With more than 100,000 applications isolate then you have a large family made yesterday alone. And a large number of children, the levels of stress are going to be an ice rink in madrid becomes a temporary mortuary as spains death toll overtakes chinas. Huge. We need clarity, not confusion and we need delivery and not the other. This is an emergency. The truth is the health and economic costs of this virus are deepening by iam i am personally, iam personally, i i am personally, i am volunteering to do some driving. My name is the day. People deserve strong robert. Leadership. A plan for the my name is robert. Self employed is promised tomorrow. It isa and the nhs army of volunteers self employed is promised tomorrow. It is a ghost town, all the staff more than 400,000 people sign up just left. But none of the mps who to help in just 2a hours. Scrutinised it will be here. It is and in sport on bbc news. All options are on the table quite eerie walking to the commons. For rescheduling the olympic games, this is where mps have their as the International OlympicCommittee President thomas bach says offices, it is normally bustling the new date will not be restricted to the summer months. With staff. Back as normal any time soon. It is going to be an odd time. What they packed up themselves, they packed in their ears are making ends meet, brits stuck abroad. The 80,000 good evening and welcome ca re meet, brits stuck abroad. The 80,000 care homes around britain, what date to the bbc news at six. Will they expect tests to be carried out on the day that symptoms emerge . The British Medical Association say theres growing evidence that can he help more people make the thousands of frontline doctors right decision by giving an absolute are still not getting the personal assurance to the 5000 self employed Protection Equipment they need to treat patients with coronavirus. People in mansfield . Charities including those on the front line of the Doctors Union says it means some medics are likely to become the National Response to very ill and some may die. Coronavirus, working with the some doctors have resorted seriously ill, the elderly and the to taking their own eye young are an absolute dire straits. Protection goggles to work because there arent enough visors. New sweeping powers for the government will pass now, so this today it emerged that a 21 year old gate so close but the questions woman with no known underlying remain. Can you say the Government Health conditions is believed to be the youngest person in the uk is coping, there arent enough test to die from coronavirus. And people are struggling to make ends meet and some people are being meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have stepped forward forced to go to work when they dont to volunteer in the fight feel they are safe . We are getting against the virus. Through it together with an since the government launched its appeal last night unprecedented programme of support, 405,000 people have volunteered to help look after some of the most vulnerable people. Not just for businesses, unprecedented programme of support, notjust for businesses, but unprecedented programme of support, not just for businesses, but for workers of all kinds across the to help look after some country. Never in our history has with more, heres our the government put its arms around Health Editor hugh pym. People in the way that we are doing the shape of things to come. This now. Yet no politician can make a plea like this. Mark mclagan, 40 london docklands Conference Centre will become a giant, temporary yea rs plea like this. Mark mclagan, 40 years old, he wants you listen. Hospital with 4000 patients. Urgent work to get it ready is under way. It is one part of nhs plans to coronavirus wants to kill you. It wants to take all the life out of prepare for a surge in coronavirus your lungs. So that you cant even patients. One worker posted this video of the inside of the building. Weve got 4000 beds to go in, two breathe. I am grateful i am alive today. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news. Our Health Editor hugh mortuaries. This hole is a kilometre pym joins me now. Long. Manufacturing of scrubs for as we can see, a growing number of Health Workers is being stepped up. Seriously ill patients arriving in the sportswear firm in hospital and growing concerns for Health Workers is being stepped up. The sportswearfirm in Northern Ireland temporary laid off staff the front line medical staff who are treating them and the protection last week, but now it has a major they have . Yes, we had this expert deal to produce clothing for the prediction the nhs capacity when it nhs. But the british medical is fully geared up should be just association representing doctors says there still is not enough about able to cope with the number specialist equipment to protect of patients with coronavirus. But staff from the virus in hospitals some you talk to on the front line and gp surgeries, even after dont feel very confident. Some are commitments by the government. My particularly worried, as we