stephen englander, global head of fx research. i want to start off first with the ecb this morning. little bit of an about-face from christine lagarde. spoke the market by not necessarily being as hawkish as other central bank president had been. today, chief sounded more in line with what we had been hearing. >> they disappointed a bit. the market was looking for some expansion on their portfolios, buying both government debt -- that did not come. they tried to offset it by making lending attractive. generally what you are seeing is the fed and congress kind of behaving as if they want to do more than is needed. it not hurt the euro, but it did hurt other asset markets. scarlet: we saw european banks in particular. what exactly is the ecb holding off for? as if they want to hold their fire and wait for the right moment to unleash their firepower. moven: we think they will next month. courterman constitutional is going to rule on certain programs of their legality. the, it is not clear that ecb itself, and the government and counsel, is convinced you have to through the kitchen sink

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stephen england completed the 26.2 miles by running circles on the top of his manhattan apartment building himself, stephen raised money for a diabetes centre at columbia university. and for more on the pandemic head to our website. there's plenty of reaction and updates from around the world — plus our live page will keep you up to date with all the latest developments — that's all at bbc.com/news — or download the bbc new app. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcmikeembley. hello there. wednesday was a completely dry day across the uk and in the sunshine we had temperatures into the low 20s in southern england. 23 degrees in dorset. but thursday is likely to be the warmest day of the week. mind you, we get off to a bit of a chilly start, 11—5 degrees, typically. maybe, again, a touch of frost in the scottish glens. and a bit more of this mist and low cloud affecting southern scotland, northern england, perhaps into the midlands as well. but it won't last long. it's going to be a dry and sunny day. the sunshine a little bit hazy at times for the nort

well, laps on the roof, of course: stephen england completed the 26—point—2 miles by running circlesand and 98 laps to be precise, over five—and—a—half hours. it was all for a good cause. a diabetic himeself, stephen raised money for a diabetes center at columbia university. you can reach me on twitter, hello there. wednesday was com pletely hello there. wednesday was completely dry day across the uk in the sunshine at temperatures into the low 20s in southern england, 22 degrees in dorset. likely to be the warmest day of the week. mind you, a bit of a chilly start for 5 degrees typically may begin to but frost incidents, the northern england preps into the northern england preps into the midlands as well. it will not last long, it's quite a bit dry and sunny day with the sunshine a bit hazy at times for the northern half of the uk. but the winds will be even later and it will feel warmer and temperatures will be a bit higher as well. to 25 degrees and hampshire and oxfordshire and hampshire and oxfordshire and berkshire brightly 19 or 20 but a bit cooler on some of those north sea c

tom: i will ask you a question more kin to what i would ask stephen englander, the idea of chairman powell as central banker to the world, these modern derivative instruments, are they nothing more than a crutch that allows em to not clear their troubled markets? probably ank that is bit too harsh of a statement. i would describe it differently. one of the things we see during periodic crises is financial and when that up happens, the banks have a difficult time accessing dollar liquidity and because of that difficulty, it is hard for the corporations to access liquidity. provide annes incredibly important stopgap measure so i would not describe it as a crutch. it allows the central banks in each jurisdiction to provide and conduct the monetary policy they need to do, and that allows the liquidity to be disseminated or distributed to their local economies. it is a valuable policy response from the fed. francine: do you worry that theory what they are doing is enough but in practice the right amount of money is not getting to the hands of people who need it most? eric: that is such a great

stephen england completed the 26.2 miles by running circles on the top of his manhattan apartment buildingor watching. hello there. wednesday was a completely dry day across the uk and in the sunshine we had temperatures into the low 20s in southern england. 23 degrees in dorset. but thursday is likely to be the warmest day of the week. mind you, we get off to a bit of a chilly start, 11—5 degrees, typically. maybe, again, a touch of frost in the scottish glens. and a bit more of this mist and low cloud affecting southern scotland, northern england, perhaps into the midlands as well. but it won't last long. it's going to be a dry and sunny day. the sunshine a little bit hazy at times for the northern half of the uk. but the winds on thursday will be even lighter. it'll feel warmer and temperatures may be a bit higher as well. it could reach 25 degrees, somewhere like hampshire into 0xfordshire or berkshire. and widely 19 or 20 for england and wales. a little bit cooler around some of those north sea coasts. but even across western scotland temperatures may reach 20 or even 21 celsius. but

