professor mervyn singer. and territories around the world have put in place widespread restrictions on the movement of their citizens. schools have closed and businesses have been forced to stop working. there are, though, still large differences in the approach that some countries have been taking, as jim reed reports. so, it's vital to slow the spread of the disease. stay at home. it will break the chain of transmission, and it will save lives. a quarter of the world is now living under some form of lockdown. 3 billion people have been told to stay at home. in most of europe, day—to—day life has stopped. in the north of italy, hospitals are still struggling to cope. it's three weeks now since the start of the world's full national lockdown. the street is completely deserted. on a sunday afternoon, usually there would be certainly lots of people. translation: it's a special emergency situation. everyone of us has a responsibility to do our bit so we mustn't approach each other. in northern europe, similar me

professor rebecca shipley, and professor rebecca shipley, and professor mervyn singer.s and mercedes formula 1. spain tightens its coronavirus lockdown even further as the death toll continues to rise. all non—essential workers are told, stay at home. president trump extends federal coronavirus restrictions, to the end of april as a leading government expert predicts 200,000 americans could die. tighter coronavirus restrictions have come into force in spain, which has been in lockdown for two weeks. all non—essential workers have been told to stay at home for the next 11 days. this report from tanya dendrinos. a lifeline in the midst of chaos, a military plane full of medical supplies arriving in madrid from the czech republic. and with the bump of elbows, a small glimmer the nation has not yet lost hope. the contents couldn't be more precious. 10,000 items of protective equipment for health workers after the government's request for medical aid from nato allies. and time is of the essence. more than 80,000 people have now been infected with covid—19 in spain, forcing a

earlier my colleague victoria derbyshire spoke to mervyn singer, professor of intensive care at universitycca shipley, whose team developed the mask. we've essentially managed to reverse engineer a breathing aid which has shown to be really effective at helping patients in china and italy, and to do that, we started by putting together the right team, so we partnered with ec lh and also a crack squad of mechanical engineers based at ucl, and also our industry partners, both mercedes, hpp and 0xford electronics, and having that expertise together, has allowed us to go from a first prototype was in the first hundred hours of our first meeting to regulatory approval within ten days and we have now started to patient trials at ucl h and can move to producing 1000 per day of these within a week's notice. what does reverse engineer mean? basically, going back to a previous device that has been used in the nhs very widely but is of patents and we've basically taken it apart and redesigned it, rebuild it and we developed the prototype. so it's not a ventilator but it does the job of a ventilator b