that dry spot blood test is being developed at imperial college london.00,000 home testing antibody kids once they are proven to be accurate and easy—to—use —— kits. once they are proven to be accurate and easy-to-use -- kits. the swab goes to the back of your throat... remember, it is a swab test like this which will show if you are currently infected with coronavirus. so this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. well, until that test is widely available, health experts have to depend on projections. today, the office for national statistics has published the results of a survey. it's found that one in 400 people in england have the coronavirus. that works out at just under 150,000 people, not including people in hospital and care homes. fergusjoins me now. fergus, i'm afraid, like millions of people at home, to me, that sounds like quite a small number. well, it adds up to 150,000 people, but, one in 400 currently infected. importantly, in 400 currently infected. importa ntly, that is in 400 currently infected. importantly, that is out

that dry spot blood test is being developed at imperial college london.kits once they are proven to be accurate and easy—to—use. the swab goes to the back of your throat... remember, it is a swab test like this which will show if you are currently infected with coronavirus. so this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. in ukraine at least 35 newborn babies have been left stranded after coronavirus restrictions prevented them being claimed by their parents. the babies, who were born to surrogates, are being looked after by a team of nannies and nurses in a hotel room in kyiv. ukraine closed it's borders in response to the coronavirus pandemic, making it nearly impossible for their biological parents to come from around the world to claim them. jonah fisher sent this report. in a hotel on the outskirts of ukraine's capital, we found the lost children. so, if you just go and have a look in here. these are the 35 babies born here in ukraine, their parents all around the world. they're being looked after, you can see the nurses looking after t

that dry spot blood test is being developed at imperial college london. antibody kits once they are proven to be accurate and easy—to—use. the swab goes to the back of your throat... remember, it is a swab test like this which will show if you are currently infected with coronavirus. so this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: born to surrogate mothers in ukraine — the babies left stranded in kyiv — whose biological parents from around the world can't fly in to collect them. "the pope was shot. the pope will live." that is the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon that as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they call the butcher of lyon went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years injail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest of remorse. the chinese government has called for

that dry spot blood test is being developed in imperial college london.t's planning to send out 100,000 home testing antibody kits once they are proven to be accurate and easy to use. a swell goes right to the back of the throat both sides by your tonsils. remember it's a swa b test by your tonsils. remember it's a swab test like this which will show if you are currently infected with coronavirus. so this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. fergus falls, bbc news. the uk government has been defending its comittments to protecting people in residential care homes for the elderly in england. around a quarter of all known coronavirus deaths in britain have happened in care homes. ros atkins has been looking at this issue. thank you very much indeed well these statistics and care homes in england our stock. thousands have died, tens of thousands of people have been infected by covid—19, and while the human cost is indisputable the reasons for this tragedy are increasingly the front line in the battle over where blame should live for the uk'

it has to go through lab analysis, this can be done by hand like here at imperial college london or inprocess like a new highly accurate antibody test approved for use in the uk. if you get infected with coronavirus your immune system starts to produce antibodies. these become part of your immune systems of memory. so if you get exposed to the virus again they should attack it. but how much protection they will give and how long that immunity will last is unclear. for some coronavirus as we know that that protection can fade and we know from experiments many years ago that is possible to re—affect individuals with except delete neck exactly the same coronavirus may be a year later. even though they had antibodies to start with. so we have to be careful to assume that any antibody will last a long time. remember, it's a swab test like this which will show if you are currently infected with coronavirus. so this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. but there are still questions around how many people in england have been infected by coronavirus. the office for national s

joining me is mark greco, professor of infectious disease dynamics, imperial college london.hank you so much for getting bloomberg a little of your time. the allianz executive said the industry is hit. what are people talking about at the board level about the transformations the insurance industry will go through? mark: good morning. mario: good morning. this is what we do to protect damages throughout national events, and the pandemic is a possibility. we have been preparing for this for many years. when it happens, you are never fully prepared, but as it appears today, we cannot frank we complain. we are fully operational. from the beginning in january we shut down offices in asia and continue to work from home. we tested all of our applications. europe, werted in confirmed we could perfectly work from home. then we extended this to the u.s. too. financially speaking, we want to give an indication to the markets of what will be the impact in terms of claims. this is our estimate. it will change over time. framework ofin the our capacity which is something that insurance ma

