will be a completely different normality from what we are facing here, but that is why hotels in benidorm, i am talking about my hotel in this case, we are getting ready for all these measures that we have to take, and one of the things that we always have in mind when

getting people from outside is the security of the people, and for us thatis security of the people, and for us that is the first rule. so we are implementing everything as possible that we can to make people safe in a hotel and there‘s no problem coming into spain. that is as long as we can go, no further than that because it all depends on the central government and the measures they are taking, especially with the health and safety measures they are taking. and in normal times, and we try and remember those, this would be a really busy weekend coming up. this coming week with the term now, it would be a very busy weekend, so especially in our area, most of the british holiday makers, it is very strange to work right now through benidorm and see nobody. but we will get back. that is not a problem. i am sure commanded with all the measures we are implementing in benidorm especially, the city

council is outgoing about the situation, and we think they can be improved and it can be a great destination once these restrictions from the government are over and we are going to be ready for that, that‘s not a problem. are going to be ready for that, that's not a problem. you keep saying it is not a problem but it is a huge problem. so far, now, yes it is, but once all this is over, we are going to start the business back again, it will be back to normal. benidorm has its essence and nobody can deny that. we are of course one of the biggest industries here in the area, and special attention is being taken in place for this industry, tourism in benidorm, especially of this town has been for yea rs especially of this town has been for years reasonably and according to the statistics that we have have been always welcoming people from many, been always welcoming people from any been always welcoming people from many, many years, and there is no reason we can‘t get back on our feet

again. i think once the industry is open again, and we have the right measures taken open again, and we have the right measures ta ken and open again, and we have the right measures taken and the government has given the signal to open the proper conditions, we will get back again to what we were or even better, because now we will be safer than we were before with all these measures that the government is asking us to impart in the hotel. you sound very upbeat, just wondering about other hotels. there must be some hotels for whom this sounds the deathknell to their business? some hotels are struggling right now, because industry here for us, i don‘t know the statistics but it is really higher, the impact it is having on our town, and especially in the province as well. some little hotels may be struggling at this time but now government is giving aid to the workers mostly,

andi giving aid to the workers mostly, and i think you can get out of the situation with a good thing, i will say. what about you, where will you go on holiday? i will stay here i will stay —— go on holiday? i will stay here i will stay -- what about you, where will stay -- what about you, where will you go on holiday?” will stay -- what about you, where will you go on holiday? i will stay here in benidorm. it is not a question of where you will go but when you will go. i am speaking to my fellow friends that you have to be sure that we will get out of this all together, and of course benidorm will still be the place you remember. as i told you before, even better. our hotel and our sister hotel will be ready to receive people as soon as the government will lift all the barriers we have at the moment. especially this quarantine with this two—week quarantine with this two—week quarantine we have right now. once all this is over we will be getting

back very fast. it is good to talk to you, thank you very much for your time this afternoon. thank you very much, sir. the number of coronavirus cases in the community is remaining relatively stable with one in 400 people in england infected, the government‘s surveillance programme shows. the office for national statistics survey involved nearly 15,000 people. it provides an estimate for community spread between 4th and 17 may. earlier i spoke to peter benton, director of population and public policy operations at the office for national statistics, he picked out some of the highlights in the survey‘s data: so interesting to see the numbers sta ble so interesting to see the numbers stable through time. there is also a new number we have published for the first time today, which is the number of new cases in a seven—week period. so this study is looking at about 20,000 people in 10,000 households, we are onboarding them week on week. so far, about 7000 people have been tested least twice, about a week apart, and what that lets us estimate is over time how

many new cases of infection are there, and that is running at about 61,000 people per week, we estimate at the moment. there is some uncertainty in that, this is a survey, but as we go through time, our confidence in those numbers will grow. the dates are important, aren‘t they, because this does seem to move fairly rapidly, and it‘s quite interesting. some figures suggesting that in london rates are dropping. service information we haven‘t yet produced at regional level. the government is looking at information from a range of sources, deaths and then admissions to hospital. this survey is different in that it is taking a random sample of the whole population, whether or not people have got coronavirus, whether or not they have symptoms, testing them and looking at the change through time. so at the moment we haven‘t produced regional information, but the plan is to add 10,000 households a month, going on from here and that will enable us to get more detailed information about those kinds of breakdowns. a lot of concentration on track and trace and

