building a better picture of how many people in britain have had coronavirus — a new antibody test will be available on the nhs from next week. nhs workers and care staff will be the first to be tested after the government bought 10 million coronavirus antibody tests from the pharmaceutical company roche. knowing that you have these antibodies will help us to understand more in the future if you are at lower risk of catching coronavirus, of dying from coronavirus, and of transmitting coronavirus. trials are also being carried out on a new swab test, which could tell you in just 20 minutes if you currently have the virus. also tonight... a government u—turn — nhs and care workers from outside the eu will no longer have to pay

a surcharge to use the nhs. scotland prepares to start easing lockdown restrictions from next week. people will be allowed to do more outside. schools could reopen in mid—august. desperate families queuing forfood banks in new york's affluent commuter belt, as more and more people lose theirjobs. people have gone now without four, five, six, seven paycheques, and it's starting to catch up. and from live programmes to nail—biting drama — how do you keep the tv cameras rolling in a time of social distancing? and coming up on bbc news... ioc president thomas bach says the resheculed olympic games could be cancelled if they don't go ahead next year.

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. nhs workers, carers, hosptial patients and care home residents will be among the first to be tested for coronavirus antibodies from next week. the government has agreed a deal with the swiss pharmaceutical company roche and abott labs to buy the tests which will show if someone has already had the virus. the health secretary matt hancock also revealed that an antibody study indicates that around 17% of people in london have already had coronavirus and at least 5% of people in the rest of the country. but it is still not clear if people who have antibodies are now immune. it comes as the number of deaths reported in the last 2a hours has gone up by 338, bringing the official death toll to 36,010. here's our health editor hugh pym.

it isa it is a test which can tell you if you've already had coronavirus, and whether you might have immunity, and that's important for someone needing to know whether it is relatively safe to go into work. the test, which looks for antibodies in the bloodstream, is going to be made available from next week to tens of thousands of nhs and care workers and patients every day. we are developing this critical science to know the impact of a positive antibody test, and to develop the systems of certification to ensure people who have positive antibodies can be given an assurance about what they can safely do. lower the window i will pass the test through. the other form of testing shows whether someone other form of testing shows whether someone currently has the virus. nasal and throat swabs are taken and sent to lapse. the government target to provide 100,000 tests per day was met yesterday. but of the total, just 63,400 were carried out at

drive—through centres and hospitals, and more than 41,000 were test kits sent out to individuals and care homes. and around 23,800 were for research and surveillance. some key workers, like this woman who works ina care workers, like this woman who works in a care home, say they are struggling to get testing. she had to get a lift for a long drive to a test centre after she couldn't book a home test kit. it will always come up a home test kit. it will always come up that home test kits are unavailable. there were also no mobile testings. when people come to you to your home to test you. so the only option is to drive. so if you can't drive then you are basically stuck. widespread testing and then tracing people who might have been infected by those who tested positive is seen as essential if any future spread of the virus is to be curbed but it's a complex process. here is how contact tracing should work. if i test positive for the virus i would be contacted by

officials by phone or e—mail and asked who i had met up with in recent days, and that means meetings at less than two metres, face—to—face, not someone i might have bumped into in a shop. that might include friends i had spent time with and work colleagues i might have been in meetings with, or a wider circle of recent contacts. all that would then be assessed by a clinical team and those people might be contacted and told to self—isolate for 14 days. there will also be a mobile phone app to help the tracing process. the prime minister says the full system will be in place by earlyjune but some health leaders are sceptical. be in place by earlyjune but some health leaders are scepticallj be in place by earlyjune but some health leaders are sceptical. i am less concerned about a june one date, the question is, have we actually got an effective system in place and we don't introduce further lockdown measures until we are absolutely sure that the system works effectively. for nhs staff there is now a trial of a fast

action test with results coming back in 20 minutes. it can be done on—site without having to go off to a lab. another step in the move to a comprehensive testing strategy. pym, bbc news. after mounting political pressure, a government u—turn means that nhs staff and care workers from outside the eu will no longer have to pay a charge to use the health service. the health immigration surcharge on non—eu migrants is £400 per year. it is set to rise to £624 in october. laura kuenssberg is live at westminster. this about to turn all happened very quickly. it did, it happened really fast. the nhs surcharge is something that people who come to live and work in the uk have to pay if they wa nt to work in the uk have to pay if they want to use the health service while they are here. there has always been a sense, if they are working and paying tax then why should they have to cough up twice? but when the last few weeks, with so many workers from overseas working in the nhs and