that dry spot blood test is being developed at imperial college london.sting antibody kits once they're proven to be accurate and easy—to—use. the swab goes to the back of your throat, both side by your tonsils. remember, it's a swab test like this which will show if you're currently infected with coronavirus. thanks very much. so, this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of the scale of the coronavirus outbreak in england. 0fficial estimates suggest that during a two—week period at the start of this month, nearly 150,000 people — or one in every 400 — had covid—19. fergusjoins me now. crucially these were not people in hospital or care homes? yes, this came from a survey hospital or care homes? yes, this came from a survey of 11,000 volu nteers came from a survey of 11,000 volunteers around england who performed swab tests at home, and from that the office for national statistics has worked out that around one in 400 people in england at the moment have a current coronavirus infection. that mean

strategy, where you acknowledging it's going to spread widely before it was then modelled by imperial college london could lead to have a million deaths, so we could lead to have a million deaths, so we then had another u—turn and we nt so we then had another u—turn and went back to where we were originally. but those three weeks of the being of march are going to be absolutely crucial for that inquiry, because that is the point at which most people that i speak to say that we really lost control of this and we really lost control of this and we could be under much different trajectory free had continued testing, really built up our contact tracing capability, but now having to do it, essentially our strategy is where it was months ago. so it's rather perplexing, but this report from mps does raise some very problematic questions for governments, which they want to answer how, governments, which they want to answer now, but one day, they will eventually have to. talking about problems for the government, looking at the next two newspapers numb from the daily mirror, first of all, talking about schoo

bot, seen lecturer at imperial college who as agreed to serve as an adviser to the state of new york. dr. bot is the senior lecturer in geostatistics at the imperial college in london. geostatistics is not my field of endeavor. i never heard of geostatistics before doctor, and that's why we need you to advise us, dr. bot, because i know nothing about geostatistics. but dr. bot is joining us. i want to thank him very much. the imperial college in london, we have had a number of projection models that were done early on by a number of very prestigious universities and we've been watching all these projection models since this started. as you know many of the models were not 100% accurate because they couldn't calculate the effect of the social participation and what people actually did to change the curve. and in a state like new york what the people did dramatically changed that curve so it affected the projections. but the imperial college model, as we have been following this for weeks, was the best, most accurate model. and therefore i think dr. bot deserves all our thanks because they really helped us all through this to date and i want to thank him very much fo

are leading institutions around the world, in britain, imperial college london, oxford whuniversity areders in this field. anchor: how much appetite is there amongst people inca,rime for getting back to business as soon as possible? gary: there is a good deal of that it is very geographical i would say. inhe south, particularly, whicn perhaps is not se a lot of opening up has happened there. it is worth saying, that in georgia, one of the first states to open up, was criticized for doing . infection rates hav largely remained flat or fallen. there is counterfactual evidence in favor of opening up at this stage. t there is a warning if it goes too fast too far, there will be spikes. in virginia, which borrs washington, not so much in the northern part o the city, but the southern part, restaurants are going to be allowed to open bars in maryland there will be shops open as well. you can see the impetus beginning to roll out across the country. yone is waiting to see what the consequences will be. anchor: thank yo the rate at which coronavirus because -- can be spread across the u.k. has

that dry spot blood test is being developed at imperial college london.0,000 home testing antibody kits once they are proven to be accurate and easy—to—use. the swab goes to the back of your throat... remember, it is a swab test like this which will show if you are currently infected with coronavirus. so this remains crucial in preventing the spread of the virus. dr mytree shivkumar is a lecturer in molecular biology at de montfort university. good to have you with us. the uk health secretary matt hancock said last month this with a potential game changer. is it? ithink last month this with a potential game changer. is it? i think a really major step forward because as we just really major step forward because as wejust hired in really major step forward because as we just hired in that report, it tells us a positive test on this antibody test will tell if someone has been previously infected and that information we do not have as of now, so he can tell us how the virus is spreading in the community, people who potentially have not shown any symptoms are

