And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Latest headlines to viewers in the u. K. And around the world. The u. K. Government announces it has topped 100,000 daily test for coronavirus. Helps keep people safe, and itit will help us unlock the lockdown. Ens of thousands of job cuts looming in what has been called the worst crisis in the history of aviation. Two and a half feet awafrom each other, there is no way you can have social distancing in an aluminum tube. India extendsts lockdown for another two weeks. We report on the impact. In u. K. , the risk of death from coronavirus is twice as likely if you are fm a poor, urban area. Hello, and welcome, to audiences in the ud around the world. We are covering the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. The u. K. Government said it hit tsget for 100,000 coronavirus test per day. Matt hancock said the target was set lesshan a month ago when 10,000 daily tests were being ld. They were facing criticism for not increasing capacity. In a minute we will hear from our health editor. More than one Million People have recovered from the coronavirus worldwide, according to the latest figures from johrs hopkins uniy. s premier leo varadkar has an lockdown until may 18, but the exercise travelimit will be extended, and they may leave home for isolated exercise. In india, lockdown restrictions credited with keepin virus cases low. Lockdown in many regions will continue another two weeks. Several u. S. States starting to including texas on friday, butes il u rwe have more from our heah editor, hugh pam. Acquired airport for a friday, but there was a video with Virus Testing continuing. One otthe driough centers set up to expand capacity with an overall target of 10000 tests per day how do you intend turther develop and expand the Testing Network as moves to combat the virus . By tesng you can help treat patients better. You help people get back to work and there has been expansion of eligibility to get a test order to get back to work. Also for surveys, and very soon we should have the first results of the surveys out in the field. Hu the Scottish Government says testing capacity, included in the total announced today, i set to rise from 8000 to 12,000 per day in a few weeks time. Nithis mobile u staffed by military personnel opened toy. The daily u. K. Tal includes testing kits sent to those who book to them online, but not actually completed. Government forces argue it is the only way they can be counted, as it is harder to track when swabs are sent back to labs. There is confusionctbout some asof the new system. The owner of this care home in cumbria said he was told only to residents and staff hadif symptoms. Ough daysefore the government said test could be booked online whether or not it is terrible how these people are being treated. They are no longer productive. They are not that important. It is an awful shame. Hu one nurse told us there was no nhs priority system and there was a long que at the drivein center. Police came and went car to car. We had run out of tests and we should go home and try again the frustrating thing, i had access as a prior. Ized key work hugh testing is one thing, but slowing future spread requires tracing contact. Officials will phone or email people if patients met recently. They are recruiting 18,000 staff to do this. Thateoill be alertinge someone they have been with has tested positive. They are then told the selfisolate and report symptoms. We have to involve local Public Health and authorities in doing this, using people to Contact People in order to put that system into place. That will be utterly crucial in trying to control the virus going foard. Hugh there were more, thanks to the nhsoday. In edinboro they painted post boxes blue, to honor the front line staff. Hugh pym, bbc news. Anchor a dublin based airline has to stem losses linked to the coronavirus outbreak. Anza and British Airways warns of cuts to its own werkforces. Repo a few weeks ago thery airline induas booming, the future looked bright, but now ryanair is the latest carrier to make thousands of people redundant. We have to cut 15 of our staff, the minimum we need to survive the next 12 months. If a vaccine is found, recovery would be stronger. If a vaccine is not found, we may have deeper cuts into the future. Reporter unioninsisted this is premature, that there is no ed to make such deecuts so soon. Ryanair is notna in ial difficulty, they are one of the wealthiest airlines in europe. They should be able to taka more measured view. Rerter some employees say airlines are taking advantage of the covid19 crisis to drive pay cuts and cut costs in a way they could not normally manage. It is not that airlines are taking advantage of a blk situation. Reality is, there ay hary planes flying and therefore airlines now are waking up to this new reality and making lockdown decisions now, like a preemptive strike. Reporter this is clearly an precedented situation and you can see that behind me. Normally this guy behind me is full of planes, at of the Busiest Airlines in the country. At the moment, nothing. It has been like that for several weeks. Globally 80 of flights have been grounded. 