he‘s talking to the boss of manchester airport about this. cornish, good morning to you. good morning, sean. what you feel about these quarantine measures being put in by the uk government? well, at this stage we still need to see the detail on what the quarantine measures actually mean and where the exemptions are actually setting. ultimately, quarantine. flights and passengers choosing to fly. —— quarantine shall stop flights and passengers choosing to fly. so how we actually get travel back to normal levels, aviation is such an important part of the uk economy, there are over1 millionjobs at of the uk economy, there are over1 million jobs at stake. certainly we wa nt million jobs at stake. certainly we want the government to work with industry and european counterparts to put the right opening procedures in place to allow people to fly.” time—limited, and you have an idea of how long these quarantine measures may be put in place for? —— by time—limited. measures may be put in place for? —— by time-limited. there is no detail yet, but hopef

danjohnson, bbc news, manchester airport.f outdoor exercise. the announcement will be a boost for golf courses and other leisure facilities, but how will the measures work in practice? andy swiss reports. for golf in england, its game on. this is the dunham forest club in cheshire where preparations for wednesday's reopening are gathering pace. there will be strict limits, groups of no more than two with everyone at least two metres apart. but they're confident that won't be a problem. it's very, very important we follow the protocol and i'm sure our members will do so. you know, if you go into a supermarket they've got to behave in a certain way and it's much easier to do it in these lovely wide—open spaces that we've got here. the priority for courses like this will be to keep players safe. they will be told not to touch the flag sticks, for example. there will be no rakes to smooth over the bunkers and clubhouses will be staying closed as sport adapts to these different times. after weeks of lockdown, tennis courts can als

this is a trial that was launched at the end of last week by manchester airport group, that includes and east midlands, notjust manchester airport. they are asking you where those while you are in the airport but we know airlines, perhaps, are going to have different rules on what you need to wear actually on the plane and what they'll be in terms of social distancing, actually on board. this is about what happens in the airport. you'll get gloves and mask, then it's time for a temperature check, james has been keeping an eye on me all morning. what weighing in at now? 36.0. that's fit to fly? all good. ican at now? 36.0. that's fit to fly? all good. i can go off somewhere nice, hopefully, before too long anyway. not many people flying at all, this is the signage reminding you what you need to do to be safe in the airport. just a trial at the moment but the hope is if they can prove this works, they can start getting more people into airports and at least make the case for getting more planes in the air. hello. this is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. the headlines. the uk governme

dan johnson, bbc news, manchester airport.o be back for at least a month before the summer holidays. 0ur correspondent has been to a primary school. this is a small slice of st elizabeth's primary school in merseyside. we miss them all. we hope in many ways that we see them, however obviously we hope it's safe for them to come back. and there's the rub. is it the right time to get back to class? when will the government ring the school bell? alexis says now, linda says no. yes, i want to go back. i'm really excited. it's too soon. lindsay and dean want this over, but it's complicated. are you bored? yeah, iam. to tea rs ? yes. i've got mixed feelings. he's got asthma. i really want to be sure he's safe to go back. if you had that certainty, you'd be springing on? getting him out of the house. yes, definitely, yeah. while lindsay's worried about her son's health, tony is worried about the health of other vulnerable family members. my parents are going to have take them to school and they are going to be outside the school gathe

this is the new norm at stansted and manchester airports.e more common too. these people arrived on a flight from berlin today, which was half full. soon, anyone arriving in the uk from anywhere apart from ireland and france will have to self—isolate for two weeks. i think it's necessary. i think we should all have a quarantine because they are doing it also in germany. it's a really nice idea but they are late again. normally stansted would have 500 flights in a day. today there were just 16. it is hard to think forward to the summer and imagine this busy. but airlines warn many people simply won't want to travel if they have to self—isolate when they get home. with their planes stacked up and static, british airways, like other airlines, is haemorrhaging cash. the boss of its parent company today said a quarantine was a further kick in the teeth. we had been planning to resume on a pretty significant basis our flying in july. i think we will have to review that based on what the prime minister said yesterday. around 100,000 people have arr