in mid—march, a report from imperial college london warned that hundreds of thousands could die, andweek later, put the country into lockdown. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. this slowed the rate of infection, and crucially, prevented hospitals from being overrun. testing was increased in april. the government now aims for a capacity of 200,000 tests a day by the end of may. this is part of the next phase, a return to testing, tracking and tracing, to isolate anyone who has been in contact with an infected person. this plan needs an army of contact tracers across the country. we will all be asked to download an app that will record everyone we‘re in contact with. it is a huge undertaking. but it will be needed until there is a vaccine. alan little, bbc news. health officials in the state of new york are investigating 85 cases of children with an inflammatory disease linked to the coronavirus. the governor told a news conference that three children had died. this is every mother‘s knight, this is every parent‘s nightm

so, we haven't just plucked a number out of the air.ke we've the technical data from imperial college, london,he and from world health organization. we've then applied tha technical data, the thm about the spread of the disease, to the 34 countrieshe in whichnternational rescue committee works, aces like somalia, yemen, syria, south sudan, some of the world's emergency humanitarian hot spots. when you run thada, you see that between 500 million and a billion infectionslo s likely. remember, the density in the places like cox's bazar in bangladesh,he whall the million refugees i mentioned, the density there is four to seven tim the level of the density in new york. kiu've got 40,000 to 70,000 people per squarmeter in cox's bazar. and so we are sounding the alarm. it's not yet on our screense because wecused on the homefront. but the international danger of this is as potent, if not more so, than the domestic danger. and we've got to be able to learn that addressing this crisis atatat doesn't give us an exce to fail to address it abroad. we've got to do both. because there'll be noormal in econ

and dr peter 0penshaw from imperial college london is one of them, he says the government must proceedscientific collea g u es virtually all my scientific colleagues at a concern that we need to proceed with caution. at the moment we have quite a large number of cases in the community. i think unlocking two fast carries a great degree of risk. we do need to proceed carefully. the question really is moving on from this, scientists are going to be keeping a close eye on what is happening with the virus. they will be monitoring this very closely. the fact that various things are being eased makes it difficult to know what might be factored in to any uptick in cases of the virus. of course we have the possibility of new lockdown is on a more individual level. cities or towns or even smaller regions or settings being locked down. it is a case of baby steps towards this new semblance of normality. scientists will be watching this every step of the way. thank you. our health correspondent. the labour mp, rosie duffield, has apologised for breaching lockdown restrictions and has resigned her p

it was professor ferguson's work along with a team at imperial college london about how devastating thispidemic could be that was seen as a key driver behind the uk government's decision to go into lockdown, so it is worth saying his work was hugely influential then and remains hugely influential now as well. you might also remember a similar case about a month ago where dr catherine calderwood, scotland's chief medical officer, she resigned from her post after she was found to have breached the rules after visiting her second home, so tonight perhaps a reminder that those who are involved in setting the regulations are also under pressure to keep to them. jessica parkerfor us jessica parker for us there. president trump has confirmed he's looking at winding down the white house coronavirus task force, despite the high number of cases in the us. the vice president has suggested it could be brought to a close within weeks, just as a draft government report warns the american death toll could reach 3,000 a day injune — that's more than double the current rate. president trump spoke to repo

professor ferguson's worked along with the team at imperial couege along with the team at imperial college londonbout how devastating this epidemic could be that was seen as a key driver behind the uk government's decision to go into lockdown, so it is worth saying his work was hugely influential then and remains hugely influential now as well. you might also remember a similar case about a month ago where doctor catherine calderwood resigned from her post after she was found to have breached the rules after visiting her second home, so tonight perhaps a reminder that those who are involved in setting the regulations are also under pressure to keep to them. president trump has confirmed that the white house is looking at winding down its coronavirus task force, despite the high number of cases in the us. vice president mike pence has suggested that it could be brought to a close within weeks. it comes as a draft government report warns the us deathtoll could reach 3000 a day injune, more than double the current rate. president trump spoke to reporters as he left washington to go to arizona earlie