the strategy. what would you see that strategy as being? that is a policy for the government to develop. thejob of policy for the government to develop. the job of the office for national statistics is to produce the information that enables people to make good decisions, whether that is government or business or charities. what this information will then do is give an insight into how many people have got the virus, in what different age groups, what differentjobs in what different age groups, what different jobs people in what different age groups, what differentjobs people do. government can then plan its intervention based on good information from the source and the other sources available. on good information from the source and the other sources availablem you are going back and retesting people, is there any evidence of reinfection? so what we are seeing as there were about 7000 people that we tested twice. we have seen only a small number of those actually turned from negative to positive. the numbers are quite small so we can‘t really look to see whether people have gone from negative to positive to negative. at the moment we can talk about the people who we re we can talk about the people who were negative to start with and have

become positive at some point during the study, that‘s what gives us this number of incidents. that will also over time enable the scientific advisory group for emergencies, sage committee come up with a broader estimate of r, the reproduction rate, whether that is going up or down. on the basis of your information, what would the r figure be at? we are not providing information from a single source. it makes much more sense to pull the information about hospital admissions, deaths, and all the other testing programmes that are going on. we are giving a feed to sage and they are the people who we re sage and they are the people who were published moe —— who will publish r on a regular basis. plans are underway to allow more children to return to schools and nurseries in england from the first ofjune — but not everyone is happy at the prospect — raising questions such as how do you ensure young children stick

to new safety rules? tim muffett has been to one nursery — for children of key workers — to see how they are coping. a fresh start, adapting a nursery to cater for a pandemic. the children have to wash their hands on arrival. we also have parents drop off at the front door, so a staff member will come and collect them rather than going into the nursery. this nursery has stayed open for the children of key workers. staff hope lessons learned here could be useful for other nurseries. so far, we haven‘t really been focused on social distancing between the children, and we have just allowed them to play, because one of the main things children learn in nurseries is to play with other children. but we have been looking at staff contact, so if staff can space themselves out, listen to the two—metre distance, then we think adult—to—adult transmission might be kept down. this nursery have found that if staff wear face masks, it does not work. the children do not like them, they pull them down because they want to see how we are speaking.

and of course, they are learning to speak, so we have piloted them, but we are not wearing them with the children. some of the local secondary schools have used their 3d modelling to make visors, and it does mean that if a child starts to cough and has a temperature in front of you, you could put this on and then protect yourself from the cough. if we can let these be in the environment so they can see them, then they won‘t be so frightened if they actually have to see a member of staff using them. you are not going to use these routinely, but you are getting them used to them? exactly, so if a child does start to cough and feel ill, then we can take the child to a side room and they won‘t be frightened of some new kit they have never seen before. this nursery has been looking after around 30 children per day, typically it is 90, lower numbers have meant it is easier to keep children in informal groups. that might get trickier. we have put the yellow tape down just in the last couple of days, planning ahead to if we are going to have to encourage children to separate out a bit more once we are 70% occupied rather than 20% occupied. so now we are being far more frequent with cleaning, and even if a child has handled

a cuddly toy, once they put it down and they are finished with it, we whip it away to the laundry. more of the cleaning is focused on door handles and tablets that staff manage, those kinds of things, because i think those are where the adults are going to keep touching the same thing. although this nursery has been caring forfarfewer children than normal, it has at least had a taste of the challenges ahead. for those that have been closed completely, reopening will mean a whole new rethink. tim muffet, bbc news. they were images of a heavily—pregnant woman suffering from covid—19 which you may remember — suffering from double pneumonia and struggling to breathe, karen mannering‘s video message they were images of a heavily—pregnant woman suffering from covid—19 which you may remember

