the brother of george floyd, whose death in police custody in minneapolis has ignited anti—racism protests around the world, has called for meaningful changes in american policing. philonise floyd told a congressional hearing his brother's death did not have to be in vain. democrats have introduced legislation on police reforms in congress. the british prime minister has announced an easing of lockdown restrictions for single people, but only in england. from saturday, they'll be able to form "support bubbles" with one other household, allowing them to stay at each other‘s homes without social distancing. authorties in the indian capital delhi have warned that coronavirus infections in the city could shoot up to more than 500,000 by the end ofjuly. they say the city would need 80,000 hospital beds by that time, compared with its current capacity ofjust 9,000. health experts in england are warning that the number of people on nhs waiting lists could double to 10 million

by the end of january. the nhs confederation, which represents all nhs trusts, is concerned about challenges ahead as hospitals try to restart treatments that have been put on hold. health correspondent catherine burns reports. a birthday party in lockdown is never the best, butjock needs an operation because he is deaf. cochlear implant. what does that mean? it means i hear better. his family were hoping he would have the surgery before he turned five. so his operation was cancelled pretty much the day before surgery, and it wasjust before lockdown. the news for us was really, really devastating. every week, every month that goes by, he is getting older and the outcomes will not be as good. the nhs braced itself for coronavirus, partly by cancelling routine surgery. now, a prediction that four million people on waiting lists in england

could turn to 10 million by early next year. assuming there is no serious second wave. the nhs is a big, complicated machine and it quickly changed gears to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. now it's time to get things up and running again, but health bosses are warning it won't be as simple as flicking a switch and getting back to business as usual. we need to have a grown up conversation with the public about what the health service, and indeed social care, can do over the months and years ahead, because it will be restricted, and we will be desperately trying to make good some of the damage that has been done over the months of the pandemic. he says that conversation needs to explain that staff who have been working flat out during the pandemic now need to turn to the backlog. hospitals will have to stick to social distancing too, which won't help get back to capacity. irene‘s hip replacement surgery was supposed to happen today.

i'm really depressed today because i was supposed to have my operation and it hasn't happened. and i've got no idea of when they will do the operation. the pain‘s constant, it is there day and night. i am on very, very strong painkillers at the moment. i have regular assessments for a heart transplant, and unfortunately that has been cancelled indefinitely. and i can't help but be concerned about that, because without a heart transplant i won't survive. there is a call for more funding, but also to extend a deal where private hospitals have helped support the nhs. the government, though, says the health service doesn't need that to carry on. if you look around the world, it is, you know, seen as, you know, the best of the best, in the world, and it will continue do that, as we come out of the covid challenge. meanwhile, there is no word yet

on whenjock or many others will get the surgery they need. catherine burns, bbc news. now on bbc news, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—i9 has changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus: your stories. , a programme about how covid—i9 is changing the lives of people around the world. on phillipa thomas. this week we're bringing you stories from the vulnerable communities whose residents are more at risk but less in the public eye, and the efforts being taken to try to stop the devastation that this pandemic can cause. we'll hear what's being done to stop the spread of the virus in one of the most

densely populated areas in the world — asia's largest slum, daravine, mumbai. thursday story of native american volu nteers thursday story of native american volunteers who have banded together to help some of the tribal nations it hardest by covid—i9 in some of the remotest areas of the united states without running water or electricity or internet access. joe 0verton in utah started by helping to source a0 masks. now she helps to co—ordinate the distribution of thousands of pieces of life—saving equipment. cheese working across tribal lines, monitoring the rise in covid cases everyday. navajo was the very first to get covid back in april, maybe the end of march, and it happened at a large gathering and then people went home and they were in fact then people went home and they were infact did then people went home and they were in fact did and it infected hundreds of families initially. if you are

native american, you are at least ten times more likely to get covid, and you are at least four times more likely to die from it. in different areas, there are higher numbers, but that's about the average, and that's on all of the reservation. jo, on all of the reservation. jo, tell us about some of the particular challenges that are faced in trying to fight covid. you're talking about some areas that don't have running water for a start? exactly, there are some areas, especially on the navajo nation, where between 30 or a0% of the people don't have running water. it also means they have no electricity and no cellphone service because they live in a really remote area and that might be ok on a regular basis, but with covid it means they