have message to the government is to not been hearing, when you hear about talk about increasing supplies or the specialist equipment. One surgeon the specialist equipment. One surgeon got in touch to say they ran doing something, just please lets out of personal protective equipment on the masks had gone and they have the equipment now so that stopped operating. A Junior Doctor doctors can feel safe, feel told us he had to go by four pairs protected, and not be in this fear of becoming infected with this of eye protectors. And theres got virus, which would cause a in touch to say they had no catastrophe for the health service. Protective equipment and they were only allowed two masks a day. We the government said on monday millions more items of personal have had this call for more action protective equipment had been delivered, with more than 200 health by the British Medical Association. Organisations receiving fresh a statement said that 50 million supplies. This hospital in essex more masks went out in the last two said it was a priority to protect days and gloves. They say the full staff and there was enough weight of government is being put behind this issue. Hugh pym, thank specialist equipment. Some local you. Health workers, though, are worried significant problems about the pressure building with are being reported after nearly half a Million People made benefit claims in recent days due to the economic covidi9 about the pressure building with covid i9 patients. About the pressure building with covid19 patients. I am petrified of fall out of coronavirus. At one point yesterday, going to work, i petrified, but i more than 100,000 people were trying have to go to work. You have to stay to verify online applications and others spent hours trying to phone welfare staff. The department for work and pensions indoors. There is nothing so special said it was redeploying existing staff and hiring others to cope with demand. At there for you to be going out. Heres our social affairs yes, the sun is shining, yet . You correspondent, michael buchcanan. Might be dead in a few weeks because you wanted to go out and get some all of the work i had planned for fresh air. At another hospital doctors are more confident that april and may, and march as well is there have been adequate preparations. The feeling in the 100 cancelled. I have absolutely no hospital is one of apprehension, but ido hospital is one of apprehension, but i do think from the mostjunior employment now, whatsoever. No football, it means no income for trainees to the most senior co nsulta nts trainees to the most senior consultants and managers as well, sport cameramen. The id check eve ryo ne consultants and managers as well, everyone has been pulling the same wouldnt work for me. Last week, direction and i have really been johnny was full to apply for proud about what our hospital, about universal credit, without success. What are trust and the nhs has been the phone either just universal credit, without success. The phone eitherjust automatically hangs up or if you get through, a doing. Fiveyearold alfie has been couple of options on the menu it seriously ill with suspected covidi9. After eventually rings out and hangs up. Seriously ill with suspected covid i9. After several days in hospital he is recovering at home, but his mother said at one stage he was so but his mother said at one stage he was so ill she thought she might record 477,000 people have applied for universal credit since monday of lose him. I thought he was going to last week, creating long delays for die, i thought i was going to lose applicants. On social media people have been sharing how long they have my child. Obviously i have seen it had to wait on the phone. For those all on the news where everybody has who went online, it was no better. Got coronavirus and the next thing alex found himself in position people are dying from it. To see him so people are dying from it. To see him so poorly, i didnt think that he 103,000 in the queue. We checked on was going to be able to come back his progress today and he said he from it. Chloe middleton was 21 and finally got into the system at 3am but missed his slot because he was has died after testing positive for asleep. We are currently coronavirus. It is not clear if she experiencing high call volumes. You had an Underlying Health condition. Might prefer to call back later. Her mother said on facebook, to all Jonathan Humes contract as a the people out there that think it is just the people out there that think it isjust a virus, researcher ended this month. He has the people out there that think it is just a virus, please think again. Speaking from personal experience called the helpline between 80 and this so called virus has taken the 100 times in the past few days. Life of my 21 year old daughter. Infuriating. Stressful. Because scientists mapping the spread until this is sorted, i have no of coronavirus say they are hopeful the nhs will be able to cope with the expected surge in cases. Income. There has been no communication from anyone. The they predict