director for professor stephen powis, the medical directorfor nhs professor stephen powis, the medical director for nhs england the medical directorfor nhs england, those two men have been part of these news conferences happening every day for a couple of weeks now. we can expect again some reflection on the numbers katharine da costa was bringing us there but also the latest, because this has been the pattern of these news c0 nfe re nces , this has been the pattern of these news conferences, as far as the data is concern to the extent we are abiding by the social distancing guidelines. because of the lag that katharine was reflecting on, that is all the government and scientific advisers have to go on in terms of where we might be in a couple of weeks' time because of the lag between people catching the virus and then potentially presenting in hospital, and for some, those who go on to die. absolutely crucial as the government has been repeating is maintaining those guidelines, maintaining those guidelines, maintaining that distance, in order to ensure that in a couple of weeks' time the number of people gett

the medical director of the nhs in england, professor stephen powis, has said there is a definite trendations in terms of people admitted with coronavirus symptoms. professor powis said the reduction is down to the public observing social distancing measures. he was speaking at the downing street briefing a short time ago. we now have a very definite trend in a reduced number of people in hospitals, that is most marked in london, but i think you can also see that in the midlands, and the beginnings of that in other areas of the uk. and so, that is definitely showing that our compliance with social distancing is proving to be beneficial, it is reducing the transmission and spread of the virus. and of course, for those, unfortunately, who are more critically ill, again, a minority, in the next slide, you can see the proportion of critical care beds that are being used for covid—i9 patients in the uk, and you can see, that proportion is declining, as indeed is the absolute number, so again, evidence that all the hard work everybody in the country has been doing to maintain those social dis

his return comes as the national medical director of nhs england — professor stephen powis said the ukseeing a very definite downward trend in the number of people in hospital with the coronavirus. but the latest figures show a further 413 people have died across the country. that brings the total number of deaths in hospitals in the uk to 20,732. and those figures do not include deaths in care homes or other settings in england and northern ireland. the environment secretary, george eustice said lockdown measures would be reviewed in a couple of weeks, but it was very important not to act too soon. mr eustice also said that more staff were back at supermarkets as absence from illness and self—isolation has more than halved. more european countries have begun easing their restrictions. in spain, millions of children have emerged from weeks of lockdown, as the number of deaths and infections continues to fall. meanwhile the italian prime minister has announced measures to ease the lockdown from next month. it comes after the country's lowest daily death toll for more than a month. we'll

england stephen power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death toll think those because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that time live you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. in the philippines mass testing has been carried out in parts of the capital for the 1st time but the scheme is yet to be rolled out nationally the country's been under strict quarantine but of course a state could challenge that in manila jim allen duggan says the country has had to rethink out to celebrate the christian holiday churches of largely remain closed that's something tha

england stephen power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death toll think those because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again in time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly if they might die and so because of that time live you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. still ahead and al jazeera why health experts are concerned that africa will be the hardest hit by the coronavirus and damage. hello rain is leaving china and others normally breeze pushing this cloud south but because it's quite cold air it's developing over the warm waters of the western pacific these china sea and it's got a secure location in it and you see from the colors

highest number of daily deaths now interestingly you also hearing from the director of chess england stephen power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death toll think those because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that time live you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. well after the virus emerged in china the epicenter of the disease soon shifted to europe overwhelming hospitals and 14 tens of millions of people into lockdown and there are questions about whether the european union will survive now because of what critics say was a muddled response or actually

number of daily deaths now interestingly you also hear in a from the director of and it chaps england stephen power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death tolls that goes because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again in time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that timeline you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. the british interior minister pretty big tells us his story of health workers think there have been failings to get personal protective equipment to that has been a big problem in the. yes this is been a big issue over the past few weeks and we have seen another raul actually playing out today w