17,000 aircraft are sitting unused on the tarmac. The cost to airlines is expected thiseach 250 billion pound year once the outbreak is over, things will not be back to normal quickly. You can currently fly if you want to, bu restrictions are expected to increase. D it has been suggestessengers could be forced to wear protective masks or practice social distancing on aircraft and in airports. Th head of heathrow seems thinks suchsu ms are impractical. Can you imagine going on holiday, can you imagine social distancing in that circumstance . We are not designed for that. That is why we have to have a way of making sure that only people who are low risk are allowed into the airport. Reporter yet airlines remn determined to get back in the skies as soon as possible. Today a hungarian carrier did that, starting to fly a smallnu er of services. Anchor i amne jby the director of the travel website, the point sky. Will these airlines svive . That is a big questn. What is for sure, we have not seen the end ofuts and collapses. Ryanair was next in line after the big announcement by British Airways this week. Theree will be mnouncements in terms of cuts. I do not think any airline is safet the moment. Anchor when travel restarts, do you expect flights to get cheaper or more expensive . Another huge questn. There are so many things at play here. Pply will be cut significantly potentially. With less roots, they will have less aircraft and restrictions there are plenty of placesn go. Locked down still. That may extend toward the end of the year or next year. It depends how quickly places open up. Also when it comes to demand, passengers may be more worried to fly and have less money to we do not know how long the effects will last economically. A lot of people have lost their jobs, disposable income. Holidays and traveler the first things to be cut. Same with business. People may want to keep their pennies and keep employees on gital thods of meeting. Anchor you and i are talking via video call. Th is all anyone does at the moment. After this lockdown ends, might it be we are so used to this, instead of flying out to see family, friends and colleagues we might say, lets save a bit of money and carry on video calling and stop traveling . Guest on one hand, people might see that as a viable option. But also, this method of communication has its h flaws ad th come to light given the amount we have been doing. Cr tivity is tampered. 12 c people around the table come up with much more ideas than fighting and squabbling over a call online. Friends, it is never going to be the same. Those Long Distance trips, meetings in person, people eventually will want to start doing that again. I think people are craving it already. Anchor Business Travel and tourism, are they affected in different ys . Guest absolutely. Leisure w travell take a hit both in terms of whether they want to jump back on planes again, they can go. Of where we do not know where people will be allowed to go, and are those places you want to go on holiday to . People will be worried aut money. People will not spend thousands of pounds on a holiday when th do not know where their next paycheck is coming from. When it comes to business it is e same. Business necessity will cran up. Lots of businesses are at full speed. We need to start traveling again r our business to function properly. Anchor thank you. The White House Press secretary led her first briefing in front of the media, the first since Sarah Sanders in march of last year. One of theirst questions about the president , seeing evidence thvirus originated in a chinese lab, despite his Intelligence Agency saying covid19 was genetically altered. The president stament is consistent with other intelligence assessments. While we have limited and dubious data from china, president trumps statement is consiste with what some analysts believe. I wouldnt noteligence made two points. Virus originated in china. Two, it began withta c with infected animals or was the resultan o accident at a laboratory in wuhan. That is consistent with wh the presiden said. He seemed to lean into the idea of the laboratory, whereas the statement from dni, we are still investigating those two option is the president creating mixed by not saying we a still investigating . Intelligence is an estimate. It is up to policy makers to decide whatat to do with intelligence. He will make that decision at the right time. Anchor irish pie minister leo varadkar outlined a plan to reopen his countrys economy in five stages with measureshr reviewed every weeks. It will begin on the 18th of may, where people who work outdoors, such as construction workers, can return to their jobs. Th we have a plan to ease restrictions fro18th of may, but before that we need two more weeks of tight restrictions to weaken the virus further so it does not have the strength to make a comeback when we interact with each other again. During this period, we are making some changes. We are extending the distance you can leave your home. From next tuesday it will be possible to travel up to five kilometers from your home for for people who are cocooning, Public Health advice is to continue to do so. Hover, from tuesday, it will be possible to go for a walk or drive within five kilometers of your home, if you avoid all contacts with other people. Ourlan is to reopen the country in a slow, staged, phased way. Inve state five stages, three weeks apart, stamay 18. All things going accordingpl to , with the fifth phase commencing on august 10. Anchor victims of vid19 have overwhelmingly been older. Children are the least affecteds of these. Scientists are trying to work out why and whether oren not chilan spread the virus even if they do not have symptoms. Enour s editor David Shukman has more. David i myste about the vir and the role of children. Uf somer, havlost their lives, but the vast majority are not affected. How easily can they spread it to others . To try to find out, 3500 children are being tested in a project by the university of oxford. Noty mildren are being admitted to hospital and that is fantastic. Uwe have toerstand how many children are getting the infection. They may potentially be transmitting it to others and sping