the outbreak may peak in two to three weeks if people follow the stay at home rules. System is just overwhelmed. Communication from anyone. The system isjust overwhelmed. As communication from anyone. The system is just overwhelmed. As well as creating Unprecedented Demand for the family of a victim who died on sunday are appealing benefits, the coronavirus has also to the public to obey forced jobcentres to be close. Close the governments advice, as our medical correspondent injob centres was forced jobcentres to be close. Close in job centres was inevitable in the current climate, but it will put fergus walsh reports. More pressure on telephone support doreen hunt died on mothers day in luton and dunstable and online services. And that at the time when the system are struggling hospitalfrom covid i9. To cope anyway with the many the 72 year old had thousands of people forced to apply Underlying Health conditions. For benefits to make ends meet. Can her family are appealing to the public to stay at home to fight the virus. I bid you both are very warm welcome . Appearing before mps today, im sad that shes gone, officials insisted claims were being but im more angry with people processed but they acknowledged the who arent taking notice search had created difficulties. We of the warnings. You might catch it, you might give have had past problems with the it to somebody else, you might touch something which somebody else touches verify system working close with the and youve killed a relative. You just dont know. Government Digital Service and their these deserted streets providers to build capacity. There show the stay at home are things they are doomed to build message has got through. Capacity to change the way the add to that, the rapid expansion system works. I am hoping that of hospital beds and a leading system works. I am hoping that system will see some changes in scientist modelling the outbreak, improvement. 10,000 benefit has told mps he is optimistic officials will now be redeployed to intensive care units will cope. Process the new claims, as the government braces itself for a sharp there will be some areas of the country which are extremely stressed. Rise in unemployment. Rise in unemployment. Spain has now recorded more coronavirus deaths than china. But we are reasonably confident, its all we can be at the current 738 people have died in the past day, taking time, that at a national level, the total to more than 3,400. Will be winning capacity. Close to 50,000 people that will mean huge numbers have fallen ill. More than 2,500 of them of lives would be saved. Are in a serious or critical state. Scientists think deaths are now our correspondent, damian grammaticas, unlikely to exceed 20,000 in the uk joins us from madrid. That gives you a real and could be lower if social sense of the strain on intensive care units. Distancing is maintained. The scientists tracking the coronavirus outbreak say theres a lot of uncertainty it does. The news from the hospital about their predictions. But say if the current is here, they are saturated, they restrictions work as expected, then the peak of cases in intensive are making use of every single space they can find. The news that spain care could come in two had surpassed china in the number of to three weeks and start deaths, really was greeted with to decline thereafter. Shock. Consider this, you are the challenge then will be how talking about a lack of protective to restart the economy equipment, now amongst those cases without having a fresh surge of cases. In spain, more than 5000 positive cases amongst medical workers and once the outbreak is under control, the key will be to ramp up Community Police unions say 9000 police and testing and Contact Tracing other civil guard officers also of those infected. Infected. But spain now and people something thats not happening now. Here really are mobilising every the long term hope is a vaccine, resource they can get their hands on but when might it be ready . In the fight against the virus. We could have millions of doses of vaccine available ona dark in as little as six months. On a dark day for spain, a sobering but thats a huge effort required sight. Van, after van carrying from today to upscale manufacturing at risk, bodies of virus victims. This is when we dont even have the first doses being fully tested in humans. Madrids biggest ice rink. It has been requisitioned to hold the dead. They need it, there are so many now. So there could, perhaps, be a way through this pandemic, but it will rely on all of us arriving at spanish hospitals are playing our part in the war more and more cases, infection is against an invisible enemy. Here leaping every day. More than fergus walsh, bbc news. 5000 medical staff have fallen sick also. So part of spains urgent an appeal for nhs volunteers effo rts also. So part of spains urgent was launched last night, efforts are these new Rapid Testing but already more than 400,000 people centres, specifically for those on have answered that call, far the front line. This nurse feared exceeding the