daily government briefing, led by cabinet office minister michael gove and nhs england's national medical director stephenowis. .. with increasingly fine weather expected both here in the uk and europe — people are urged to stick to the strict lockdown restrictions to tackle coronavirus. when we come to enforcement, that really is the last resort because, in a way, if we come to enforcement than everybody has failed to understand the significance of this endeavour. spain reports another 809 deaths to the virus — it is the lowest figure for a week — and the second day in a row that the daily death toll has fallen.... the us government issues clear advice — cover your faces in public to stop the spread of the coronavirus. but president trump says he has no intention of doing so himself. in the midst of the outbreak, sir keir starmer is elected the new leader of the labour party in the uk. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world — for all the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic. as the weather heats up across europe the authorities are ramping up efforts to keep people at ho

let's hear again from the national medical director of nhs england, professor stephen powis.rt goes out to the families who have lost a loved one. and the families and friends of those loved ones. when sir patrick vallance and i made that comment a number of weeks ago, what we were emphasising was that this is a new virus, a global pandemic, a once—in—a—century global health crisis and this was going to be a huge challenge notjust for the uk, but for every country. i think, unfortunately, we've seen that challenge notjust here, but around the globe. and even in countries that have got on top of this early on, we are unfortunately beginning to see new infections. so i think the first thing to emphasise is that this unfortunately will not be something we will get over in the next few weeks. this is something we are going to continue to have to work through in the months ahead. as i've said before, this is not a sprint, it will be a marathon in dealing with this virus. i think moving past 20,000 deaths just remind i think moving past 20,000 deathsjust remind 20,000 deaths just r

his return comes as the national medical director of nhs england — professor stephen powis said the ukw seeing a very definite downward trend in the number of people in hospital with the coronavirus. but the latest figures show a further 413 people have died across the country. that brings the total number of deaths in hospitals in the uk to 20,732. and those figures do not include deaths in care homes or other settings in england and northern ireland. the environment secretary, george eustice said lockdown measures would be reviewed in a couple of weeks but it was very important not to act too soon. mr eustice also said that more staff were back at supermarkets as absence from illness and self—isolation has more than halved. more european countries have begun easing their restrictions. in spain, millions of children have emerged from weeks of lockdown, as the number of deaths and infections continues to fall. meanwhile the italian prime minister has announced measures to ease the lockdown from next month — it comes after the country's lowest daily death toll for more than a month. we'

we'll also talk to the medical director of nhs england, professor stephen powis. first, here's jon donnison with the latest. much of the fight against covid—19 has been about trying to keep people safe and out of hospital. but today the nhs is encouraging people not to be afraid of seeking treatment for non— coronavirus conditions. it comes as figures from public health england showed the number of people going to a&e over the past month is down around 50% compared with the same period last year. that is1 million fewer visits. we are here for non— coronavirus patients too. so if you are worried about chest pain, maybe you might be having a heart attack or a stroke, or you feel a heart attack or a stroke, or you feela lump, oryou heart attack or a stroke, or you feel a lump, or you are worried about cancer, or you are a parent concerned about your child, please come forward and use the health service in the way that you normally would. it is going to be better to sort those problems out now rather than leave them for later. meanwhile the new government website on w

hospital with the coronavirus, that's according to the national medical director of nhs england — professor stephenowis. but the latest figures show a further 413 people have died across the country. that brings the total number of deaths in hospitals across the uk to 20,732. and those figures do not include deaths in care homes or other settings in england and northern ireland. the environment secretary, george eustice said lockdown measures would be reviewed in a couple of weeks, but it was very important not to act too soon. mr eustice also said that more staff were back at supermarkets, as absence from illness and self—isolation has more than halved. more european countries have begun easing their restrictions. in spain, millions of children have emerged from weeks of lockdown, as the number of deaths and infections continues to fall. while in germany, medical wholesalers have almost run out of masks, their use in shops and on public transport becomes compulsory from monday. we'll have more and all these stories in the next half hour. first this report from our science editor david shukman. in