this is the new norm at sta nsted and manchester airports. become more common too. these people arrived on a flight from berlin today, which was half full. soon anyone arriving in the uk from anywhere apart from ireland and france will have to self—isolate for two weeks. i think it's necessary. i think we should all have a quarantine because they are doing it also in germany. it's a really nice idea but they are late again. normally stansted would have 500 flights in a day. today there were just 16. it is hard to think forward to the summer and imagine this busy. but airlines warn many people simply won't want to travel if they have to self—isolate when they get home. with their planes stacked up and static, british airways, like other airlines, is haemorrhaging cash. the boss of its parent company today said a quarantine was a further kick in the teeth. we had been planning to resume on a pretty significant basis our flying in july. i think we will have to review that based on what the prime minister said yesterday. around 100,000 people hav

this is the new norm at stansted and manchester airports.mperature will become more common too. these people arrived on a flight from berlin today, which was half full. soon anyone arriving in the uk from anywhere apart from ireland and france will have to self—isolate for two weeks. i think it's necessary. i think we should all have a quarantine because they are doing it also in germany. it's a really nice idea but they are late again. normally stansted would have 500 flights in a day. today there were just 16. it is hard to think forward to the summer and imagine this busy. but airlines warn many people simply won't want to travel if they have to self—isolate when they get home. with their planes stacked up and static, british airways, like other airlines, is haemorrhaging cash. the boss of its parent company today said a quarantine was a further kick in the teeth. we had been planning to resume on a pretty significant basis our flying in july. i think we will have to review that based on what the prime minister said yesterday. around 100,

this is the new norm at stansted and manchester airports.your temperature will become more common too. these people arrived on a flight from berlin today, which was half full. soon anyone arriving in the uk from anywhere apart from ireland and france will have to self—isolate for two weeks. i think it's necessary. i think we should all have a quarantine because they are doing it also in germany. it's a really nice idea but they are late again. normally stansted would have 500 flights in a day. today there were just 16. it is hard to think forward to the summer and imagine this busy. but airlines warned many people simply won't want to travel if they have to self—isolate when they get home. with their planes stacked up and static, british airways, like other airlines, is haemorrhaging cash. the boss of its parent company today said a quarantine was a further kick in the teeth. we had been planning to resume on a pretty significant basis of flying injuly. i think we will have to review that based on what the prime minister said yesterday. arou

, which plays a key pa rt manchester airport, which plays a key part in its regional economy.t is covid or not, any infectious disease, the traditional way, which is what we will use with an app, to contain the spread of the disease. to identify people who may be at heightened risk and exposure of whatever the infectious agent is. we talk about close contacts but a close contact may vary with an individual disease. if we look at ebola, it is a contact transmission, somebody touches somebody else, body fluids is the prime route of transmission. in this case there is a respiratory risk of transmission and a contact one, which is why we are washing hands as well. the respiratory route is the prime route into the body and there are a numberof prime route into the body and there are a number of different categories of co nta ct are a number of different categories of contact we would describe as close contact. the primary one is usually people living in the same household and that is why we have self—isolation and family isolation rules, if you are symptomatic. it may be if you hav

manchester airport here in the uk later this week is gonna announce or implement that face masks will burridge there. the airline group carriers —— they said leaving the middle seats free on planes would not improve passenger safety. it comes as the irish airline aer lingus has promised an urgent review into its services after evidence emerged that tax flight. here's my party. it was these pictures taken by a worker travelling from london which has added to concerns over how airlines are operating over the lockdown. no distancing whatsoever. none. the queues were down the steps. no change whatsoever. since restrictions were imposed, the number of daily flights has fallen by around 80%. some 60 flights a day now arrived at london heathrow, compared to 600 a day before the pandemic. there's no policy capping passenger numbers. aer lingus has said there was unexpectedly high demand on the day those pictures we re demand on the day those pictures were taken. it's now urgently reviewing its procedures on board, but others in the industry have warned that on a plane, social distancing is ba