— suffering from double pneumonia and struggling to breathe, karen mannering‘s video message urging people to respect lockdown restrictions was viewed worldwide. well, now — six weeks on — karen has returned to hospital, to thank staff who saved her life. colin campbell has been speaking to her. i literally can‘t thank you enough for the sacrifices you all make... it‘s a socially—distanced but heartfelt thank you from a coronavirus patient to those who cared for in margate‘s qeqm hospital. it‘s just memories to look back on but obviously it‘s quite raw, i think. sorry, it just gets sorry, itjust gets me emotional. two months ago karen mannering, who is heavily pregnant, thought she was dying from the disease and posted a shocking video that was viewed all over the world. i‘m six months pregnant, nearly, with my baby. i‘ve just been told i have covid—19. just don‘t go out. it‘s not worth it. that video went absolutely everywhere. yeah. and probably saved lives. yeah, i hope it did. why did you do it? well, i had my friend message me to say people are still carrying on, they‘re going to meet their friends, they are sitting down on sea walls and having a beer or going down the park, and i thought, i‘m here fighting for my life, for my baby‘s life,

and i want people to know it‘s real, it‘s here, and it‘s incredibly painful and it will kill you. karen was admitted to hospital on the 21st of march after suffering at home for ten days with a fever and debilitating dry cough. i have pneumonia on both lungs, and i‘m fighting for me and my baby. she was diagnosed with the virus four days later, but made a speedy recovery. this is me sitting up, yeah! she was discharged after seven days but returned home, where she had to isolate from herfamily. i‘ve been so ill since the 12th of march, and i get to go home. it's still busy, we're still getting patients in with coronavirus. they're still really sick. a nurse for 40 years, penny searle is one of the many nhs staff who cared for karen and the many others who have battled the disease in the qeqm.

it's been frightening but think it's shown my own strength and courage and i've seen some inspirational work by fellow team members, by our trust. reunited with the heroes whose fight against covid—19 is ongoing, karen mannering is urging people to continue to social distance, to stop the spread of a disease that she feared would kill her and her baby — a baby that‘s due to be delivered here at the qeqm in six weeks‘ time. colin campbell, bbc news. a minute of silence has been held for the victims of coronavirus at an opening ceremony for the national people‘s congress, china‘s most important event in the political year. some 3,000 delegates are in beijing for the opening of the country‘s parliament. the gathering was delayed by two months because of the pandemic. a husband, who wrote a poem for his wife every day for 25 years, has shared his collection of love letters online.

peter gordon left a note under his wife alison‘s pillow every night. he continues to write her love poems, even after she passed away in 2016. his family have now put his poems online to mark the fourth anniversary of alison‘s death. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. hello. warm today, not quite as warm as yesterday mind you, and over the next few days things are going to cool down a little bit full stop we are also going to find a spell of windy weather for the next few days, unusually windy, and there will be some rain, although not necessarily where it is needed most of all. this band of cloud did not bring very much rain today. this cloud looks much rain today. this cloud looks much more threatening, a deepening area of low pressure with some wet and windy weather to come. that rain sta rts and windy weather to come. that rain starts to push into the western side of the uk later this evening and overnight. as the winds pick up, that rain gets blown northwards into scotla nd that rain gets blown northwards into scotland as well. still dry though overnight for east anglia and the south—east, and particularly warm

here as well. in these areas you are probably hoping to see some rain. the problem is that the weather front driving that front is weakening as it runs its way eastwards, so most of the wet weather and indeed the windy weather will be closer to that deep area of low pressure. so this is the rainfall accumulations over the course of friday, saturday and into sunday. little or no rain towards the south—east, much wetter further north—west, with the focus for the heavy rain in the highlands of scotland. over a month‘s rain here. also a very windy time for a while as well. we start on friday with the wettest weather in scotland, a narrowing line—up rain running across eastern england. once that clears in the morning, the sunshine returns, some blustery showers blown in mainlyfor returns, some blustery showers blown in mainly for scotland and northern ireland and it is here we have the strongest winds, gusts of 50 to 60 mph. of course that will make it feel quite a bit cooler than it has done of late. still we are looking at temperatures of 16 or 17 degrees. higher temperatures across eastern england, 22 or 23 degrees on friday. we have more windy and wet weather

to come closer to that area of low pressure overnight and into the start of the weekend. the wet weather continuing across the north west of scotland and other parts of scotla nd west of scotland and other parts of scotland seeing some rain too, and there will be some blustery showers blown in across england and wales and northern ireland. if you make it through to eastern areas but still generally dry here, those temperatures continuing to take a bit of a dip to around 18 or 19 degrees, much cooler where it is wetter further north. there will be some more rain to come during saturday night and into sunday morning. during sunday, the rain does tend to ease. it probably won‘t be quite as windy and for many parts of the uk away from scotland it may well be dry with some sunshine. those temperatures are starting to get a bit of a boost, up to 22 or 23.