social care during the coronavirus crisis, there have been mounting questions over whether, if they are risking their own health to help people here, sure they they should in that situation be exempt from that kind of charge. but yesterday when labour leader keir starmer pressed boris johnson when labour leader keir starmer pressed borisjohnson to change his mind, the prime minister was firm, adamant, it was the right thing to stick with the plan. but overnight there was disquiet, some chatter among tory mps and a few of them breaking cover to say they thought it was the wrong thing to stick with the charge. and also a huge amount of chatter about this online too. lo and behold, just after 4pm this afternoon downing street announced the prime minister had been thinking carefully a nd the prime minister had been thinking carefully and after all he has tasked his ministers with working out a way to stop nhs and care workers from overseas having to pay the charge. for the government's critics it has been portrayed immediately as a screaming u—turn, a way for downing street to close down a political row, but for many people who thought it was the wrong thing

might be pleased the prime minister in their view will have seen sense on this occasion. laura kuenssberg, thank you. the lockdown across scotland will start to be eased from the end of next week. the first minister, nicola sturgeon, says as long as the virus continues to be suppressed people will be allowed to do more outside their homes — similar to the current rules in england. all schools are expected to reopen in the middle of august — with a mix of teaching in classrooms and at home. 0ur scotland editor sarah smith is in glasgow. and this is happening from next thursday? as you say, no changes here for another seven days yet, which puts scotland too, even three weeks behind other parts of the uk. while some people here are undoubtedly getting impatient, nicola sturgeon has always been clear that if she was going to err, it would be on the side of caution and she has no intention of doing anything rash or risky. a sunny afternoon like this in

glasgow is called taps aff weather. it will be another week before people can play sports. they will also be able to meet with one other household outside at a safe distance. i don't think we should be rushing into this too much. everyone should take their time with this.|j think it's high time we get back, you know, to people working. scotland is doing a really good job, so scotland is doing a really good job, soi scotland is doing a really good job, so i think if you trust nickel and go with what she says. nicola sturgeon is completely upfront about being very cautious as she slowly and gradually eases lockdown. the opposition parties he broadly agree. the question will be whether the public are prepared to comply. there are stricter rules north of this border because the rate of transmission in scotland may be slightly higher. but as there is more freedom in other parts of the uk, beach scenes and official figures show lockdown in scotland is starting to fray. nicola sturgeon is facing criticism over the high

proportion off deaths in homes and has been accused of trying to cover up has been accused of trying to cover upa has been accused of trying to cover up a coronavirus has been accused of trying to cover up a coronavirus outbreak at a conference in edinburgh. the announcement today will not please eve ryo ne announcement today will not please everyone either. for me this is not and never will be a popularity contest. every single choice i and the government faces right now is a ha rd the government faces right now is a hard choice and we have to get that balance right as we try to mitigate harm in one area, we open up the risk of doing harm in another area and that's a very difficult balance to ca re and that's a very difficult balance to care homes and has been accused of trying to cover up a coronavirus outbreak at a conference in edinburgh. the announcement today will not please everyone either. for me this is not and never will be a popularity contest. every single choice i and the government faces right now is a hard choice and we have to get that balance right as we try to mitigate harm in one area, we open up the risk of doing harm in another area and that's a very difficult balance to strike. scottish schools will not reopen before the summer holidays. they will prepare for students to from mid—august. before covid, building social homes was a top priority. mid—august. before covid, building social homes was a top prioritylj think we will be ready to go. you will be able to go to that site and it will be like a supermarket in terms of social distancing. garden

centres opening, supermarkets etc. what's the difference ? centres opening, supermarkets etc. what's the difference? if we are ready, we are ready. outdoor construction is the exception. unlike in england and northern ireland, most scots are not being encouraged to return to work. three further phases of lockdown easing will be introduced gradually as long as the virus is kept under control. the plan for scotland is similar to other uk nations but slightly slower and a bit more cautious. sarah smith, bbc news, glasgow. tonight — for the ninth week in a row — millions of people will applaud health care workers and carers across the uk who have been working on the front line. the latest figures from bbc analysis suggest 193 health care workers have now died in britain during this pandemic the majority — 130 of them — are from black, asian or ethnic minority backgrounds. the latest intensive care figures show 34% of deaths are also amongst those from black, asian and minority backgrounds. the government ordered a review into links between ethnicity and the virus — it will be published next week. tolu adeoye reports.