can't call for help, it means they cannot wash their hands for 20 seconds each time. and because the native americans in general traditionally live in multigenerational homes, and on almost all reservation, housing is really scarce, so it means you couldn't move to another home even if you wanted to. word quarantining is out of the question — there's no way anybody has an extra bedroom and extra bathroom for someone and it puts everyone at risk in that immediate synergy. jo, you've told me before when we've been talking about the particularly high rate of infection among native americans. absolutely. and the high death rate too. there's a view underlying issues that are longtime issues, and

all covid has done is expose them. 0ne all covid has done is expose them. one of them is lack of good healthcare. 0ur healthcare on reservations is run by a federal entity called indian health services, also called ihs. they are funded the very least out of all federal medical programmes, and that leaves ihs facilities understaffed, and it means the doctors and nurses don't have proper ppe or anything else. and the other problem is lack of healthy food availability. like, i went to my reservation, which is rosebud, and i went to purchase apples. they were $5 a lb. who can afford healthy food ? apples. they were $5 a lb. who can afford healthy food? not the natives. and it leaves all of us with high rates of diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and all

of those things play into the high morbidity of covid with native americans. so, you knew already that there's a situation with underlying health conditions, problems for native american communities, and yet when it comes to something like corona by, this isn't somewhere where the federal american government comes in and tells people what to do and in fact gives them resources i what to do and in fact gives them resources i guess because what to do and in fact gives them resources i guess because it is tribal governments that we're talking about and different tribal governments? yeah, but the federal government, though, according to the treaties signed in the 1800s, we we re treaties signed in the 1800s, we were told — "put down your guns and were told — "put down your guns and we will take care of you" — and that included education, healthcare, food and things like that. so honestly the federal government is at the very bottom of the reason why the people of rosebud, their life

expectancy is 57. covid is just deadly. the federal government is not doing theirjob. the nurses and the doctors in the federally run ihs hospitals do not have enough gloves or protective equipment. i don't understand this. ihs got $i or protective equipment. i don't understand this. ihs got $1 billion on april the third for covid supplies — we've no idea what they did with them because when we talk to them they say we don't have gloves, we don't have a shields. so volu nteers gloves, we don't have a shields. so volunteers like you, jo, working from your own home have had to get involved and it might have started small with a0 masks also, but tell me something about the situation now, what kind of things you're helping to supply. we have a 2—pronged approach to this. one of the things we do is provide personal protective equipment, or ppe, to healthcare workers, frontline

workers and making sure that they are safe, because they're taking ca re of are safe, because they're taking care of the people. this is all on reservations. and the other thing we do isa reservations. and the other thing we do is a community approach where providing hand sanitiser, masks, sometimes food and hygiene supplies sometimes food and hygiene supplies so they can be clean and be able to clea n so they can be clean and be able to clean the germs. we're protecting the people in every way that we possibly can, and it's grown from such a small amount to, like you said, iwas such a small amount to, like you said, i was for a0 masks and now we can get thousands to people within just days, and also like face shields and gloves, hand sanitiser — we just shields and gloves, hand sanitiser — wejust got a shields and gloves, hand sanitiser — we just got a very large donation of that and we are excited to share that and we are excited to share that with all the communities. it becomes life—saving when you don't have water. why does this matter so much to you personally?”

have water. why does this matter so much to you personally? i am a memberfrom rosebud, much to you personally? i am a member from rosebud, i much to you personally? i am a memberfrom rosebud, i native american, however, ilive memberfrom rosebud, i native american, however, i live in utah, most of my family lives on the reservation but i live here. i was just standing there and in navajo, people were dying. i know lots of navajo, i know lots of people from all the different tribes in utah. i just said, "i cannot stand here and do nothing". and so i did something and it has grown and i have an amazing team of people who are incredibly caring, and we are all working together to save lives. so do you think you were brought up to ta ke do you think you were brought up to take action? absolutely, and it is true of every native american child and adult — community before self.