the segway as been flying plane loads of personal protective gear into new hampshire into manchester's tiny airport and they've gotten so good at it that a couple of weeks ago the state of new hampshire sold 4.5 million masks to the department of federal affairs, to the federal government itself in maryland, governor larry hogan secured something like 30,000 test kits and maybe half 1 million , i may be misquoting that . test gets from south korea. his wife is korean and she used a bunch of her business contacts to help import those test kits from a place that when maryland couldn't get any from the federal government itself so there's some leaders here who have gone to quite creative lengths to protect their states and they deserve some shout outs because it's not a partisan thing, sununu and husband are republicans, j tinsley of washington, gavin newsom of california have done the same thing in sourcing a lot of personal protective gear from other countries as well . when the federal government has not always been there, the governors are doing a good job of stepping up and making sure their stat

dan johnson reports from manchester airport.e. this is a trial already under at sta nsted, east experience. this is a trial already under at stansted, east midlands and manchester. after dropping your bags at check—in, it's then about gloves and a face covering, and if you haven't brought your own, you can pick one up here, disposable gloves with the mask, and then it is a temperature check. thank you! yeah, i can't see any other way of doing it, until we get a vaccine, i think we are stuck with the ppe, it is the only thing we have got. it does make you feel a bit more safe, to be honest. i have heard contradicting things about gloves, and hospitals are saying, don't wear gloves and facemasks, so i don't really know, i am just following the rules. with departure screens at this back, you can see why the boss hopes he has found a way to reassure passengers it is only then being carried and not the virus. i think things will undoubtedly change, we will have new operational protocols, new training for staff, we may require masks,

the fact that all inbound visitors to uk airports need to use public transport to get to their destination. you have to look hard to spot planes moving at manchesterhe uk had of the biggest aviation sector in europe. the man running a lot of the ground operations here and at other airports says the quarantine could jeopardise people's jobs. these are devastating issues to lots of people who are now sitting at home bereft with anxiety about their livelihoods. the aviation sector is broad and wide. there are tens of thousands of people across the united kingdom directly involved in aviation, and there are many, many hundreds of thousands of people indirectly involved. the government says with the prevalence of the virus falling, a travel quarantine will be effective. it will, they say, prevent cases being imported. it's hoped it will be a short—term measure. but it casts further doubts on trips abroad this summer. tom burridge, bbc news, at manchester airport. our business correspondent katie prescott is here. doubt on trips abroad this summer, and a howl of agony from the airline industry is well over this. all of us industry is well over this. all

heathrow has tried various things at manchester's airports group is asking passengers to wear masks.ne single international standard, so passengers know what to expect wherever they are travelling. the impression i am getting is that you have not had clear notification from the government or clear guidance yet about what needs to be put in place. what is your impression of not having that clarity? i think the problem with that lack of clarity means that we are unable to plan. you know, it is perhaps not surprisingly do not have that standard agreed and we know the government is now working very closely, both with the industry internationally, to look at what the science tells us we should do. so it is not a problem, as we begin to start, and we will see some flights beginning to take off, mostly repatriation at the moment, of course, but i think it causes some confusion, and what we are really keen to ensure is that those passages that do begin to come back to us feel reassured. and also our staff. as businesses, what we want is some lead in time so we can begin to put those measures

airports look to adapt to a new way of travelling. the majority of footballers are scared of returning to action. ahead of 2 crucial meetings today, manchesterity's sergio aguero says players will be worried about returning, due to concerns over the health of their families. but there are some sunny spells around but also heavy and thundery showers but for most of us the weather turns dry up through the weekend. more details throughout the programme this morning. it's friday the 1st of may. our top story: the government says it is likely to meet its target of testing 100,000 people per day, in england, for covid—19. it comes after the prime minister borisjohnson said the uk is past the peak of the virus, and that facemasks will be a useful part of the strategy to ease the lockdown. 0n today's programme we'll be getting reaction from a professor of global public health, and a health psychologist who advises the government. we'll also be speaking to the housing minister, robertjenrick, and hearing from business leaders, including the chief executive of heathrow airport. first, danjohnson rounds up the latest developments. for a nation cut off,