professor stephen prowess, the medical director of nhs england was asked about contact tracing.t's more difficult in an epidemic, but a tried and tested way of managing outbreaks. obviously, it takes a lot of resource, a lot of time to trace effectively the contacts of an individual person who has tested positive. it can be aided by technology, and the development of a digital app will no doubt help in that setting. but i think the general point is that the lower the number of uk cases in the population, the easier it is to do, because it involves contacting less people overall, so to give you a number, if there are 4000 cases, new cases, per day, and you have to contact trace, say, on average, 30, that's 120,000 people to contact trace. trace, say, on average, 30, that's if it's 2000, it's half that. trace, say, on average, 30, that's so, the point is, getting the infection rate as low as possible will put us in a position where contact tracing will be at its most effective. is getting the infection rate as low as possible will put us in a position where contact tracing will be

england stephen power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time the for us to see the effect of that in the death toll think those because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then there's again time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that time lag you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week in brazil more than 30000000 people have signed up for emergency financial relief as lock down restrictions affect the economy the government's trying to streamline the payment process after thousands lined up attacks offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups and prisoners of right at a jail in southern bolivia inmates say the conditions inside a right for the spread of

highest number of daily deaths now interestingly you also hearing from the director of chess england stephen power and he was saying that that has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death toll think those because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again in time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that time live you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. italy which has the 2nd worst death toll is starting to see the pressure on hospitals despite a slight rise in the number of fatalities on saturday hopeful news 2 out of spain where it has seen the lowest number of daily deaths in weeks turkey has put its most populated areas under a 2 day curf

the national medical director of nhs england, stephen powis, said the public were responding to governmenthe majority observing social distancing. i think the british public is responding. i think we can see that in evidence such as reduced to travel, reduced footfall around our cities. as he had just said, it is really critical this weekend at we keep obeying those instructions. as isaid keep obeying those instructions. as i said last weekend, the son might be coming out but that is not an excuse be coming out but that is not an excuse for us to be going out. we are beginning to see the benefits of social distancing and staying at home. we do believe the virus is spreading less and that is translating into fewer hospital admissions. that will only continue to happen if we don't get complacent and continued to follow those instructions. to save lives, and this is about saving lives, make sure the nhs does not have excess pressure on it, it is coping really wonderfully at the moment but there is pressure there. we have to comply with those instructions. it is critical. 0ur political corresp

daily government briefing, led by cabinet office minister michael gove and nhs england's national medical director stephen

england professor stephen powers really confirming what we already know that the country is facing its worst health emergency in a century already this week we have seen the u.k. overtake italy and spain in reporting the worst daily number of desks and sadly these figures are expected to rise we might see a peak in about the middle of this coming week but really that is practically impossible to predict just a few weeks ago the government was indicating that perhaps we would see a peak around now around easter we can't possibly easter monday but they've backed right away from that now the best we can really hope for from these figures is that we might see a flattening some kind of stabilization in the coming weeks particularly in the number of new infections and the number of hospitalizations but no the death rate itself is probably going to rise and what is public opinion telling us about how people feel about the government's response to this crisis other government has been handling things. well the public is broadly behind these lockdown measures that are currently in place i think

running through every contribution we heard in the presentations from stephen paris from the health body for public health englandnswers to the questions that came from reporters —— michael gove. we're now two weeks into this locked down and yet of course, we are seeing as was expected by the scientist, an increase in the daily death toll. when you look at those two things in isolation, you think, hang on, what's the point of the lockdown if the death toll is going up? the crucial detail everyone keeps returning to is the lag that it ta kes a returning to is the lag that it takes a period of a couple weeks to for somebody to be infected to show symptoms and for a small proportion of those people to end up in hospital and there's a period after that before they can find themselves requiring ventilation or perhaps dying. so it's only in the next few days or the next week that we'll get some proper sense of what the actual impact of the restrictions is being on the number of people who are testing positive for the virus and the number who are ending up in hospital. of course it's that statistic that is absolutely ke