for my youngest child, i remember my mother asking me, "what are you going to be when you grow up and what will you do to help the people"? so i got a degree in social work because i thought that was one of the ways that i could really help native americans and it means the world to me. my mother is a world changer and i have a deep desire to make my mother proud and there would be nothing more important to me than being just like my mother. she changed the lives of the people on the reservations. how? my mother, she was raising four girls singular and in her early 30s she decided she would become a lawyer and she would go home to the reservation and help

the people. even though my mother had rheumatoid arthritis and was quite crippled from it, she did, she went to law school and then she moved back to the reservation, became not just a moved back to the reservation, became notjust a lawyerfor the people but a judge. the very first attorney general we had, native and woman. she helped change the constitution of our tribe, and she also rewrote the domestic violence code for two different tribes, including ours. my mother was always a voice for the voiceless and protection for the vulnerable. and a lot of what you're doing now is about protecting native elders. i suppose there's a double risk here — being native america and, if you're elderly — you must feel very vulnerable? absolutely. native americans treasure their elders. they are the holders of the past.

they are the holders of the past. they carry the wisdom and they carry the knowledge. and they teach us that one of the most important things is that they are also our future. without them, we would not know which way we needed to go, and we would be lost. and in that process , we we would be lost. and in that process, we would lose a part of ourselves, so protecting our elders is the most important thing that all native americans feel that we can do. just thinking about your part in this volunteer effort, what do you think you're learning or the group of you are learning that would help you if there is another wave, another surge of the virus? we are we a re really we are really aware of the things that work and also some of the things that do not work and we are hoping, if there is another wave, right now covid is beginning to rise

on reservations across the country and it means that we are pretty prepared for their needs and so it makes it easier to know what they need. we have a warehouse, we have things in the warehouse and we can get them out quickly so, if covid is rising ina get them out quickly so, if covid is rising in a place, we have a rapid focused response and that is our mission to do that. what will you ta ke mission to do that. what will you take a lesson from an say, right, do it differently next time? well, i think one of the most important things that we have learnt is about having the contacts so, when i call as the indigenous outreach co—ordinator, i really need to find somebody who is willing to talk and respond to e—mails and be able to get the supplies out. and in making

things happen and making them happen quickly, how much do you think it matters that people trust you because they think you know what you are speaking about, you are native american? absolutely, because i am, i understand the difficulties that the different entities on the tribe are having and so, when i speak to them, there is already this common ground and, in doing so, it engenders trust and a willingness to tell me things that perhaps would not tell a white person because they would not feel like they could trust them. you are obviously determined that you and others are going to have to be communities helping communities because there is no other way? absolutely, we are moving very, very quickly and we have great hope protecting elders. all of the

money that is donated, besides a very small portion, goes straight to supplies. we are 100% of volunteers. we do not stand around and say, oh, let's wait for them to do it. that's ridiculous. we do it. jill 0verton on the challenges and community spirit she is witnessing among native american tribes dealing with coronavirus. this is a programme about how the virus is affecting the lives of people around the world. next, we go to mumbai in india, a slump home to 100 million people and in the space ofjust one square mile so social distancing is pretty much impossible. we have overseen the official response. injust impossible. we have overseen the official response. in just 2.5 square kilometre area, you will find 1 million people and they all live

ina 1 million people and they all live in a small houses and usually you will find structures of one or two story in which people are staying. they live on the ground floor and second and third floors are factories where they are working. how is it possible to distance let alone isolate? 8096 of people depend on public toilets and they do not have individual toilets. secondly, all labourers, migrants, they depend on outside food. they do not cook food inside. they do not have kitchens inside their houses. they depend on outside food. when the lockout was declared, they were

receiving food packets every day. 21,000 people for lunch and 21,000 people for dinner and we were bringing food packets to them. there is no way of having social distance. for us, the main challenge of that is to isolate as much as possible and to isolate them. how well has the strategy worked? india has the third highest number of cases after the united states and brazil. but in the united states and brazil. but in the slump, how is it going? surprisingly, the first case was detected positive and when we went to his home, we want his family and