this is bbc news. i‘m simon mccoy. the headlines — health care leaders in england are warning of "severe consequences" if a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases, isn‘t finalised soon. they don‘t know how they‘re going to interact with this completely separate operation that is being set up in terms of tracers, then effectively, we‘re going to kind of miss a whole bunch of opportunities. a uk—wide deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests — which will be available on the nhs — with health and care workers first in line to receive them. scotland‘s first minister announces an easing of lockdown restrictions, but says they must be cautious. we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set

of first steps, and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people‘s well—being and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. borisjohnson is cleared of any criminal actions in his relationship withjennifer arcuri whilst london mayor, but a review establishes there may have been an intimate relationship. an international trial has begun to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19. the international olympic committee president says he understands why the rescheduled tokyo 2020 games would have to be cancelled, if it can‘t take place next summer. good afternoon.

i‘m reeta chakrabarti. downing street says a deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests, which will be available on the nhs, with health and care workers first in line to receive them. we‘re expecting to hear more details at the daily press conference in a few hours‘ time. meanwhile, the government has been warned of severe consequences for the health service in england if its covid19 test, track and trace system isn‘t in place soon. the nhs confederation says any further easing of the lockdown depends on a clear strategy, and a delay will risk a second peak of the infection. the prime minister has pledged to have what he‘s called "a world—beating" contact tracing system up and running by the 1st ofjune. this comes as a further 338 people are known to have died from the virus, taking the uk total death toll to 36,042. in other developments, the world health organization has warned that the pandemic is far from over after recording the biggest global daily increase in cases —106,000. a global trial to see whether two anti—malarial drugs could prevent covid—19 has begun.

uk trials are taking place in oxford and brighton. our first report from our health correspondent lauren moss. test, track and trace — three words we‘ve heard a lot during the pandemic, three words that will be key to controlling the spread of covid—19. but now those representing hospitals, health and social care members, have warned that if the system isn‘t ready soon, there is a risk of a second peak. if you were going to go further and you make further relaxations, then obviously the danger of the r number, which the government absolutely recognises, the danger of the r number rising becomes greater if you have not got in place an effective test, track and trace process. borisjohnson has promised a world—beating tracing system will be in place by the 1st ofjune, the same day that nonessential shops and schools could gradually reopen.

——schools in england. there will be 25,000 trackers able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day, and that is very important. so how does it actually work? contact tracers will contact people who have been in the company of someone who has the virus. the new nhs app will notify anyone who has downloaded it that someone they have recently been near has tested positive. the phone app is particularly advantageous in that it helps you identify, as you previously said on the news, the people you may have trailed around a supermarket with or been on public transport with, and it is looking at how long someone has been in contact with as well. but the clock is ticking. the government had hoped to roll the app out by the middle of may. it‘s still being piloted on the isle of wight. we are working at huge pace in relation to the app itself, and therefore, having put that in place, now trialling it in the isle of wight,

and whilst i am unable to give you that definitive timeline this morning, please be in no doubt as to the extent, the effort, the energy, the focus that is being put on that as well. the office for national statistics‘ surveillance programme suggests there may currently be 8,700 new infections a day in england. 177,000 tests were provided on tuesday. 128,000 were provided yesterday. having the capacity to deliver 200,000 a day is the end of may target. but there are calls for clarity about how nhs workers will make use of the tracking system. nobody in the nhs knows how they are going to interact with this new track and trace operation, so i hear the prime minister saying the 1st of june, but equally what you have heard in the last 24 hours is a whole load of behind—the—scenes briefing and individual cabinet ministers saying, "actually, we are not "quite sure exactly when injune." different parts of britain are easing out of lockdown at varying speeds.