stephen powis, the medical director of nhs england said the graphs are showing people are complying withng them. helen catt, thank you. before the press conference started we were told the latest death toll. the figure, another 938 people have died from the virus, the largest increase over a 24—hour period so far. with me now is our health correspondent lauren moss. we were warned to expect big numbers, a large number of people to have died, but it is still shocking when you hear it. to make a record increases over the last two days but it is in line, as we keep being told, with scientific predictions. but it is still very concerning and worrying and sad for these patients and their families. 938 worrying and sad for these patients and theirfamilies. 938 more people have died since yesterday afternoon. if you take into account what happened last week when we saw a dip in the number of recorded deaths over the weekend, there were similar increases on the tuesday and wednesday, which is what we are seeing again this week. if you look into the overall increase, it isn't as large as it could

government's chief medical adviser and england's chief medical officer and england's chief medical officer and professor stephen questions again picking up on what we have heard from the prime minister today and what we have heard in the last half an hourfrom sir keir starmer, the labour party leader, at about what point the government is willing to start talking to us about what kind of unravelling of the lockdown or easing of the lockdown, slow easing, might happen, if the data suggests thatis might happen, if the data suggests that is feasible. so sir keir starmer talked about a desire for transparency, acknowledging the lockdown has got a couple more weeks left in it but wanting the government to articulate publicly what could happen in a couple of weeks' time if, crucially, those tests are met and the curve continues to head down. boris johnson saying this morning at the lectern moment in downing street that there would be some more information to come in the coming days. quite striking, by the way, that it isn't the prime minister taking to the conference this afternoon, but we have got very used to heari

communities and local government robertjenrick, alongside the national medical director for nhs england, professor stephenis. a further 888 people have died of coronavirus in the uk, taking the total number of deaths tojust under 15,500. 0ver114,000 people have tested positive for the virus. it comes as unions representing doctors and nurses have expressed concerns about revised guidance that allows personal protective equipment to be re—used in hospitals in england. an official from the doctors‘ union the bma said the change could lead to some front line staff deciding they're unable to treat people with covid—19. the government inists the guidance is safe. the head of nhs providers, a body which represents hospital trusts in england, has warned that some hospitals could run out of safety equipment over the weekend. and in another development, the head of the world health organization has questioned whether tests for covid—19 antibodies are effective in showing immunity to the disease. some countries hoped the tests would be a way to end lockdowns. we'll bring you that downing street press conference whe

joining us now from london is the national medical director of nhs england, stephen powis. do you think it is getting through?” england has been repeating, do you think it is getting through? i do think it is getting through? i do think it is getting through? i do think it is getting through, and i think it is getting through, and i think the british public is responding. we can see that in evidence such as reduced travel, reduce footfall around the cities. as you have just said, it's reduce footfall around the cities. as you havejust said, it's really critical this weekend that we keep obeying those instructions. as i said last weekend, the son might be coming out but that is not an excuse for us to be out. we are beginning to see the benefits of this social distancing, the stay—at—home, we do believe that the virus is spreading less and that is translating into fewer hospital admissions. but that will only continue to happen if we do not get complacent and we continue to follow those instructions. so save lives, and this is about saving lives, make sure the nhs does not ha

and a little earlier i spoke to stephen and nick clegg downy a couple from chester in the northwest of england whose jobs have been severely affected by the pandemic but they say they're adapting to a new way of life at the minute. you know we're just. going to washington hopefully. yeah it's tricky but. the right things so obviously you've you've lost your job at the moment nicholas obviously as a school teacher the rules are different for you because you're a key worker work at primary school and i teach 3 yeah groups and i'm not where at the moment and on friday we'll begin to another primary school to help out. in the matrix. i mean last then. well florence. i'm trying a parent. and an educator as well i'm sure it is difficult as you know parents are you confident that you have you might say the protective equipment you need when you're going into schools what has been offered to you it continues changing and there's well things in place now and and just having and bags are closer once we finish. and then distance enough the child evidence labeled for individual children who are men of. th