since it was created more than 70 years ago, the nhs has recruited workers from other countries to help build and sustain it. today, it's one of the most diverse workforces in the uk. that's never been more evident than when looking at the faces of some of the staff who have died with covid—19. they were very proud to work for the nhs, they were very proud to put the uniforms on every night. sisters esther and mary worked as health care assistants in london. both were infected by the virus last month. mary, on the right, is still recovering in hospital. her younger sister, esther, didn't survive. her daughter—in—law says they were inseparable. they came from nigeria together, they had jobs together, they've always lived together, they've never been apart. when you join the army, you know the risks that you're signing up for, you know there's a possibility that you might not come home. but with a nurse, that's not

what you're signing up for. last month, nhs england advised employers to risk—assess ethnic minority staff as a precaution. a government review, led by public health england, is looking at why people from these backgrounds appear to be more affected by the virus. evidence has been emerging that a higher chance of having other health conditions, so diabetes, hypertension, for example, people's living situations, the types ofjobs they do are all likely factors. but this is an incredibly complex area, and we still don't have all the answers. when it comes to the nhs, the health and care charity the king's fund says the staff set—up could be a factor. typically, people from an ethnic minority background will work in sort of lower to mid pay bands within the nhs — porters, cleaners, health care assistants, nurses. if you're working in a hospital setting, you are more likely in those roles to come into contact with patients who have coronavirus. douglas does part—time agency work as a mental—health nurse. he says he's no longer doing shifts.

i was scared, that's why i stopped the shifts, and ifelt i didn't have the confidence to go to work, because when you don't have the right ppe and you don't have the right structures in place to support you delivering the care, then that becomes a challenge. the government is due to publish its review next week. officials say it will help inform the response to the pandemic. for families and workers, it's key those at the heart of this aren't forgotten. tolu adeoye, bbc news. if you want to pay tribute to someone you know who has died of coronavirus, you can do so on the bbc website. go to bbc.co.uk/news, where you will find tributes paid by family, friends and colleagues, and there is a form there where you can add your own tribute to someone you've lost.

week after week we have been reporting on the huge pressures on the social care system. how to fund social care, particularly funding long—term care for the elderly, has been a challenge for governments for almost two decades. now the bbc has learnt that ministers were close to finalising the long—awaited overhaul of social care in england before the coronavirus outbreak. they had been discussing a plan based on limiting the costs paid by individuals. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. hawthorns lodge is full, but the owner of this home believes care has been abandoned — the business of looking after the vulnerable, vulnerable itself, desperately short of cash. it's a disgrace, it's a joke, you know? and they know it. there's an iceberg on the radar. do we really need to hit this iceberg and then pretend we didn't know it was coming? or should we change course and miss it altogether? and politicians have known an iceberg was on the way. labour told the next generation....

i don't want them brought up in a country where the only way pensioners can get long—term care is by selling their home. but it took 13 years to come up with a plan. the coalition asked economist sir andrew dilnot for help, designing a system to limit or cap the cost for individuals. but with a 6 billion price tag, that was ditched in 2016. who could then forget this moment a year later? nothing has changed. and when he moved in... we will fix the crisis in social care, once and for all. the promises began again. early this year, the prime minister, the chancellor and health secretary had a series of meetings here in whitehall with the architect of the care cap plan. discussions, i'm told, reached 90% agreement, with final costings and details expected to be finalised by the autumn. i'm told putting a cap on care costs for individuals is still the direction of travel, but with the blatant problems in the system, every day in this crisis

on full display, ministers are also exploring notjust how we pay but how money gets to the homes themselves. under a cap system, you keep more of your cash before having to contribute to your care, and the amount you pay over a lifetime would be limited too. ministers were even discussing a specific tax to pay. can you confirm that you were planning to introduce a cap on care cost in england and you accept this crisis has shown that reform of the system cannot be put off again? the crisis has demonstrated the need to bring health and social care closer together. i can confirm that we are working, as we set out in the manifesto, on making sure that the social care is as strong and sustainable as it possibly can be in the future. hi, andy, thank you for doing this. 0ne health secretary who tried and failed to get a change believes a cap would not be enough. it would be the wrong reform just