northern ireland, wales and scotland are trialling or implementing test, track and trace programmes. those three words pivotal to what happens next across the uk. lauren moss, bbc news. our political correspondent jonathan blake is in westminster. jonathan, there are two parts to this test, track and trace project. there is the app and then there are the call centres. but we have got several senior nhs voices saying now that they do not feel part of this whole process. yes, real concern, as we have heard today, from nhs providers and other bodies representing those working in the health care sector, that the test, track and trace programme, which will enable it, in short, the government to target localised outbreaks of coronavirus, and ask people to isolate, just isn‘t out of

the stage that they are confident that it will work. and they want greater input, perhaps not surprisingly, to find out how it is going to get up and running and exactly when. and as you have been reflecting, the app, which was initially heralded as a key part of this strategy, is still being piloted on the isle of wight, but it does not seem as if it is going to be ready to be rolled out nationwide any time soon, but then alongside that, you have the individuals, 20,000 or so people, who are currently being trained or have been trained to call people, contact them by e—mail, go around knocking on doors as well, to identify people who have symptoms of coronavirus, and those they have come into contact with to then ask them to isolate. but the prime minister has given that state of the 1st ofjune. the reason that is so important is because that is when the government wa nts to, because that is when the government wants to, in england at least, begin easing some of the lockdown measures, and they can‘t do that,

they don‘t want to do that, if there is any risk of a second beacon cases, which is why the test, track and trace system needs to be in place by then. —— a second peak in cases. and jonathan, we are also giving a deal has been agreed for a second set of tests, antibody tests, which we may hear more about at the briefing this afternoon. yes, downing street has agreed a deal with a swiss manufacturer for procurement of doses of an antibody test. what that does is tell you if you have had the coronavirus previously. what it does not do at the moment, we understand, is to say how immune of that person is, if at all, to catching coronavirus again in the future. so it provides a new level of certainty, and a new marker to tell people if they have had the virus in the past, so definitely an important step forward. we will hear from health secretary matt hancock

in the next hour about how that test will be given and who is to get it. jonathan, thank you very much, we will hear more from you in the next hour and even will hear more from you in the next hourand even up will hear more from you in the next hour and even up to that briefing. —— in the run—up to that briefing. scotland‘s first minister nicola sturgeon has outlined a plan for exiting lockdown. from next week, restrictions around some outdoor activities will be relaxed. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has been giving us more details of the gradual changes which are planned. scotland‘s first minister nicola sturgeon said there is no risk—free way of lifting the lockdown because the virus has not gone away. but she did set out this route map, if you like, for how she sees life going back to some semblance of normal in the weeks and months ahead. this first phase, as you said, from next thursday onwards, will involve primarily outdoor activities, people being able to see others from another household, as long as it‘s outside, and as long as social distancing is maintained. some outdoor sports being able to resume, like tennis, bowling, fishing, and golf, and

outdoor businesses like agriculture and forestry able to resume as well. also garden centres will be able to reopen, as will recycling facilities as well. these phase one measures, most of which have an outdoor focus, are not in place yet, let me stress that, and they are dependent on us continuing to suppress the virus. they will also be monitored carefully as they do take effect. however, we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps, and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people‘s well—being and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality. scotland‘s first minister nicola sturgeon speaking a little earlier. the prime minister will not face a criminal investigation

into his relationship with the american business womanjennifer arcuri while he was mayor of london. it had been alleged borisjohnson gavejennifer arcuri preferential treatmea nt involving thousands of pounds of public money and access to three foreign trade trips. but as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explained, there are still further processes looking at mrjohnson‘s conduct. he will still face an investigation by the oversight committee of the greater london authority. the allegation was that his close relationship with the american businesswoman jennifer arcuri meant that she had somehow got money and trips, access to overseas trades missions, because of that close relationship. and what the independent office for police conduct found was that there was no evidence that he had influenced those decisions. however, what it did find was that those around borisjohnson believed that there was a close relationship between the two, and that may have influenced how they behaved, and the independent office for police conduct also found that there was definitely a close association between boris johnson and jennifer arcuri, and there may have been an intimate relationship. and as they put it, it

