more than 86000 people and known to have contracted is let's go live now to our correspondent laurie chalons who's in lewis in england in the south east let's talk about boris johnson he has the virus or more do we know. yes and eventful day in the u.k. so far not only has it posted. i raising figures 181 dead i think that's the worst a for the u.k. so far. but we also have not only boris johnson the prime minister but the health sector a mass hancock both saying that they have tested positive for corona virus both saying that they have mild symptoms now as far as we understand this is the 1st global leader to have admitted falling victim to corona virus we know that anglo merkel the german chancellor was tested a week or so ago after coming in contact with infected dr but you don't think she tested positive. this is showing that the virus doesn't select its victims or that it goes for everyone high or low powerful or impotence in the it can go as a prime ministers as well as normal people. if course this will raise questions about the ability of the british government to function properly a

s economy laurie chalons al-jazeera london. well let's get more now from al-jazeera has joined a whole he joins us now by skype jonah tragic news there from italy is there any indication it's all this is coming into control. well not according to the numbers certainly earlier in the week when the salary daily fatality tolls were the sort of mid for hundreds of like there on tuesday or wednesday despite 25 or something and people went gosh maybe this is the low that the turning point where things start to improve in italy well anything but that has happened italy breaking records now for all the wrong reasons 793 fatalities in the last 24 hours that's the highest single day toll in this crisis anywhere in the world look back it will happen in china where all the gallows earlier in the year the biggest toll daily toll it will have was 150 gives you some sense of the scale of the problems that italy is facing one point to note there 2 weeks in italy now into very restrictive measures on the freedom of movement of people people sta

expects a surge in hospital admissions in 2 to 3 weeks well let's go live now to rory chalons in brixton in south london laurie there may be more beds but there also appears i believe to be some confusion around the u.k.'s death toll at the moment how does that even happen. ok so the figures that the government is using the monuments to keep a tally on how many people have died across the country from coronavirus comes from the n.h.s. is what the n.h.s. measure is is how many people die inside the hospitals but this is where the confusion comes in because the office of national statistics is using a slightly wider. parameter these days any deaths in the country whether it be in a hospital in the community or in a care home etc where the death certificate has a death connected to corona virus gets measured as a death by the office of national statistics so that means that they are counting slightly more deaths by about 20 percent of the n.h.s. is counting and this is where the discrepancy comes in. and what we might see as the more. slow. actually sort of filtering in is that the real death toll in the u.k. is