to introduce a cap on care costs, because that keeps social care as a charged—for system. successive generations of politicians, including your own, just haven't got to grips with this. all of the political parties are guilty. finally, all of the country can see how broken our social care system is. # land of hope and glory...# changing the creaking care system in england would be costly, but failing to act surely has a price too. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. the police watchdog has announced it will not launch a criminal investigation into borisjohnson's dealings with an american businesswoman while he was mayor of london. he had been accused of giving jennifer arcuri preferential treatment, but the review decided that mrjohnson had not committed misconduct in public office. downing street said the investigation had been a "waste of police time". there's nowhere in the uk that's not been affected by the coronavirus crisis.

but seaside towns, reliant on holiday—makers, are set to be amongst those hardest hit in the long term. 0ur north of england correspondent has been to cleveleys on the lancashire coast, which has a particularly high number of elderly residents. the irish sea can be unforgiving, but on a sunny day the light glistens on the water and the coastline at cleveleys looks its best. it's just along the shore from blackpool, but here life moves at a slower pace. this is where folk come to relax and to retire. pensioners make up a third of the town, so many here are vulnerable to the virus. i've got a part of the lung missing, and i've just been so scared of this virus, because i think if i get it, i'm a goner. steve has multiple health problems. he lives alone, and his home has become his fortress. do you think of yourself as vulnerable? yes, i'm scared to death of it. you're really frightened ?

the doctor's already told me i was a high risk, so i stocked up with food, what i can, and then locked the door, and that was it. what do you miss most? what i miss most of all from my friends is a hug. feels lonely? uh... it does. i get depressed with it. because i can't see an end to it. steve is suffering alone, but say goodbye to him and drive the short distance into town, and you see that cleveleys is contending with wider problems too. the venue is a restaurant and weddings complex right on the seafront. this should be its busiest time of year. it couldn't have happened at a worse time... jackie has run the venue for 20 years. she can see it prospering for many more but says she needs

the green light to reopen safely as soon as possible. if we don't open at the beginning ofjuly, there isn't a seasonal business in any resort that can survive two winters back—to—back. we just need to get through this, and if we get the help that we need to do that, i think it will thrive afterwards. nearly half of people who work in cleveleys are employed in businesses which have closed during lockdown. that in itself is a cause for worry here. but there is defiance too — a refusal to let the coronavirus crisis define or even destroy the future of this town. in fact, if you go for a wander down the high street here, it's so busy you can hardly tell there's a lockdown on. the only clue is the long supermarket queue. other shops remain shut, like this travel agent's. but its owner is confident

that cleveleys will bounce back because shopping locally is important here. people want to get back out and try and get some sense of normality. we've actually had customers requesting that we keep their holiday on hold until they can come and see us. 0bviously, with the age range of the local population, they may struggle to get to other towns, so we're going to where our customers need us to. cleveleys isn't the only town with a long recovery ahead of it, but its strong sense of community may prove its biggest asset — a confidence which will help this place to get back on its feet, back to how things were before, when life felt good under these lancashire skies. judith moritz, bbc news, cleveleys. the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling misinformation on the social network during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc exclusively in his first broadcast

interview in five years, he said facebook is removing all content which puts people in "imminent risk of physical harm". he also admitted the site had been unprepared for the level of state sponsored interference in the last us presidential election but was in a better position now. here's our business editor, simonjack. canella sorry for running a little late. he has total control of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, reaching 3 billion people, and in some ways he is in the same boat as many of us, cooped up at home with the kids. we have no girls, one four... mark zuckerberg told me how facebook is approaching the issue of dangerous information about coronavirus. two categories, harmful misinformation that puts people in imminent risk of physical harm, things like saying that something is a proven cure for the virus, when in

fa ct a proven cure for the virus, when in fact it isn't, we will take that down. another example which i know has been very prevalent in the uk has been very prevalent in the uk has been very prevalent in the uk has been 5g misinformation, which has been 5g misinformation, which has led to some physical damage of sg has led to some physical damage of 5g infrastructure, so we believe thatis 5g infrastructure, so we believe that is leading to imminent risk of physical harm, we take down that content. stuff that is not true but is not eminently humble can stay up, but fact checkers will slap a warning on it. to have been 50 million since the outbreak. if posts aren't true, why leave them up?m it is clear something will cause real damage to someone in the near term, i think you want to generally allow us wide of an aperture of expression as possible across the internet. can facebook was grilled by us lawmakers after millions of its users for a microdata run into the hands of cambridge analytica, which said it could influence