it in thmunity. Urce of david so far there has been Little Research into this. One of the largest studiesf 2000 infected children in china found 51 had mild symptoms, 39 were moderate, and justha over no symptoms at all. Inud iceland, a different found of 848 children under the age of 10, none had any sife of ion. What does this confusingar resech mean for schools . In denmark, where they have reopened, children are kept apart in classes. The riskor them might be low, but it is greater for the teachers. We think about opening schools and having large gatherings of kids,lthough we not know how well and how fast this virus might spread in the gup, we do know adults working with these kids, teachers, administrators, are more suscept to this severe covid19. David when it comes to reopening schools, there are no easy options. Class sizes could be kept aller, but the centr question remains, how easily children spread the disease. Especially if they are not showing symptoms. Scientist fo the moment do not have the answer. Time and aga you will hear are guided by best evidence, but there has to be an deunrstanding, sometimes that evidence, even though it is the best, is pretty thin. David despite that,la switz reckons it is safer under 10s to be withrents. Scientists disagree. David shukman, bbc news. Anchor United Nations childrens Agency Unicef warns millions of children risk missing t on important vaccinations because of a backlog caused by coronavirus restrictions. Measles and polio had dropped by 70 since the start of march. Doctor, i imagine it is a sad point. The world is on lockdown, lockdown, but the same lockdown preventshildren from gettingne existing vacwhich they desperately need. Guest hello, james. That is our major concern. We have the disruption in transportation we talked about earlier in your show. That is obviously affecting shipments of vacci. Even the countries that have vaccines now, the coronavirus system capacity, humanvailable resources, and others. These are being derted as a direct response to covid19. Niimion services are being suspended. We have recommended the campaign for vaccines be temporarily a lot of children havef received vaccines, we estimate more than 115 million children went miss outn measles vaccinations this year. James that is a huge number. Which areas of the world are most affected . Guest the most affected areas would typically be the countries ina subsaharan afrd asia that rely on our campaigns to deliver vaccines because of routine services tno dhato. The key message here, the longer these disruptions continue, the bigger the risk of countries experiencing outbreaks of vaccinepreventable diseases like measlesey recover from covid. That would stretch the system further. James what should parents do if they are in one ofco these tries where vaccines are suddenly not available and they have Young Children . Guest to be very clear, the disruption and Vaccination Services at this point is not because of lack of supplies. Pplies atill adequate to continue services. We are monitoring carefully. Some countries are running low on supplies. We are planning with them and manufacturers supply. Aiconss are that the systems are stretched in many countries to deliver the services. On the other hand, parents and communities are unable or unwilling to seek these services because they are scared to me out of their homes, may ben various stages of lockdown and cannot move out of their homes. They may be in Health Facilities and getting exposed to people wi covid19. There are many factors at play. My recommendation to parents, as soon as it is feasible, as soon social restrictions are lifted, vaccinations with your kids who missed. James thank you so much. India extended its nationwide lockdown for another two weeks. Officials say some districts in lower risk areas will have considerable relaxations. Quarantine nearly weeks. reporter small celebrations, this man has recovered. Moreou pop than canada, the region had indias first Coronavirus Infections i march, but curbed the spread. Its strategy is giving hope to our idea was to trace as my people as possible in the shortest number of time. We were able to trace 2,504 persons. Our next strategy was to ensure home quarantine in the strictest possible sense yogita each grave is a reminder that in many parts of india the threat has not been contained. It does not allow goodbyes. A girl laid to rest from the arms of strangers. Dozens are losing their lives every day. While the al scale is hardo assess,l doctors say covid wil have spread would have spread more quickly if india had not imposed lockdown early. Checkpoints like these have been set up across the country. People are only allowed to go out to buy essential items. You cld even get arrested for violating the lockdown, which is stringent in the world. Forhe the first time in history of india, the government halted trains. Buses, public transport, have all been stopped, too. That has left millions without money for food or shelter. This i a queue for luncheon lunch in delhi. He worked as a laborer. Now he is living on the streets with his fily. On the days they distribute food, eat. Otherwise, we go hungry. They have taken away our lifeline. We feel we are dying slowly, he says. What is the way out of it eventually, i asked w. H. O. s chief scientist . Of phased release of the lockdown. The monitoring with txtting will bemely important. Any time there is adalert or lag things are not looking good, again, more extreme measures may have to be put in place. Yogita Migrant Workers will be sent home, the government says. For many, uncertainty continues. Yogita lamaye, bbc news, mumbai. 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