would have been wise for borisjohnson to have declared this as a conflict of interest. they went through 900 documents, eight years of e—mails, to work out whether there should be a criminal investigation, and they did make this little afterthought. "some of the records which would have assisted the review "either never existed or have been deleted," and they had lots to say about the record—keeping at the mayor of london‘s office while borisjohnson was there. a spokesman for the prime minister said, "we welcome the fact that this "politically—motivated complaint has been thrown out. "such vexatious claims of impropriety in office "were untrue and unfounded. "an independent review by the government internal audit agency "similarly showed the claims made by the labour party were false. "this was not a policing matter, "and we consider this was a waste of police time." official estimates suggest more than 400,00 people from countries outside the eu moved to the uk last year, the highest figure since records began. net migration — the gap

between the number of people leaving and entering the country — hit 282,000 in 2019. at the same time, net migration from within the eu fell to around 49,000, a quarter of the figure for 2015. the company working with the university of oxford on a coronavirus vaccine says it now has the capacity to make one billion doses. astrazeneca has also announced that it has received money to make the vaccine in the united states. the us government has ordered 300 million doses of the potential covid—19 vaccine, and is commiting over $1 billion to help speed up the drug‘s development. today on bbc news, we‘re looking at how the global travel industry has been affected by the pandemic. several european countries have revealed plans to kick—start their tourism industries, while others are holding back. greece is planning to allow international charter flights in, and aims to start its tourism season from mid—june.

at the moment, france allows only essential travel from abroad. it hasn‘t said when its foreign tourist ban will be lifted. spain has started loosening restrictions, but the beaches will be open to tourists before barcelona or madrid. italy eased its lockdown restrictions this week, with bars and restaurants open again, and st peter‘s basilica available to visitors. while here in the uk, the government said this week that holidays within the country could return as early as the beginning ofjuly. of moochers jazz bar in fuengirola, spain. good afternoon. how have things been for you? you good afternoon. how have things been for you ? you have good afternoon. how have things been for you? you have not been trading for you? you have not been trading for quite a while, of course. we closed i think saturday the 14th of march, we were told to close. not done anything since. and itjust

becomes more worrying the longer it goes on. and what of the prospects for your opening again? well, the prospects of opening are easy. we turn up with the keys, and we open. but the chance of earning enough money to pay the expenses, that becomes almost impossible because there will be no tourist season this season, the government seem to be rushing us all back to work so that they can stop the help that they have been giving us for the last six or eight weeks. and you are saying that you can‘t start up in the way that you can‘t start up in the way that you can‘t start up in the way that you would have been able to if they thought tourist season had been under way? no, we have already missed quite an important six or eight weeks, march, aprilare normally good months, the golfers

come over, they are good revenue for us. we have obviously lost that. very ha rd to us. we have obviously lost that. very hard to catch that sort of money up. it‘s going to be an impossible year. if i had the choice, i wouldn‘t open for a year, i would love to have some support until next march, maybe there will bea cure, until next march, maybe there will be a cure, you know, a vaccine, whatever it is, but i don‘t see people having the time or the money now to be able to come abroad, and nor do i think they will necessarily have the confidence i understand that spain has got a similar scheme to the one in the uk. a following scheme, which is in place until then, june? scheme, which is in place until then,june? —— a scheme, which is in place until then, june? —— a furlough scheme. scheme, which is in place until then, june? —— a furlough schemem has been a little bit convoluted. they are starting to withdraw their equivalent of the furlough to encourage us all to get open, and

obviously to relinquish their help to us. we know that the spanish government... spain has never really got out of the recession since 2008, 2009. we know spain is bumbling along, really scraping the bottom, and has no money. but nevertheless, they are going to end up hanging also out to dry with stopping the furlough so quickly, and really we have got no chance of being able to pay our expenses. you are speaking as somebody with a great burden on your shoulders, you sound like someone with a very heavy heart. absolutely, and one of our kittens has gone missing it, and it isjust getting on our nerves at the moment. you know what it‘s like. getting on our nerves at the moment. you know what it's like. yes, we all know what it is like, but you face a particular problem with relation to