it was professor ferguson's work alongside a team at imperial college london about how devastating thisseen as a key driver bit behind the uk government's decision to go into lockdown. so, his work was hugely influential, and it remains so. you might also remember a similar case about a month ago where dr catherine calderwood, scotland's chief medical 0fficer, resigned from her post after she was found to have breached the rules after visiting her second home. so tonight, perhaps a reminder that there was who are involved in setting the regulations are also under pressure to keep to them. jessica parker, many thanks. virgin atlantic has announced plans to cut more than 3,000 jobs in the uk and to end its operation at gatwick airport. virgin blamed what it called the "devastating" effect of the pandemic. it's another major blow for gatwick — the second busiest airport in the uk, just days after british airways said it could not rule out closing its operation there as well. 0ur transport correspondent tom burridge has more details. happier times, when sir richard branson launched his airl

in mid—march, a report from imperial college london warned that hundreds of thousands could die and hospitalsld be swamped. so on march 16th, borisjohnson advised us not to go to pubs and restaurants. and a week later put the country into lockdown. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. this slowed the rate of infection and crucially prevented hospitals from being overrun. testing was increased in april. the government now aims for a capacity of 200,000 tests a day by the end of may. the nhs covid—i9 app lets you know quickly... this is part of the next phase. a return to testing, tracking and tracing to isolate anyone who's been in contact with an infected person. this plan needs an army of contact tracers across the country. we will all be asked to download an app that will record everyone we are in contact with. it is a huge undertaking. but it will be needed until there is a vaccine. alan little, bbc news. some of the milestones of the past hundred days, on the night the prime minister announced tentative measures, to ease the l

of people aged over 70 end up in hospital if they get covid—i9, according to research from imperial college londonrade care in people's homes is something that senior clinicians here have wanted to set up for many years. they never dreamt they could achieve it in just a couple of weeks. but hospital—at—home services like this, run by doctors, are rare in the uk, according to research from last year. here in lanarkshire, in scotland, where they have one of the oldest, they're trying to double the number of patients they can treat at home because of the virus. hospital at home is pretty much what it says on the tin. we're essentially providing hospital—level care, specialist—led, but in the patient's own home, so we deliver interventions, assessment, into the patient's house, and the only thing that's really different from the building behind me is the bed that the patient is in. my wife will tell you that as soon they say hospital, i say no. here, around 80% of acutely ill older patients like terence ball are being kept away from hospitals. just as in east kent. 0pposite ends of the country, but th

of people aged over 70 end up in hospital if they get covid—19, according to research from imperial college londonent in icu. providing hospital—grade care in people's homes is something that senior clinicians here have wanted to set up for many years. they never dreamt they could achieve it in just a couple of weeks. but hospital—at—home services like this, run by doctors, are rare in the uk, according to research from last year. here in lanarkshire, in scotland, where they have one of the oldest, they are trying to double the amount they can care for at home. hospital at home is pretty much what it says on the team could delete jen, where we carl on the team could delete jen, where we can give hospital care at home and we lead assessment in the patient's host and the only thing thatis patient's host and the only thing that is really different from the building behind me is the bed that the patient is in. my wife will tell you that as soon they say hospital, i say no. here, around 80% of acutely ill older patients like terence ball are being kept away from hospitals. just as in east kent. 0pposit

a senior doctor at imperial college who has agreed to serve as an advisor to the state of new york. lecturer in senior statistics at the imperial college in london. geostatistics is not my field of endeavor. i had never heard of geostatistics before. that is why we need you to nothings because i know about geostatistics. but he is joining us and i want to thank you very much. the imperial college in london, we have had a number of projection models that were done early on by a number of prestigious universities and we have been watching all these projection models since the start. were not 100%dels accurate because they could not calculate the effect of the social participation and what people actually did to change the curve. in a state like new york what the people did dramatically changed the curve. college model,l as we have been following this for weeks, was the most accurate model. bhatefore i think dr. deserves our thanks and i want to thank him for advising us. not just on how we constructed our model to date but what happens going forward as we increase economic activity and see numbers change. thank you very much for being with us and

