announcements or not as a child i can remember them perhaps it's but time to get back to those professor peter wright and thank you for joining us thank you. well with frontline n.h.s. staff feeling the strain doctor i mean come told me that doctors have been forced to make their own protective equipment. there's 2 things to worry about when it comes to start testing sending you know where a large crutches but already we've got 5 doctors all self isolating because of the people in their households at temperatures or cost that could cripple a smaller surgery but we can continue as we are bigger but 5 doctors also imagine how you know how much pressure that puts on the rest of us and yes we need to be tested because if we can get tested we can have the results back within a day or 2 and we could potentially come back to work and start working on people who are poorly the other thing stass need and this is really really important is is adequate protective the movement has stepped up and down the country we're hearing reports of these key arriving somewhere yet to see any evidence of it we don't have ade

peter wright as it moves eastwards.e could be wintry over the uk. those could be wintry over the higher ground. 7—9d, that sort of water. over the weekend we are looking at stronger winds. that will bring windier weather, wetter weather, some rain on saturday followed by showers on sunday. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm ben brown. today add to... the prime minister unveiled the government's battle plans against coronavirus in the uk. up to one fifth of the workforce could be off sick at the peak of the virus. keeping the country safe as the government's overriding priority. our plan means you're committed to doing everything possible based on the advice of our world leading experts to provide a volley prepare for all eventualities. in the last hour, the health secretary has confirmed a number of cases of coronavirus in the uk has risen again. it now stands at 51. this is again. it now stands at 51. this is a national effort. we need everyone to listen to and act on

it will peter wright as it ru ns hills. it will peter wright as it runs eastwards.in on saturday, followed by showers on sunday. up to a fifth of the uk workforce could be off sick at the peak of a coronavirus outbreak. the prime minister unveils the government's emergency plans — saying it is prepared for a spike in cases. i fully understand public concern, your concern, about the global spread of the virus, and it is highly likely that we will see a growing number of uk cases. thousands of people around the world have recovered from the virus — we hear about one woman's time in quarantine. i almost felt like i wanted to go knock on the wall and just talk to the other patient next door.

st peter's on easter sunday has been cancelled, signalling the possibility that, for the first time in modern history, this year's open—air mass will not take place. martin bashir, bbc news. wrightthe wife of the prime minister has tested positive for coronavirus. hello. well, the weather's going to be a little hit—and—miss early on sunday morning. some of us will need our brollies, for sure. but it won't be long before the sun comes out and actually, for many of us, sunday is going to end up being a pretty decent day with at least some sunshine. now, currently a weather system is barrelling across the uk. it has brought rain to scotland and some other western parts of the uk, certainly through the early hours of sunday morning. you can see the rainfall here falling across parts of wales, the south—west of england, and scotland and northern ireland too. but two different wind directions. 0ne coming across the north across scotland, so here it's colder. also a little bit of wintriness across the highlands. here, the winds are blowing out of the south—west, so it's quite a bit milder. so i think a mild start for much of england and wales, but scotland and northern ireland will fee

pete: peter, what's your advice to smaller companies? we had rick wrighthat thinks they can make a hundred thousand masks a week. he's not sure as you go to the county, the state, is there a federal database for companies that want to help, where should they start to try to get in the mix? >> i love that question. there's an organization called the national council of textile organizations being run by a wonderful hero in america, kim glass. and it started out with companies like haynes, fruit of the loom, parkdale mills, and what's been happening is other companies like my pillow have wanted to get part of the effort effort. i refer them to the national council of textile organizations because now we have a cookie cutter design that we can use that's been approved by the f.d.a. that small company can plug in there, and all this happens organically through the private sector. we don't have to do it on high. so that's the kind of thing, just if you're a company out there that wants to help, contact somebody in your trade association, contact the white house