your business. absolutely. i am ever the optimist. but i can‘t see a lot to be optimistic about at the moment. there is no real good news. the only people i can see with the wherewithal to save something of a season will be the older people on pensions, and they are the most vulnerable. are they going to want to spend three hours in a tin can, breathing everybody‘s air? i know we have heard from mr o‘leary that there is fantastic filter systems, and that‘s fair enough, and i wouldn‘t doubt him for a second, but these are the most vulnerable people. and if we are going to be relying on the most vulnerable, the people who have been in strictest lockdown over in the uk, for the longest period of time, do we really think they are going to be packing their bags now and saying, we are

off to sunny spain? we would like to think so, but ijust don‘t off to sunny spain? we would like to think so, but i just don‘t see off to sunny spain? we would like to think so, but ijust don‘t see it happening. ok, mr o'leary, of course, the owner of ryanair. andy, we are going to have to leave it there. we wish you all the best. thank you. and pearl, the owner of moochers jazz bar in pearl in spain. ——andy pearl. since the easing of the lockdown in england, some coastal parts of the country has seen an increase in visitors. one of those areas is woolacombe in north devon. and we can speak to the mp for north devon selaine saxby, who‘s written to the prime minister raising concerns about the speed at which the lockdown has been lifted. describe some of the scenes you have been seeing. yesterday in north devon we had the combination of fantastic sunshine and fantastic surf, we have some of the best surf beachesin surf, we have some of the best surf beaches in the country here, and as a result, we were inundated with people who had chosen to take very

long journeys to take their unlimited exercise yesterday. and u nfortu nately, unlimited exercise yesterday. and unfortunately, because some of our car parks are still not open, it meant that the visitors did choose to park illegally on the roads, which then caused gridlock through the village, and created no end of problems. our local police were fantastic, but we had to have a large number of police deployed there issuing tickets and sorting out the traffic. people are of course allowed to get in their cars and travel somewhere for exercise. are you worried that the government, then, has given out mixed messages? because of car parks are shut, as you say, where can people park? no, i think the messaging has been very clear indeed. it has just taken longer than perhaps expected for our car parks to get themselves back open again. and get all of the necessary distancing in place, and i think what we are really asking for is that, as we move through the phase lockdown, that we have enough notice for smaller businesses to get themselves ready to unlock. and i

think the situation here is that we arejust think the situation here is that we are just not really ready yet for visitors, and car parks, public toilets are just not open yet. but how would that work practically? you have written to the prime minister complaining about the speed of the unlocking of lockdown, the easing of lockdown. do you think this should happen on a bridge and by region basis? no, the complaint is not about the speed of the lockdown. i think we are all hoping that there will be perhaps a gradual easing in june as we are expecting for shops, and also for the hospitality industry, which is important here in north devon. but if that is going to be the case, those operators will —— would likely time to plan ahead and open safely. and that is the important thing, if they are able to open, they want to do it safely to protect their visitors but also the residents here in the north devon

are very residents here in the north devon are very keen that anything that happens is safe and effective. do you feel this has been too soon for north devon, then? ijust feel here we have a lot of smaller operators, and a very small and hard—working counsel, and it is ten days since the announcement has been given, and that still has not given us enough time for people to have been able to get the car parks and insurance in place for those car parts commence to get the new cleaning regime is in place for public toilets to open. it has just taken longer than expected. thank you very much, good to talk to you. thank you. the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling minsinformation during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first uk broadcast interview in five years, he said the platform removed all content which put people at "imminent risk of physical harm". mr zuckerberg‘s been talking to our business editor simonjack.

are there some permanent changes that you perceive from this, and what do you think that your company‘s role has been during the crisis? we‘ve focused on three main areas. one is responding to the acute health crisis. the second is helping people stay connected with the people they care about. and then the third area is on economic recovery. so right now we‘re seeing a lot of pain for small businesses. they‘re having a hard time staying open as a lot of people are staying home, and that means millions of people are losing jobs, and i think anything that we can do to help small businesses survive. if some crazy person decided to start telling people to, i don‘t know, drink or inject bleach or saying colloidal silver would be a good way of keeping the virus at bay, what is the facebook algorithm‘s response to that? things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus when in fact it is not, we will take that down.