governments target. The volunteers will be used she has the virus. A colleague has to deliver food and medicines, drive patients to appointments it. The swaps are invasive and and to phone people who may be isolated. Unpleasant. Handled with extreme the Prime Minister said ca re they were essential unpleasant. Handled with extreme care in case they have picked up the in the fight against the virus. Judith moritz has more. Pathogen. She is worried because she has a family she might have infected i am kirsty, i am volunteering to do some driving for the nhs. My name is robert. Too. I am worried, especially for my the nhs asked for help family and my patience. At home i and thousands replied, stay in one room, isolated, treating an army of volunteers growing all the time who have signed up online to do their bit. Myself or my symptoms alone. The whole of spain has now mobilised to i recently had fight the virus. A tanker load of pneumonia so i couldnt put myself at physical risk. But this is a volunteer role i can do chemicals arrives at an army base on from home. The edge of madrid. Inside, they are id like to offer some form of human making hand sanitiser. Gallons and connection and support to other people in my community. I am volunteering so that there gallons of it to supply hospitals, will still be in nhs around for my children when they are all grown up. So gallons of it to supply hospitals, so great is the demand. This feels very strange, i normally watch you on tv. Translation what we are doing is pete elwick is self isolating very important. We do what we can to try to solve the crisis. But keen to help others, so in this battle, it is not bullets and rushed to register last night. This military production line is we are very conscious of the help that we are making, but medicines. To replenish getting from family, friends. Stocks that are being used up fast. And this is it, coming off the production line, packs of it wasnt obvious that paracetamol. Spains military have i could do anything and thisjust seemed the obvious thing, put down their guns and their weapon as soon as i heard about it. Of choice in this fight now, packs tell me how exactly you are hoping to help through this app . I suspect that some people will be just pleased to have a voice on the end of the phone, or even of choice in this fight now, packs of these. Across spain, people to have a phone call at all. I dont know, im not sure what sort everywhere are getting involved. Of people i might end up designing and producing the goggles talking to. Doctors are so short. Stuck at home the nhs has advertised four separate volunteer roles sewing face masks for the elderly. Through the app, good sam. Here, and nurse posts a thank you from your sofa, like pete, for the vital protective visor hand you can offer phone support to people who made by People Living near to her are feeling lonely. Or if you can get out and about you can sign up to deliver hospital. And that thanks is supplies to people who are self isolating, to transport patients who are fit for discharge. Or to deliver equipment returned. Every night, in every and medicines for nhs city, town and village across spain, Services Like pharmacies. Acknowledgement of the bravery and sacrifice the medics are making. The this chemists has been inundated with orders and its staff have given the news of volunteer sound of a grateful nation. Help a cautious welcome. Damian grammaticas, abc news, ive got a really good Delivery System in place, my drivers are checked and my drivers madrid. Bbc news. Are trained with what to do. Im very happy to use volunteers if they are at that standard. In the united states, the governor of new york has warned if they are not, then we can coronavirus is spreading faster still use them within than a bullet train in his state, the pharmacy to help us which is at the centre organise the workload of the pandemic in the us. For the delivery drivers and support Governor Cuomo said the number Patient Access elsewhere. Of confirmed cases in the state the volunteers are considered has now topped 30,000, a vital part of the effort to cope in this crisis. Although he added there were early signs that stringent restrictions there is no health on social gatherings and other measures could be slowing the viruss spread. System in the World Official guidance is that you should only leave your house to go to work, that would cope if coronavirus if it absolutely cannot be done from home. Gets out of control. But what qualifies as essential work . So, yes, the nhs is stepping up, a growing number of construction firms have said their workers our wonderful staff are doing all they can to make sure will down tools, but others we respond to this crisis. Are still continuing to operate amid confusion over but we also need the the governments advice. Public to step up as our business correspondent, volunteers to help us. The number of people signing up continues to rise. Sarah corker reports. The nhs said its possible to volunteer and stay safe through fixing liverpools roads this social distancing, so that everyone can play a part during this morning. These key workers are emergency. Urging the public to listen to the judith moritz, bbc news. Government, only travel if it is essential. But there is growing Prince Charles has tested positive concern about how to protect those for the coronavirus. Clarence house says he is displaying mild symptoms who cannot work from home. Michael but is otherwise in good health. Got in touch to ask, working on a the duchess of cornwall has also been tested, large construction site with over but does not have the virus. 