that is going to be led by the chancellor, rishi sunak and he will bejoined by professor stephen powers from nhs englandead towards the summer and were heading down to around 10,000 deaths a week in england and wales. the red line are showing what has happened this year. until now we were kind of looking pretty good, slightly below the long—term trends, but the most striking thing, think of this graph is that we are only for right—hand side. these last figures where we an upturn. this is as a covid death start to filter through into the death certificates. instead of heading down with that 10,000, were heading down with that 10,000, were heading upwards and at 16,000 deaths any single week, an extra 6000 deaths any week, it has a remarkable figure. and we know, that of those extra 6000 deaths, not all of them have been recorded as being from coronavirus? that is true. about 3500, roughly 60% of men, coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate —— 60% of them. another 2500 are contributing to it, it is still a big deal in itself, where it is not mentioned and we can only hypothesise where that might be

we will also hear from the nhs england national medical director professor stephen powis, and expectingoctor john newton, the director of health improvement at public health england. another briefing from the government clearly expected to talk a lot about this issue of testing. we have had borisjohnson yesterday in his self filmed a video talking about massively wanting to increase testing, it's something the government are under a significant amount of pressure on. i think this issue speaks to many things, it goes back to what the government strategy has been from the beginning, why it wasn't testing prioritised right at the start, they have talked about a bottleneck in the global supply chains for the kit associated with testing to see whether you are infectious, why didn't the government, for example, get ahead of the bottleneck right from the start? it also speaks to what's going on now, 10,000 odd tests being carried out a day, the priority for now is to test nhs staff who are self isolating because they all family numbers have symptoms. if they can test those staff, many of those

and nicola downey a couple from chester in northwest england whose jobs have been severely affected by the pandemic nicholas a school teacher and stephen is a photographer thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera stephen can i just begin with you you work within a small business as a photographer how has isolation and self distancing affected your family and your work life. yeah well it's it's quite a bit of it is at the minute 'd. you know just. how quickly washington really. you know it's tricky. so obviously you've you've lost your job at the moment nicola obviously as a schoolteacher the rules are different for you because you're a key worker here. so. yeah groups and i'm not well i'm a woman on friday i'm only going to another. in the matrix. i mean last and. well rents. and trying to. and educate them as well of course it's difficult as you know i'm sure it is difficult as you know parents are you confident that you have you might say the protective equipment you need when you're going into schools what has been offered to you. so. continuously changing and there's more things in place now. and just having and back to our

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and a question for jonathan van—tam, stephen power is twice this week from nhs england has talked aboutif we can get them and if they are accurate and if they work and we have the confidence in them that we can use them, then the positive impact that will have on people knowing with confidence that they can get back to normal life more quickly will vastly outweigh any more quickly will vastly outweigh a ny cost. more quickly will vastly outweigh any cost. so of course, cost is a consideration, but frankly, getting a test that works is worth more than just money. jvt. thank you, on the green shoots, the answer to your question is where you look for them. i absolutely see grange —— green shoots, i really do, in terms of the massive change in public behaviour that has already taken place. if that has already taken place. if that continues for as long as the government asks for it to continue, then they really will be quite big green shoots in the end. however, if you are asking me about the health ca re you are asking me about the health care hospital admission data, then i think it is too

stephen pearson, who died from coronavirus over the easter weekend aged 51, was devoted to his wife and two daughters. he was also a mental health nurse who had given the nhs in the northeast of englandrvice. his younger daughter bethany told me about the family's shock. we said to him, "just humour us. "on a scale of one to ten, one being the best day of your life "and ten being the worst day of your life, how do you feel? he told us he was a five. he says, "girls, look, you are worrying about nothing. dad slept upstairs in the bedroom, my mum slepped away from him ——slept, and woke up in the morning and he was gone. bethany, her mum and sister have since tested positive for covid—19 and have felt ill from the virus in the midst of their grief. please stay at home if you can. my dad could not and he lost his life. so if you can stay at home, i know it is horrible, no—one wants to be stuck at home 2a hours of the day, every day, but it is what we need to do right now and if it saves one life by staying in a house then it is absolutely worth it. the government says there is not enough information yet that would allow the lockdown restrictions to be lifted. ministers confirmed today th