another example which i know has been very prevalent in the uk has been 5g misinformation, which has led to some physical damage of 5g infrastructure. so if we believe that that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm, we take down the content. there have been hundreds of thousands of pieces of content like that. we have a us election coming up, and there was a princeton university survey saying that facebook is the fastest and biggest purveyor of misinformation in the us. do you think that facebook can influence the way that people vote? we‘ve learned a lot about how politics works online since 2016, and there are many different threats we have worked hard to mitigate. for example, one big area that we were behind on in 2016, but now we are quite advanced at, is identifying and fighting these co—ordinated information campaigns coming from different state actors around the world, whether

it‘s russia or iran, or, in some cases, china. in 2016, this was a new kind of tactic. it‘s not that there aren‘t going to continue to be issues, countries will continue to try to interfere, we will see issues like that. so it‘s a little bit of an arms race in that way, but i certainly think our systems are a lot more advanced now. i think in many ways, more advanced than any other company or a lot of governments around the world, and i feel pretty confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. the prime minister will lead the hidden harms press conference alongside the justice and home secretaries to drive action to tackle domestic abuse, child sexual exploitation, and modern slavery. the government will spearhead a new codeword scheme for domestic abuse victims, which will allow people in urgent or immediate danger to get help from shop workers

by using a specific phrase that staff will be trained to identify. nspcc ceo, peter wanless, took part in the prime minister‘s hidden harms summit. hejoins me now. good afternoon, peter. i suppose that, for some people, some of these hidden harms have been really exacerbated by this coronavirus crisis. yes, absolutely. domestic abuse, child abuse, physical, emotional, sexual... have been... lockdown, particularly children being hidden away from those who might be able to see and spot... the trusted adult they can

speak out to, so we are very concerned that children are potentially... the pandemic. we quite quickly as a nation understood the importance of caring for the elderly, the old, and the infirm, checking in that they were ok. and it should be exactly the same about children. what examples have come your way of ways in which children might be more vulnerable during this time? well, a couple of particular exa m ples time? well, a couple of particular examples that i give the prime minister. a lot of the focus this afternoon was on domestic abuse. calls to the nspcc helpline for any aduu calls to the nspcc helpline for any adult who has a worry or concern about a child are up 24% in relation to domestic abuse issues. children are victims of domestic abuse. when they see and experience violence and bad behaviour, often stimulated by

substance misuse... that can damage them emotionally and physically. so that brings forward again its domestic abuse bill... peter, i'm afraid i‘m going to have tojump in. you are freezing quite a lot, it is very frustrating, because we would very frustrating, because we would very much like to hear what you have to say, but we did get some of it, so thank you very much for your time. peter wanless, ceo so thank you very much for your time. peterwanless, ceo of so thank you very much for your time. peter wanless, ceo of the nspcc. now let‘s have a look at the weather. hello there. very warm today, it will cool off further over the next few days,

mind you, and there is some windy weather, and for some, some rain as well. and that rain starts to push in to the western side of the uk during the latter part of this evening and overnight, and as the winds pick up, we see the rain heading into scotland. still dry across east anglia and the south—east of england, and particularly warm here overnight as well. and for these areas, we probably won‘t see a great deal of rain, because the wetter weather is further north across scotland. the rain across eastern england becoming lighter and more patchy as it runs eastwards during the morning. and once that goes, sunshine is out, showers continue, particularly into scotland and northern ireland, fed on by some strong and gusty winds, gusts of 50 or 60 mph. that of course will make it feel a bit cooler than it has of late, but still 17 or 18 celsius. we are back down to 22 or 23 for the eastern side of england, probably a little bit cooler on saturday as well. more rain and some stronger winds for the northern half of the uk over the weekend. further south, should be largely dry, with some sunshine at times.

health care leaders in england are warning of "severe consequences" if a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a potential second surge in coronavirus cases, isn‘t finalised soon. a uk—wide deal has been agreed on the supply of antibody tests — which will be available on the nhs — with health and care workers first in line to receive them. scotland‘s first minister announces an easing of lockdown restrictions, but says they must be cautious. we view them as a proportionate and suitably cautious set of first steps, and i hope that they will bring some improvement to people‘s well—being and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again,