1200 people. What is the government heres our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. Doing about the construction sector . Birkhall today, the prince ministers have said essential work of waless home in can continue, but the industry is the scottish highlands. Split. Hundreds of sites have its here that the heir to the british throne is self already closed down, others are trying to carry on. But there is isolating, as is his wife. They had arrived here on sunday night, he was already confusion. There isnt clarity at showing mild symptoms. The moment, which is why the he was tested on monday, the results industry is in as much chaos as it came through late last night. In a statement is. I would like some clarity from Clarence House said. The government. Retail staff are also under pressure amid huge demand. Sarah asked, as a retail worker, i cannot social distance. Will the government ask supermarkets to impose restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one scotlands chief medical officer time . From supermarket workers to stressed that the prince carers, to those keeping our vital had been tested in line with normal procedures. Transport links running, employers should be putting in measures to he was tested for clinical reasons keep key workers safe and some and im very pleased to say retailers are already limiting the that he is very well, and, as with many people number of customers. Others are who have had this virus, putting a plastic screen in stores has had a mild illness. And they are asking the public to pay by card instead of cash, while the prince has met hundreds of people over recent weeks. Public transport is being deep on the 6th of march in newquay clea n. Public transport is being deep he was still shaking clean. On the London Underground today, police were checking those hands quite freely. Travelling key workers. If people on the 9th of march he was at dont meet the criteria for travel, Westminster Abbey with the queen. Then we are going to begin to handshaking was out. Charles adopted the indian enforce that. We know there are new namaste greeting instead. But two days after that on the 11th powers that are being taken through parliament and there are still too of march he was evidently having many people out today. Tina said, my difficulty remembering the no handshaking rule. At that stage it was still something to laugh about. 00 13 53,060 2147483051 43 41,244 on the 12th of march the prince 2147483051 43 41,244 4294966103 13 29,430 was at Buckingham Palace mum is an essential work and my dad is high risk. My mumsjob means she cannot always social distance. She feels. Work and that potentially could bring something into our house that could kill her husband. Shouldnt she be released from work to . No one should be forced to go to work if they feel it is unsafe and unions are urging employers to take a sensible approach, putting health before profits. And anyone with an Underlying Health issue should not be penalised financially if they have to take time off. Key workers have to take time off. Key workers have a vital role to play in helping britain fight the coronavirus, but some still feel and protected themselves. Sarah caulker, bbc news. Thousands of britons are still stranded abroad, unable to get home as borders close and flights are cancelled. Simon browning has been speaking to some of the people stuck in countries from australia to pakistan who still dont know how, or when, theyll get home. We have been stuck in Brisbane Australia and we want to come home, please. Like hundreds and thousands of brits around the world, dream trips to dream destinations have now become a search for escape. The trip ofa become a search for escape. The trip of a lifetime we plan following our retirement. We cant come home because there arent any flights. So it doesnt feel like we are getting the support that we need. Hundreds of thousands of other brits face the same plight and it has been made more difficult as 80 countries around the world have now closed their borders and International Transit hubs have shut. Flights are extortionate prices, they are profiteering. This man is from rochdale but is in pakistan visiting his elderly grandmother. The airlines when they suddenly said, six hours, we are closing. Saudi airlines have close, emirates have closed. All were asking, people need to get back to their loved ones. Yesterday, the foreign secretary told staff in 168 countries are working around the clock, but it still isnt enough. We doubled our capacity,