elections. we have worked hard to mitigate a lot of threads, iran, china, they will continue to try to interfere, we will see issues like that. it is a bit of an arms race in that. it is a bit of an arms race in that way, but i feel pretty confident about our ability to help protect the integrity of the upcoming elections. a bold claim from a company confident it has been helpful during a virus whose grip on the world has arguably tightened facebook‘s grip on our attention. simonjack, bbc facebook‘s grip on our attention. simon jack, bbc news. almost 39 million people have now lost theirjobs in the united states since the coronavirus crisis began in march. 0ur north america correspondent nick bryant has been to one of new york's affluent commuter belt suburbs, where middle class families have suddenly found themselves relying on food banks for the first time in their lives. we don't normally go in search of hardship in the tree—lined communities of american suburbia. but now it's easy to find.

and this the looping queue for a foodbank in new york's commuter belt. cars normally used for school pickup and the weekly shop, now a marker of middle—class need. some had waited more than five hours, bumper—to—bumper, in a queue that stretched more than a mile. come here now, come here now. for organiserjamie scout, traffic control has become a major problem. eight weeks ago in the early days of the shutdown, he saw 65 families. now it's 600. and look at the cars — mercedes and expensive suvs. you see a lot of starter mercedes, starter beamers, high end, like, toyotas and what have you. the problem is, really, that people have gone now without four or five or six or seven paycheques, and it's starting to catch up. they need food, it's the most basic thing. guys, it's going to be three families, guys, three families. at the front of the line, we met people who had well—paid jobs... go left, guys,

all the way up to the girls. ..before the coronavirus wrought such economic destruction. people who've never had to rely on aid. michelle fernanda is a florist, struggling to make ends meet. we have to pay the rent, gas, car and other stuff. i mean, you've got a beautiful car — did you ever imagine that you'd be lining up forfood? no, never. yancey mendez is trying to feed her kids. have you got any income at the moment? no, no. no, we don't have, cos i work, like, housekeeping, so, you know, people doesn't want people to get into their houses, cos they have families, kids, and we have kids too. so you're not making any money at the moment? no. so you need this food? yes, yes, we need it. we are witnessing the biggest economic shock since the 1930s in a country still feeling the after—effects of the financial crash of 2008. what's been noticeable since the great recession is the dwindling number of parents here who believe their kids will enjoy more abundant lives,

that long held the belief in generational progress that gives this country so much energy and so much drive. covid—19 has dealt yet another body blow to the american dream. what good is it if we save everybody from the virus if we let them all starve to death?! with desperation comes anger. freedom, liberty! this an end—the—shutdown protest in staten island, one of new york's most affluent boroughs. most of these people are small business owners who believe the stay—at—home order from the state's democratic governor has robbed them of their livelihoods and their liberty. members of the middle class, not used to mounting protests. open up new york, that's right! and if you can't do it, get these democrats out! open us up! you're killing us! # now come to seejesus... this is a convulsion that's shifting

the ground beneath our feet, a disruption of immense historical scale, bigger than the great recession, more consequential than 9/11. even in the most prosperous parts of america, lives have been changed forever. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. film and tv studios across the globe halted production due to coronavirus. major movies and tv series have been postponed, cinemas have closed and studios are left empty. so how and when might they be able to get back to work? our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba explores what the future has in store. i know what you said... mp said... hello and welcome... empties studios. things are moving forward slowly. this week, the major broadcasters published new

guidelines for safe working so that some programmes can begin again. programmes like emmerdale, which yesterday started limited filming with crew and cast strictly observing social distancing protocols. but a bigger scale shows, like the award—winning line of duty, are facing a weight before they can resume. the police corruption drama stopped filming on it new series when producers realised they couldn't continue safely. they are working hard to see when they might be able to resume. if you consider the interview scenes we do, there isn't a better example of a situation in which you are in a potentially very contagious environment, prolonged contact in a confined space. we take days to shoot those scenes, and you can imagine how difficult it would be to approach that kind of work if there was any suspicion that there was coronavirus active within the