the imperial college of london initially said 2.2 million deaths for the united states. t dramatically down, cutting that prediction down, that estimate down i think about 80, 90%. the imperial college of london said you don't need to shut down the economy. do targeted quarantines. they advised against that. now we have the media misreporting a fema model that was never meant to be a prediction, never meant to be a forecast of 3,000 deaths a day. that was not a hard and fast number. what is going on here? we see misreporting constantly happening and people got up in arms, and shutdowns continue. this is a dangerous disease, we understand it. the americans are dealing with it. what is also really dangerous is the bankruptcies that are flowing in, 34 million people and now possibly on the friday jobs report out of work. your reaction? >> yeah. 100%. this drive to make the news with big numbers is not a good thing and so what you have people are frustrated. they longer trust the government. the cdc said back in 2014 ebolo could have 1.4 million deaths in four months and woun

imperial college, who has agreed to serve adviser to the state of new york. dr. bhatt is the senior lecturer in geo-statistics at the imperial college in london. geo-statistics is not my field of endeavor. heard of geo-statistics before. bhatt to we need dr. advise us, because i know othing about geo-statistics, but dr. bhatt is joining us. i want to thank him very much. imperial college in london, number of projection models that were done early on prestigious f universities, and we've been watching all of these projection models since this started. you know, many of the models not a hundred percent ccurate because they couldn't calculate the effect of the social participation and what actually did to change the curve, and in a state like ew york what the people did dramatically changed the curve so it affected the projections, the imperial college model, been following this, most eks, was the best, accurate model, and therefore, i deserves all of our thanks because it really to dates all through us and i want to thank him very much for taking the time to on how we not just to date ed our model but what happens going forward as we increase ec

at the university of oxford and imperial college london.eir vaccine dose on —— on schedule earlier this week. they are now being monitored closely by the clinical trial team. the speed at which 0xford clinical trial team. the speed at which oxford university has designed and organised these complex trials is genuinely unprecedented. imperial couege is genuinely unprecedented. imperial college are also making good progress and we will be looking to move into clinical trials by mid june, with larger scale trial is planned to begin in october. so far, the government has invested £47 million in the oxford and imperial vaccine programmes. but today, i can announce an additional £84 million of new government funding to help accelerate their work. this new money will help mass—produce the 0xford vaccine so that if current trials are successful, we have dosages to start vaccinating the uk population straightaway. the funding will also allow imperial to launch phase three clinical trials for this vaccine later this year. i can also confirm that with

the same time we have imperial college london who's also doing well in trying to find a vaccine here.ir clinical trials expected to start around june. now, the oxford university trials, they have signed agreement with the government as well as with the as tra accident ka, the huge pharmaceutical giant, licensing agreement, if a vaccine is successful then the uk will get 30 million doses of the vaccine by september. now, some of the newspapers here are already running with that, getting peoples' expectations up. 30 million by september with agreed plan for 100 million doses. the ceo has said that they should know by june/july whether these trials have been successful. but like said, alex sharma tried to taper down expectations that while they're throwing everything they can at this that they may not find a vaccine. this is very important because people need -- of course they need to tell people, show people that they are pushing hard on trying to find a vaccine in every way possible. the uk is doing everything it can. but it also -- of course the government doesn't want people to get t

neil ferguson from imperial college london resigned over being accused of breaching lockdown restrictionshat the scientific advisory group which is very keen on providing advice to the government and think it is taking a science led approach from the latest data to with the people should wear masks, crucial issues and they been among the people left in television interviews about the scientific approach and the latest data. we understand that he has resigned this evening and have a statement from him regarding the telegraph that is broken and the last hour that he broke social distancing rules, a statement that says i except i made an error of judgement the wrong course of action andi judgement the wrong course of action and i therefore stepped back to my involvement they believed that i was immune, having tested positive from coronavirus and completely isolated myself for two after developing symptoms and i deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing to control this devastating epidemic and government guidance is unequivocal and it'

professor alan blackwell from imperial college london.u‘re watching bbc news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. after that particularly wet start to spring, the second half of the season has been particularly dry. a change for the southern areas as we go through the next five days. rainfall amounts over the next five days, wet returning across the north. the darker blue says around two inches or 50 mil metres of rain. most of that will fall on sunday. if you shower is already in western scotla nd you shower is already in western scotland today. at the same in fort william. ina scotland today. at the same in fort william. in a fume showers will continue. perhaps into northern ireland and north—west england. the vast majority will be dry. after a sunny saturday afternoon, a bit more cloud around for the vast majority with some sunny spells and temperatures close to where they should be very time of your — 13 to 18 celsius. colder weather across shetland, strong to gale—force winds in northern scotland which will cont

