with me our political commentator gerald phillips and nigel nelson. that's tomorrow's front pages and we start with the sunday telegraph that once the hospitals face running out of gowns to protect doctors against coronavirus. the sunday times reports on plans for a mobile phone app that will trace every contact of infected people. the mail on sunday leads with borisjohnson‘s tribute to nhs staff that say save his life. it is the pm is stapled to the medical staff who looked after him in intensive care. according to the observer does cross pretty calls for the urgent recall of parliament as the urgent recall of parliament as the uk's death toll from coronavirus continues to climb. a grim morning in the mirror that hospitals face a shortage of vital drugs to help coronavirus patients. shall we begin? we have gotjoe on the left and nigel on the right. hope he could by the way were not to show you are hearing me now. that is fantastic. nigel use it on twitter just now we will be on our best behaviour. i will hold you both to that. we're going to start wi

nigel nelson if you're double go now. because did we go to your paper at the sunday mirror.redo the headline even though you probably know it. we are running out of drugs for sickest patients. ventilators... talk us through that. this has been a concern of doctors that have been trying to ventilate their patients. they basically need three drugs and that made when is per default which isa that made when is per default which is a sedative when you put somebody ona is a sedative when you put somebody on a ventilator, then you add another drugs that are pain killers. without them you can't ventilate patients. there are substitutes but they are very old, they don't work as well, it means that when you try to bring a patient back after ventilation it can sometimes take days. which obviously, is denying event for somebody else. so the question comes down to, why did they not have the drugs that they needed to do this job? not have the drugs that they needed to do thisjob? is not have the drugs that they needed to do this job? is the same sort of question that comes down to persona

join me tonight are the political commentatorjo philips and nigel nelson, political editor of the peoplestates has become the first country in the world to record more than 2000 deaths associated with coronavirus in a single day. there have now been over 20,000 deaths in that country and more than half a million confirmed infections. 0ur north america correspondent nick brya nt easter week bryant end in new york city. a date in the calendar that donald trump spoke of only a few weeks ago as the moment to reopen the american economy. but the restrictions will remain in place at least until the end of the month, and there were signs today that coronavirus spring could become coronavirus summer. new york announced its schools would remain shut, at least until september. good friday ended up being the most deadly day since the virus reached these shores. more than 2000 people lost their lives. and america has now surpassed italy as the country with the most coronavirus deaths. 783 people, 777, 799. these are just incredible numbers. depicting incredible loss, and pain. for america, this has

but in the papers, our gastronomy tonight of the political commentatorjoe phillips and nigel nelson,editor of the sunday mirror. the coronavirus a break in the united states has become of the deadliest in the world. it is recorded just under 20,000 deaths in total. more than 700 people have died in new york every day for five days running. our north american editor says that the figures are grim. if you look at them and it is fast approaching train 5000 deaths and it is now overtaken italy as the country with the highest rated mortalities as a result of the coronavirus. and a briefing from new york another 783 people have died overnight in new york state. against that, you have donald trump asking what is threatened or brought up the country and he would like to have that started happening at the beginning of may. in new york city's governor, the mayor i should say, says that the schools are not going to be reopening for this academic year if he has his way. and an indication of what is happening, the new york governor has quoted churchill after the battle and said it is not the end,

i will now go to nigel nelson from the sunday mirror. good afternoon.cancelled operations could take five years to clear. is that the timescale that you are now working on? and how many lives do you estimate that these delays will cost? and one, if i may, for stephen powis. when dominic cummings attended sage, did he ever say anything, and if so, what? nigel, let me start. into your point and comments and reflections from the royal college of surgeons, as ever, the department of health, social care, will work with the nhs, nhs england, and advisers, in terms of care, elective care surgeries, addressing many of those issues that you have highlighted and are of course of enormous concern to individuals who are perhaps waiting for operations. we want to make sure, of course, that services resume in the right and proper way. but while this virus is on, obviously within the nhs, and perhaps stephen could expand on this, there are certain ways of working across the nhs and certain privatisations of cases of surgery and the treatment of patients. and of course

nigel nelson from the sunday mirror, good afternoon. hello.hen and come back to you. so on a vaccine, a vaccine is clearly an important part of any long—term management of this virus, so vaccine development is under way, this is a global health emergency, probably the greatest global health emergency we have had ina century, global health emergency we have had in a century, and i think what you are saying is the greatest scientific response to that that we have probably known. so the virus was identified very early on in the epidemic in china, it was sequenced, its genetic code was made available very quickly, and that has allowed academics and companies around the world to very quickly start to develop vaccines, and you will be aware of the various groups that are starting to make progress and very early trials in patients, and i'm really pleased to say that some of that ground—breaking work is being undertaken in the uk, the university of oxford you will have heard about, and one of the great strengths of the uk is its life sciences, the aca