let's speak to our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. realise is that google has a lwa ys should realise is that google has always had this data, this is not new, they are just making it public. if you use a phone with google maps on it, it knows where you are, google has that data, it knows, for instance, this phone, i am at home right now, it knows when i go to the office, when i go to the shop. that data has always been there. what they are doing now is being far more public with this, and it's producing fascinating results, with reports out this morning on 131 different countries, and how activity has gone down. i am looking at one of the pages now, in the uk, 85% fall in retail and recreation, 52% fall in visits to parks, 42% fall in grocery and pharmacy visits, since february. i've also been contrasting it with france, which has actually had a much tighter lockdown, much stricter, for a bit longer, and the figures there are much higher than they are in the uk. farfewer people going to grocery stores, far fewer people going to parks,

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.navirus through video diaries. here, gp dr gail allsopp shares the details of her week with our health correspondent catherine burns. coronavirus has changed working life in so many ways for gp dr gail allsopp — even down to her footwear. she used to wear shoes like this for work. now, they're more like this. i used to meticulously get dressed, choose carefully what i wore, do my hair, put my make—up on — and now i don't. now i want as little of my hair exposed at all, so i scrape it back. there is still the school—run to do. gail says it's now one of the hardest parts of her day. the other children are safe at home with their parents who are working from home, and because of myjob i am unable to keep him as safe as i would like to. an empty waiting room, but she still got a full list of patients. this is my new way of working in general practice at the moment. video call, something we've never done before. she's tried, and failed, to get hold of medical scrubs — so she's improvised, b

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ins me now. and we will talk about contact tracing injust a moment but i wa nted tracing injust a moment but i wanted to start in terms of basic testing and questions around there because the uk has been talking for weeks now if not months about ramping up testing. why are we stuck at this figure of around 23,000 do you think? well, one of the problems with the lack of capacity, the government got its act together weight private —— probably because weight private —— probably because we privatised and close some of our laboratories, and pretty because we did not have the new we needed and also the reagents. the government has been slowly ramping up testing but testing is a huge confused area and we need to understand what the government strategy is. who is a testing, why is it testing people, when are they testing, and what is the end point? it is a very confused picture at the moment but it does appear that the government has now prioritising health care and social ca re prioritising h

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is in west london.s? it is not just it is notjust whatsapp, there has been concern about whatsapp because facebook, which owns it, cannot see what is going on. we know there is a lot of activity and a lot of fake news stories being shared on it, and they have decided the way to stop thatis they have decided the way to stop that is make it much more difficult to forward those fake stories, make people go through a lot more work to do it. but what we have seen this morning, very interestingly, is action from youtube, which has been under pressure. there is an awful lot of material on youtube with people making all sorts of dubious claims about the virus, and in particular over the last few days its connection to the 5g roll—out, the sg its connection to the 5g roll—out, the 5g mobile network roll—out. the bbc alerted youtube last night to a conspiracy theory video featuring david ike in which he made a number of extraordinary claims, this was a live interview being seen by tens of thousands of people. he

many thanks, technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.cisions about whether to continue cancer treatment for some patients due to the coronavirus pandemic. chemotherapy weakens the immune system potentially putting some people more at risk of covid—19. the clinical lead for cancer care in england admits there is a huge pressure on resources but says the nhs is finding new ways of delivering care. it comes as new cancer hubs involving public and private hospitals have been launched to carry out urgent surgery. 0ur health correspondent lauren moss reports. battling coronavirus is the biggest challenge the health service has ever faced. and while cases of covid—19 climb, routine care for many cancer patients has been affected. roisin has incurable breast cancer. but her chemotherapy has now been suspended for three months because it puts her more at risk from the virus. it's terrifying, and then the fact that they've stopped the treatment that i know is what's keeping me alive, there's no doubt about that. to have that taken away from you is

as our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones explains, this isn‘t something new for the tech gianto to the shop. that data has always been there and what they are doing now is being far more public with it. and it‘s produced some fascinating results, reports out this morning on 131 different countries on how activity has gone down. i‘m looking at one of the pages now but the uk, 85% fall in retail and recreation, 52% fall in visits to parks, 46% fall in groceries and pharmacy visits, that‘ since february. and i am also contrasting it with france, which has actually had a much tighter lockdown, a much stricter lockdown, for a bit longer, and the figures there are much higher than they are in the uk. so, you know, farfewer people going to the grocery stores, far fewer people going to parks and on public transport, so this information is going to be pretty useful to the government, that is the theory, so for instance next week, next weekend we know there is going to be lots of sunny weather, we have heard the prime minister worried about whether we will all be going to the park or not

thank you, rory cellan—jones.g properly protected from covid—19, according to one union representing royal mail staff. the bbc has spoken to employees who say there's a shortage of personal protective equipment, and that it's almost impossible to social distance inside delivery depots. royal mail says it has invested significantly in ppe and that the health and well—being of staff is its top priority. sarah corker reports. royal mail staff, working shoulder to shoulder in leeds. cramped conditions make it very difficult to keep safely two metres apart. and in northampton, there isn't much social distancing in the canteen. royal mail say conditions have improved across the business since this footage was filmed last week, but employees told me they still feel unprotected. well, they're scared. they're scared that they're choosing between theirjobs and their safety, and their families' safety. for the first time, a supervisor has now spoken out. he's worried he'll get sacked, so we've concealed his identity. do peop

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jonesjoins us now from london. always good to see you. the app. the team within the nhs by the nhs digital division and a whole bunch of scientists advising them i really hope this can do two things will help us emerge from lockdown and help us emerge from lockdown and help to control the spread of the epidemic. a lot of people are outside with a lot of serious questions about that. an enormous amount of effort going into it. it is already being tested in an raf base and a very controlled conditions. it now faces a much bigger test in a controlled section of the population. the bigger thing about it is for it to work properly, something like 60% of the population will need to download and install it, that is something like 80% of smartphone owners. you are going to hear a lot of messages about this over the coming weeks because they know if lots of people do not download it, do not bother, it really will not work. the first question came to my mind, and call mea question came to my mind, and call me a cynic, how comfortable that i feel ha