andrea crisanti, an italian—born professor of microbiology and virology at imperial college london, who situation at the beginning of the epidemic nine days after which allow us to understand the effects of the lockdown on the reproductive rate of the virus, allow us to understand the number of asymptomatic individuals and allow us to ascertain without any doubt that asymptomatic individuals are able to transmit the disease. this has been very valuable and has informed our surveillance has been extremely successful. you have to think of as today is just a handful of cases and probably has the lowest incidence of all of italy, so this was a big accomplishment. can i talk to you about some of your testing. so you have done you are starting to begin the blood test, let's talk about the swabbing, i read that 71% of the population took part. when you get a large majority of people to impart like that, what can you tell from the swabbing that you can? asi tell from the swabbing that you can? as i have told you, we were able to assess that 40% of the infected individual where asymptomatic, and

laura: well, we are where we e, and researchers at imperial college in london are predicting that thedeath toll, nearly 100,000, could double in two months as the lockdowns are relaxed. that is al a pretty stark dr. jah: prediction. dr. jah:it i and i'm a little more optimistic than that. i believe that the transmission should be a little bit lower as thewe weather warms up an have warmer and more humid temperatures, as people are spending more time outdoors. i'm hopeful all of that will help but hope is not a strategy, and we need to maintain social distancing and beoing testing and tracing and all of those things to make sure we don't hit 200,000 deaths e the next couonths. laura: research from pew shows that americans think that in germany and sout korea have handled this crisis better than their own government. why is that, do you think? dr. jah: because americans are aware of the data and the facts. the data and the facts are clear that both south korea and rmany have handled this dramatically better than we ve. you can see the number of cases, you can see the number deaths . it

at 100000 people but originally thought she and his friends predicted 2200000 would die imperial college in london put out that number then revised it down and down again and we know now looking at numbers in brooklyn new york for example 43 percent of the people living in brooklyn are believed to have had the girl and i was already the point being is that we have close to herd immunity the virus did spread far and fast probably before we realize it was even in the country and the point being is it's far less deadly than we believe initially at that point one percent is about where we arrived today and now guys last question to both of you is there such a thing as a happy medium between reopening states and still maintaining some sort of social distancing guidelines robert and then i'll give you the last word things. well you have to look at what happened in 1800 you have the 1st wave of the flu people start the social distancing measures then you have a 2nd wave of the 1919 which will forward believe the 1st wave of the flu even though in that sense what it is 99 percent of people will say well t

researchers at imperial college london created a model that incorporates cell phone data showing thateople sharply reduced their movements after stay-at-home orders were broadly imposed in march. the model, which has not been peer-reviewed, shows that in the majority of states, a second wave looms if people abandon efforts to mitigate the viral spread. the latest abc news/ipsos survey indeed shows 39% of americans approve of trump's handling of the coronavirus. that's the lowest percentage for the president since they started polling this back in march. in today's briefing room appearance, trump pressured states to allow places of worship to open immediately even though a lot of public health officials continue to warn against group gatherings. >> i'm identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogue and mosques as essential places that provide essential services. some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential but have left out churches and other houses of worship. it's not right. so i'm correcting this injustice. i call upon governors to allow our churche

the imperial college in london has a sobering message. this pandemic is far from over. i spoke with esther tu. >> it feels early. there are large areas in the middle of the country where the virus still has yet to travel. there's still burge dponing hot spots. this is far from over. >> the mayor of montgomery, alabama, says there is a shortage of icu beds in his city due to new covid cases. other states that began to open early are showing an uptick in cases, how worrying is this? >> it's worrying. we knew we were owning in many places ahead of what would be best practice standards, which would be to see a steady decline in cases for about 14 days. many places did not even come near that. there are places in the united states where cases were still increasing when they made the decision to open doors. so this is like a huge natural experiment because states and individual communities are making a difference. there's a distinction between saying things are open and having the public comfortable to go out there. there are a lot of different behaviors driving a ton of vari