the patient died in the hospital and we we re the patient died in the hospital and we were completely aware that with the way the community is, it would ta ke the way the community is, it would take no time to spread. instead of being reactively, we decided to act productively so we started screening people in the area. we took doctors and started visiting door to door without ppe's on. we started screening people and taking the oxygen screening people and taking the oxyg e n level screening people and taking the oxygen level of patients. and those who were suspected, isolated them in a building to isolate. we started announcing people who were having symptoms of coronavirus to go to the quarantine centre and provide everything for you. this is really worked and we isolated more than 8500 people. when people happy to do

that? if you go into isolation, you cannot work, you cannot earn a living? most of the people working in essential services. most were health workers, delivery boys, working on a factory floor. maybe a few people who were not in essential services. initially they were not ready to come but once we offered them medicine that was the big boost in the area because once they were isolated, we were giving them food for breakfast lunch and dinner. at that time we were giving them ta blets that time we were giving them tablets and any other symptomatic treatment that require doctors, they we re treatment that require doctors, they were facilitated with no cost. what

about yourself? you're coming into contact with a lot of people who might be affected with covid—19, you're not worried about yourself and your family? yes, initially it was quite a tense atmosphere. i used to wear a mask, then face shield. goggles, not exactly goggles but face shield because in the quarantine sector, we were checking how it was they were initially quite scary situations and everywhere it was on the news that this is rising and it was constant worry for my family. i want to ask your final question about having so much

responsibility, there must be quite a lot of personal stress involved for you? one of my staff was found positive. he died and that was a shocking and very bad day for my entire staff, including myself, and that was a really scary situation. 30 engineers and doctors in the area we re 30 engineers and doctors in the area were tested. it was a scary situation. i have not shown any symptoms but i never tested myself because i was symptoms but i never tested myself because i was aware symptoms but i never tested myself because i was aware that if i was found positive, what would happen to the submission so i decided that u nless the submission so i decided that unless i show any symptoms, i will not test myself. so that was really

disappointing when one of my stuff died because of covid—19 and that was really stressful. it really was very bad when they were 100 cases a day. that was during april, the last week. then we started getting on top of the situation. 0xygen beds, hospitals acquired them and there was little sign and now it is com pletely was little sign and now it is completely 0k. 0ther was little sign and now it is completely 0k. other areas of mumbai are showing increasing trend. on the pushback on a covid—19 in one of the most densely packed patches in the

world. thank you forjoining me this week for coronavirus: your stories. well, it doesn't look like the weather is in any hurry to settle down over the next day or two. more rain—bearing clouds on the way. in fact, it has already been raining quite heavily across the south—west of england, western parts of wales, all thanks to this weather front that's been moving across the uk. quite sluggishly really. 0vercast skies across much of the country. for most of us it has just been patchy rain here and there, and the heaviest of the rain has indeed been across parts of cornwall, devon. it is now clearing away from wales. the little bits of pieces further north and actually scotland and northern ireland escaping most of that rain. 10 degrees will be morning temperature. so here are the occasional showers during the middle of the day. a lot of cloud across england and wales, with a few glimmers of brightness. and then we see another spell of rain heading towards eastern parts of the uk, thursday,

late afternoon and evening. and that rain is sort of going to barrel across the uk, across the pennines, into parts of wales but, all the while, scotland and northern ireland escape all of that weather so actually, during thursday, this is where the best weather will be, in northern ireland, and particularly western parts of scotland. low pressure is pretty much stuck end of the week to the south of us, it's stuck around the bay of biscay but, within this area of low pressure, there is actually quite a lot of fairly warm and humid aircircling. that warm and humid air heading our way but, with it, also comes the return of this weather front so that does mean that on friday we are anticipating again a dose of heavy rain, particularly across the south south—west, and into wales as well and, again, the best of the weather will be the further north you are, in fact cracking weather there in the north of scotland but it will be cooler there, around 1a degrees. that weather front will make its journey a little bit further north during saturday and to the south of that, we'll probably see showers breaking up, the possibility of some

thunderstorms as well. this is actually humid air streaming in from the south. those temperatures will be rising. given a bit of sunshine, we could see highs into the mid 20s across the south. 20 degrees or so on saturday in glasgow. but in western scotland, still a lot of sunshine around. and here's sunday — again, the best of the weather i think the further north you are. in the south we still could catch some thunderstorms. bye— bye.

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