two centers oxford university and imperial college in london. ambitious time line.hey are working with a drug company to mauk 30 million doses available by september. we don't know if they can develop a vaccine yet. the government announcing they recruited 17,000 contact tracers. the people who will be charged with tracking down anyone who has been in contact with someone who had the virus. that is due to be in place at the beginning of june. when schools and shops start. or due to start reopening. if the rate doesn't rise rapidly. boris johnson acknowledging frustration over the come plegs easing of the lock down. off the back of criticism the messaging was confused also concerns about the way the different nations appear to be on different paths on lock down. all issues no doubt due to come up monday on the briefing. >> italy will begin to further relax lock down measures in the hours ahead. taking what the prime minister calls a calculated risk as the country enters the next phase. it leaves health minister urging people to remain prudent. as they go out and risk

researchers from imperial college in london find the virus may still be spreading at epidemic rates in at least 24 states, particularly in the south and midwest. another model from the policylab at children's hospital of philadelphia also identifies new hotspots in houston and dallas, alabama, tennessee, and south florida, among others. >> if you're from montgomery and you need an icu bed, you're in trouble. >> reporter: but instead of focusing on mitigation and improving testing capacity in those states, president trump spent much of the week on a series of distractions. on monday, he announced he is taking the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine. a new study links the drug to increased risk of death and heart arrhythmia in covid patients. >> i happen to be taking it. i happen to be taking it. >> hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it. >> reporter: on tuesday, he retweeted criticism of christopher ray, the fbi director he appointed. >> the russian thing was a made-up, fabricated story. >> reporter: on wednesday, he threatened to withhold funds from states if they expanded access to voti

government during this lockdown it's an important story because professor neil ferguson of imperial college in london has been so influential in size in government policy it was his research back in march that indicated that in the absence of a full lockdown here fully a quarter of a 1000000 people could die that was at a time of the government seem to be looking the other way resistant to the idea of a lock down he has consistently been advising that the lock down needs to remain in place for as long as is necessary to protect against a 2nd wave and that as senior government figures and conservative party figures are pressing for an end to the lock down to restart the economy and it's also an important story of course because of the example that it sets to the public this is a public figure now who has encouraged the lock down who's broken it himself by reportedly invited inviting his lover into his home on 2 separate occasions during lockdown professor ferguson says he did so believing he was immune having suffered from the virus several weeks ago he's admitted an error of judgment he regrets under

>> katy, it's a 30 person research team at imperial college london here.firmed using blood and infection markers that this condition and it's formally known as pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome is unique. it is very similar in terms of symptoms to diseases that existed before this pandemic, but it is unique. that matters. it means they can now more quickly develop an accurate diagnosic blood test that means kids like this young girl we met recently will be able to avoid the dangerous and painful consequences of this condition. >> she could be a key in the fight against a mysterious disease possibly linked with coronavirus. just ten days ago, she was in a british hospital fighting for her love. her mother recovered from covid-19 when tea started to get sick. what was hurting the most? >> belly. >> it was your belly. did it really hurt? >> yes. >> at first doctors insisted it was nothing serious. days later, her temperature continued spiking. >> i said that's when they got worried. and they phoned for advice. >> reporter: coronavirus does not impac

an imperial college of london study shows that alabama is one of 24 states with an uncontrolled virus read a little bit of this story from the "washington post." the coronavirus may still be spreading at epidemic rates in 24 states particularly in the south and midwest, according to new research that highlights the second wave of infections in places that reopened too quickly, and without sufficient precautions. and i want to show you now video of crowds at alabama beaches this weekend. and ask whether you are concerned that the state of alabama is not doing enough to contain the pandemic. >> absolutely, this is concerning to me, it has to be concerning to many of my colleagues around the state of alabama, because we know that this may lead to further implications down the road, in terms of seeing our numbers increase. we've had a 240% increase month over month in covid-19 cases. we've had 80% of our deaths have taken place just in this month alone. so when you see scenes like that down at the gulf coast, certainly it gives us pause and it certainly is not only concerning me for what